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... viii THE CURSE OF KALI 1 Chapter 1 India-1851 Gavin studied the woman who lay asleep: her blue-black hair spread on the pillow, her long las... ...at your service, Miss Forsythe. Let me escort you and Mrs. Llewellyn to your cabin.’ His bright blue eyes openly reflected his admiration of Helen’... ... would say, so I shall have the pleasure of your company again, ladies,’ said John MacGregor, his blue eyes twinkling, as he once again took Helen’s ... ...foothills of the Himalayas. There in the distance, the stupendous backdrop of the world’s highest mountains stretched, range upon range, towards the... ..., tossing her head to emphasis her words. The travellers made their way carefully down the steep mountainside to the valley below and just before t... ...rned gets into the blood of every visitor. As for Mirapore, my first impression from the mountain ridge overlooking the valley was of a veritable ga... ... of the temple. ‘But must you go on that long journey so soon and I am so afraid the cold of the mountains will be hazardous for you. Why not rest f... ...her divided riding skirt and silk shirt. Suddenly she became aware of a slight movement near the ridge of the fall. Between the foliage she saw the ... ...nded John Lawrence to send troops to the aid of the Delhi Field Force that was pinned down on the ridge facing the city. Lawrence’s Punjabi troops,...

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...ter 1 I remember that morning like it was yesterday. The sky was blue as a robin’s egg and there was a light breeze coming up from sout... ... Me Montana – The Beginning 5 winter were already beginning to stir in the mountains, and there was a chill in the air that went right through yo... ...bserved McVey. “Oh, Isaak should be back shortly. He went hunting over the ridge this morning and I haven’t seen him since. I hope he gets someth... ...mos gently lifted the latch and opened the box. Inside, nestled in a pile of blue velvet, were two of the finest revolvers he’d ever had the pleasu... ...gs could be worse. Since none of them had ever been west of the Pennsylvania mountains, they were most anxious about the life they were entering. M... ... small pine stand that bordered it and over the prairie hills to the distant mountains that made up the spine of the Rockies. And for the first tim... ...he horizon for any kind of reflection or movement. “There he is. Over that ridge to the left. There’s two of ‘em. Must be over five hundred yard... ...the bright side, the rain and mist made good cover for us. We rode under the ridge of a series of small hills. There were lots of ups and downs, bu...

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...e right, we were half an hour outside Hillsboro. Hillsboro is still in the mountains, but it’s the closest town to home. I wished we could stop t... ...ears my junior. I remember you from the fair, maybe four years ago. You won a blue ribbon with that big hog of yours. What brings you out here?” “... ...oing east, the hills would continue to get bigger ‘til they turned into small mountains. After that, the hills would turn into real mountains, and... ...a bad feeling. With Micah’s horse now gasping for air, we crossed the next ridge to see the remains of a giant bonfire. When we got close enough,... ...ed I’d remember. The further west you go from the Bighorn River, the more mountains you run into. Hills, really, but if you keep on heading west...

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...their flight along the crowded, rough, and rugged road toward the eastern mountains, Chinese soldiers died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled ou... ...economy. Those heavy metal plows turned over furrows to create artificial ridges and hollows in even the flattest fields. That drained surplus water... ... as the Gobi Desert. Between the harsh desert and the moderately watered mountains to the north, vast stretches of steppe turn green after summer r... ...cy. CHAPTER 13 This we rhymed in school: Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred-and-ninety-two! This rhyme‘s just as cool: Li... ...e at constant risk of their lives. So they hid in deep forests, dells, and mountains and trekked from town to town, receiving food and shelter from t... ...uch exceptional skills while he was making working models from inventors‘ blueprints that August soon took him on as a co-owner entitled to a share o...

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...as a plea for, well-being from the prayed-to entity. Plants, trees, rocks, mountains, birds, beasts, the water, the cloud, the sky, the darkness, and ... ... unselfish concern for the good of one’s people. The Sioux also spoke of a blue or black road, signifying a life ruled only by the senses and A CHORUS... ...c to the Sioux, was, during the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division... ...nd got his MD from Boston University. Dr Eastman was the physician at Pine Ridge reservation before Walker’s time and there was no contact between the... ...test. The contest erupts into violence and the Evil Twin crashes against a mountainside so hard that his face is rendered permanently lopsided. The Ev... ...e orendas manifested them- selves most awesomely to humans. Certain lakes, mountains, waterfalls, and other locales, including the sacred burial groun... ...essary for survival. Tribal land was within a physical boundary, such as a ridge or watercourse or the extent of habitation by a particular species of...

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...r shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains—for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of t... ...ails aloft. As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward. When... ...here she found the mighty son of Sat urn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges. She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized hi... ...iad – Book V 81 found the son of Saturn sitting all alone on the top most ridges of Olympus. There Juno stayed her horses, and spoke to Jove the so... ... like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep blue waters into fury . What, then is the full tale of those whom Hector ... ...urderous Mars. These stood before the gates like two high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide spreading roots, and year after yea... ...rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, The Iliad – Book XII 18... ...nd man on man; so close were they that the horse hair plumes on the gleaming ridges of their helmets touched each other as they bent their heads. In f...

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... he retire to his rest with satisfaction. Such folks, it seems to me, need mountains for neighbors, to take this emulous conceit of soaring out of the... ...ss, every spring it is like Kossuth’s rising of what he calls the peoples. Mountains, too, a regular camp-meeting of them. For the same reason, the sa... ...gh each successive floor, till, four feet square, it breaks water from the ridge-pole of the roof, like an anvil- headed whale, through the crest of a... ...loft, at my feet. Glancing up, what was my horror to see three savages, in blue jean overalls in the very act of commenc- ing the long-threatened atta...

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...y, and thank God. I want a peg badly.” We retraced our way over the Church Ridge, and I arrived at Dr. Heatherlegh’s house shortly after midnight. His... ...e was cut and bleeding, and the blow of the riding-whip had raised a livid blue wheal on it. I had no self-respect. Just then, Heatherlegh, who must h... ...ave to travel through Afghanistan to get to that country. It’s one mass of mountains and peaks and glaciers, and no Englishman has been through it. Th... ...d our camels couldn’t go along 69 Rudyard Kipling any more because of the mountains. They were tall and black, and coming home I saw them fight like ... ...hem fight like wild goats—there are lots of goats in Kafiristan. And these mountains, they never keep still, no more than the goats. Always fighting t... ...ts’ families how to make aprons of the degrees, but for Dravot’s apron the blue border and marks was made of turquoise lumps on white hide, not cloth.... ...dy, but half a dozen—half a dozen several and separate existences spent on blue water in the morning of the world! Then I walked round the situation. ...

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...t from the city, and the third, Ban Dong, is a small forest village in the mountains skirting the north-eastern parts of the province. In my previous ... ...equently, nothing can be sold at low prices. For example, we must buy dark-blue stone from abroad. It's expensive, as it comes all the way from Canada... ...ith other provinces in the country, it is like a 'rice bowl', separated by mountains from other river valleys, other provinces. Lampang plain is skir... ...ns from other river valleys, other provinces. Lampang plain is skirted by mountains to the north, east and south. The river valley opens out to the s... ...asting plants, market gardens, a large canning factory. The forests on the ridge have been cleared to become sugar cane plantations and orchards. In t... ... soya bean in the dry season. Many of the villagers were involved when the ridge to the east of the village was cleared in the 1980s for sugar cane an... ...pparently also due to the fact that the village is situated on a dry sandy ridge. In Ban Dong, the opinions are divided roughly as B. Questionnaire re... ...der of the 1970s, set off to the fields or forest, his outfit consisted of blue short pants, a blue cotton shirt and a wide-brimmed bamboo 'coolie' ha... ...Geddes, W. R. 1976. Migrants of the Mountains. The Cultural Ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Geertz, Clif...

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...f the river and stream? But it had been made clear, by Governor Stevens and the blue-coated General with shining buttons and gold medals on his coat... ...t, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his night visions he had already seen the outcome. Bu... ...undaries. The Suquamish could not set foot outside those boundaries, or, as the blue-coated General put it, "We will kill your people like hunting d... ...he sounds of crickets and feel the soft dampness in the air. Richard came to a ridge just in time to see his grandfather de­ scend down over the cre... ... time to see his grandfather de­ scend down over the crest. From the edge of the ridge Richard looked down into the valley below. The sight took his ... ...come relief. Born and raised in the cool grey ofPuget Sound with its lush green mountains and friendly people, L.A. felt strange. The people here al... ...AIR swept backwards by the wind as she drove her Mercedes convertible along the ridge of Mulholland Drive to her penthouse condo that over-looked th... ... to store it in stable underground salt formations. Bury it in the Yucca Valley Mountains, and for­ get it. Others said we should send it into outer ... ...star pattern appears very seldom. There is a saying among our people, 'On seven mountains, there are seven lakes, and once every seven years, one tu...

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...-- Splendid equipment of the expedition -- Among the Brazilians -- Lost on the mountains of Terre del Fuego -- Habits of the Fuegans -- An extraordina... ...ards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, islands of the deep, active v... ...have been given of the finding of the hulls of ships and iron anchors upon the mountains of Switzerland, very far from land, though that the sea could... ...ave, so it is not strange that when he gazes from the bow of his ship into the blue waves beneath, the eye of superstition should people the deep with... ...y lakes and rivers, in which were great abundance of swans, cranes, and on the ridges pheasants, partridges and other fowl. Three days' journey north-... ...ch at home in the water as on the land, their brown bodies shining through the blue waves. Catching them was no easy matter. They swam almost as fast ... ...at hand. Merrily the songs of the light-hearted sailors rang out over a sea as blue as their own Mediterranean; cheerfully the petty officers joked wi... ...sides "masht ise in peaces of all sizes," and "a unicorn about nine foot, back ridged, with a small finne thereon, his side purely white and his shape...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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...E AUTUMN OF THE YEAR, Darkness and Night were creep- ing up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of... ...e- times for months together, had been since morning plain and near in the blue sky. And now, when it was dark below, though they seemed solemnly to r... ...d the Chief, ‘is quite restored, and has been greatly interested.’ ‘New to mountains, perhaps?’ said the insinuating traveller. ‘New to—ha—to mountain... ... this way in the winter or can have any possible business this way?’ ‘Holy blue! No; never heard of it.’ ‘So it is, I believe. And as they know the si... ...mense white heaps and masses, to be a region of cloud floating between the blue sky above and the earth far below. Some dark specks in the snow, like ... ...ould answer, ‘we don’t go creeping into people’s rooms on the tops of cold mountains, and sitting perishing in the frost with people, unless we know s... ...nd wonderful, but it was not real; it seemed to her as if those visions of mountains and picturesque countries might melt away at any moment, and the ...

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...HAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BLUE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL .................................... ... I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BLUE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL UE BALL THERE WAS A LARGE, brilliant even... ...wspaper. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. “The blue ball!” she cried in a climax of rapture. “I’ve got the blue ball.” She... ...hours watching the behaviour of the great draught-horses which brought the mountains of boxes and vegetables. Funny half-human crea- tures they seemed... ...eopardised loads: till a thin fellow was persuaded to scramble up the airy mountains of cages, like a monkey. And he actu- ally managed to put them to... ...see away beyond red roofs of a town, and in the further heaven great snowy mountains. “The Alps,” he said in surprise. 149 D. H. Lawrence “Gli Alpi—s... ... or a white silk scarf, passed slowly along the little road just below the ridge. None looked up to see Aaron sitting there alone. From some hid- den ...

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... calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. When, having left his Mountains, to the Towers Of Cockermouth that beauteous River came, 290 Be... ...derer then In the high places, on the lonesome peaks 340 Where’er, among the mountains and the winds, The Mother Bird had built her lodge. Though mean... ...w amain, Shouldering the naked crag; Oh! at that time, While on the perilous ridge I hung alone, 350 With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind... ...nd embark’d. 385 The moon was up, the Lake was shining clear Among the hoary mountains; from the Shore I push’d, and struck the oars and struck again ... ...th his best skill, I fix’d a steady view 400 Upon the top of that same craggy ridge, The bound of the horizon, for behind Was nothing but the stars and... ... gone which once inscribed The threshold, and large golden characters On the blue frosted Signboard had usurp’d The place of the old Lion, in contempt... ...dings and groves, And walked along the fields, the level fields, With heaven’s blue concave reared above my head. 100 And now it was that through such c... ...0 I slowly mounted up a steep ascent Where the road’s wat’ry surface, to the ridge Of that sharp rising, glittered in the moon And seemed before my ey... ...thy of the deeper joy Which waits on distant prospect—cliff or sea, The dark blue vault and universe of stars. 385 Thus did I steal along that silent ...

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...pit, which the Ser- geant regularly occupied on Sundays. There he sat, his blue invalid uniform brushed with the most scrupulous accuracy. T wo medals... ...and to it with sword and pike until they beat off the 40 Sir Walter Scott blue and yellow Swedish brigades, esteemed as stout as any that fought unde... ...ned for the end of their journey. As usual at that period, one or two high-ridged narrow buildings, intersecting and crossing each other, formed the C... ...led, from their houseless state, and their incessantly wandering among the mountains and glens, the Children of the Mist. They are a fierce and hardy ... ... usquebae; let that be their night-gear—their plaids their bed-clothes—the blue sky their canopy, and the heather their couch.—Come a thousand more, a... ...ends,” said he, “Gustavus is not new to the dangers of travelling, and the mountains of Bohemia; and (no disparagement to the beals and corries Mr. An... ..., and of which Sir Miles, who never saw them, confirms the horrors,) these mountains may compete with the vilest roads in Europe. In fact, my horse ha... ...allen in any great quantity . The army no sooner reached the summit of the ridge of hills dividing Argyleshire from the district of Breadalbane, than ... ...nd troops under their command, they kept the southern side of the Grampian ridge, moving along eastward into the county of Angus, resolving from thenc...

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... injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. Well may the court be dim,... ...er, when he was counsel at the bar. Good things have been said about it by blue nosed, bulbous shoed old benchers in select port wine committee after ... ... dexterously vanished. Everybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks;... ...hair and whiskers, his fine shirt frill, his pure white waistcoat, and his blue coat with bright buttons always buttoned. He is ceremonious, stately, ... ...at the garden gate and gone away to the remot est summits of the Himalaya Mountains sooner than I would have presented myself at this unseasonable ho... ...oyal family. He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into mountains and fighting some 239 Bleak House – Dickens body; and a bard wh... ...l and utterly brainless ass!” 246 Bleak House – Dickens Our coming to the ridge of a hill we had been ascending enabled our friend to point out Chesn... ...t it!” The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, ly ing in ridges on his dress. He had to shake it from his face and get his breath be...

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...lls vague room that is the background of so many good por- traits, a great blue-coated figure with a soft voice and rather tired eyes, explaining very... ...over every cat he saw upon the road, I talked to de T essin about this big blue-coated figure of Joffre, which is not so much a figure as a great gene... ...d-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying white puffs, ... ...ear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you need but to ... ... which was Monfalcone, now in Italian hands. Behind Monfalcone ran the red ridge of the Carso, of which the Italians had just captured the east- ern h... ... Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Isonzo which the Austrians still held. The Iso... ...which the Austrians still held. The Isonzo came towards me from out of the mountains, in a great westward curve. Fifteen or sixteen miles away where i...

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... presented itself was “beastly.” And this afternoon, lured by the delusive blueness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had co... ... spring buds were wilted, the sunlight metallic and the shadows mixed with blue-black ink. T o the moralist I know he might have served as a figure of... ..., to be reached only by cheap tickets at Bank Holiday times, was a sterile ridge of very clean roads and red sand pits and pines and gorse and heather... ...reen, the duck-pond, a waiting waggon, the church tower, a sleepy cat, the blue heavens, with the sizzle of the frying audible behind one! The keen sm... ..., and then her eyes lifted to the slanting outhouse roof that went up to a ridge behind the parapet of Mantell and Throbson’s. An expression of incred... ... she said. “Stick to it!” said Mr. Polly, “live and learn,” and got to the ridge and grasped at her arm to pull her after him. “I can’t jump, mind ye,... ... sky a deep purple blue and clear and flat, looking exactly as he had seen mountains painted in pictures. He seemed trans- ported to some strange coun...

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...ng through every crevice of the exquisite open fretwork, was the intensely blue sky of early autumn. The lower longer panes of the window were closed,... ... The evening began to advance, and Christina was very weary, as the purple mountains that she had long watched with a mixture of fear and hope began t... ...ding in a wide tranquil pool as if to rest after its rough course from the mountains. Above rose, like a dark wall, crag upon crag, peak on peak, in p... ...ical observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation. In the mountains, or around the castles, it was usually very different. The electi... ...her appointments. Christina scarcely knew how she conveyed herself and her blue kirtle across the bemired stones to the next and still darker portal, ... ...e smooth water of the Debateable Ford; nay—far, far away beyond retreating ridges of wood and field—she thought she could track a silver line and, gui... ...not know. Let me see,” said Ermentrude, rising; but at the window her pale blue eyes gazed vacantly as if she did not know what she was looking at or ...

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...usly a winged Perseus (or Impro- vised Commune) has dawned out of the void Blue, and cut her loose: but whether now is it she, with her softness and m... ...ad thun- der of the knocker at some door, a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier;... ... was no mercy. Suddenly, however, one of these men steps forward. He had a blue frock coat; he seemed to be about thirty, his stature was above common... ...olled on already, between the pavement-stones which were crushed up into a ridge on each side, an uninter- rupted column of sick-wagons through the To... ... its hand. So many enemies come wending on; penetrating through throats of Mountains, steering over the salt sea; towards all points of our territory;... ...ousel; and new-born children be named Marat; and Lago-de-Como Hawkers bake mountains of stucco into unbeautiful Busts; and David paint his Pic- ture, ... ...’ Lucky, if fortified Lines of Weissembourg, and impassibilities of Vosges Mountains, con- fine it to French Alsace, keep it from submerging the very ... ...All Prisons and Houses of Arrest in French land are getting crowded to the ridge-tile: Forty-four thousand Commit- tees, like as many companies of rea... ...n land. Their one long grave is dug; they stand ranked, by the loose mould-ridge; the younger of them singing the Marseillaise. Jacobin National Guard...