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...chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Grasping the heavy frame, he lowered himself and the taut leather squeaked. I placed a ... ... leers, their whispers. I lifted his face toward mine and kissed him, his heavy beard sticking my mouth. There was a sob—a broken gasp. How ill he l... ...collection of war shields displayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and c... ...r. Arms around her, I forced her to tow me toward shore, making myself as heavy as possible. As the four of us played on the beach, I thought: When ... ..., Phaon at the door, Thasos wanting me to hide, children whimpering. The drummers were signaling each other, the surf sullen, the wind rising. In a... ...at submerge in whorls. How quiet the blue, how serene where afternoon sun polishes a path aimed for the shore, Cretan, Ethiopian, Etruscan, where me... ...a chain...taking it, I made out the letters my mother had gouged...in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, sen... ... 137 “My coin didn’t bring luck to him,” I said. “A coin means what? Metal can’t tell us about life...only we can tell...to one another...” “W...

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...chair.” “Can I sit down on it?” “Yes, it’s ready for you.” Grasping the heavy frame, he lowered himself and the taut leather squeaked. I placed a ... ... leers, their whispers. I lifted his face toward mine and kissed him, his heavy beard sticking my mouth. There was a sob—a broken gasp. How ill he l... ...collection of war shields displayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and c... ...r. Arms around her, I forced her to tow me toward shore, making myself as heavy as possible. As the four of us played on the beach, I thought: When ... ...at submerge in whorls. How quiet the blue, how serene where afternoon sun polishes a path aimed for the shore, Cretan, Ethiopian, Etruscan, where me... ...a chain...taking it, I made out the letters my mother had gouged...in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, sen... ... 141 “My coin didn’t bring luck to him,” I said. “A coin means what? Metal can’t tell us about life...only we can tell...to one another...” “W... ...y finely woven wires. And there was a day when Andrea’s famous sphere was polished and ready. How it glistened! How proud he was, how proud all of u... ... sketches of a spool- winding machine; I remember I evolved my machine for polishing crystals. My sketchbook filled...my ellipsograph, my new perspec...

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...s to the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Bec... ...the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Because t... ...eparate one wavelength from another. All stringed instruments with frets use metal bars as buffers to separate one particular wavelength from the re... ...s to the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Bec... ...the rest of the star. This is why cooling Stars end up as dead lumps of heavy metals: whose atomic weights begin either at 26, 38, or 50. Because t... ...skeletal bones of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a th... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucki... ...e you die, that table will not care one speck about all the hours you wasted polishing it. This is the one-sided, imbalanced insanity of living th... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s Oak table for twenty years. Once y...

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...at was made of oak, which had grown dark with age, but had been rubbed and polished till it shone as bright as mahogany. It was very large and heavy, ... ...ed and polished till it shone as bright as mahogany. It was very large and heavy, and had. a back that rose high above Grandfather’s white head. This ... ...“Yes, you may take her,” said he, in his rough way, “and you’ll find her a heavy burden enough!” On the wedding day, we may suppose that honest John H... ... chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible! Would not this be a heavy toil? But if the task were, not to write off the English Bible, but t... ...he room, opposite to a tall looking glass, stands our beloved chair, newly polished, and adorned with a gorgeous cushion of crimson velvet tufted with... ...in a corner of the room stands his gold headed cane, made of a beautifully polished West India wood. Somewhat such an aspect as this did Sir William P... ...en the gold and silver at the bottom, had there been any of those precious metals there. Nothing, how ever, could they see, nothing more valuable tha... ...rnor Shirley and General Pepperell riding slowly along the line, while the drummers beat strange old tunes, like psalm tunes, and all the officers and...

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...nction between a sled, or sledge, and a sleigh, the sleigh being shod with metal. Sleighs are also subdivided into two -horse and one-horse sleighs. O... ... period, Richard had completed his design. He had availed himself, in this heavy undertaking, of the experience of a certain wandering eastern mechani... ... be flat, and with four faces. To this arrangement, Marmaduke objected the heavy snows that lay for months, frequently covering the earth to a depth o... ... mountains were beautifully undulating. Near to this, in a corner, stood a heavy, old-fashioned, brass-faced clock, incased in a high box, of the dark... ...f was frequently applied to the glittering steel, as if to remove from the polished surfaces the least impediment which might exist to the most delica... ...iron rods, that bore on their ends the letters N. S. E. and W, in the same metal. The whole was surmounted by an imitation of one of the finny tribe, ... ...arly period of American commerce. The knives and forks were of exquisitely polished steel, and were set in unclouded ivory . So much, being furnished ... ...y in that half of the congregation who did not enjoy the advantages of the polish of the village. A sallow skin, that indicated nothing but exposure, ... ...n these hills: and I do believe that I have seen specimens of the precious metals that have been found here. It would occasion me no surprise to learn...

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..., uneducated, brave, suffering terrific hardships with sailor like stoicism; heavy drinkers, coarse frolickers in moral sties like the Natchez under t... ...oarse frolickers in moral sties like the Natchez under the hill of that day, heavy fighters, reckless fellows, every one, elephantinely jolly, foul wi... ...undance of room for them in our great pilot house. Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt fronts, diamond breast pins, kid glov... ...rned; there isn’t any getting around it. A clear starlight night throws such heavy shadows that if you didn’t know the shape of a shore perfectly you ... ...man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him, sir.” At eight o’clock, pro... ...ey break camp and go for the woods.” After rounding out and finishing up and polishing off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably i... ...ene of the surrender of Vicksburg to General Grant by General Pemberton. Its metal will preserve it from the hackings and chippings which so defaced i... ...er, with the photograph; all these vague figures lavishly chained and ringed—metal in dicated and secured from doubt by stripes and splashes of vivid... ...en profane. He had also a superabun dance of the discordant, ear splitting, metallic laugh com mon to his breed—a machine made laugh, a Frankenstein...

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...l lights at last on the toiled shoulders of an august Representative Body. Heavy- laden National Assembly! It has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts... ... Pauw, Recherches sur les Grecs, &c.) The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but w... ... he was sneered at by cold worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man of polished sarcasm; and moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soiree... ...could. They are the mute representatives of their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations; who from out of that dark bewilderment gaze wistful, a... ...Saint-Antoine Battalion, is already there,—ap- parently indisposed to act. Heavy-laden Hero of two Worlds, what tasks are these! The jeerings, provoca... ... some long-drawn wail of music, and strange new clangour of trombones, and metal- lic dirge-voice; amid the infinite hum of men. In the Church of Sain... ... this gilding; it was he who ground these lus- tres, Venetian mirrors; who polished this inlaying, this veneering and or-moulu; and made it, by rubbin... ...aderess, in green parasol, leaning on your arm. Dogs dance, and shoeblacks polish, on that Pont Neuf itself, where Fatherland is in danger. So much go... ...es, Messieurs! Or even Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois, hear ye it not? The same metal that rang storm, two hundred and twenty years ago; but by a Majesty’s...

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... world-sullen, showy, dramatic, light as a feather and strong as an ox—it would have been hard, on that occasion, to recognise, as he sat there stoope... ...k the breathing-space of the popoi-carriers. A little back from the beach, and not half a mile from Anaho, I was the more amazed to find a cluster of ... ...get their boats near enough upon the other. The practice in bold water is not so dan- gerous as it looks—the reflex from the rocks sending the boat of... ...of his un- godly errand; but, in the time of the feast, the clan trooped to the high place in a body, and each had his appointed seat. There were plac... ...p is for the more part of broken coral lime-stone, like volca- nic clinkers, and excruciating to the naked foot; in some atolls, I believe, not in Fak... ... and, 131 Robert Louis Stevenson time pressing, he was buried the same day at four. The cemetery lies to seaward behind Government House; bro- ken co... ...le of weird stories sprang from the burial and the woman’s selfish conjuration. I was dissatisfied with what I heard, harped upon questions, and struc... ...in the smoke of the family hearth. Head-hunting, besides, still lives around my doorstep in Samoa. And not ten years ago, in the Gilberts, the widow m...

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...en and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare. In one of the skyscrapers the wires o... ...l Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towel- rack was a rod of clear glass set in nick... ...hip. His head suddenly appeared not babyish but weighty, and you noted his heavy, blunt nose, his straight mouth and thick, long upper lip, his chin o... .... “I think I had too much dinner last evening. You oughtn’t to serve those heavy banana fritters.” “But you asked me to have some.” “I know, but—I tel... ...do you know about this! Charley McKelvey still doing the sassiety stunt as heavy as ever. Here’s what that gushy woman reporter says about last night:... ...ect ballroom, its hardwood floor reflecting the charming pageant above its polished surface. Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring op... ...g traffic, the crammed trolleys unloading, and high doorways of marble and polished granite. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in ... ... to-day it seemed flat—the tiled floor, like a bathroom, the ocher-colored metal ceiling, the faded maps on the hard plaster walls, the chairs of varn... ... his sym- bols of truth and beauty. Regarding each new intricate mechanism—metal lathe, two-jet carburetor, machine gun, oxyacetylene welder—he learne...

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... Most people appeared full of consternation. The Apartment, which, however heavy in appearance, was full of interest to, me, seemed quite short. It fi... ...ad received at that time to write the history of the King, was employed to polish and ornament his pleas. Nothing was left undone by M. de Luxembourg ... ..., so well known by his “Fables” and stories, and who, nevertheless, was so heavy in conversation. The other was Mignard—so illustrious by his pencil: ... ...e Prince’s suite, was present, but had been ill. There was drinking in the Polish fashion, and he tried to be let off. The Prince pleaded for him; but... ... to open his mouth. This silence did not terminate for several moments, so heavy and profound was the surprise. The end was that the King sent away Ra... ...moreover, bold, audacious, talk- ing loudly and always with authority; was polished, how- ever, and of good manners when she pleased. Being the most i... ...first, and promised in general terms to restore to everybody the weight of metal they gave when his affairs permitted—a promise nobody believed in or ... ... ing sent his gold vessels to the Mint, but afterwards decided upon plated metal and silver; the Princes and Princesses of the blood used crockery. Er... ...n deep in banking and commercial matters, in the movements of the precious metals, in monies and finance: the Regent, from this description, was desir...

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...t might have served the sculptor for a model, exquisitely-turned limbs and polished foreheads of so transparent a texture that the blue veins might be... ...ad, and stood bolt upright, or slightly drooped in kindred action with his heavy eyelids. So did his person, which was sleek though free from corpulen... ...being grateful to him at all, will you? Change hands first, for the box is heavy. That’ll do. Now, go on.’ 26 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘In the first place,’... ...ers, which upon the darkest nights have a watchful consciousness of French polish; the old Spanish mahogany winked at it now and then, as a dozing cat... ...ufferably prying. The thick neutral hangings, and the dark blinds, and the heavy heap of bed-clothes, were all designed to hold in sleep, and act as n... ... that by the golden standard which I bear about me, I am doomed to try the metal of all other men, and find it false and hollow.’ Mr Pecksniff shook h... ... your telling me “I think so,” I recognize the true unworldly ring of your metal. I tell you, man,’ he added, with increasing bitterness, ‘that I have... ...y to be useful, went off directly. ‘You will excuse Thomas Pinch’s want of polish, Martin,’ said Mr Pecksniff, with a smile of patronage and pity, as ... ...enius, even when it was coupled with the alloy occasionally visible in the metal of his friend Slyme; and on behalf of that friend, he thanked them; a...

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... energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddin... ...ever learn those dismaying powers, her eyes would never be- come sullen or heavy or rheumily amorous. For all her enthusiasms, for all the fondness an... ...an—it’s such an opportu- nity for sympathy.” Dr. Kennicott launched into a heavy, “Oh, these Dutch farmers don’t want sympathy. All they need is a bat... ...on a sun-faded crepe blouse. Sam Clark’s Hardware Store. An air of frankly metallic enterprise. Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beau- tiful s... ...scarlet geraniums; the prairie breeze was sunshine in motion; the flashing metal blades of the windmill revolved with a lively hum; a horse neighed, a... ...se. “Well, what if it is tin? That’s not my fault. I told D. H. to make it polished granite. You make me tired!” “Leave us go! Come on, Carrie, leave ... ...est thing in the world!) but it’s a rough diamond, and we need you for the polishing, and we’re ever so humble— ” She stopped for breath and finished ... ...Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful pagani... ...one black-headed pin and one empty spool, a velvet pin-cushion in a gilded metal slipper with “Souvenir of Troy, N. Y.” stamped on 143 Sinclair Lewis...

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...algos setting up in oppo- sition to them, particularly squire hidalgos who polish their own shoes and darn their black stockings with green silk.” “Th... ...ent with this name without having the ‘Don’ put on top of it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don’t want to make people talk about me... ...roceed to put into execution his new and lofty designs; and I should lay a heavy burden on my conscience did I not urge and persuade this knight not t... ...r, some are dull, and, in short, the highest and choicest brings with it a heavy burden of cares and troubles which the unhappy wight to whose lot it ... ...e baldric; the spurs were not gilt, but lac- quered green, and so brightly polished that, matching as they did the rest of his apparel, they looked be... ...and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fierces... ...rifaldin bent the knee to the ground, and mak- ing a sign to the fifer and drummers to strike up, he turned and marched out of the garden to the same ... ...ged into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile of some unknown metal; while between the two there stands a pillar, also of metal, with cer...

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...such coy chastity As led thee gentle Quixote to dismiss! Then would my heavy sorrow turn to joy; None would I envy, all would envy me, And ha... ...gotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that... ... the ‘Pastor de Filida.’” “No Pastor that,” said the curate, “but a highly polished courtier; let it be preserved as a precious jewel.” “This large on... ...t without many tears from those who stood by. They closed the grave with a heavy stone until a slab was ready which Ambrosio said he meant to have pre... ...ith a valise attached to it, half or rather wholly rotten and torn; but so heavy were they that Sancho had to help to take them up, and his master dir... ... as I said, he was a graceful and gracious youth, and in his courteous and polished language showed himself to be of good birth and courtly breeding, ... ...risk his life for our freedom; and so saying he took out from his breast a metal crucifix, and with many tears 315 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. swor... ...rifaldin bent the knee to the ground, and mak- ing a sign to the fifer and drummers to strike up, he turned and marched out of the garden to the same ... ...ged into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile of some unknown metal; while between the two there stands a pillar, also of metal, with cer...

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...ran- deur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of... ...o him. His letters are bombastic and thin; his few at- tempts at verse are heavy, lumbering, and obscure, altogether lacking in harmony, and quite as ... ...ible, and can be supported by good reasons. In the Chronique everything is heavy, occasionally meaningless, and nearly always insipid. Can the same ma... ...- place by a masterpiece, changed the facts and incidents, trans- formed a heavy icy pleasantry into a work glowing with wit and life, made it no long... ...p him of his wild disguise, Melt down his dross, refine his massy ore, And polish that which seem’d rough-cast before, Search his deep sense, unveil h... ...seraph. Upon the middle finger of the same hand he had a ring made of four metals together, of the strangest fashion that ever was seen; so that the s... ... or any metaphor drawn from it. They went like- wise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance; how the lapidaries did work; as a... ...atins and anniversaries in the choir, I make withal some crossbow-strings, polish glass bottles and bolts, I twist lines and weave purse nets wherein ... ...nury of pecune in our marsupies, and that they be exhausted of ferruginean metal, for the shot we dimit our codices and oppignerat our vestments, whil...

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... meaning for a Rus- 14 War and Peace – Book Eleven sian.” (He lurched his heavy body forward.) “Such a question cannot be put; it is senseless! The q... ...ith the help their assis- tants. On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call. But the roll of the drums did not make th... ...re pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. “Ah!” said Rostopchin... ...stood frowning and rubbing his face with his hand. “Lads!” said he, with a metallic ring in his voice. “This man, V ereshchagin, is the scoundrel by w... ...ar to the Kremlin. The porter, lis- tening in perplexity to the unfamiliar Polish accent and not re- alizing that the interpreter was speaking Russian... ...himself entering the French service. The captain was happy, the enchanting Polish lady wished to elope with him, but, prompted by magnanimity, the cap... ...ic and touching in all this. Having finished his tale about the enchanting Polish lady, the captain asked Pierre if he had ever experienced a similar ... ...grasped the cold door handle. 119 Tolstoy It seemed to her that something heavy was beating rhythmi- cally against all the walls of the room: it was ... ... some Frenchmen who had just thrown out the drawer of a chest, filled with metal articles. Other French soldiers standing below went up to the drawer....

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... the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot soles, talk of the promenaders, The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the ... ...ad, The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish’d and perfect limbs. I behold the picturesque giant and love him, ... ...ighted or left away, The kept woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited, The heavy lipp’d slave is invited, the venerealee is invited; There shall be ... ... tell of my fort’s bombardment, I am there again. Again the long roll of the drummers, Again the attacking cannon, mortars, Again to my listening ears... ...e roses sweet scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavi... ...arm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,) O the sweetness of the Fifth month morn... ...n shapely, naked, wan, Head from the mother’s bowels drawn, Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one, Gray blue leaf by red heat gr... ...easure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing pen of quill or metal, the Leaves of Grass –Whitman 226 making of all sorts of edged to... ...n 496 The lyrist’s measur’d beat, the wrought out temple’s grace—column and polish’d arch forgot? But thou that revelest here—spirit that form’d this...

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...ion. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been put to bed in his own Chateau of Versailles: the ... ...ant with joy. Anon the applauses wax fainter, or threaten to cease; she is heavy of heart, the light of her face has fled. Is Sover- eignty some poor ... ...iguillon-Lachalotais business, as good as forgotten now. He has kinsmen of heavy purse, felt on the Stock Exchange. Our Foulons, Berthiers intrigue fo... ...peshot, Messeigneurs, on one condition: that the shooter also were made of metal! But unfortunately he is made of flesh; under his buffs and bandoleer... ...ill ring all another. The cry, To arms! roars tenfold; steeples with their metal storm- 115 Thomas Carlyle voice boom out, as the sun sinks; armorer’... ... have hearts in their bodies! Roar with all your throats, of cartilage and metal, ye Sons of Liberty; stir spasmodically whatsoever of utmost faculty ... ... he was sneered at by cold worldlings; but did sneer again, being a man of polished sar- casm; and moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soir... ... this gilding; it was he who ground these lustres, Venetian mir- rors; who polished this inlaying, this veneering and or-moulu; and made it, by rubbin... ...aderess, in green parasol, leaning on your arm. Dogs dance, and shoeblacks polish, on that Pont Neuf itself, where Fatherland is in danger. So much go...

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