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... Genghis Khan believed: 'To kill the villagers, rape their women, burn their villages, and run off with their horses--this is the good life.'" Sang Hu...

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...Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front in 1914 and 1915, and celebrates the indomitable spirit of the French people. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...s. R E F L E C T I O N S A N D T H O U G H T S 411 Once, there were towns and villages populated by large families. In the generations that followed...

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... canine verses, which, if you at all guess how to read them, are very pretty in movement, and (unless he be a mighty good man) too true in sense. W e’... ...he waist, Sale was twice spilt at the fences, and we got to Apia a be- draggled enough pair. All the way along the coast, the pate (small wooden drum)... ...h of the bay, say three miles. At last I bid him land me and my mother and go back for the other ladies. ‘The coast is so rugged,’ said Sale. —‘What?’... ...andah. All the green in front was surrounded with sheds, some of flapping canvas, some of green palm boughs, where (in three sides of a huge ob- long)... ...by the official receiver. He, a stalwart, well-oiled quadragenarian, shone with sweat from his exertions, brandishing cooked pigs. At intervals, from ... ...e Secretary of State had no news to give. I believed him, too, for we are brither Scots. Then the temptation came upon me strong to go on to the ford ... ...R.] This is disgraceful. I have done nothing; neither work nor letters. On the Me (May) day, we had a great triumph; our Protestant boys, instead of g...

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...and lesse came in with Cap and Knee, 2538 Met him in Boroughs, Cities, Villages, 2539 Attended him on Bridges, stood in Lanes, 2540 Layd G...

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...ishment not often met with in so many members of one family, especially in villages remote from the high road. Here I wrote, on my first introduction,...

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...s own.” And Cyrus adds that he was whipped for his pains, as we are in our villages for forgetting the first aorist of———. [Cotton’s version of this s... ...unts to him what a world of money he has got, especially in certain little villages of Sicily, by teaching school, and that he made never a penny at S... ..., we Latined it at such a rate, that it overflowed to all the neighbouring villages, where there yet remain, that have established themselves by custo... ...ins. At their arrival, there is a great feast, and solemn assembly of many villages: each house, as I have described, makes a village, and they are ab... ...red with the war, he told me this remained: that when he went to visit the villages of his dependence, they planed him paths through the thick of thei...

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...knolls, and rising into blue hills beyond. We became proud of counting the villages and church towers we could see from thence. There was a still olde...

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...summary of Paul's lifework, but it is by common consent his masterpiece. It dwarfs most of his other writings, an Alpine peak towering over hills and villages. Not all onlookers have viewed it in the same light or from the same angle, and their snapshots and paintings of it are sometimes remarkably unalike. Not all climbers have taken the same route up its sheer sides, and...

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...ors, provided "a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings." During the years that have followed its publication, the second edition of Place Names of Hawaii has become a standard reference in the literature of Hawaii....

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...In the village of V ozdrem, Kazan government.” “But why in a village? In the villages, I think, there is plenty of work as it is. Why a locksmiths’ as...

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...very Hawkers, one finds, have ceased bawling for one day. The neighbouring Villages turn out: their able men come marching, to village fiddle or tambo... ...her still tolerable Regiments, marched out of Metz, to southward towns and villages; to rural Cantonments as at Vic, Marsal and thereabout, by the sti... ..., from this Pont-de- Sommevelle Northeastward as far as Montmedi, at Post- villages and Towns, escorts of Hussars and Dragoons do lounge waiting: a tr... ...s otherwise no danger, danger without end. For each Patriot, in these Post-villages, asks naturally: This clatter of cavalry, and marching and loungin... ...uman gossip rises from this Village of Sainte-Menehould, as from all other villages. Gossip mostly sweet, unnotable; for the very Dragoons are French ... ...l Two! More ride not of that Clermont Es- cort: of other Escorts, in other Villages, not even Two may ride; but only all curvet and prance,—impeded by... ...anging, ‘the Village illuminates itself. ’ Very singular: how these little Villages do manage, so adroit are they, when startled in midnight alarm of ...

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... rouzed The peasant and the king; when boys and youths, The growth of ragged villages and huts, Forsook their homes and—errant in the quest Of patron,... ...ough paths 365 By which our toilsome journey was abridged— Among sequestered villages we walked And found benevolence and blessedness Spread like a fr... ..., 695 The moment rather say, when, having thridded The labyrinth of suburban villages, At length I did unto myself first seem To enter the great city. ... ... then, At dead of night, with snow upon the ground, He left the city, and in villages, The most sequestered of the neighbourhood, Lay hidden for the s...

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...h prison. In these dark days, when the watch on the church steeple saw the smoke of burning villages on the sky-line, or a clump of spears and flutter... .... The boar is afoot, and all over 112 Essays of Travel the forest, and in all neighbouring villages, there is a vague excitement and a vague hope; fo... ...ve your body in the sultry noon. Wherever you went warm valleys and high trees and pleasant villages should compass you about; and light fellowships s... ... pleasurably busy his mind about it. He may leave the river-side, or fall out of the way of villages, but the road he has always with him; and, in the...

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...re in the landscape. All around, cultivated fields, and woods, and smoking villages, and white country roads, diversify the uneven surface of the land...

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...all now stay him,—covering forty miles of country? For- agers fly far; the villages of the North-East are harried; your Hessian forager has only ‘thre... ...red with mist; that from three in the morning Sainte- Menehould, and those Villages and homesteads we know of old were stirred by the rumble of artill... ...side of him, with a fresh strength gathered from fury or frenzy. He passes villages, finding ‘the sentry asleep in his box in the thick rain;’ he is g... ...e last struggler of them be sunk! Unsound sleepers of Nantes, and the Sea- Villages thereabouts, hear the musketry amid the night- winds; wonder what ...

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...sme forest, or beyond the valley of the 41 Balzac Cinq-Cygne, between the villages of Sezanne and Brienne. Often she rode forty miles on a stretch wi... ... January, and February the search was active and incessant, even in remote villages. Spies were in all the taverns. Corentin learned some impor- tant ...

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...y brother lodged not at Krasnoe Selo itself but in one of the neighbouring villages; I stayed with him more than once and made the acquaintance of all...

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...his farm. It was three miles and a half alto- gether, through the park and villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The ...

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...celebrated gluttons mentioned formerly. 160 ‘T ooting, Earl’s Court:’ two villages within a few miles of London. 241 The Poetical Works of Alexander...