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...t and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from the ranch... ...e would amount to confiscation of property, and that, on such a basis, the railroad could not be operated at a legitimate profit. As he is powerless t... ...e of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Ulsteen and the Railroad Commission were as thick as thieves. He has been up there all this... ...e eternal fierce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wearied him. He cared f... ...aved close in the recent harvest. Near at hand were hills, but on that far southern horizon only the curve of the great earth itself checked the view.... ...f wheat exceeded the value of her out-put of gold, and when, later on, the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad threw open to settlers the rich lands of ... ...bosses, but more important than all this, he was the representative of the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad in that section of T ulare County. The ra... ...pus cious maturity of a healthy, vigorous animal life passed under the hot southern sun of a half-tropical country. She was, one knew at a glance, war... ...gs can’t affect them. But they divide traffic with the P. and S. W. in the southern part of the State and they have a good deal of influence with that...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...speak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago.” —Ibid. “No, Sir, ’tis a Right... ...et, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large sperm whale in the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New ... ...d not seem to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those ta... ...ave houses and flowery gardens came from 43 Herman Melville the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up... ...gineering forces employed in the construc- tion of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...s. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his counten...

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...rom your right to cut off the enemy’s supplies from Richmond, preserve the railroad bridges across the two forks of the Pamunkey, and intercept the en... ...00 men; and if you succeed in saving the bridges you will secure a line of railroad for supplies in addition to the one you now have. Can you not do t... ...enandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap railroad. Y our object will be to capture the forces of Jack- son and Ewell... ...s, and to speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our grea... ... under his charge. A. LINCOLN ORDER CONCERNING THE SOUTHWEST BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. Whereas, in the judgment of the President, the public saf... ...ire that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Mis- souri be repaired, extended, and comp... ...in view is to be a great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and this particular place has all the advantages for a colon... ...th day of August last, for assessing and collecting from secessionists and Southern sympathizers the sum of five hundred thousand dol- lars, etc., and... ...med likely to be well informed, as well as reliable and truthful, that the Southern States would send representa- tives to the next Congress, provided...

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... two hundred a month pocket-money , he told me. He isn’t sixteen either.” “Railroads, his father, aind’t it?” said the German. “Yep. That and mines an... ...e at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles; owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend th... ...nother at Los Angeles; owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend the money ,” the Philadelphian went ... ... (Dan meant cleaning the windows.) “But Slatin Beeman he owns ‘baout every railroad on Long Island, they say , an’ they say he’ s bought ‘baout ha’af ... ...g a special east of that. Ready? Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo ... ...tened to accommodate. Los Angeles called to San Diego and Barstow that the Southern California engineers might know and be ready in their lonely round... ...y in their lonely roundhouses; Barstow passed the word to the Atlantic and Pacific; and Albu- querque flung it the whole length of the Atchinson, To- ... ...er. Now the highly paid specialist who conveys the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Limited from Chicago to Elkhart is something of an autocrat, and h... ... hand this win- ter, and I’ll send for him early in the spring. I know the Pacific’ s a long ways off “Pshaw! We Troops, livin’ an’ dead, are all arou...

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...at the robber had stopped some- where on the route and taken refuge in the southern prov- inces. For twenty-four hours Fix watched the station with fe... ...riously im- peril the remainder of his tour. The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco made a direct connection with that f... ...ld no doubt be easily regained in the voyage of twenty-two days across the Pacific. He found himself, then, about twenty-four hours behind-hand, thirt... ...tic entered the port of Yokohama. This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamers, and those carrying travellers between... ... speed. Chapter XXVI IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD “From ocean to ocean”—so say the Americans; and these four words c... ...unk line” which crosses the entire width of the United States. The Pacific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central... ...It is now accomplished in seven days. It was in 1862 that, in spite of the Southern Members of Congress, who wished a more southerly route, it was de-... ...and ad- vanced upon them as fast as they were put in position. The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Orego... ...he Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, ...

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...residue dis- posed of under laws granting lands for military bounties, for railroad and other purposes. It also appears that the sale of the public l... ...est is given to this subject by the actual commence- ment of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and complet... ...iven to this subject by the actual commence- ment of work upon the Pacific Railroad, under auspices so favorable to rapid progress and completion. Th... ...ate of the 1st instant, respecting the points of commencement of the Union Pacific Railroad, on the one hundredth degree of west longitude, and of the... ...he 1st instant, respecting the points of commencement of the Union Pacific Railroad, on the one hundredth degree of west longitude, and of the branch ... ... made upon this subject and deliv- ered to the vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, which fixed the point on the western boundary o... ...neither work for others, nor have others working for them. In most of the Southern States, a majority of the whole people, of all colors, are neither... ...llion. “Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil. It will give us more yet. Just so much it has subtracted f... ...be tried by war and decided by victory. If we yield, we are beaten; if the Southern people fail him, he is beaten. Either way it would be the victory...

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...hether slavery or freedom shall outrun in the race of empire across to the Pacific—every measure, I say, up to the Dred Scott decision, where, it seem... ...egins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corpora- tions; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the tra... ...says so. Well, gentle- men, that is about all we want. No, that is all the Southerners want. That is what all those who are for slavery want. They do ... ...Kentucky, you have Judge Douglas with you. There is another reason why you Southern people ought to nominate Douglas at your convention at Charleston.... ... the same parallel of latitude, that the northern half of Missouri and the southern half of Illinois are in the same parallel of latitude, so that cli... ...e true standard of value, is it not plain that if equal labor get a bar of railroad iron out of a mine in England and another out of a mine in Pennsyl... ...ttended to: 1. Let Manassas Junction (or some point on one or other of the railroads near it) and Strasburg be seized, and permanently held, with an o...

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...he Atlantic seaboard, and from all the country between that and Idaho on the Pacific slope—a spread of forty five degrees of longitude. The Mississipp... ...rom Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his task finished, his pr... ... the side of his throat, like a splinter under the flesh. He was only in the Southern trade six months. That Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 77... ... indestructible. And yet the days of its glory were numbered. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to N... ...he till and walked off with every dollar of the ample fund; and finally, the railroads intruding everywhere, there was little for steamers to do, when... ...51 Magnolia “ “ 19 50 1853 A. L. Shotwell “ “ 19 49 1853 Southern Belle “ “ 20 3 1853 Princess (No. 4) “ 20 26 1853... ...ded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the Natchez was in charge of that veteran Southern boatman, Captain Thomas P . Leathers. Chapter 17 Cut-offs and St... ... me, I could never have kept the name by me at all. We left per Pennsylvania Railroad, at 8 A.M. April 18. “EVENING. Speaking of dress. Grace and pict... .... At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; ...

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...s ill.” But then my doctor was, perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a countr... ... population, counting by the voters, is 1500, and of these 700 were in the Southern army. The place had been made a hospital for Northern soldiers, an... ...wn as Alexandria? And then out of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have foun... ...r- ginia be saved, its position will be most unfortunate. I fancy that the railroads in those days must have been doing a very prosperous business. Fr... ...here the war created business, as it had done on some of the main lines of railroad and in some 79 Trollope special towns, money was passing very fre... ... never paid a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy ... ...is scope enough for all that man- hood can do between the Atlantic and the Pacific, even though those hot, swampy cotton fields be taken away; even th... ... American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to those on the Pacific. There is a population of thirty million souls. At the present mo- ...

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...f a fur-manufac- turing firm, a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a petty railroad official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For mo... ...e business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or ... ... as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- room frame box, a mirey cattle-pen on one side ... ... to push past Kennicott, hide some- where in the train, flee on toward the Pacific. Something large arose in her soul and commanded, “Stop it! Stop be... ...apid chuck- a-chuck, chuck-a-chuck, chuck-a-chuck. It was hurling past—the Pacific Flyer, an arrow of golden flame. Light from the fire-box splashed t... ... ignorant old men, sitting about the grocery talking of James G. Blaine. A Southern town, full of the magnolias and white col- umns which Carol had ac...

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...rrible peculiarities, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in ... ...ngst them. This may account for the al- most constant singing heard in the southern states. There was, generally, more or less singing among the teams... ...RDER NARRATED—NO LA WS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SLAVES CAN BE ENFORCED IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. AS I HAVE ALREADY INTIMATED elsewhere, the slaves on Col. ... ...ome of our western friends have conducted what they call the “Under-ground Railroad,” but which, I think, by their open declarations, has been made, m... ...eir open declarations, has been made, most emphatically, the “Upper-ground Railroad.” Its stations are far better known to the slaveholders than to th... ...ly removed—escape from slavery, even in Baltimore, was very difficult. The railroad from Baltimore to Philadelphia was under regulations so stringent,... ...mmon to other men—digging gold in California, captur- ing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, ...

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... conse- quences), and you pull up somewhere at the back of the city on the Pacific beach. Originally the cliffs and their ap- proaches must have been ... ...t- ing the virtues of “Little Bile Beans” all over it. Night fell over the Pacific, and the white sea-fog whipped through the streets, dimming the spl... ...n’t explain where it comes from, but there it is. The roaring winds of the Pacific make you drunk to begin with. The aggressive luxury on all sides he... ...ts of his people. Just now a wave of religion is sweeping over some of the Southern States. Up to the present two Messiahs and a Daniel have ap- peare... ...ies of Georgia’s modern chivalry, and all the weary, weary rest of it. The Southern chivalry howled, and hanged or burned some one in effigy. Perhaps ... ...miner or the lumber-man a qua- druplicate millionaire and in “busting” the railroad king. That was a day to be remembered, and it had only begun when ... ...heir own, they can legislate, lynch, hunt negroes through swamps, divorce, railroad, and rampage as much as ever they choose. They do not need knowled... ...c was largest. To-day the business quarters have gone up- town to meet the railroad; the lake traffic still exists, but you shall find a narrow belt o...

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...re mottled with cattle. At places he would see the track of one of the old railroads (converted now to mono-rails) dodging through tunnels and crossin... ... were the three most spirited and aggressive powers in the world. Far more pacific was the British Empire, perilously scattered over the globe, and di... ...rns at them and Mill and Darwin and con- fute them in arguments. Even more pacific than the British Empire were France and its allies, the Latin power... ...ways socially and politi- cally leading western civilisation. Russia was a pacific power perforce, divided within itself, torn between revolutionaries... ...weltering ditch of shipping far away ahead, the Mersey estuary. Bert was a Southerner; he had never been north of the Midland counties, and the multit... ...to prove to the world that the spirit that had created the Monitor and the Southern submarines of 1864 was not dead. The chief of the aeronautic estab... ...ll and distant for Bert to distinguish. At first, only what was called the Southern fleet of the Asi- atics was visible to him. It consisted of forty ... ...on a hillside to the right, and no man heeding it …. They came to a narrow railroad bridge and presently to a mono-rail train standing in the track on...

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...ovel, “The Octopus,” deals with the war be- tween the wheat grower and the Railroad Trust; the sec- ond, “The Pit,” is the fictitious narrative of a “... ... a certain air of distinction and exclusiveness. Vines grew thick upon the southern walls; in the summer time fuchsias, geraniums, and pansies would f... ...gan clicking off the news to the whole coun- try, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Mackinac to Mexico, that the Chicago market had made a sli... ...il of distress and despair. Quietly, and with a certain merciless sense of pacifica- tion, Laura deliberately reduced the letter to strips, burned it ... ... September came the news that Siberia would not raise enough to supply the southern provinces of Rus- sia. That left only the United States and the Ar... ...to the Pit and break down the price—and Gretry has understandings with the railroads, through the eleva- tor gang, so we get big rebates. Why, this wh... ...se that,” answered the broker. “Meet me this evening at seven at the Grand Pacific. It’s just as well that we’re not seen together nowadays. Don’t ask... ...atched the door of the private office co- vertly; the traffic manager of a railroad exchanged yarns with a group of reporters while awaiting his turn....

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...m a Briton, and, as such, I am aware that I never will be a slave—and yet I have latent suspicion that there must be some slavery of wrong custom in t... ... capital) to a place of durance, half an hour prior to the commencement of the festivities. Take another case. Mr. Grazinglands, of the Midland Counti... ...ace, apart from all the rest. Whether I think of the church where the sails of the oyster-boats in the river almost flapped against the win- dows, or ... ...be passed, without being opened and tasted; I, pleading to the contrary, used then to argue the question seated on the Bottle lest they should open it... ...break-down; rather a bad break-down, on a steep high place with the sea below us, on a tempestuous evening when it blew great guns. We were driving fo... ...ear to be very much astonished by what they find on these native shores of ours. Possibly the parrots don’t know, possibly they do, that Down by the D...

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... and seriously considered of offering himself to assist in the work in the Southern Hemisphere. He discussed the matter seriously with his friend, Mr.... ... .’ The Mission party intended to sail immediately after Christmas in the ‘Southern Cross,’ the schooner which was being built at Blackwall for voyage... ...d upon the patriarch for his willing surrender of his son. After all, the ‘Southern Cross’ was detected in leaking again, and as she was so small that... ... care of the first Bishop the multitudinous islands scattered in the South Pacific. The technical bounds of the diocese were not defined; but mat- te... ...be “settled” (if I live) on some one of the countless islands of the South Pacific, looking after a kind of Protestant Propaganda College for the educ... ...can show you the bright line of surf breaking the clear blue of this truly Pacific Ocean, and the tropical sun piercing through masses of foliage whic... ... to eighty and even ninety in our own days. ‘I like quiet and rest, and no railroads and no daily posts; and, above all, no visitors, mere consumers o...

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... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ...ight then be called his Britannic majesty’s oceans (viz., the Atlantic and Pacific) in the quality of midshipman, until Waterloo in one day put an ext... ...pettifogulizer.” Meantime, our campaigning continued to rage. Overtures of pacification were never mentioned on either side. And I, for my part, with ... ...hat, as one of my ordinary practices, I make a wil- derness, and call it a pacification; that I hold it a duty to put people to the sword; which done,... ...unjust pretensions of England,) in a degree absolutely incomprehensible to Southern Europe. He had his frailties like other children of Adam; but he d... ... being Dublin, of course we went by Holyhead. The route at that time, from Southern England to Dublin, did not (as in elder and in later days) go roun... ...is system had become hopeless, a new prospect was suddenly opened to us by railroads; which again, considering how much they have already exceeded the... ...ot seen the ruins of this ancient hotel; but an instinct tells me that the railroad has run right through it; that the hen has ceased to lay golden eg...

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... that of her mother. Ross Wilbur presented himself at the Herrick house on Pacific Avenue much too early upon the afternoon of Miss Herrick’s tea. As ... ...at gust that had come booming in between the heads, straight from the open Pacific. “Stand by for stays.” As before, one of the Chinese hands stood by... ... their voices. The evening was magnificent. Never to Wilbur’s eyes had the Pacific appeared so vast, so radiant, so divinely beautiful. A star or two ... ...he sand at that point. Wilbur followed. The schooner had grounded upon the southern horn of the bay and lay easily on a spit of sand. They could not e... ...ack to the world again. Within an hour’s ride of the hotel were San Diego, railroads, newspapers, and policemen. Just off the hotel, however, Wilbur c...

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...venture considerably illuminated by cham- pagne. Below the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed pas... ..., and fruit-stands conducted by bland, sleek Athenians. Across the belt of railroad-tracks, facto- ries with high-perched water-tanks and tall stacks-... ... Cen- tral and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretar... ...l and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretary of the ... ...e your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station—with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries...

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...e form of the shores of the Atlantic Ocean; the other is parallel with the Pacific. The space which lies between these two chains of mountains contain... ...St. Lawrence to the delta of the Mississippi, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, these savages possessed certain points of resemblance which ... ...e form of the shores of the Atlantic Ocean; the other is parallel with the Pacific. The space which lies between these two chains of mountains contain... ...he English character, explains the manners and the social condition of the Southern States. *The charter granted by the Crown of England in 1609 stipu... ...oduction of a judicial control over the secondary branches *In some of the Southern States the county courts are charged with all the details of the a... ...e of the treasure. [When the author visited America the locomotive and the railroad were scarcely invented, and not yet introduced in the United State... ...ural and civilized, necessity sometimes obliges them to it. Several of the Southern nations, and amongst others the Cherokees and the Creeks,* were su... ...y the Northern States which are in possession of ship- ping, manufactures, railroads, and canals. This difference is perceptible not only in comparing... ...n five hundred leagues in extent which separates the two seas. The longest railroads which have been constructed up to the present time are in America...

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... Joaquin valley—harvests that were to feed strangely clad skeletons on the southern slopes of the Himalaya foot-hills. T ravis and Condy edged their w... ...there was nothing, nothing but a vast, illimitable plain of green—the open Pacific. But at this hour the color of the scene was its greatest charm. It... ...d out the best boat on the beach for them, loaned them his own an- chor of railroad iron, indicated minutely the point on the opposite shore off which... ...e than nine dollars. Who’ll pay for the supper to-night at Luna’s, and our railroad fare going home?” “I’ll pay.” “But I—I can’t afford to lose money ... ...ke trout.” At five o’clock in the afternoon, Condy pulled up the anchor of railroad iron and rowed back to Richardson’s. Blix had six trout to her cre... ...up at eight “ Blix and Condy had been walking slowly in the di- rection of Pacific Street, and K. D. B. and her escort soon overtook them going in the... ...the edge of the Continent, both of them young and strong and vigorous, the Pacific under their eyes, the great clean Trades blowing in their faces, th...

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... A young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of Padua.... ...t quite agree with her that the Paduan sunshine was as cheerful as that of southern Italy. Such as it was, however, it fell upon a garden beneath the ... ..., its depths were not sounded now; but he had a quick fancy, and an ardent southern temperament, which rose every instant to a higher fever pitch. Whe... ...ed me much to learn that by the public spirit of some of the inhabitants a railroad has recently been established between this populous and flour ish... ...n, of which he was a native townsman. Being, moreover, a direc tor of the railroad corporation and one of its largest stock holders, he had it in hi... ...entate above mentioned as of the worthy and en lightened directors of the railroad, has been pacifically arranged on the principle of mutual compromi... ...ned as of the worthy and en lightened directors of the railroad, has been pacifically arranged on the principle of mutual compromise. The prince’s su... ...s with his blood in his remotest haunts, and the turtle comes from the far Pacific Islands to be gobbled up in soup. They can afford to flavor all the...

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...e of a lieutenant of infantry leading a charge. The party set off down the railroad track. Mrs. Sieppe walked with her husband, who constantly left he... ...ing but a couple of whittled and carven benches. It was built close to the railroad tracks, just across which was the dirty, muddy shore of San Franci... ...t was bounded by the chimneys and workshops of an iron foundry. Across the railroad tracks, to seaward, one saw the long stretch of black mud bank lef... ... cutting in the sand-hills, through which one caught a glimpse of the open Pacific. The station at B Street was solitary; no trains passed at this hou... ...anged for the hegira of the entire Sieppe family. They were to move to the southern part of the State the day after Trina’s marriage, Mr. Sieppe havin... ...APTER 13 CHAPTER 13 ONE MORNING about a week after Marcus had left for the southern part of the State, McTeague found an oblong letter thrust through ... ... and, turning the Point here, come out suddenly upon the full sweep of the Pacific. Then he would follow the beach down to a certain point of rocks th... ...ined the position of care- taker in a little memorial kindergarten over on Pacific Street. Like Polk Street, it was an accommodation street, but runni... ...thought of giving up the fight altogether and of joining her family in the southern part of the State. But even while she hesitated about this she rec...

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...t you must try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels ... ... be- comes a dream, a charm, a deep and tranquil ecstasy. How it 63 A Tramp Abroad contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and dea... ...l or a pile of broken stone, it was always heaped as trimly and exactly as a new grave or a stack of cannon-balls; nothing about those stations or alo... ... of Public Instruction, and all the teachers, and by more than two hun- dred other people. Now I want you, if you’ll be so good, to go around with me ... ... Tahoe. Frogs. Sheepshead and croakers from American coffee, with real cream. New Orleans. American butter. Black- bass from the Mississippi. Fried ch... ...oast beef. Porterhouse steak. Roast turkey, Thanks- giving Saratoga potatoes. style. Broiled chicken, American style. Cranberry sauce. Celery. Hot bis... ...le Mis- souri partridges, broiled. syrup. Possum. Coon. Virginia ba- con, broiled. Boston bacon and beans. Blue points, on the half shell. Bacon and g...

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...ternoon he had carried her books home for her. I do not know if this story will be plain to southern readers; but to me it recalls many a school idyll... ...oughout the passage, and thence- forward across all the States, and on to the shores of the Pacific, this knowledge grew more clear and melancholy. Em... ...tempers his austerities. Any one who has travelled westward by the great trans- continental railroad of America must remember the joy with which he pe... ...nd across the vast and dismal moorlands of Wyoming, a few snowy mountain summits alone, the southern sky. It is among these mountains in the new State... ... upon his planet. CHAPTER XII—THE STIMULATION OF THE ALPS TO ANY ONE WHO should come from a southern sanitarium to the Alps, the row of sun-burned fac... ...y, in all the grata protervitas of its varying direc- tion—will always be more to us than a railroad well engi- neered through a difficult country. No...

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...ning, yet her ladyship will look the other way, if you happen to be on the southern beach at eleven o’clock to-morrow morning. I suppose you were very... ... NE THE NEW W W W W W W W W WORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD ORLD Still onward, as to southern skies, We spread our sails, new stars arise, New lights upon the... ... prepare ‘good things past man’s understanding!’ It was well for Mary that southern constellations, snowy, white-winged albatross, leaping flying-fish... ...ts; ‘then, at least, some one would pity me.’ After two hours spent on the railroad, the train entered a district with the bleakness, but not the beau... ...ans of com- munication, until, as the lieutenant promised, a perpendicular railroad should be invented. The electricity of the atmosphere made jokes e... ...rept round the causeway—a legacy of the Incas—to behold the expanse of the Pacific, a sheet of glittering light in the sunshine, the horizon line rais... ...assem- bly of cane-built, mud-besmeared ranches, close on the shore of the Pacific, with the mountains seeming to rise immedi- ately in the rear. They... ...ny proof of what he alleged.’ And he had nearly thrown the letter into the Pacific; but Louis caught his arm. ‘Did you ever read Cymbeline, Tom?’ ‘Yes...

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.... My Lady’s maid is a Frenchwoman of two and thirty, from somewhere in the southern country about Avignon and Marseilles, a large eyed brown woman wit... ...o idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual des titution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco nuts ... ...ss to find itself so famous and fills the whole room with the fragrance of southern grapes. Mr. T ulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open win ... ...d brooding, he crosses the square and is swallowed up by the shadow of the southern gateway. Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes... ... chaise and pair comes out of Lincolnshire, making its way towards London. Railroads shall soon traverse all this country, and with a rattle and a gla... ...zing roads, and through the night, the post chaise makes its way without a railroad on its mind. Mrs. Rouncewell, so many years housekeeper at Chesney...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...d not seem to give him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tal... ...ZA, Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving... ...gineer ing forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...s. He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his counten...

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...-- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE C...

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...OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CALIFOR... ...previous night, and we had a clear view of the Magellan Clouds, and of the Southern Cross. The Magellan Clouds consist of three small nebulae in th... ... Southern Cross. The Magellan Clouds consist of three small nebulae in the southern part of the heavens,—two bright, like the milky way, and one dar... ...ark. These are first seen, just above the horizon, soon after crossing the southern tropic. When off Cape Horn, they are nearly over head. The cross... ... Terry sprang on board, a man known in every port and by every vessel in the Pacific ocean. ‘‘Don’t you know Job Terry? I thought everybody knew Job ... ...into her as she was leaving the side; but it was not until out upon the wide Pacific, in our little boat, that I knew whom we had lost. It was George ... ...new enough to make them wish to go farther. The pictures of steamboats and railroad cars, in the columns of some newspapers which I had, gave me gr...

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...deputy in atomic bomb work and was repre- senting him in operations in the Pacific, directing him to organize a special Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb ... ... sent from the United States, and that the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific would be informed about the organization of the mission. On the sam... ...ntained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which com- manded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and ... ... lies at the head of a long bay which forms the best natural harbor on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. The main commercial and residentia... ... as a whole. The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great war-time importance because of its many and... ...h his program, but it too had failed. About twenty minutes later the Tokyo railroad telegraph center realized that the main line telegraph had stopped... ...about as rapidly as they could be used by the depleted population. Through railroad service was in order in Hiroshima on 8 August, and electric power ... ... Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki extensive damage. The damage to railroad tracks, and roads was comparatively small, however. The electric p...

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... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...any lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, o... ...he Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down... ... icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The w... ...gen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth, I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe... ...rawn by dogs, I see the porpoise hunters, I see the whale crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, val... ...h the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors, In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly, Home to the houses of m... ...actories, arsenals, foundries, markets, Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, a... ...s, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac t...

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...asure [reso- lution to direct Postmaster-General to make arrangements with railroad for carrying the mails—in Committee of the Whole], but had failed.... ...said that the Postmaster-General had got into a personal squabble with the railroad com- pany. Of this Mr. Lincoln knew nothing, nor did he need or de... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...company more than two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per railroad mile of transportation, and twelve and a half per cent. less for t... ...Spain. American citizens began settling rap- idly with their slaves in the southern part of Texas. Soon they revolutionized against Mexico, and establ... ...oud 148 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two sobriquet of the “Great Pacificator,” and by that title, and for that service, his political friend... ...including my- self, voted it down, because, by implication, it gave up the southern part to slavery, while we were bent on having it all free. In the ... ... we will accomplish will be none the less radical from being the result of pacific mea- sures. The battle of freedom is to be fought out on prin- cipl...

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...ter that ever plagued me was always fresh; now hers was a present from the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic... ...ailors say, under easy sail, going, in fact, just whither and just how the Pacific breezes suggested in the gentlest of whispers. All right behind, wa... ...efore she had stood in soli- tude as deep upon the wild—wild waters of the Pacific; but her conscience had been then untroubled. Now, is there no- bod... ... the reflecting intel- lect, and incredulity upon the irreflective. Even a railroad generation, that should have faith in the miracles of velocity, li... ... be applied to the great constellation of the other hemisphere, called the Southern Cross. It is viewed popularly in South America, and the southern p... ...ked, can exist between this vessel on the Nile and a remote penin- sula of Southern Europe? ‘No matter,’ replied Napoleon; ‘my presentiments never dec... ...in its most difficult form; whilst Coleridge, trained regularly in a great Southern school, never carried his Latin to any classical polish. There is ...

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...Muslims, and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Mus- lims in its southern islands.America is also held responsible for the governments of Mu... ... to help Turabi in an ongoing war against African Christian separatists in southern Sudan and also to do some road building.T urabi in return would le... ...F THE NEW TERRORISM 59 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 59 group from southern Y emen headed by a Y emeni member of Bin Ladin’s Islamic Army Shur... ...k, and the 1995 Manila air plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Details on these plots appear in chapter 3. Another scheme reveale... ...the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultane- ously . Khalid Sheikh Moh... ...n, especially those for Strategic Forces and for four regions: Europe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South. Posts in these commands became prized a... ...pping containers have just begun. Surface transportation sys- tems such as railroads and mass transit remain hard to protect because they are so acces...

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...it off one of us so well,” said the doctor. “Well! I’m off. I must see old Southern. You’ll be ready by three? Good-bye, hen and chicken.” “And I may ... ...st for him. T o-day is espe- cially trying; he does not think poor old Mr. Southern will get through the evening, and he is so sorry for the daughter.... ...eneath a blue cap and gold band, or, perchance, on the coral shoals of the Pacific. It was one of the quiet afternoons, when all the rest were 273 Yo... ...be a long time before I come back. They think we shall have orders for the Pacific.” “Y ou will come home our real lion,” said the doctor. “How much y... ...Harry beg- ging to be told which constellations he should still see in the southern hemisphere. Dr. May was the first to rectify the globe for the sou... ...George Rivers came to Abbotstoke to collect their party. They arrived by a railroad, whose station was nearer to Abbotstoke than to Stoneborough, ther... ...487 Yo n g e “Writing to his brother Harry. He said it was the day for the Pacific mail, and that Harry’s pleasure would be the best of it.” “Ah!” sai...

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...ir renewal. I have tried to suggest that, whatever im- mediate devices for pacification might be employed, the only way to a better understanding and ... ... new basis—and that and no less is what this Labour Unrest demands for its pacification—is just one of those large alterations which will never be mad... ...s towards the general life of hu- manity. It may present itself as law and pacification, as a positive addition and superstructure to the Normal Socia... ...versal 206 An Englishman Looks at the World simple democratic car. In the Southern States, however, a proportion of these simple democratic cars are ... ...is thin net- work of human conveniences, appears in the meshes even at the railroad side. Essentially, America is still an unsettled land, with only a...

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... at Little Worthy, the next parish, and as unlike it as possible. It has a railroad in it, and 114 The Clever Woman of the Family the cockneys have c... ...been closed or rendered unpleasant. Mr. T ouchett had become wonder- fully pacific and obliging of late, as if the lawn tactics ab- sorbed his propens... ... the state of siege might have been unsuspected. He settled himself at the southern Gowanbrae as if he had no conquest to achieve but that of the rheu... ... letter from his uncle’s curate, asking him to see if he could meet with a southern clergyman to exchange duties for the winter with a London incumben... ...ed the dignity of her station, he replied that Isabel was too romantic for southern ears, and that her surname being 240 The Clever Woman of the Fami...

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...travagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or t... ..., one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything i... ...ife, my father?’ ‘What do I know!’ cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his finge... ...r brother, he would have felt, even if he had not naturally been of a most pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that s... ...ave no fear. Adieu, my Flintwinch. Receive at parting;’ here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; ‘the word of a gen...

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...travagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or t... ..., one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything i... ...ife, my father?’ ‘What do I know!’ cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his finge... ...r brother, he would have felt, even if he had not naturally been of a most pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that s... ...ave no fear. Adieu, my Flintwinch. Receive at parting;’ here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; ‘the word of a gen... ...ver, no landing places but slippery wooden stairs and foot-cause- ways, no railroad on the opposite bank, no hanging bridge or fish-market near at han...