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...I have written this book to help us recall the original dream for education, the vision of those who built the sandstone schools and those who taught in one room buildings for the sake of education. If we are a rich province, and we are, our schools should feel it. Our kids deserve the best we can give them and not to be shelved as a ...

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...et and Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans recorded as exploring the region, and by 1683, the French had established Fort St. Louis on a large sandstone butte overlooking the river. According to a native legend, a group of Illinois Confederation (Illini) pursued by the Ottawa and Potawatomi fled to the butte in the late 18th century. The Ottawa and Potawatomi besieg...

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...it?’ said John MacGregor in response to Helen’s gasp of admiration. The palace was built in pink sandstone and white marble with intricately pierce...

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... ignorance. She wanted to line the people responsible against the canyon's sandstone wall, scatter their brains on the wind, and throw open the gate... ...le trail beneath her feet became a wondrous mosaic of quartz and alabaster, sandstone and granite, star-patterned in octagons and triangles or cut i... ... the couriers, burdened by their sacks, had focused only on the granite and sandstone before their eyes as they negotiated handholds and footholds c...

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...ned in his hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1883. The locally quarried sandstone building displays at its entrance a stylized sun with a carved m...

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...ned in his hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1883. The locally quarried sandstone building displays at its entrance a stylized sun with a carved m...

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...precise softening of the wood and hours of rubbing the bone tip on a piece of sandstone. The slightest mistake and the wood shaft will split. The N... ...m. The whitewashing of Cheops’s Pyramid. Built Cheaply… out of lousy, soft sandstone… and covered with a thin veneer of shining polished immacula... ...flective consciousness made of polished stone, and a massive amount of rotten sandstone filling up the human brain with cultural brainwashing that c...

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...marine deposits formed in the second period, these shales, limestones, and sandstones. We are turning away from the primary granite. We are just as if... ...you are saying?” he asked. “See,” I said, pointing to the varied series of sandstones and limestones, and the first indication of slate. “Well?” “We a... ...h lies between the non-fossilifer- ous slaty schists below and the old red sandstone above. The system is well developed in the region of Shropshire, ... ...s reflected in sparkling splendour from the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls. It might have been thought that we were passing thr... ... lamps from the side walls. The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless lining. At one moment, t... ...trace all its diverse phases. The beds of coal were separated by strata of sandstone or compact clays, and appeared crushed under the weight of overly...

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...romontory, which men name St. Bees, which is not sapphire either, but dull sandstone, when one gets close to it, there is a world. Which world thou to... ...moder- ate whiteness, she wears as jewel a miniature Bastille, cut on mere sandstone, but then actual Bastille sandstone. M. le Marquis is one of d’Or...

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...id abruptly, and indeed he had brought those still, sunlit arcades of worn sandstone very vividly before me. “It was the brown one, the big brown one....

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...Tell me another.’ ‘What do you think of a big, red, dead city built of red sandstone, with raw green aloes growing between the stones, lying out negle...

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... Yet tell me, Who built these walls of Weissnichtwo; summoning out all the sandstone rocks, to dance along from the Steinbruch (now a huge Troglodyte ...

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...r the well and a shed for the wood; when he had valued the house, built of sandstone and pointed in reddish cement, and put a price on the farm at Bor...

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... it was of a circular shape, and, though hewn out of the solid mass of red sandstone, had pillars, and a carved roof, and other tokens of a regular ar...

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...id abruptly, and indeed he had brought those still, sunlit arcades of worn sandstone very vividly before me. “It was the brown one, the big brown one....

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...acities by building a large house of pale cream-coloured stone (when brown sandstone seemed as much the only wear as a frock-coat in the afternoon) in...

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... It was more like a scene in a romance than anything real—the fine old red sandstone house crumbling away in the exposed parts, the arched gateway cov... ... high, steep, slippery green slope. He came in sight at the great dark-red sandstone pile of building; but he passed it, and ran on to where the groun...

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...s of the silex, the white of the lime carbonates, the russet browns of the sandstone, in many a fantastic shape. As you first enter it, the park is gl...

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... it was of a circular shape, and, though hewn out of the solid mass of red sandstone, had pillars, and a carved roof, and other tokens of a regular ar...

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...the bright whitewashed cottages of this district, on the side a rich, red, sandstone-coloured church, late architecture, tower rather mouldering—all t...

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... as they appeared from 1860 to 1900. It is a red brick immensity with gray sandstone lintels and a roof of slate in courses of red, green, and dyspept...

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...id abruptly, and indeed he had brought those still, sunlit arcades of worn sandstone very vividly before me. “It was the brown one, the big brown one....

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...blage of cottages attached to a house of two stories, roofed with flags of sandstone—the original mansion, to which the extensions of Mr. Crackenthorp...

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...s crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone. She escaped from Main Street, fled home. She wouldn’t have cared...

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... the most intimate confidence, with the most urgent persuasion. Mitchener: Sandstone has resigned. MITCHENER (amazed). Old Red resigned! BALSQUITH. Re... ... Why? Oh, impossible! the proc- lamation of martial law last T uesday made Sandstone virtu- ally Dictator in the metropolis, and to resign now is flat... ...CHENER. Nonsense: they must go. BALSQUITH. They wont. MITCHENER. What does Sandstone say? BALSQUITH. He says: Shoot them down. MITCHENER. Of course. B... ...TCHENER. How can I? You know that the people are devoted heart and soul to Sandstone. He is only bringing you “on the knee,” as we say in the army. Co... ...o more notion how to behave herself than a pig. Youll have to wear General Sandstones uniform: its the ony one in the place, because he wont lend it t... ...ony one in the place, because he wont lend it to the shows. MITCHENER. But Sandstones clothes wont fit me. MRS. FARRELL (unmoved). Then youll have to ... ...sume work.) MRS. FARRELL. If they could only see the seamy side of General Sandstones uniform, where his flask rubs agen the buckle of his braces, the... ...ved to take the field. MRS. BANGER. They will enforce the order of General Sandstone for the removal of all women from the two mile radius—that is, al... ...ou, Madam, that the Government has given up that project, and that General Sandstone has resigned in consequence. MRS. BANGER. That does not concern u...

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...s axe to sharpen, Quickly to an edge he whets it, Using six hard blocks of sandstone, And of softer whetstones, seven. Straightway to the oak tree tur... ... wisely answered: “Never enter I thy snow sledge, Till thou peelest me the sandstone, Till thou cuttest me a whip stick From the ice, and make no spli... ...true magician, Nothing daunted, not discouraged, Deftly peeled the rounded sandstone, Deftly cut from ice a whip stick, Cutting not the finest splinte... ...of Wainamoinen. Now the wise and ancient minstrel Gathers lichens from the sandstone, Picks them from the trunks of birches, Gathers moss within the m... ...he balsam, Thus the magic salve he tested, T ouched with it the splintered sandstone, T ouched the broken blocks of granite, T ouched the fissures in ... ...er give this stone its polish, Rather would I turn the pestle In the heavy sandstone mortar; Rather sit beside my mother In the dwellings of my father... ...l corn from the kernel. On his head a hat of flint stone, On his feet were sandstone sandals, In his hand a golden cleaver, 207 The Kalevala And the ... ... fruitage, Sing to bread the hills and mountains, Sing to eggs the rounded sandstones; He could touch the springs of magic, He could turn the keys of ... ...r, Hadst thou nursed a block of birch wood, Hadst thou clothed the colored sandstone, Rather than this hapless maiden, For the fulness of these sorrow...

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...poses a section of the geological nature of the country. The strata are of sandstone, and one layer was remarkable from be- ing composed of a firmly-c... ...f which fronts the river, and many of the houses are excavated even in the sandstone. The river is about two or three hun- dred yards wide, and is dee... ...ley of the Rio Negro, broad as it is, has merely been excavated out of the sandstone plain; for immediately above the bank on which the town stands, a... ...ds is in mos respects simple. The lower country consists of clay- slat and sandstone, containing fossils, very closely related to, bu not identical wi... ...ut being shattered into fragments. As the quart insensibly passes into the sandstone, it seems prob- able tha the former owes its origin to the sandst... ...it of Magellan. Observing the general correspondence of the cliffs of soft sandstone, mud, and shingle, on the opposite sides of the Strait, and on so... ...nding their branches over the sea-beach. I one day noticed, growing on the sandstone cliffs, some very fine plants of the panke (Gunnera scabra), whic... ...ating masses are covered in the central parts, by a great thickness of red sandstone, conglomerate, and calcareous clay-slate, associated with, and pa... ...f at an angle of 45 degs. by the red Portillo granite (with the underlying sandstone baked by it), 354 The V oyage of the Beagle we may feel sure, th...

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...e heaviness. Vanished is the Bastille, what we call vanished: the body, or sandstones, of it hanging, in benign metamorphosis, for cen- turies to come...

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...noth- ing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a ter- race above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water. There was a ruined ...

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...e? Yet tell me, Who built these walls of Weissnichtwo; summoning out all the sandstone rocks, to dance along from the Steinbruch (now a huge Troglodyt...

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...sunk, until soon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory 5 D.H. ... ...y pro- ceeded to carve their initials, “L. W.” and “R. P.”, in the old red sandstone; but Paul desisted, because he had read in the newspaper satirica... ...e the cliff runs sheer down to the Park. Below them, in their holes in the sandstone, pigeons preened themselves and cooed softly. Away down upon the ...

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...as Carlyle which men name St. Bees, which is not sapphire either, but dull sandstone, when one gets close to it, there is a world. Which world thou to... ...moderate whiteness, she wears as jewel a minia- ture Bastille, cut on mere sandstone, but then actual Bastille sandstone. M. le Marquis is one of d’Or...

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...low, then the Indicative Future in the stars and stripes, then the Old Red Sandstone Subjunc tive in purple and silver—and so on and so on, fifty sev...

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...n the Origin of Species one true mammal has been discovered in the new red sandstone at nearly the commencement of this great series. Cuvier used to u...

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...of the Homestead, there was a steep, sharp bit of road, cut out in the red sandstone rock, and after a few paces she paused to rest with a sigh that b...