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He formed warm friendships with the sailors, and amazed them with his acrobatic feats.
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One army, under Lothair, moved down the shores of the Adriatic; another, under Henry of Bavaria, along the west coast.
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It was an awful thing, and yet because of that experience he—not a great inventor or genius—invented the pin that now is called the safety-pin, and out of that safety-pin made the fortune of one of the great aristocratic families of this nation.
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Among so many happier moods which forbid repose this was a mood which welcomed it, and in a few minutes the lonely Tess forgot existence, surrounded by the aromatic stillness of the chamber that had once, possibly, been the bride-chamber of her own ancestry.
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For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only, Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead, The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable, The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees, The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients, Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.
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‘I dare say he’ll last a long time yet, Blossom,’ said my aunt, patting Dora on the cheek, as she leaned out of her couch to look at Jip, who responded by standing on his hind legs, and baulking himself in various asthmatic attempts to scramble up by the head and shoulders. ‘
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“And completely asymptomatic for three hours or more.
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For some generations the court language had been Attic (= Athenian) Greek, and the court had been sufficiently civilized to shelter and entertain such great figures as Euripides, who died there in 406 B.C., and Zeuxis the artist.
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The acceptance of Buddhism by rulers in the Far East always meant also an attempt to create a more autocratic, absolutistic regime.
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Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his left hand, put it on his head with an automatic motion, and went off without a word.
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The same axiomatic proposition must dominate every legal task, but especially every task of criminal law.
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The victor, the new Attorney General, apparently went to some pains to eliminate the bureaucratic traces of his rival, including his pet group—Thackeray’s group.
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A man like him can be evil to the core, but if he is charismatic and amusing, people will listen to him.
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And his clients are discovering the oddest behavior of all: without warning, Stein has dropped them onto a subordinate agent, whose inexperience and (some allege) incompetence could send their careers into cinematic limbo.
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Their dress is everywhere as well defined as the clothing of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, and Americans, formed not by climatic conditions but by national character in a specific and quite unalterable way.
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In the other will be classed the fundamental ideas, towhich the environment, the laws of heredity and public opiniongive a very great stability; such ideas are the religious beliefsof the past and the social and democratic ideas of to-day.
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0116 Relationship of Human Races (Diagrammatic Summary)13.0 The Languages of Mankind13.1 No One Primitive Language13.2 The Aryan Languages13.3 The Semitic Languages13.4 The Hamitic Languages13.5 The Ural-Altaic Languages13.6 The Chinese Languages13.7 Other Language Groups13.8 A Possible Primitive Language Group13.9 Some Isolated Languages13.1 No One Primitive LanguageIt is improbable that there was ever such a thing as a common human language.
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=VARIED SOCIAL STANDING OF THE PRIVATE SECRETARY= The private secretary to a diplomat, since, he must first pass the diplomatic examination in order to qualify, is invariably a young man of education, if not of birth, and his social position is always that of a member of his "chief's" family.
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Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception.
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Of course, I have no sense whatever of dramatic action, and could make only random guesses; but with masterful art he suited the action to the word.
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An ecstatic joy overwhelmed me.
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At the present time we know that electric fields can be derived correctly from electrostatic considerations only for the case, which is never strictly realised, in which the electrical masses are quite at rest relatively to each other, and to the co-ordinate system.
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Today those stars we worship in our flag As emblematic of each sovereign state; Tomorrow we demand the "stars and bars" Supplant them as Imperialistic sign.
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Moses gave the Professor a look of indignation, while Old Grizzly so far forgot himself as to advise the benevolent little fellow, in the emphatic phraseology usually employed by the sons of Belial, to locate himself in a certain remote quarter of the universe not proper to be mentioned to "ears polite."
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—Certainly, John Eglinton mused, of all great men he is the most enigmatic.
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CHAPTER X.THE EPIGRAMMATIC STYLE:Stephen Crane.
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The poet was known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England and in several of the states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends; and the regrets for his death will be suggested principally by the consideration that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars.
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Twenty years ago, in a drawing room, I dared in the presence offorty persons to moot the proposition that war was incompatiblewith Christianity; I was regarded as an arrant fanatic.
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H Hanseatic league, causes that rendered it formidable, 164.
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A chambermaid had discharged a quantity of foul water at him from an upper window as he was in the act of defacing the dwelling with a hand-bill; and a burly Hibernian, in his emphatic brogue, had cursed him for an itinerant vender of nostrums; for there was a violent prejudice in the town of Bella Vista against all venders of quack medicines ever since a wandering empiric, having promised to cure an old gentleman of some hepatic disorder, had given him an emetic, and afterwards told him that he had puked up a piece of his liver and would soon get well; when, in fact, the patient was soon in the hands of the undertaker.
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Coupled with this distortion of the face, this Hippocratic smile, or 'risus sardonicus,' as the old writers called it, what conclusion would it suggest to your mind?"
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It is the crystalization in verbal forms of peculiarities of race temperament— perhaps even of race eccentricities …… English which is not idiomatic becomes at once formal and lifeless, as if the tongue were already dead and its remains embalmed in those honorable sepulchres, the philological dictionaries.
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Publicizing busts is one of the primary functions of pirate boards, but they also promulgate an attitude about them, and their own idiosyncratic ideas of justice.
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Thus thin, nervous, delicately-organized individuals, and those of lymphatic and soft, easy-going, passive types, require a slightly warmer apartment than the more positive class who are known by their dark eyes, hair and complexion, combined with prominent joints.
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Moreover, as was shown by what followed, she was oddly exercising the faculty of invention upon the spe- ciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of auto- matic substitutes for human limbs.
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To see Suzanne, proud in her young beauty, confronting her with bold eyes, holding her husband's hand, saying in what seemed to her to be brutal, or insane, or silly melodramatic make-believe, "But I love him, Mrs. Witla," was maddening.
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The sunrays had not broken through the leaves, and the understory had a monochromatic look.
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He comprises more of the dancers, actors, operatic stars and general entertainers than any other two types combined.
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That evening, Mr. Fogg, as tranquil and phlegmatic as ever, said to Aouda: "Is our marriage still agreeable to you?"
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Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 307, Oak, varieties of, 50.
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Why could you not send it by pneumatic post?”
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South African economic policy is fiscally conservative but pragmatic, focusing on controlling inflation, maintaining a budget surplus, and using state-owned enterprises to deliver basic services to low-income areas as a means to increase job growth and household income.
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I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERYI received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctor’s Commons; which I read with some surprise:‘MY DEAR SIR,‘Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunities conceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by the prismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever must continue to afford, gratifying emotions of no common description.
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Exactly what this implies in the 1990s is rather more problematic.
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Mr Dixon, to turn the table, took on to ask of Mr Mulligan himself whether his incipient ventripotence, upon which he rallied him, betokened an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle or male womb or was due, as with the noted physician, Mr Austin Meldon, to a wolf in the stomach.
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When this line is very red in small spots, especially when pressed, rheumatic fever is indicated.
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Especially when he’s publishing, in the very same issue, detailed schematic diagrams for creating various switching-network signalling tones unavailable to the public.
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When he returned he said: "I'll tell you, Mr. Socratic, I've been thinking over the matter of our contract, and I don't believe I'm prepared to go into that thing at present.
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His pithed corpse wasn’t thrashing now; it only trembled, a sack of muscles and motor nerves awash in static.
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The levity of some of the younger women in and about Trantridge was marked, and was perhaps symptomatic of the choice spirit who ruled The Slopes in that vicinity.