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...Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of huge grey bulks moving under the surface. The woods are places where chittering ...

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...though no one has so much as heard of them a bare fifty leagues away. This species of royal family on a small 4 The Deserted Woman scale is distantly...

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...ow her. She is very shy.” 32 An International Episode “Oh, indeed!” said Percy Beaumont. “Extremely shy,” Mrs. Westgate repeated. “But she is a dear ...

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...p activity in an adjacent unexplored galaxy. Imagine our surprise, when a species, known as the Gatoans, contacted us via our probe. Since then, we h... ...ritory. His people had to face facts. They needed help, preferably from a species that knew nothing about them or their feud with the Lupines. The el... ...s people, yet still sufficient enough that an exchange could benefit both species. They also favored the Gatoans in form, except they were furless, ... ...nything like them before. Yes, this alliance would prove fruitful for both species. Satisfied with his choice, he purred contentedly as they made the... ... mistake coming here. Do we really want to be allied with such a secretive species?" "You forget, my son, that we have secrets too. We need the humans... ...ne's life and career. Manroe had always maintained that superiority of the species lay with psionics. And now his theory was bearing fruit. His super... ...l leader. “Thank you for your...understanding in this matter. May our two species continue on this path of friendship and peace.” He turned to Manro... ...at way. It is the way we've always done things. I will admit, I like your species' way of doing things better.” “Yeah, go figure. A little communicat...

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...s. Sure… they were work boots, but that didn’t mean I wanted assorted multi-species fecal matter all over them. They were a killer pair of Rocks I ... ... humans could be turned. We want to coexist with you, not dominate you as a species.” “Good to hear. So, what are you? Aliens? Mutants? Cursed ... ...” I cut the thought off right there. Donatello and I weren’t even the same species. Talking to him was so easy, I’d forgotten that fact. Our fami... ...h. It’s human to want to be loved by someone.” “Yeah, someone from your own species.” I started to walk off, but his hand on my arm stopped me aga... ...gh Kris seemed to be evolving into a human being, he was still a male of the species. Matters of the heart needed a female perspective. It didn’t ...

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...tor's cave. And she had always wondered which god? Probably varied from species to species. I wonder what the Jerboas' god looks like -- a giant ... .... I don't know. There are few rules in such things. Look at us. Inter-species friends. Good love? Luck, maybe? More likely the wisdom to pick... ...tifled her anger. "You might also entertain the idea that fidelity isn't species-specific. Look at your gray herons." "Enough. It's not up t...

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...oximity. And two really very large and almost com- plete specimens of some species of Ammonites unknown to me, from the hills to the east of the Adige... ...ng different, he must now be evolving onward into something sur-human. The species in the fu- ture will be different from the species of the past. So ... ...ignorant of the elementary biological proposi- tion that modification of a species means really a secular change in its average, they jumped to a conc... ... jumped years ago at a very memo- rable British Association meeting—that a species is modi- fied by the sudden appearance of eccentric individuals her... ...ng in history, the departing thing. It depends not upon the advance of the species but upon the uncritical hero-worship of the crowd. You may see the ... ...matic form of a general increase of goodwill and skill and common sense. A species rises not by thrusting up peaks but by the brimming up as a flood d... ...developed to think about the indi- vidual; it thinks reluctantly about the species. It takes refuge from that sort of thing if it possibly can. And so...

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...admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an 10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea organisation formed to inha... ...fell into the sea. 32 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE THIS UNEXPECTED FALL so stunned me that I have no clear re... ...small and lively, and a huge mouth bris- tling with teeth; with many other species. Our imagination was kept at its height, interjections fol- lowed q... ... of fish brought up by the nets. I remarked, among others, some germons, a species of mackerel as large as a tunny, with bluish sides, and striped wit... ...off, he per- ceived several trees, from twenty-five to thirty feet high, a species of palm-tree. At last, at five o’clock in the evening, loaded with ... ...ction proved to me that these birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that, if the island was not inhabited, at least hu... ...t could hardly walk. This bird belonged to the most beautiful of the eight species that are found in Papua and in the neighbouring islands. It was the... ...zen of these interesting marsupians. These animals were small. They were a species of those “kangaroo rabbits” that live ha- bitually in the hollows o... ...ts fins, I recognised the terrible melanopteron of the Indian Seas, of the species of shark so properly called. It was more than twenty-five feet long...

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...n-before-the-mast, the sailor from boyhood up, he, tho’ indeed of the same species as a landsman, is in some respects singularly distinct from him. Th... ...tinued the other, “was the man’s death effected by the halter, or was it a species of euthanasia?” 82 Billy Budd “Euthanasia, Mr. Purser, is somethin...

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...ng the only known habitat of an extremely rare and gorgeous butterfly. The species is even more rare than it is beautiful, which is not saying little.... ...hibious living on the island except croco- diles; so he must belong to the species—eh? But in reality he’s nothing less than un citoyen anarchiste de ... ...Ma- dame de Lionne took her delight in the infinite vari- ety of the human species. All the other eyes in the drawing-room followed the departing offi...

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...couple of anglers comparing a day’s kill. But the fish we angled for were of a metaphysical species, and we angled as often as not in one another’s ba... ...to his own mirth with a tin spoon upon a tin cup, was to meet a little triumph of the human species. Even when his mother and the rest of his family l...

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...re interested in the doings of human- ity than in the affairs of their own species, were particularly active. At the general shop, at the butcher’ s a...

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...ng. Y ou’ll hear the same story. All we have we owe to women. They are the species, sorr. Man is but a dream. He comes and goes. The woman’s soul lead...

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...k. Queenie apparently fattened on the secret detestation of the male human species. “I can’t bear to think that a dumb creature might be ill- treated,...

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...an society ruled by a wise, mysterious king, an all-powerful being of unknown origin who is said to have created the world as a haven for its diverse species of people. Readily accepted and loved by all the people of Arbarron, Miranda is charged by the King with defending her new world against an encroaching darkness that threatens the peace of all who live in it. The Lif...

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...tten in our past.” “We ventured upon your planet a long time ago to study your species. I’m afraid we weren’t as discreet as we thought consider...

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...oxygen, and the life giv­ ing herbs that we need. We have become the endangered species. We have brought ourselves to the brink of extinction, as we...

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...too harshly we must remem- ber what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and ... ... how I figure it out. It isn’t quite according to what a man wants for his species, but it’s about what the facts point to. And that’s the principle I... ...thers we played extremely interesting. Strange mind of man! that, with our species upon the edge of extermination or appalling degradation, with no cl... ...t on smoking the cigars. He was no longer the energetic regenerator of his species I had encountered in the morning. He was still opti- mistic, but it... ...mined after the war, no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found. That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckl...

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...im, not knowing he was an Anarchist, and took up a cultivation of that new species of Bacterium I was telling you of that infest, and I think cause, t... ...ted stamps or coins, or translated Horace, or bound books, or invented new species of dia- toms. But, as it happened, he grew orchids, and had one amb... ...as not identified. It may be a Palaeonophis—or it may not. It may be a new species, or even a new genus. And it was the last that poor Batten ever col... ...ologist, came back again from the interior; though they could not tell the species of the orchid, and had let it wither. And it makes these things mor... ...l… You’ve heard of the Æpyornis?” “Rather. Andrews was telling me of a new species he was working on only a month or so ago. Just before I sailed. The... ...doptera (whatever these may be) by Pawkins, in which he extinguished a new species created by Hapley. Hapley, who was always quarrelsome, replied by a... ...t energy, and had a fine sense of injury in the matter of the extinguished species; while Pawkins was a man of dull presence, prosy of speech, in shap... ...RAIDERS I I I I I UNTIL THE EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generi- cally, on the ... ...rected, and he considered for a time that they might represent a diur- nal species of bat. Then he thought, grotesquely enough, that they might be che...

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...t what fowl we please our hawk shall fly.’ —T . Randolph. BEYOND York that species of convoy, which ranged between protection and supervision, entirel... ...oothed ‘her boy,’ as she termed him, with hopes, but they owed much to the species of authority with which she kept him from forcing himself upon them... ...ish and petulant temper. Sigismund and Eleanor might ride on together in a species of paradise, as having not only won each other’s love, but acted ou...

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...d with an occasional slap on the back, and pointed with a peg in the ribs; a species of vivacious eloquence in which the; old gentle man excelled, an...

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...g at the outset. Rosamund thought of Renee almost with detesta- tion, as a species of sorceress that had dug a trench in her hero’s road, and unhorsed... ...ng short the doctor’s fanatical nonsense. It was perceptible to her that a species of mad metaphor had been wriggling and tearing its passage through ... ...sive? And further, whether it was good, for the country, the race, ay, the species, that they should be so distinctly removed from the thousands who f... ...red, almost as dread- ful in their affection. But an heiress is a distinct species among women; he hungered for the heiress; his elevation to Parlia- ... ...ake, that’s all. I know the kind of man.’ ‘Thank heaven, it’s not a common species in England!’ ‘Common enough to be classed.’ Beauchamp struck throug...

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...n a thousand painted doors glimmering behind rows of trees of the pavement species, leafless, gaunt, seem- ingly dead for ever. That part of the exped...

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...These considerations lead on to the idea of a special devel- opment or sub-species of the English language for elemen- tary teaching and foreign consu...

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...ual emancipation, the General Government will protect slave owners in that species of property during the short time it shall be permitted by the Stat...

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... days”; he stopped to ask if she had been that lustrous blue-wing, a rarer species, prized by youngsters, shoot through the chestnut trees: and they b... ... is hard to seek, as difficult to find as a perfect skeleton of an extinct species. The earl’s breast howled derision of his pursuit when he drew up a...

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..., though they may seem few by comparison with the infinite millions of the species, they are many in- deed, if they be reckoned absolutely for themsel... ...it should certainly appear that there was some use to be derived from this species of knowledge, I forbore to raise superfluous suspicions by avail- i...

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...eights are noo? an’ pianos, an’ millinery, an’ fancy Brazil cargo o’ every species pourin’ into the Grotkau—the Grotkau o’ the Jerusalem firm—and the ...

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...treme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and Grailem looked a prime example of his species; a little over two metres tall with a muscular looking body and handsome round face he could pass at a distance as human on any planet. Closer examination of his eyes would reveal their mechanical nature betraying his...

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...y had been genetically modified to have no arms and legs in the hope of creating a superior brain. The brain, genetically cross-mutated with an alien species of wasp brought an immunity to the diseases that had affected Man. Kept as laboratory experiments initially and suspended in biotic fluid for the first three years, the brains did expand to twice their normal size and...

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...John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior martial abilities, and he is treated with deference by this...

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...nment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new finches were born they were not exposed to any of the building materials common to their specie... ...l have the same drives? Can education change those drives and raise our human natures? Homo sapiens seems to have eliminated a huge number of specie... ...hey experience their adolescent education we expose them, little by little, to the atrocities that humans have perpetrated on others of their specie... ...he most beautiful nest. String, twigs, paper—all the things that girl birdies love. If his nest was sufficiently attractive the females of the specie... ...show his power—were his exploits powered from a self-centered, self-love motivation. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some specie... ...ying mantis bites off the head of its male mate while copulating. The male red back spider is eaten by his mate after their date. Some salmon specie... ...en they have wandered, or have been caught wandering. Is it only the desire to reproduce or the desire for orgasms? ―In our human specie... ...ame instinct. We talk about the pecking order of animals—meaning that there are more powerful animals that lord it over other animals of their specie... ... or Baghdad, in the wars of Europe, in the slums of Brazil, in the wars of religions, in the aggressive tribes of Africa, is the norm for our specie...

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...mance as ‘Les Quatre Fils Aymon,’ acquired in later times a very di- verse species of fame,—that, namely, of being one of the chief strong-holds of th...

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...er license is about thirty dollars, and that only al- lows you to hunt one species, whereas a fishing li- cense allows you to fish for all species. In... ...y deer for one season. Wow! Compared to fifty-five dollars to fish for any species, this seems a little steep. So, as you can see, fishing is a very e...

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...some in- definitely remote period, thousands of years hence; nor is it a new species (in the Darwinian sense) of which we can know nothing, and which ... ...small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth... ...ous. But remain quiet, thou dis- sembling dog! Thou surely knowest thine own species best! Like thyself the state is a dissembling dog; like thee doth... ...th.— Stop this at once! called out Zarathustra, long have thy speech and thy species disgusted me! Why didst thou live so long by the swamp, that thou... ...ued meadows shall he not believe, who knoweth the fickly faint-hearted human species! Could they do otherwise, then would they also will oth- 164 Thu... ...te liveth where the great have small sore-places. What is the highest of all species of being, and what is the lowest? The parasite is the lowest spec... ...st? The parasite is the lowest species; he, how- ever, who is of the highest species feedeth most parasites. For the soul which hath the longest ladde... ...s a valley which all animals avoided, even the beasts of prey, except that a species of ugly, thick, green serpent came here to die when they became o... ...d, proved efficient and established, it be- comes the ruling morality of the species that adopts it and bears them along to victory. All species must ...

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... or chamberlains of H.M. the emperor and king. Already the prefects were a species of vizier. The myrmidons of the great man scoffed at Diard’s preten... ...ving this on one occasion, a general of the empire, a variety of the human species of which no type will presently remain, refused his hand to Diard, ... ...ana’s indifference to her hus- band wore itself away; it even changed to a species of fear. She understood at last how the conduct of a father might l...

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... other, there being nothing more evident than that crea tures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, ... ...being slighted and broken by him, which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of Nature,... ...e and fe male being not barely procreation, but the continua tion of the species, this conjunction betwixt male and female ought to last, even after... ...cke make the conjugal bonds more firm and lasting in a man than the other species of animals, yet it would give one reason to inquire why this compac...

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...ally black, with enormous increase of dan- gers when the originator of our species venturesomely arose from the posture of the ‘quatre pattes’. We con...

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...er enduring the trenches for months without a glimpse of the female of his species, it gave him an entirely innocent but delightful pleasure merely to...

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... corner presented itself to the point of his nail. After indulging in this species of incan- tation for some length of time, T om Cogglesby read the l... ...ed into marriage, and gossips entirely devote themselves to continuing the species. Mr. George was certain that he had not been fighting shy of the fa... ...’ ‘From what I can see,’ remarked Lady Jocelyn, ‘Harry will be lost to his species unless some one quickly relieves him. He’s already half eaten up by...

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... night, Strike on the polish’d brass their trembling light, The glitt’ring species here and there divide, And cast their dubious beams from side to si...

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...verity of the winter against any surprise. John de Werth, a master in this species of warfare, which he had often put in practice against Gustavus Hor...

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...bout him, waiting for their prey; and in a true Sexton’s Calendar, how the species varied with the season of the year. But this was the very poetry of...