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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ited them to his country retreat - she did not captivate him. He did take her on a cruise, two years later, unaccompanied by her husband. He tried ... ...ring System). It was modified by Louis Pouzin, Glenda Schroeder, and Pat Crisman, Tom van Vleck and Noel Morris at the beginning of 1965 to includ... ... still alive today. The Titanic carried passengers transferred to it from two other cruise liners due to a strike. The radio operator of the "Calif...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...A force pulling. Evil? Good? Heaven? Hell? What was the destination, Major Tom? New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 11 "You'll know what to do w... ... picked her up, thrown her over his shoulder to do a Running Man jig and a Tom-Cruise-in-Risky-Business slide down their hallway. Dagny had giggled th... ...ked her up, thrown her over his shoulder to do a Running Man jig and a Tom-Cruise-in-Risky-Business slide down their hallway. Dagny had giggled the wh... ... a quarter mile from the village and train, Tyler turned down a street and cruised to a stop in front of a two- bay garage round the back and attached...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...leman’ s Adventures and the Whale’ s Biography, Gath- ered on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore Preble.” By Rev. Henry T. Cheever. “If you make the... ...(American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and... ...ves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in th... ...nded noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, on... ...it of the mast, you ascend into it through a little trap-hatch in the bot- tom. On the after side, or side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortabl... ...wrenched the ship from such a fiend- ish man! They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint. He was int... ...e clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phan- tom sails in all imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but Go... ...e; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar. Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did’st lurk... ...s Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar. But this is not all. New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the b...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...rty years ago.” Ibid. Extracts 11 “No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered Tom; “I saw his spout; he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christ... ...ightning! so near! Call all hands!” J. Ross Browne’s Etchings of a Whaling Cruise. 1846. “The Whale ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the ... ...aleman’s Adventures and the Whale’s Biography, as gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore Preble. ” By Rev. Henry T. Cheever. “If you make th... ... (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and... ...ended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, on... ...n battle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of whale cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the en tire watery c... ...t was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand Tom! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity o... ...s Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar. But this is not all. New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the b...

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Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ivesey, with this addition, “T o be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom Redruth or young Hawkins.” Obeying this order, we found, or rather I fo... ...was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the under-... ... a salute. “You didn’t know his name, did you?” “No, sir.” “By the powers, Tom Morgan, it’s as good for you!” ex- claimed the landlord. “If you had be... ...ter speak plain, I believe, even at the risk of offence. I don’t like this cruise; I don’t like the men; and I don’t like my officer. That’s short and... ... that I require an explanation of his words. You don’t, you say, like this cruise. Now, why?” “I was engaged, sir, on what we call sealed orders, to s... ...Tell us what you want.” “Well, gentlemen, are you determined to go on this cruise?” “Like iron,” answered the squire. “Very good,” said the captain. “... ...,” he would add, “all I say is, we’re not home again, and I don’t like the cruise.” The squire, at this, would turn away and march up and down the dec... ...eck that I’m a-speaking, and if one of the wild uns knew it, where’d I be, Tom—now, tell me, where’d I be?” “Silver,” said the other man—and I observe... ...together, his crutch under his arm, his hat upon his head. Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, ...

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Almayer's Folly : A Story of an Eastern River

By: Joseph Conrad

... life had a charm; most were seamen; the acknowledged king of them all was Tom Lingard, he whom the Malays, honest or dishonest, quiet fishermen or de... ... and packing his few belongings, started in the Flash on one of those long cruises when the old seaman was wont to visit almost every island in the ar...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...all—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jones. ‘But he danced from night to morning,’ replied my father, ‘and h... ...hack of dinner to his friends and acquaintances, as is, you know, the cus- tom. Your company will be wished for there, Master Darsie, by more than him... ...ut, ‘Ware hawk! ware hawk! the land-sharks are out from Burgh, and Allonby Tom will lose his cargo if you do not bear a hand.’ Most of my company seem... ...s at further inquiry into the affairs of Redgauntlet, and referring him to Tom Trumbull, alias Turnpenny, for the particulars which he might find it n... ...pal inn of the place, he was readily directed to Mr. Maxwell’s friend, old Tom Trumbull, with whom everybody seemed well acquainted. He endeavoured to... ... out two pieces, I bid Jack keep the rest till I came back, as I was for a cruise about Auld Reekie. The poor devil looked anxiously, but I shook him ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...or three voyages to the Levant until he arrived at the recital of his last cruise, with the death of Captain Leclere, and the receipt of a packet to b... ...el, but this Dantes declined with many thanks, saying he was accustomed to cruise about quite alone, and his principal pleasure consisted in managing ... ... I saw.” “Then tell me, Haidee, do you believe you shall be able to accus- tom yourself to our present mode of life?” “Shall I see you?” Alexandre Du... ...keeps his pockets filled, for the sake of strewing them along the road, as Tom Thumb did his flint stones.” “Perhaps he has discovered some mine,” sai...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...most intensely na- tional. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not more English, “Rob Roy” not more Scotch, than “Don Quixote” ... ...d to come. Sancho followed him on foot, leading by the halter, as his cus- tom was, his ass, his constant comrade in prosperity or adversity; and adva... ...matter to find so many just then, because there were twenty ships out on a cruise and they had taken all the rowers with them; and these would not hav... ... raise the country and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift cruisers in pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any possi... ...nfident that, if we were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel i... ... claimed aloud in a voice of amazement, “Holy Mary be good to me! Isn’t it Tom Cecial, my neighbour and gossip?” “Why, to be sure I am!” returned the ... ...our and gossip?” “Why, to be sure I am!” returned the now unnosed squire; “Tom Cecial I am, gossip and friend Sancho Panza; and I’ll tell you pres- en... ...enough.” Don Quixote helped him to rise, with the assistance of his squire Tom Cecial; from whom Sancho never took his eyes, and to whom he put questi...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...ls of the purest gold, which they put between the pomegranates at the bot- tom of the tunic round about: 24 To wit, a bell of gold, and a pomegranate,... ... have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, fo... ... Israel: 430 Third Book of Kings The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruise of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain ... ...e, and her house: and from that day 16 The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruise of oil was not diminished according to the word of the Lord, which h... ... passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the receipt of cus- tom; and he saith to him: Follow me. And rising up, he followed him. 15 And... ...m: Men, brethren, I, hav- ing done nothing against the people, or the cus- tom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

... of plans to cash in on Noah’s work; especially the 9 concept of harbour cruises. Real Estate was at an all time high around the ark and primitive ... ...essions, making him a little nervous. Philip sat down in the front row as Tom Hancock passed and made his way to the pulpit to begin the worship. To... ...py; the type of child some would like to push down a stairwell for sport. Tom enjoys a good joke and likes to disrupt social gatherings with his sen... ...ood joke and likes to disrupt social gatherings with his sense of humour. Tom’s favourite party joke is to tip a mound of sugar onto a table while b... ...; ignored by those seated, who were preoccupied with watching the Browns. Tom eventually gained a response, having yelled for the third time to turn... ...eral notes and an entire chorus. 34 From the spiritual side of the fence, Tom’s heart was not exactly all for the Lord. His old motto, ‘money talks’...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...hop chop!‘‖ --―Wreck, you think that just because you took one little cruise through space you can tell us what to do. Remember I‘m still the q... ...fferently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congressional seat under a cloud of felo... ... already mentioned the vocally Christian former U.S. Congressional leader Tom Delay, whose actions seemed to be somewhat against the moral code of J... ...ter admitting to soliciting his young male assistants. Strongly religious Tom DeLay resigned his congressional seat amid charges of corruption. But ...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...lored in the shocking thriller by Michael Mann entitled “Collateral”, with Tom Cruise. It is not enough to see it just once to be able to grasp all ... ...d in the shocking thriller by Michael Mann entitled “Collateral”, with Tom Cruise. It is not enough to see it just once to be able to grasp all the ...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...t very little direct information as to the events of this eighteen months’ cruise, although his whaling romance, ‘Moby Dick; or, the Whale,’ probably ... ...hese, there are two that claim particular notice. Porter’s ‘Journal of the Cruise of the U.S. frigate Essex, in the Pacific, during the late War’, is ... ... neglected; the provisions had been doled out in scanty allowance; and her cruises were unreasonably pro- tracted. The captain was the author of the a... ..., as a general case, a ship unlucky in falling in with whales continues to cruise after them until she has barely sufficient provisions remaining to t... ... then with the most praiseworthy intentions intimated that I was known as ‘Tom’. But I could not have made a worse selec- tion; the chief could not ma... ...ief could not master it. ‘Tommo,’ ‘Tomma’, ‘Tommee’, everything but plain ‘Tom’. As he persisted in garnishing the, word with an additional syllable, ... ... just risen to the surface, after being hatched into existence at the bot- tom. Occasionally, the delighted parent reached out her hand towards it, wh... ... simple process: A large vessel of wood, with holes perforated in the bot- tom, is filled with the pounded meat, and exposed to the rays of the sun. A... ...f my suspicions, I proposed to Kory-Kory that, according to our usual cus- tom in the morning, we should take a stroll to the Ti: he positively refuse...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...hip”; of course I said yes; that is, if he would allow me to enter for one cruise, engaging to discharge me, if I so desired, at the next port. In thi... ...and port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employed as a ... ...ne, she might, some dark night, spring a leak and carry us all to the bot- tom. However, she played us no such ugly trick, and there- fore, I wrong Li... ...he next morning, when all supposed that we were fairly embarked for a long cruise, our course was suddenly altered for La Dominica, or Hivarhoo, an is... ...ne, stal- wart fellow, his face all eyes and expression, volunteered for a cruise. All the wages he asked was a red shirt, a pair of trousers, and a h... ...rs comparatively little traversed, lent an interest to this portion of the cruise which I shall never forget. From obvious prudential considerations t... ...et his cap and bells never jingled but to some tune; and while playing the Tom-fool, I more than suspected that he was trying to play the rake. At hom...

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Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks

By: Rudyard Kipling

... good in a boat. North, away yonder-you’ll hear him tune up in a minute is Tom Platt. Man-o’-war’ s man he was on the old Ohio first of our navy , he ... ...hat they shall never bury me In church or cloister gray.” “Double game for Tom Platt. He’ll tell you all about the old Ohio tomorrow . ‘See that blue ... ...brushing into the knot of men with a long board on legs. “Get out o’ here, Tom Platt, an’ leave me fix the tables.” 22 Captains Courageous He jammed ... ...an-o’-war’ s man. “ An’ they did that on the Ohio, too, Danny . See?” said Tom Platt, laughing. “Guess they was swivel-eyed, then, fer it didn’t git h... ...ntly and swung the boat in-man, fish, and all. “One, two, four-nine,” said Tom Platt, counting with a practised eye. “Forty-seven. Penn, you’re it!” D... ... Virgin and a nest of curiously named shoals were the turning-point of the cruise, and that with good luck they would wet the balance of their salt th...

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Edingburgh Picturesque Notes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...here a little river, Esk or Leith or Almond, busily journeying in the bot- tom of its glen; and from almost every point, by a peep of the sea or the h... ...h. These little craft of air are at home in all the world, so long as they cruise in their own element; and, like sailors, ask but food and water from...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...friends; I had learned new interests; the time of my voy- ages had passed like days in fairyland; and I decided to remain. I began to prepare these pa... ... En- glish; and it was in English that the crew of the Janet Nicoll, a set of black boys from different Melanesian islands, com- municated with other ... ... and once raided and mishandled by the crew of an American warship; add the practice of whaling fleets to call at the Marquesas, and carry off a compl... ...ng under our board, became changed in a moment to surprising hues of blue and grey; and in its transparency the coral branched and blossomed, and the ... ...hat incongruous isle, was of unbridled luxury and inesti- mable expense. Here songs were sung, tales told, tricks performed, games played. The Ricks, ... ... throne unoccupied. So nice a Sabbatarian might have found the means to be present; perhaps my doubts revived; and be- fore I got home they were trans... ...es. Tom, the bar-keeper of the Sans Souci, was in conversation with two emissaries from the court. The ‘keen,’ they said, wanted ‘din,’ failing which ... ...ould continue. That pleasure had now sometime ceased; the bout had been pro- longed (it was conceded) unduly; and it now began to be a question how it... ...be a question how it might conclude. Hence Tom’s refusal. Y et that refusal was avowedly only for the moment, and it was avowedly unavailing; the king...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...of providing against the connexion. Suppose her a pretty girl, and seen by Tom or Edmund for the first time seven years hence, and I dare say there wo... ...iformly kind himself; and she had noth- ing worse to endure on the part of Tom than that sort of merriment which a young man of seventeen will always ... ... duly given to some friend to hold till he were old enough for orders. But Tom’s extravagance had, previous to that event, been so great as to render ... ... effect than anything he had yet been able to say or do. “I blush for you, Tom,” said he, in his most dignified manner; “I blush for the expedient whi... ...tage which he is now obliged to forego through the urgency of your debts.” Tom listened with some shame and some sorrow; but escaping as quickly as po... ...he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in from his first cruise. And be- sides, he wanted her so very much to see the Thrush be- for... ...d your orders to-morrow: but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruise to the westward; and Captain Walsh thinks you will certainly have a ...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...at fellow, Mr. Mannering, is the terror of all the excise and custom-house cruisers; they can make nothing of him; he drubs them, or he distances them... ... with an assurance, that, should he meet Mr. Dirk Hatteraick in any future cruise, he would not fall to bring him into port under his stern, to answer... ... refreshment. The alehouse, for it was no better, was situated in the bot- tom of a little dell, through which trilled a small rivulet. It was shaded ... ...in dryly, “be- cause you would probably find a dozen red-coats at the Cus- tom-house, whom it must be my business, if we agree about this matter, to h... ... in case of necessity. In drawing the plans, etc., Glossin was in the cus- tom of relying upon his own skill. Bertram’s back was to- wards them as the... ... in the novel. An old English proverb says, that more know T orn Fool than Tom Fool knows; and the influence of the adage seems to extend to works com...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

... of uncertainty whether, on the whole, it was judicious to button the bot- tom button of his waistcoat, and whether, on a calm revision of all the cir... ... persuasively , ‘but Miss Florence can’t well be the worse for any change, Tom.’ Mr T owlinson’ s rejoinder, pregnant with frightful meaning, is ‘Oh, ... ... and forks, and plates, might have been taken for a grown-up exposition of Tom Tiddler’s ground, where chil- dren pick up gold and silver.’ Mr Dombey ... ...ng able to make up his mind how to begin, that in the course of the day he cruised completely round the parlour in that frail bark, and more than once... ...louded again. ‘Captain Gills,’ said that gentleman, stopping near the bot- tom of the stairs, and turning round, ‘to tell you the truth, I 705 Charle... ...nterest in my wanderings; and that I began to think it would be my fate to cruise about in search of tidings of my boy, until I died.’ ‘Began to think...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

...th strips of thin paper. Some were in small fragments, the oth- ers merely tom in half. Though there were not many, thus spread out they nearly covere... ...e below the message: “Sailing unexpectedly tomorrow. Will you join us on a cruise in Mediterranean?” BOOK II IT CAME VIVIDLY TO SELDEN on the Casino s... ...ew scenes, and had found in them a renewal of old hopes and ambitions. The cruise itself charmed her as a romantic adventure. She was vaguely touched ... ... appear anxious: a young woman placed, in the close intimacy of a yachting-cruise, between a couple on the verge of disaster, could hardly, aside from... ...evenings at bridge. And he was horribly in debt when he came back from the cruise— I can’t see why he should have spent so much more money under Berth... ...feeling, made it as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant tom from its bed. Selden had given her of his best; but he was as incapable...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

... we have got as far as eight without any effect at all. I’ll write another tom morrow morning. I mean to blot it a good deal and shake some water over... ... of you boys, carry that show into the barn. Make haste in out of the wet, Tom; when it came on to rain I told ‘em to make the fire up, and there’s a ... ...tingly at the unconscious Short, muttered, as he laid himself down again, ‘Tom Codlin’s the friend, by G—!’ As the morning wore on, the tents assumed ... ...f he had been about to penetrate into the interior of Africa, or to take a cruise round the world. It would be difficult to suppose that there ever wa... ...d, she gained the door. There was the dreadful shadow, pausing at the bot tom of the steps. She could not pass it; she might have done so, per haps,... ...d in all the staying at home. In town or country, wet or dry, hot or cold, Tom Codlin suffers. But Tom Codlin isn’t to complain for all that. Oh, no! ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...as online annotation, page printing for free, and bibliography generator. Tom Panelas is the Director of Corporate Communications of the Encyclopaedi... ...omehow associated with the Wikimedia's grants commission. Interview with Tom Panelas - Encyclopedia Britannica (September 2006) Tom Panelas is the ... ...and wisdom accumulated over centuries all over the world. Interview with Tom Panelas (Britannica) January, 2005 Q: Would you agree that the Britan... ...nto existence, just as the sales of the first million selling book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, were largely due to pirated editions. Anyone who says the pub... ...tory doesn't include piracy, just isn't looking. Pirated editions of Uncle Tom did the same for the publishing industry as Napster did for the music... ...arpet by a local University of Illinois Chancellor who happened to be Tom Cruise's uncle, and so worth the visit. By the way, this fellow was so Lu... ... Capital, design, engineering, and labor intensive goods - computer chips, cruise missiles, and passenger cars - will still necessitate the coordinat...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...n a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland --... ...aintained by Drake -- Dangers in the South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary Moors -- Capture of a Spanish vessel... ...stition that this substance was the petrified tears of sorrowing sea-birds, as Tom Moore relates in his Lalla Rookh; and again, as the tear drops shed... ...n in great stores aboard the vessel, thus preparing the expedition for another cruise. Going on shore and exploring the country a short distance, the ... ...h of her cold hand. She died that day and hour, and during a storm on his next cruise, again the spectre appeared, passing over the side and beckoning... ...r had deserted his sweetheart who died of grief. During the course of the next cruise, he told his companions that Jenny would come for him, because h... ...ve trade in the farther east to extend their journey to Bokhara, celebrated in Tom Moore's Lalla Rookh, and from thence they were induced to visit Kub...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...laces to study routine innovation are the design studio and the financial markets. Tom Kelly, brother of founder David Kelly, studies, in "The Art ... ...t innovation - technological and financial - is an inseparable part of competition. Tom Peters put it succinctly in "The Circle of Innovation" when... ...tomers. Capital, design, engineering, and labor intensive goods - computer chips, cruise missiles, and passenger cars - will still necessitate the...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ve I was free...wild...bold...headstrong...long ago. Yes, I would like to cruise into deep blue water and stare down, then to the sponge shallows an... ...ster tells me. Our bedroom window was broken in the storm last week, but Tom has put in new glass, and leaded and puttied it nicely. It was the win... ...hat we had a couple of them at home. She said she wrote a lot of her Uncle Tom in front of her fireplace; then she asked me friendly questions about ... ...n Brown, as the hangman hung him. He was no black Christ: no gentle Uncle Tom; yet, he is becoming a black Christ as we continue this civil war, as ... ... casualties. We will need black Christs if we are to free the negro. Uncle Tom’s Cabin must add space—room by room, year by year. All the powers of ...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ust old enough to listen. I remembered all about Sir Kenneth and Roswal.’ ‘Tom Sefton’s not stupid!’ said Dolores, in wrath; ‘but— but the book is stu... ...ng so to Cousin Rotherwood.’ He said, ‘Maurice is not a fellow to resist a cruise.’ ‘Then they are thinking about it. They are anxious.’ ‘Not very,’ s... ...xious.’ ‘Not very,’ said Mysie, ‘for they think he is sure to be gone on a cruise. They said something about his going down like a carpenter into the ... ... posal had been made to him to spend the intermediate time in a scientific cruise among the Polynesian Islands; but the letters he had found awaiting ...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... surely he never could be so indiscreet as to be sailing about on a roving cruise in search of some chance person to murder? Oh, no: he had suited him...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...n old acquaintance of mine on the skirts of Fontainebleau) to complete our cruise next spring (if we’re all alive and jolly) by Loing and Loire, Saone... ... the catamaran is on her legs again; you have my warmest wishes for a good cruise down the Saone; and yet there comes some envy to that wish, for when... ...ian Road, or dear mysterious Leith Walk! But here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling; here in this strange place, whose very strangeness would have ... ...ome properly alive. XV . Building of the ship – storing her – Navigation – Tom’s accident, the other child paying no attention. XXXI. THE WIND. – I se... ...our book; also a bad article by me. Lang dotes on Treasure Island: ‘Except Tom sawyer and the Odyssey,’ he writes, ‘I never liked any romance so much.... ...down beside the Ten Com- mandments. Till then, here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowl- ing, with neither health nor vice for anything more spirited than... ...ighingly admit you to be right. And yet, when I see, as it were, a book of Tom Jones handled with your exquisite precision and shot through with those...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...do—new glasses—thought it was Gordon—d—d good-for- nothing salt water Long Tom.” After this narrow escape we proceeded with greater cau- tion, and arr... ...tself, and equipping it at some of the W est India Islands for a piratical cruise. The latter division, however, which was the stronger, and included ... ...vessel in which he sailed, and was invested with discre- tionary powers to cruise in the South Seas for any cargo which might come most readily to han... ...ht of him we proceeded (Peters and myself being in the mate’s boat) on our cruise around the coast, looking for seal. In this business we were occupie... ...he eighteenth we found ourselves about the station indicated by Glass, and cruised for three days in that neighborhood without finding any traces of t... ...ing, and, with some little further aid from my companion, reached the bot- tom also in safety. We now found ourselves not far from the ravine which ha...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...d those of the present day. Upon reaching the hut I rapped, as was my cus- tom, and getting no reply, sought for the key where I knew it was secreted,... ...the blow of a hammer, which had partially imbedded, in the top of the bot- tom sash, the head portion of the nail. I now carefully replaced this head ... ...nd supposed elopement, is a few months more than the general period of the cruises of our men- of-war. Had the lover been interrupted in his first vil...

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Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...n drudgery of slaves about his house; and when he came home again from his cruise, he ordered me to lie in the cabin to look after the ship. Here I me... ...I felled this tree; I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bot- tom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and the vast spread... ...now I thought no more of it. As I had a boat, my next design was to make a cruise round the island; for as I had been on the other side in one place, ... ...g eager to view the circumference of my little kingdom, I resolved upon my cruise; and accord- ingly I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in t... ...ling to ca- pitulate. So he calls out as loud as he could to one of them, “Tom Smith! Tom Smith!” Tom Smith answered immedi- ately , “Is that Robinson... ...r it seems he knew the voice. The other answered, “Ay, ay; for God’s sake, Tom Smith, throw down your arms and yield, or you are all dead men this mo-...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ngth of mind to run the risk, with the earnest co-opera- tion of Professor Tom May, of a removal to Brompton, where he immediately began to mend, so t... ...tars” in Allen’s troupe, where Edgar Underwood, or, as he was there known, Tom Wood, had unfortunately joined them; and the sequel was known to Lancel... ...tenance on hearing that her son had accepted Sir Ferdinand’s invitation to cruise to-morrow in the yacht. Vainly was Ivinghoe reminded of the agricult...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...old me, that many years ago he took his gun one afternoon and went out for a cruise in Walden Wood; and as he walked the Wayland road he heard the cry... ... you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had any th...

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Against the War : A Novel of the Vietnam War Era

By: Roland Menge

.... Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war 40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals 41. Morris, coached by Tom Pitt, overcomes a crisis of self-doubt 42. Steward charges into community work with an ideal of service 43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented 44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in Tenn...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

........................................................................... 8 Tom Hoburn “Snow Storm Baby” ................................................. ...ittle heart out. Easing from the fast lane, she can relax and enjoy a mini-cruise to the photogenic Island of the Blue Lagoon where the movie Blue Lag... ... my face explained everything words could not. Best of Freshman Writing 9 Tom Hoburn New Kensington – English 4 Snow Storm Baby THE YEAR WAS 1992; a ...

............................................. 7 Kimberly Ann Jones ?Nerves?........................................................................... 8 Tom Hoburn ?Snow Storm Baby? ................................................................... 9 Andrew Michael ?How To Get Completely Lost? .......................................... 11 Chris Hanney ?The War of the Stars? ...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...or is dismissed with a sailor’s rude eulogy—‘‘Well, poor George is gone! His cruise is up soon! He knew his work, and did his duty, and was a good sh... ...own. - 30 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana ‘‘Stand by!’’ said Tom, ‘‘you haven’t seen the worst of it yet.’’ In the midst of this conv... ...e welcome to. Every man who has been three months at sea knows how to ‘‘work Tom Cox’s traverse’’—‘‘three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the... ... to know his voice, and to do a number of strange tricks for his amusement. Tom Cringle says that no one can fathom a negro’s affection for a pig; a... ...me are called after the vessel they are in; others by common names, as Jack, Tom, Bill; and some have fancy names, as Ban yan, Fore top, Rope yarn, Pe... ...sionary at Oahu; another, Hope, after a vessel that he had been in; a third, Tom Davis, the name of his first captain; and the fourth, Pelican, from h... ...y of his coming ashore at New York, from the Constellation frigate, after a cruise of four years round the Horn,—being paid off with over five hundre... ...n the eve of a battle half the voyage, were laying out a plan together for a cruise on shore. When the mate came forward, he talked to the men, and sa... ...ds in 1860, a man was introduced to me as having commanded the Alert on two cruises, and his friends told me that he was as proud of it as if he had ...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...THE SCHOLARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 TOM O’ROUGHLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 SH... ... . . . 275 XXI THE DANCER AT CRUACHAN AND CRO PATRICK . . . . . . 276 XXII TOM THE LUNATIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 XXIII TOM... ...I TOM AT CRUACHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 XXIV OLD TOM AGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 XXV THE DELPH... ...y Did their Catullus walk that way? 138 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TOM O’ROUGHLEY ‘THOUGH logic choppers rule the town, And every man and maid... ...Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy,’ Or so did Tom O’Roughley say That saw the surges running by. ‘And wisdom is a butterfl... ...weeks. Second Sailor. And I had thought to make A good round Sum upon this cruise, and turn — For I am getting on in life — to something That has less...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...stic missile technology. 97 NORAD perceived the dominant threat to be from cruise missiles. Other threats were identified during the late 1990s, inclu... ...the lead pilot explained,“I reverted to the Russian threat....I’m thinking cruise missile threat from the sea.Y ou know you look down and see the Pent... ...BI agents emphasized to us, the FBI and the Justice Department do not have cruise missiles.They declare war by indict- ing someone.They took on the le... ...ates. 37 Debate about what to do settled very soon on one option:T omahawk cruise missiles. Months earlier, after cancellation of the covert capture o... ...fting.” 45 Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise mis- siles.Though most of them hit their intended targets, neither B... ... Bush announced the new post and its first occupant— Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge—in his address to a joint session of Con- gress on September 20. ... ... and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. But he attributed his awareness more to Tom Clancy novels than to warnings from the intelligence community. He did ... ... For the 2001 Positive Force 01 exercise, see DOD briefing (Apr. 29, 2004);Tom Cecil and Mark Postgate interview (June 7, 2004). 23. For the Gates rep...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...of the lamp and oil man) when he sailed north about Scotland on the famous cruise that gave us the pirate and the Lord of the Isles; I was with him, t... ...ble art) owes its success to the same technical manoeuvres as (let us say) Tom Jones: the clear conception of certain characters of man, the choice an...

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