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...r from Camragen, and this I did without the least prejudice from the night air; one night, when lying in the fields near to the Carrick-Miln, I was al... ...aw a loch just before me, and I concluded he designed to throw me there by force; and had he got leave to do so, it might have brought a great reproac... ...en the clean and handsome little city on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by... ... and strong as the people of Edinburgh, because they have not so much pure air, and instead of taking porridge they eat cakes made with sugar and plum... ...ol- ish fellow. Had I known his train, I should not, as I did, have rather forced him into the service. Upon finding the windows in the state they wer... ...Family of Engineers triarchal; and I believe I may say that throughout its ranks he was adored. I have spoken with many who knew him; I was his grands... ..., are always before him. He has to deal with the unpredictable, with those forces (in Smeaton’s phrase) that ‘are subject to no calculation’; and stil... ... that becomes the question. The boats, notwithstanding the thinness of our ranks, left the vessel at half-past five. The rough weather of yesterday ha...

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...ts, curious onlookers and a couple of toy cops—part of the campus security force, gunless but with trusty walkie-talkies at their sides and an abundan... ...ingers to Kelly's neck then sadly shook his head. Amire's wail pierced the air again. Wait a minute, wait a minute. How come he hadn't felt that? And ... ...rby pillar and slid down until he had plopped onto the ground, gasping for air and holding his side as if he had just finished running a marathon. Sev... ...o." He felt the Pull again. No pleasure, no pain. Just pressure to move. A force pulling. Evil? Good? Heaven? Hell? What was the destination, Major To... ...meras, all grim-faced and teary-eyed. The studio anchor's voice filled the air. "There are no leads in the case at this time. The police however do be... ...ing sensations were worlds apart, though. He was immediately struck by the force of emotion—before, after—the picture had been taken. Something ... so... ... breach the magic circle or insinuate himself into the superior mother-son ranks. "I know I told you I didn't regret any of it," Camilla had earlier e...

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...e, and Peter’s weakness from overuse of the Power, works against them. Regan forces her will on Zara, the golden dragon. A harrowing and painful ride ... ... toward the cave’s opening. Thomas smiled, saying nothing. Snarls filled the air, followed by a high-pitched squeal. Then the fairie prince erupted fr... ...face. The flame spread until green fire filled, then danced suspended on the air inside the brazier. Next to the brazier sat a small, squat bowl, its... ...eased her hand. She did not drop her arm, but held it before her until Talix forced it to her side. Dirkk inserted the dagger up to its hilt in the bl... ...ished shriek. A popping, like whole eggs left too long on the fire, made the air vibrate. “What is happening?” Talix cried. “Watch,” Dirkk ordered. Th... ... but not now. More strands separated and wove upward toward her arm. No. She forced them back down. Only one. The baby kicked in Regan’s womb, and the... ...ers. How pathetically easy it had been to complete his training and join the ranks of the Queen’s guard. His face burned at the thought of Dirkk, ex-B...

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... find an entrance into Disneyland to which there where no security guards to force a departure. He searched though his billfold for a calling card. He... ...s in their gross gluttony to have everything before death that the marvel of air rushing into one's lungs or the feel of a spring breeze brushing agai... ... mother and father from the window. He feels the plane move and rise in the air. He shuts his eyes briefly. Then he opens them widely in amazement.... ...aduate school. But he could not take the stagnation that scholarly pursuits forced him to endure and became the animated billiard ball being shot fro... ...m sick to think that he had caused a woman to conceive and then had not been forceful enough with his will to ensure that the child would be born--no,... ...ad sentences with those vocabulary words like "A tall boy hits a ball in the air." "How many people are there?" "There is one person," they would ... ...y who appeared on people's doorsteps at their request counted him within the ranks of teachers. What did he know that he could teach? There was nothin...

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...mily that a curse had been pronounced upon its members, which continued in force in the time of The romancer; a conviction perhaps derived from the re... ... building a house of materials long in use for constructing castles in the air.” More than this, he stated to persons still living that the house of t... ...uilding a house of materi- als long in use for constructing castles in the air. The person- ages of the tale—though they give themselves out to be of ... ...rely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, breth- ren, and wives. Amid the disorder of such v... ... sentimentalities of any kind, however specious. Had he been told of a bad air, it might have moved him somewhat; but he was ready to en- counter an e... ...not merely the father’s eminent position, but the talent and 21 Hawthorne force of character to achieve it: he could, therefore, effect nothing by di... ... excellent a counterfeit of right, that few poor and humble men have moral force enough to question it, even in their secret minds. Such is the case n...

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...ed with blue silk, tied the tassels in a know, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual co... ... family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature... ... board began. “If they knew,” he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he lis tened to the report, “what a guilty little boy their presi... ...e was holding him in check by her composed tone, which he would not have the force to break through, just as it had been at the beginning of the winte... ..., very glad you’ve come,” he said, looking him in the face with a significant air. “Yes, come along,” answered Levin in ecstasy, hearing unceasingly th... ...ve. I’ve been in love, but it’s not that. It’s not my feeling, but a sort of force outside me has taken possession of me. I went away, you see, becaus... ...hrough the gratings. More than twenty carriages had already been drawn up in ranks along the street by the police. A police officer, regardless of the ... ...h nothing to me. And that I’ve enough bodily energy to cut my way into their ranks, and to trample on them or fall—I know that. I’m glad there’s somet...

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... a word of it, ’ said the Duke, becoming extremely red in the face. He was forced to do now that which he had just declared that he had never done in ... ...lady with whom she was not on inviting terms, in order that she might thus force herself on the Duke’s daughter? Mrs Finn had not left her carriage, b... ... Mrs Finn, was not going to put up with so grievous an injury. And she was forced to bear all this alone! There was none with whom she could commu- n... ...to London now and then, as a fish comes up to the surface, for a breath of air. It is impossible that Lord Silverbridge should separate himself from t... ...inisters had gone through their course of baiting with that equanimity and air of superiority which always belongs to a well-trained occu- pant of the... ...ne who would always be welcome there. ’ This he said with a sadly serious air as though wishing that his words should be noted. At the present moment... ...rove of it! How could it be otherwise? Of course you felt that. There are ranks in life in which the first comer that suits a maiden’s eye may be acc... ...ong their countrymen. Our peerage is being continually recruited from the ranks of the people, and hence it gets its strength. ’ ‘Is it so?’ ‘There i... ... would be fired off, one after another, like a rattle of musketry down the ranks, when as nearly as pos- sible the report of each gun is made to follo...

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...ounce our readiness.” As he spoke, he had taken Julie’s arm with a certain air of old acquaintance, and drew her rapidly in the direction of the Place... ...l agape with wonder. Another array of sightseers, as tightly packed as the ranks behind the old noble and his daughter, filled the narrow strip of pav... ...ssed in review, drawn up opposite the Palace in imposing blue columns, ten ranks in depth. Without and beyond in the Place du Carrousel stood several ... ...wayed like the crests of forest-trees before a gale. The mute glitter- ing ranks of veterans were full of bright contrasting colors, thanks to their d... ...ise like Venice out of the waters, and her old cathedral towers soaring in air were blended with the pale fantastic cloud shapes in the sky. Over the ... .... A few straggling locks of black hair, straightened out by the damp night air, enhanced its dead whiteness, and all its life and sparkle seemed to be... ...r tact. Put a strong-willed woman in this wretched situation, and she will force a way out of it for herself by a crime, like Catherine II., whom men ... ...se became aware of the full gravity of the crisis, gradually brought on by force of circumstances. When a husband and wife know each other 41 Balzac ... ...ords could not express the overflow- ing torrent of thoughts which must be forced down into in- ner depths. “Mme. de Serizy is giving a concert on Mon...

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...facture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force ei- ther will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low or... .... Now death is not necessarily a failure of energy on the part of the Life Force. People with no imagination try to make things which will last for ev... ...at happens to suit your fancy you are defeating the experiment of the Life Force. You are assuming that the child does not know its own busi- ness, an... ...nnot endure the same degrees of temperature and the same supplies of fresh air. Even if the main factors of noise, rest- lessness, and inquisitiveness... ...brothers and sisters who quarrel furiously among themselves close up their ranks and make common cause against a brother-in- law or a sister-in-law. A... ...r life. With millions of acres of woods and valleys and hills and wind and air and birds and streams and fishes and all sorts of in- structive and hea... ...d her conscientious ugliness; and a bishop’s wife at fifty has more of the air of a femme galante than an actress had at thirty-five in her grandmothe...

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...y train. He asked himself earnestly what was the nature of the power which forced him to do it—a bad genius or a good: and it seemed to him a sort of ... ... a couple of pale mounted figures beneath no happy light. For this was the air once breathed by Adiante Adister, his elder brother Philip’s love and l... ...brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit from the air and let fly his own in pursuit of her. It has to be stated that the obj... ...e his enthusiasm, he’d be for the first person plural, with his cap in the air,’ said Patrick. ‘I detest enthusiasm. ‘You’re not obliged to adore it t... ...n’t count many millions in Europe, and there’s no shame in sub- mitting to force majeure, if a stand was once made; and we’re mixed up, ’tis true, wel... ...ll she was grieved to think of him as a renegade from his country, and she forced herself to say: ‘Captain O’Donnell talks in that manner.’ ‘Captain C... ...ight. Who said no? But they ‘re not the only ones: and they ‘ll miss their ranks before they can march like our Irish lads. The look of their men in l... ...t won’t do any longer; the military machine requires intelli- gence in all ranks now. Ay, the time for the Celt is dawning: I see it, and I don’t ofte... ...ble to tell how far they mean going for a patriotic song. “For we march in ranks to the laurelled banks, On the bright horizon shining, Though the fie...

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...al setting would be more appropriately described as a lunar surface whose air breathing inhabitants attempt to encourage patches of growth. Walls of... ...s enemies. In between assignments, demons waste time betting on the lower ranks, as they brawl in the sludge pits. Unlike the majority of brothers, ... ... for his own good. Snakelex had made his mark quickly, rising through the ranks by literally stomping on heads to secure his position. It is common k... ...t to see the boss himself, he still felt privileged to be with the higher ranks that literally stabbed each other in the back to gain position. Ther... ...d now closed to this small town and the Almighty had delegated sufficient forces and if the other side hadn’t; then that was their problem. Snakelex... ... type of person one takes an instant liking too. She is a breath of fresh air and would offer you a bed, meal and her husband’s shirt in one breath ... ...t for two. Snakelex sat quietly in the corner, having waited for Darcy to air her agitation. With a snicker, he made a sarcastic comment. “I know wh... ...rly enthusiastic and highly motivated imps on numerous occasions tried to force entry into the forbidden zone. Their reward: locked in Hell’s solita... ...heepishly by and made a nice comment pertaining to the sermon. The Pastor forced a smile and politely acknowledged them, as he always did. Nonethele...

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... a sincere friendship between the two men. “I’m sorry,” Archer added. Kurt forced his questions past the brick of pain clogging his throat. “How? ... ...st he had the perfect horse to ship to Calgary. Chapter Two Crisp air nipped Julie West’s face as she balanced in the saddle and concentr... ...even when the filly shied from the bellowing trainer behind them, and she was forced to scramble away from the horse’s swinging hindquarters. “My h... ...ng Sandra to escort, and I want my money’s worth.” “Sure thing, Bill.” Julie forced an agreeable nod as he boosted her into the saddle and continue... ...sed a beat, then her voice turned serious. “It’s tough to break into the jock ranks. Your mom did but remember the hours. She was so tired...” Sandr... ...g me up on Skipper Jack this Friday.” “Woohoo!” Sandra jabbed her fist in the air but seconds later turned in the saddle, her forehead creased with ... ...pped out from a knot of onlookers. The woman’s high-pitched shriek filled the air, and her bulky purse smacked against her hip with each awkward ste...

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...pleasure of staring at her in class. And it's also a good thing that she was forced with the proverbial two options of doctor or lawyer just like me ... ... This posit a word in which no normal person would know unless they've been forced to — suffer countless hours of after-school SAT classes is the fi... ...Since every day is the same cr@p, why bother watching it? The next day will air more bad news anyway, overshadowing the day before, so there's no po... ...ids have spent countless hours at the piano, like Jordan and me. My parents forced me to play the piano since I was in elementary school, telling me ... ...uds lazing above. It's surprising that I can actually see the sun, with the air so heavily polluted with industrial soot and smog from the deluge of... ... soot and smog from the deluge of cars; that's Asia for you! Who cares about air quality when there are more important things like money, status, and... ...That's why no one cares about us,” Gabriel finishes saying. Your philosophy ranks up there with Kant and Rousseau, I snicker, half-lie and half- “ ” ...

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...and call it the Cannonade of Sandgate—occurred, a shooting between opposed ranks of soldiers, a shooting not very different in spirit—but how differen... ...e spirit of play. To him the idea was broached more fruitfully. We got two forces of toy soldiers, set out a lumpish Encyclopaedic land upon the carpe... ...to play. We arranged to move in alter- nate moves: first one moved all his force and then the other; an infantry-man could move one foot at each move,... ...we found very good sport in supposing that the arrival of three men of one force upon the back line of the opponent’s side of the country was of such ... ...od substitute for the curtain; I have tried it twice for games in the open air where the curtain was not available.) Neither side would, of course, kn... ...fair. I have (as several illustrations show) tried Little Wars in the open air. The toy soldiers stand quite well on closely mown grass, but the long-... ...ntry. To pass a fordable river = one move. To change from fours to two ranks = half a move. To change from two ranks to extension = half a move.... ... will receive double losses if in extended order if charged; and if in two ranks or in fours, will lose at three feet two men for each charging sabre;...

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...d scene? Shalt thou be at this hour from danger free? Perhaps with fearful force some falling Wave Shall wash thee in the wild tempestuous Sea, An... ...his name no son shall bear To shew the man so blest once breath’d the vital air. - 4 - Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vitæ Coleridge: Poems Sonnet to the Au... ...ob forego; Or let full Gratitude now prompt the tear Which erst did Sorrow force to flow. Unkindly cold and tempest shrill In Life’s morn oft the ... ...tandard Belgia’s heroes burn, Tho’ Power’s blood-stain’d streamers fire the air, And wider yet thy influence spread, Nor e’er recline thy weary hea... ...easures cease; Yet Shame forbids return to peace. And stern Necessity will force Still to urge on the desperate course. The drear black paths of V... ...re song, How ælla battled with his country’s foes, And whilst Fancy in the air Paints him many a vision fair His eyes dance rapture and his bosom ... ...in thy garden let me watch their pranks, And see in Dian’s vest between the ranks Of the trim vines, some maid that half believes The vestal fires,...

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...e feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye of the most thoug... ...f his own power in a difficult and rare accomplish- ment for some peculiar force or beauty in the passage. Such was the outline of his literary taste.... ...probrium was heaviest. In reality, there was at this period a collision of forces acting in opposite directions upon the estimation of the stage and s... ...im, Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air, With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty, Walk’d, like contempt, alone.... ... of the silk stockings. But to this the Irishman replies, with a know- ing air, that he is not so green as to have overlooked that; and that, to keep ... ...s to Caliban! What is most ethereal to what is most ani- mal! A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph ... ...y upon its showing itself, by a thousand evidences amongst the very lowest ranks, and in their daily intercourse, and their undress manners. Now in En... ... any ever was is amongst the class here contemplated; he, if any ever has, ranks amongst writers whose works are destined to be forever unpopular, and... ...ssing besides a resident corps of ju- risprudents and of agents in various ranks for managing the interests of the German emperor and other princes, F...

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...n scarcely two hundred years ago. And again chil- dren and savages live in air, breathe air, are saturated with air, die for five minutes’ need of it,... ...nutes’ need of it, and never definitely real- ize there is such a thing as air at all. The vast mass of human expression in act and art and literature... ...ury this realization of the true form of life came with quite overwhelming force, and that was to Schopenhauer, surely at once the most acute and the ... ...nify and embody. In the past man was made, generation after generation, by forces beyond his knowledge and control. Now a certain number of men are co... ...of men are coming to a provisional understanding of some at least of these forces that go to the Making of Man. To some of us there is being given the... ...” is not sufficient. A thoughtless person may say with the most invincible air, “Par- ents should, at any rate, be healthy,” but that alone is only a ... ...ducation easily within the reach of every workman, make promotion from the ranks, in the Army, in the Navy, in all business concerns, practicable and ... ...Navy, for example, and there are those who discourage pro- motion from the ranks—the essential virtue of the demo- cratic state—because men so promote... ...- ous and complete acknowledgment of the principle of pro- motion from the ranks that is the precious birthright of the American, without the politica...

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...g to make of us any constant and solid contex- ture; they choose a general air of a man, and according to that interpret all his actions, of which, if... ... place where I then was, had thrown herself out of a window to avoid being forced by a common soldier who was quartered in the house; she was not kill... ... drunk as the devil, know their post, remember the word, and keep to their ranks: “Nec facilis victoria de madidis, et Blaesis, atque ... ...what is there more frail, more miserable, or more nothing? Wisdom does not force our natural dispositions, “Sudores itaque, et pallorem exsist... ...hild; nature having reserved these light marks of her authority, not to be forced by our reason and the stoic virtue, to teach man his mortality and o... ... are very unwor- thy the French good nature, and also, God be thanked, our air is very well purged of them since this good advice: ’tis enough that th... ...ertain Hyperborean nation where, by reason of the sweet temperature of the air, lives rarely ended 40 Book the Second but by the voluntary surrender ...

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...e—the character is SO like him. “While the Author cannot but feel the full force of the com- pliment thus conveyed to him, he ventures to suggest that... ...ic invade the evening’s silence; and the fumes of choice tobacco scent the air. There, snuff and cigars, and German pipes and flutes, and violins and ... ...ch lay on his desk, and, throwing himself back in his chair, gazed with an air of 15 Charles Dickens abstraction through the dirty window. Some Londo... ...to fortune which the advertisement pointed out, and so undermine all their air-built castles. This timely reminder effectually stopped the conversatio... ...nking, now and then, that it seemed rather hard that so many people of all ranks and stations could earn a livelihood in London, and that he should be... ...n Nicholas during the whole journey, thronged into his mind with redoubled force when he was left alone. His great distance from home and the impossib... ...’ replied the youth, pressing his hands together, as though to control, by force, the nervous wandering of his fingers. ‘Is there—’ ‘Well!’ said Squee...

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...ng,” as a pleasant placid- looking lady entered, dressed in black, with an air of feeble health, but of comely middle age. Birthday greetings, congrat... ...ung brow had changed to quiet pensiveness, but more than ever there was an air of dependence almost beseeching protection, and 12 The Clever Woman of... ...r what heresy Fanny has been learning? Why, the proportion of ozone in the air here has been calculated to be five times that of even Aveton!” “Yes, d... ...ter scramble their way among their poor neighbours, and become used to all ranks; but when it came to witnessing an actual skirmish when she was respo... ...ess be imposed on in this way. Now that the case is clear, the boy must be forced to confession, and severely punished.” Fanny burst into tears. “I am... ...ays.” At which Grace gave way to a small short laugh, though she owned the force of Rachel’s maxim, that to bestow confidence was the way to provoke i... ...r.” “Only little boys have Christian names!” they returned, and Alison was forced to do her best to tame herself and them to the duties of the long da... ...o profess a liking for a huge Irishwoman, whose husband had risen from the ranks; the most tremendous woman I ever saw, except Miss Curtis.” “You know... ...he sofa to the tune of tap and click; but for a young lady in the advanced ranks of civilization to abstain is a mere marvel.” “Surely it is a great w...