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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

..., Nokia took over Mobira, Salora, Televa and Luxor of Sweden and became a consumer electronics group - manufacturing televisions and such. Nok... ... Nokia continued with its acquisitions spree and, in 1987, bought the consumer electronics operations and part of the component business of the... ... the component business of the German Standard Elektrik Lorenz, the French consumer electronics company Oceanic, and the Swiss cable machinery comp... ...r ship Britannia of the Anchor Line, carrying 500 passengers, was sunk by a German marine raider, Thor, off the west coast of Africa. The few survi...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...so handsome and impressive in his GI Joe outfit she couldn't help herself. Marines? Air Force? Navy? She wasn't sure what branch he was sporting. She ... ... going to attend the party dressed as. As long as he wasn't suited up as a marine, she figured her mental stability would remain intact for the evenin... ...ed. "He's as addicted as the next guy when it comes to anything to do with electronics and sports. Deadly combination." Therese grinned, thought of Ka...

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V I S : Vampires In Space, Volume One: Vampires In Space

By: Anne Marie Talbott

..., I’ve never seen anything like this,” I mutter to the screen in front of me. The stale smelling air in the office circulates slowly around me as the electronics hum in the background. “You know? I’ve been in this business a damn long time and never…” Max grunts as he looks over the vid I’ve sent him. “Spirit! Me neither. What the hell happened? Someone making some craz...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...4 nm Extended economic zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: mostly low-lying w... ...tline: about 72 km Maritime claims: Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: flat with a few hi... ...ation Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream Terrain: long, flat, cora... ...Boundary disputes: none; Diego Garcia claimed by Mauritius Climate: tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds Terrain: flat and low (up to... ...tons (1983) Major industries: food processing, ma- chine and metal building, electronics, chemicals Shortages: some raw materials; scattered energy an... ...b., FY85/86); teak and hardwoods, rice, pulses and beans, base metals, ores, marine products, rubber Imports: $602.32 million (f.o.b., FY85/86); machi... ...sing, ma- chinery and equipment, textiles and cloth- ing, chemical products, electronics, con- struction, furniture, and other wood prod- ucts 64 Dji... ...clothing, chemi- cals, automobiles, food processing, metal- lurgy, aircraft, electronics Shortages: crude oil, natural gas, textile fibers, most nonfe... ...ages of rice, wheat, water Major industries: textiles and clothing, tourism, electronics, plastics, toys, watches, and clocks Shortages: industrial ra...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...al voice device that was equally UDsuceesaful. So Army bought a batch of KY-S's and they and the Marines became the principal users, even though it wa... ...ossible to develop some broad policies with respect to TEMPEST. The MCEB (MiUtary Communications Electronics Board) operating under the JCS, formulate... ...ONAL DYNAMICS 111.tN815E VI... e8MItR' EUIcNNEf:9 8NlJo' ORIGINAL 7 COMIUT e8NFlBEN'fML NOi=ORN Marine Corps is the arch-typc: lean and mcan~ lots of... ...ontents of messqes in support of ftnancial translCtions, 8Dd most especially in the field called Electronics Fund Transfer (EF1j because of demonstrat... ...eavy - KY-38 plus PRC 77 radio, plus batteries, pl. spare batteries weished about 54 pounds. The Marines, especially, tried to overcome this, even lOi... ....2 Army 220 78.9 23 8.2 36 12.9 Navy 99 68.2 2S 17.5 19 13.3 Air Force 199 37.1 118 36.8 84 26.2 Marines 25 55.6 7 15.6 13 28.9 (€) I2sted below arc a... ...9 Army 24 113 43 47 5 F"JIUI'CI shown Navy 7 31 19 0 3 are flnt Air Force 13 104 21 3 10 choices Marines 1 18 4 13 1 Auwer No.1 Auwer No.2 Auwer N•• 3...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book Aquatic ... ...webbing between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed ... ...nt dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flood, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Fr... ...1991. Simon, Irving Bernard. The Story of Printing, from Wood Blocks to Electronics. Irvington-on- Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1965. Smith, Richar...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book Aquatic ... ...webbing between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed ... ...nt dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flood, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Fr... ...1991. Simon, Irving Bernard. The Story of Printing, from Wood Blocks to Electronics. Irvington-on- Hudson, NY: Harvey House, 1965. Smith, Richar...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... place to women and children? Should not he have obeyed the captain's orders (=the marine law)? Should we succumb to laws that put our lives at ris... ...irtual pharmacy and into other virtual businesses. It is now selling music, video, electronics and many other products. It started as a bookstore. ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... place to women and children? Should not he have obeyed the captain's orders (=the marine law)? Should we succumb to laws that put our lives at ris... ...irtual pharmacy and into other virtual businesses. It is now selling music, video, electronics and many other products. It started as a bookstore. ...

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An English Prisioner

By: Charles Dickens

...o command, His Mark, hav- ing then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher C... ...of his Gracious Majesty King George of England, and a private in the Royal Marines. In those climates, you don’t want to do much. I was doing nothing.... .... How I came to be aboard the armed sloop, is easily told. Four-and-twenty marines under command of a lieutenant— that officer’s name was Linderwood—h... ... been captain of the Christopher Columbus, instead of private in the Royal Marines, I should have kicked Christian George King— who was no more a Chri... ...what you like; and much you care for a poor, ignorant Private in the Royal Marines! Y et it’s hard, too, I think, that you should have all the half-pe... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/fac- ulty/jmanis/...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...st’ard; and I was below, mixing a toothful of hot stuff for the captain of marines, who dined, dye see, in the cabin, that there very same day; and I ... ...e medicine chest for a cure; for, as I thought the brew was spoilt for the marine’s taste, and there was no telling when another sea might come and sp... ...mes Fenimore Cooper or he must have made a valuable officer to the British marine. It is no wonder that they overcame the French so easily on the wate... ...ad for a fathom or two, and if you catch me afloat again with such a horse-marine as your self, why, rate me a ship’s jackass, that’s all.” Probably e... ...oon,” during the afternoon and evening, and was now in that state which by marine imagery is called “half-seas-over.” It was no easy thing to destroy ... ...he way for the march of the nation across the continent. To return to the Electronics Classics Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmani...

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David Copperfield Volume One Chapters One through Twenty-Eight

By: Charles Dickens

...ely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and oth- ers, who had the presumption to go meander- ing about t... ...fy myself whether she told me that Mr. Micawber had been an officer in the Marines, or whether I have imagined it. I only know that I believe to this ... ...ve imagined it. I only know that I believe to this hour that he was in the Marines once upon a time, without knowing why. He was a sort of town travel... ...y merchandise to anyone. This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby s, in preference to the r... ...I had had an insane hope that he might take me back again), as if I were a mariner myself, and the ship to which I be- longed had sailed away and left... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...him by deceitful appearances. These are among the bravest and most skilful mariners that exist. Let a gale arise and swell into a storm, let a sea run... ... the stranded fishing boats turn over on their sides, as if they were dead marine monsters; the colliers and other shipping stick disconsolate in the ... ...ugh buggers and cap stans, groups of storm beaten boatmen, like a sort of marine monsters, watched under the lee of those objects, or stood leaning f... ...rought back, pitched into the departing steamer upside down, and caught by mariners disgracefully. A lovely harvest day, a cloudless sky, a tranquil s... ...n for their return voyages. The Lumpers dis pose of their booty easily to marine store dealers, and the only remedy to be suggested is that marine st... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

... signals it, drops rapidly on board of it: “Stop!” fiercely interjects the marine police- man from the ship’s deck.—”Why stop? What use have you for m... ...or you?” and the oars begin playing.— ”Stop, or I’ll shoot you!” cries the marine policeman, draw- ing a pistol.—”No, you won’t.”—”I will!”—”If you do... ...ut I suppose there will be some six weeks of unpleasant tem- perature. The marine climate of this part of England will, no doubt, modify and mollify t... ...te of Nature herself, to do what is now done. Sic prosit. To return to the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ji...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...t spleen; denounces an Aristocrat Bertrand-Moleville traitorous Aristocrat Marine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in... ...ly is not without need of some. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. To return to the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ji...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...nce, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out why ... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...aches, announcing that he is coming among them for their suffrages, as the mariner re- turns to the home of his early childhood: a phrase which is non... ... State are unsound and the Man at the Helm is unskilful, would those great Marine Insurers, who rank among our world-famed merchant-princes—would they... ...ere a shiny black sou’wester suit and hat hung, looking very like a clumsy mariner with his back to the company , who was so curious to overhear, that... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ d...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...premises a deal. His premises are the premises formerly occupied by Krook, marine store dealer—a relation of this gentleman’s that you saw in his life... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...ing in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, 453 B... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...nity of capturing the whole Turkish fleet in harbour was lost; for all the marines and janizzaries that belonged to it made sure that they were about ... ...ether with other strange things that came to pass in the inn Ah me, Love’s mariner am I On Love’s deep ocean sailing; I know not where the haven lies... ..., go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/quixote.htm To return to the Electronics Classics Series page, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jman...

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Little Dorrit Book Two Riches

By: Charles Dickens

...ow the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown... ...twisted about them by the late tide, might have represented an un- sightly marine cemetery. Every wave-dashed, storm-beaten object, was so low and so ... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ d...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...nce, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out why ... ...aches, announcing that he is coming among them for their suffrages, as the mariner re- turns to the home of his early childhood: a phrase which is non... ... State are unsound and the Man at the Helm is unskilful, would those great Marine Insurers, who rank among our world-famed merchant-princes—would they... ...ere a shiny black sou’wester suit and hat hung, looking very like a clumsy mariner with his back to the company , who was so curious to overhear, that... ...ermaid, a dancer’ s Reading of a hornpipe, a singer’s Reading of a song, a marine painter’s Reading of the sea, the kettle-drum’s Read- ing of an inst... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/d...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...ing in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, 453 B... ...premises a deal. His premises are the premises formerly occupied by Krook, marine store dealer—a relation of this gentleman’s that you saw in his life... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/di...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...nity of capturing the whole Turkish fleet in harbour was lost; for all the marines and janizzaries that belonged to it made sure that they were about ... ...ether with other strange things that came to pass in the inn Ah me, Love’s mariner am I On Love’s deep ocean sailing; I know not where the haven lies... ... go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/quixote.htm To return to the Electronics Classics Series page, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jma...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...Midshipman before their owner had well finished speaking. But that ancient mariner might have been excused his in- sensibility to the treasure as it r... ...ssured by the tranquillity that reigned within the precincts of the wooden mariner, the Captain headed for Brig Place, resolving to weigh anchor betim... ...ita- tion, the Captain decided in favour of instructing him to whistle the marine melody, ‘Oh cheerily, cheerily!’ and Rob the Grinder attaining a poi... ...ed for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal- heaver; which is usually termed a sou’wester; and wh... ...rs’ Institution. CHAPTER 39. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CAPT AIN EDWARD CUTTLE, MARINER TIME, SURE OF FOOT and strong of will, had so pressed onward, that ... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/fac- ulty/jmanis/...

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A Plea for Captain John Brown

By: Henry David Thoreau

... Virginia, that put down this insurrection at Harper’s Ferry. She sent the marines there, and she will have to pay the penalty of her sin. Suppose tha... ...rown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge. To Return to The Electronics Classics Series Site http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimsp...

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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

...ingdom. It praised the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines, the 1992 bombing in Aden, and especially the 1993 firefight in Som... ...n learning how to use truck bombs such as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relation- ship between al Qaeda and Iran dem... ...ll as some technical intelligence collection.The Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have their own intelligence components that collect informatio... ...ervice, and their long and proud traditions, the Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have often fought ferociously over roles and missions in war f... ...April 1980 dur- ing the Iranian hostage crisis, when Navy helicopters with Marine pilots flew to a site known as Desert One, some 200 miles southeast ... ...ministrative duties for Abdullah Azzam. KSM next took a job working for an electronics firm that catered to the communications needs of Afghan groups,... ...so installed a sophisticated computerized fire alarm system with redundant electronics and control panels, and state-of-the-art fire command stations ... ...th regard to . . . KSM, ” July 8, 1999. On KSM’s battle experience and his electronics work, see Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 3, ...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...arged over the offenders, but without effect. In this state of things, the marine-store dealer at the cor- 62 Sketches by Boz ner of the street, in t... ...le. How has May-day decayed! 177 Charles Dickens CHAPTER XXI—BROKERS’ AND MARINE-STORE SHOPS WHEN WE AFFIRM that brokers’ shops are strange places, a... ...winging over the door; a board with the squeezed-up inscription ‘Dealer in marine stores, ’ in lanky white let- ters, whose height is strangely out of... ...haracter of Tongo the Denounced. ’ The consequence is, that there is not a marine-store shop in the neighbourhood, which does not exhibit for sale som... ...us take a very different quarter, and apply it to the same test. Look at a marine-store dealer’s, in that reservoir of dirt, drunkenness, and drabs: t... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ d...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (... ...nious, but serious, nay sublime. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. To return to the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ji...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...ermaid, a dancer’ s Reading of a hornpipe, a singer’s Reading of a song, a marine painter’s Reading of the sea, the kettle-drum’s Read- ing of an inst... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/di...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ontain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by ship wrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of... ... more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. Unlike the mariner, they have the constantly vary ing panorama of the shore to reliev... ...h the savage inhabitants of some remote isle stand to the mysterious white mariner, the child of the sun?—as if we were to have dealings with an anim... ... winds. He looks up at the stranger, half pleased, half astonished, with a mariner’s eye, as if he were a dolphin within cast. If men will believe it,... ... clearest days. The Friend is some fair floating isle of palms eluding the mariner in Pacific seas. Many are the dangers to be en countered, equinoct... ...spring freshets. THE END THE END THE END THE END THE END To Return to The Electronics Classics Series Site http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimsp...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar... ...t spleen; denounces an Aristocrat Bertrand-Moleville traitorous Aristocrat Marine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in... ...ciennes and Dunkirk. YOUNG, Arthur, at French Revolution. To return to the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ji...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...he dustman says, I believe, with the stron- gest approval, and so does the marine-store shop in the back street. Gravely, Handel, for the subject is g... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/d...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...ita- tion, the Captain decided in favour of instructing him to whistle the marine melody, ‘Oh cheerily, cheerily!’ and Rob the Grinder attaining a poi... ...ed for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal- heaver; which is usually termed a sou’wester; and wh... ...rs’ Institution. CHAPTER 39. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CAPT AIN EDWARD CUTTLE, MARINER TIME, SURE OF FOOT and strong of will, had so pressed onward, that ... ... were somewhat cooled, as similar appre- hensions on the part of that lone mariner used to be by the lapse of a long interval without any symptoms of ... ...on the more solemn and impressive, ‘was ever delivered unto Ed’ard Cuttle, Mariner, of England, as lives at home at ease, and doth improve each shinin... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ d...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...o; and among those flapping articles was sitting in a chair, like the last mariner left alive on the deck of a damp ship without the power of furling ... ...ow the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown... ...twisted about them by the late tide, might have represented an un- sightly marine cemetery. Every wave-dashed, storm-beaten object, was so low and so ... ...If you would like to receive more works by Charles Dickens in PDF from the Electronics Classics Series, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/di...

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