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...fe, Lady Cameron, was nearly as tall as her husband and reminded Helen of a haughty, thoroughbred mare, THE CURSE OF KALI 21 particularly when sh... ...azement. As each day passed she realised that her life was changing and that England, that little island off Europe, which she THE CURSE OF KALI 2... ... staunchest friend. ******** The next day the Prince George sailed into the lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled i... ...away from ‘Home’ for many years and seemed so eager to hear all the latest news from that little island ten thousand miles away. In the sacred Hind... ...te painted buildings, beautiful gardens and an artificial lake in the centre of which, on its own island, stood the most magnificent building Helen ... ...moved on to the stables where the groom was attending to Gavin’s chestnut gelding. A pretty, grey mare was munching hay in one of the adjoining boxe... ...ng towards Helen. ‘Who exercises her now?’ asked Helen, her expert eye detecting that the little mare was a bit plump and obviously not as fit as sh... ...horse soon realised that these hands holding her reins would not pull on her mouth and the little mare relaxed and whinnied with the joy of being ou... ... me that you have been riding Sultana to-day. What do you think of her?’ ‘She is a lovely little mare, and from her beautiful head and conformation...

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...ng from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till... ...g Agasthenes, son of Augeas. And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer... ...ilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands. These were led by Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, and with him... ..., Crapathus, and Ca sus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of Kin... ...ed in height. Apollo, of the silver bow, had bred them in Perea—both of them mares, and terrible as Mars in battle. Of the men, Ajax, son of T elamon,... ... Priam, who had come to him from Abydos, where he had charge of his father’s mares. Ulysses, infuriated by the death of his com rade, hit him with hi... ...at live and move under the sun. King Anchises stole the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon’s knowledge, and they bore him six foals. ... ...his strength and flies like the wind to the haunts and feeding ground of the mares—even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming like sunlight... ...us on the shoulder, as he was springing on to his chariot be hind his fleet mares; so he fell to earth from the car, and there was no life left in hi...

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...vian mythologies: that they have been pre- served so well. In that strange island Iceland,—burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of th... ...wift subtle Demon, of the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never ha... ...erficial one,—as of Heathen and Chris- tian, or the like. But all over our Island we are mingled largely with Danes proper,—from the incessant invasio... ...real, marketable, tangibly useful possession. England, be- fore long, this Island of ours, will hold but a small fraction of the English: in America, ... ...ld, lying in dark bondage of soul, paralyzed under a black spectral Night- mare and triple-hatted Chimera, calling itself Father in God, and what not:... ...ustavus-Adolphus contentions onwards to French-Revolution ones! But in our Island there arose a Puri- tanism, which even got itself established as a P...

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...some say knives have edges. It must be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I cannot tell. ... ...ld never wear such heavy Act III, scene vii 44 head pieces. RAMBURES: That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of un... ...Enter GRANDPRE.] GRANDPRE: Why do you stay so long, my lords of France? Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, Ill favoredly become the morni...

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...ut the ludicrous com- bination of the Soldado with the Divinity student of Mareschal-College, is entirely original; and the mixture of talent, selfish... ...ons in the north, who had espoused the Covenant, as, for example, the Earl Mareschal, the great families of Forbes, Leslie, and Irvine, the Grants, an... ... the way of logical ratiocination, whilk I have studied in my youth at the Mareschal-College of Aber- deen, I am ready to prove to ye logice, that my ... ...ighteen years auld, than to carry the learning whilk I had acquired at the Mareschal-College of Aberdeen, my gentle bluid and designation of Drumthwac... ... the regi- ment. Now, my lord, as a true Scottish man, and educated at the Mareschal-College of Aberdeen, I was bound to uphold the mass to be an act ... ...r of the castle afforded a singular scene. The Highlanders, from different islands, glens, and straths, eyed each other at a distance with looks of em... ...t of the Hebridean Archi- pelago. That monarch granted the property of the Island of Lewis, as if it had been an unknown and savage country, to a 97 ... ...ttle there. The enterprise was at first successful, but the natives of the island, MacLeods and MacKenzies, rose on the Lowland adventurers, and put m... ...his way, I would converse with you apart; for men say that in your distant islands the sight is poured forth with more clearness and power than upon u...

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...g Mark and of Sir Marhaus they let ordain that they should fight within an island nigh Sir Marhaus’ ships; and so was Sir Tristram put into a vessel b... ...ardy himself for their right. CHAPTER VI How Sir Tristram arrived into the Island for to furnish the battle with Sir Marhaus. S o to shorten this tale... ...arhaus. S o to shorten this tale, when Sir Tristram was arrived within the island he looked to the farther side, and there he saw at an anchor six shi... ...nd upon thy life, said Sir Tristram to Gouvernail, come thou not nigh this island till that thou see me overcome or slain, or else that I win yonder k... ...ad of you, for ye are he that slew Marhaus the knight, hand for hand in an island, for the truage of Cornwall; also ye overcame Sir Palamides the good... ...r Lamorak, on thy part or on mine, bear thou it an thou wilt, for though a mare’s son hath failed me, now a queen’s son shall not fail thee; and there...

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...r among the Indians. But let me tell my tale my own way, same as his brown mare used to go to Lebanon.’ ‘Then why did he keep her in Davy Jones’s lock... ... laughed. ‘ A seal moves wonderfully in the waters. Do the seal come to my island still?’ Puck shook his head. ‘ All those little islands have been sw...

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...e blanket.” [The ancient Norman family of the Sommervilles came into this island with Will- iam the Conqueror, and established one branch in Gloucest... ... person of the father of our family historian. He “took the sheaf from the mare,” however, as the Ms. expresses it, and agreed to accept of the terms ... ...ir hair to line their nests, before the sun sinks beneath the T reshornish islands.” These words recalled to Elspat’s mind the whole history of the la... ...re had been great, went out Governor of St Lucia in 1828, and died in that island on the 18th of December 1829,—no man more regretted, or perhaps by a...

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...iss Matilda. ‘Hold your tongue, can’t ye? and let me tell her about my new mare— such a splendour, Miss Grey! a fine blood mare—’ ‘Do be quiet, Matild... ...s Grey story first: so I was doomed to hear a long account of her splendid mare, its breeding and pedigree, its paces, its action, its spirit, &c., an... ...u would tell her not to use such shocking words; she will call her horse a mare: it is so inconceivably shocking! and then she uses such dreadful expr... ...en the opportunity of paying while Matilda Murray was riding her matchless mare. He must have heard of the heavy loss I had sustained: he expressed no... ...ea—looking, with their clothing of weeds and moss, like little grass-grown islands—and above all, on the brilliant, sparkling waves. And then, the uns...

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...bluer than we can conceive, with white waves of dazzling surf, breaking on islands fringed with white shells and coral, and with palms, their tops lik... ...ed it. T o their convictions, she was the only legitimate sovereign in the island, a confessor for their beloved Church, a captive princess and beauty... ...popishly inclined, and there is a web of those Romish priests all over the island, whereof this Queen holds the strands in her fingers, captive though... ...ss has delayed, to bring their hosts to avenge my wrongs, and restore this island to the true faith. Then thou, child, wilt be my heiress. We will giv... ... faith, what has she done to thee? Thou art as like her as the foal to the mare.” This exclamation disconcerted the visitors, but luckily for them the...

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...ods till it emptied itself into the sea, with a large arm of which, and an island beyond it, the prospect was closed. On the right of this valley o... ...eclined accepting the offer. “Nay,” added the squire, “sha’t ha the sorrel mare that Sophy rode. She cost me fifty guineas, and comes six years old th... ... imputed the passionate resentment which Jones had ex pressed against the mare, to a different motive from that from which her father had derived it.... ...fox hounds, the Chevalier, and Miss Slouch (for so he called his favourite mare). All fears for Sophia being now removed, Jones became the object of... ... me: and last night I dreamt again, that I rode behind you on a milk white mare, which is a very excellent dream, and betokens much good fortune, whic... ...all were in vain. Partridge relied strongly on his dream of the milk white mare. “Besides, sir,” says he, “I promise you I have as good an inclination...

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...hought. For Sir Marhaus was slain afore by the hands of Sir Tristram in an island; and that was well known at that time in the court of Arthur, for th... ...ade him ready; and there came against him King Marsil, that had in gift an island of Sir Galahalt the haut prince; and this island had the name Pomita... ...Elaine, and twenty ladies, rode unto the Castle of Bliant that stood in an island beclosed in iron, with a fair water deep and large. And when they we... ...honour, for wit ye well, madam, my hurt is but little for the killing of a mare’s son, but the despite grieveth me much more than all my hurt. Truly, ... ...rew his sword, and bade Sir Launcelot: Alight, traitor knight, for if this mare’s son hath failed me, wit thou well a king’s son and a queen’s son sha...

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...said T ressilian, “your drugs will do my horse no harm?” “No more than the mare’s milk; which foaled him,” an- swered the artist, and was proceeding t... ...ed in asserting that I possessed fully the mighty mystery of a farrier, or mareschal, as the French more honourably term us. These dog-hostlers, who, ... ...e was so far advanced, a raft, so disposed as to resemble a small floating island, illuminated by a great va- riety of torches, and surrounded by floa... ...ical guise. The pageant was so well managed that this Lady of the Floating Island, having performed her voyage with much pic- turesque effect, landed ...

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...kes its own away and, roar- ing like the sea, rushes on at will; where the islands, flung into its midst, have pressed it farther from their shores, a... ...ed the ferry-boat, and after a three hours’ sail reached the shores of the island of Khortitz, 32 Gogol where at that time stood the Setch, which so ... ...let the prisoners once be got to the bazaars of Asia Minor, Smyrna, or the island of Crete, and God knows in what places the tufted heads of Zaporozht... ...at and small which empty into the Dnieper, and all the fords and 90 Gogol islands of the Dnieper; they had been in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Turkey; t... ...xcitement. He usually went, first of all, to the stable to see whether his mare was eating her hay; for he had a bay mare with a white star on her for... ...had a bay mare with a white star on her forehead, and a very pretty little mare she was too; then to feed the turkeys and the little pigs with his own... ...carriage and a cart, surrounded by sacks of flour, and whipping up his bay mare with her colt trotting by her side. The aspect of the marketplace is m... ...ressing his aide-de-camp, an active well-made young officer, “have the bay mare brought here. You shall see for yourselves, gentlemen.” At these words... ...ere let out the smoke which he had kept in his mouth till then—”the little mare.” “It is long since your excellency—” puff—puff—puff— ”condescended to...

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...rietors such as we are, to St. Helena; making us a handsome present of the island by way of indemnity! W e are such a restless, unhappy lot, that I do... ...nd so— “‘Jack shall have Jill, Nought shall go ill, The man shall have his mare again; And all shall be well.’” 227 GB Shaw APPENDIX LETTER TO THE AU...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

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...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...go, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just ... ...r forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon the Islands, and the savage Islanders knew nothing of the rest of the world, an... ...carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8 in ships to these Islands, and found that they produced tin and lead; both very useful things... ...d first saw her without her seeing him, he swore she was ‘a great Flanders mare,’ and said he would never marry her. Being obliged to do it now matter...

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...nison himself,) took an annual tour of one month to different parts of the island. In one of these excursions (1670) he visited the Peak in Derbyshire... ...n out of three; Joanna for one man out of three hundred. Happy Lady of the islands and the orient!—she can go astray in her choice only by one half; t... ...e earth. As to Shakspeare, M. Michelet detects in him a most extraordinary mare’s nest. It is this: he does “not recollect to have seen the name of Go... ...to and fro. And as these homes lay dispersed through all the shires of the island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his majesty’s mail, no ... ... saying (in words too celebrated in those days from the false 5 echoes of Marengo)— “ Ah! where- fore have we not time to weep over you?” which was q... ..., and, without a Red revolution, must come to the dust. The Fannies of our island—though this I say with reluctance—are not improving; and the Bath ro... ...e might say that no Englishman out of Bedlam ever thought of looking in an island for the rivers of a continent; nor, consequently, could have thought...

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...NOBARBUS: [Aside] Well, I could reply: If we should serve with horse and mares together, The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear A soldier ... ...ment they lived in: in his livery W alk d crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp d from his pocket. DOLABELLA: ...

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...literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who... ...om our demand as from a sort of miniature treason. How so? Because in this island he had always un- derstood eight horses to be consecrated to royal u... ...g cen- tres of civility, it is not very easy to imagine such a thing in an island no larger than ours. But can any human indul- 31 Thomas de Quincey ... ...th the English suitors, who were not the feeble voluptuaries of the Ionian Islands, that suffered themselves to be butchered as unresistingly as sheep... ...er than another, she resolved to traverse the most attractive parts of the island, and, upon personal inspection, to select a home; not a ready- built... ...to England some Arabian horses, and amongst them a beautiful young Persian mare, called Sumroo, the gentlest of her race. Sumroo it was that he happen...

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...t have botched them more formidably, after all his practice on those night mares they call his “celebrated Hampton Court cartoons.” Raphael was a b... ...o. I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I want... ...een valleys lying spread out below, with streams wind ing through them, and island groves of trees here and there, and huge lonely oaks scattered ab... ...lly and manifesting in every way the deep reverence which the natives of her island, ancient and modern, have A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Co... ...ast was the success of it. Not right off, of course, for the native of those islands does not, as a rule, dissolve upon the early applications of a hu... ...ted, and I got a broom and swept them up. This language is figurative. Those islanders — well, they are slow pay at first, in the matter of return for...