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...ing a demand like a rageing thirst in a shipwreck, in Bligh’s boat, in the tropics. I’m afraid, Com—Captain Beauchamp, sir, there’s no stopping the Pr...

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...g alone among the broad leaves and tall trees of some desert island in the tropics—as he very likely fancied, for the time, they were. ‘Have we far to...

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...an old sailor who had braved the heat of the equator and the storms of the tropics. “I think you hailed me, Mademoiselle Julie?” said he. Penelon had ...

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...ndon spar- rows to this hour, for nothing else, and see the plumage of the tropics in their smoky feathers! When we had our first great quarrel (withi...

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...nd much tenderness of character. He says her nature came straight from the tropics, and must not be judged by sober English rules.’ ‘If you had seen h...

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... climate,’ said T emple. ‘Then I’m nominative hic … I say, sir, I’m in the tropics, Mr. T em … Mr. T empus. Point of honour, not forget a man’s name. ...

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...g alone among the broad leaves and tall trees of some desert island in the tropics—as he very likely fancied, for the time, they were. ‘Have we far to...

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...e the embassy in a leading European capital, a governor-generalship in the tropics, or my humble mission here to make Little Pifflington do its bit, I...

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...een of the deciduous trees. It may be observed, that the houses within the tropics are surrounded by the most beautiful forms of vegetation, because m... ...nivorous beetles, or Carabidae, appear in extremely few numbers within the tropics: this is the more remarkable when compared to the case of the carni... ...e district, and not by the absolute heat. It is well known that within the tropics, the hybernation, or more properly aestivation, of ani- mals is det... ...ck, they make the sam odd mixture of sounds which bull-frogs do within the tropics In Tierra del Fuego, as well as in the Falkland Is- lands, made man... ... mass of the thriving and the fallen reminded me of the forests within the tropics — yet there was a difference: for in these still solitudes, Death, ... .... The vegetable- feeding Chrysomelidae, so eminently characteristic of the Tropics, are here almost entirely absent;* I saw very few flies, butterflie... ... or not it is healthy, that if a person had been told to choose within the tropics a situa- tion appearing favourable for health, very probably he wou... ...hat peculiar one, which may be per- ceived in almost every town within the tropics, was here very strong. The fortress, which withstood Lord Cochrane’... ... by wild bananas, lilaceous plants, and other luxuriant productions of the tropics. The Tahitians, by climbing amongst these ledges, search- ing for f...

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... Then ‘ere’s to the Lodge o’ the Widow, From the Pole to the Tropics it runs — To the Lodge that we tile with the rank an’ the fi... ...d; Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness: The first flush of the tropics in my blood, And at my feet Success! Kipling 174 BRISBANE The n... ...hat we have we gathered With sweat and aching bones: In flame beneath the tropics, In frost upon the floe, And jeopardy of every wind That does bet... ...ild. I was not four and twenty then — Ye wadna judge a child? I’d seen the Tropics first that run — new fruit, new smells, new air — V erses 1889 to ...

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... Then ‘ere’s to the Lodge o’ the Widow, From the Pole to the Tropics it runs — To the Lodge that we tile with the rank an’ the fi...

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... water and air from east to west, such as is likewise observed between the tropics; how the mountains, seas, fountains, and rivers might naturally be ...

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...light, was a matter worthy of attention. This radiance, so apparent in the tropics, and which cannot be mistaken for any meteoric lustre, extends from... ... America, and was holding a course, due south, which would bring me to the tropics. This circumstance did not fail to give me the most heartful satisf... ... by the phosphoric sea-brilliancy to which we had been accus- tomed in the tropics. We observed too, that, although the tem- pest continued to rage wi...

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...er confinement, I may just mention that carnivorous animals, even from the tropics, breed in this country pretty freely under con- finement, with the ... ...ly suffered much extinction; how much no one can say; perhaps formerly the tropics sup- ported as many species as we see at the present day crowded to... ...mate; for Dr. Falconer informs me that it is the damp with the heat of the tropics which is so destructive to perennial plants from a temperate climat... ...at some temperate productions entered and crossed even the lowlands of the tropics at the period when the cold was most intense,—when arc- tic forms h...

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...he that none but a father’s eyes could have recognized her. The sun of the tropics had brought warmer tones into the once pale face, and something of ... ...action for you, unless you care to see South America and the nights of the tropics, and a bit of fighting now and again for the pleasure of helping to...

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...o the grave! Often do I think of seeking for some quiet cell either in the Tropics or in Arctic latitudes, where the changes of the year, and the exte... ...e had tropic blood in her veins, that con- tinually called her away to the tropics. It was all the fault of that ‘blue rejoicing sky,’ of those purple... ...losseum,—that is to say nothing. It is to undertake the measurement of the tropics with the pocket- tape of an upholsterer. Columbus, when he introduc...

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...apting himself to the Arctic circle on the one hand and to the life of the tropics on the other; he had invented the plough and the ship, and subjugat... ..., learn how to overcome the ma- laria that barred our white races from the tropics, and how to draw the sting from a hundred such agents of death. Our...

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...s apart from all others; it derives from Europe by its intellect, from the tropics by the illogical violence of its passions, from the East by the apa...

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...y to increase through immigration. Negroes may continue to increase in the tropics, but are not likely to be a serious menace to the white inhabitants...

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...luxury; but surely one who had borne the hard labour of a seaman under the tropics for all these years could have supported an excursion after goats o...

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...and to another in an open boat, were exposed to the pernicious dews of the tropics, and simultaneously struck down. The dates and places of their deat...

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... in the art, and not knowing how to keep the ecliptic line betwixt the two tropics of the latitude of the sun’s course, strayed out of his way, and ca... ...said the Lord Kissbreech; but to the purpose. There passed betwixt the two tropics the sum of threepence towards the zenith and a halfpenny, forasmuch... ...c people looked upon the Antarctic, scoured the Atlantic Ocean, passed the tropics, pushed through the torrid zone, measured all the zodiac, sported u...

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...; One curse alone was spared—the name of God. _165 ‘Nor where the tropics bound the realms of day With a broad belt of mingling cloud and fla...

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...ice- bergs from the polar basin in seasons when the wind sate fair for the tropics; by which means these wretched annoyers of our peace would soon fin...

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...urning sand-plains of Sahara. At my feet lay crouched a fierce lion of the tropics. Suddenly his wild eyes opened and fell upon me. With a conculsive ...

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...sea; And such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. From that dire deluge, thro’ the wat’ry waste, Such length of ...

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...ose hair was as white as the doctor’s, his face showing the sunburn of the tropics; and the crow’s-feet round his eyes, the sailor’s habit of search- ...

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...n to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some har...

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... he be capable of such filling, 103 Trollope with a flood of romance. The tropics will unfold to him all that vegetation in its greatest richness can...

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...ate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. The islander may ramble all day at will. At night he may sleep on ...

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...ately parted with, proved no wholesome abode, when overcrowded, and in the tropics! Mr. Ernescliffe’s science, resolution, and con- stancy, had saved ... ...ave under the palm tree-one of the many sailors’ graves scattered from the tropics to the poles, and which might be the first seed in a “God’s acre” t...

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...heat to all the habitable parts of the earth, in days all of the same length, without its annual variations to the tropics, as a late ingenious author... ...nifest suspicion attend the relation of that matter of fact. But if the same thing be told to one born between the tropics, who never saw nor heard of...

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...nce of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncom...

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... to this list crowded the steamer most uncomfortably, espe- cially for the tropics in July. In eight days Aspinwall was reached. At that time the stre...

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... that shall be Josephine Empress Buonaparte, for a black Divineress of the Tropics prophesied long since that she should be a Queen and more. Likewise...

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...on vice, as among the northern nations, and all those who live between the tropics, the negroes, for example on the coast of Guinea. When a French reg...