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...The Pond was published in 1905, the first novel of Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957), an important Russian modernist writer and artist who emigrated after the 1917 revolution....

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...But there on a rusty nail in the Ogorelyshyovs’ submerged fence that divided the Sinichka from the pond there was something gleaming grey in the green moonlit night — one of the demons, a little demon with a face of incorruptible, indignant human integrity and fairness stretches his leg upwards and outwards a long way like...

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...orthern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became The Cinder Pond. Jean started life in the colony of squatters that came to live in the shanties on the dock, but fortune, heroism, and a mystery combine to change her fortunes and those of her friends near the Cinder Pond. (Advertising ...

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...In By Pond and River , another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exposing children to the animals and plant life that are found there. (Summary by Laura Caldw...

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... of "something wicked this way comes." The damage to victims/targets exists as palpable and affects humanity with the quiet spread like ripples in a pond....

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... (18) 6. Do it right (22) 7. Few sounds (26) 8. The fish in the pond (30) 9. Trek (34) 10. Bread (38)...

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...Kahea Loko is "the call of the pond. " From the ocean currents surging through the stone-walled channels to the excited cries of haumana (students) discovering fishpond life, the loko ia (fishpond) calls to us in many ways. From the broad perspective of ...

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...e reflections of the sun, moon, and stars upon our waters are as old as time. Let these be beacons of light to guide our haumana (students) to these ponds of knowledge. Let us help them rebuild the walls of these living resources where they can gather, as did the pua ia (fish fry), to grow and be nurtured. With education and inspiration, the legacy of our ancestors can ...

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... encourage and support our keiki (children) in the creative process of expressing their mana‘o (thoughts, ideas) through writing. The name Alligator Pond is celebrated by the imagination of the children of Hau‘ula: that this rock formation resembles the body of an alligator. No one knows where the name originated. This beach area has been known as Alligator Pond for a v...

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...The Idea Of Cold Widening Aware The Miracle Of Flesh And Bone Speaking Of The Loved One Glitter Of Language Mountain Meeting Musing The Great Pond The Ghost Tree News About The Sky Severance Crossing The Shoulder The Double The Narrower Profound Bright Roar Intensity Gathering Get It? The Lesser Selves Cold Snap Wild Life Clear Air What’s Outside Qu...

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...They worked together and in great numbers. In a single night they could accomplish mighty deeds such as building a road or heiau or walling in a fish pond. Once they even took a spring from its rocky bed and carried it, bundled in ti leaves, down to the lowland so that villagers might have its water for their taro patches. At cock-crow all work must stop for that was meneh...

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...iction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique ...

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... both equal but opposed as creative phenomenal articulations. "The old pond ­ A frog plunged. The sound of water." In this famous and ... ...poem, the first line evokes through the word old, the oldness, and through pond, the eternity while the frog's jump calls forth the ephemerality, and ... ...ality, and the sound of the water, opposed to the eternal quietness of the pond, presumes movement, life. These elements settle "…the sense of the poe...

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...Now, a week later, she could still not believe it. The appointment with the doctor was for 10 am. She had thirty more minutes to ponder on why Maggie... ...ephants. The national parks. The churches. The preachers. The traditional medicine. The upper class homes. The mosquito infested ponds near some hom...

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...is adjoined to his prominent nose with a brown adhesive. He reeks of stale sweat and keeps pondering the clouded surface of his crumbling watch. His... ...I wish, it is your wish that I embody and possess. The vise is tightened. Now it's time to ponder whether to feed on you at once or scavenge. You a... ... "Will you go on seeing him?" – Nitzkhia challenged her. "I think I will" – responded Dinah ponderously – "I had a pleasant and interesting time ton... ...I adopted this novel habit of peeing in foreign toilets, around the bowls, creating fizzing ponds on shimmering floors. I half expect the tiles to y... ...ndoors. A vague air of long lost familiarity, a memorable face – the curving forehead, dark ponds for eyes, a boxer's nose. "Marc" – she exclaims. ... ...antly. She died, awash with it, her pallid face depressed against my grandpa's shoulder. I pondered if it was right to go on loving her. I thought a... ...ls me earnestly – "Stop eating so much. Work out!" I give him the letter I composed and he ponders it gravely. Then he folds it carefully and withd...

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...the second situation, in order to allow us to correct it. And we must not ponder other beings in the world but man, since man is the center of creat... ...g law, that the general and the particular are as equal as two drops in a pond. And all that is customary in the general is customary in the particu...

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...ned to visit a museum, but Gilbert had a different idea. “There is a frozen pond at the Tower, Claire. Perhaps you would like to try ice skating? I... ... children eventually learned the correct motions to propel myself around the pond. There were many folk out on the ice, laughing and enjoying themse...

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...eeded to see me. We’d just finished damming a small stream to make a waterin’ pond. If it worked, we’d begin collectin’ the cattle and movin’ ‘em t... .... We figured by the time any of ‘em got back, there’d be water enough in the pond to carry them another few weeks. I told ‘em I’d try to be back in...

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...d a prestigious awards ceremony-the Hero Awards, hosted by Cheeseborough Ponds-to benefit the Brothers and Sisters organization, a group which bene...

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... the Rockies. The endless rain blended the trails and fields into swamps and ponds. We were constantly wet. We camped each night on the highest gro... ...a while back. They’re too pretty to use, so I’m looking for a buyer.” Isaak pondered McVey’s response and answer- ed, “Poker, huh? Must have been a...