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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...d What Your Bank Doesn’t Want You to Know . . . 11 other things to do and the holidays were coming. In short, I procrastinated. When I finally ... ...ort so that a purchaser will be sure the title is clear of any claims. Chattel Moveable items of property which are neither land nor permanently a... ... valuable property besides land. Chattel mortgage When an interest is given on moveable property other than real property, in writing, as security... ... (6) days shall in the computation thereof, exclude Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and any time period provided for herein which shall end o...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...nsider that you have earned your money? Would you go off on their junkets and holidays called business trips? To hob-nob with your fellow cronies a... ...vicariously entertained, or it inspires us to escape it temporarily by having holidays or vacations. It inspires us either to be active or non-activ... ...self-indulgence. It is pure spiritual corruption. Why are the Christmas holidays felt to be so loving? Because for one evening… we can exclude... .... This is why each family closes its doors to all strangers during the winter holidays; and huddles together to celebrate their own closeness by sh... ...just to stuff yourselves with food instead of love? Originally; European holidays were special times of plenty. Before industrialization: most ... ...ation. What most people do not understand is that your inner-observer is a moveable balance-point…and that it becomes more or less effective and ...

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Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ed fingers, all in one piece, and Clare’s blue leather hands had been very moveable and mischievous, judging by the number of times this warn- ing cam... ...ckings,” said his sister, Nunziata; “we never wear them but on Sundays and holidays.” Lucy was not sure that she might, but the children looked so joy... ...rsation. “Y es; my father is the hetman of the Stantitza, and these are my holidays. I go to school at Tcherkask the greater part of the year.” “Tcher...

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The Prelude Or, Growth of a Poets Mind

By: William Wordsworth

... And languidly pursued. When summer came, 55 Our pastime was, on bright half holidays, To sweep along the plain of Windermere With rival oars; and the... ...artered year In penniless poverty. But now to school 85 From the half yearly holidays returned, We came with weightier purses, that sufficed To furnish... ...re we ever masters of our wish. And when thereafter to my father’s house The holidays returned me, there to find That golden store of books which I had... ...s, and boys, Blue breeched, pink vested, with high towering plumes.— 705 All moveables of wonder, from all parts, Are here—Albinos, painted Indians, D... ...another Of these memorials:— One Christmas time, On the glad eve of its dear holidays, Feverish, and tired, and restless, I went forth 290 Into the fie...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...em—that don’t you think they overdo it? And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? And am I never to have change of air, becaus... ...f the walls and the jambs of the doors and win- dows also bore. The scanty moveables partook of it; save for the cleanliness of the place, the dust—in... ...s an investment, and liked to dress well; but he drove a bargain for every moveable about him, from the coat on his back to the china on his breakfast... ...Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering. ‘What have you got to do with holidays? Shut the door.’ With his former action the old man obeyed. In the... ...ing forward to lay his hand upon the Lock-keeper’s shoulder. ‘These are my holidays.’ ‘Are they, by George!’ muttered Riderhood, with his eyes on the ... ...sion-wasted face. ‘Y our working days must be stiff ‘uns, if these is your holidays.’ ‘And I have never left him,’ pursued Bradley, waving the interru...

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

...le Wherein I was a Stranger, thither come 380 A School boy Traveller, at the Holidays. Forth rambled from the Village Inn alone No sooner had I sight ... ...r 85 In pennyless poverty. But now, to School Return’d, from the half yearly holidays, We came with purses more profusely fill’d, Allowance which abund... ...ers of our wish. And afterwards, when, to my father’s house Returning at the holidays, I found That golden store of books which I had left Open to my ... ...rls, and boys, 680 Blue breeched, pink vested, and with towering plumes. All moveables of wonder from all parts Are here, albinos, painted Indians, dw... ...nts, 345 With which we will conclude. One Christmas time, The day before the holidays began, Feverish, and tired, and restless, I went forth Into the ...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...creased to near fifty. Captain Pierce sat on a chair, a cot, or some other moveable, with a daughter on each side, whom he alter nately pressed to hi... ...tune in it, but it is rusty and dusty, and never turns. A large doll, with moveable eyes, was put up to be raffled for, by five and twenty members at ... ...titution, and we have a Working Men’s Institu tion—may it hold many gipsy holidays in summer fields, with the kettle boiling, the band of music playi... ... am a good workman. Not a Teetotaller; but never drunk. When the Christmas holidays were over, I went up to London by the Parliamentary T rain, and hi... ...extraordinary sounds when he sometimes tried to play it of an evening. His holidays never began (on account of the bills) until long after ours; but, ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...HAPTER 14. PAU L GROWS MORE AND MORE O LD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHEN THE MIDSUMMER vacation approached, no indecent manifestations... ...had a dreadful Uncle, who not only volunteered examinations of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent events and things, and w... ... on the bank. Briggs, therefore, was not at all sanguine on the subject of holidays; and these two sharers of little Paul’s bedroom were so fair a sam... ...resignation. It was far otherwise with little Paul. The end of these first holidays was to witness his separation from Florence, but who ever looked f... ...ss his separation from Florence, but who ever looked forward to the end of holidays whose beginning was not yet come! Not Paul, assuredly. As the happ... ...ps, in the high places. Her mother’s picture was gone with the rest of the moveables, and on the mark where it had been, was scrawled in chalk, ‘this ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...HAPTER 14. PAU L GROWS MORE AND MORE O LD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHEN THE MIDSUMMER vacation approached, no indecent manifestations... ...had a dreadful Uncle, who not only volunteered examinations of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent events and things, and w... ... on the bank. Briggs, therefore, was not at all sanguine on the subject of holidays; and these two sharers of little Paul’s bedroom were so fair a sam... ...resignation. It was far otherwise with little Paul. The end of these first holidays was to witness his separation from Florence, but who ever looked f... ...ss his separation from Florence, but who ever looked forward to the end of holidays whose beginning was not yet come! Not Paul, assuredly. As the happ... ...ps, in the high places. Her mother’s picture was gone with the rest of the moveables, and on the mark where it had been, was scrawled in chalk, ‘this ... ...as transformed into a species of land-cabin, adorned with all the choicest moveables out of the parlour, inclusive even of the Tartar frigate, which t...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...em—that don’t you think they overdo it? And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? And am I never to have change of air, becaus... ...f the walls and the jambs of the doors and win- dows also bore. The scanty moveables partook of it; save for the cleanliness of the place, the dust—in...

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David Copperfield Volume One Chapters One through Twenty-Eight

By: Charles Dickens

...are going for your own good. Good-bye, my child. You will come home in the holidays, and be a better boy. Clara! Miss Murdstone repeated. Certainl... ... ink, surrounding all. I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began... ...dles, but the sound of the coach- man touching up the horses. CHAPTER 8 MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON WHEN WE ARRIVED before day at the ... ...e, giving me the tea-caddy scoop instead of her fingers. How long are the holidays? A month, ma am. Counting from when? From today, ma am. Oh... ...said Miss Murdstone. Then here s one day off. She kept a calendar of the holidays in this way, and every morning checked a day off in exactly the sa... ...he took me to her own home, and a beautiful little home it was. Of all the moveables in it, I must have been impressed by a certain old bureau of some...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

... so that there was no numbering of their cattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, inso- much that from the least to the greatest all were made ric... ...being made, and keeping his commandment. 9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour. 10 Some... ...7 And in that he saith, Yet once more, he signi eth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable....

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The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

...aitresse similarly elevated. At the back of the estrade, and attached to a moveable partition dividing this school- room from another beyond, was a la... ...ult to pay him back in his own coin. The crisis drew on. No sooner had the holidays commenced 155 Charlotte Brontë than note of preparation for some ... ... of mourn- ing for her aunt. One January morning—the first of the new year holidays—I went in a fiacre, accompanied only by M. Vandenhuten, to the Rue...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...s an investment, and liked to dress well; but he drove a bargain for every moveable about him, from the coat on his back to the china on his breakfast... ...Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering. ‘What have you got to do with holidays? Shut the door.’ With his former action the old man obeyed. In the...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...amend it, if the birching did not do, he should not let me go home for the holidays; but I will not catch the birching... —‘So believe me your dear So... ...838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. AFTER the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years old, he was... ...from home severely, and seldom failed to write a mournful letter after the holidays. There is one, quite pa- thetic in its simplicity, telling his mot... ... it, I do not know whether there will be another Sacrament here before the holidays, or whether I shall receive it with you at Feniton next time.’ 23... ...xcept the yet unconfirmed younger brother) did so receive it in the summer holidays, the last that were to be spent in the full joy of an unbroken hou... ...folk Islanders, and quietly fall into a less responsible position and be a moveable clergyman in Fiji or anywhere else, as long as my strength lasts. ...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

... were the birds singing, as the sun only shines and the birds only sing on holidays and half holidays; there were the trees waving to all free boys t... ...he governess; no deferential servant to at tend and bear her home for the holidays; nothing gen teel to talk about, and nothing to display. But why ... ...rrily home together. CHAPTER 40 FULL OF THAT VAGUE kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning, Kit turned out at sunrise, and, with his fait... ...pockets, but free from any very great oppression notwithstanding. Oh these holidays! why will they leave us some re gret? why cannot we push them bac... ...skirted coat; and having satisfied himself of the safety of this, his only moveable in Bevis Marks, made answer in the negative. ‘It’s a very unpleasa...

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

By: George Meredith

... father’s princely reputation in the school. At times, especially when the holidays arrived and I was left alone with Julia, I had fits of mournfulnes... ...hat Heriot would have to shoot 51 George Meredith or scourge him when the holidays came. Mr. Rippenger con- cluded his observations by remarking that... ...umour. He believed also that his people meant to have me for the Christmas holidays. The sum he sent me was five pounds, carefully enclosed. I felt my... ...vited me to spend a day at her house, Charley being home for his Midsummer holidays. Charley, Janet, and I fished the river for trout, and Janet, to f... ...ear, no!’ said she, and told him straightway. Charley, home for his winter holidays, blurted out at the squire’s table: ‘So, Harry Richmond, you’re th... ... his accustomed forethought. ‘House and town and fortress provisioned, and moveable at will!’ the margravine interjected repeatedly. The princess was ...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...esought him to give way for Piety’s sake. He, courteous, colossal, and im- moveable, waved them homeward. They returned and were hooted for belying th... ...k to no absolution of evil acts.’ The school was a hard one. It denied him holidays; it cut him off from dreams. It ran him in heavy harness on a roug... ... or a galvanized (sweet to the writer, either of them, as to the reader—so moveable they are!) would have seen her business at this point, and have gl...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

..., as he called himself, and required all men to style him out of doors, on holidays, and Sundays out,— was an old fashioned, thin faced, sleek haired,... ... procure a copy of it), the ‘prentices had, in times gone by, had frequent holidays of right, broken people’s heads by scores, defied their mas ters,... ... in search of some ‘vantage ground or weapon of defence. There was nothing moveable within it, but a clumsy table which could not be displaced without...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...er. Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. He is accus- tomed to be of use in this way to his neighbo... ... than in France, the labouring poor seldom eat butcher’s meat, except upon holidays, and other extraordinary occasions. The money price of labour, the... ...vented their being broke into small parcels by alienation. When land, like moveables, is considered as the means only of subsistence and enjoyment, th... ...and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distribution of moveables. But when land was considered as the means, not of subsistence me... ... remarks a distinction between money and other move- able goods. All other moveable goods, he says, are of so consum- able a nature, that the wealth w... ...efore, are, according to him, the must solid and sub- stantial part of the moveable wealth of a nation; and to multiply those metals ought, he thinks,...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...ll panes, through which it was impossible to see except by opening the one moveable one. Around the windows and doors red bands were painted. On shelv... ...dressed as “Gossip,” because he got drunk in the same alehouse with him on holidays. Some entered into warm discussions, others even laid wagers. But ... ...hen he received his free papers, and further began to drink heavily on all holidays, at first on the great ones, and then on all church festivities wi...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... touch him to be sure that he was not. He had directed, in great part, the moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great ... ...htly sum- mons to bed; the connings, the recitations; the periodical half- holidays, and perambulations; the play-ground, with its broils, its pastime...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... defend it. They are heaping tabourets (stools of honour), benches and all moveables, against the door; at which the axe of Insurrection thunders.— Bu... ...ing: “Sire, these are your faithful Lorrainers.” Cheerier verily, in these holidays, is this ‘skyblue faced with red’ of a National Guardsman, than th...

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