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...ive Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound....

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...ive Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound....

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... many years after his last visit to Isabel, but took his departure to that country, where ‘they neither marry nor are given in marriage, ’ and where t... ...d care which it is fully in their power to render them. The slaves in this country have ever been allowed to celebrate the principal, if not some of t... ... been said that the freedom of the most free of the colored people of this country is but nominal; but stinted and limited as it is, at best, it is an... ...e, and place me in your mind. Get me to my home, that’s in the far distant west, To the scenes of my childhood, that I like the best; There the tall c... ...name of Matthias, called himself a Jew, and set out on a mission, taking a western course, and visiting a brother at Roch- ester, a skillful mechanic,... ...is not his; it is the Father’s kingdom. It puts me in mind of a man in the country, who took his son in business, and had his sign made, “Hitchcock & ... ...abella’s, elsewhere, living himself at the hotel corner of Marketfield and West streets. Isabella found employment at Mr. Whiting’s, Canal street, and... ...f this deluded company, and the voluntary exilement of Matthias in the far West, after his release- &c. &c., we do not deem it useful or necessary to ... ...Hyde Park, December 19, 1849, which informed her that Mr. Dumont had ‘gone West’ with some of his sons-that he had taken along with him, probably thro...

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...t, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the ... ...terms, seeing the parody as a “bulldozer” and Gone With the Wind as a walled country estate into which the bulldozer had violently trespassed. He was ... ...s book. But my arguments here have implications far beyond Jefferson’s time, country, or con- stitutional tradition. In the last analysis, I hope to c... ...ore that one covetous and insatiable cormorant and very plague of his native country may compass about and enclose many thou- sand acres of ground tog... ...ights or the right to drive cattle over homesteaders’ land in the Ameri- can West. But they also are part of a larger way of seeing the world; think o... ...d appeals to raise money for those who had been affected by the storm. Kanye West, the hip hop musician, was one of them. Appearing on NBC on Septembe... ... one of them. Appearing on NBC on September 2, with the comedian Mike Myers, West started out seeming quietly upset. Finally, he exploded. I hate the ... ...Louisiana citizens to live in the area in the future. Then he turned back to West, who uttered the line that came to epitomize Katrina for many people... ...o as “George Bush Doesn’t Like Black People”). Appropriately, given that Mr. West was the one to come up with the phrase, the song was built around Mr...

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...ng new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited country its fertility has created for our delecta- tion, for our judgment, ... ...ion. None of these escapes the art of Mr. Henry James. He has mastered the country, his domain, not wild indeed, but full of romantic glimpses, of dee... ..., in his aesthetic and moral conceptions, that he has been accepted by his countrymen without having had to 30 Notes on Life and Letters pay the trib... ...teristic of the writer on whom the most distinguished amongst his literary countrymen have conferred the rank of Prince of Prose. Never has a dignity ... ...ime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian and provided by the State with the immortal Mr. Stiggins’... ...might, overshadow- ing with its fantastic bulk the councils of Central and Western Europe, sat upon the gravestone of autoc- racy, cutting off from ai... ... most of us by an often half-conscious prejudice of race-differ- ence. The West having managed to lodge its hasty foot on the neck of the East, is pro... ...ed ground with the first stirrings of a resurrection. Never before had the Western world the opportu- nity to look so deep into the black abyss which ... ...Sea, with beak and claws and a double head, looking greedily both east and west on the confines of two continents. That nobody through all that time p...

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...at last is the plain fact that marriage is now beginning to depopulate the country with such alarming rapidity that we are forced to 9 Getting Marrie... ...were engaged in, the laws under which they lived, or the relation of their country to other countries. They lived the lives of old men content- edly. ... ...f accepting as permanent a state of things in which there would be in this country misery enough to supply oc- casion for several thousand million kin... ...political map long ago. The modern notion that democracy means governing a country accord- ing to the ignorance of its majorities is never more disast... ...rst, it will have to make up its mind as to how many people we want in the country. If we want less than at present, we must ascertain how many less; ... ...ion from the East, instead of building up a religion of our own out of our western inspiration and western sentiment. The result is that we all believ... ...ost. 51 Getting Married IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE Any tolerable western divorce law must put the sentimental grievances first, and should c... ...er Lane after entering into the civil contract before the Registrar of the West Strand District. I ask you, as an Anglican Catholic, was that a marria...

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...antly shown by the religious teachings that shape the ethical ideas of the Western world. The Old Testament abounds in the justification of vengeance.... ...ng portion of this docu- ment: And the Lord showed me [Peter] a very great country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the a... ...lad in the raiment of shining angels and their raiment was like unto their country; and angels hovered about them there. And the glory of the dwellers... ... To many it makes no ap- peal, although music and art and beauty do. In no country has society so utterly neglected and ignored the emotional side of ... ... of the city. All crime is doubtless much more common in the city than the country, and the young criminal especially is a product of the crowded comm... ...e of the weak, the wretched and the poor, has a somewhat different origin. Westermarck in his “History of Human Marriage” shows that in the early trib... ...isrup- tion of established folk-ways. For more than four years most of the western world did nothing but kill. The whole world talked of slaughter and... ...any of their descendants are now successful and important members of every western state. In fact, most of the European immigrants who have settled in... ...f those who stayed behind. The growth and development of the United States westward from the Atlantic seaboard has been effected by the poorer and les...

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...e captain and his attendant, the corporal, were used to travel through the country, seeking for heroes to fill up the gaps in Cutts’s corps,—and for a... ...gaps in Cutts’s corps,—and for adventures to pass away the weary time of a country life. 6 Catherine: A Story Our Captain Plume and Sergeant Kite (it... ... the Parliamen- tarians; died in Scotland when Monk was commanding in that country; and the first appearance of Mr. Brock in a public capacity display... ...pped a low curtsey, and said, “Well, I don’t know if you are joking a poor country girl, as all you soldier gentlemen do; but his honour looks like a ... ... inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, where they were unknown. Here, how- ever, the day of retribution arri... ...a very cheerful place for a love-tryst) at St. Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey. Of this, no doubt, Cat was thinking; but what could she ... ...ully, by that hour, had found her way to Saint Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey, where she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein. The spot was ... ...leaves me for ever.” At this moment the moon, which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and pour... ...ody, having its own hair on, was found by the river’s side, near Millbank, Westminster, and was afterwards exposed to pub- lic view in St. Margaret’s ...

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...nd prevent their ranks from swelling while at the same time protecting our country against future attacks.We have been forced to think about the way o... ...ed the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- ing checkpoint; United Airlines, which was the respon... ...- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. ... ... was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon. 59 At 9:32, con- trollers at the Dulles Terminal Rada... ...heading in the direction of the White House.Amer- ican 77 was then 5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon and began a 330-degree turn.At the end of th... ... until 9:23. 69 By all accounts, the first 46 minutes of Flight 93’s cross-country trip pro- ceeded routinely. Radio communications from the plane wer... ...Air Force Base to look for a downed aircraft.The center also contacted the West Virginia State Police and asked whether any reports of a downed aircra... ... 10:00; the Secretary , shortly before 10:30.The Chair- man was out of the country. 199 At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked i... ...k.”The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.The press was standin...