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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...’s door, while Clay got himself out to face the blustery east winds blowing off the Atlantic. He followed Johnelle into the overheated atrium. Shop... ...cause he was engaged to Sammie?” “I guess. I kidded him. ‘Are you saving your virginity for Sammie?’ I knew he wasn’t a virgin, of course. He... ...ts. And you’re wrong. I’ve gotten drunk with people who make Hannah look like the Virgin Mary.” “Think about this, my pretty investigator,” h...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

..., French (see 46). 2. Generic terms forming a part of geographical names : Atlantic Ocean, Dead Sea, Baffin's Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Strait of Gibral... ...ost, the Spirit, Savior, Messiah, Son of man, Christology, the Logos, [the Virgin Mary]; "Put your trust in Him who rules all things;" but: "When G... ...the frozen North and the torrid South as its natural limits, exchanging the virgin ores of Spain for the long-sought spfces of Araby the blest, was ... ...the frozen North and the torrid South as its natural limits, exchanging the virgin ores of Spain for the long-sought spices of Araby the blest, was ... ... FROZEN NORTH AND THE TOKKID SOUTH AS ITS NATURAL LIMITS. EXCHAN- GING THE VIRGIN ORES OF SPAIN FOR THE MNG.SOUGHT SPICES OP xa345678go Am6y thc dl... ... AND I a 3 4 5 6 7 8 g o forrid South as its natural limits, exchanging the virgin 1zgg56g890 $3 c Xoii 8 E k B %oil &&ah SIbb 66i68 1 s d 2ZCZ jii...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...in some parts of the coast of India; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leathe... ...It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twen... ... of justice in these countries, more regular returns might be expected. In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is pre- ferred, as most p... ...rily gives a sort of monopoly to the countries where it is allowed; and as Virginia and Maryland pro- duce the greatest quantity of it, they share lar... ... the peculiar way in which nature produces it. Silver is very seldom found virgin, but, like most other metals, is generally mineralized with some oth... ...ices and opinions of the people, both on this and on the other side of the Atlantic. We on this side the water are afraid lest the multitude of Ameri-... ...a very small part of the world (that part of Europe which is washed by the Atlantic ocean, and the countries which lie round the Bal- tic and Mediterr... ...the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto ex- isted in imagination only....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ction or blame others. A few years ago an attorney, whose practice earned a half million dollars a year, lost over a million at the tables in Atlant... ...ecies?‖ —―The violence I see is so cowardly. Several youths burn or beat a single homeless person to death in Florida. In Illinois or Virgin... ... world, Muhammad or a terrorist was cartooned. One cartoon showed a Muslim in heaven telling the people below that ‗they were running out of virgin... ...e Muslim tradition in some countries that requires fathers and sons to kill a female family member who has dishonored the family by losing her virgin... ...cerned with their time away from work. We think there is a happy medium between vocation and avocation. And we think that on both sides of the Atlant...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

..., and such like jewels, for the furs of the Indian hunter; some to conquer virgin empires; and one stern band to pray. But none of these motives had m... ...ing that it seemed never to have sparkled for any wayfarer but David Swan. Virgin or not, he kissed it with his thirsty lips, and then flung himself a... ...n it. These were Captain Langford, the English officer before mentioned; a Virginian planter, who had come to Massachusetts on some political errand; ... ...the Governor’s sec- retary. “Pour it down the villain’s throat!” cried the Virginian fiercely. “T urn him out of the house!” cried Captain Langford, s... ...terwards, was wont to slay its hundreds and thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. On the occasion of which we speak, it was distinguished by a pecu... ...d, with an ungen- erous bitterness of feeling, that the four gentlemen—the Virginian, the British officer, the young clergyman, and the Governor’s sec... ...ic footsteps of the Asiatic cholera, strid- ing from shore to shore of the Atlantic, and marching like destiny upon cities far remote which flight had...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...between the Orkneys and Shetlands. Soon the schooner encountered the great Atlantic swell; she had to tack against the north wind, and reached the Far... ... is yet spread far and wide near the surface? Such as my eyes behold these virgin stores, such they will be when this world comes to an end. But still... ...so intense that, to satisfy it, we would have dared the waves of the north Atlantic. Hans set about the task which my uncle and I together could not h... ...tle whether it was the plains and mountains that covered our heads, or the Atlantic waves, as long as we were arched over by solid granite. And, besid... ...ve gone eighty-five leagues since we started.! “Therefore we are under mid-Atlantic?” “To be sure we are.” “And perhaps at this very moment there is a... ...heavy atmo- spheric pressure on the surface, you will see it rise like the Atlantic itself.” At the same moment we reached the sand on the shore, and ...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...th my nephew, that I would have victualled them though we had gone away to Virginia, or any other part of the coast of America, to have supplied ourse... ...prevent giving me offence; for I scarce heard him once call on the Blessed Virgin, or mention St. Jago, or his guardian angel, though so common with t... ...th my voyage. From the Brazils we made 137 Daniel Defoe directly over the Atlantic Sea to the Cape of Good Hope, and had a tolerably good voyage, our... ...ore than letting them know the name of Christ, and say some prayers to the Virgin Mary and her Son, in a tongue which they understood not, and to cros...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

... her cloak. There was nothing divine in her save a sweet strange spirit of virginity. A lover in ancient Greece, who offered sacrifice before this fai... ...in the magic mirror, and he said they were a boy not arrived at puberty, a virgin, a black female slave, and a pregnant woman. In order to make sure t... ...name. The superstitious through all the ages have believed in the power of virginity, and the Church has made use of the idea for its own ends. The ma... ...e will be dead entirely. And there will remain only the wanton soul in the virgin body.’ Arthur tried to gather his wits together. He felt it an occa ... ... There was delight in the smell of the sea and in the freedom of the great Atlantic. And then he thought of the green lanes and of the waste places wi... ... deal with the Black Arts are unanimous upon the su preme efficacy of the virginal condition.’ ‘But what is to be done?’ asked Arthur is desperation....

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...friends to exclaim: “How like him that is!” conjured them across the broad Atlantic to behold and clap hands at his lordliness. They saw him distinctl... ...e loved me!” Before hearing of Constantia, she had mused upon liberty as a virgin Goddess—men were out of her thoughts; even the figure of a rescuer, ... ...tely, and still with a bent head, she turned her face to where the load of virginal blossom, whiter than summer-cloud on the sky, showered and drooped... ...loathing, “Marriage!” coming from a girl, rang faintly clear of an ancient virginal aspiration of the sex to escape from their coil, and bespoke a pur... ...id to Miss Dale, and talked through Clara’s apostrophe to the ‘Santissinia Virgine Maria,’ still treating temper as a part of policy, without any effe...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...n- der heart that slipped the piece of gold into Cosette’s sabot, that was virginally troubled at the fluttering of her dress in the spring wind, or p... ...r found his Synthetic Philosophy reverberated from the other shores of the Atlantic in the “barbaric yawp” of Whitman? 64 Robert Louis Stevenson I. W... ...en he was no more than thirteen, his father had him affianced to Isabella, virgin-widow of our Richard II. and daughter of his uncle Charles VI.; and,... ...s, from among all these shouting citizens in scarlet cloaks, and beautiful virgins attired in white, he passed into the silence and soli- tude of a po...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. And we find in his book a vast virgin ignorance of the life and prospects of America; every view partial, ... ..., as to-day the deep-sea fishers meet off the banks in the solitude of the Atlantic; and in the one as in the other case rough habits and fist-law wer... ...t once was me) wading there in butterburrs; and wonder at the instancy and virgin freshness of that memory; and be pricked again, in season and out of... ...Fifteen miles away to seaward, a certain black rock stood environed by the Atlantic rollers, the outpost of the Torran reefs. Here was a tower to be b... ...ender would steam out of the bay. Over fifteen sea-miles of the great blue Atlantic rollers she ploughed her way, trailing at her tail a 56 Robert Lo... ...ached beyond its fences; over the top of the first brae the ground was all virgin, the world all shut out, the face of things unchanged by any of man’...

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