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...e fall, Zodiac declared himself the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen. There w... ...pointed right back at Hartford.” “Hey, we could join up with the rebels at Southern,” Josh sug- gested. “Hartford is destroyed, we’d have to take back... ...1 and hope that nothing else gets in our way,” Talbot pointed out. “Wait, Southern? As in Southern Connecticut State Univer- sity? They’re on a colle... ...t dozer does,” Vincent warned. “Why do you say that?” asked Josh. “First, Southern is above ground, which means the SATs can spot the collective act... ...en plan- ning. The United States military is gone. We control this entire continent. Soon, we’ll control the entire world.” Callous, standing between... ...publics have virtually decimated them- selves through war with each other. China and the southern Asian countries are in complete anarchy,” Callous c... ...lack was highly resourceful. Having been able to cross the North American continent undetected afer the Flash Storm, he had become quite adept at re...

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... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...ished their own pro-secession political organization. Growing constituencies in the south - such as urban immigrants and mountain farmers - opposed... ...in. He was born in Genoa, Italy, no one knows when. He did "discover" America, the continent - or, at least, is the first documented European to ha... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco... ...er, Amerigo Vespucci). Columbus denied to his dying day that he detected a new continent. Indeed, the Spanish royal couple, Ferdinand and Isabe... ... its splendid isolation - ostensibly aloof and detached from the petty squabbles of continental countries across the channel. Yet, the record is hel...

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... will vi forever be part of the history of both Great Britain and that vast and glorious sub-continent, the whole of which was once called ‘INDI... ...t trip to the East, Mr. Quinn?’ asked Helen gently. ‘No, miss, I have served for several years in China but was sent home because I contracted malar... ...n rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean. Helen had read books about this vast black continent, so much of which was still unexplored. ... ...ndeed a very minuscule part of this globe and would be even further away when she reached the sub-continent of India. Everyone was relieved that the... ...ed mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘Fort William‘. THE CU... ...cate that they were expected. Suddenly, when they were within a few yards of the walls, the huge south gate creaked open to allow a troop of fierce-... ... was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her father had married an... ...ling hung crystal chandeliers and the centrepiece of the table was a magnificent vase of Dresden china in the shape of a swan which was filled with ... ... As usual after her ride, she stripped down to her underclothes and poured some warm water from a china jug into a wash basin on the marble-topped w...

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...y and majesty is spoken of? Now mount Paran is certainly in Idumea, towards the south in respect of Palestine, and therefore the LXX. instead of “fr... ... the south in respect of Palestine, and therefore the LXX. instead of “from the south,” read “from Teman,” [as our version doth,] because Teman was ... ...e treadeth the winepress of the wrath of Almighty God.” In Idumea, then, to the south of Jerusalem, shall the two edged sword which proceedeth out o... ... all the inhabitants of those very vast countries of Asia, from the Euphrates to China, idolaters, and are they not so until this day? Those of the i... ...; even those who are found in the utmost ends of the earth, separated from this continent by the widest seas: “They shall cry aloud from the sea…Fro... ...ever since to the present time, a great part of that which before was an united continent, as is to be seen in the islands, especially of the Archipe...

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... lords and rulers doctors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that perio... ...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...tellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the... ...nd the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the parents of young Ho... ...ision of man’s material destiny that opens out before me. I see the desert continents transformed, the poles no longer wildernesses of ice, the whole ... ...hey went to war in a delirium of panic, in order to use their bombs first. China and Japan had assailed Russia and destroyed Moscow, the United States... ... spelling was systematised and adapted to the vowel sounds in use upon the continent of Europe, and a process of incorporating foreign nouns and verbs...

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...that peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South Ameri- can revolution. The fellow had actually managed to steal a lig... ...ights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a great continent. Sky, land, and sea disappear together out of the world when the ... ...ts in an iron-bound coast—like Esmeralda, for instance, sixty miles to the south—or else mere open road- steads exposed to the winds and fretted by th... ...ct with studied negligence. 17 Joseph Conrad “Smith knows no more of this continent than a baby.” “Our excellent Señor Mitchell” for the business and... ...s folded tight under her ample bosom, she scolded the squat, thick- legged China girls handling linen, plucking fowls, pounding corn in wooden mortars... ...d to kings and tyrants—could be heard involved in imprecations against the China girls, cooking in gen- eral, and the brute of a country where he was ... ...d respected the repose of the place. Their course ran in the more populous southern parts of the Republic, and the great valley of Sta. Marta, which w... ... Costaguana, that he, the only representative of the third generation in a continent possessing its own style of horsemanship, went on looking thoroug...

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...ul detectives have been sent to all the principal ports of America and the Continent, and he’ll be a clever fellow if he slips through their fingers.”... ...ady. Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Rail- way Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables ... ... reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square mil... ...eaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, 37 Jules Verne crossing to the continent opposite T annah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs... ...e Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its ter... ...e even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south- east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist archi- tectur... ...angoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas. What was detective Fix, so unluckily drawn on from coun- try to... ... Hong Kong was the last English ground on which he would set foot; beyond, China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge. If the warr... ... whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers. The weath...

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...nce with Dionysius of Syracuse has perished; or to Confucius who travelled China in search of a Prince he might instruct, with lapses and indignities ... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...r and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember with infinite gratitude the great-uncle... ...n near the impassable thickets of the ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain coun- try of rudely piled br... ...ay in ships. I got my work to do, and do it I will.” And in no time all my continents and lands were swirling water and swiping strokes of house-flann... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...vailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-tr... ...and Roper, teaching Greek like passionate missionar- ies, as a progressive Chinaman might teach English to the boys of Pekin, clumsily, impatiently, w... ...ing and discipline and moral courage, I remember that the idea that on the continent there were other peoples going ahead of us, mentally alert while ...

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...hasized the contrast between that dear England of hedges and homes and the south-west wind in which his imagina- tion lived, and the crude presences o... ... for which he developed a pow- erful craving, in the place of the delicate China tea Lady Ella procured him. 5 5 5 5 5 These doctrinal and physical an... ... only seem- ing to exist. He seemed to himself to be one with figures on a china plate, with figures painted on walls, with the flimsy imagined lives ... ...ncomprehensible his vision had been. The sphere was the earth with all its continents and seas, its ships and cities, its country-sides and mountain r... ...e was India, here was Samarkand, in the light of the late after- noon; and China and the swarming cities upon her silvery rivers sinking through twili... ...“Here is something that goes a little beyond that.” His pointing hand went southward until they saw the Af- ricanders riding down to Windhuk. T wo men... ... was fairly forfeit, and he was not to be killed. “We want no more hate in South Af- rica,” they agreed. “Dutch and English and German must live here ... ...with munitions, to fight down the hostility and anger that blazed across a continent. He had worked to his limit. He had taken cup after cup of coffee...

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...s on the hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the showery night, gives distantly a tower to view,... ...d acres, ex- tending across the ridge of the hills to the slopes North and South. Seven counties rolled their backs under this command- ing height, an... ...so well a sentimental clothing. His pride was in being very English on the Continent, and Diana’s instances of his lofty appreciations of the garden o... ...bjects, his talk was passable. The subjects treated of politics, pictures, Continental travel, our manufactures, our wealth and the reasons for it —ex... ...West wind blew, and gave her a view of the Downs beyond the Weald from her southern window. She thought it even possible to drive there and reach the ... ...ing on the hob: over the steadiest of furnaces too. And the oceans and the continents, as you know, are perpetual and copious contributors, either to ... ...r rather too briskly, contrived the next minute to break a precious bit of China standing by his elbow; and Lady Pennon cried out, with sympathetic an... ...is head: ‘As long as it is we who are the cracked.’ ‘Did we not start from China?’ ‘We were consequently precipitated to Stamboul.’ ‘You try to elude ... ...ting the world. He was witness of Mr. Hepburn’s pre- sentation of a costly China vase, to repair the breach in her array of ornaments, and excuse a vi...

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...or of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 it took form in the noble words which you are a... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...y is as good as freedom, and ought to have room for expansion all over the continent, if people can be found to carry it. All, or nearly all, of Judge... ...d lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a different one. There are good, patriotic me... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ...ility. This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in oth... ...probably remain after sat- isfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d ... ...view to the satisfaction of such other just claims of our citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter in the course of our extensive...

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...years old; and still from time to time Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, And of her brethren, youths of puissance; And still I wore her pictu... ...d looked the lips: but while I meditated A wind arose and rushed upon the South, And shook the songs, the whispers, and the shrieks Of the wild woods... ...wo sphere lamps blazoned like Heaven and Earth With constellation and with continent, Above an entry: riding in, we called; A plump-armed Ostleress a... ...ith her theme She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique And little-footed China, touched on Mahomet With much contempt, and came to chivalry: When so... ... her pale cheek, declared that ancient ties Would still be dear beyond the southern hills; That were there any of our people there In want or peril, t...

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...om Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligen... ...s the American passen- gers crossed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southampton are mainly of that nationality—and curi- ously, indifferently, ... ...t of his mission. On the other hand the day was charming; the blue sea, in Southampton Water, pricked all over with light, had no movement but that of... ...ght, for if she was native to a small town in the interior of the American continent one of their fellow-passen- gers, a lady from New York with whom ... ... choice specimens of that American humour admired and practised by a whole continent and yet to be rendered accessible to a trained diplomatist, clear... ...palaces she had seen in Germany, where, as she said, there was nothing but china stoves and stuffed birds, that he was obliged to allow the home of Wa...

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...19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedi- cated to the propo... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...tly includes those consuls who, residing in Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Japan, China, and other Oriental countries, are charged with complex functions and... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ...lant by fraud the institutions of any republican government on the Western Continent, and that they will view with extreme jealousy, as menacing to th... ...n in regard to the supplanting of republi- can government upon the Western Continent is fully concurred in, there might be misunderstanding were I not... ...re entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has so long been flagrant in China has at last been suppressed, with the co-operating good offices of th... ...h has been instituted with the Government and people of that vast Empire. China seems to be accepting with hearty good-will the conventional laws whi...

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... looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson of... ...al- though the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great... ...oons, a hotel of a great size, marshy pools where the frogs keep up their croaking, and even at high noon the entire absence of any human face or voic... ... perhaps Tehama County; another, a party in dust coats, men and women, whom we found camped in a grove on the roadside, all 18 ... ...s, many dialects, innumerable forms of piety, and countless lo- cal patriotisms and prejudices, part us among ourselves more widely than the extreme e... ...he bar, and turn the leaf of a newspa- per, and the resting school-ma’ams in the parlour would be recalled to the consciousness of their inaction. Bus... ...ers from 59 the post-bag, the childish hope and interest with which one gazed in all these strangers’ eyes. They paused there ...

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...pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. at din- ner-table, where Mr. Bes... ... Joaquin valley—harvests that were to feed strangely clad skeletons on the southern slopes of the Himalaya foot-hills. T ravis and Condy edged their w... ...East—sandalwood, punk, incense, oil, and the smell of mysterious cookery. “Chinatown!” exclaimed Travis. “I hadn’t the faint- est idea we had come up ... ...nt, and bought some crackers and a wedge of new cheese. On the way back to Chinatown Travis stopped at a music store on Kearney Street to get her banj... ...oung yet. The lake, smooth and still as gray silk, widened to the west and south without so much as a wrinkle to roughen the surface. Only to the east... ... there around the line in those little, out-o’-the-way republics along the South American coast, and things happen to you. Y ou hold a man’s life in t... ...o they went along in that fine, clear, Western morning, on the edge of the Continent, both of them young and strong and vigorous, the Pacific under th... ... which they belonged, teeming there upon the green, W estern fringe of the continent, was young and heady and tumultu- ous with the boisterous, red bl... ... office, and “In Defiance of Authority” was sent on its journey across the continent. “Now,” she said, as they came out of the express of- fice and st...

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...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...aid down her knife and fork. The windows of the room were open, and looked southward, and a dull distant sound came over the 60 V anity Fair – V olum... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...ook at him, Amelia dear, driving into the parlour window. Such a bull in a china-shop I never saw.” And presently the pair of riders disappeared at a ... ... neighbouring places on market-days. He drove the family coach-and-four to Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, ever... ...unt, while Mr. Pitt sent peaches and grapes and venison from the Hall. The Southampton coach used to carry these tokens of affection to Miss Crawley a... ...ade an expedition into England, leaving behind her her little son upon the continent, under the care of her French maid. The parting between Rebecca a... ...e ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shie... ...f a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys, and to take inventories of the china, the glass, and other properties in the closets and store-rooms. Mrs....

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...him Gibraltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable of the Castle, ... ... fields or swallows return to their eaves. He forsook the hunt to roam the Continent, one of the vulgar band of tour- ists, honouring town only when M... ... pursuit of thoughts while they enfold. They were large dark eyes, eyes of southern night. They sped no shot; they rolled forth an envelopment. A chil... ...ont” distinctly during some remarks on travel. Lady Ormont pre- ferred the Continent. Two days later she came to the armchair, as before, met Weyburn’... ...I do not propose to settle as a schoolmaster in England.” “Where?” “On the Continent.” “Would not America be better?” “It would not so well suit the p... ... was the glorious day to follow, with a cleansing bath of a walk along the south- ern hills; homely English scenery to show to a German friend, one of... ...pfuller than a Countess of Ormont, ranged with all the other countesses in china and Dresden on a drawing- room mantelpiece for show. She could organi... ... hinting at delicate af- finities with the rice-paper lady of the court of China, were trying to peer seriously. ‘Poor man! One must be sorry for him:...

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... James Coleridge, of Heath’s Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the R... ...D JOURNE AND JOURNE AND JOURNE AND JOURNEYS ON YS ON YS ON YS ON YS ON THE CONTINENT THE CONTINENT THE CONTINENT THE CONTINENT THE CONTINENT . . . . .... ...dence there; but his first use of his leisure was to take a journey on the Continent with his brother and Mr. Hornby. It was then that, as he afterwar... ...ole family prof- iting by Sir John’s emancipation to take a journey on the Continent, and the failure of the scheme elicited the follow- ing letter:— ... ... and seriously considered of offering himself to assist in the work in the Southern Hemisphere. He discussed the matter seriously with his friend, Mr.... ... .’ The Mission party intended to sail immediately after Christmas in the ‘Southern Cross,’ the schooner which was being built at Blackwall for voyage... ...here, a retired sea captain who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather n... ...already eaten a mouldy biscuit and had a glass of beer at the house of the Chinawoman, so I only said grace for them, and after talking a little while... ... and ascer- tained from him that the natives had several articles, such as china, glass, and the handle of a silver fork, which evidently came from a ...

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...s. Right in the midst of the narrows lies an islet with some ruins; on the south shore they have built a pier for the service of the Ferry; and at the... ...h- ers, she was driven actually back. At last we were beaten so far to the south that we tossed and tacked to and fro the whole of the ninth day, with... ...ly the result: that we had made a fair wind of a foul one and were running south. The tenth afternoon there was a falling swell and a thick, wet, whit... ...ade us both sit down with his family to dinner, and brewed punch in a fine china bowl, over which my rascal guide grew so merry that he refused to sta... ... that he had given you considerable sums; and that you had started for the continent of Europe, intending to fulfil your education, which was probable...