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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e) was in his mother's car driving to her home. They were returning from a cemetery in which they had failed to commune with even the positive memorie... ... Furthermore, how could he on any day, let alone a day of returning from a cemetery, look into her haggard countenance and pass judgment on her as unl... ...or other expurgation of specific memories was yet in existence. Visiting a cemetery for a man was supposed to engender lachrymose thought rather than ... ...rration, it had merely evoked minced silence. And this, his silence at the cemetery, which had flagellated her with the unalterable past, now made him...

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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

...I should pur sue. As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father re posed. I entered it ...

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The Incunabula Papers : Ong's Hat and other Gateways to New Dimensions

By: Joseph Matheny

...lds Emory Cranston, Prop.Incunabulum: cocoon; swaddling clothes; cradle; in-cunae, in the cradle; koiman, put to sleep, winding- sheet; koimetarium (cemetery); printed books before 1501, hence by extension any rare & hermetic book… Introduction This catalog is a reproduction. This is not a commercial advertisement. ECommerce links to the available books are offered a a...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...uture. 8. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible - the "Gho... ...future. G. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible - the "Gho...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ok of the future. G. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ok of the future. G. The Archive Function The Internet is also the world's biggest cemetery: tens of thousands of deadbeat sites, still accessible ...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

.... In former days, agents for monuments used to live round about the famous cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, and were gathered together in a single thoroughf... ...uch to do; some one must go to the Hotel de Ville to buy the ground in the cemetery on which you mean to erect a monument to per- petuate the memory o... ...r, escorted by sixty or eighty persons, drew all the crowd after it to the cemetery. At the church door Pons’ funeral possession mustered four mournin... ...esign for the monument might be ready for the survivor at the gates of the cemetery. A single coach sufficed for Fraisier, Villemot, Schmucke, and T o... ...en in their lifetime if relative or friend will go with them so far as the cemetery in this Paris, where every one would fain have twenty-five hours i... ... the journey; so, empty or full, the mourning coaches go to the church and cemetery and re- turn to the house for gratuities. A death is a sort of dri... ... during the journey (often a very long one) from the church to the eastern cemetery, to that one of the burying-grounds of Paris in which all vanities... ... servitor of the stage made up his mind to watch over Pons’ friend. At the cemetery, where three square yards of ground had been purchased through the...

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Daisy Miller : A Study in Two Parts

By: Henry James

...a ter- rible case of the fever. Daisy’s grave was in the little Protestant cemetery, in an angle of the wall of imperial Rome, beneath the cypresses a...

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The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

...they had come for her in a gondola of their own) during the journey to the cemetery, the little red-walled island of tombs which lies to the north of ...

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Facts of Reconstruction, The

By: John R. Lynch

...w. He also became involved in real estate. After his death in Chicago 1939 at the age of 92, he was buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. He was entitled to this as a Congressman and veteran. After the turn of the centutry, Lynch wrote a book, The Facts of Reconstruction, and several articles criticizing the then-dominant Dunning School historiography...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...pped, let the blind paupers go and sepa- rate the good from the bad in the cemetery of the Innocents! For his own part the poet can see no distinction... ...gibility, and that bad business about Thevenin Pensete in the house by the cemetery of St. John. He was reclaimed by the ecclesiastical authorities as...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ch. As they went out, the sacristan stopped them, and proposed to show the cemetery of the convent, where the deceased members of the fraternity are l... ..., as well as the sculptor, would gladly have escaped a visit to the famous cemetery of the Cappuccini. But Miriam’s nerves were strained to such a pit... ...w her companion along with her, whispering encouragement as they went. The cemetery is beneath the church, but entirely above ground, and lighted by a... ...e gloomy recesses, if pains were not bestowed to root them up. But, as the cemetery is small, and it is a precious 146 The Marble Fawn privilege to s... ...ement of the unearthed skeletons is what makes the special interest of the cemetery. The arched and vaulted walls of the burial recesses are supported... ...ir posi- tion, and try with ghastly smiles to turn it into a jest. But the cemetery of the Capuchins is no place to nourish celestial 147 Hawthorne h... ...s of horrible consecra- tion are heaps of human bones. Yet let us give the cemetery the praise that it deserves. There is no disagreeable scent, such ... ...find good rest there. No ghost was ever known to steal out of this blessed cemetery.” “That is well,” responded Miriam; “may he whom you now lay to sl... ...hom you now lay to sleep prove no exception to the rule!” As they left the cemetery she put money into the sacristan’s hand to an amount that made his...

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The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

... end of the High Street; but when the procession started again for the new cemetery, which M. Benassis had given to the town, little thinking, poor ma... ...s ten o’clock.” “Oh! well, then, she will have gone to mass or else to the cemetery. She goes there every day. He has left her five hun- dred livres a... ... ing to us all.” “Will it be intrusive if I ask you to accompany me to the cemetery? I should like to bid him farewell, as it were.” Genestas and the ... ...ountain-side a large piece of waste land en- closed by walls. “That is the cemetery,” the cure told him. “He is the first to be buried in it. Only thr... ...land to the commune. We are burying a child, poor little thing, in the new cemetery to-day, so we shall have begun by laying innocence and virtue ther...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...sunshine. About the middle of the tin-commercial street I found the public cemetery, inclosed with a mud wall, and where there seemed plenty of room. ... ...plain, of bleached bones lay spread before us. It seemed like an im- mense cemetery, where the remains of twenty ages mingled their dust together. Hug... ...ctly recognisable human body. Had some par- ticular soil, like that of the cemetery St. Michel, at Bordeaux, preserved it thus for so many ages? It mi...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...hem at last, and, by the help of Lucina, she laid them in the grave in the cemetery called Ad Ursum Pileatum. For seven months she remained in her she...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...dated as lately as eight or ten years back. At Mount Vernon there is now a cemetery of the Washington family; and there, in an open vault—a vault open... ...it was very pretty, but in summer it must be lovely. I was taken up to the cemetery there by a path along the river, and am inclined to say that it is...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... retired, and left them quite in darkness; and the pair entered the little cemetery, cautiously threading their way among the tombs. They sat down on ...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ominable beasts. Nevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a f... ...es, till, lower down, where the road has sunk far below the surface of the cemetery, and the very roofs are scarcely on a level with its wall, you obs...

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