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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...n south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was sud- denly aware of the faint and prolonged blowin... ...nt where what was known as the Lower Road struck off through the Rancho de Los Muertos, leading on to Guadalajara, he came upon one of the county wate... ...mbering a forgotten argument. He waved an arm. “Ach, der pipe-line bei der Mission Greek, und der waater-hole for dose cettles. Say, he doand doo ut h... ...s land, division No. I, or, as it was called, the Home ranch, of the great Los Muertos Rancho. The road was better here, the dust laid after the passa... ...e can only put the rates back at what they originally were before the com- missioners made the cut, and it is so ordered.’ That’s our friend S. Behrma... ...bjective point was the spring at the headwaters of Broderson Creek, in the hills on the eastern side of the Quien Sabe ranch. The trail afforded him a... ... one whereon the wheat had been successful, no doubt because of the Little Mission Creek that ran through it. But he no longer occupied himself with t... ...looked forward to spending nearly the whole day on the crest of the wooded hills in the northern corner of the Quien Sabe ranch, read- ing, idling, sm... ... Creek was marked by a curved line of grey-green willows, while on the low hills to the north, as Presley advanced, the ancient Mission of San Juan de...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... remember one time she, and a very short classmate of hers dressed in a tuxedo, and with her in her best formal, appeared on the floor of the Los An... ...ember one time she, and a very short classmate of hers dressed in a tuxedo, and with her in her best formal, appeared on the floor of the Los Angele... ... their parents, are a bit afraid that I might be a molester. I don‘t feel the closeness I once felt from everyone. These priests have made my missio... ... Ladin to attack the infidels in New York and Washington, to kill people who hadn‘t harmed him, and to kill George W, Bush by flying a suicide missio... ...e of love a few minutes ago. Jesus may be said to have been such a person; Albert Schweitzer in his ministry in Africa might be another; some missio... ...h is a person‘s environment influenced by finding meaning in his or her life? Certainly our environments differ. The Jewish girl from Beverly Hills ... ...aq war.‖ —―Con, you probably remember that after the famous O.J. Simpson murder trial the police knew that there would be rioting in Los An... ...ar.‖ —―Con, you probably remember that after the famous O.J. Simpson murder trial the police knew that there would be rioting in Los Angele... ...This highly successful program has already given us some musical geniuses, such as Gustavo Dudamel, who was named the musical director for the Los An...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... the awakening hum of men, and the glancing of the first beams upon trees, hills, spires, and house tops, to give it life and spirit. But though the... ...ched; a piece of the sandal wood I obtained, and learned that it grew on the hills in the centre of the island. - 22 - Two Years Before the Mast Richa... ...streams running through every valley, and leaping down from the sides of the hills. One stream of considerable size flows through the centre of the l... ...theaster; the other is high, bold, and well wooded, and, we were told, has a mission upon it, called St. Buenaventura, from which the point is named.... ... middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and town of Santa Barbara, on a low, flat plain, but little above... ... mountains, which slant off to the distance of fifteen or twenty miles. The mission stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or ra... ... before going down to the beach. Several people were soon collected to see ‘‘los Ingles marineros,’’ and one of them—a young woman—took a great fancy ... ...ement of the bystanders, who cried out, ‘‘Bravo!’’ ‘‘Otra vez!’’ and ‘‘Vivan los marineros!’’ but the dancing did not become general, as the women and... ...ego, including the mission of the same, San Juan Capestrano, the Pueblo de los Angelos, the largest town in California, with the neighboring missi...

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