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...Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is ...

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... of seconds, a set of double doors off the foyer burst opened and a statuesque blond in a blue robe rushed toward the Senator. She grabbed onto him s... ...d; she was absolutely stunning as she seemed to glide across the room in a gossamer-like, blue flowing dress. She looked like a version of Scarlet O... ...t you would come.” Susan snapped on a switch next to the fireplace, which instantly lit a blue flame beneath an iron grate with an enormous pile of ... ...h salt air that was floating in from Santa Monica Bay. The sun filtered sunlight over the mountains and through the early morning smog that blanketed... ...y in the tree line. When you begin to fire shoot at what you can see, if not shoot at the ridge, it will send the enemy back toward Georgi’s team. On... ...is night goggles he saw the enemy spread out, only their heads and rifles peered over the ridge. Brand flattened into a prone position and started f... ...e. Brand flattened into a prone position and started firing his automatic rifle along the ridge; the rest of his men did the same. Dirt kicked up al...

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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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...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. ...

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...e AS I SIT DOWN to write here amidst the shadows of vine- leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astoni... ...loriously tinted group of trees. Remoter rose the Wealden Hills, faint and blue, while to the left the hazy marsh spread out spacious and serene. And ... ...w not whither. It chanced to be a glorious morn- ing: a warm wind and deep blue sky, the first green of spring abroad, and multitudes of birds singing... ... land- scape, those spacious ringlike ranges vaster than any terres- trial mountains, their summits shining in the day, their shad- ows harsh and deep... ...n the day, their shad- ows harsh and deep, the gray disordered plains, the ridges, hills, and craterlets, all passing at last from a blazing illumi- n... ...s and experimen- tal as a cockney would do placed for the first time among mountains and I do not think it occurred to either of us, face to face thou... ...s a verte- brated animal’s would be. Along the crest of the head was a low ridge of whitish spines running from back to front, and a much larger ridge... ...er 15 The G The G The G The G The Giddy B iddy B iddy B iddy B iddy Bridge ridge ridge ridge ridge JUST FOR A MOMENT that hostile pause endured. I sup...

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...re and there among the groups, where they shone like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of these last, and their red or yellow waistcoats, ador... ... had most pretension to their dress wore swallow-tail coats or surtouts of blue or green cloth, more or less defaced. These last, evidently characters... ...inhabitants of the west of France called all the soldiers of the Republic “Blues.” This nickname came originally from their blue and red uniforms, the... ...emarkable for the fertility of its soil as for the variety of its aspects. Mountains of gneiss and slate rose on all sides, like an ampitheatre, hidin... ... it seemed, on the contrary, a dais of silk, held up by the summits of the mountains and placed in the atmosphere, to protect that beautiful assemblag... ...from the detachment to the steep acclivities on the right of the road, the ridges of which were covered with the broom and gorse of Brittany; then he ... ...es is partly built upon a slate rock, which seems to have slipped from the mountains that hem in the broad valley of Couesnon to the west and take var...

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...den footway, bridging one marish spot after another. Here and there, as we ascended, we passed a house embowered in white roses. More of the bay becam... ...rom the city of the Golden Gates, already, at that hour, beginning to awake among the sand-hills. It called to us over the waters as with the voice of... ... to its topmost pinnacle with the heat and brightness of the day; or whether it set itself to weaving vapours, wisp after wisp growing, trem- bling, f... ... fancy, down he sat to make a new life of it, far from crimps and the salt sea. And the very sight of his ranche had done him good. It was “the handso... ...ny – or, rather, the niece came only once in the two days, teaching music the meanwhile in the valley. And then, for a last piece of luck, “the handso... ...ysteries of the human heart, this is perhaps the most inscrutable. There is no special loveliness in that gray country, with its rainy, sea-beat archi... ...road; and even before us leaves were thickly strewn, and boughs had fallen, large enough to make the passage difficult. But now we were hard by the su... ...gan early in our cleft. Before us, over the margin of the dump, we could see the sun still striking aslant into the wooded nick below, and on the batt... ... was still in calm air, I could see the trees tossing below me, and their long, strident sighing mounted to me where I stood. Half an hour later, the ...

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...e who is called the Portier (who is not the Porter, but is a sort of first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-and-sp... ...arp curve to the right and disappears. This gorge— along whose bottom pours the swift Neckar—is confined between (or cloven through) a couple of long,... ..., a thousand feet high and densely wooded clear to their sum- mits, with the exception of one section which has been shaved and put under cultivation.... ... with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. The building seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the ... ...ld, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woo... ... are so conscious of their talent, and they enjoy “showing off.” Baker said, that after long and careful observation, he had come to the conclusion th... ...careful observation, he had come to the conclusion that the bluejays were the best talkers he had found among birds and beasts. Said he: “There’s mor... ... summer morning it was, and how the flowers did pour out their fragrance, and how the birds did sing! It was just the time for a tramp through the woo... ...stance, down the river. Then the clustered brown towers perched on the green hilltop, and the old battlemented stone wall, stretching up and over the ...

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...s so serenely pure, that you saw them in magnificent airy perspective; the blue sky around and over them, and other more distant orbs sparkling above,... ... respectful voice. This, too, was a novel and touching sight to me. Peaked ridges of purple mountains rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre and the... .... This, too, was a novel and touching sight to me. Peaked ridges of purple mountains rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre and the coast of Galicia... ...- 7 Thackeray land into Vigo Bay, passing a grim and tall island of rocky mountains which lies in the centre of the bay. Whether it is that the sight... ...t brighter and brighter as the superior luminary retired behind the purple mountains of the headland to rest. Before the general background of waving ... ...ard of Spain floating on its own ground, under the guardianship of a light blue sentinel, whose musket glittered in the sun. Numerous boats were seen,... ...party could not perceive a single good-looking specimen all day. The noble blue Tagus accompanies you all along these three miles of busy pleasant str... ...y were driven to water or pasture. We saw a gloomy, not very lofty-looking ridge of hills in front of us; the highest of which the guide pointing out ... ...ough 102 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo path, have level ridges all the way up to their summits; on these parallel ledges there is s...

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...s castled steep, And T weed’s fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot’s mountains lone; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates wh... ...eld: The golden legend bore aright, “Who checks at me, to death is dight.” Blue was the charger’s broidered rein; Blue ribbons decked his arching mane... ...bons decked his arching mane; The knightly housing’s ample fold Was velvet blue, and trapped with gold. VII. Behind him rode two gallant squires, Of n... ...bore; Like swallow’s tail, in shape and hue, Fluttered the streamer glossy blue, Where, blazoned sable, as before, The towering falcon seemed to soar.... ... now—for now are still Thy bowers, untenanted Bowhill! No longer, from thy mountains dun, The yeoman hears the well-known gun, And while his honest he... ...en, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake’s crystal edge; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink; And just a trace of silver san... ... And not a history. At length they heard the Scottish host On that high ridge had made their post Which frowns o’er Milfield Plain, And that bra... ...avilions made a show, Like remnants of the winter snow, Along the dusky ridge. Long Marmion looked: at length his eye Unusual movement might descr... ...versed on the plain below. 180 Marmion XIX. Even so it was. From Flodden ridge The Scots beheld the English host Leave Barmore Wood, their eve...

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...a matter of many weeks now—diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purpl... ...ives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purple waters that drowned Shelley—since I began a laboured and fu... ...d set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and cloud-like baseless mountains hanging in the sky, and I think of ... ...ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and cloud-like baseless mountains hanging in the sky, and I think of lank and coaly steamships heav... ...and beyond that, pampas grass, yellow and crimson spikes of hollyhock, and blue suggestions of wonderland.) From the pool at the foot of this initial ... ...ed along on either side, crouching and gathering behind hedges, crest- ing ridges, occupying copses, rushing open spaces, fighting from house to house... ...sly and I had formed a very good working idea of this round globe with its mountains and wildernesses and forests and all the sorts and conditions of ...

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...still mysterious between the deep waters of two oceans. I OUT OF THE LEVEL BLUE of a shallow sea Carimata raises a lofty barrenness of grey and yellow... ...ated by a narrow strip of water, Suroeton, to the west, shows a curved and ridged outline resembling the backbone of a stooping giant. And to the east... ...eas. He wore a grey flannel shirt, and his white trou- sers were held by a blue silk scarf wound tightly round his narrow waist. He had come up only f... ...t very plain: “Strike on the gunwale. Strike hard, John!” and sud- denly a blue light blazed out, illuminating with a livid flame a round patch in the... ...he lightning played between her masts which were as high as the summits of mountains; a star burned low through the clouds above her. We knew it for a... ...sight of the owner’s wife, walked straight to the lamp that hung under the ridge pole of the awning, and after fumbling with it for a time went away f... ...ales; loaded with Lingard’s heavy frame she would climb sturdily the steep ridges, slide squat- ting into the hollows of the sea, or, now and then, ta...

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...ut of a stiff brush. He grunted; he dragged his thick legs, in faded baby- blue pajamas, from under the khaki blanket; he sat on the edge of the cot, ... ...g.” “That’s so. Oh, Georgie, why couldn’t you wear the brown coat with the blue trousers we were wondering what we’d do with them?” “Good Lord! Did yo... ...ouses in Zenith. The walls were gray, the woodwork white, the rug a serene blue; and very much like ma- hogany was the furniture—the bureau with its g... ...s spacious lawns and landscaping, one of the notable sights crowning Royal Ridge, but merry and homelike despite its mighty stone walls and its vast r... ...polished granite. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words. He was, for a spring-enchante... ...ike was making love to Lucile McKelvey in her mauve drawing- room on Royal Ridge, after their return from a lecture by an eminent English novelist. Up... ...ative as homesickness. He had never seen Maine, yet he beheld the shrouded mountains, the tranquil lake of evening. “That boy Paul’s worth all these b... ...ns about locomotive horse-power, as their train climbed the Maine mountain-ridge and from the summit he looked down the shining way among the pines; t... ...tropic ferns, and across the lake it burned on the sturdy shoulders of the mountains. Over everything was a holy peace. Silent, they loafed on the edg...

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...d gray That waved and wept on Loch Achray, And mingled with the pine-trees blue On the bold cliffs of Benvenue. Fresh vigor with the hope returned, Wi... ...ough Cambusmore; What reins were tightened in despair, When rose Benledi’s ridge in air; Who flagged upon Bochastle’s heath, Who shunned to stem the f... ...danced, The wanderer’s eye could barely view The summer heaven’s delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. ... ...gain appearing, T all rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace; And farther as the Hunter strayed, Still broader sweep i... ..., And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand T o sentinel enchanted land. High on the s... ...So hastily Fitz-James shot past. He joined his guide, and wending down The ridges of the mountain brown, Across the stream they took their way That jo... ...The hill sinks down upon the deep. Here V ennachar in silver flows, There, ridge on ridge, Benledi rose; Ever the hollow path twined on, Beneath steep... ...rom noon till eve we fought with foe, As wild and as untamable As the rude mountains where they dwell; On both sides store of blood is lost, Nor much ... ...boyish plays, Our easy bliss, when each thing joy supplied; The woods, the mountains, and the warbling maze Of the wild books!” The Critical Review sa...

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...d the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into b... ...elow and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronos, g... ...eyes glared on him, like to a lion struck by a javelin when hunters in the mountains are hemming him round, and, though pressed by the throng, he reek... ...ly son began a clear lay on his Bistonian lyre; how once beneath the rocky ridge of Parnassus he slew with his bow the monster Delphyne, he, still you... ...a, in shame left the spot and those haunts, and came to the long Pelasgian ridges, where by her union with the transfigured deity she brought forth hu... ...ss, he met me on his return from the chase; and all the mountains and long ridged peaks were sprinkled with snow, and from them the torrents rolling d... ...each double seams run in a circle; but the stitches are hidden, and a dark blue spiral overlays them all. But if thou shouldst cast it with thy hands,... ... She spake, and darting down from the sky fell amid the eddies of the dark blue sea; and she called to aid her the rest of the Nereids, her own sister...

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...amped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the b... ...who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly gal- loped across the floor of the “gym” in... ...but beneficent and bright-eyed crea- tures—the tam htab, who is woolly and blue and lives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the fe... ...ere on their way to Gopher Prairie after a wedding journey in the Colorado mountains. The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol. Sh... ... crimson wheat-elevator on the other. The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vi... ...the photographs. A mile from Gopher Prairie the track mounts a curving low ridge, and she could see the town as a whole. With a passionate jerk she pu... ...the summons. She glanced through the bay-window. Snow was sifting over the ridge of the Howland house like sprays of water from a hose. The wide yards... ...t one picture—a magazine color-plate of a steep-roofed village in the Harz Mountains which sug- gested kobolds and maidens with golden hair. Bjornstam... ...d enlargement” of Mr. Dawson, its bulbous lamp painted with sepia cows and mountains and standing on a mortu- ary marble column. She creaked, “O Mrs. ...

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... against the wheel. An idle, strolling custom house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and ... ...nting the coachman, filled it completely. He was a young fellow with clear blue eyes; the high collar of his livery fur coat framed his cheery counten... ...er’s service—who died of cholera. It was cer- tainly a young man in a dark-blue, tailless coat and huge Cos- sack trousers, that being the livery of t... ...not a flat and severe plain, but a kindly bread-giving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hol... ...lding, standing all alone upon 36 A Personal Record the very roots of the mountains. It was long, though not big at all; it was low; it was built of ... ... a headlong, exalted satisfaction with the world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, silver-white w... ...ry, you may remember, of my seaboard tale), men, women, headlands, houses, mountains, town, campo(there was not a single brick, stone, or grain of san... ...should steer for the old Phoenician port, dominated, watched over from the ridge of a dust-gray, arid hill by the red-and-white striped pile of the No...

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... against the wheel. An idle, strolling custom-house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and ... ...ing the coachman, filled it com- pletely. He was a young fellow with clear blue eyes; the high collar of his livery fur coat framed his cheery counten... ...ther’s service—who died of cholera. It was certainly a young man in a dark blue, tail-less coat and huge Cossack trousers, that being the livery of th... ...not a flat and severe plain, but a kindly bread-giving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hol... ...for the unexpected building, standing all alone upon the very roots of the mountains. It was long though not big at all; it was low; it was built of b... ... a headlong, exalted satisfaction with the world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, sil- ver-white... ..., you may remember, of my seaboard tale), men, women, head- lands, houses, mountains, town, campo (there was not a single brick, stone, or grain of sa... ...should steer for the old Phoenician port, dominated, watched over from the ridge of a dust-grey arid hill by the red-and-white-striped pile of the Not...

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...y beautiful, passive, soft- skinned, soft-limbed. She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and ... ...ockings, her large grass-green velour hat, her full soft coat, of a strong blue colour. And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstabl... ...colourless hair was untidy, wisps floating down on to her sac coat of dark blue silk, from under her blue silk hat. She looked like a woman with a mon... ...nk against one’s breast, its smoothness, its hardness, its vital knots and ridges—this was good, this was all very good, very satisfying. Nothing else... ... was satisfied. They came to Zurich, then, before very long, ran under the mountains, that were deep in snow. At last she was drawing near. This was t... ...it!’ She seemed afraid to go on. He laughed. They were in the heart of the mountains. From high above, on either side, swept down the white fold of sn... ... cold shadow-radiance of the af- ternoon, silenced by the imminence of the mountains, the luminous, dazing sides of snow that rose above them and fell... ...e yellow sun sink in crimson and disappear. Then in the east the peaks and ridges glowed with living rose, incandescent like immortal flowers against ... ...perfect condition, he had travelled a long way, by himself, among the snow ridges, on his skis, he had climbed high, so high that he could see over th...

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...quiver on the air like sleepy lakes; the plain is engulphed up to the high ridges of the distant Southern mountain range, which lie stretched to a fai... ... gulf the full sunlight, as if darting on a jewel in the deeps, seizes the blue-green lake with its isles. The villages along the darkly- wooded borde... ...an beauty. The head was long, like a hawk’s, not too lean, and not sharply ridged from a rapacious beak, but enough to show characteristics of ea- ger... ...show characteristics of ea- gerness and promptitude. His eyes were darkest blue, the 5 George Meredith eyebrows and long disjoining eyelashes being v... ...he forehead above them: and on both sides of the head there ran a pregnant ridge, such as will sometimes lift men a deplorable half inch above the ear... ...hey went, and we gave fifteen true men for one poor devil of a curst tight blue-leg. They can play the game on if we give them odds like that. Milan b... ..., mother,’ and slept again fast. Giacinta saw that they were nearer to the mountains. Mountain-shad- ows were thrown out, and long lank shadows of cyp... ... wavings of hands, she was driven out of his sight. CHAPTER XXV ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AFTER PARTING from Vittoria, Angelo made his way to an inn, where... ...ned; ‘they have gone on to Bormio, and expect to catch her there or in the mountains.’ ‘Better there than in the mountains, my dear; don’t you think s...

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...for her, were she daughter of the King of France, since he was King of the Mountains. The welcome at Algiers and the Te Deum in the Consul’s chapel al... ...gold lace. He had a rich laced cravat, a double-breasted waistcoat of pale blue satin, and breeches to match, a brown velvet coat with blue embroi- de... ...more in accordance with her surname, and so especially were the large deep blue eyes with the long dark 9 Yo n g e lashes and pencilled brows. And th... ... effective than those of her maids. She was in her robe de chambre, a dark blue wrapper, embroidered with white, and put on more neatly than was alway... ...l would be well!’ replied the other lady; ‘but we have to pass through the mountains, and the Catalans are always ill-af- fected to us French.’ ‘Nay; ... ...ma. I will pray that He may make me so.’ Land was in sight at last. Purple mountains rose to the south in wild forms, looking strangely thunderous and... ...hen at about five o’clock. There was certainly a prom- ontory, made by the ridge of a hill, and also a river between him and any survivors there might...