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...tation Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Air and Defense Forces, border guard forces, Defense of the Revolution Force, National Police Force oper... ...litary forces People's Defense Organization and Territorial Troops, Frontier Guard, Popular Vigilance Brigades Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,933,0... ...15 The Bahamas (continued) Bahrain Other political or pressure groups: Van- guard Nationalist and Socialist Party (VNSP), a small leftist party heade... ...8 million; expendi- tures, $86 million (1983) Monetary conversion rate: 1.69 Swiss francs=US$l (November 1986) Communications Railroads: 18.5 km 1.435... ...n: 6,572,739 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.32% Nationality: noun Swiss (sing. & pi.); adjective Swiss Ethnic divisions: total population 6... ...total population 65% German, 18% French, 10% Italian, 1% Romansch, 5% other; Swiss nationals 74% German, 20% French, 4% Italian, 1% Romansch, 1% other... ...tive, and judicial powers; he delegates these powers to the President of the Pontifical Commission, who is subject to pontifical appointment and recal...

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...ave sent for Kleis... It is true she is fond of Mallia, the boy acting as guardian to her in the house of Charaxos, protecting her from Charaxos. I... ...d me home, dreading a repetition, though by now armed soldiers had set up guards. Stars shone brilliantly. The bay, mirror-smooth, seemed utterly i... ...g. On a rug lay a naked man, asleep. He’d been lying there for centuries, guarded by someone, the lamps filled and the wicks new. “The King of Freed... ...or twenty-eight hours or longer? I thought our cavalry would mow down the Swiss...the Swiss kept rushing toward us...it was our artillery that destr... ...u, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Paris... ...ball. At the ball, boxers fought in an arena, sawdust-floored; there were Swiss dancers and yodelers; sword swallowers performed: they are the rage ... ...ve us castles for cots, hope for despair, money for thought. Sleeve lifts pontifical hand and blesses with its kissing ring. Rays of sun, through lo... ...b, pigskin, coltskin, doeskin, buckskin. In his tiers of drawers were the pontifical gloves, liturgical gloves, gloves for dignitaries, ladies’ glov...

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.................................................... 249 Chapter 2.6.VII. The Swiss. ....................................................................... ...shed into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) d... ...g mostly on paper. For the Sol- diers at Jales, being peasants or National Guards, were in heart sworn Sansculottes; and all that the Royalist Cap- ta... ...Camp being visible to the bodily eye, got blown asunder by some Na- tional Guards. Also it has to hear not only of Brissot and his Friends of the Blac... ...w world is in such growth. We will name him, on the whole, one of Heaven’s Swiss; without faith; wanting above all things work, work on any side. Work... ...ich Cesspool this Assignat-fiat has quickened, into a Mother of dead dogs. Swiss Claviere could found no Socinian Genevese Colony in Ireland; but he p... ...ing, and indignantly flinging on the table, as if for gage or bet, his own pontifical cross. Which cross, at any rate, is instantly covered by the cro...

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...tted, the Galleries murmuring, and have dismissed; or even have personally guarded back to Prison, as the Galleries took to howling, and even to men- ... ... with other similar effects; and offer, at least the mother does, to mount guard. Men who have not even a thimble, give a thimbleful,—were it but of i... ...un- der of the knocker at some door, a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; bese... ...nt Regiment du Roi in mutiny; but the bravest heart may quail at this. The Swiss Prisoners, remnants of the Tenth of August, ‘clasped each other spas-... ...ey, with a torch, lighted them; he pointed to the bed of the unfortu- nate Swiss, Reding. Reding spoke with a dying voice. One of them paused; but the... ...ional convention, are hovering and gathering about the Hall of the Hundred Swiss; with intent to constitute themselves! On the morrow, about noontide,... ...oyalist and ci- devant trumpery, such as one could still gather, is burnt; pontifical eloquence must be uttered, by handsome Herault, and Pagan orison...

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...; ruinous buildings of all sorts; sometimes an hotel de ville, sometimes a guard house, sometimes a dwelling house, sometimes a chateau with a rank ga... ...asures of the legate were well taken. When the dessert was on the board, a Swiss presented himself, with the an nouncement that a strange ambassador ... ...with fresh lemons and oranges hanging in garlands made of vine leaves—of a guard house, and a drawbridge—and some gateways—and vendors of iced water, ... ...arms, appearing to him in a cloud. This is the legend of the Madonna della Guardia: a chapel on a moun tain within a few miles, which is in high repu... ...ption of dead bodies. Among the troops in the town, there are usually some Swiss: more or less. When any of these die, they are buried out of a fund m... ...and silver, is seen, through alabaster, the shrivelled mummy of a man: the pontifical robes with which it is adorned, radiant with diamonds, emeralds,... ...ine, the metal covered, red, green, yel low, domes and church spires of a Swiss town. The business of these recollections being with Italy, and my bu...

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...o France, and attaching himself to the fortunes of his niece, who needed a guardian. Alessandro, delighted to rid himself of a man so unaccom- modatin... ...eing seated in a chair carried on the shoulders of two men and wearing his pontifical robes, but not the tiara. Pacing before him was a white hackney,... ...wo footmen finely equipped. Next came all the cardinals in their robes, on pontifical mules, and Madame la Duchesse d’Urbino in great magnificence, ac... ...pear; it stands at the corner of the Petit- Pont, directly opposite to the guard-house of the Hotel-Dieu. Formerly each dwelling presented on the rive... ...able to the street and a gable to the water. This roof, like the roof of a Swiss chalet, overhung the building so far that on the second floor there w... ...monks are its support, its acolytes, its spies. It has assumed the post of guardian to the throne it is seeking to usurp; it protects the house of Val...

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...ow. Monte Boscero is un- veiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Gris... ... rise?’ ‘Yes.’—’Is she ready for the work?’ ‘Yes.’—’Is the garrison on its guard?’ ‘Yes.’—’Have you seen Barto Rizzo?’ ‘Yes.’—’Have the people got the... ...ve stabbed a Croat corporal, and wrestled hotly with a lieuten- ant of the guard? I say they are bunglers. They never mean the thing. Fifteen! There w... ... Orso—aha? You are acquainted with Count Orso! He is Camilla’s antenuptial guardian. Now you warm to it! In that condition I leave you. Perhaps my chi... ...po was seen struggling to secure the arms of a man in a high-crowned green Swiss hat, who was apparently disposed to give the signorina’s faithful ser... ...re you—what are you, my fine fellow?’ Barto groaned louder, and replied in Swiss-French from a smothering depth: ‘A poor man, and the gracious lady’s ... ...ternally willing, and even anxious to be- stow Michiella upon him when the Pontifical divorce can be obtained; so that the long-coveted fruitful acres... ...scene which closes the opera. It is the banqueting hall of the castle. The Pontifical di- vorce is spread upon the table. Courtly friends, guards, and...

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...rdi- nary infantry uniform, up to the door of the house, and the number of guards, servants, attendants, officials, secretaries, ministers and the lik... ... had met General Joffre a few days before. I gave my hat to a second body- guard, and as I did so a pleasantly smiling man appeared at the door of the... ...nch that had been taken a fortnight before, I fell 21 H G Wells behind my guardian captain and had a brief conversation wit this individual. He was a... ...y. From the left wing on the Isonzo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like nothing else in the world; it... ...s extraordinarily unlike that upon any other front. From the Isonzo to the Swiss frontier we are dealing with high mountains, cut by deep valleys be- ... ...n the field from the passing of the Roman legions to the appearance of the Swiss footmen. he makes it very clear that he considers the fighting of the... ... contentment, a sort of incarnate “T old-you-so.” So the Vatican lifts its pontifical skirts and shakes the dust of western Europe off its feet. It is...

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...ft march of invention is all for the invader. Now, perhaps you might still guard a rocky coast or a narrow pass; but what of that near to-morrow when ... ...en tin under his arm— so long as it is not painted that abominable popular Swiss apple green—I would make it no occasion for quarrel! We have tramped ... ...ld of men. And presently, amazed and amazing, we should happen on a man—no Swiss—dressed in unfamiliar clothing and speaking an unfamiliar speech…. S ... ... upon the point of com- ing upon our first Utopian man. He was, I said, no Swiss. Yet he would have been a Swiss on mother Earth, and here he would ha... ...ill be no freedoms of boat building, and it may be necessary to have armed guards at the creeks and quays. Beyond that the State will give these segre... ...should not each have a virtual autonomy, have at the most a Resident and a guard. I believe that a community of drunkards might be capable of organisi... ...states- men to realise their spiritual forces, and it is not in Rome under pontifical rule, nor in Munster under the Anabaptists, but rather in Thomas...

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...a rod of clear glass set in nickel. The tub was long enough for a Prussian Guard, and above the set bowl was a sensational exhibit of tooth-brush hold... ...d jesting in to breakfast. But things were mysteriously awry to-day. As he pontifically tread the upper hall he looked into Verona’s bedroom and prote... ...ng, etc. Before you realize it you are striking sci- entifically, ducking, guarding and feinting, just as if you had a real opponent before you. ’” “O... ...ences, searchlights played on cinder-lined yards, switch-tracks, and armed guards on patrol. At that moment Mike Monday was finishing a meeting. Mr. M... ...r lamb from the wolf-cub next door. Babbitt and Littlefield still spoke in pontifical periods about motors and the senate, but they kept bleakly away ... ...ervously at- tracted by her smartness. She was a slender woman, in a black Swiss frock dotted with white, a cool-looking graceful frock. A broad black... ... “always,” which she pronounced olllllle-ways. Her principal gesture was a pontifical but thoroughly la- dylike blessing with two stubby fingers. She ...

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... his hand. Without moving he looked a while at his companion with his dry, guarded, half-inscrutable, and yet altogether good-natured smile. “Introduc... ...You are not fair.” Newman rejoined. “You draw a fellow out and put him off guard, and then you laugh at him.” “I assure you,” said Mrs. Tristram, “tha... ...he early evening had closed in as he applied for admittance at the stoutly guarded Hotel de Bellegarde. He was told that Madame de Cintre was at home;... ... it?” Newman started; he had not thought of Valentin and his errand on the Swiss frontier since the morning. The reflection made him restless again, a... ... explaining as he went that the little party was lodged in the humblest of Swiss inns, where, however, they had succeeded in making M. de Bellegarde m... ...acquaintance with him dated from the days when they served together in the Pontifical Zouaves. M. Ledoux was the nephew of a distinguished Ultramontan...

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...ward into the street;—all alone, perfectly independent, under her own sole guardianship, unless watched over by the Virgin, whose shrine she tended; d... ...urch, where the light came seldom and aslant, —from the prince’s carefully guarded cabinet, where not one eye in thousands was permitted to behold it,... ...n artists in gray flaccid hats and flaunting beards; and one of the Pope’s Swiss guardsmen in the strange motley garb which Michael Angelo contrived f... ...sts in gray flaccid hats and flaunting beards; and one of the Pope’s Swiss guardsmen in the strange motley garb which Michael Angelo contrived for the... ...ed the pedestal of the statue. It was the figure of a pope, arrayed in his pontifical robes, and crowned with the tiara. He sat in a bronze chair, el-...

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.................................................... 346 Chapter 2.6.VII. The Swiss. ....................................................................... ...inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could ke... ...n the morning, they arrive. Cardinal Grand-Almoner Roche-Aymon is here, in pontificals, with his pyxes and his tools; he ap- proaches the royal pillow... ...e in surplice and stole; Justice in its peruke; Marechausee sabre in hand, guard- ing the place, till the bagpipes can begin. The dance inter- rupted,... ...theless its hearth is warm, its larder well replenished: the in- numerable Swiss of Heaven, with a kind of Natural loyalty, gather round it; will prov... ...owards him in floods, with such hissing vehemence, that the Captain of the Guards has to give order, “Haut les armes (Handle arms)!”—at which thunder-... ...esolution: orders out the Gardes Suisses with two pieces of artillery. The Swiss Guards shall proceed thither; summon that rabble to depart, in the Ki... ...g with laces, waving with plumes; the Clergy in rochet, alb, or other best pontificalibus: lastly comes the King himself, and King’s Household, also i... ...ing, and indignantly flinging on the table, as if for gage or bet, his own pontifical cross. Which cross, at any rate, is instantly covered by the cro...

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...inexorable! Yes, poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could ke... ... the morning, they arrive. Cardinal Grand- Almoner Roche-Aymon is here, in pontificals, with his pyxes and his tools; he approaches the royal pillow; ... ...e in surplice and stole; Justice in its peruke; Marechausee sabre in hand, guarding the place, till the bagpipes can begin. The dance interrupted, in ... ...theless its hearth is warm, its larder well replen- ished: the innumerable Swiss of Heaven, with a kind of Natural loyalty, gather round it; will prov... ... wards him in floods, with such hissing vehemence, that the Captain of the Guards has to give order, “Haut les armes (Handle arms)!”—at which thunder-... ...esolution: orders out the Gardes Suisses with two pieces of artillery. The Swiss Guards shall proceed thither; sum- mon that rabble to depart, in the ... ... The French Revolution: V ol. One the Clergy in rochet, alb, or other best pontificalibus: lastly comes the King himself, and King’s Household, also i... ...f theirs, somewhat may be healed, clouted up;—we meanwhile getting forward Swiss Regiments, and a ‘hundred pieces of field-artillery. ’ This is what t...

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... the Pope’s mule. And I never drink but in my breviary, like a fair father guard- ian. Which was first, thirst or drinking? Thirst, for who in the tim... ...ergap, And join’d it close to my flipflap, Whilst she had with her fingers guarded My foul nockandrow, all bemerded In shitting. Now say that I can ... ...rning he went with a trumpeter to the gate of the castle, and required the guards he might be admitted to speak with the king of somewhat that concern... ...ter he had given them his benediction, retired and withdrew himself to the pontifical lodgings of his own palace. But he was hardly gone three steps f... ...e mayor and burgesses of Rochelle, and after him by Panorme, upon the same pontifical canon; Barbatias on the Pandects, and re- cently by Jason in his... ...rse from engaging their proper persons into a matri- monial duty, like the pontifical flamens of Cybele in Phrygia, as if they were capons, and not co... ...e, that is, a garden, in Greek. Pray now tell me who can tell but that the Swiss, now so bold and warlike, were formerly Chitterlings? For my part, I ... ...ind of the huge bull of Berne, that was slain at Marignan when the drunken Swiss were so mauled there. Believe me, it had little less than four inches... ...make a cloak, he’ d 639 Rabelais cut out a pair of your big out-strouting Swiss breeches, with panes like the outside of a tabor. Insomuch that Snip ...

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... has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical au- thority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vi- sion, ... ...other document, even more definite in character, which, the writer being a Swiss, I trans- late from the French original.[28] “I was in perfect health... ...then had to use a crutch and elastic anklet for some months, and carefully guard- ing it ever since. As soon as I was on my feet I made the positive s... ...ave been unable to feel them in the slightest degree, I no longer dread or guard against them, and I am amazed at my in- creased energy and vigor of m... ... I are friends for life. “During the first weeks of my experience I was on guard only against worry and anger; but, in the mean time, having noticed t...