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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...property and all right, title and interest of Seller in and to adjacent streets, roads, alleys and rights-of-way, and _____________________________... ...property and all right, title and interest of Seller in and to adjacent streets, roads, alleys and rights-of-way, and: ____________________________... ... Skagway-Yakutat, Southeast Fairbanks, Upper Ukon, Valdez-Chitina- Whittier, Wade-Hampton, Wrangell-Petersburg, Yukon-Koyukuk Arizona:Tax Lien Certif... ..., Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, Lexington...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...eet North Adams M Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradman THE HAMPTON Adjacent to Post Office European Pian, $1 anilUp American Plan, $2.... ...be entirely within doors, as the candidates will not be allowed to use the roads until they beooine dry. Training will begin a week from Sunday, altho... ...eet North Adams M Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradman THE HAMPTON European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2,50 to$4 a. Am Keelor, Prop... ...M) Frequently Represented in Williamstcwn by Mr Bradman VALUABLE BOOKS THE HAMPTON Adjaaont to Post Offioo European Plan, $1andUp Amerloan Plan, $2.50... ... AR3 THIS LA'ir M Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradman THE HAMPTON European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2.50 to$4 AdJacBtit to Post ... ...s. ! • \ . .\ ( Frequently Represented in Williamstown by Mr Bradmao ^ THE HAMPTON Adjaoant to Post Oifloe European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2m50... ...C. A. meeting, Jesap Hall. CROSSCOUNTRY BuIIard '08 Wins HandicapRun- Poor Roads Cause Slow Time The annual cross country run of the Hare and Hounds o... ... records made over the same course on account of the poor condition of the roads. The actual running time was slightly less than half an hour. Bullard... ...ds, by equalizing the rates in force on competing line?. Ruin of the rail- roads means destruction to pros- perity. The negative, he stated, instead o...

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

...sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death... ...For half a minute, perhaps, he stared silently. “I was walking through the roads to clear my brain,” he said. “And suddenly—fire, earthquake, death!” ... ...ple of Walton and Weybridge, and all the dis- trict were pouring along the roads Londonward, and that was all. My brother went to church at the Foundl... ...o get off at once because the Martians are coming. We heard guns firing at Hampton Court station, but we thought it was thunder. What the dickens does... ...nday visitors. They seemed to increase as night drew on, until at last the roads, my brother said, were like Epsom High Street on a Derby Day. My brot... ...of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams of the electric light vanished,... ... made me think of what I had read of the destruction of Pompeii. We got to Hampton Court without misadventure, our minds full of strange and unfa- mil... ...sadventure, our minds full of strange and unfa- miliar appearances, and at Hampton Court our eyes were relieved to find a patch of green that had esca... ...der the chestnuts, and some men and women hurrying in the distance towards Hampton, and so we came to T wickenham. These were the first people we saw....

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...tion to the clergyman of her parish. She was at feud with the Rev. Stephen Hampton-Evey, and would not take, she said, a man to be a bootblack in her ... ... in her kitchen upon his rec- ommendation. She described the person of Mr. Hampton- Evey, his manner of speech, general opinions, professional doctrin... ... was thinking, as he reviewed the frittered appearance of the Rev. Stephen Hampton-Evey in Lady Charlotte’s hinds, of the possibility that Lord Ormont... ...ear, they’re in the habit of saying—we are to fear God. A man here, a Rev. Hampton-Evey, you’ll hear him harp on ‘fear God.’ Hypo- crites may: honest ... ...all the while outside the world He created. Those parsons, I told the Rev. Hampton-Evey here, make infidels— they make a puzzle of their God. I’m for ... ...ing women; whom he likened to the randomly protestant geese of our country roadside, heads out a yard in a gabble of defence while they go backing. So... ...nspoken defence of him shook her to floods of tears. CHAPTER XVI ALONG TWO ROADS TO STEIGNTON UNACCOUNTABLE RESOLUTIONS, if impromptu and springing fr... ...ook- ing out of the window, to forget her companion. The dull- ness of the roads and streets opening away to flat fields com- bined with the postillio... ...to Steignton. He came on her track at the village at the junc- tion of the roads above Ashead, and thence, confiding in the half-connivance or utter s...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

...cry dimly through the dusk the central figure of this story sitting by the roadside and rubbing his leg at some new place, and his friend, sym- pathet... ...ue across the road, the morning sunlight was like amber fire. At the cross-roads at the top of West Hill, where the cattle trough stands, he turned to... ...oaching the high road along an af- fluent from the villas of Surbiton. fee roads converged slantingly. She was travelling at about the same pace as Mr... ...as Mr. Hoopdriver. The appearances pointed to a meeting at the fork of the roads. Hoopdriver was seized with a horrible conflict of doubts. By contras... ... course. But even that was a little suggestive of a funeral. Meanwhile the roads converged. She was looking at him. She was flushed, a little thin, an... ... norous gong. This figure passes through Basingstoke and Bagshot, Staines, Hampton, and Richmond. At last, in Putney High Street, glowing with the war...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...old Cox. So we pass, mostly in automobiles that bump tremendously over war roads, a cloud of witnesses each testifying after his manner. What- ever el... ...ooking men. I have seen thousands of poilus sitting about in cafes, by the roadside, in tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have seen Alpini sitting res... ... upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Napoleon dr... ...to locate Venice. My earlier rides in V enetia began always with the level roads of the plain, roads frequently edged by watercourses, with plentiful ... ...t gravi- tates back now—as though there had been no Napoleon. And upon the roads and beside them was the enormous equipment of a modern army advancing... ... lounge in attitudes of haughty pride that would shame the ceiling gods of Hampton Court. One 63 H G Wells passes through arcades of waiting motor va...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Three

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...edition on which he was going; and as Chelsey was distant from London, the roads bad, and infested by footpads, and Esmond often in the habit, when en... ... packets passed daily between the Dutch and Flemish ports and Harwich; the roads thence to London and the great inns were crowded with army gentlemen;... ...s hanging round about her. When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond pa... ...ate carried him. Mistress Beatrix was away in attendance on her Majesty at Hampton Court, and kissed her fair fingertips to him, by way of adieu, when... ...s since, whilst you were on your visit to your friend Cap- tain Steele, at Hampton. He told us all that you had done, and how nobly you had put yourse... ...to arrive, had driven to Kensington from their country-house, the Hovel at Hampton Wick. “Not from our mansion in Bloomsbury Square,” as Mrs. Steele t... .... Steele took care to inform the ladies. Indeed Harry had ridden away from Hampton that very morning, leav- ing the couple by the ears; for from the c...

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An Internationial Episode

By: Henry James

...ness; of occasions on which they knew everyone and everything and had an extraordinary sense of ease; of drives and rides in the late afternoon over g... ...aid, “as one of your mistakes—to your credit.” And as if he disliked talking about his position, he changed the subject. “I wish you would let me go w... ... Bessie Alden was in ecstasies; she went about murmuring and exclaiming. “It’s too lovely,” said the young girl; “it’s too enchant- ing; it’s too exac...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...id. I handed the envelope back to him. “For a moment I thought it might be Hampton,” I said. “Hampton,” he repeated. “Hampton. How could you make Hamp... ...e black for a moment and vanished, like a threatening figure by a desolate roadside lit for a moment by one’s belated carriage- lamp and then swallowe... ... will he talk to my mother or call in the po- lice? Then there are a dozen roads and even railways out of the Clayton region, how is he to know which ... ...all possibilities of a panic in this matter. The very tramps upon the high-roads, the chil- dren in the nursery, had learnt that at the utmost the who... ...to the plotting out of nearly all the country round the seaside towns into roads and building-plots—all but a small portion of the south and east coas... ...gents’ boards in every state of freshness and decay, ill-made exploitation roads overgrown with grass, and here and there, at a corner, a label, “T ra...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...mpanies of alternate sections of land upon the contemplated lines of their roads, which when com- pleted will so largely multiply the facilities for r... ...stant, requesting information in relation to a conference recently held in Hampton Roads, I have the honor to state that on the day of the date I gave... ...equesting information in relation to a conference recently held in Hampton Roads, I have the honor to state that on the day of the date I gave Francis... ... Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven On the night of the 2nd I reached Hampton Roads, found the Secretary of State and Major Eckert on a steamer a... ...s of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven On the night of the 2nd I reached Hampton Roads, found the Secretary of State and Major Eckert on a steamer anchored ... ... Richmond gentlemen were on another steamer also anchored offshore, in the Roads, and that the Secretary of State had not yet seen or communi- cated w... ...mpbell on board the United States steam transport River Queen in Hamp- ton Roads. The conference was altogether informal. There was no attendance of... ...0, 1865 REAR-ADMIRAL DA VID D. PORTER, Commanding North Atlantic Squadron, Hampton Roads, V a. SIR:—It is made my agreeable duty to enclose herewith t...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...eater part of it was very Charles Dickens 9 misty and cold. There were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no houses that you would think de serving o... ...much to improve the condition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, and arm the... ...ed by the gardener’s spade. Wells that the Romans sunk, still yield water; roads that the Romans made, form part of our highways. In some old battle f... ...d ing it, or desiring to be foremost with the rest, came pressing on. The roads for a great dis tance were covered with this immense army, and with ... ...as amusing himself with archery in the garden of the magnificent Palace at Hampton Court, which that very Wolsey had presented to him. The greatest em... ...y, under the name of a conference, met, first at York, and af terwards at Hampton Court. In its presence Lord Lennox, Darnley’s father, openly charge... ...ft his palace at Whitehall, and went away with his Queen and chil dren to Hampton Court. It was the eleventh of May, when the five members were carri... ... their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton Court, the gentle men and soldiers who had been with him followed ... ...s Kingston upon Thames; next day, Lord Digby came to them from the King at Hampton Court, in his coach and six, to inform them that the King accepted ...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

... on his sword-stick, and then off we went for a day’s pleasuring—Richmond, Hampton Court, the Surrey Hills. Why shouldn’t we go, Katharine? It’s going... ...he extreme leanness of his person, which, they said, was worn out upon the roads when it should have been resting before a comfort- able fire. His eld... ...R XVIII But other passengers were approaching Lincoln mean- while by other roads on foot. A county town draws the inhabitants of all vicarages, farms,... ...m, on this occasion, were Ralph Denham and Mary Datchet. They despised the roads, and took their way across the fields; and yet, from their appearance... ...e grade of the atmosphere such as a traveler meets with sometimes upon the roads, particularly after sunset, when, without warning, he runs from clamm... ...weather was almost kindly enough for an expedition. But Cassandra rejected Hampton Court, Greenwich, Richmond, and Kew in favor of the Zoological Gard... ...hod of prolonging it was to plan another expedition for the following day. Hampton Court was decided upon, in preference to Hampstead, for though Cass... ...tions completely and for ever to William III. Accordingly, they arrived at Hampton Court about lunch- time on a fine Sunday morning. Such unity marked... ... urbanely, pleased at the diversion. “I think they said they were going to Hampton Court, and I rather believe they were taking a protege of mine, Ral...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... cut off the hope of immediate conciliation. Immediately afterward all the roads and avenues to this city were obstructed, and the capital was put int... ...e enemy now? GENERAL McCLELLAN: From four to five miles from us on all the roads—I think nearly the whole army—both Hills, Longstreet, Jackson, Magrud... ...ttle to the enemy, or drive him south. Y our army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Wash- ington, ... ...n a march? His route is the arc of a circle, while yours is the chord. The roads are as good on yours as on his. You know I desired, but did not order... ...-GENERAL Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days? A. LINCOLN. 241 The Writings of Ab... ... Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days? A. LINCOLN. 241 The Writings of Abraham Li...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...e got to the fork between the Huntingdon Road and the Cottenham Road, both roads were clear. He spent some time in hesitation. Then he went along the ... ... there were passen- ger steamboats that would take one from the meadows of Hampton Court past the whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Gre... ...ers of the clan; and in the evening, at the foot of a steep hill where two roads met, he sat down to consider whether he should go back and spend the ... ... sud- den infatuation for a swindler’s daughter, a girl who runs about the roads with a couple of retrievers hunting for a man, you must spoil all my ... ..., magnificent and steadfast enough, to hold the cit- ies, and maintain the roads, keep the peace and subdue the brutish hates and suspicions and cruel... ...e secluded and remote, and indisposed to be of service to an alien sister. Roads are infrequent and most bridges have broken down. No bridge has been ...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...n, perforce, into the great bleak lonely place before the Palace, with its roads branching off to all the towns in the world, which Louis and Napoleon... ... Miss Angelica Catacomb no one can tell. He met her, he says, at a ball at Hampton Court, where his regiment was quar- tered, and where, to this day, ... ... have had the honour to know so exalted a person. “I mean old Lady Pash of Hampton Court. Fat woman— fair, ain’t she?—and wears an amethyst in her for...

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The Trespasser

By: D. H. Lawrence

...oud had crawled across the desert of sky, and hidden themselves. The chalk roads were white, quivering with heat. Helena and Siegmund walked eastward ... ...pter 21 Chapter 21 THE TALL WHITE YACHTS in a throng were lounging off the roads of Ryde. It was near the regatta time, so these proud creatures had f... ...s very bright and crowded. White sails leaned slightly and filed along the roads; two yachts with sails of amber floated, it seemed, with- out motion,... ...o you say, Mother?’ said Vera, as if resuming a conversation. ‘Shall it be Hampton Court or Richmond on Sunday?’ ‘I say, as I said before,’ replied Be...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...pared for our coming, and he came out in his coach to meet us at the cross-roads. My brother saw the mourning liveries approach- ing, and gave me noti... ...er ladies of the bedchamber; and then we spoke of King Charles, who was at Hampton Court, trying to make terms with the Parlia- ment, and my brother s... ...o guard us from any of the thieves or straggling soldiers who infested the roads. For about a league all went well and quietly, but just at the cross-... ...d twists at last towards Paris; but to my dismay, when I came to the paved roads that surround the city, I lost all traces. I knew I was a remarkable ... ...lost all traces. I knew I was a remarkable figure when we were on the high roads, and so I kept back, making one of the servants inquire at a little c... ... shining mirrors for tree, wind- mill, bridge, and house, the broad smooth roads, and Milicent, holding one of my hands, lay back on the cush- ions, d...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book One

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Esmond learned from seeing Doctor Tusher in his best cas- sock (though the roads were muddy, and he never was known to wear his silk, only his stuff o... ...k, and others, was set on foot, for waylaying King William as he came from Hampton Court to London, and a secret plot was formed, in which a vast numb... ...se he had, drawn by a pair of small horses, and running as swift, wherever roads were good, as a Laplander’s sledge. When this carriage came, his lord...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...part, or Ascabart, makes a very material figure in the History of Bevis of Hampton, by whom he was conquered. His effigies may be seen guarding one si... ..., opposite Inch-Cailliach. In the olden time it was one of the established roads for making raids into the Low- lands. 180 The Lady of the Lake 77. D...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... afresh, from the day that the ship spread her canvas and stood out of the roads towards home, our friend began to amend, and he was quite well (thoug... ...rd the Ramchumder, very sick, and for the three days she lay in the Madras Roads, he did not begin to rally, nor did even the appearance and recogniti... ...ns where landlords came out to welcome him with smiles and bows; by pretty roadside inns, where the signs hung on the elms, and horses and waggoners w... ...re. Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flam- ing yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond ... ...mmission, but pillag- ing for themselves, and occasionally gibbeted by the roadside. Well, she was hanging on the arm of Major Loder, and they went th...

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Little Dorrit Book Two Riches

By: Charles Dickens

... steep and narrow village streets, and had been carrying all day along the roads and lanes. Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere... ...ets, and jerked out at the town gate. Among the day’s unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on tree... ...hat hung in the doorways. From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through squalid villages, where there was not a ... ...ay when Clennam was at the cottage, the Dowager Mrs Gowan drove up, in the Hampton Court equi- page which pretended to be the exclusive equipage of so... ...d to hand her to the Pill-Box which was at the service of all the Pills in Hampton Court Palace; and she got into that vehicle with distinguished sere... ...ou will have the kindness to look for this foreign gentleman along all the roads and up and down all the turnings and to make inquiries for him at all... ...s lighter to breathe than the air of England. On again by the heavy French roads for Paris. Having now quite recovered his equanimity, Mr Dorrit, in h...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...bly, after all his practice on those night mares they call his “celebrated Hampton Court cartoons.” Raphael was a bird. We had several of his chrom... ...ion which was perfect. My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and estab lishing connection with any considerable towns whose l... ...mned him to eternal fire, the gentle law buried him at midnight at the cross roads with a stake through his back, and his master the baron or the bish... ...f the country without damage. I found a comfortable seat for the king by the roadside, and then gave him a morsel or two to stay his stomach with. The... ...ast. I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long la... ...ts. We traveled pretty fast, and finally drew rein some time after dark at a roadside inn some ten or twelve miles from the scene of our troubles. My ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...rs Boffin wants an orphan quite nineteen, who drives a cart and waters the roads.’ Mr Milvey referred the point to Mrs Boffin in a look; on that smili... ... up a joint establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn, and a boat-house; and all...

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

...enus de Medicis. Perhaps, too, thou hast seen the gallery of beau ties at Hampton Court. Thou may’st remember each bright Churchill of the galaxy, an... ...; though unhap pily, indeed, the badness of the neighbourhood, and of the roads, made this of little use; for none who had set much value on their ne... ...ake?”— ”Why, you must keep the strait road.”—”But I remember there are two roads, one to the right and the other to the left.”—”Why, you must keep the... ...ing a little cold? I wish, indeed, we had a guide to advise which of these roads we should take.”—”May I be so bold,” says Partridge, “to offer my adv... ...oning our horses, scrambled as well as we could through the fields and bye roads, till we arrived at a little wild hut on a com mon, where a poor old... ... knowing which way I went, and making it my chief care to avoid all public roads and all towns—nay, even the most homely houses; for I imagined every ...

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

...ainst the wall of a house, Oliver saw written up in pretty large letters, ‘Hampton.’ They lingered about, in the fields, for some hours. At length the... ...quor that had been drunk. Shortly re 271 OLIVER TWIST marking that their roads were different, he departed, with out more ceremony than an emphatic... ...e acted upon this impluse without delay, and choosing the least frequented roads began his journey back, resolved to lie concealed within a short dist...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...rs Boffin wants an orphan quite nineteen, who drives a cart and waters the roads.’ Mr Milvey referred the point to Mrs Boffin in a look; on that smili... ... up a joint establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn, and a boat-house; and all... ...gedly honest creatures, women and men, fare on their toiling way along the roads of life. Patiently to earn a spare bare liv- ing, and quietly to die,... ...Mr Boffin’s house since she trudged off. The weather had been hard and the roads had been bad, and her spirit was up. A less stanch spirit might have ... ...tle quiet High Street; at still other times she would explore the outlying roads for great houses, and would ask leave at the Lodge to pass in with he... ... FOR HELP THE PAPER MILL had stopped work for the night, and the paths and roads in its neighbourhood were sprinkled with clusters of people going hom...

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Heartsease or Brother's Wife

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...uld be made to work. I long to give him a pickaxe, and set him on upon the roads. Then he would see the beauty of them! I hate to hear him maunder on ... ...ld be very pleasant. Mrs. Bryanstone had one of these parties last year to Hampton Court, and she told me that unless they were well managed they were... ...y the ladies alone, further offering him a seat in his cab as far as their roads lay together. Highly gratified, Albert proceeded to ask his sister wh...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...e- sire for movement; and he remembered those walks at night through muddy roads to the par- ish church at Blackstable, and the coldness of that bleak... ...ich the hot blue seemed to drip like beads of sweat, and broad white dusty roads, and pale roofs out of which the sun had burnt the colour , and olive... ...He felt dirty and wished he could have a wash. At last he found himself at Hampton Court. He felt that if he did not have something to eat he would cr... ...He was thankful for the beauty of England. He thought of the winding white roads and the hedgerows, the green mead- ows with their elm-trees, the deli...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... afresh, from the day that the ship spread her canvas and stood out of the roads towards home, our friend began to amend, and he was quite well (thoug... ...rd the Ramchumder, very sick, and for the three days she lay in the Madras Roads, he did not begin to rally, nor did even the appearance and recogniti... ...ns where landlords came out to welcome him with smiles and bows; by pretty roadside inns, where the signs hung on the elms, and horses and waggoners w... ...re. Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flam- ing yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond ... ...mmission, but pillag- ing for themselves, and occasionally gibbeted by the roadside. Well, she was hanging on the arm of Major Loder, and they went th...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...ew of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, which, in- deed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader do... ...re only beginning to appreciate. In turn, Samuel Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, took up his work as a trainer of youth. He had very raw ... ...am indebted to Robert C. Ogden, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute and the intimate friend of General Armstrong during the w... ...racter of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Institute, but it was done at Hampton by white men. The plan had, i... ...tions is a positive evil. This is a demonstration of the efficiency of the Hampton-Tuskegee idea that stands like the demon- stration of the value of ... ...some time. As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads post-office called Hale’s Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do n... ...ted to have attend it. The most of my travelling was done over the country roads, with a mule and a cart or a mule and a buggy wagon for conveyance. I... ...rly years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or travelled country roads in the North for days and days without receiving a dollar. Often as i...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...not signify, if they will only have the sense to stop when we get into the roads.” But they hadn’t. Mary heard a chorus from “Der Freischutz,” beginni... ...frost. The Christmas holidays led to more walking than ever. The gravelled roads of Belforest were never impassable, even in moist weather; and even t... ...uch loss of time and hindrance to the many who had profited by the private roads. The Sunday promenade was a great deprivation; nurses and children we... ...e vanity of the few, viz., that all Kenminster should be confined to dusty roads all the year round in order that Allen may bring down the youngest so... ...one knew what a relief it would be not to have to take drives when all the roads were beset with traction engines. She had so far helped Armine out of... ... are to meet some of them, are you not?” “Yes, on Thursday week, at Roland Hampton’s wedding. Cecil and I and a whole lot of us go down in the morning... ...only a chapelry, there is a special licence, and Cecil is hunting with the Hamptons, and comes with them on Monday.” “Special licence! Happy Mrs. Coff... ...was not kept long waiting. Then came the whirl of arrivals, Cecil with his Hampton cousins, Sir James Evelyn and Armine, Jessie and her General, and t...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

... to San Antonio was then computed at one hundred and fifty miles. Now that roads exist it is probably less. From San Antonio to Austin we computed the... .... In view of the im- mense bodies of men moved on the same day over narrow roads, through dense forests and across large streams, in our late war, it ... ...s some delay in getting supplies ashore from vessels at anchor in the open roadstead. CHAPTER VII THE MEXICAN WAR—THE BATTLE OF PALO ALTO—THE BATTLE O... ... night. The chap- arral before us was impenetrable except where there were roads or trails, with occasionally clear or bare spots of small dimensions.... ...nce. Learning later of Sheridan’s going with two divi- sions, he also sent Hampton with two divisions of cavalry, his own and Fitz-Hugh Lee’s. Sherida... ...revilian, while Fitz-Hugh Lee was the same night at T revilian Station and Hampton but a few miles away. During the night Hampton ordered an advance o... ...to destroy the Weldon and South Side roads. Now that Sheridan was safe and Hampton free to return to Richmond with his cavalry, Wilson’s position beca... ...nal ob- jective. Bragg had now been sent to Augusta with some troops. Wade Hampton was there also trying to raise cavalry suffi- cient to destroy Sher... ..., and announced his purpose as soon as his men could em- bark to start for Hampton Roads. Porter represented to him that he had sent to Beaufort for m...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., and contained 10,590 acres of land, of which 2600 were in common, 372 in roads and lanes, about 1000 under growth of coppice-wood, and the rest eith... ...as dying that Richard was requested by the “Rump” to resign, and return to Hampton Court, with the promise of a pension and of payment of the debts in... ...g in a grove. At a short distance eastward of the churchyard begin the two roads, both leading to Otterbourne; the northern one, part of which still b... ...gins. Every line in the 91 Charlotte M. Yonge place is a curve-hedges, roads, gardens and all, and this gives the view a peculiar grace, so that o... ... stage coach at early dawn The journey was begun. And through the turnpike roads till eve T rotted the horses four, With inside passengers and out ... ...Cuckoo Bushes. (H. quadrangulum). Mallow (Malva sylvestris).—Everywhere by roadsides, used to be esteemed by old women as a healing “yarb.” Musk M. (M...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Esmond learned from seeing Doctor Tusher in his best cas- sock (though the roads were muddy, and he never was known to wear his silk, only his stuff o... ...k, and others, was set on foot, for waylaying King William as he came from Hampton Court to London, and a secret plot was formed, in which a vast numb... ...se he had, drawn by a pair of small horses, and running as swift, wherever roads were good, as a Laplander’s sledge. When this carriage came, his lord... ...edition on which he was going; and as Chelsey was distant from London, the roads bad, and infested by footpads, and Esmond often in the habit, when en... ... packets passed daily between the Dutch and Flemish ports and Harwich; the roads thence to London and the great inns were crowded with army gentlemen;... ...s hanging round about her. When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond pa... ...ate carried him. Mistress Beatrix was away in attendance on her Majesty at Hampton Court, and kissed her fair fingertips to him, by way of adieu, when... ...s since, whilst you were on your visit to your friend Cap- tain Steele, at Hampton. He told us all that you had done, and how nobly you had put yourse... ...driven to Kensington from their country-house, the Hovel at 287 Thackeray Hampton Wick. “Not from our mansion in Bloomsbury Square,” as Mrs. Steele t...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

..., and always watched by Roman soldiers. The Romans made beautiful straight roads all over the country, and they built towns. Almost all the towns whos... ...g the town of Meaux, where there was a very cruel robber, who made all the roads to Paris unsafe, and by the time he had taken it his health was much ... ...ut just as the war was going to begin, as he was riding near his palace of Hampton Court, his horse trod into a mole-hill, and he fell, breaking his c... ...es than anyone thought of. Sixty years before, when he began to reign, the roads were so bad that it took three days to go by coach to London from Bat...

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...arts, and convey it into their barns. We went through the town of Staines. Hampton Court, a Royal Palace, magnificently built with brick by Cardinal W... ... a small hill: whilst we stopped here in doubt, and consulted which of the roads we should take, we saw all on a sudden on our right hand some horseme...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else. Far away the staring roads, deep in dust, stared from the hill-side, stared from the hollow, sta... ... feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose—and so deep a hush was on ... ...le who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,’ was the composed reply; ‘and what it is set to 30 Charles Dickens ... ...Y ard. For instance, if they see a man with his wife and children going to Hampton Court in a Wan, perhaps once in a year, they says, ‘Hallo! I though... ...e in power had added certain shady and sedate apartments in the Palaces at Hampton Court, where the old lady still lived, deploring the degeneracy of ... ... twelve shillings he then had in his pocket) should have trudged the dusty roads respectfully. Thus, now boasting, now despairing, in either fit a cap... ... lives in a most primitive manner down in that dreary red-brick dungeon at Hampton Court,’ said Gowan. ‘If you would make your own appointment, sugges... ...asy relations with that Power), Mrs Merdle occupied a front row. True, the Hampton Court Bohemians, without exception, turned up their noses at Merdle... ...mself, and who jobbed it by the day, or hour, to most of the old ladies in Hampton Court Palace; but it was a point of cer- emony, in that encampment,...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else. Far away the staring roads, deep in dust, stared from the hill-side, stared from the hollow, sta... ... feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of be- ings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose—and so deep a hush was on ... ...le who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,’ was the composed reply; ‘and what it is set to 30 Charles Dickens ... ...Y ard. For instance, if they see a man with his wife and children going to Hampton Court in a Wan, perhaps once in a year, they says, ‘Hallo! I though... ...e in power had added certain shady and sedate apartments in the Palaces at Hampton Court, where the old lady still lived, deploring the degeneracy of ... ... twelve shillings he then had in his pocket) should have trudged the dusty roads respectfully. Thus, now boasting, now despairing, in either fit a cap... ... lives in a most primitive manner down in that dreary red-brick dungeon at Hampton Court,’ said Gowan. ‘If you would make your own appointment, sugges... ...asy relations with that Power), Mrs Merdle occupied a front row. True, the Hampton Court Bohemians, without exception, turned up their noses at Merdle... ...mself, and who jobbed it by the day, or hour, to most of the old ladies in Hampton Court Palace; but it was a point of cer- emony, in that encampment,...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

... 90 When by the son the trembling father died, Where the three roads the Phocian fields divide; If I the Sphynx’s riddles durst explain, T... .... Roberts. Folio. An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton Court (Lord H—y). Printed for J. Roberts. Folio. A Letter from Mr C... ... or Laguerre:’ V errio (Antonio) painted many ceil- ings, &c., at Windsor, Hampton Court, &c; and Laguerre at Blenheim Castle, and other places.—P . 5... ...an letter:’ the letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice. ‘Et tibi quae Samios diduxit litera ramos.’—Pers....

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...e place. The Gordian knot was all very well in its way: so was the maze of Hampton Court: so is the maze at the Beulah Spa: so were the ties of stiff ... ..., or in the park, as soon as possible. Pedestrians linger in groups at the roadside, unable to resist the allurements of the stout proprietress of the... ...m; at least, that is the case with us. Then 137 Charles Dickens on smooth roads people frequently get prosy, and tell long stories, and even those wh...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...ng. Satisfactory replies being made to these queries, he surmised that the roads were pretty heavy arter that fall last night, and took the liberty of... ...he lamps were lighted, and a great to-do occasioned by the taking up, at a roadside inn, of a very fastidious lady with an infinite variety of cloaks ... ...ce, he stumbled upon an empty barn within a couple of hundred yards of the roadside; in a warm corner of which, he stretched his weary limbs, and soon... ...us communities of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of a... ...ight had already closed in, when they turned off the path to the door of a roadside inn, yet twelve miles short of Portsmouth. ‘T welve miles,’ said N... ...ickens CHAPTER 50 INVOLVES A SERIOUS CATASTROPHE THE LITTLE RACE-COURSE at Hampton was in the full tide and height of its gaiety; the day as dazzling ... ...nts. There were the Stranger’s club-house, the Ath- enaeum club-house, the Hampton club-house, the St James’ s club-house, and half a mile of club-hou...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...ing very fine they strolled out at the garden-gate into some lanes and bye-roads, and sauntered up and down until it grew quite dark. The time seemed ... ... roof. CHAPTER 50 INVOLVES A SERIOUS CATASTROPHE THE LITTLE RACE-COURSE at Hampton was in the full tide and height of its gaiety; the day as dazzling ... ...nts. There were the Stranger’s club-house, the Ath- enaeum club-house, the Hampton club-house, the St James’s club-house, and half a mile of club-hous...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...e place. The Gordian knot was all very well in its way: so was the maze of Hampton Court: so is the maze at the Beulah Spa: so were the ties of stiff ... ..., or in the park, as soon as possible. Pedestrians linger in groups at the roadside, unable to resist the allurements of the stout proprietress of the... ...m; at least, that is the case with us. Then 137 Charles Dickens on smooth roads people frequently get prosy, and tell long stories, and even those wh... ... necessaries of life. The house was a white one, a little removed from the roadside, with close palings in front. The bedroom windows were always left... ...nts, the wind howled among the 463 Charles Dickens trees that skirted the roadside, and I was obliged to proceed at a foot-pace, for I could hardly s... ... rain poured in torrents, the wind howled among the trees that skirted the roadside, and I was obliged to proceed at a foot-pace, for I could hardly s...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ional Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other facilities, not on “alert, ” would need time to... ...ficers suggested that the tribals would prefer to try a raid rather than a roadside ambush because they would have better control, it would be less da... ...atience of some of the officials who felt they had already been down these roads and who found the NSC’s procedures slow.“We weren’t going fast enough...

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