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...n the custom of giving a palm to the victors. When they were come near the coast of Attica, so great was the joy for the happy success of their voyage... ...ers of men, were so far from avoid- ing Theseus when he touched upon their coasts, that they sent him presents to his ship; but he, having invited Ant... ...eus, hav- ing Antiope aboard his vessel, cruised for some time about those coasts, and that there were in the same ship three young men of Athens, tha... ...nd spoils they have acquired, may be, above all things, desirous to have a pacific and justice-loving prince, to lead them to good order and quiet? Bu... ...softened and charmed into a peaceful temper by the just and mild rule of a pacific prince, but even 123 Plutarch’s Lives the neighboring cities, as i... ... it. The Odeum, or music-room, which in its interior was full of seats and ranges of pillars, and outside had its roof made to slope and descend from ... ...us Cornelius his colleague. There was a report that, the Gauls proposing a pacification, and the senate also inclining to peace, Marcellus inflamed th...

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...ting a continuous line of telegraph through that Empire from our Pa- cific coast. 31 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven I recommend to your ... ...any other power; but while these may be relied upon for harbor defense and coast service, others of greater strength and capacity will be neces- sary ... ...est is given to this subject by the actual commence- ment of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and complet... ...red colony established by the United States at the island of Vache, on the coast of San Domingo, to bring back to this country such of the colonists t... ...ate of the 1st instant, respecting the points of commencement of the Union Pacific Railroad, on the one hundredth degree of west longitude, and of the... ... made upon this subject and deliv- ered to the vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, which fixed the point on the western boundary o... ... try occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains and the subordinate ranges now teems with enterprising labor, which is richly remunerative. It... ...r. I am going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the wa...

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...t you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels ... ...st try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels on the P... ... the sweeter kind. Digging, three days agone, I struck a manure mine!—a Golconda, a limitless Bonanza, of solid manure! I can buy you all, and have mo... ...se if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of the wild islands ... ... of Public Instruction, and all the teachers, and by more than two hun- dred other people. Now I want you, if you’ll be so good, to go around with me ... ...serve in rota- tion; you cannot select the man who is to take your life into his hands, you must take the worst in the lot, if it is his turn. A guide... ...raction, being subsidiary to atmospheric compensation, the refrangibility of the earth’s surface would emphasize this effect in regions where great mo...

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... cutting in the sand-hills, through which one caught a glimpse of the open Pacific. The station at B Street was solitary; no trains passed at this hou... ...furnishing floors of the great de- partment houses, inspecting and pricing ranges, hardware, china, and the like. They rented the photographer’s rooms... ... and, turning the Point here, come out suddenly upon the full sweep of the Pacific. Then he would follow the beach down to a certain point of rocks th... ...ined the position of care- taker in a little memorial kindergarten over on Pacific Street. Like Polk Street, it was an accommodation street, but runni... ...ico,” he muttered to himself. “Mexico, that’s the place. They’ll watch the coast and they’ll watch the East- ern trains, but they won’t think of Mexic... ...ff, across a range of hills, was the Panamint Valley, where the big cattle ranges were. Every now and then this name was tossed to and fro across the ... ...ndence, the nearest large town, found its way into the cattle camps on the ranges, and occasionally one of the Sunday editions of a Sacramento journal...

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...er for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat on the Chinese coast. Those letters, whether from Norman May or his wife, were very deligh... ...r the cliffs, and looking mysterious on distant 49 Yo n g e points of the coast; stars were shining forth in the pale blue sky, and the young moon sh... ..., and come home no more. And really, as the time wanes, I feel that such a coast is Elysium—above all, the boating. The lazy charm, the fresh purity o... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi... ...ortsmouth this morning, and he tells me he is to go out in the Clio to the Pacific station, and would apply for me as his first lieutenant, if I liked... ...rant it though he might; and he was hurried on to the vast kitchens, their ranges of coppers full of savoury steaming contents, and their racks of loa...

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...ly bent back against a broken and twisted rainwater pipe, an expression of pacific contentment on his face, a bamboo curtain rod with a tableknife tie... ...oming up suddenly; and then one turned to scan the little different French coast villages, and 97 H G Wells then, sliding by in a pale sunshine came ... ...h’s conversation, conversation that is casual and discursive in form, that ranges carelessly from triviality to immensity, and yet is constantly resum... ... light, behind this nearer landscape, and the southward waters with remote coast towns shining dimly, waters that merged at last in a luminous golden ...

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...l and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretary of the ... ...hem that they were set not as verse but as prose. Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as “Chum.” With them were six wives, more or less—it was har... ...nothing to do. Though they had few servants, yet with gas stoves, electric ranges and dish- washers and vacuum cleaners, and tiled kitchen walls, thei...

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...o Greenland, A.D. 1671 Harris Coll. “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind ca... ...hale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.” —Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of de... ...speak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.” —Ibid. “No, Sir, ’tis a Right... ...et, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large sperm whale in the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New ... ...ch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and cou... ...ave houses and flowery gardens came from 43 Herman Melville the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up... ...ce of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness. Now, ho...

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... Greenland, A.D. 1671. Harris Coll. “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife). Anno 1652, one eighty foot in length of the whale bone kind c... ...hale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coasts, are the property of the king.” Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of de... ... for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on bar barous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and cou... ...ZA, Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving... ...ce of firm, close grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness. Now, how...

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...at which has been named, without reason, the School of Homer. It is on the coast, at some distance from the city, northward, and appears to have been ... ...eep she plunged from whence she rose, And left him sorrowing on the lonely coast, In wild resentment for the fair he lost. In Chrysa’s port now sage U... ...hless I fell, in giddy motion lost; The Sinthians raised me on the Lemnian coast; 34 He said, and to her hands the goblet heaved, Which, with a smile,... ...d Priam rose: His godlike aspect deep attention drew: He paused, and these pacific words ensue: “Ye T rojans, Dardans, and auxiliar bands! Now take re... ...irgin bed! Not by my arts the ruler of the main Steeps T roy in blood, and ranges round the plain: By his own ardour, his own pity sway’d, To help his...

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...he Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope—a spread of forty five degrees of longitude. The Mississipp... ...n a hundred and fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in ... ...eeting of the waters from Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his... ...rom Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his task finished, his pr... ...r was over, but carry freights; so straightway some genius from the Atlantic coast introduced the plan of towing a dozen steamer cargoes down to New O... .... T wenty one years ago every thing was trim and trig and bright along the “coast,” just as it had been in 1827, as described by those tourists. Unfo... .... At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; ...

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...the course of twenty-four hours, and crept 33 Sir W alter Scott along the coast eastwards, amusing myself with looking out for objects of antiquity, ... ... a tacksman or lessee of some valuable salmon- fisheries a little down the coast. But mistake me not. The evil of angling, with which I class all spor... ... his time. Amongst the more important of these is a fishing station on the coast, where, by certain improved modes of erecting snares, opening at the ... ... was the less matter.’ ‘Peace! prithee, peace, Job Rutledge,’ said honest, pacific Mr. Trumbull. ‘I wish thou couldst remember, man, that I desire to ... ...an to become steady, how shall I describe what I beheld? Beneath were huge ranges of tables, occupied by princes and nobles in their robes of state—hi...

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...little rick, with its thatch straw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift o... ...me before I could sever myself from the many interesting papers on the table, and then I broke bread and drank wine with the kind family before I left... ...hey may! but I doubt if they will ever do their Master’s service half so well, in all the time they last, as the Heavens have seen it done in this ble... ...almost believe I could not be taken in there, if I tried. In the places of business of the great tailors, the cheval-glasses are dim and dusty for lac... ...ear to be very much astonished by what they find on these native shores of ours. Possibly the parrots don’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the D... ...to bring them into collision? Thoughts, too, arise (the voice never silent all the while, but marvellously suggestive) of the gulf below; of the stran...

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...Excerpt: For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to shatter themselves upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust, int...

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...course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a bel... ...t hope to see anything new upon this lane of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to Malantan the dis- tance w... ...dark mangroves. The Sofala would be headed towards the somber strip of the coast, which at a given moment, as the ship closed with it obliquely, would... ...of rolled grass, like pieces of green carpet smoothly pegged out, its long ranges of trees lined up in colossal por- ticos of dark shafts roofed with ... ...ong way from the seashore, across the stretches of grass, through the long ranges of trees, came faintly the toot—toot— toot of the cable car beginnin... ...on. He got into his bunk as if in a dream. A feeling of profound peace, of pacific joy, came over him. On deck all was quiet. Mr. Massy, with his ear ...

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...eam Naviga- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the prese... .... Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigat... ...alifornia to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The ship was... ...to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the se... ...ral His- tory.” But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the antip... ...re), the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia. We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits... ...est of the seven islands that form the group. I saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several moun- tain-chains that run parallel with the side, ...

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...ir sound to a stranger. In several works descriptive of the islands in the Pacific, many of the most beautiful combinations of vo- cal sounds have bee... ...841, sailed from New Bedford harbour in the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery. He has left very little direct informa... ...opment at all until his twenty-fifth year, the time of his return from the Pacific; but surely the process of development must have been well advanced... ...in length and nearly as many in breadth. It has three good harbours on its coast; the largest and best of which is called by the people living in its ... ...urrounding ocean. The 30 Typee reality is very different; bold rock-bound coasts, with the surf beating high against the lofty cliffs, and broken her... ...apers as hav- ing touched at the Sandwich Islands previous to going on the coast of Japan. But to return to my narrative. Placed in these circumstance... ...hed with thongs of bark. The rear of the tenement—built up with successive ranges of co- coanut boughs bound one upon another, with their leaflets cun... ...ranks of hideous wooden idols, and with the two remaining sides flanked by ranges of bamboo sheds, open- ing towards the interior of the quadrangle th...

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...Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the Pacific. But this was not all. More than half the seamen remaining were mor... ...n, who are occasionally found quite at home upon the savage islands of the Pacific. And, glancing at their hard lot in their own country, what marvel ... ...nvas, and the ship heading right out into the immense blank of the Western Pacific. The watch were asleep. With one foot resting on the rudder, even t... ...ed grass. The floor is composed of rude planks. Regular aisles run between ranges of native settees, bottomed with crossed braids of the cocoa-nut fib... ...ide. On one hand, you have the three great peaks of Tahiti lording it over ranges of mountains and valleys; and on the other, the equally romantic ele... ...under the very nose of the vixen god- dess Pelee. Hilo, a village upon the coast, was their place of 184 Omoo resort; and thither flocked roving whit... ...tire Society group. In short, 204 Omoo the village was so remote from the coast, and had been so much less affected by recent changes than other plac... ...in their dress, and far fresher and more beautiful than the damsels of the coast. A thousand pities, thought I, that they should bury their charms in ... ...t beautiful, serene, witching places that ever was seen. High overhead are ranges of green rustling arches; through which the sun’s rays come down to ...

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...oughout the passage, and thence- forward across all the States, and on to the shores of the Pacific, this knowledge grew more clear and melancholy. Em... ...T yne, and was married to a Scots wife. A fisher- man in the season, he had fished the east coast from Fisherrow to Whitby. When the season was over, ... ...s, he would find time to warn Alick of an approaching officer, or even to tell him that the coast was clear, and he might slip off and smoke a pipe in... ...ing, at breakfast, I communicated to the smart waitress my intention of continuing down the coast and through Whitehaven to Furness, and, as I might h... ...es and falls behind another; and if you climb an eminence, it is only to see new and father ranges behind these. Many little rivers run from all sides...

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... Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its frozen mouth; The broad Pacific, basking bright, And girdling lands of lustrous growth, Vast contin... ...vered, He whispers often to the passing winds That blow toward the Asiatic coasts; For Crete has sent her bravest to the war, And multitudes pressed f... ...looms round her fair garden run In climbers or in creepers or the tree She ranges with unerring fingers fine, T o harmony so vivid that through sight ... ...he hushed mouths of all. It had resemblance to a death: and on, Against a coast where sapphire shattered white, The seasons rolled like troops of bil...

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...ll-droning eloquence, like a Trump of Doom, once shook the world, there is pacific chaffering for poul- try and greens. The sacred National Assembly H... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of conve- nient seats, ’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduri... ...nd all Patriots: let there be mutual pardon and repen- tance, restoration, pacification, and if so might any how be, an end! Which vote ultimately pre... ... Chiffonne, without bloodshed; restores the pavement of Arles. He sails in Coast-barks, this Rebecqui, scrutinising suspicious Martello-towers, with t... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A... ...d rage: that was the end of the New Era, and of all Eras, to poor Duhamel. Pacific readers can fancy what sort of grace-before-meat this was to frugal...