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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ...in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, built on land bought from the Nawab by the Dutch, who were the first European Power to acquir... ... As they approached the Residency, large iron gates bearing the East India Company’s crest - the Royal Arms and the flag of St. George - were opene... ...a tray of iced drinks under one of these portraits, which Helen learned, subsequently, was of the Dutchman who had erected this building. Isabel de ... ... breeches, with gold and silver embroidered panels at the sides and a heavily embroidered, velvet shell jacket which fitted Gavin’s broad shoulders ... ...nie des Indes Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective cou... ...re sheltered areas of the fort. Now even trips to the well were becoming hazardous from exploding shells and bullets from snipers, positioned on a r... ...the tightening up of the defences. The ditch surrounding the fort had been scarped and mines and shells buried and horizontal row of poles (fraises)...

...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Though Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, she could not be addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the... ... Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes scattered. Being royalty, she was merely confined to her bedroom until she died i... ...nto a horse's stomach and left to die. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. ht... ...xtended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" ... ... emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. During the 1990s the consolidated g... ...antiquity - is 1.6180339887. It is found in the arrangement of rose petals, mollusc shells, sunflower florets, spirals of pine cones, hurricanes, fr... ...ntaining a plant embryo and its soft, starchy food. The seed is protected by a hard shell. Heating the kernel converts water held in the seed into ... ...31 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the Dutch Philips. Not until 1951 were the standards for public broa... ...Buddhist. He criminalized the killing of all land animals, and the eating of fish, shellfish, and birds. When he died, in January 1709, his success...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...late. ―In the year 1768, while learning the business of an apothecary in the royal medical establishment at Berlin, I played the seventy-second d... ... is that of the appearance of the ―White Lady‖ as the precursor of death in the royal family of Prussia. In the first place the ―White Lady‖ is dupl... ... lived spectre was seen not long since by the night sentinels on guard at the royal castle at Berlin – and now Berlin society is all agog with a d... ... as a conserve and eaten improve the hearing and memory. Oil extracted from the shells of sea-snails, which have the turning and curvature of the ear... ...led Ann Cole, and much admired for her beauty and ingenuity. She understood the Dutch and French languages, rare attainments then, but which of them... ... little ones of her own family, and when she practiced the deceptive art in the Dutch language, the unearthly jargon seeming to came from no visibl...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ce the split inside a walnut is oriented 90 degrees to the split of its outer shell: the intense pressure needed to split the shell apart at its seam... ... a split inside the nut that is oriented 90 degrees to the linear seam of the shell: this is a recreation of the 90 degree split which created the 3r... ...split which created our Universe in organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Spli... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...ery major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the ... ...lates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coin... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...And appeared only in order to impress the awe-struck masses with their sacred Royal presence, their shining noble splendour… dressed in the most exp... ... they reduce the cost of their gas until the profits go up again. This has a Dutch origin. It’s principle in Dutch is called: Tanstaffl… or loosely...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...s country -- The city of Quinsai with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- G... ... wing or an eagle's beak is almost equally good; he likes to have a bag of sea shells handy, or a shark's tooth as a protection against shipwreck; tho... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h... ... leaves they construct their houses, its fibre constitutes their clothing, the shell of the cocoanut gives them a drinking vessel, the milk is pleasan... ... fingers; and to such an extremity of hunger was he reduced that a half putrid shell-fish he found on the shore seemed, as he afterward said, "to be t...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...there is also greater conviction. P Aegean shells, beach shells, shells in a woman’s hands, shells in a child’s han... ... these thick walls and the glazed tiles—a strong house. Mama gave me his royal flute, said to be carved from a bull’s leg, but it has been years si... ...atly, as if of rock. One crewman, not much bigger than a monkey, dove for shells while we crept through shallows. Pink shell in hand, treading a wav... ... angel fish lower down, perhaps frightened. While the monkey-man dove for shells, youngsters swam from small boats, hailing us, boarding us, some br... ...pes, pastries, glacés, Vouvray. I am partial to grapes and someone on the royal staff hunts them up for me. Sometimes I find five or six silver dish... ...all this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think of the royalty who have lived here through the years, the many mistresses who cam... ... you’re fond of.” “I’m still partial to green. I suppose you bought the Dutch pigments...” Our horses, side by side, kept an even pace: both from ... ..., limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He loved this roo... ...uet in the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the major...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4630 or: Document Expedit... ...tocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4650 i or: Photoduplicati... ...e ground station Defense Forces Branches: Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force, Royal Antigua and Barbuda Police Force lOOOkm Sec regional maji IV Geogra... ...es- tant; also small Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, and Jewish minority Language: Dutch (official), Papiamento (a Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English dia- ... ...nde- pendence from the Netherlands is granted in 1996 Legal system: based on Dutch civil law system, with some English common law influence Government... ... Roman Catholic; remainder Protestant, none, or other Language: 56% Flemish (Dutch), 32% French, 1% German; 11% legally bilingual; divided along ethni... ...0 kWh per capita (1986) Exports: $6.5 billion (f.o.b., 1985); sugar, nickel, shellfish, tobacco, coffee, citrus Imports: $8.6 billion (c.i.f., 1985); ... ...ch 54,500 (1983); marketed output 22,150 metric tons fish; 6,695 metric tons shellfish (1984 est.) Major industries: agricultural processing (meat can... ...Wh produced, 2,850 kWh per capita (1986) Exports: tweeds, herring, processed shell- fish meat Imports: timber, fertilizers, fish Major trade partners:...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

.... Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western... ...was not a sanction to live well or live long. One's innocence ran by like a shell-shocked soldier; circumventing normal sexual drive by being gay wou... ...home in a scantily lit morning. The trailer was the fortress from artillery shells, taps, and scrapes. For a moment she listened to its splendor wit... ...ereal parts of her imagination. She told herself that she would be an empty shell of an adult to be bereft of her. She again thought of the go-go boy... ...ould have gone through a ceremony of marrying herself as the more outlandish Dutch women did. She could have rented out a large area for the ceremony ... ...home of Michael's parents. But she ended up telling herself that she wasn't Dutch enough for such libertine experiments. And so she believed in a rel...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...f the Japanese boast, at the height of their realty bubble, that the grounds of the royal palace in Tokyo are worth more than the entire real estate... ...rs only bad news and are numbed by the latters' emotional reactions, in a kind of "shell shock". The SEC lost one quarter of its staff in the last ... ...nners of the 1997 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences The Pricing of Options The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 ... ...ners of a series of spectrum auctions in the late 1990's. Altogether telecom firms shelled well over $100 billion to secure 3G licences in markets ... ...nd price - auction the winner pays an amount equal to the second highest bid. In a Dutch auction, the auctioneer announces a series of decreasing p... ...ty and Moral Hazard", written by Paul Mosley and John Hudson, and presented at the Royal Economic Society's 1998 Annual Conference, the authors wro...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ficial. Rembrandt, born in Leyden, Holland, was surrounded by dis- tinctly Dutch scenery. At first he showed himself to be most real- istic, taking hi... ...ou are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the many intrica... ...llowed by social ostracism, ami even Lady ]Mary proves untrue. Finally his royal identity is disclosed hy the French ambassador,and as LouisPlnlippe, ... ...sselaer prior to the entertainment. Tlie program follows: PART I. 1 (a) ' 'Royal Purple" Bartlett '95 Come Fill Your Glasses Up" Words by H. S. Patter... ...l. It is fed by a sort of broth which the parent bird, after digesting the shells which it estraots from the mud with its hooked bill, regurgi- tates ... ...lege within itself. The natural result of which will be tbe formation of a shell of nar- rowness which will be pleasant to contemplate neither on its ... ...ncluding, from the French school, Appian, Buhot, CorotandD'Aubigny ;of the Dutch artists, Jongkind, Ziloken and Gravesande; besides work by the Americ... ...ain Brokers. ) Broadway and Duanc Street - . . . New York Painting:sBy the Dutch School The Art Department has placed on exhibition in the second tloo...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...l raised his hand and waved for a ride. The home of the Enchantress was a shell of the abode that had loomed so ominously in his muddled imagining... ...unscathed. Apple fritters were decided upon, with sausage on the side, and Dutch cocoa for all. Morgan sliced the apples and watched the patchwork... ...lden star pasted to its bowl. “Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen of the royal court, if you will all please be seated.” Morgan waited while eve... ...that make that an unwise decision. First of all, the play is mine, with no royalties to pay or meddlin’ playwrights to answer to. Helene charmed t... ...ne shoulder of his green velvet cloak was tossed back to reveal a jacket of royal blue and a double-breasted, gold brocade waistcoat. To Morgan’s...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...he French, the sharpe state of the Spanish, the strong signifacncy of the Dutch cannot from heere be drawne to life. The sense many keepe forme; the... ...speaketh truly, where he saith, that the speech of men brought up under a royaltie is ever full of vaine ostentations, and false witness ; everyman ... ...when he stood most upon his guard, strucken dead by the fall of a tortoise shell, which fell out of the tallants of a eagle flying in the air? and an... ...ares, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries. Royall Majestie doth more hardly fall from the top to the middle, than it ... ...conduct of our Armies be no longer blockish asses. Heraclitus resigned the royaltie unto his brother. And to the Ephesians, who reproved him for spen... ...l of Montfort had gained against the faction of Charles de Blois, for the Dutchy of Britanie) the victorious conqueror met with the bodie of his enem... ...am our last Duke of Guienne, father to that Eleonore who transferred that Dutchy unto the houses of France and England, the last ten or twelve yeare... ...s oares, onely with her bil sticking to his galley ( for it is a kinde of shellfish) and was much more amazed when he perceived the fish being broug... ...ng it by little and little, without any whit crushing or hurting him. The shell-fish called a nacre liveth even so with the pinnotere, which is a li...

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The Cricket on the Hearth

By: Charles Dickens

...ow, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. As if the ... ...ed sideways in — down to the very bottom of the kettle. And the hull of the Royal George has never made half the monstrous resistance to coming out o... ...ose and fell, flashing and gleaming on the little Haymaker at the top of the Dutch clock, until one might have thought he stood stock still before th... ... opera tion, and I wonder very much how any set of men, but most of all how Dutchmen, can have had a liking to invent them. There is a popular belief... ...erns, whereon the Powers of Darkness were depicted as a sort of supernatural shell fish, with human faces. In in tensifying the portraiture of Giant...

...ldn?t say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp....

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An Inland Voyage

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...................................... 5 ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL ........................................................................................... ...fter two applications of the fire, the sound egg was little more than loo-warm; and as for a la papier, it was a cold and sordid fricassee of printer’... ...kment, gently occupied. They were indifferent, like pieces of dead na- 12 Robert Louis Stevenson ture. They did not move any more than if they had be... ...lips, in- quired if they were made by Searle and Son. The name was quite an introduction. Half-a-dozen other young men came out of a boat-house bearin... ... fourth helped us to undo our bags. And all the time such questions, such assurances of respect and sympathy! I declare I never knew what glory was be... ...ittle village, gath- ered round a chateau in a moat. The air was perfumed with hemp from neighbouring fields. At the Golden Sheep we found excellent e...

.................. 5 ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL...................................................................................................... 9 THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE................................................................................................... 13 AT MAUBEUGE .............................................................................................

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

... seemed to be out of doors. The hollow dark coun- tryside re-echoed like a shell with shouts and calls and excited voices. Restlessness and nervous ex... ..., under the trees, it was very dark. But a lamp glimmered in front of the “Royal Oak.” This was a low white house sunk three steps below the highway. ... ... sort of weather-cock, there in the middle of the dark road out- side the “Royal Oak.” But as he turned, he caught sight of a third exit. Almost oppos... ...ll of a piece. At one end of the dark tree-covered Shottle Lane stood the “Royal Oak” public house; and Mrs. Houseley was certainly an odd woman. At t... ...ous and enhanced, right in the eye of the vast crowd that lines the hollow shell of the auditorium. Thus even Josephine and Julia leaned their elbows ... ..., and he was perfect. “Some things frighten one man, and some another. Now shells would never frighten me. But I couldn’t stand bombs. You could tell ... ...ed so English—yet he might be—he might perhaps be Danish, Scandinavian, or Dutch. Therefore, the elegant young man watched and listened with all his e... ... and found himself alone next a group of women, mostly Swedes or Danish or Dutch, drinking a peculiar brown herb-brew which tasted like nothing else o...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................. 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .............................................................................. 25 ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...d eye, it was plainly revealed by the glass; looking no bigger than an egg-shell, and the men dimin- ished to pigmies. 21 Melville At last, borne on ... ... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...ubjects for tattooing that the profession became quite needy. The 28 Omoo royal ally of Hardy, however, hit upon a benevolent expedi- ent to provide ... ...e same time conferring a boon upon many of his subjects. By sound of conch-shell it was proclaimed before the pal- ace, on the beach, and at the head ... ... the “butt.” His 32 Omoo draughts were mixed on the capstan, in cocoa-nut shells marked with the patients’ names. Like shore doctors, he did not esch... ...e business was engrossed by Merenhout, the French Consul at T ahiti, but a Dutchman by birth, who, in one year, is said to have sent to France fifty t... ...e passionate old man made as much fuss as a white squall aboard the Flying Dutchman. Jim turned out to be the regular pilot of the harbour; a post, be... ...utmost light-heartedness on receiving the present of a penny whistle, or a Dutch looking-glass. Similar instances, also, have come under my own observ...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...rt and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clea... ...guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ash... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump fr... ...d came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten—his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean— Jonah did the Almight... ...coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui... ...D’ye mark him, Flask?” whispered Stubb; “the chick that’s in him pecks the shell. ‘Twill soon be out.” The hours wore on;—Ahab now shut up within his ...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...w. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. ... ...rt and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clea... ...guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown asho... ...ck. Another Version of the whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump fr... ...came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten — his ears, like two sea shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean — Jonah did the Almigh... ...coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clam shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea ... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis... ...D’ye mark him, Flask?” whispered Stubb; “the chick that’s in him pecks the shell. T’will soon be out.” The hours wore on; — Ahab now shut up within hi...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...her off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the At... ... “As well, by your honour’s leave, as a hermit-crab in the 15 Jules Verne shell of a whelk,” said Conseil. I left Conseil to stow our trunks convenie... ...this lost rock at the extrem- ity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sail- ors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn. The course w... ...r collecting, when I was interrupted by these words: “You are examining my shells, Professor? Unquestion- ably they must be interesting to a naturalis... ...s men’s hearts never fail them. No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to... ...and had a strong party against him abroad. Indeed, the preceding year, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had concluded a treaty of all...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...mly sunk together, like one that had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that... ...th of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No; nevertheles... ...the Provinces, answers anxiously, No; nevertheless one may fear the worst. Royalty was beforehand so decrepit, moribund, there is little life in it to... ...asunder,—reckless what else he sheer with it. Simple seemest thou, O solid Dutch-built Petion; if solid, surely dull. Nor lifegiving in that tone of t... ...recitative; Puy bellows of it amid his granite mountains; Pau where is the shell-cradle of Great Henri. At far Marseilles, one can think, the ruddy ev... ... old in her own hired garret of the Ursulines Convent! She who has quietly shelled French- beans for her dinner; being led to that, as a young maiden,...

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