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...poetic form by author Kevin Brian Wright about, love, devotion, and the angelic beauty of his beloved - Isabella. Within the story the reader embarks on a spiritual journey of love and romance seen through the eyes of the author. Many transcendental occurrences evolve during this journey through each chapter of the book. With each poem you are visually enlightened by his r...

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...Point. Fort Putnam and the Highlands in the distance. A fig is $uttering on the fort. The orchestra represents the level of the river she, upon wh... ...on which level the Chorus uriU enter. The characters of the drama appear on a bank or pihiform, slightly raised above the orchestra and Chorus. At... ...on is such that he can, by turning his head, either watch the personages on the stage, or address the Chorus on the river mar- gin. He is so paint... ... shadows of the dawn. Would God the releasing trumpet would blow and the flag flutter on the mountain side, and that I might find all well! Genera... ...tains, We are streaming, steaming forth; We, the children of your will, Born to serve you, and to fill All your banks and all your margin With th... ...vior of a land - Listen: -There was a stripling in the town Where I was born; and this rash vigorous boy Seized by the nose a bull, that in a fri... ...ore serious than any since the Duke Brought back King Charles. Two true- born Englishmen, If you'll accept my hand, shall this day place I A jew... ...Charles. Two true- born Englishmen, If you'll accept my hand, shall this day place I A jewel in old England's diadem, Which some rash spirits wo... ...n his horse, And Andr6 like a Genius at his side, Guiding the host! That flag shall fall When next we meet: up run the British colors ! England f...

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...book) ISBN: 1-4033-8038-4 (Paperback) ISBN: 1-4033-8039-2 (Dustjacket) This book is printed on acid free paper. ... ...h their so-called sacred ’rumels’ (a scarf or cord) and secretly burying their bodies. They lived on the proceeds of their homicidal activities and ... ...a could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the interior, however, the British ... ...mily believes that Its misappropriation has placed a curse on them. You see only one son had been born to every direct male heir and as a result, th... ...ever they first met her and although she was feminine enough to be thankful that she had not been born plain, she was always slightly embarrassed by... ...nd Mary seems a strong and sensible woman who would wish to be with her husband when the child is born. If you do not mind, I shall personally super... ...inated the valley below. On its keep fluttered the banner of the East India Company and the Union flag demonstrating, all too clearly, the real mili... ...d the Residency, large iron gates bearing the East India Company’s crest - the Royal Arms and the flag of St. George - were opened to them by red-co... ...he tinkling sound was made by these blades, which were being whirled around the heads of the self-flagellators and brought vigorously down on their ...

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... Draft For your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world o... ...f the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center o... ...tine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Franken... ... the multicolored mash. It was almost time. In Israel, the Holocaust Memorial Day opens with a wailing siren, followed by two minutes of conte... ... his forehead. He is wearing a uniform of his own design. In the corner, a swastika flag clings to its pole. A leather armchair. Padded walls. The ... ...as a bastard. That explains a lot of his off-springs’ foul character. Were children born out of wedlock common at that time?” Libby nodded affirma... ...es his verdict – “Pray, continue.” “The documents were handed from one male first-born to another. My father gave them to me on my thirteenth birt... ...ious – “But there’s a far simpler explanation. It’s Adolf Hitler’s birthday. He was born on April 20 th , 1889.” Chapter the Thirteenth The Eich... ...they kept ignoring me Bauer was in the tortuous process of unfurling an enormous flag and Libby seemed particularly unhappy about it. It was the ...

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...Teenage twins James and Samantha Blake are caught up in a seemingly random terrorist bombing while on a school trip. Many of their friends are killed. When the twins wake up in hospital, their lives have changed forever.The doctors are amazed at the speed with which James and Sam recover from their injuries and, when the t...

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...than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication are... ...w.elucidox.com Cover design Andrew Clarke www.clarke-design.co.uk For more news on the Class Heroes series, see www.classheroes.com Table o... ...mantha Blake sat up in her hospital bed. She tried to read the article about her on the 24/7 Interactive News website, but her eyes kept flicking ne... ...arents from South Ealing Comprehensive School in West London. They had been on a day trip to St Paul’s Cathedral and the Imperial War Museum. There... ...e traditional way.” “Well then why don’t you, instead of dribbling over her all day?” Nina snapped, and returned to reading her magazine. “Well per... ...en one that rotten. He cast a quick look at the clock: 19:28. It had been a long day. He had arrived at South Ealing Comprehensive’s playground near... ...ir rituals; something they said to each other if one was feeling down. James was born one hour before Sam so, technically, he was her big brother. ... ...look terrible, Stannard. The last time I saw a face like that it was on a pirate flag. Did we interrupt your beauty sleep?” “If I’d known you’d be h... ...t. Larry Blake was retired from the United States Air Force. He was an engineer, born in Chicago, who had been stationed in East Anglia in the 1950s...

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...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Michael Brand to find the truth. Th...

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... papers and giving and taking orders. Cameras jostled into position as the lights focused on where Jamieson Stone would do his nightly news; the sam... ...lum,” she said with a mock smile. “The main thing is that you’re alright,” she patted him on the arm. “We’ve got ten minutes. Need anything?” “A g... ...conds with the water. “Anything else, Boss?” “No, honest I’m fine,” Stone said sipping on the water. - J.Cross/Stone 5 Simmons moved the gl... ...mplicated individual. His life had consisted of many layers of incongruities. He had been born in Colombia. His father was a doctor, and his mother ... ...he image that he had created for himself. It wasn’t long after that Michael Brand Jr. was born. To him, his son became one of the joys of his life. ... ...t you expect.” She was already more than what he had expected. “You can call me any time, day or night,” he said and handed her his card. Brand l... ...k, knowing that the upper management were either in discussions, or had gone home for the day. Brand parked his car and walked the short distance t... ... “I see,” Brand said, and wondered if he might not have made a good Capo if he had been born Sicilian. “Then we wait. But I must use a secure phone... ...ffice with military mementos, plagues, and medals hanging on the walls, plus an American flag standing behind his desk. The General offered him a ...

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... the version he most considered full and complete. While it was a commercial and critical failure during Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES...

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...d daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and r...

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... To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Th...

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...of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation t...

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...viding public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that su... ...ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide str... ...had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string ... ... the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the day the old man's thoughts were on tomorrow: a day he feared, but knew had to come. As he stared int... ...ist firmly and tell him that his bloodline had begun long before the forest was born and that the spirit of his ancestors had The Soul Bearer :I c... ...owd gathered in their respective places. Cavalry sol­ diers stood around a Union flag that waved in the morning breeze, while a Union band played soo... ...ure that went far beyond the confines of the teepee. "I saw you before you were born. I saw your face in the night visions. You are the one chosen t... ... was a hot summer evening, and the air conditioned lobby was a welcome relief. Born and raised in the cool grey ofPuget Sound with its lush green m... ...utomated video equip­ ment hidden behind one-way mirrors, and microphones camou­ flaged in stained-glass Tiffany lamps. When everyone was in their pl...

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...mous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes...

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... her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of ... ...the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry... ...ce of exceptional and special people, about whom there is scant knowledge on this level. During the many years of research he devoted to a study of ... ...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...e flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor line. Maybe this is a better theme for tonig... ...“Who swam halfway round the island last year?” demanded Gyrinno. “Who was born at sea?” said Anaktoria. “You can tell the best swimmer by the shape ... ..., his feet in the dust, his smiles. Exekias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait,... ...our sail grey or brown? Was the water rough? The answers mean so little. Born of the sea, where is love more beautiful than on the sea? Like water,...

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...ded by the author. The information in the Appendix of this book is offered on an “as is” basis, without warranty and the author warns users that no li... ...s is” basis, without warranty and the author warns users that no liability on the part of the author exists to any person or entity with respect to an... ... suggestions for changes for future editions of this book and for listings on the website (www.susanbracken.ca) Distributed in Canada by: David Edward... ...er how to cook or sew, or insisted that she clean her teeth and wash every day. And on weeknights she often had to get meals for herself. She crept al... ...dgeted, anx- ious for the long ride to be over. The youngest son of three, born decades after his two brothers, Roger had been indulged but largely ig... ...tasy if he took more time? She was too shy to ask Roger about it. Lisa was born in May. A shockwave of emotion engulfed Lacey as she held the tiny hum... ... each dollar and swallow her disappointment at his cruel disdain. Jana was born three years after Lisa, and finally Julian, in 1974. Lacey reveled in ... ...rite.” 41 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE JAKE EDMONDS looked over the railing at his flag-ship book- store while he munched on a sandwich. The open concept stor... .... Randall and Missy Bush, remember them? They got to the highway first and flagged down cars. The police came and the ambulances. Oh, Mom, I thought y...

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... woman and would not let it go. After five minutes of waiting alone, sitting on those steps and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin ... ...was God. It was definitely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's... ...had swung a golf club into her eye and the blood had splattered everywhere. On that day, as a boy, he had thought nothing could happen worse than tha... ...lation he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a woman; and except for once of saying, "Well...I understand, but" (... ...d neediness to be in the presence of a friend in a hostile world where being born was not a sanction to live well or live long. One's innocence ran b... ...im, that alone would justify a life of barren prospects. "Unto us a child is born. Unto us a child is given." He thought of the words of the composer... ... melting into the morning sun. Those rags they wore were more patriotic than flags and more majestic than King Sejong the Great's crown. Once their fa... ... sickness was getting worse. Yang Kwam was wearing a shirt with the American flag on it. Dizzy and disoriented, Sang Huin had followed that American f... ...d her name and she would have needed to encounter hateful stares for being a flagrant mutineer of the American work ethic. There might have been the ...

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...tched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A singular focus began... ...ords, only the rhythmic pulsing. He saw what he thought to be a smile forming on the face of the unworldly presence, his being filled with a soothin... ...e way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that ... ...of young Jesuit Priests from Venice. After that...” As Alfredo read off the day’s business, the Pontiff’s mind drifted off into the strange event ... ...the prelates how long the group would be visiting the Vatican. “Most of the day, Your Holiness,” he responded. “We’re giving them a complete tour,... ...any trouble.” Antonio relaxed, but only slightly. “Well, Holy Father, I was born in a small town just outside of Palermo...” Ah, Angelo Gallucci... ... agree to become part of this mission, the Angel of Death will visit his first-born." The words struck Antonio like lightening, sending shock waves ... ...lling these drugs are going to die. Except, in some cases, worse. Their first-born is going to die first." "What are you talking about?" Gallucci'... ...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre...

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...ruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under her. One might say... ...might say that her knowledge of the extreme pain that she would experience on awakening from these sleeps was serendipitous in its own way, for it ma... ...; and as it was Christmas Eve, every click of the air conditioner turning on in the hot day or the furnace at night, every flight of the pigeons fro... ...as Christmas Eve, every click of the air conditioner turning on in the hot day or the furnace at night, every flight of the pigeons from the nest beh... ...xpectation. As one of her more substantive acts of each part of late day, Kenyon would always get into the wheelchair and mist her fern; and as... ...nd. Wasn't there at that time a belief that children like themselves were born from a body by love and were not merely reproductive cellular byproduc... ...ward homeless in every connotation of the word. Certainly if a child were born to her, he would be immune from specious notions that people had intel... ...any rotting cadaver did). In that sense, if a child were so unlucky to be born unto her, ignorant as he would be in all other things, he would be fre... ... that. Chapter Seven At this cemetery she noticed how the American flag , which a few minutes earlier was blowing in one direction, now falte...

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...XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...isited Singapore a few times before my flight, but had never touched foot on Singaling. We arrived on an early Monday morning and were surprised to ... ...the gods of Tide and Tidy Bowl that I never saw a single piece of litter on the ground. There were no graffiti on the walls, no gum on the sidewalk... ...e rich-poor gap. But such communistic ideas have as yet had little effect on this free enterpriset power. In contrast, Singaling has emphasized the ... ... street sweeper did the work of thousands of little old ladies in a single day. Machines plucked and packed the fruits of our orchards eliminating th... ...retaking expenses dropped so dramatically. And of course the children not born because of the sterilizations would not have children, so the world’s... .... In Singaling the government wants a high quality of children-- then when born, they want to keep them, and keep them healthy. The rewards of livin... ...nd of mine at the California State University joyfully goes to work every day at 85. He is an outstanding teacher and is still coaching an intercoll... ...galized. Population disincentives were instituted. When a third child was born to a couple, hospitals charged more for the birth, maternity leaves we... ... visited some friends in San Diego and watched their nine year old playing flag football. A father- coach called the offensive plays, he had made a bo...

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...window at the tussling shadows of trees and their counterparts, the light, on the rich verdant fields and on the rough and uneven wooden strips of the... ...ar car he was in would hit those coupled metallic bumps of the rails while on this incessant trip to Nongkhai, moving faster than both the train and t... ...or numb as he was he had that much awareness lying there with head propped on a pillow. The crumbs on the blanket and the flimsy mat were merely a nom... ...he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brought him t... ...oke, instantly realizing that his grandparents had died long before he was born and that here he was, just a few hours from turning forty himself (he ... ...ache was, he told himself that it was just. It was a well deserved "mental flagellation" (meaning an excoriation of disturbing dreams for the sins of ... ... could tell this from the hammering taps of his present headache that were born of the travail of truly chaotic dreams. He told himself that there was... ...ly evoked minced silence. And this, his silence at the cemetery, which had flagellated her with the unalterable past, now made him repugnant to her. A... ...for caring about the shallow smackings of the mother instead of the mental flagellations that she rendered unto Him. Despite the bruises and black eye...

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................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ... something about living more healthily these last few days. But let‘s get on with why I came to Kino—to meet and talk with you. Your work on human v... ...that by wiping out 90% of the people now, more people would eventually be born to the world and live happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ... ... man-made pollutants to threaten human life? Does allowing children to be born to parents who will soon die, leaving them orphans in a country witho... ...God, which in the Arabic language is Allah, and the sanctity of the first born son of Abraham, Ishmael, and the teachings of the prophet Mohammed, t... ...h and state. They want ‗under God‘ out of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, ‗in God we trust‘ off of the currency, and school prayers out of publ... ...ds. ―Then there is the required daily Pledge of Allegiance to your flag and the daily repeating of ‗this nation under God‘ that is undoubtedl... ...d christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehead, like a flag, to give more meaning to their state. Kings give us that link to the ...

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...ws nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seems to be there? Warnings to back off escalate to an attempt on her life. Now, for Laura Kate, it's more than just a mystery. Depending on Jack might be a mistake, but if Laura Kate can get past his southern charms and the nervous way Jack makes her feel, she may get the facts, solve t...

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...his office. Hiram Green, his first witness, sat at the slim desk printing his name on the document. His hand shook, and Royce figured Hiram drank h... ...air of the dog’ll do better.” “I got plenty of that.” “Well, I’ll be moseying on, and I’ll be forgetting, too,” he said with a wry twist of his... ...ned a drawer and brought out a slim gold case. Selecting a card from it, he jotted on the back, and handed it to the man. “Should you hear of my de... ...nd what do you know about the evil eye, Mr. Brewster?” “There are those who are born able to put spells on people, even strong people like you ar... ...n her inquisitive soul? Not hardly. As her mama once said, “Laura Kate, you were born nosy, and you’ll never change.” ***** Sheriff Ma... ...spit can. He’d noticed Jack’s left thumb was missing and wondered whether he’d been born that way or if it’d been sliced clean off. Jack’s steady e... ...kled. She looked away, toward a large thicket of cedar trees. Among them a wooden flagpole flew the Confederate flag. The colors were bright and s... ...nts me. I need some reassurance from my best friends.” She hurried across the flagstones to the garage when she heard Brewster’s voice call fro... ...second shot into a greenside sand trap. Sammie’s ball landed fifteen feet from the flag. It took two whacks for Laura Kate to hack her ball out of ...

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...more suited to a traveling troubadour, and with a small blue flame birthmark on his cheek – twin to the one she bears on her shoulder – he tells her a... ...eakness from overuse of the Power, works against them. Regan forces her will on Zara, the golden dragon. A harrowing and painful ride gripped in the d... ...u should. With but one flick of my finger they would shred you and then feed on your flesh.” “Aye, Master,” Thomas choked out. Dirkk looked beyond Tho... ... folded piece of paper. It was a birth certificate. Delilah Kinsey Brown was born September 6, 1980. Her mother was Kinsey Marie Brown and, under “Fat... .... “Momma should have told me about him. She said my father died before I was born.” “Your mother kept Ben away from you?” “Three years ago, when I was... ...can kill the summoners and any around them.” “How are they chosen?” “You are born with the mark of the Blue Flame,” Angus said. Delilah glanced at Kel... ...ven hotter. “Perhaps a bath? I will assist you.” “No bath. But I will have a flagon of ale.” The girl frowned. “Yes. Ale. I will see to it. This way.”... ... he whirled. The same serving maid stood in the open doorway. She clutched a flagon in her right hand. “Your ale, sir.” Her gaze slid over the room, a... ...ing her lips. He waved his hand toward the table, and the maid deposited the flagon on it. “Will there be anything else, sir?” she asked, already bac...

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...und the tea-table for less than twenty minutes, the anima- tion observable on their faces, and the amount of sound they were producing collectively, w... ...empty space of the drawing-room, all silver where the candles were grouped on the tea-table, and ruddy again in the firelight. With the omnibuses and ... ...ly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by... ...e small, but the sitting-room window looked out into a courtyard, with its flagged pavement, and its single tree, and across to the flat red-brick fro... ...h the gaze of the Elgin marbles. She looked at them, and seemed, as usual, borne up on some wave of exaltation and emotion, by which her life at once ... ...d lived for the last four years with a woman who was not his wife, who had borne him two children, and was now about to bear him another. This state o... ...that he bears your grandfather’s name, and so will the child that is to be born. The poor boy is not so much to blame as the woman who deluded him, th... ... their geographical position. Each district, under the new system, had its flag, its bottle of ink, its sheaf of documents tabulated and filed for ref... ...as if, at certain moments, the man’s memory of his wrongs revived and then flagged, dying down at last into a grumble of resig- nation, which seemed t...

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...rs he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop woul...

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...ver it, and there would be speeches. Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge s... ...e huge stone- faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river—and permitted himself to think of the end. With... ...ngth; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick pies. Each one of those piers was twenty-four fee... ...legs apart to keep his balance— this was the most important point—would be borne with great and easy speed to the shore. But yet a better plan came to... ...epul overshadowing a Hindoo shrine, from whose dome floated a tattered red flag. The holy man whose sum- mer resting-place it was had long since aband... ... ran round the circle. “Their Gods! What should their Gods know? They were born yesterday, and those that made them are scarcely yet cold,” said the M... ... come to us without punishment, and Gunga knows that the fire-carriage has borne to her scores upon scores of such anx- ious ones; and Kali knows that... ...s painted lead-colour with a red funnel—looked very fine indeed. Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes... ...g Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile ma- rine. She was a nine-hundred-ton, ir...