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... tacked here and there so as to make life a bit challenging for his housekeeper Celestina. But she and most everyone else among the coastal towns and villages loved the old man for all his eccentricities as Willie spent his waning years just waiting for his ship to come in. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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... through daily life. A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus - Patrick writes this letter to excommunicate the soldiers of Coroticus' army who pillaged villages in Ireland and forced many Christian converts into slavery. Confession - A short autobiography by St. Patrick who tells of being abducted into slavery and taken to Ireland, the growth of his faith, his ministry as a ...

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..., in the narrow deep lane by the limekilns. All this was the talk of three villages for days; but we have Mrs. Finn’s (the wife of Smith’s waggoner) u...

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...o many miles vpon her peacefull Bosome, 1205 Frighting her pale- fac’d Villages with Warre, 1206 And ostentation of despised Armes? 1207 C...

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...d, most things served him to that end: the sound of the bells from all the neighbouring villages, the smell of the forest, the visits and the behaviou...

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... into the sea between them and liberty. Beyond its foaming base lay the pretty villages of the Japanese colonists, and smiling valleys which penetrate...

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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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...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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...riches, not for their kingdom. I’ve heard stories of ‘knights’ who destroyed villages and pillaged what was left. They took gold, jewels… women. S... ...more brazen, more brutal. They have captured several women from the outlying villages and farms.” Aislinn closed her eyes. “Were they raped?” C...

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...ont, was equally impressed by the stirring up and exchange of ideas in the villages due to the movement of the war. Charles Lamb’s story of the discov... ...ficulty to 18 War and the Future be met? In Macedonia there were T urkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fa... ...eing made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages swarmed with grey soldiers; everywhere our automobile was threadin... ... or less tumble-down. I was far more desolated by the obliteration of such villages as Fricourt and Dompierre, and by the hor- rible state of the fiel... ... coming suddenly on a newly murdered body. Before I visited the recaptured villages in the zone of the actual fighting, I had an idea that their evacu... ... soon as the war line moved towards Ger- many the people of the devastated villages would return to build their houses and till their fields again. Bu... ...ses and till their fields again. But I see now that not only are homes and villages destroyed almost be- yond recognition, but the very fields are des... ...nted thistles and weeds are the sole proofs that life may still go on. The villages of this wide battle region are not ruined; they are obliterated. I... ...In front of it will be corn, land, neat woods, orchards, pasture, gardens, villages and towns. It will advance upon its belly with a swaying motion, d...

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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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...nows. And the lesser places, too, the townships, the quiet resting-places, villages half forest with a brawl of streams down their streets, villages l... ...brawl of streams down their streets, villages laced with avenues of cedar, villages of garden, of roses and wonderful flowers and the perpetual hummin...

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...sequence? The new generation was orderly, peaceable, settled in prosperous villages. He could speak from personal knowledge. And even the few survivor...

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...tric generating wheels. It was dotted with bright-look- ing, steep-roofed, villages, and each showed a distinctive and interesting church beside its w...

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...tsteps steady. The conflagrations burst- ing out in the ruins of destroyed villages dotted the plain with red fires; and the sounds of distant lam- en...

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...ies floating on the surface of the water. They were the dead of the Indian villages, carried by the Ganges to the level of the sea, and which the vult...

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...of Hawaii with 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. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. The coverage is expanded in the present edition to include about 4,000 entries, including names in Englis...

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...r the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, not incommoded by the basking of the swine and oxen in the villages nor hurt by its cool reception in the churches, but fiercely disdainful of two hordes of mischievous insects which are the French and Austrian armies. Two days before, at Lodi, the Austrians tried to prevent the Fren...

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...- Drake is crowned King of California -- Descriptions of the Indians and their villages 358- 366 CHAPTER XXXIV. A voyage to the East Indies. -- Aband... ... lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used small boats ... ... the natives fleeing at the sight of the white invaders, leaving their burning villages to be plundered at will. Only one cacique offered the slightes... ...ops towards the magnificent capital of the Mexicans. At brief intervals Indian villages were passed, out of which came the wondering population strick... ... the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed. On the w... ...ay that ran along a transparent stream of water and an unbroken line of Indian villages. Fifty miles further brought them to the city of Xalacingo, wh... ...armed some of his soldiers sufficiently to make a foray among the neighboring villages, which he despoiled and burned, taking also 400 prisoners, abo... ...side of their enemies. When night came on, Cortez made another foray among the villages several miles in the surrounding country, and after pillaging ... ...nt in the extreme. There were on every side rivers, orchards, lakes, beautiful villages, highly cultivated fields, splendid villas, and a tropical gro...