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...ght of those pathetic fools made her stomach roil. Since the beginning of time, humans had taken, pillaged, and destroyed everything that came in co... ...maced. She was burning up. Not quite what he expected, but he didn't have time to try again. This was the perfect opportunity and he wasn't going to ... ...med away the memory of his wife and let out an angry snort. He didn't have time to indulge in what might have been. No, he lived in the present and, ... ...go. You know what to do, Jacques. Don't fail me in this like you did last time." And with that parting barb, Henry left the room. Chapter 3 Late su... ... Henry changes his mind, I'll stop administering the medicine. Until that time, I will do as I've been ordered.” “Doesn't it make you feel guilty?” N... ...th interest as Boris relayed the report. “The red areas are “Do not enter” zones that are filled with traps and explosives. The blue areas are locati...

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...the business of running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with the peace of his Father in Heaven. He rolled the rosary beads, one by one, through his fingers as he chanted the Ave Maria. His voice rose into a caden...

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...ding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with ... ...e said, quizzically to himself, “it seems, I am only to be told a little at a time.” Now, at least, he had a direction. His mind immediately turned t... ...is Chief of Staff, Walter Baker, walked into the office. "Senator, it's almost time for your committee meeting." "I'll be ready in a minute," he sa... ...onio Salvi had arrived at the Vatican Embassy the night before. For the first time in his life he felt important. Just a few days before, he was drea... ...rayed. Antonio had no idea how long he prayed as he held the sobbing Artemis. Time was irrelevant. Finally, the sobs began to subside as Artemis sl... ...ope to keep the bombing to a minimum, and our troops restricted to the target zones. But, as you know, there are always innocent people who are unfor...

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...ation for fighter robots and combat drones. Base 18 on planet DN-DU-144/5 was in principle a bleak place. Though at that moment it was officially day-time at the location of base 18, there was actually just a little twilight. The far sun, going by the less-than-poetic name of DN-DU-144, illuminated only the abundant clouds enfolding the planet decently. Little light ever m...

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...stal green water just below the surface of the river, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with h... ... desire to be a Chief; his father was Chief of the tribe, and his father had no time to hunt or fish or to even spend time with him. His father had ... ...father why, he just patted him on the head, smiled and said softly, "When it is time, the Great Spirit will reveal it". Though young Sealt did not u... ...n the Treaty and let the White Chief buy the land, while he, Seattle, would buy time. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles betw... ...n. Even the words of the Elders in his visions were mysterious. They foretold a time of destiny, when the red man's soul would lead the white man's ... ... personally. Your job, Senator, is to hold your Hearings and expose these toxic zones that may affect the lives of millions of people," Brent said i... ...ng, Senator. My recommendation is that every man, woman, and child in the toxic zones be relocated immediately. " The chamber erupted. Reporters sc... ...ecially from the fourteen affected areas, which the media now dubbed the 'Toxic Zones'. CNN went to wall-to-wall coverage interviewing environmental... ...ed to existing light water nuclear reactors that were not located in the 'Toxic Zones'. 3) Evacuate all residents from the affected areas, and build...

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...ps I’d located the only halfwit Vampire in town to go up against for my first time as an officially sanctioned Slayer of the Holy Order of St. Vlad. ... ...blow that out of the water but I didn’t want to focus on that aspect. It was time to focus on the important issue. I’d just taken down a flipping V... ...pped at my hands as I added a twist and spin to my tap-tap- tap. Maybe next time I should bring a rubber mallet or something. The threat of carpal-... ... a decent pile of ash — disconcerting to say the least. This being my first time actually slaying, I hated to admit it, but I could have missed the... ...s open and saying “Take me!”, which would kill any chance I had to get First Time Slayer of the Month. Not that I expected to have that honor, but y... ...ia to come in from Shreveport and they will be handling J. Morgan 26 the zones adjacent to yours so we can cover more ground. We don’t need to o... ...h would be some time tomorrow. I think. I never have gotten the hang of time zones. That didn’t give me much time, but I planned to make the best o...

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... park beyond any human comprehension. This paradise had a brief moment in time and was soon closed off to the public and placed on the Heavenly cons... ...tiful and decided to pay earth a visit. Morals abruptly dropped to an all time low, which greatly displeased the Almighty Father, who gave the massi... ...o gave the massive sphere a cold shower, this defused the situation for a time. Now back at the drawing board, God was busy town planning and alloca... ...yip and bunny, the same animal. If the locals, past and present, took the time to familiarise themselves with Australian history they would know tha... .... Nonetheless, this little fable wins the affection of tourists, who from time to time accidentally stumble upon this small community. It is one of ... ...with some very fierce opposition. Many properties became spiritual battle zones, leaving oozing demonic mounds all over the place and trumpets sound...

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...aper having value. Especially over another human’s life, as some believe. The time would come when he would enter the stars to explore. His ship... ... her. Her conscience had pulled him out of many political problems and even a hard time shortly before Saria’s birth. Now, he couldn’t bear to lose h... ...ear. “We can’t speak of this ever. Saria is heir to the throne and will rule. It’s time not only she but you understand this as well.” A knock ... ...ghtened himself, forcing his mind to think about business and not pleasure at this time. Another palace guard, draped in red silk entered and b... ...ng and flipping through papers. "Another symbol was left in a field of crops. This time in another land far from Orland," he announced. She tur... ...em?” “By first removing our veil of prejudgment and stepping outside of our zones of comfort we have lived behind for thousands of years. I s...

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...y Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little information on the subject....

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...njecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally unce... ... these we learn that he was of Alexandria by birth,* that he lived in the time of the Ptolemies, and was a pupil of Callimachus; that while still a y... ...onius was a contemporary of Eratosthenes, Euphorion and Timarchus, in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the heads... ...allimachus—directed against the “cyclic” poets, by whom were meant at that time those who were always dragging in conventional and commonplace epithet... .... * The subject of love had been treated in the romantic spirit before the time of Apollonius in writings that have perished, for in stance, in those... ...better toy wilt thou get from the hands of Hephaestus. All of gold are its zones, and round each double seams run in a circle; but the stitches are hi...

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...t maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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...n affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only ... ...erflows to that which moves with steady persistence. The world has neither time nor patience to realize the immense power concealed beneath an appeara... ...e, we are surprised to find that the prevailing tints from the tem- perate zones are gray or fawn, while the more brilliant colors belong to the produ... ...ry must naturally conform to this law of nature. Flanders, which in former times was essentially dun-col- ored and monotonous in tint, learned the mea... ...rtile in discoveries, and trained to scientific discussions which de- mand time and the midnight oil. All things bear the ear- mark of temporal enjoym... ...when this history begins, was one of the last in Douai to preserve the old-time characteristics of Flemish life. Of all the towns in the Departement d...

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..., but in whatsoever ways they masquerade they are the same person all the time. To change the figure, the compulsion that moves a man—and there is b... ...ese? O.M. Many of them—yes. Y.M. Will you read me the result? O.M. Another time, yes. It would take an hour. Y.M. A conscience can be trained to shun ... ...e the case of a bad boy who— O.M. You needn’t mention it, it is a waste of time. It is no matter about the bad boy’s act. Whatever it was, he had a sp... ... tor or or or ory y y y y O.M. I will tell you a little story: Once upon a time an Infidel was guest in the house of a Christian widow whose little bo... ... pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let us adjo... ...rant Isle because it is so beautiful and green. The width of the different zones Europe lies in depend upon the sur rounding country. The imports of ...

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...rm Whales! There she blows! There she breaches!” “Sing out! sing out every time!” “A y A y, sir! There she blows! there—there—thar she blows—bowes—bo-... ...e pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; hi... ...eet, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and b... ...prising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with... ...almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or 15 Herman Melville other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first v... ...the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell ... ...ith low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not poss... ...ipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans. Thus this mysteri- ous, divine Pacific zones the world’s whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to it; seems t...

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...from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end. The secular cooling that must someday... ... gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remot... ... the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well. All that time the Martians must have been getting ready. During the opposition of 18... ... for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise of our nineteenth-cen- ... ... cylinder he ascribed to the un- equal cooling of its surface; for at that time it had not oc- curred to him that it might be hollow. He remained stan... ...ned, scrambled out of the pit, and set off running wildly into Woking. The time then must have been somewhere about six o’clock. He met a waggoner and...

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...were the beginnings of leisure and thought. Man began to think. There were times when he was fed, when his lusts and his fears were all appeased, when... ...es in the opening drama of man’s history. The priest’s solicitude was seed-time and harvest and fertility, and the king ruled peace 9 H G Wells and w... ...Kasir-i-Hind. Measured by the duration of human life it is a vast space of time between that first dynasty in Egypt and the coming of the aeroplane, b... ...of life would have been entirely strange to human thought through all that time. 11 H G Wells Yet the dreamer, the story-teller, was there still, wai... ... hand. Whenever there was a certain leisure for thought through- out these times, then men were to be found dissatisfied with the appearances of thing... ...h vast accumulations of immemorial ice, and the secret riches of the inner zones of the crust were untapped and indeed unsuspected. The higher mountai...

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...on and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabit- ants... ...he tall eight-sided windows of stained glass beyond the high altar. At the time of the French expedition into Spain to estab- lish Ferdinand VII once ... ... illness obliged him to leave the Colonel in command of the troops for the time being. This common- place but very plausible stratagem relieved him of... ... but very plausible stratagem relieved him of all respon- sibility for the time necessary to carry out his plans. The General, nothing if not “catholi... ...head slowly, with an expression of angelic sweetness, enhanced at the same time by the con- sciousness of her power and dignity. “Do you know this gen... ...reflection to those who are fain to observe or describe the various social zones; and pos- sibly an enquiry into the causes that bring about this cent...

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...ates on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. For some time past vessels had been met by “an enor- mous thing,” a long object, spi... ...science. Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a l... ...ed tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean. The legends of an- cient times were even revived. Then burst forth the unending argument between the... ...possess such a destructive 9 Jules Verne machine. And in these disastrous times, when the inge- nuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of w... ... inches in diameter at the base. “Very well! suppose this weapon to be six times stron- ger and the animal ten times more powerful; launch it at the r... ...perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful. But for some minutes I... ...or eatable vegetables, and one of the most useful products of the tropical zones fur- nished us with precious food that we missed on board. I would sp... ...ning, before that fleeting twi- light which binds night to day in tropical zones, Conseil and I were astonished by a curious spectacle. It was a shoal...

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...mother of the child paid the least attention to my act. It was not till some time after that I 5 Robert Louis Stevenson understood what I had done my... ...s, the crowd began to move, heavily straining through itself. About the same time some lamps were lighted, and threw a sudden flare over the shed. We ... ...o between the pier and the railway sta- tion, so that I was quite wet by the time that I got under cover. There was no waiting-room, no refreshment ro... ...so then, by the railroad side in Pennsylvania, and I have thought so a dozen times since in far distant parts of the continent. If it be an illusion i... ..., poetical, hu- morous, and picturesque as the United States of America. All times, races, and languages have brought their contribu- tion. Pekin is i... ... out English, or thereabout. But the problem is indefinitely varied in other zones. The elements are differently mingled in the south, in what we may ... ...res not dwell upon this view; that way madness lies; science carries us into zones of speculation, where there is no habitable city for the mind of ma...

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...popular. Cricket-matches, where a hundred played upon a side, en- dured at times for weeks, and ate up the country like the 9 Robert Louis Stevenson ... ...l- lage attend to prepare the kava bowl and entertain them with the dance; time flies in the enjoyment of every pleasure which an islander conceives; ... ... for netting pigeons, and of mats. It is true the beggar was sup- posed in time to make a return, somewhat as by the Roman contract of mutuum. But the... ... economic regimen, the unpopularity of taxes, which strike all at the same time, which expose the industri- ous to a perfect siege of mendicancy, and ... ...and races, comparable to a shopful of crockery launched upon the stream of time, now fall to make their desperate voyage among pots of brass and adama... ...he deck of an approaching ship, the island is seen to bear its signature – zones of cultivation showing in a more vivid tint of green on the dark vest...

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... twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once hap pened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which en... ...st the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: What i tell you three times is true.” The crew was complete: it included a Boots— A maker ... ...and. “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators, T ropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?” So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would ... ...u may charge me with murder—or want of sense— (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretense Was never amo... ...re. The thing shall be done! Bring me paper and ink, The best there is time to procure.” The Beaver brought paper,portfolio, pens, And ink ... ...d gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain— But much yet remains to be said. “In...

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...ly favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes rissoles. The dinner of... ...he steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but ... ...ty; and the whole strength of her endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had heard report... ...to put them to the proof. It was a good thing for the old lady; for she passed much leisure time in studying the watch. Once, when prostrated by sickn... ...llow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understand the nature of emigration. Day by day th... ...less beeches of a faint yellowish grey, and leafless oaks a little ruddier in the hue. Then zones of pine of a solemn green; and, dotted among the pin...

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...ther, and we shall soon see him here.’ ‘There is still an hour before post-time,’ said Mr. Wingfield; ‘shall I send the children home?’ ‘No, poor litt... ...inflict such pain, you, who cannot help being loved. Come away while it is time; come home, and have the merit of self-sacrifice. If your fancy is smi... ... a tremor lest she should have been uncivil. ‘I didn’t mean—I’ve plenty of time. ’Tis only to my home, and they have had one by the early post.’ He sm... ...as to try. She’ll beat every creature hollow, espe- cially in a few years’ time when she’s a little more formed.’ ‘She is very young?’ ‘Sixteen on our... ... the tears started to the black eyelashes, though a smile came at the same time; ‘she said I should be such a giddy young housekeeper, and she would h... ...grand tour!’ said Theodora. ‘Come, prepare to be stifled. Here are all the zones up to the equator,’ and she led the way into the conservatory. Arthur...