Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................. 71 THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK .................................................................................. 72 The Run of the Downs ...................................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
.................................................. 71 THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK ........................................................................ .................................................. 72 The Knife and the Naked Chalk ........................................................................ ...ith ‘ee all but one, And she can never be mine! THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK The Run of the Downs THE WEALD is good, the Downs are best— I’ll give... ...u be glad you are Sussex born! 73 Rudyard Kipling The Knife and the Naked Chalk THE CHILDREN went to the seaside for a month, and lived in a flint vi... ...to the seaside for a month, and lived in a flint village on the bare windy chalk Downs, quite thirty miles away from home. They made friends with an o... ...ffle and rustle of the flock below, and a thickish mutter deep in the very chalk beneath them. Mr Dudeney stopped explaining, and went on with his kni... ...y carefully, and the flints squeaked. ‘Not he. Children can lie out on the Chalk now all day through and go home safe.’ ‘Can they? Well, call The Beas... ...his cheek. Puck whistled like a Weald starling. ‘By the Great Rings of the Chalk!’ he cried. ‘Was that your price? T urn sunward that I may see better... ...n us that I speak the thing that has been. Before my Knife and the Na- ked Chalk I speak. T ouch!’ Puck laid a hand on the hilt. It stopped shaking. T...

Excerpt Details
...Get something to draw: A board and pieces of chalk, OR Paper, pencils and erasers In this game, you have to draw circles. You have to draw circles around things of the same type. Not a purr-fect circle that your art teacher will say “wow!” to; badly twisted circles ...

Excerpt Details
...valent, made out of twisted fibres or knotted hide thongs. Pulled tight these would provide a straight line, which could be marked on the ground with chalk dust. (The monument stands on chalk bedrock) These are the only implements they would have; pegs and string and a stick. These are our dumb-keys; we must recreate the ground plan of the monument using just pegs, a sti...

Excerpt Details
...or covered with linoleum or cork carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand up upon it, and of a color and surface that will take and show chalk marks; the common green colored cork carpet without a pattern is the best of all. It must be no highway to other rooms, and well lit and airy. Occasionally, alas! it must be scrubbed--and then a truce to Floor Games....

Full Text Search Details
... will stand up upon it, and of a color and surface that will take and show chalk marks; the common green- colored cork carpet without a pattern is the... ...se tents, made by F . R. W. out of ordi- nary brown paper and adorned with chalk totems of a rude and characteristic kind, pour forth their fierce and... ...of water is to be found except for the lakes and rivers we may mark out in chalk. But after one example others are easy, and next I will tell you of o...

Description Details
...old. Northern lights are similar, but in the sky. Flaring denotes both freezing and perhaps atmospheric friction. Northern lights combine uranium chalk (for green lights), water, and collapsed balloons of atmospheres in the far north. At minus 35 degrees Celsius (C) or so, gaseous lights turn to icebergs and float in the sky. Think of these terms: • Ice lenses ...

Table of Contents Details
...f Kug/ Coppermine to Churchill that hold the weather in, as in- ‘in’sanely cold (locally named). … CHAPTER X: Green mud forming around a small green chalky pebble- it’s a water-soluble-dissolving-pebble in a wet puddle. ...

Full Text Search Details
...he had for me to second guess the century. A thousand times without pause to chalk a slate. 51 O’ how I love her that I would wait till the skies ope... ...ch brightness. A face so sweet in fire it could melt me more like I tried to chalk the sun. She gives such warmth with a love so rich it stands on the...

Full Text Search Details
...less. Hence the words candle, incandescent. Political candidates in Rome wore a chalk-powdered white toga. http://www.hyperdictionary.com/di...

Full Text Search Details
... that. Like they were silently deliberating on whether to believe the story, or chalk it up to childish imagination. “I have officers speaking to t...

Full Text Search Details
...red into the yard. Laura had left her jump rope and her bucket of sidewalk chalk in the grass. He looked at it and Julia saw him swallow hard. “T...

Full Text Search Details
... the child C O N C E P T S I N K A B B A L A H 359 would be given a piece of chalk and board to write on, so that they would not waste precious pap...

Description Details
... fixed air (now known as CO2) can be produced from several reactions including alcoholic fermentation, combustion and a mixture of oil of vitriol and chalk (sulfuric acid and calcium oxide). He also showed that it is soluble in water, and that its toxic effects can be reduced when agitated in water. In other experiments, he showed that combinations of gases can mix to form...

Full Text Search Details
...s. Then the hides were rubbed smooth with pumice; washed and dressed with chalk; and finished with a lime-based wash. Vellum—the highest grade o... ...logies and the sharing of the power of knowledge. Pencils and blackboard chalk The first is the pencil. Henry Petroski grabbed me with one engag... ...en on to higher grades through most of the twentieth century. Ubiquitous chalk teaching tools Chalk coupled with chalkboard makes up our second u... ... As was the case with pencils, the sticks of calcium sulphate we called chalk were ubiquitous in classrooms I frequented from kindergarten through... ...d a smear-free pencil with controllable hardness. Like pencil and paper, chalk and chalkboards—we called them blackboards— deserve education‘s highe... ...oards— deserve education‘s highest honorariums as teacher tools. Photos of chalk-wielding Albert Einstein testify to how indispensable they became ev...

Full Text Search Details
...s. Then the hides were rubbed smooth with pumice; washed and dressed with chalk; and finished with a lime-based wash. Vellum—the highest grade of ... ...logies and the sharing of the power of knowledge. Pencils and blackboard chalk The first is the pencil. Henry Petroski grabbed me with one engagin... ...en on to higher grades through most of the twentieth century. Ubiquitous chalk teaching tools Chalk coupled with chalkboard makes up our second use... .... As was the case with pencils, the sticks of calcium sulphate we called chalk were ubiquitous in classrooms I frequented from kindergarten through... ...s I frequented from kindergarten through college. Like pencil and paper, chalk and chalkboards—we called them blackboards— deserve education‘s highe... ...oards— deserve education‘s highest honorariums as teacher tools. Photos of chalk-wielding Albert Einstein testify to how indispensable they became ev...

Full Text Search Details
...ook, on sheets of paper, and even, sometimes, on the driveway with colored chalk. Each morning when she woke up, Mary hurried over to the table whe...

Full Text Search Details
...riety.” How pale Libus was, in his grey robe, shadows ridging the fabric, chalking his face, thickening his lips, greying his hair. His sandals move... ...y old,” he said. Presently, the madman entered, carrying himself stiffly, chalk faced, chastised. VOICES FROM THE PAST 120 Oblivious of us, a... ... sometimes. No matter. He may have sketches to show me, charcoal, pencil, chalk. “This is something you must take a look at, Maestro...here, this fa... ... able to do this. As the snowfall continues, I shall go on tonight, red chalk and charcoal. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 278 Rome proved to be... ... of language; yet. Writ- ing is not my métier: I prefer a silverpoint or a chalk drawing or the infinite pleas- ure of oil colors. Sitting in the cold... ...sted pots, rags, gold leaf (always being stolen), sketches, frames, saws, chalk, nails, rats. Someone was always leaving food around, wine bottles; ... ... green, tell me saffron, tell me roy- alty, tell me death. And you, red chalk, speak! LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 329 Cloux We think we ...

Full Text Search Details
...riety.” How pale Libus was, in his grey robe, shadows ridging the fabric, chalking his face, thickening his lips, greying his hair. His sandals move... ...y old,” he said. Presently, the madman entered, carrying himself stiffly, chalk faced, chastised. VOICES FROM THE PAST 116 Oblivious of us, a...

Full Text Search Details
...s paper was very expensive, so children were given a board and a piece of chalk to write with, until they learned how to write properly. And before ...

Full Text Search Details
...le. She pinched her nose against the tang of blood and gunpowder and stared at the chalked outline of human legs at the base of the Ming chair. “W... ... so you’re no stranger to bloodiness, are you?” “No,” she said, walking around the chalked outline. “Inhumanity and death during war ceases to be ... ...ckoned. “I want you to check out the wall above the credenza.” They stood at the chalk outline where Royce’s feet had been. Jack pointed to the b... ...ackwards toward the door leading into the hall. He stood five or six feet from the chalked outline. “I’d say he got it in the head from about here.... ...id. “Where were the spent shells?” “There were two by the body.” He pointed to chalked circles. “There should be three.” “Three in a side... ... circled the three-foot tall pit, which was floored with canvas sheeting. Diagonal chalk lines went across corners, designating the centerline, wit...

Full Text Search Details
...omething.:: ::Did it hurt?:: ::Like the dickens, but I got to play hero so chalk up one mark for the nerd team.:: Jewels giggled and focused on the re...