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...Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on...

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... the Wanchunting (Wanchun Pavilion), which overlooks this small park, directly opposite the North Gate of the Forbidden City. From this playground of Ming and Qing dynasty emperors for almost 500 years, you will be able to get a grasp on the great city that is China’s capital. On Sunday’s choral groups gather in the park to perform amateur Peking Operas, play musical instr...

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...mself into a stupor last night. When Hiram finished and stood, McGivern sat in the Ming chair. In the quiet office, the long black pen scratched a... ...knobs and crammed the papers inside. Going to the front of his desk, he turned the Ming chair to face the hall. He squirmed into the straight-back... ...He started for the back door, but turned suddenly to face Mather. “By the way, the Ming chair — that’s the chair Royce’s laying against — it’s turne... ...alf-lying there, stiff.” “Half-lying?” “His head was shot off as he sat in the Ming chair. He slid to the floor. You know the Ming chair, do... ...od and gunpowder and stared at the chalked outline of human legs at the base of the Ming chair. “Who could do this?” Jack stepped closer and too... ...l when it comes to going abroad.” “I loved the fabulous Yingqing ewer from the Song Dynasty you brought back a couple months ago.” Sammie looked ...

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...es looked like spires piercing the heavens. The stars on the horizon seemed to mingle and dance with the tops of the teepees. It was mystical and m... ...t. The lobby, to his surprise, was nearly empty; only a small group of Japanese mingled near the entrance to the coffee shop .. He walked to the re... ...ill said. "I think they were headed for the green room." "Hawk should be here, mingling, getting to know the media, ingratiating himself to potenti... ...ntern inserted. "I bet, over the years, that stuff has been accumulating and co-mingling in un­ derground cavities, and has probably undergone a thou... ... precious museum pieces: statues, paintings, vases, including carvings from the Ming Dynasty to the Sumerian culture of Ham arabi, the Law Giver. Br... ...ious museum pieces: statues, paintings, vases, including carvings from the Ming Dynasty to the Sumerian culture of Ham arabi, the Law Giver. Brent w...

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...ld his phantom levees, and in a very gallant manner repre- sented a fallen dynasty for some hours. Now, all these things of clay are mingled with the ... ... sented a fallen dynasty for some hours. Now, all these things of clay are mingled with the dust, the king’s crown itself is shown for sixpence to the... ...ountry man, the dandy of the rose garden, looked far abroad in such a hum- ming neighbourhood; and you can fancy what moral con- siderations a youthfu... ...t upon the subject of our recent villa architecture, I am frankly ready to mingle my tears with Mr. Ruskin’s, and it is a subject which makes one envi...

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...wling, and the ship lying on her side, so that half of the crew were swim- ming and the other half clawing desperately at what- ever came to hand, acc... ...ean feel sheltered under the aegis of an uncontested law, of an undisputed dynasty. There, indeed, if anywhere on earth, the weather may be trusted. Y... ...cending like showers of crystals and pearls, bounding off the spars, drum- ming on the sails, pattering on the oilskin coats, whitening the decks of h... ...stency in everything that is vile and base. The members of the West Wind’s dynasty are modified in a way by the regions they rule, as a Hohenzollern, ... ...write that name without a strange tightening of the breast and the gasp of mingled delight and dread of one’s first passionate experience. XLI WE FOUR...

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...f obedience to persons of the upper classes; and though he never willingly mingled with the lesser bourgeoisie, he always respected women in whatever ... ...d herself degraded in public opinion. The countess was ungrateful, but she mingled a charm with her ingratitude. From time to time she shed a balm upo... ...y running into it, producing the most annoying discussions as to the trim- ming of hedges and ditches and the cutting of trees. Any other than a cabin... ...s of that place. All the travellers got out. Puzzled by the apparent truth mingled with Georges’ inventions, the count returned to the coucou when the... .... In buying a practice without clients, Desroches began, as it were, a new dynasty. This circumstance made a break in the usages relative to the recep... ...led out his hundred in silver five-franc pieces, much ashamed at having to mingle such ignoble coins with gold. In ten throws the actress lost the two... ...the command of the National guard, Oscar Husson, whose devotion to the new dynasty amounted to fanaticism, was appointed major of a regiment sent to A...

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...nd itself only on artificiality and aridity; each new Revolt and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stratum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet comin... ...ve o’clock; and he had breakfasted but slightly in a morning of such drum- ming and alarm. Chaumette breaks his half-loaf: the King eats of the crust;... ...p in the Thursday night, when the Voting is done, and Secretaries are sum- ming it up, sick Duchatel, more spectral than another, comes borne on a cha... ...e; where also a certain finesse, to the length even of shuffling and sham- ming, now and then shews itself. They are men skilful in Advocate-fence. Th... ...ng; amid drowsy talk of Politics, and praise of the Mountain; in which she mingles not; all night, all day, and again all night. On Thursday, not long... ...is stead: he, in long-winded Battles of Watigny, ‘murderous artillery-fire mingling itself with sound of Revolutionary battle-hymns,’ forces Austria b...

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...asant bit. It is pleasant even here, if one had time, with the brook drum- ming in that black pool, and the green things hanging all about the rocks, ... ...ly presuming on his station. And perhaps a little shiver of physical alarm mingled with his remorse, for the fellow was very powerful and not more tha... ...hat you need be so deplorably affected, for I am no officer. But those who mingle with politics should look at both sides of the medal.’ ‘Your Highnes... ...like a nor’west moon; and they played pranks with each others’ horses, and mingled songs and choruses, and alternately remembered and forgot the compa... ... her eye flashed as she perused it. ‘Hey!’ cried the Baron, ‘there falls a dynasty, and it was I that felled it; and I and you inherit!’ He seemed to ...

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...grace, refinement, elegance, flesh of a superior texture, and a complexion mingled in the unknown laboratory where good luck presides. These beautiful... ...exact representative of the 102 Cousin Betty class on whom he founded his dynasty, and I can never for- get what he did for the trimming-makers by re... ...g why you are not made a deputy.” “They are afraid of my attachment to the dynasty,” replied Rivet. “My political enemies are the King’s. He has a nob... ... the Brazilian and Valerie, the rest of the company felt the sort of alarm mingled with curiosity that is caused by evident violence ready to break ou... ...w.—What is it?” said Valerie, raising her voice, and looking at him with a mingled expression of haughti- ness and scorn. Crevel, as he met this arrog... ...LAS RETURNED HOME and had read the two letters, he felt a kind of gladness mingled with regret. Kept so constantly under his wife’s eye, so to speak, ... ...keep it from 266 Cousin Betty falling into a bog where the quicksands are mingled with blood! Oh! ask for no explanations,” she exclaimed, at a movem... ...ors, who draw large revenues from the registration fees, and the Bourgeois dynasty, which benefits by the notary’s profits, affect to overlook the fac...

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...ew remnants of yellow locks mixed with silver floating from his temples to mingle with his magnificent white beard. A small blue bonnet, with a short ... ...am. It had been a great favourite with the Scottish kings of that glorious dynasty which sprung from Margaret of Wessex, and had ample estates, which,... ...nd Henry, who had resumed his gay temper, made much diversion out of their mingled shrewdness and gruffness. ‘So,’ muttered Malcolm to Ralf Percy, ‘we... ...to nail the two lads to the spot by his steady gaze of 114 The Caged Lion mingled distress and displeasure. Neither could brook his eye: Percy hung h... ... in England.’ ‘If so,’ said Esclairmonde, looking at her friend with swim- ming eyes, ‘she will have the best of husbands—as good as even she deserves... ...d to come through them, ‘I am bound ever to pray for you and your sister.’ Mingled with the cry came ever the sweet soft Litany cadences—’For all that...

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...se of the submarine crawler invented by Doctor Alberto Cassini. By a happy mingling of reasoning and intuition peculiar to her sex she found gold at h... ...majority of gyroscopic motor-cars run- ning bicycle-fashion on two wheels, mingled with old-fash- ioned four-wheeled traffic. Bank Holiday times alway... ... “but they don’t seem hurting themselves to get ‘im. Or else they’re sham- ming don’t care to get his prices down. “They don’t quite seem to be the go... ...God of his Fathers and the pleasure and glory of giving one’s life for his dynasty, and a number of similar considerations that might otherwise have b... ...rt gave himself body and soul to cowering. Ever and again a larger thunder mingled with the rattle and reminded him of the grapple of airships far abo... ...rd. The Welsh and English countryside at that time presented the strangest mingling of the assurance and wealth of the opening twentieth century with ...

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...med the golden light; emblazonries of heavenly illumination (from the sun) mingling with the earthly emblazonries (from art and its gorgeous coloring)... ...now discovered, was this: he would consider himself in the light of a hum- ming top; he would make an apparatus (and he made it) for having himself la... ...enerally with pitchforks, though some eight or ten carried carabines. Half mingled with these, and very little in the rear, succeeded a vast miscellan... .... Every touch from her, every velvety pat, drew blood. And something comic mingled with what my mother felt to be paramount tragedy. Far different was... ...s not the spectator that is in fault here, but the object itself, the Bir- mingham cape. For, consider, it is not only the “specular mount,” keeping w... ... But why making for Birmingham? Sim- ply because Birmingham, under the old dynasty of stage coaches and post chaises, was the centre of our travelling...

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...to amuse themselves till something should amuse them. Among this strangely mingled party were some men with whom Lucien had had transactions, combinin... ...s were made, necessary to the poor soul, whom God would surely forgive for mingling human and sacred love? One had led to the other. Was there some tr... ...d through aspiration for the future and memory of the past; and with it he mingles the exquisite delights of the soul, which makes him the prince of a... ...Germany—the land of little carved figures, of large wine-vats, and of hum- ming-tops. The Baron had tried to think; but after passing the bridge at Go... ...readed the scan- dal, and the Marquise got her knuckles rapped in the sum- ming up for the judgment finally recorded in that miserable business. “Thou... ...ome cases assumes ap- palling importance—in politics, for instance, when a dynasty or a state is involved—will find a place in the Human Com- edy. But...

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... broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the conutry as the basswood, mingled their uppermost branches, forming one broad and seemingly intermina... ...origines of this continent a century since than to- day; and, while he had mingled sufficiently with the colonists to be familiar with their habits an... ...been friendly, but distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle with the officers of the different military posts he had frequented ... ... as I have never been known to miss one end of the trail, when there was a Mingo, or a friend who stood in need of me, at the other.” This was not utt... ...se guides might have been found than the Tuscarora; though he has too much Mingo blood for one who consorts altogether with the Delawares.” “It is, th... ...acquaint his subordinates with the new state of things. This change in the dynasty was effected without any of the 373 James Fenimore Cooper usual sy...

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... for fear that I should get some of his good done to me some of its virus mingled with my blood. No in this case I would rather suffer evil the natu... ... of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day. They lay mingled with other natural stones, some of which bore the marks of having b... ...swallows alighted and walking on the ground: “And as he spake, his mings would now and then Spread, as he meant to fly, then close aga... ...ng and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swim ming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from... ...ow of in summer, when, be side, shallow and stagnant surface water is not mingled with it. Moreover, in summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most ... ...homage, when you have done reverence to the pros trate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping over the sill; a cavernous house, wherein you must reac... ... its mounds to peel the stick. Before he had given it the proper shape the dynasty of the Candahars was at an end, and with the point of the stick he ...

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... the world; the earliest known record of pigeons is in the fifth Aegyptian dynasty, about 3000 B.C., as was pointed out to me by Profes- sor Lepsius; ... ...hat pigeons 33 Charles Darwin are given in a bill of fare in the previous dynasty. In the time of the Romans, as we hear from Pliny, im- mense prices... ...t convenience to the fancier, for thus many races may be kept true, though mingled in the same aviary; and this circumstance must have largely favoure... ..., for instance, of a tropical and arc- tic wolf or wild dog may perhaps be mingled in our domestic breeds. The rat and mouse cannot be con- sidered as... ... like a nuthatch. In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swim- ming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catch- ing, like a whale, insec... ...cts, habits, and dispositions are inherited, and how curiously they become mingled, is well shown when different breeds of dogs are crossed. Thus it i... ...unity with an unusually large stock of slaves, and I observed a few slaves mingled with their mas- ters leaving the nest, and marching along the same ...

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... into that abyss, where the dreams of Panslavism, of uni- versal conquest, mingled with the hate and contempt for Western ideas, drift impotently like... ...ia, traditionally unaggressive whenever her hand is not forced, ruled by a dynasty of uncertain future, weakened by her duality, can only speak to her... ...hand is a fool. The pride and trust of the nation in its Navy so strangely mingled with moments of neglect, caused by a par- ticularly thick-headed id... ...one clear of the danger. But then, perhaps, she could not have had a swim- ming bath and a French cafe. That, of course, is a serious consideration. I...

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...high his grave; and thereon the goat-herds sprinkled offerings of milk mingled with yellow-honey: such was the utterance of the nine Muses th... ...e trouble upon them. But, notwithstanding, even these shall have some good mingled with their evils. And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men als... ...ry time Zeus who thunders on high was meditating marvellous deeds, even to mingle storm and tempest over the boundless earth, and already he was haste... ...s: we were playing and gathering sweet flowers in our hands, soft crocuses mingled with irises and hyacinths, and rose-blooms and lilies, marvellous t... ...ond book: ‘Upon the shield were dumb fish afloat, with golden faces, swim- ming and sporting through the heavenly water.’ Fragment #5 — Athenaeus, i. ... ...ter known are the Homeric account (according to which Aeneas founded a new dynasty at Troy), and the legends which make him seek a new home in Italy. ...

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...of state, walks like a goddess of Beauty, the cynosure of all eyes; as yet mingles not with affairs; heeds not the future; least of all, dreads it. We... ...e Justice roll with unusual crowds, coming and going; their huge outer hum mingles with the clang of patriotic eloquence within, and gives vigour to i... ...eclined the honour of sitting therein. Assaulted by a univer- sal storm of mingled ridicule and execration, (La Cour Pleniere, heroi-tragi-comedie en ... ...lso with large clubs, which they smite angrily against the pavement! These mingle in the Election tumult; would fain sign Guillotin’s Cahier, or any C... ...Remark, meanwhile, how D’Orleans affects to step before his own Order, and mingle with the Commons. For him are vivats: few for the rest, though all w... ... not sleeping, nor Time’s seedfield. That sacred Herald’s-College of a new Dynasty; we mean the Sixty and odd Billstickers with their leaden badges, a... ...nd itself only on artificiality and aridity; each new Revolt and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stra- tum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet com...

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... yet shrinking from his eye. But, at the same time, Norman did not see him mingling with his former friends, and could not make out how he disposed of... ...d the doctor, yielding with a half-reluctant smile. “My story is of a hum- ming-bird, a little creature that loved its master with all its strength, a... ... that she was not always impartial in her judgments. Why would competition mingle even in the best attempts? Cherry did not so bring forward her schol... ...to sleep through the sermon. To say that Dr. May never slept under the new dynasty would be an over-statement, but slumber certainly prevailed in the ... ... Meta. “Why?” “Never mind! I don’t think so; you are just like papa’s hum- ming-bird, as you always were, not a bit more of a fine lady than any girl ... ...Propagation of the Gospel had been few and far between; but, under the new dynasty, there was a talk of forming an associa- tion, and having a meeting...