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.... That was the most generalised form of soldiering. The development of the theory of war had been for some decades but little assisted by any practica... ...s. The king’s freedom from the trammels of etiquette was very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was... ...lamation of the World State, and saw the message taken out to the wireless operators to be throbbed all round the habit- able globe. ‘And next,’ said ... ...rough the two open doors of a little azure walled antechamber the wireless operator in the turret working at his incessant tran- scription. T wo pompo... ...the midst 110 The World Set Free of his court. The door upon the wireless operators was shut. The ex-king from Brissago came like a draught through t... ... duty. It was a very beautiful, still evening. He fell talking to a fellow operator, and for the first time, he declares, ‘I began to understand what ...

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...crapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down. The telegraph operators wearily raised their celluloid eye-shades after a night of talkin... ...phone they said only: “South 343. No, no, no! I said south—South 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble? Can’t you get me South 343? Why ... ...lly did hate men recognized as swindlers, was not too unreasonably honest. Operators and buyers prefer that brokers should not be in competi- tion wit... ...and buyers prefer that brokers should not be in competi- tion with them as operators and buyers themselves, but attend to their clients’ interests onl... ...ke each of ‘em a real little gem—reg’lar stylistic stuff. I’m all for this theory that perfection is the stunt, or nothing at all, and these are as to... ...e State Association of Real Estate Boards; the organization of brokers and operators. It was to hold its annual convention at Monarch, Zenith’s chief ... ...ently expect him to be ardent. III There was about the house an unofficial theory that he was to take his vacation alone, to spend a week or ten days ...

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...ow, waiting for him. He suddenly had in her eyes the heroism of a wireless operator on a ship in a collision; of an explorer, fever-clawed, deserted b... ...about the living-room in his honest socks. But she would not listen to his theory that “all this romance stuff is simply moonshine—elegant when you’re... ...he exuberant manner of a new star presented to the executive committee her theory, “What we want in a play is humor and pep. There’s where Ameri- can ... ...elow the Haydocks, but apart, artists and adventurers. The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: ... ... a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key. All night he “talked” to operators twenty, fifty, a hundred miles away. It was always to be expected... ...olored turban, Carol’s sweetness, Carol’s new low shoes, Carol’s erroneous theory that there was no need of strict discipline in school, Carol’s amiab... ...her people too much. You fuss over Carol Kennicott when she has some crazy theory that we all ought to turn anarchists or live on figs and nuts or som... ... love. Kennicott never consented definitely. At most he agreed to a public theory that she was “going to take a short trip and see what the East was l...

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...s living, you are to bring it to me.” So saying, the count seized the poor operator by the body and placed him before the countess, then he went himse... ...ge; all things were still mere personal experience; the no- menclatures of theory did not exist; printing was done at enormous cost; scientific commun... ...dy!” “Touch her lightly!” cried the count. “Monsieur is jealous,” said the operator in a shrill voice, fortunately drowned by the countess’s cries. Fo... ... gestures showed him the virgin ignorance of the countess, the mischievous operator ex- claimed:— “Madame is delivered as if she knew all about it!” T... .... When Etienne could not at first compre- hend a demonstration, a theme, a theory, the poor mother, who was present at the lessons, seemed to long to ...

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...finitesimal doses, which the section were doubtless aware was based upon the theory that the very minutest amount of any given drug, properly disperse... ...ase of animal magnetism. A private watch man, being merely looked at by the operator from the oppo site side of a wide street, was at once observed ... ... quality of the bear. He shuddered as he threw out the re mark; but if this theory, on inquiry, should prove to be well founded, it would at once exp...

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...s in Europe, is common over the whole of New Y ork. The physician with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human con... ...ervation of a shrewd mind, was com- fort ably applying his practice to his theory. In surgery, having the least experience, and it being a busi- ness ... ...ustomed to wounds and bloodshed. All of these seemed to be unhurt, and the operator began to breathe more freely; but, before he had time to take a se... ... caused the shot to fall out of itself, The long arm and broad hand of the operator were now of singular service; for the latter expanded itself, and ... ...forms, Richard found in the divine, during the evening, a most powerful co-operator in his religious schemes. In preaching, Mr. Grant endeavored to st... ...y to be found, sir; yes, sir, they are not difficult to find—men who unite theory with practice; and I would select a wood of young and thrifty trees;... ... “Often; but not on this subject. Mr. Richard Jones, you know, dear, has a theory for everything; but has he one which will explain the reason why tha...

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...r, brought in by a girl at home from service; but he will have it that his theory is proved. Then I meant him to keep clear of it. He has al- ways bee... ...t you will afford.’ ‘I’ve no notion of being experimented on to prove your theory,’ said Aubrey, still ready for lazy mischief. For be it known that t... ...ady was constantly adduced by each doctor as a convincing proof of his own theory. ‘Well, I do hope that will go off!’ exclaimed Ethel, as soon as her... ...s as if they had been timidly kept out of sight. And whether Hugh Miller’s theory be right or wrong, his grand fervid language leaves the conviction t... ... surgeon—of his attestations to his daughter that young Ward was a skilful operator—or of his vexation when she professed herself ready to undergo any... ...h. ‘Yes, considering who it was, I do not wonder that you feel the passion-theory as insulting as the accusation.’ ‘I ought not,’ said Leonard, redden...

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...sure. They are now rich and hungry and thirsty—a strange 13 Joseph Conrad theory of tenacious gringo ghosts suffering in their starved and parched fl... ... affected by the one great fact of a silver mine, had no objection to this theory of the world’s future. If it had seemed distasteful for a moment it ... ...e Republic of Costaguana, lock, stock, and barrel. But, in fact, the hobby theory was the right one. It interested the great man to attend personally ... ...State papers that are inspired here, in this room, in blind deference to a theory of political purity. Hadn’t you Charles Gould before your eyes? Rey ... ... what could have been done. Do you think he succeeded by his fidelity to a theory of virtue? And all those railway people, with their honest work! Of ... ...om his end of the wire. There was nobody in the office but himself and the operator of the rail- way telegraph, who read off the clicks aloud as the t...

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... unfortunate writers who bear them, and who thus find themselves actual co-operators in more enter- prises than there are days in the year; for the la... ...beginning to shoot up; I am proud of Vico. Now, here we enter upon the new theory and formula of humanity. Attention, if you please.” “Attention!” sai... ...odern exponent of the doctrine of equality, or rather of its practice, for theory has served its time—” “Is he liberated?” asked the lunatic. “Like li...

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...end is a mu- sician from Cremona, lodging in the Capello palace, who has a theory that sounds meet with an element in man, analo- gous to that which p... ...chess is not to compare with la Tinti,” said the Frenchman, forgetting his theory under the fire of the Sicilian’s eyes. The tenor ate and drank langu... ...re you kind-hearted?” said the doctor in her ear, with the sternness of an operator. The words pierced to her comprehension like a dagger- thrust to h...

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...o ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut deep enough to let the operator see into him. His severe studies, in which he had shown the patien... ...equality, and intimate with du Bruel, he was a living proof of Rabourdin’s theory as to the steady deterioration of the ad- ministrative hierarchy in ... ...his patriotism struggled hard to suppress the fact—signal evidence for his theory— that in Horatio Nelson, “honor est a Nilo.” Ever since the accessio... ...t work that filled his mind would seem to the minister nothing more than a theory, and that a man who held the position of a statesman would confound ... ...l in- terests. He finally proved to her plainly that his plan was not mere theory, but a system teeming with methods of execu- tion. Celestine, bright...

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... than heroic joy, and enthusi- asm of victory or of battle, to the gallant operator, in his part of it. This was, with modifications such as might be,... ...d that Sterling had, at that stage, adopted the then prevalent Utilitarian theory of human things. But neither, apparently, had he rejected it; still ... ... sanctioned by a man’s experienced head. Here at last shall enthusiasm and theory become practice and fact; fiery dreams are at last permitted to real... ...n these anarchic times, with the radical, utilitarian, or mutinous heathen theory, which is the readiest for inquiring souls; finds, by various course... ...n the throne of Sterling’s intellectual world before all was done; and the theory of “Goethe’s want of feeling,” want of &c. &c. appeared to him also ...

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...confound your clumsy jests, Nilghai!’ ‘This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration,’ said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow’s larg... ..., for Arab wives, of an army corps to the Mahdi, his tattooment by skilled operators in Burmah, his interview (and his fears) with the yellow headsman...

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...man and frame your talk upon the hypothesis that he does not believe in that theory; and after you have had experience, you do not take this course do... ...estful certainty, that you are not going to meet two people sick of the same theory, one right after the other. No, there will always be one or two wi... ...n, sworn to do his evil will! Here is a paragraph or two concerning this big operator, from a now forgotten book which was published half a cen tury ... ...ly sure thing,” said he; “you can’t disguise that.” And he used to prove his theory, too, on my friends and acquaintances; it always succeeded. Life o... ...around and found a full report of the race. In it I find confirmation of the theory which I broached just now—namely, that the trouble with the Southe... ...verdict in the case should be accepted as conclusive, so far as any a priori theory of construction or control can be considered conclusive? It should...

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...ul preoccupations. But in spite of Lincoln’s assurances he held to the old theory that to be hyp- notised was in some way the surrender of his persona... ...“Put your Money on your Maker.” “The Sharpest Conversion in London, Expert Operators! Look Slippy!” “What Christ would say to the Sleeper;—Join the Up...

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...great leviathan himself? In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged pe... ...logists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all fou... ...ll-colour of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every state... ...isted up and down against a ship’s side. As in decapitating the whale, the operator’s instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is sub... ... with the phrenolo- 338 Moby Dick gists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale’s hump. This august hu... ..., who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of ...

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... great leviathan himself? In fact, the artist’s design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged pe... ...ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair like formation of all fo... ...ll color of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues — every sta... ...isted up and down against a ship’s side. As in decapitating the whale, the operator’s instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is sub... ...operate as it may with the phrenologists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale’s hump. This august hu... ..., who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of ...

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...herefore declared that he would abide by his advice, upon which the former operator, with his zany, the apothecary, quitted the field, and left the ot... ... with the justice of your sentiments; but, however true all this may be in theory, I still doubt its effi- cacy in practice. And the cause of the diff... ...ke Agrippa, only almost Christians? or, is Christian- ity a matter of bare theory, and not a rule for our practice?” “Practical, undoubtedly; undoubte...

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...ies, a good deal faster than I; but he can lie yet faster. He’s some white operator, betwisted and painted up for a decoy. He and his friends are all ... ... has heard he can derive some hint, which, besides confirm- ing him in the theory of virtue, may, likewise, serve for a finger-post to virtuous action... ...n. Iron, then, must be put into you; and so your tinc- ture. Now as to the theory here, I am mute. But in modesty assuming its truth, and then, as a p... .... But in modesty assuming its truth, and then, as a plain man viewing that theory in practice, I would respectfully question your emi- nent physiologi... ...u- burn-haired gentleman, to his neighbor with a hook-nose. “Never knew an operator so completely unmasked.” “But do you think it the fair thing to un... ... so completely unmasked.” “But do you think it the fair thing to unmask an operator that way?” “Fair? It is right.” “Supposing that at high ‘change on... ...tributing hand-bills, reveal- ing the true thoughts and designs of all the operators present—would that be the fair thing in Asmodeus? Or, as Hamlet s... ...then—then, indeed,” respectfully retreating, “I fall back upon my previous theory of your general facetiousness. I have the fortune to be in company w... ...he race. He revolves, but cannot comprehend, the operation, still less the operator. Was the man a trickster, it must be more for the love than the lu...

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... child were in a jumbled and thwarted condition, hacked and cut about— the operators had left, so to speak, all their sponges and liga- tures in the m... .... His father had died sud- denly—the local practitioner still clung to his theory that it was imagination he suffered from, but compromised in the cer... ...ell and Throbson’s. An expression of incredulity came into the tele- phone operator’s eyes and gave place to hard activity. She flung up the window an...