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...ning phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the de... ...e soldiers upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese s... ...ave international situations in recent years. This time it was talk of the Central European powers sud- denly attacking the Slav Confederacy, with Fra... ...ide. ‘Round,’ he whispered inaudibly. The bomb flashed blinding scarlet in mid-air, and fell, a descending column of blaze eddying spirally in the mid... ...plu- rals were abolished; its spelling was systematised and adapted to the vowel sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process of incorpor...

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... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...t is as unfin- ished as ever; the builders’ roads still run out and end in mid-field in their old fashion; the various enterprises jumble in the same ... ...r, my mother’s sister’s husband, with a remarkable accent and re- markable vowel sounds, who had plunged into the Bromstead home once or twice for the... ...ntinual pleasure to me. But these things were certainly not the living and central interests of my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certai... ...dnor, the “infernal punctilio,” and Dudley Sowerby’s limitations, were the central substance of that inalertness the book set itself to assail. So man... ...became general again, and it was rare we emerged upon Hendon Street before mid- night. Sometimes, as my house was conveniently near, a knot of men wou...

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...a long green tin case, or vasculum as she chose to call it, with her three vowels, U A E, and the stars of the Little Bear con- spicuously painted on ... ...oung voice that seemed to renew those days gone by, and looking across the central aisle his eyes met a pair of dark ones which gave a sudden glitter ... ...ethwayte, and she was proud of her skill and economy. Mark came in for his mid-day refreshment, and looked greatly brightened, as if the worst had com...

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... see it divide into two hemispheres: first, an ethi- cal system, differing centrally from any previously made known to man; secondly, a mysterious an... ...r; but raptures are modes of troubled plea- sure. The peace, the rest, the central security which belong to love that is past all understanding,—these... ...he deep chords from some accompaniment in the bass, I saw through the wide central field of the window, where the glass was uncolored, white, fleecy c... ...ident were graver than we antici- pated. A general board of our guardians, vowels and conso- nants, was summoned to investigate the matter. The origin... ...not be brought to any terms of accommodation. “That we will try,” said the vowel amongst our guardians, Mr. E. He, being a magistrate, had naturally s... ...seek; sometimes, and in child- hood above all, we are sought. “Think you, ‘mid all this mighty sum Of things forever speaking, That noting of itse... ...t is this—(and the grandeur of sim- plicity at any rate it has)—repeat the vowel or diphthong of every syllable, prefixing to the vowel so repeated th...

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...the Gunther of the Nibelungenlied, who also fell in the battle, became the central figure of a new legend, namely, the story of the fall of the Burgun... ..., it is no longer Attila, 22 The Nibelungenlied but Kriemhild, who is the central figure of the tragedy. Etzel, as he is called here, has sunk to the... ... the few cases of impure rhymes being mainly those in which short and long vowels are rhymed together, e.g. “mich” : “rich” or “man” : “han.” Caesural... ...th short “i” has been cho- sen, as the lack of accent tends to shorten the vowel in such names. (14) “Gere” is likewise a late introduction. He is per... ...ied had to take with him hence the cloak which he, the bold hero, had won ‘mid dangers from a dwarf, Alberich he hight. These bold and mighty knights ...

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...rom the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty sweep of the swampy Amazon more adequate. Lat... ... aproned, black “texas tender,” to bring up tarts and ices and coffee during mid watch, day and night. Now this was “some thing like,” and so I began... ...iend, and another friend at your side kept up a monotonous repetition of the vowel sound A, for a couple of blocks, and then in the midst interjected ... ... and boats went down outside of it. A big island that used to be away out in mid river, has retired to the Missouri shore, and boats do not go near it... ...e river, at Island 21. It was a very large island, and used to be out toward mid stream; but it is joined fast to the main shore now, and has retired ... ...ut what stock could be reached. Going down river a flat in tow was left in a central locality, and from there men poled her back in the rear of planta...

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...dred and thirty-two letters, viz., seventy-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northe... ...sisting of consonants only, as nrrlls; others, on the other hand, in which vowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, uneeief, or the last but one... ...out of my hands. “This begins to look just like an ancient docu- ment: the vowels and the consonants are grouped together in equal disorder; there are... ...volcanoes has diminished since the first days of creation? and if there is central heat may we not thence con- clude that it is in process of diminuti... ...long the seashore. In fact, the great plutonic action is con- fined to the central portion of the island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic cl... ...ted of trap rocks slowly upraised to the level of the sea by the action of central forces. The internal fires had not yet forced their way through. 7... ...f an Icelander, and took the short- est way to the bottom of the abyss. At mid-day we arrived. I raised my head and saw straight above me the upper ap... ...e have gone eighty-five leagues since we started.! “Therefore we are under mid-Atlantic?” “To be sure we are.” “And perhaps at this very moment there ...

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..., sir,” returned the gentle man; “pray let me listen—O.” He enunciated this vowel after a pause, and noted it down. At first I was alarmed, for an Ex... .... I began to think of my mother, and what she would say to my taking home at Mid summer eight of the most beautiful of the daughters of men, but all ... ...al. I also knew that his trial had been post poned over one Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, on the ground of general prejudice and want of ti... ... was a summons to me to serve upon a Jury at the forthcoming Sessions of the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. I had never before been summone...

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...yming to ‘wept,’ ‘adapt,’ etc., occurs more frequently.)—one with the long vowel of the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, where... ...the present- form, the other with a vowel-change (Of course, wherever this vowel-shortening takes place, whether indicated by a corresponding change i... ...to indicate the pronunciation intended by Shelley. In the editions the two vowel-sounds are confounded under the one spelling, ‘leapt.’ In a few cases... ...y helm. Evening came on, The beams of sunset hung their rainbow hues High ‘mid the shifting domes of sheeted spray _335 That ca... ... of the rocky bank, The waters overflow, and a smooth spot Of glassy quiet mid those battling tides Is left, the boat paused shuddering.—Shall it sink... ...light of evening, and its precipice Obscuring the ravine, disclosed above, Mid toppling stones, black gulfs and yawning caves, Whose windings gave ten... ...nd thy touch runs down _85 Even to the adamantine central gloom Along these marble nerves; ’tis life, ’tis joy, And, through ... ...: GON: Ye elemental Genii, who have homes From man’s high mind even to the central stone _540 Of sullen lead; from heaven’s star-fretted dome... ... birth Awaken all its fruits and flowers, and dart Magnetic might into its central heart; And lift its billows and its mists, and guide By everlasting...

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... custom.” It was a dazzling March afternoon, with a shower of sun from the mid-blue, and a marshalling of slaty clouds behind the umber-colored hills.... ... of yellow light slanting through the disbanded thunder clouds, and in the central brightness hung a picture concealed by a curtain of faded velvet. “... ...r, drawing a deep breath as she ended. “That unapproachable combination of vowel sounds prepares one better than anything I know for the con- templati... ...on a lonely peak, a crucified Christ hung livid against indigo clouds. The central figure of the foreground, however, was that of a woman seated in an... ... meanings may be traced in the picture; but to me it symbolizes rather the central truth of existence: that all that is raised in incorruption is sown...

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...ian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua... ...the old man and his simple consolation. For think of his opportu- nity! The youth, from six to fifteen, are taken from their 43 Robert Louis Stevenso... ...HE PORT—THE MART, the civil and religious capital of these rude islands—is called Tai-o-hae, and lies strung along the beach of a precipitous green ba... ...h the scarlet spot like a disease. This seems the more strange, since the hermit crabs pass and repass the island, and I have met them by the Residenc... ...cupied by Maka, the Hawaiian missionary. Two San Fran- cisco firms are here established, Messrs. Crawford and Messrs. Wightman Brothers; the first har... ...berts no longer universal. The Ridi is its name: a cutty petticoat or fringe of the smoked fibre of cocoa-nut leaf, not unlike tarry string: the lower...

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... more! No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, listening in mid air, suspend their wings; No more the birds shall imitate her lays, Or,... ...ic there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words o... ...ky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair’d, to search the gloomy cave of Spl...

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... after very fast walking. I would not have accepted breakfast there. About mid-day, crossing a stubble-field, the girl met a couple of her people-men.... ...ood;. so I let you 117 George Meredith snore away. We took up our captain mid-way down the river, and now you’re in his hands, and he’ll do what he l... ...e of a city and pronounce it; one gave us lessons in the expression of the vowels, with the softening of three of them, which seemed like a regula- ti... ...ent. Paris has also this immense advantage over all other cities: ’tis the central hotel on the high-road of civilization. In Paris you meet your frie... ...ture until I see you.’ Thus he sped me forward. We sighted Riversley about mid-day on a sunny June morn- ing. Compared with the view from Bella Vista,... ...ng me, circumstances for not surrounding me with friends worthy of me. The central ‘I’ resembled the sun of this universe, with the difference that it... ...unting her. He and I parted, and for ever, at a corner of crossways in the central city. There I saw the last of one who deemed it as simple a matter ...

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... an engineer. What is still more strange, among the relics of the handsome mid- shipman and his stay in the gun-room of the Prothee, I find a code of ... ...4. ‘SYRA IS SEMI-EASTERN. The pavement, huge shapeless blocks sloping to a central gutter; from this bare two-storied houses, sometimes plaster many c... ... of articulate language and the foundations of literary art; his papers on vowel sounds, his papers in the Saturday Review upon the laws of verse, and... ...or yet are they so placed as to be ever wholly in the right. Somewhere, in mid air between the disputants, like hovering Victory in some design of a G...

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...al. It appeared that he canvassed the borough from early morning till near mid- night, and nothing would persuade him that his chance was poor; nothin... ... of this vast English middle-class ruling the land is Comfort. It is their central thought; their idea of neces- sity; their sole aim. Whatsoever mini... ...t the expedition homeward was crowned with stars along a road refreshed by mid-day thunder-showers and smelling of the rain in the dust, past meadows ... ...d been thoughtful enough to recharge his pistols after quitting the inn at mid- night. A practical ‘tu quoque’ is astonishingly laughable, and backed ... ...tead of a bounding heart. Something had stunned his heart. He had no clear central feeling; he tried to gather it from her touch, from his joy in beho... ...visham. He arrived in the best of moods for the emis- sion of high-pitched vowel-sounds; otherwise in the worst of tempers. His uncle had notified an ...

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..., Miss,’ and there we were. “Lan?” “Lan or Len. We were not nice about our vowels. Lanoline. “ “But what an extraordinary—” “I said, ‘My good Mrs. Lan... ...s if her ques- tion had been a foolish one, a favourite device of those in mid-stream. “This afternoon call.” “In the afternoon, of course!” he replie... ... been deceived by the curate, my dear, but the young fellow who brings the mid- day post really is fond of me, and has, as a matter of fact—” It had a... ...ne weather. Fine weather is due to the sun, but Margaret could think of no central radiance here. She stood in his drawing-room happy, and longing to ... ...happy, and longing to give happiness. On leaving him she realised that the central radiance had been love. “You aren’t offended, Miss Schlegel?” “How ... ...t talk it over judicially with Helen. It had been a strange love-scene—the central radiance unacknowledged from first to last. She, in his place, woul... ...on rose higher the two dis- entangled, and were clear fur a few moments at mid- night. Margaret awoke and looked into the garden. How incomprehensible...

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... marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot of the infernal factory, third turning to the right off the g... ...day appointed by Cap- tain Kirby to carry off Countess Fanny, and the time mid- night: and ten minutes to the stroke of twelve, Countess Fanny, as if ... ...n sat in a web, but as yet had done no more than shoot up a glow along the central heavens, in amid the waves of deepened aloud: a mir- ror for night ... ...o gather an early bud of the year, would be near it. Or there is a lake in mid-forest, that curls part in shadow under the foot of morning: there we h... ...e idea for- ward disturb the scene. A half-uprooted pine-tree stem propped mid-fall by standing comrades, and the downy drop to ground and muted scurr... ...s, gigs, carts, pony-traps, boys on ponies, a swarm on legs, flowed to the central point and huddled there. Was either champion born in Kent? An audac... ... of explanation from Edwards, the guttural gabble rattled up to the shrill vowels. Fleetwood’s endurance broke short. The packed small room, the caged...

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...TER XV THE PETITION FOR A RELEASE NEITHER CLARA NOR VERNON appeared at the mid-day table. Dr. Middleton talked with Miss Dale on classical matters, li... ...ild. And let me direct you, for the next occasion when you shall bring the vowels I and A, in verbally detached letters, into collision, that you do n... ...s impressed with respect for the family. This cool vaulted cellar, and the central square block, or enceinte, where the thick darkness was not penetra... ...ntly spied was correct, Miss Middleton would have been caught in the storm mid- way to her destination. By his guess at her character (knowl- 248 The... ...ing host had taken forethought to be of the party in his prime, and in the central place, looking fresh- fattened there and sanguine from the performa... ... clock was at the half hour after twelve. He flung the silken thing on the central ottoman, extinguished the lamps, and walked out of the room, chargi... ...ghby? Really?” The confounded gentleman heaved on a bare plank of wreck in mid sea. He could oppose only a paralyzed smile to the assault. His intuiti...

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...to get another wife. But I will tell you what you shall do, said he to the mid- wives, in France called wise women (where be they, good folks? I canno... ...h may result from the combinations of all the consonants, with each of the vowels heretofore projected, reckoned, and calculated by the noble Xenocrat... ...alf out of his mouth. This done, he posited his left hand wholly open, the mid-finger wholly excepted, which was perpendicularly placed upon the palm ... ...t hand into a close fist, passed his dexter thumb betwixt the foremost and mid fingers thereto belonging. Then 375 Rabelais scrubbing and swingeing a... ...ns; and that the meanest capacities might be informed of this, just at the central perpendicular line, on the chapter of the first pillar, which was o... ... ceased to boil; and then she took Panurge into the greater temple, in the central place, where there was the enlivening fountain. There she took out ...

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...ieve her sufferings. Is it your opinion that men’s acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impuls... ... dear to him, then went his way as silently as he had come. He knows . At mid afternoon it began to snow. The pity of it—that Jean could not see it! ... ...is that of a spotless desert of snow set upon edge against the sky. But by mid afternoon some elevations which rise out of the western border of the d... ...ed to connect, as knowing they would lie. We reached here (Bayreuth) about mid afternoon of a rainy Saturday. We were of the wise, and had secured lod... ...d) character. I mean simply the alphabet; sim ply the consonants and the vowels—I don’t mean any re ductions or abbreviations of them, such as the... ... penman, the saving in labor is insignifi cant. T o write that word (with vowels) with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen... ...graphic alphabet, the pen has to make only seventeen strokes. Without the vowels, only thirteen strokes [ Image not avail able—ed.]. The vowels are...

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...thereabouts —we shall have time enough to get through with them all before mid- night. To commence then: —The nose, according to Bartholinus, is that ... ...d him, a whole para- graph—aye! a whole article—in which that contemptible vowel should not once—not even once—make its appearance. But no; —that woul... ... (the “Gazette”) a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful vowel— the emblem of Eternity—yet so offensive to the hyper-exquis- ite del... ...ly not.” “W ell, den, zit still and pehabe yourself, or I’ll rap you again mid me vist. It iz te shicken ab te wing, und te owl ab te wing, und te im... ...se, he should have at least adhered to analogy in its development. A great central orb was, in fact, suggested; so far Mudler was consis- tent. This c... ...en have been asked—“Why do we not see it?”— we, especially, who occupy the mid region of the cluster—the very locality near which, at least, must be s... ... very locality near which, at least, must be situated this incon- ceivable central sun. The astronomer, perhaps, at this point, took refuge in the sug... ...minosity; and here anal- ogy was suddenly let fall. But even admitting the central orb non-luminous, how did he manage to explain its failure to be re...

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...ank and trees leaned whisperingly; the great oak shadowing a bare place in mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of th... ...lk must be belles-lettres. That is wi-ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ...nripeness of his authorship. It is true that this last might be called his central ambition; but there are some kinds of authorship in which by far th... ....” CHAPTER XLIV I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. WHEN DOROTHEA, walking round the laurel-... ...as impossible for him to follow them, and he could only walk back sadly at mid-day along the same road which he had trodden hopefully in the morning. ... ...ugh, 445 George Eliot and that error, in general, was a mere lack of that central pois- ing force. “I can see what you are thinking of as well as can... ...in a hand as gentlemanly as that of any viscount or bishop of the day: the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up...

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...resent traces of Finnish influence. The musical element of a language, the vowels, are well developed in Finnish, and their due sequence is subject to... ..., gathered round two or three chief heroes, but more especially around the central figure of Wainamoinen, the hero of the following epic. The Kalevala... ...travels throughout Finland, Dr. Lonnrot now commenced to arrange under the central idea of a great epic, called Kalevala, and in February, 1835, the m... ...e to the minstrel Wailing in a grove of willows, In his piteous condition, Mid the alder trees and aspens, On the border of the salt sea, Visage tremb... ...of the waters, Weep in sad and bitter accents, On the border of the ocean, Mid the aspens and the willows?” This is Wainamoinen’s answer: Had good rea... ...i giants, In the quiet fields of Ehstland, On the battle fields of Sweden, Mid the mountaineers of Lapland, In the magic fens of T urya; Seek him in T...

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...ame to you: for ye shall assuredly receive the reward of your doings.” But mid gardens and delights shall they dwell who have feared God, Rejoicing in... ... Like the boiling of scalding water. “–Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire; Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water. –‘T aste t... ...assage with the prescribed hours, some understand the extremes to mean the mid-day, when the day is as it were divided. 30 Supply, we will not believ... ... the inspiration of their prophet. But it should be borne in mind that the vowel points of the consonants of the Arabic word for defeated in verse 1, ... ...omp. Matth. xix. 24; Mark x. 25; Luke xviii. 25. By the change of a single vowel in the Arabic word for camel, we obtain the rendering, cable. In the ... ...od’s. He guideth whom he will into the right path. Thus have we made you a central people, 57 that ye may be witnesses in regard to mankind, and that...

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...the captain’s orders from home were to put in at Santa Barbara, which is the central port of the coast, and wait there for the agent who lives there, ... ...e had on straw hats, duck trowsers, and all the summer gear; and as this was mid winter it spoke well for the climate; and we afterwards found that t... ...m to skip from consonant to consonant, until, lighting upon a broad, open vowel, they rest upon that to restore the balance of sound. The women car... ...’ lives here; which makes it the seat of government. He is appointed by the central government at Mexico, and is the chief civil and military offic... ... me but the sea and the rocks upon which it broke, and a few gulls flying in mid air. I got down in safety, pretty well covered with dirt; and for my ... ...nd which stretched off into the Pacific, high, rocky and barren, forming the central point of the coast for hundreds of miles north and south. A cap f... ...un yarn, and everything else that could be made between decks. It being now mid winter and in high latitude, the nights were very long, so that we w...

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...lergyman, and creditable to the cloth. Some Radical fellow speechifying at Mid dlemarch said Casaubon was the learned straw chopping incumbent, and F... ...ank and trees leaned whisperingly; the great oak shadowing a bare place in mid pasture; the high bank where the ash trees grew; the sudden slope of th... ...k must be belles lettres. That is wi ide.” Naumann’s pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. Will did not half like it, bu... ...Lydgate. He used to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs.... ...nripeness of his authorship. It is true that this last might be called his central ambition; but there are some kinds of authorship in which by far th... ...ngs were right enough, and that error, in general, was a mere lack of that central poising force. “I can see what you are thinking of as well as can b... ...ier than they. But there were still spaces left near the head of the large central table, and they made their way thither. Mr. Farebrother sat opposit...

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...among the most moving in the language. We are approaching the solution. In mid-winter, Jean, once more in the family way, was turned out of doors by h... ... gather their activities about some conception of human- ity that shall be central and normal, if only for the moment -the poet must portray that popu... ...synthesis, than any or than all of them put together. In feeling after the central type of man, he must embrace all eccentricities; his cosmol- ogy mu... ...an equality of accent on the different syllables, almost as in French, the vowels as in Italian, but the consonants in the English manner – except the... ...el gravely with the fashions not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. For long he durst not keep a carriage; that, i...