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...Water Margin, also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men Are Brothers, Men of the Marshes, or The Marshes of Mount Liang, is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Attributed to Shi Naian, whom some believe to be Luo Guanzhong, the novel details the trials and tribulations of 108 out...

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...n at a nearby table behaving peculiarly. The young man later leaves the hotel without paying his bill, and turns up in a nearby hamlet in the Norfolk marshes where he takes lodgings at the village inn. The next day, another guest at the inn is found dead, and the young man is missing. Can Colwyn sort out the mystery and prove the young man's innocence one way or the the ot...

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...tecost Chapter 13: The Houma’s Visit Chapter 14: Frére Gerard’s Potager Chapter 15: Les Sausses-the 3 Sauces Meres Chapter 16: Markets, Marshes, and Meat Chapter 17: Les Partisans de la Chasseuse Chapter 18: A Smugglers Paradise Chapter 19: Making Sausage on the Côte des Allemands Chapter 20: New Orleans Coffee...

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...ictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often painful experiences, to adulthood. It charts his progress as he moves from the Kent marshes - his social status radically changed having gained an unknown benefactor - to busy commercial London. The book is richly populated with a variety of extraordinary characters many of whom, unbeknownst to them, have li...

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...llion cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building's foundation rests on 41,492 concrete pile...

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...rrassed her. "Never. These are the lowest spots. They'll turn into salt marshes, brackish puddles of death, stone white. Nothing will grow around... ...t of agony. Great broken depressions marked the scarred landscape. Salt marshes were everywhere, stone-white pools of thirst. Spongy effervescent... ...We'd might as well dump it all into one of those pools of death, the salt marshes." "No one could argue any of that." A small shade of grief passe...

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...s more expensive to produce. Workers had to harvest papyrus reeds from marshes in the River Nile, strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then...

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...was more expensive to produce. Workers had to harvest papyrus reeds from marshes in the River Nile, strip them of their hard outer fibers, and then...

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...winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers Terrain: mostly broad plains; reedy marshes in southeast; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey Land u... ...entral hills; southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes Land use: 25% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 4% meadows and pas... ...rade winds; sunny and relatively dry Terrain: low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove swamps Land use: 2% arable land; 0% permanent crops;...

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...streams. The streams drained into Rudder's great watercourse, through heady marshes thick with dragonflies. They wandered out of the woods. Sparklin...

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...ldren too.” “Well, my poor lad, why don’t you try to earn more at the salt marshes, or by carrying the salt to the harbor?” “Ah, monsieur, I couldn’t ... ... inhabit it. All that ever brought a population to this rock were the salt-marshes and the factory which prepares the salt. On one side the sea; on th... ...Croisic and the rocky shore of Guerande, at the base of which lay the salt marshes, denuded of vegetation, I looked at Pauline and asked her if she fe... ...the little Mediterranean between the dunes where we were walk- ing and the marshes of Guerande. “You can see the house from here. It belonged to him. ... ...we came to the upper shore of the lake. We returned to Croisic by the salt marshes, through the labyrinth of which we were guided by our fisherman, no... ...es but a few “paludiers,” the local name given to the laborers of the salt marshes. These men, or rather this clan of Bretons, wear a special costume:... ...ever married any man who was not a paludier. The horrible aspects of these marshes, these sloughs, the mud of which was systematically raked, the dull...

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... done, and being made foolish by the scent of the blood, ran away into the marshes of the North, and we of the Jungle, left without a judge, fell to f... ...ly the First of the Tigers was not with us, for he was still hidden in the marshes of the North, and when word was brought to him of the Thing we had ... ...eful name.’ ‘And why?’ said Tha. ‘Because I am smeared with the mud of the marshes,’ said the First of the Tigers. ‘Swim, then, and roll on the wet gr... ...e Hairless One had given him, and he was angry. For a year he lived in the marshes waiting till Tha should keep his promise. And upon a night when the... ...n the dust; how he fought Jacala, the Crocodile, all one long night in the Marshes of the North, and broke his skinning-knife on the brute’s back-plat... ...ee word of the fight.” “Ah,” said Mowgli, quite gravely, “must I go to the marshes and catch little fish and sleep in a tree, or must I ask help of th... ...hanges all trails. I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes, but the Word—even the Word of a little, naked, hairless Manling—is... ...ungle Book could even jerk over the big, blue wild boars that lived in the Marshes of the North. The Jungle People who used to fear him for his wits f... ...To-night I will cross the ranges; yes, I will make a spring running to the Marshes of the North, and back again. I have hunted too easily too long. Th...

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...mouth of a muddy creek; and everything near it, the foggy river, the misty marshes, and the steaming mar- ket-gardens, smoked in company with the griz...

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...salt gatherers and earned a scanty livelihood by working the adjacent salt marshes. Then I remembered the school at Nantes, where I had grown up, lead... ... ancient walls and yearning for the broad horizon of Guerande and the salt marshes stretching to the limit less sea widening under the sky. Next came...

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...n worn by the paludiers (the name given to men who gather salt in the salt-marshes) con- trasts vigorously with the blues and browns of the peasantry ... ..., she thinks and cares about herself only. The immense product of her salt-marshes, which pays a tax of not less than a million to the T reasury, is c... ...you reach Guerande from Croisic, after crossing a dreary landscape of salt-marshes, you will ex- perience a strong sensation at sight of that vast for... ...er was Calyste sixteen years of age than his father accompanied him to the marshes and the forest, teaching him through the pleasures of the chase the... ...NDRED YARDS From Guerande the soil of Brit- tany comes to an end; the salt-marshes and the sandy dunes begin. We descend into a desert of sand, which ... ...erally true), prepare the mind for the strange and depressing sight of the marshes and dunes, which resemble a stiffened ocean. The house, fairly well... ...r the bulk of the estate is really in Guerande) derives an income from the marshes and a few outlying farms of over ten thousand francs a year. Such i... ...s T ouches has taken for herself the one that looks toward the sea and the marshes, and ar- ranged it with a small salon, a large chamber, and two cab... ...replied, going to a window and looking out upon the sands, the sea and the marshes. This answer explained all. Camille was awaiting Claude Vignon. “Y ...

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...the dykes that surrounded the open country, or among the tall reeds of the marshes. The boat was full. “What are you waiting for? Let us put off!” the...

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...TUMN UTUMN UTUMN UTUMN UTUMN When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind Like aged warriors ...

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...A little river flowed through his park and inundated during the winter the marshes on either side of it, giving it some resem- blance to the Beresina....

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...Woman not diminish. I had come quietly and alone, without food, out of the marshes of Zembin, and was wandering in search of a house where I might be ...

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... deceived. A nd so Sir Launcelot rode through many strange countries, over marshes and valleys, till by fortune he came to a fair castle, and as he pa...