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... in the atmosphere there is almost nothing else except the Formless Medium of air. Is a fish aware that it is traveling through the Medium of water ... ...ravels? No. Are animals aware that they are traveling through the medium of Air as they travel? No. They take the Medium they travel through for... ...Medium of Space for granted once it found that there was something beyond the air called Space which they could travel through. What happens when y... ...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... ...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... ...her side. The Japanese adopted the tactics of a Ninja assassin as their basic Naval THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ... ever been attacked by sharks, and I mean never. Not in the entire history of naval history has there ever been a recorded instance where survivors ... ...nds of the Earth for their unforgivable sin of defying the power of a British naval sea captain. The mutineers searched for an island where they th...

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...ah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which... ...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... ...avery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti ... ...ring, we perceive a representation of Rameses III (about 1250 B.C.) watching a naval battle, in which the Egyptian fleet is engaging the battle-ships ... ...ver sleeping, and for food requiring only a mouthful of sea water, a breath of air laden with the smell of salty spray. It brings him wealth, good for... ...ts of positions and with all kinds of distortion. Sometimes the ship is in the air; sometimes a double reflection is presented in the water; occasiona... ...lly there are three images of the same vessel, two in the water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region a...

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...the same age as she, Alex was thought feminine, very pretty and petite in Air force blues. With her superior remaining silent, Roxanne lowered her t... ...ah, she won't be out for long. She's conditioned herself to run on bloody air." "This woman means a lot to you, doesn’t she?" The Nomad prodded for ... ...ylight. Coming from the cold tunnel, the warmth and fresh smell suggested air- conditioning of some type. Unable to see what was below the railing m... ... Atlas, she assumed that a certain woman had given the outsider the right royal treatment. Considering the lack of surface nutrition, he appeared to... ...uman history. Although simplistic, the complex had fully equipped medical stations, work and storage areas, schools, libraries, recreation posts and... ...an expressed concern for her. "Meet god face to face." Alex picked up her naval coat, laying over a swivel chair. "By the way, I've secured an elevat... ...d the damage. "We have to stop this." Alexandra lifted the corner of her naval coat, gesturing for Alex to tear it so she could plug the wound. "Yo...

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...icts erupted over ecclesiastical matters, the construction of railways and railway stations. Guerilla fighters soon realized that being pawns on th... ... triumphs against the Turkish army (reversing a trend three centuries old) lent an air of inevitable invincibility and divine justice to the whole ... ...Germany and France in Morocco more than once. Britain and Germany were engaged in a naval arms race which depleted the coffers and the social cohesi... ...n charge reverted to Yugoslavia's neutrality and refused to join the British-Greek naval treaty, for example. But what appeared to be spontaneous d... ...-July US-NATO planners had completed contingency plans for intervention, including air strikes and the deployment of ground troops. All that was mi... ...ate the parts of the province controlled by it. In September 1998, NATO threatened air strikes against Serbia, following reports of a massacre of w... ... state, as a matter of fact, that pathological narcissism was the preserve of "the royal and the wealthy" and that it "seems to have gained promine...

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.... 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... ...s in their gross gluttony to have everything before death that the marvel of air rushing into one's lungs or the feel of a spring breeze brushing agai... ... mother and father from the window. He feels the plane move and rise in the air. He shuts his eyes briefly. Then he opens them widely in amazement.... ...ad sentences with those vocabulary words like "A tall boy hits a ball in the air." "How many people are there?" "There is one person," they would ... ...ll of the cashiers, grocery stockmen, and other personnel were dead at their stations. Gabriele was around the age of five. She hid her face in Peggy... ...ctions, the choping of meat at a butcher's shop, or the static of television stations intruding into each other; and the recent and recurrent memory o... ...y survive. It is a place for a young woman to hope that one of the American naval officers that she sells herself to will actually want more than a.....

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... Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A A... ...l mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society. It was the leading sen- sation of the 1907 soirees; that cel... ...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ...d you ever see this thing go op?” Bert jumped. “Saw it from Bun ‘Ill, your Royal Highness.” Von Winterfeld made some explanation. “How fast did it go?... ...interfeld made some explanation. “How fast did it go?” “Couldn’t say, your Royal Highness. The papers, leastways the Daily Courier, said eighty miles ... ... telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of a great naval battle in progress in mid-Atlantic. He learnt it at last from Kurt. K...

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...KE GRAY AND DULL. The clouds hung heavily , and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child ... ...movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to air the room for a few minutes in the morning, and it had a stuffy smell wh... ...ave him the look of a priest, and in his youth he had possessed an ascetic air which added to the impression. He often related that on one of his holi... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once been seen at the Cafe Royal with a lady who was very prob- ably a near relation, was thenceforwar... ... at the witty immorality of a farce at the Palais 121 W. Somerset Maugham Royal, but here was nothing but filth. With an emphatic gesture he held his... ... often heard a sister 186 Of Human Bondage of Aunt Louisa, the widow of a naval officer , spo- ken of as Aunt Emily. It made him uncomfort- able to c... ... Being used to the society of young men (they were full of stories of hill-stations in India, 190 Of Human Bondage and at that time the stories of Ru...

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... quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake, and vanish into a great silen... ...urity which is so invaluable in a seaman. He had an extremely dis- turbing air of being everlastingly ready (even when seated at table at my right han... ...f land or the end of a jetty under your admiring gaze, invests her with an air of lofty and silent majesty. At anchor a schooner looks better; she has... ... masters of the fine art. 28 The Mirror of the Sea Some of them were like Royal Academicians of a certain kind. They never startled you by a touch of... ...ur spars than any amount of running aloft could do. And yet in my time the royal yards of an average profitable ship were a good way up above her deck... ...nerally happened in this way: Night, clouds racing overhead, wind howling, royals set, and the ship rushing on in the dark, an immense white sheet of ... ...ner, where the old housed-in hulk, the President (drill-ship, then, of the Naval Reserve), used to lie with her frigate side rub- bing against the sto... ...e Mirror of the Sea XXXVII THE CRADLE of oversea traffic and of the art of naval combats, the Mediterranean, apart from all the asso- ciations of adve... ...l consequence. From Salamis to Actium, through Lepanto and the Nile to the naval massacre of Navarino, not to mention other armed encounters of lesser...

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...as a fine breeze; and notwithstanding my bad night’s rest, the cool, fresh air of a morning at sea was so bracing, mat, as soon as I breathed it, my s... ... 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 ... ...ads. As for the sick, they had two or three more added to their number—the air of the island having disagreed with the constitutions of several of the... ...cing over the chests and planks; winged monsters darting to and fro in the air; and the small fry buzz- ing in heaps almost in a state of fusion. On t... ...—both islanders; the former nearly naked, and the latter dressed in an old naval frock-coat. Both were paddling with might and main; the old man, once... ...: how few ships have they ever carried by the board—that true criterion of naval courage! But not a word against French bravery—there is plenty of it;... ...y, lever, and screw. What demi-semi-quavers in a French air! In exchanging naval courtesies, I have known a French band play “Yankee Doodle” with such...

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...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... ...ntry’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones lingers visible here; like a wine-skin from which... ...ed, from each of the Eighty-three Departments of France. Likewise from all Naval and Military King’s Forces, shall Deputed quotas come; such Federatio... ...ay we of Boys? Beautifullest Hebes; the loveliest of Paris, in their light air-robes, with riband-girdle of tricolor, are there; shovelling and wheeli... ...thunderous belch of grapeshot, blast some fifty of Bouille’s vanguard into air! Fatal! That sputter of the first musket-shot has kindled such a cannon... ...iving (if it be not the Presiding Genius of it, Prince of the Power of the Air) has now any chance to know. Camille’s conjecture is the likeliest: tha... ...ister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay? Little stirring ...

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... members of it, had pushed him to the trial once or twice—or had put on an air of doing so; creating a temporary disturbance, ending in a merry duet w... ...entative statue of City Corporations and London’s maj- esty, the figure of Royalty, worshipful in its marbled redun- dancy, fronting the bridge, on th... ...visits, as we did at Craye Farm and at Creckholt; we are there for country air; we don’t court neighbours at all—perhaps the elect; it will depend on ... ...ne Farm, rather on a larger scale, for the sake of friends. Come, and pure air, water from the springs, walks and rides in lanes, high sand-lanes; Nat... ...he 34 One of Our Conquerors winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- s... ...ndantly, had always delighted him. It seemed a reconcilement of op- posing stations, a defeat of Puritanism. Ay, and poor women!—women in the worser p... ...or shook head, pitiful over the good people likened to things unclean, and royally upraising them: in doing which, he scattered to vapour the leaden i... ...y sat in a third-class carriage of the train, approaching the first of the stations on the way to town. He was instantly up to the level of an externa... ...sparkling to him. Skepsey enjoyed it, at the back of thoughts military and naval. Visible sea, this girdle of Britain, inspired him to exultations in ...

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...other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, and when her sight cleared, saw, indeed, a mural tablet of a footless ... ... on either side of my neck. I was told to pick him up and throw him in the air. He fell with a howl, and held up one leg. 37 Kipling “Part o’ the tri... ...m in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stations in the Himalayas for the hot weather; and though the men ought to ... ...him up. He discovered, too, that it was a good thing to lie in the wave of air under the punkah. Maybe Stanley had taught him all about this in barrac... ...e truth,” said the Queen’s voice behind them. They had not heard the heavy royal footfall which sets empty cells vibrating. Sacharissa offered her foo... ... very shame, the bees never went there. How in that ruin she blocked out a Royal Cell of sound wax, but disguised by rubbish till it looked like a kop... ...g bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost lost art of mak- ing Royal Jelly. How the nectar for it was won out of hours in the teeth of chi... ...and I completed my victory over him and all the Colonies with a Brassey’s “Naval Annual” and a “Statesman’s Year Book.” 133 Kipling The Agent-General... ...that I am no colony’s Agent-General. Penfentenyou continued to argue about naval contribu- tions till 1.15 A.M., though I was victor from the first. A...

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...t not forbidding. There was nothing about it of a grim derelict. It had an air of expectant life. One after an- other I made out the familiar faces wa... ...sman and or- dered curtly: “Shift the helm back again. Don’t you feel the air from aft? You are like a dummy standing there.” The Malay revolved the ... ...ght and speaking into the gloom of the cabin. “I thought there was a light air, and—but it’s gone now. Not a breath anywhere under the heavens.” He wi... ...sed over to the starboard side, and stood listening, one hand grasping the royal back-stay, his ear turned to the sea, but he could hear nothing from ... ...spoke quietly. “I am going forward now, sir, with the tindal. We’re all at stations.” “Aye, Mr. Shaw. Very good. Mind they don’t board you—but I can h... ...p here. Come up,” called Lingard, impa- tiently. The Malays had left their stations and stood clus- tered by the mainmast in a silent group. Not a wor... ...ar the skylight. Shaw’s voice rang out loudly in growling tones: “Furl the royals, you tindal!” “It’s the queerest old go,” muttered Carter, look- ing... ...w him again the moment we got him off the log.” Lingard seized hold of the royal backstay within reach of his hand. Jaffir! Jaffir! Faithful above all... ...et them fall. Lingard sat down on the breech of a heavy piece mounted on a naval carriage so as to command the lagoon. He folded his arms on his breas...

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...adislaw marries above him with Dorothea, that this may be exemplified. The air of the fireside withers out all the fine wildings of the husband’s hear... ... exceptions – earthquakes, eruptions of V esuvius, banjos floating in mid- air at a seance, and the like – a mind so fresh and unsophis- ticated is no... ... with his brush. And, again, painters may work out of doors; and the fresh air, the deliberate seasons, and the “tranquillising influence” of the gree... ...-sick, weary bark upon the dashing rocks. It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dre... ...t nearly so hard to sit still. There is no use pretending; even the thrice royal game of hide and seek has somehow lost in zest. All our attributes ar... ... and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval bal- lad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we sha... ...of what is imposing to the imagination. And our 82 Robert Louis Stevenson naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appe... ...n, Foul- Weather, Jack Byron, are all good to catch the eye in a page of a naval history. Cloudesley Shovel is a mouthful of quaint and sounding sylla... ...ime illogicality, “in honour I will die with them.” Captain Douglas of the Royal Oak, when the Dutch fired his vessel in the Thames, sent his men asho...

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