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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

... him? I mean, he picked up that car and threw it like it was a tricycle. Olympic weight lifers can’t do that,” Eve pointed out. Andromeda actually s... ... as the private ones are still safe; a lot of those were built in- side of mountains and old nuclear bunkers. If Zodiac was smart, and he probably is... ...ing the program. “Now the boring part, waiting for it to sif through the mountains of data,” he thought to himself. It was a litle slower since he ...

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Ades Web Magazine: Hong Kong

By: Manuel Balossi

...- nAthAn roAd night 226 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine tsim shA tsui - olympic city 227 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine tsim shA tsui - sAlisbu... ...e guyA 294 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine Hong Kong From Kowloon 2008 olympic gAmes opening ceremony shown on hong kong culturAl centre 296 H o n... ... o n g K o n g Ades web magazine symphony of lights , the evening of 2008 olympic gAmes opening ceremony 300 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine symph... ... o n g K o n g Ades web magazine symphony of lights , the evening of 2008 olympic gAmes opening ceremony 301 H o n g K o n g Ades web magazine symph...

...A subtropical climate, skyscrapers everywhere, busy people, mountains of electronic gadgets, wonderful sceneries suspended from hills to the sea: this is Hong Kong!...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ave progressed and how much we have forgotten. Then there is the trivia. Mountains of little-known facts about long-forgotten people, countries, po... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: more, stronger, higher. Not: new, unprecedented, non-existe... ...azi regime seemed to have fully grasped its potential (in the Berlin 1936 Olympics). And Bill Gates thought that the internet has a very limited fut... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the new, the unp... ...re – management intervention may be required. Instead of sifting through mountains of documents, the Manager will only have to look at four compute...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...y night, no matter how cold or hot it is, and eat cooked food; when there are mountains of fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts available that do no... ...to our origins? Now it is buried under 53 million years of soil erosion and mountains of sand. It was the one place in Africa during the Age of V... ...s the destruction of Life. The earth, the ground, the valleys and plains and mountains cannot be separated from the eco-systems they are in and sepa... ...tood out in the middle of a clearing, or a peak that stood out from the other mountains, or an animal that was taller, or faster than other animals, ... ...ped than any form of cooperation. Until you get pyramidal events such as the Olympics: which is mostly about humans competing mechanically physical... ...mans competing mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporti... ... only mechanically: worshipping it above other human abilities. What are The Olympics: but a Worship of Physical measurement. Someone being .0014 s... ...meone being .0014 seconds faster than someone else. Or Gail Deevers becoming Olympic Champion, because the other runners were flat-chested, and she ... ...y to human existence. Billions of humans worship measurement not only in the Olympics: but in thousands of other ways also. Spectatorship becam...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... cream, everyone’s fave. Contrasting textures both creamy and sweet, of Olympic proportions, you’re everyone’s treat. Y ou’re addictive and order... ...m. For APEC Members & Family Mauna Loa CHOCOLATE COVERED MACADAMIA NUTS • Mountains. 5 oz. 2 09 APEC# 6982. • 6 pk. Mountains. 11 99 APEC# 6983.... ...i‘anae Coast of O‘ahu. On 16 acres of fertile soil beneath the Wai‘anae mountains, MA‘O Organic Farms raises top-quality organic fruits and veget... ...dant of Hawaiian royalty. A swimming sensation in his 20s, he became an Olympic gold medalist in 1912 and represented the United States in world ...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d we have talked far into the night: “He liked a gold cup...he liked the mountains...he liked the cove...yes, he went farther out to sea than anyon... ...those who have died. Dreaming, I counted our island, our town, our trees, mountains and sea. I added my home. However childish to enumerate like thi... ...ng literary quarterlies and anthologies, and, as the founder of Liter- ary Olympics, Inc., is the editor of a series of multi-language volumes of inte...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ad. There are patents on human genes, on auctions, on algorithms. 2 The U.S. Olympic Committee has an xi 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page xi ex... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xi expansive right akin to a trademark over the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.”... ...n there was, for example, a desire of the people living in Denver to see the mountains again. Similarly, the people living in Los An- geles had a desi... ... Chapter 7. 3. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc., et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See also James Boyle, Shamans, So... ...iii, 19, 24, 254, 256n6, 258n20. Olson, Mancur, 59, 236, 272n12, 294n3. U.S. Olympic Committee, rights over the term ‘Olympic,’ xi–xii, 250n3. Online ... ...1, 290, 290n24. San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc, et al. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987). See U.S. Olympic Committee, right...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...oryteller W ith the rising of the second crescent moon over the Kraggy Mountains, the Bloons realised that it was almost time for the Story to be... ...als molded 10,000 years ago from a tear of one of the last dragons in the mountains of Tibet. Bozo took the ball in his hands and cried with happines... ...th f re to ask….’ But Bozo had grabbed the crystal ball and already craggy mountains were coming into view within it. The rocky slopes were bright re... ...hat died out some way before the top. They could see dark f ssures in the mountains that they supposed were caves. At the top there was a particular... ...them half the time, and occasionally they even crashed together and made mountains. ‘But then they invented maps and the countries had to stay put o... ...e front and, as she prepared to face the audience, she had the look of an Olympic diver preparing to leap. The curtain went up and a cry of ‘Theo! T...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...eus tried to kill both sisters. They fled, and he pursued. In the end, the Olympic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched stic... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...as the Gobi Desert. Between the harsh desert and the moderately watered mountains to the north, vast stretches of steppe turn green after summer r... ...e at constant risk of their lives. So they hid in deep forests, dells, and mountains and trekked from town to town, receiving food and shelter from t...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...eus tried to kill both sisters. They fled, and he pursued. In the end, the Olympic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched stick... ...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ... as the Gobi Desert. Between the harsh desert and the moderately watered mountains to the north, vast stretches of steppe turn green after summer r... ...e at constant risk of their lives. So they hid in deep forests, dells, and mountains and trekked from town to town, receiving food and shelter from t...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...hecking the blue patch of sky. The weather was fickle, affected by the nearby mountains. It had been hailing when he woke but now it was sunny and w... ...Otto's mare tomorrow,” he said. “He thought it'd be a nice day to ride in the mountains. Can you show me where your place is? Maybe guide me around ... ...ff anymore so she relaxed in the seat and admired the vast stretch of looming mountains. Their jagged teeth were stark against the sweep of blue and... ...s can drink. Lots of grass too.” He forced his eyes off Julie and studied the mountains still topped with snow. “They’re beautiful. Like a movie bac... ...o the first question, there was only one other reason why he’d ride up in the mountains with a pocketful of condoms. “I didn’t really want to look ... ... to his feet, peeled off soiled gloves and wiped a liver-spotted forehead. “Olympic Hill,” Kurt said. “I must have missed the turnoff.” The garde... ...ent. Tears blurred Jessica’s vision as she absorbed the numbing headline. Olympic Hopeful Engaged to Team Trainer. A cry choked in her throat, a...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d we have talked far into the night: “He liked a gold cup...he liked the mountains...he liked the cove...yes, he went farther out to sea than anyon... ...those who have died. Dreaming, I counted our island, our town, our trees, mountains and sea. I added my home. However childish to enumerate like thi... ...ient trees, uprooted trees, torn to pieces by the fury...the fragments of mountains must spill into valleys...immensity must burst the barrier of riv... ... forms...fear...puny man... I hear the resounding air, the lamentations. Mountains are to be torn open for their minerals...all animals will languis... ... “The drawings were inspired by my visits to the sea, by my trips to the mountains where I saw avalanches. Sound...the crash of falling boulders, th... ...ing literary quarterlies and anthologies, and, as the founder of Literary Olympics, Inc., is the editor of a series of multi-language volumes of int...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...mire the magnificent views of a rural landscape surrounded by snow-capped mountains. One of the reasons I brought this place, classic postcard stuff... ...id myself more damage. “Oh really.” Michael smiled. “Have you gone up the mountains there?” He pointed at what I consider Mount Everest. “Ah no, but... ...but I’ve heard its fabulous, great, wonderful views, couldn’t find better mountains.” “I get the message,” Michael replied. “Sounds good. I’m looking... ... my state of mind. 25 With Michael off to the kitchen, I’ve performed an Olympic dash into the little hallway, before bursting into my bedroom. Fir... ... the views, the clean air and how he’s looking forward to going up to the mountains. He asks what my plans are for my bit of earth. I stun him with ... ...oots. It’s well after midday, the frosts have melted, there’s snow on the mountains and the sun might be shining, but it’s bloody cold out here. I w...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...or another. Sung Ki lit a cigarette and sat on a balcony that overlooked the mountains and rice patties of Umsong. After a few more moments of silence... ...d (encounters both sexual and cultural). Large buildings were like the small mountains of Umsong with a topping of cloud on a rainy day--monuments of ... ...m to its domain that edified and exhilarated his appetites and his love. The mountains, until recently, transported his imagination to green blankets ... ...ends; and yet some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In such a place dreamed about and sketched from he... ... of her own brothel. She wanted to take him to Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains too but common sense prevailed. She had second thoughts about t... ...ell, you haven't seen your mother play racket ball before. It isn't exactly Olympic material but it's close. Hmm...oh, my, we got so carried away wit... ...wn breath, fantasies of women passing the romanticism of love to her like an Olympic torch, the fantasies of young men as juicy to look at as the Cand...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...an rights at home and in Tibet were violently denying the human rights of Olympic torch bearers running the Olympic flame from Greece to China. The ... ...es. They were not supporting China‘s positions, but rather supporting the Olympic ideals. I guess we see the same question of conflicting assumption... ...ornia or Florida, loll on the beaches of Thailand or Tahiti, or enjoy the mountains of British Columbia or Austria. Until then we have sovereign nat... ....C. madam‘s phone book. Or look at the bad publicity for Edwin Moses, the Olympic champion hurdler, when he was picked up hustling Hollywood whores. ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...computer professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the ne...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...eople like Sese Seko, Hussein, and Marcos drooled over money. The ever-heightening mountains of greenbacks in their vaults soothed them, filled the... ...computer professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the ne...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...trived the ordinance for the cessation of arms during the solemnity of the Olympic games. Of this opinion was Aristotle; and for confirmation of it, h... ...to demon- strate that he was much more ancient than the institution of the Olympic games. Timaeus conjectures that there were two of this name, and in... ...s, much extolled the Eleans for their just and honorable management of the Olympic tames; “Indeed,” said Agis, “they are highly to be commended if the... ... The king had always about his person some one who had been crowned in the Olympic games; and upon this account a Lacedaemonian is said to have refuse... ...ry, and that he made all his laws in a contin- ued peace. And, indeed, the Olympic holy truce, or cessa- tion of arms, that was procured by his means ... ...no other waters but its own, and is on all sides en- circled with fruitful mountains, without any cause, unless it were divine, began visibly to rise ... ...ere divine, began visibly to rise and swell, increasing to the feet of the mountains, and by degrees reaching the level of the very tops of them, and ... ...ter number of women and young children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the fa... ...ar- thest parts of Europe; others, seating themselves between the Pyrenean mountains and the Alps, lived there a considerable time, near to the Senone...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...ng for- ward to let fly his stone, he looks like a beautiful runner at the Olympic games. After that I shall skip to the New Testament. I mean to make... ...o the New Testament. I mean to make a Christ.” “You ‘ll put nothing of the Olympic games into him, I hope,” said Gloriani. “Oh, I shall make him very ... ... to do the Morning; I mean to do the Night! I mean to do the Ocean and the Mountains; the Moon and the West Wind. I mean to make a magnificent statue ... ...e West Wind. I mean to make a magnificent statue of America!” “America—the Mountains—the Moon!” said Gloriani. “You ‘ll find it rather hard, I ‘m afra... ...on the great terrace which looks toward Tivoli and the irides- cent Sabine mountains. He carried his volume of Ariosto in his pocket, and took it out ... ...t was extravagant in her satisfaction; Christina looked away at the Sabine mountains, in silence. The prince stood by, frowning at the rapture of the ... ... ruin. The views were as fine as he had supposed; the lights on the Sabine Mountains had never been more lovely. He gazed to his satisfaction and retr...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...by Sylla, finding Julius unassail- able, sat down short at the foot of the mountains in perplex- ity. But a certain Calpurnius, surnamed Lanarius, hav... ...ose who were the strongest and swiftest of foot, and sent them through the mountains, with order that when they had delivered the water, they should c... ...aecias, pre- vailing most in those parts, coming up out of moist plains or mountains covered with snow, at this particular time, in the heat of summer... ... his enemies got notice of his coming. For the barbarians who dwelt on the mountains overlooking the desert, amazed at the multitude of fires they saw... ...anity he observed among the Spartans, about keeping running horses for the Olympic games, upon which he found they much valued themselves. Agesilaus r... ...Illyrians in a great battle, that his race-horse had won the course at the Olympic games, and that his wife had given birth to Alexander; with which b... ...edantry, and took care to have the victories of his racing chariots at the Olympic games engraved on his coin,) but when he was asked by some about hi... ...ut when he was asked by some about him, whether he would run a race in the Olympic games, as he was very swift-footed, he answered, he would, if he mi... ...rs crowns, not of gold, but of wild olive, such as used to be given at the Olympic games; and instead of the magnificent presents that were usually ma...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

... treasures it brings down at eve. THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic, That look with their eye-dar... ...he sky-throned courts of Zeus, and climbing, dared For once in a world the Olympic wrath, and braved The electric spirit which from his clenching hand... ...ching screen, T o lie in peace half-murmuring words of thanks! T o see the mountains on each other climb, With spaces for rich meadows flowery bright;... ...rozen glow Spread over endless fields of sheeted snow; And white untrodden mountains shining cold, And muffled footpaths winding thro’ the wold, O’er ... ...hink of it, my boys! Confusion on their Alps, And all their baby toys! The mountains Britain boasts are men: And scale you them, my brethren!’ Cluck, ... ...y, far away, where the wandering scents Of all flowers are sweetest, white mountains among, There my kindred abide in their green and blue tents: Bear...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...he Great Saint Bernard! I have lived in Switzerland, and rambled among the mountains; but, why I should go there now, and why up the Great Saint Berna... ...e Hotel Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, dow... ...en paralysed by it, across a broad dining table. He was lounging among the mountains, sir, basking in the mellow influences of the climate, when he ca... ...y say probably, was never vis ited by any stranger before. What a valley! Mountains piled on mountains, avalanches stemmed by pine forests; water fa...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...dings, and are, I grieve to write it, generally de serted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show box for vaudevilles and burlesques. It is singularl... ...sight of the first range of hills, which are the outposts of the Alleghany Mountains, the scenery, which had been uninteresting hitherto, became more ... ...ich and beautiful; the weather very fine; and for many miles the Kaatskill mountains, where Rip Van Winkle and the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...e least, of ours, in comparison with eternity, or yet with the duration of mountains, rivers, stars, 134 Essays: Book the First trees, and even of so... ...b’s sheep, and the hares and partridges that the snow turns white upon the mountains. There was at my house, a little while ago, a cat seen watching a... ... night in the snow, or suffer themselves to be burned up by the sun on the mountains; boxers, hurt by the caestus, never utter a groan.”—Cicero, Tusc.... ...s., v. 3.]— that our life resembles the great and populous assembly of the Olympic games, wherein some exercise the body, that they may carry away the... ...ea-shore, enclosed on the other side towards the land, with great and high mountains, having about a hun- dred leagues in breadth between. They have g... ...ho very rarely present themselves to the people, having their abode in the mountains. At their arrival, there is a great feast, and solemn assembly of...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...es of Doctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that d... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...eur, a little skin was rubbed off his head. We bathed the wounds with some water which the monks gave us. But there was nothing the matter with his ha... ... the dif- ferent members of the French nobility towards the vessels at anchor. But when it was observed that even inside the harbor the boats were tos... ...e magnificent spectacle which the sky presented, of deepest azure in the horizon, the amphitheatre of fleecy clouds ascending from the sun’s disc to t...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...es of Doctor Blimber and Mr Feeder, were resumed. 168 Dombey & Son As the Olympic game of lounging up and down had been cut shorter than usual that d... ...shed and returned incessantly like its life’ s blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in e... ...s—though I will think of them, when night comes on a hurricane and seas is mountains rowling, for which overhaul your Doctor Watts, brother, and when ... ... home, as should dazzle the senses of that lady, and heap mortifica- tion, mountains high, on the head of Mrs Skewton. ‘But I am made,’ said Mrs Chick... ...le as secluding himself from Mrs MacStinger among 873 Charles Dickens the mountains of Switzerland. Similarly , when I am reminded by any chance of w...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...issippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal... ... of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without ... ...s the more fertile law itself, which depos its their spawn on the tops of mountains, and on the interior plains; the fish principle in nature, from w... ...d, think that he has made you his confidant? T ell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diam eter of space, and I may believe you... ...he confluence of the Pemigewasset, which rises near the Notch of the White Mountains, and the Winnipiseogee, which drains the lake of the same name, s... ...we might start again with Orpheus and the Trojan war, the Pyramids and the Olympic games, and Homer and Athens, for our stages; and after a breathing ...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

... the fountains, light, and woods! and to you, ye gods hidden be- neath the mountains and in the caverns of the earth! and to you, strong men in shinin... ...the Sidonians, and the father of her family. She told of the ascent of the mountains of Ersiphonia, the journey to T artessus, and the war against Mas... ...ared and massed themselves like a herd of black goats coming down from the mountains. The deserted streets lengthened; the palm-trees that topped the ... ...rees; rose-coloured vapours floated in the gorges of the hills, while blue mountains reared them- selves behind. A warm wind was blowing. Chameleons w... ...round-shaped plateau; then they would descend again into a valley, and the mountains which seemed to block up the horizon would, in proportion as they... ...rm from one end to the other,— and like a chariot-driver triumphant at the Olympic Games, Spendius, distraught with pride, raised his arms aloft. 196...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... beauty and of woe, Passion and mystery and the dread unknown; Pure as the mountains of perpetual snow, Cold as the icy winds that round them moan, Da... ...por- tion of the hemisphere in sight was covered with innumerable volcanic mountains, conical in shape, and having more the ap- pearance of artificial... ... with the poetic wreath, in anticipation of his victory at the approaching Olympics. “But, good Jupiter! what is the matter in the crowd behind us?” B... ...uch as the giant cities of eastern fable. We were rapidly approaching the mountains in the South; but our elevation was more than 201 V olume One su...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...n at his marriage; and yet it was after a long practice of arms beyond the mountains, of which wars he left us a journal under his own hand, wherein h... ...styllus, Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that... ... mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an em... ... stand in as much need of us as we do of them, like people at sea, to whom mountains, fields, cities, heaven and earth are tossed at the same rate as ... ...ysius the father valued himself upon nothing so much as his poetry; at the Olympic games, with chariots surpassing all the others in magnificence, he ... ... a poor, drawling, scurvy language. There is, indeed, above us towards the mountains a sort of Gascon spoken, that I am 160 Book the Second mightily ... ... [“They are headlong borne with burning fury as great stones torn from the mountains, by which the steep sides are left naked and bare.”—Juvenal, Sat.... ...d and crackling shrubs of laurel, or as with impetuous fall from the steep mountains, foaming torrents pour down to the ocean, each clearing a destruc...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...cks, and a’ course the beast is a kinder riled. He wants to be back to the mountains. He wouldn’t have his belly filled, but he’d have his own way. It... ...sults? We determined to go to Portland, in Maine, from thence to the White Mountains in New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and... ...r they ever heard, or at any rate whether they know anything, of the White Mountains? As regards myself, I confess that the name had reached my ears; ... ...n indefinite idea that they formed an intermediate stage between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by Mor- ... ... hotels closed. October, no doubt, is the most beautiful month among these mountains; but, according to the present arrangement of matters here, the h... ...ness of Hollowell Street is dear to me, and I love to thread my way up the Olympic into Covent Garden. Fifth Avenue in New York is as grand as paint a...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ...ar 1997.The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at... ...ncerned about the danger posed by aircraft since at least the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.There he had tried to create an air defense plan using assets from... ...bout the danger posed by aircraft in the context of protecting the Atlanta Olympics of 1996, the White House complex, and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa... ...d’s idea, see chapter 5, note 33. 16. For Clarke’s involvement in the 1996 Olympics, see Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003). For the 1998 exerci...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...reatises; as you may like- wise perceive by experience, when you pass over mountains covered with snow, how you will complain that you cannot see well... ...levate and absterge my anime from its nocturnal inquinations. I revere the Olympicols. I latrially venere the supernal Astripotent. I dilige and redam... ...f threepence towards the zenith and a halfpenny, forasmuch as the Riphaean mountains had been that year oppressed with a great sterility of counterfei... ...hia (at) Constantinople, 287 Rabelais and saw there great rocks, like the mountains in Denmark— I believe that those were his teeth. I saw also fair ... ...the countries Cisalpine and T ransalpine, that is, behither and beyond the mountains, so have they there the countries Cidentine and T radentine, that... ...ll not this be the golden age in the reign of Saturn? the true idea of the Olympic regions, wherein all (other) virtues cease, charity alone ruleth, g... ...of Ajax Oileus, nor doth this fulminating power belong to any other of the Olympic gods. Men, therefore, stand not in such fear of them. Moreover, I w... ... that time, quoth Rondibilis, when Jupiter took a view of the state of his Olympic house and family, and that he had made the calendar of all the gods... ... it high time to call a council for their own safety and preservation. The Olympic gods, being all and each of them affrighted at the sight of such ac...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...The sun was sinking. “It is time,” said he, “to go and fetch Armida to the Olympic.” 27 Burlesques PHIL FOGARTY A TALE OF THE FIGHTING ONETY- ONETH. ... ...ell- bred to pretend to remark his emotion. The sun was setting behind the mountains as our songs were finished, and each began to look out with some ... ...f November, which are only known in the valleys of Languedoc and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been per- ceived by the ... ...oats by it in silver magnificence, and on the opposite bank rise the seven mountains robed in majestic purple, the monarchs of the royal scene. A plea... ...ay!—away amid the green vineyards and golden cornfields; away up the steep mountains, where he frightened the eagles in their eyries; away down the cl... ...ave horse! gallant steed! snorting child of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; and never stopped until he reach...

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