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...s. R E F L E C T I O N S A N D T H O U G H T S 411 Once, there were towns and villages populated by large families. In the generations that followed...

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...re in the landscape. All around, cultivated fields, and woods, and smoking villages, and white country roads, diversify the uneven surface of the land...

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...ors, provided "a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings." During the years that have followed its publication, the second edition of Place Names of Hawaii has become a standard reference in the literature of Hawaii....

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...axen-haired dam- sel with rosy lips and a dimple in her right cheek, about villages of his in Kherson, and about the amount of his capital. Nay, he ev... ...rtal complaints were so numerous in the world, and that instances of whole villages perishing through the same could be found on record. Finally, our ... ... side of the turnpike a procession of verst stones, road menders, and grey villages; inns with samovars and peasant women and landlords who came runni... ...of its lower slopes some plaster- like, nebulous patches represent far-off villages which lie too remote for the eye to discern their details. Indeed,... ...buxom were the maid- ens—maidens of a type hard to find in our present-day villages on large estates—that he would stand for hours wondering which of ... ...me the hum of humankind, and the barking of dogs in other and more distant villages; while, over all, the moon was rising, and the darkened country- ...

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... suite, so that it was almost an army that now set out towards Paris, scattering gold, and exciting the liveliest demonstrations 614 Ten Years Later ...

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...bably on a differ- ent island. The road passes through the three storybook villages known as Hell s Gate, Windward Side, and the Bottom, Saba s capita... ... capital. Almost all of Saba s 1,200 inhab- itants live in these beautiful villages. All the houses on the island are white, with red roofs and green ... ... in five square miles of space, there is so much to do. From the storybook villages to the depths of the ocean, Saba lies secretly among the other isl...

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...iting some time and none appearing, he sent his own warriors to attack the villages. They soon reached the first village, which they began to plunder.... ... enraged, ordered the sol- diers to destroy the whole kingdom, plunder the villages, burn the houses and provisions, and slaughter the cattle. “Should...

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...the Aire, Forth issuing on a Summers Morn, to breathe Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight, T...

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...ou could not find a palace like Dryden’s Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, you had villages composed of very pretty houses; and he mentioned particularly The ...

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...- Drake is crowned King of California -- Descriptions of the Indians and their villages 358- 366 CHAPTER XXXIV. A voyage to the East Indies. -- Aband... ... lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used small boats ... ... the natives fleeing at the sight of the white invaders, leaving their burning villages to be plundered at will. Only one cacique offered the slightes... ...ops towards the magnificent capital of the Mexicans. At brief intervals Indian villages were passed, out of which came the wondering population strick... ... the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed. On the w... ...ay that ran along a transparent stream of water and an unbroken line of Indian villages. Fifty miles further brought them to the city of Xalacingo, wh... ...armed some of his soldiers sufficiently to make a foray among the neighboring villages, which he despoiled and burned, taking also 400 prisoners, abo... ...side of their enemies. When night came on, Cortez made another foray among the villages several miles in the surrounding country, and after pillaging ... ...nt in the extreme. There were on every side rivers, orchards, lakes, beautiful villages, highly cultivated fields, splendid villas, and a tropical gro...

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...of Hawaii with a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. The coverage is expanded in the present edition to include about 4,000 entries, including names in Englis...

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...atrols were ordered to merely harass him when he made his weekly treks to the villages. But, as result of his father's refusal, the people in power d... ...overnment, and his own family, his father continued to work in the fields and villages with a deep and abiding commitment to tend to their medical n...

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...nce, there is a jumble of Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian villages always jostling one another and maintaining an intense irri- tatio...

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...er one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity...

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...c, devastated whole countries, destroyed harvests, and re- duced towns and villages to ashes; which opened a grave for many thousand combatants, and f... ... of the archi- episcopal see of that city. All the churches in the cities, villages, and market towns, which they held at the date of the letter, were... ...d to Tilly. The Swedes routed three of his regiments, which were posted in villages at some distance from the main body, carried off half their baggag... ... the town-walls and the intrenchments. The peasantry from the neighbouring villages, and the inhabitants of Nuremberg, assisted the Swedish soldiers s... ...iedrich Schiller diers. The fields around the city were trampled down, the villages lay in ashes, the plundered peasantry lay faint and dying on the h... ...nd set it on fire. A hundred columns of smoke, rising from all the burning villages in the neighbourhood, an- nounced his retreat, and showed the city... ...e, and to complete the miseries of the de- voted country. Ruined churches, villages in ashes, harvests wilfully destroyed, families plundered, and mur... ...f the Croatian General Isolani, moved forward to possess themselves of the villages lying upon the Rippach. Their weak resistance did not impede the a... ...ted the last hope of an afflicted peasantry. Burnt castles, wasted fields, villages in ashes, were to be seen extending far and wide on all sides, whi...

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...eness; This the language of the mother: “Do not go, my son beloved, To the villages of Northland, Nor to Lapland’s frigid borders; Dire misfortune wil... ...Sent abroad thine invitations, Six the hamlets thou hast honored, Nine the villages invited By thy merry wedding callers. Thou hast asked the poor and... ...en. Thus equipped, the mighty hero Slew the people of Untamo, Burned their villages to ashes; 359 The Kalevala Only left the stones and ovens, And th...

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...as sure as if I beheld them. Or to see, as well as fancy, the nine Towns and Villages, that lay round my mountain seat, which, in still weather, were ...

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...assented with a troubled look: “Yes, you had better.” As we passed through villages on our way back we saw mobs of horses assembled on the commons wit...

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...nverts to Islam identified themselves with the Salafists, a sect associated with violence. ―In the Congo anti-government rebels attacked villag... ...eace Corps, that allows our young adults to work in developing countries to help bring them better lives. One of our major programs works with villag... ...ication facilities. We train teachers and do some teaching ourselves. The programs have been so successful that we have a long waiting list of villag... ...en get job offers from us, and some may be invited to citizenship eventually. ―One unexpected ‗bad surprise‘ was that some of our model villag... ...bad surprise‘ was that some of our model villages were attacked by marauders and even renegade government troops. So we have had to defend the villag...