for i have not as yet discovered their true original but i ought chiefly to search after those of them which i count adventitious and which i consider as coming from outward objects that i may know what reason i have to think them like the things themselves which they represent vis a vis nature so teaches me


fifty thousand was the exclamation of the astonished mayor and corporation in the street the piper stepped smiling first a little smile as if he knew what magic slept in his quiet pipe the while then like a musical adept to blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled and blue and green his sharp eyes twinkled like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled


shortly before his death as the reception of it by the public did not meet his anticipations in this work the passion and despair which fill so many of the master's finest compositions rise to the highest tragic significance the last movement with its prophetic intimation of his coming death


big words in heaven like the grave minute belts of eternity each of which will surpass the revelations of earth and will feed our souls with tingling wisdom and divinely impassioned love those lips are rosy now in the freshness of their childhood but they have one day to be white withered parched and blood mottled on the cross but to speak not of separate feet


in a jungle far away she came back to him and told him the doctors had had a consultation and had agreed to wait a little longer she came back and told him they had decided they could not wait much longer and would have to undertake a cesarean


babies in the cradles and ate the cheeses out of the vats and licked the soup from the cook's own ladles spilt open the kegs of salted sprats made nests inside men's sunday hats and even spoiled the women's chats by drowning their speaking with shrieking and squeaking in fifty different sharps and flats at last the people in a body to the town hall came flocking


i'll never never meet such a man again you ought to have heard him recite poetry his own too it was he told me poetry he rolled his eyes at the recollection of these delights oh he enlarged my mind goodbye said i he shook hands and vanished in the night sometimes


and a boy came with a big sweet bun which he put on a high branch of the tree climbing up a ladder to do it now dido go get the bun go up in the tree and get the bun called the man dido


when his sister arrives she may sit and rest with him a moment entertaining him by imagining conversations with the innkeeper and then resume their walk now she may say i must send my courier to the post office with a letter do you see that fence away forward that fence is the post office we will post


love was lost long ago mark the love of a girl named martha whom neither of us ever met and that's a pity but friendship remains and the eternal night you're a bloody poet mark would say half admiringly a poor poet time passed unnoticed by the stars and the air pump hissed


what is the secret of it asks the mother sometimes in such a case you never punish the children and you never scold them and yet they obey you at a great deal more readily and certainly than they obey me there are a great many different means which may be employed in combination with each other for acquiring this kind of ascendancy and among them the use which may be made of the power


train the duke and the king some to see any i reckon they'd turn pale but no nary a pale did they turn the duke he never let on he suspicioned what was up but just went a googooing around happy and satisfied like a jug that's googling out buttermilk and as for the king he just gazed and gazed down


that on my return the cordial welcome the rapturous embraces of those who had me as a son and a brother the exuberance joy of the whole nation for the return of a long lost grown who stolen when a child had returned in the strength of maturity graced with


part three of with the american ambulance field service and france personal letters of a driver at the front by leslie buswell this librivox recording is in the public domain part three july fifteenth doc and i spent the day together it was my duty day at montoville and although it


epitaph with a coal on the wall over his grave reader i am to let thee know dunn's body only lies below for could the grave his soul comprise earth would be richer than the skies nor was this all the honor done to his reverend ashes for


she alone knew and that there must have been something very dreadful to escape in the building above her was apparent from the risk she took at each step upon that loose and rusted fabric of sagging iron. she was clothed in a flowered kimono over which she had drawn a black silk underskirt. around her shoulders was an old red shawl and she was shod only in bedroom slippers. scarcely a suitable attire for street wear but then people in the vicinity of twenty fourth street are not always


winter might meet them at the next bend of the river splendid splendid cried one of the white men a bearded giant whose flashing eyes and mass of brown hair gave him the look of a lion we will make it the white woman's peace bravo and he turned to mrs abel whose face lit up with pleasure at his happy excitement


i didn't care nothing for the compliment but i was glad to be let off anyway the doctor he started to say something and turns and says if you'd been in town at first levi bell the king broke in and reached out his hand and says why is this my poor dead brother's old


endlessly through his tired brain the thing was out of his hands he andy larson he gave up he quit he was nothing but a head that was hard and a body that was dead what right did he have thinking he had any control over what happened to him he was incapable of doing anything himself he had to wait


to look on and the chief constable fitzpatrick stood close by to count the strokes allowed while another constable jotted them down with a pencil on a piece of paper the doctor was also there when the word was given punch who was left-handed was ready with his shirt off and the cat in his left hand he flourished it round his head and came down so severely that blood showed the first time and got worse


till his life was in the balance never once had she lost her self control fearing that if she did she might be banished from his presence now that the event seemed clear the cisterns of her heart were opened and she wept as one distraught as the days went by mr paxton understood not only that he was in a bedroom in miss


climbing up a ladder to do it. now dido go get the bun go up in the tree and get the bun called the man dido could smell the bun for he had a very sharp nose and he wanted


after pierce was released he fell in love with a bunch of horses in hall county he fancied these horses and at last got the consent of his mind to deprive the owner of them and was captured and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary he served his time out and has been free for several years i learned that he had reformed and was living a good honest upright life which i was very glad to know


for mr palmer now clara knew that mr palmer was the attorney and resolved that she would give no such message to captain aymer but mrs winterfield sent for her nephew who had just left her and herself gave her orders to him in the course of the morning there came tidings


indeed there was gossip among the courtiers at vienna as to his being superseded in the command fortunately for him bernard of weimar had declined to follow the imperialist army still numerically the stronger into bohemia thus wallenstein had time for augmenting his army


he called his slab of rock martha after no girl he had ever known he made a little strike enough to equip martha with an air pump and a shack a few tons of dirt and some water tanks and a robot then he settled back and watched the stars the robot he bought was a standard model all around worker


while we were trailing james early one morning the other boys and myself went to the top of a mountain to look down upon james's house through a field glass and see if we couldn't catch james slipping into his house while looking through the glass i discovered a man about two miles from us and a mile from bill's house he was walking around another mountain and held something in his hand that shined so in the sunlight that we could see it plainly


the feelings of a parent mingling with an instinct merely animal give it dignity and the man and woman often meeting on account of the child a mutual interest and affection is excited by the exercise of a common sympathy women then having necessarily some duty to


quoth king arthur if sir tristram is to stand thy champion in this affair then i do believe that thou hast indeed found for thyself a very excellent worthy defender so anon there came sir tristram riding to that place attended over by only by gouvernail and he was clad all in bright polished armor so that he shone like a star of great


day when human strength shall serve the common good and man forever loyal to the race find far beyond our seasons of dismay the garden of its grace one hope one home one song one brotherhood and in each face the best beloved's face end of poem


in the three morning papers had to pull out the story after they had gone to press with it and stick in a column obituary telling all about he had done for the city and his fellow man with a cut of his mug in place of the front page cartoon gee it must be great to have a drag like that yes said the girl in a faint voice faintly in the distance a gong clanged them guys are sure taking their time observed mr doherty a little crowd had gathered about the


against faith or against any other virtue whatsoever for which many afflict themselves very much are not that which caused the sin in these temptations wherefore the saints bid us not to put ourselves at all in pain about them it is not the feeling these thoughts but the


badly he had frightened her with his threat mr doherty had not the faintest conception nor could he have guessed the pitiful beating of her heart would he have been able to conjecture the real cause of her alarm that the policeman would assume criminal guilt in her should she allow her perturbation to become too apparent she well knew and so for the moment of her silence she struggled to regain mastery of herself nor was she unsuccessful it wouldn't get you anything


lono knew he was exaggerating the danger but desired to learn the worst no not the whole island promptly replied the chief pu poo akia will soon join with three thousand spears or more and it will not be long that lono will lack warriors


as a paperweight as a little luncheon incident it is entertaining nothing of great interest happened during the afternoon except that i broke my foot brake and tomorrow must put in a new one after dinner being off duty i went to bed about eight o'clock schroeder left yesterday to go and see his brother who is wounded he returns in about a week


to take them ashore. te powter hesitated then he gave his command and a large canoe was launched from the bank into the river and slowly paddled towards the mirror. as the canoe came towards them tamate turned to mrs able who had stood there without flinching with all the arrows pointed toward her and he spoke


you know that just around the corner is freedom from a beastliness that deserves to be licked even if it's only a plant men we're blasting our way free the bubbles wearing thin any minute now the plants beneath us may fall with a soggy plop into the atlantic ocean i want every man jack aboard this ship to stand at his post and


in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets i felt an intolerable weight oppressing my breast the smell of the damp earth the unseen presence of victorious corruption the darkness of an impenetrable night the russian tapped me on the shoulder i heard him mumbling and stammered something about


all this time alone she took matilda in her arms and sat down with her looking at her as one examines a new precious possession you smile as if being alone was nothing very dreadful she went on i don't think it is said matilda i do but you and i will not be alone anymore my darling will we norah is a boy


i hope they come in time the girl's low voice carried a prayer was this brief flare of hope false would not only she and her bob but also their would be savior die that other noise suppose that's the patrol it was not really a noise the cell was soundproof it was an occasional


crib they been and set it afire and left the bloke as they calls paxton to burn inside of it see if they ain't it was miss strong who found him running round the burning building she came to a little open window through which a man's hand was stretched the window was too high above the ground to enable her to see into it only the hand was visible


and determination could make it with a single exception all the brothers of lono were arrayed against him and his cause considered almost hopeless the rebellion had its origin avowedly in a report that lono had a fit of


hereupon began once more to incline to think of concluding peace without sweden though nothing as yet came of the idea he was encouraged in it both by wallenstein's former agent spar and by christian four of denmark who eagerly proffered a not wholly disinterested mediation


t-bot was a standard model all around worker with built-in memory and a 30 word vocabulary mark added to that bit by bit he was something of a tinkerer and he enjoyed adapting his environment to himself at first all the robot could say was yes sir and no sir he could state


then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou i said art sure no craven ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore tell me what thy lordly name is


too long opened oyster save one at noon his paunch grew mutinous for a plate of turtle green and glutinous only a scraping of shoes on the mat anything like the sound of a rat makes my heart go pit a pat come in the mayor cried looking bigger and in did come the strangest figure his queer long coat from heel to head was half


later there were elm buds to nibble and birds eggs to suck the woods were once more green with juicy leaves all the squirrels went to housekeeping soon in almost every tree there was a new family of wondering little squirrels peeping out of their hollow with their round bright eyes


their suffering would be real they would dread the breaking of their isolation but they dread sickness even sickness they only imagined still more and when they reached to city they would find themselves tended by three city members and they would be appalled and terrified but mumbo jumbo medication by hunting


which report they may be given to know cannot be formed without decisive information of the ultimate determination of their court there is no doubt what that determination will be but it will be useful to have it as it may put an end to all further expectations on our side the water and show that the time has come for doing


giddiness and would as often say his great and most blessed change was from a temporal to a spiritual employment in which he was so happy that he accounted the former part of his life to be lost and the beginning of it to be from his first entering into sacred orders and serving


as to those other things of which the idea of a body is made up as extension figure place and motion there are not formally in me seeing i am only a thinking thing yet seeing they are only certain modes of substance and i myself


threshing was done by six men at a time working in pairs each man with a flail and they kept very good time swinging their instruments round their heads and coming down one after the other on the cobs hit for hit other prisoners shoveled the corn up and sifting it in sieves put it into bags ready for cartage to the windmill where it was ground into meal


telegraph poles in the mountains though soon dido was to see some four tricks are quite a number for a little bear cub to do i think even though some of them were easy we must now begin to think of traveling said the man


ben remarked the doctor of the dead has not come yet simenot took a seat beside marguerite and after a few words of encouragement remained silent the funeral was to take place at eleven these words rang out in my brain like a passing bell and the doctor was coming the doctor of the dead as madame gabin had called him he could


the morning after the illing dinner went his way as usual and after nerving herself for the explosion which did not come she set down his indifference to the dulling effect of business no wonder poor women whose husbands were always downtown had to look elsewhere for sympathy


going to a close madame gabin anxious not to waste any time had brought in her lampshades and summoned dede without asking marguerite's permission to tell the truth as she observed she did not like to leave children too long alone come in i say she whispered to the little girl come in and don't be frightened


maka ka alui whose claims to the moi ship were thus overlooked or disregarded by kia winui was the father of our hero iwi ka ku kua but if wrong was done in the matter if was never openly resented


an agency to propagate his species it was given him by god and if he was so blind as to corrupt himself and entail misery upon millions of unborn beings the god of the universe the father of spirits had a right to prevent him and if he was prostituting the use of those faculties given him by god


the devil having his agency as well as man came here and sought to destroy the works of god and succeeded so far as to obtain an influence over man's spirit and bring his body into subjection to his agency if man was so ungrateful and corrupt as to yield to this influence and


then resume their walk now she may say i must send my courier to the post office with a letter do you see that fence away forward that fence is the post office we will play that one of the cracks between the boards is the letter box take this letter handing him any little scrap of paper which he has taken from her pocket


ever performed and he had almost lost it almost killed it almost thrown it away but elsie he prayed feverishly now thanking thanking and praying for the miracle to really happen and for elsie and his son to be all right


heaven transfers to itself none of the history of earth but only earth's biographies empires cast no shadow over the population of the courts above neither do nationalities erect partitions there the discoveries of the scientific few are obliterated there by the instantaneous superior intuition of the baptized child


and now i see no necessity why i should assign any other author of these ideas but myself for if they are false that is represent things that are not i know by the light of nature that they proceed from nothing that is to say i harbor them upon no other account but because my nature is deficient in something and imperfect


the extraordinary graces of the saints are all different revelations of god each saint is a gospel of himself notably different from all other living gospels yet harmonizing almost to miracle with them all each conversion and there are thousands daily is a divine work of art standing by itself each in its own way being a heavenly masterpiece every christian deathbed is a world a complete world


but does he leave him alone and unassisted to carry out his designs no looking upon man as his son he has from time to time offered his services and instructions as a father he has given revelations instructing and warning his people he has given promises to the obedient and threatened the disobedient he has instructed kings rulers


when he said how does it look charles would answer oh pretty good i guess at first the answers were what mark had been answering himself in the long dialogue held over the years but slowly he began to build a new personality into charles mark had always been suspicious and


and so they afford envious weakness a fairer mark to shoot at the real character will still work its way to light though bespattered by weak affection or ingenious malice with respect to that anxiety to preserve a reputation hardly earned which leads sagacious people to analyze it i shall not make


that taste of honey that smell of flowers that whiteness that shape or that sound but it was a body which a while before appeared to me so and so modified but now otherwise but what is it strictly that i thus imagine let me consider and having rejected


generated under conditions of private property is not always or even as a rule of a fine or wonderful type and that the poor if they have not culture and charm have still many virtues both these statements would be quite true the possession of private property is often extreme


from something you dropped yesterday that you are not well fixed in this world's goods now don't take it amiss but anything i can do for you i will do most gladly you have enough to take you comfortably to new york plenty edna i am tired of saying to myself how kind you are but it is true thanks to the


chapter nineteen indians on the warpath while the ranger boys and i were camping on the north fork of the red river still in search of bill james we received a call to go about twenty five miles further up the river to protect a family who were threatened with extermination by a band of indians we were quite busy at that time


be as formidable as time and determination could make it with a single exception all the brothers of lono were arrayed against him and his cause considered almost hopeless the rebellion had its origin avowedly in a report that


tangled by hands and feet so that they could not move some were flogged for a very small offense and on the backs of others were unhealed marks of a previous flogging the rest of the prisoners were arranged round in order to get the benefit of the sight and a doctor stood by in case the unfortunate fainted then the punishment began and as each stroke fell the chief constable


a public duty called me hither for three or four weeks arranged with him some matters and set out with colonel smith for this place where we arrived last night which was as early as the excessive rigor of the weather admitted i saw mr adams immediately and again today he informs me that the minister of portugal was taken ill five or six days ago has


the depravity of the appetite which brings the sexes together has had a still more fatal effect nature must ever be the standard of taste the gauge of appetite yet how grossly is nature insulted by the voluptuary leaving the refinements of love out of the question nature


guilty of any intrigue as you in short knew nothing that could compromise yourself or anybody else i attached no more importance to that event than it merited you speak very much at your ease madame said bonacieux hurt at the little interest his wife showed in him do you know that i was plunged during a day and a night in a dungeon of the bastille oh a day and a night soon pass away


they told no one but dennis and granny malone and they both promised they would never never tell mr mcqueen worked hard early and late over his turnips and cabbages and potatoes and larry and eileen helped by feeding the pig and chickens and driving the cows along the roadsides where they could get fresh sweet


children in three city ground hunt are taught the same as in two city men came to this planet to work the mines there was a company which sent them and every so often it sent ships to take what the mines yielded and to bring things the people wanted men lived well and happily the company hung the ribbon in the sky so the hot lands could go


charles was calm mark was sardonic charles was naive mark was a cynic charles was an idealist mark was often sad charles was forever content and in time mark forgot that he had built the answers into charles he accepted the robot as a friend of about his own age


its rugged strength its fascinating rhythms bring a new message it is different from the music of other countries and at once attracts by its unusual melodies and its richness of harmony among the numerous composers of modern russia the name of peter ilyich tchaikovsky stands out most prominently


they argued as the foundation of our moral sentiments because each bystander may have his own prejudices besides the prejudices of his age or country we should rather endeavor to view ourselves as we suppose that being views us who seeth each thought ripen into action and whose judgment never swerves from the eternal


a starved and fiery lion from a carcass so found two great helmed chiefs to scare hector son of priam from the dead and now he would have dragged him off and gained unspeakable praise had not wind footed


and what a delightful cradle for the young orioles swayed all day long by every breath of the summer breeze peeping through chinks as the world sweeps by watching with bright eyes the boy below who looks up in vain or the mountain of hay that brushes them in passing and whistling cheerily blow high or low


and montevideo here in former days they were redressed and if there were room stayed in the little shelter or if not they had to lie outside till a horse wagon came to fetch them sometimes they would have to wait many hours before their turn came and even the most urgent cases would not get away and arrive at the hospital for a long time


bush company seemed to have gotten uneasy for some reason and sent from austin texas a man to investigate the condition of their ranch he and i had a talk i had at that time been there only two months i had ridden this pasture out thoroughly everywhere and had made close an investigation and i was prepared to answer this man's questions and he interrogated me rather closely


dave i need your energies inside the ship i could wish for a less impulsive first officer but a man in my predicament can't be choosy then what are your orders sir orders do i have to order you to think is working something out for yourself such a strain we're drifting straight toward the atlantic ocean what do you propose to do


by thornton w burgess this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org of all the little people who live in the green forest or on the green meadows


it also has a day that ought not to be counted in his reign but without doubt it is far more essential for a religious to mortify himself and renounce his own will than it is for kings and emperors to bestow their favors for it is the character of a religious person to perform whatsoever he had no mind to do and to do nothing that he has a mind to perform


did it take old mr mink very long to learn how asked peter wistfully quite a while replied grandfather frog quite a while perhaps you would like to hear about it oh if you please grandfather frog cried peter if you please


deathbed explained to us as god could explain it would be in itself an entire science of god a summa of the most delicate theology the varieties of grace in the individual soul are so many infinities of the one infinite life of god the world of grace is truly the theater of his visible miracles god is marvelous says scripture in his saints


i never saw him again the party that i started with consisted of thirty one men most of them skillful trappers captain bridger was in our party and commanded by robert campbell we started for powder river a fork of the yellowstone and arriving there without accident was soon busy in our occupation


was all gone dot wanted to tell the story of the lost mittens and began one day when we were sliding on the ice at that very moment mother curly tail jumped down from her chair and whispered in the ear of each little curly tail be polite to the three little kittens but don't let them talk any more of their mittens


and then as he looked up at the sky between the waving branches of the giant trees we have got a good two hours daylight yet he said life and death to tamate and his friends hung in the balance for they were just three people unarmed and here were dark savages warriors in hundreds everything depended on his choosing just the right moment


gazing and gazing as if she were the specter ship of the scandinavian legend there were flags below and i could have hoisted a signal of distress but to what purpose if the appearance of the schooner did not sufficiently illustrate her condition there was certainly no virtue in the language and declarations of bunting to exceed her own mute assurance


i immediately cast the tiller adrift put it hard over and secured it then jumped onto the bulwarks again to watch them she was yankee beyond doubt i had rather met my own countrymen but next to a british i would have chosen an american ship to meet somehow despite the frenchmen i felt to have been alone throughout


the interim which was plentifully strewn with peas the drouds of firmly and walked with such a steady strong step that not a single pea rolled away or even so much as stirred after they had gone the king said to the lion there now you have been telling lies you see yourself they walk like men because they knew they were being put to the test answered the lion and so they made an effort but just a few


hmm it's a very tough question ain't it yes sir i can tell you what's tattooed on his breast it's just a small thin blue arrow that's what it is and if you don't look close you can't see it now what do you say hey well i never see anything like that old blister for clean out and out cheek


seeing how sad a reality has been substituted for such pleasing visions. her memoirs if ever they are written must be found in her letters of which many hundreds may yet be in the hands of her various correspondents for her pen was very prolific and were it


and he a flirt and flutter in there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore not the least obeisance made he not an instant stopped or stayed he but with mine of lord and lady perched above my chamber door perched upon a bust of pallas just above my chamber door perched


the line of the rhine the peace negotiations opened in sixteen thirty two between her and the united provinces had led to no result and as the days of the infanta isabel clara eugenia drew to a close the hopes of a pacific settlement dwindled philip


to comfort to the listener the humble listener may receive comfort even from commonplace words but clara was not humble and rebuked herself for her own pride on the second occasion of his coming she did endeavor to receive him with a meek heart and to accept what he said with an obedient spirit


for i ain't got no disposition to throw anything in the way of a fair open out and out investigation of this miserable business but alas the money ain't there you can send and see if you want to where is it then well when my niece gave it to me to keep for her i took and hid


and is consequently responsible to him for his acts as a moral agent but does he leave him alone and unassisted to carry out his designs no looking upon man as his son he has from time to time offered his services and instructions as a father he has given revelations instructing and warning his people


the mother squirrel came springing from branch to branch to reach the hollow how the babies squeaked and chattered in welcome very likely they told her about the wonderful sights and sounds and smells in the strange world outside the hole the smallest one clasped his four paws around her neck and coaxed her to let them all go out to find more acorns


twigs they hunted for grubs clinging to the bark of a dead tree they listened till they heard something gnawing beneath the surface ever so softly then tearing off the bark in ragged pieces they pounced upon the flat whitish grub beneath and ate it up they were fond of mushrooms too and seemed to know which were poisonous and which were good to eat


had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost lenore for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name lenore nameless here forevermore and the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me filled me with fantastic


because now if i could tip her the wink she'd light out and save me and blow on our dead beats well we swarmed along down the river road just carrying on like wild cats and to make it more scary the sky was dark enough and the lightning beginning to wink and flitter and the wind to shiver amongst the leaves


awaiting though with drooping hopes his restoration to his palatine inheritance now with the exception of heidelberg reconquered from the foe but neither oxenstierna who had arrived in dresden on christmas day nor the military chiefs of the swedish armies


so untidy that the mother bear scowled and growled though not so loudly as the big bear somebody has been lying in my bed then they passed on to the third bed the coverlet was in its place the pillow was there and on the pillow lay the fair head of little goldilocks and she was sound asleep


the melody afterwards became that touching air which filled the andante of the first string quartet another string quartet in f major was written in eighteen fourteen and it was acclaimed by all who heard it with the single exception of anton rubinstein tchaikovsky wrote six symphonies in all the second in c minor was composed


but his chief part seemed to be to furnish the celebration while she took care of the nest making out in front of me under the lee of the old wall whither some line stripping gale had blown it was a torn fragment of cloth with loose threads showing everywhere i was wondering why the birds did not utilize it when the male in one of his lively flights


is the worm that feeds on nations had its fill not all the sentried ramparts and the spears nor yet the trident and the walling swords could stem its might the thousand high built babylons of light may mock the stars no longer nor their kings be more than ashes where the desert finds echoes of doom and conquest on its winds


it will be a pleasure to meet philip god bless you all presently the party jingled its way to the station the tickets were bought the baggage checked and after much kissing and promises to write isabel marie philip and charlie passed through the gate leaving the milwaukee girls smiling brightly and with tears in their eyes april faces in december


sir his excellency count de vergennes having been pleased to say that he would give orders at calais for the admission of certain articles which i wish to bring with me from england i have thought it best to give a description of them before my departure they will be as follows one a set of table furniture consisting of


in thickness the transparency increases much more rapidly than the product decreases six the fluorescence of barium platino cyanide is not the only noticeable action of the x rays it is to be observed that other bodies exhibit fluorescence


i have always judged to proceed from things external but lastly mermaids griffins and such like monsters are made merely by myself and yet i may well think all of them either adventitious or all of them innate or all of them made by myself


thus reflected that for him the sign had been set more than three years earlier in an italian ilex grove that day his life had brimmed over so he had put it at the time he saw now that it had brimmed over indeed brimmed to the extent of leaving the cup empty or at least of uncovering the dregs beneath the nectar


and with the one ebon visage among them rendered the vessel a vast deal more ghostly than ever she could have shown when sailing along with me alone on board they were a good deal puzzled when i told them of the mines i had made and sprung in the ice they reckoned the notion fine but could not conceive how i had


then the man would give him a sweet bun or a lump of sugar and dido could rest in the shade or take a nice bath in the tub of water dido was growing too late to dance


incident since the resetting of her bridal ornaments the relations between washington square and west end avenue had been more and more strained and the silent disapproval of the marvel ladies was more irritating to her than open recrimination she knew how keenly ralph must feel her last slight to his family and she had been frightened


when used to you for it was worth your place in the class thus did laura apply herself to reach the school ideal thus force herself to drive hard nails effect into her vagrant thoughts and with success for she had it turned out a retentive memory and


childbearing but she knew and she would be brave but frightened and alone the hours of night trudged by the few stars that peeped through the trees were no help in telling the time and andy had lost interest in it anyhow it was night it had been night for what seemed


bearing a secret message from heaven's queen come sweeping from olympus top to bid achilles arm him close to him she shot and thus accosted him in winged words up thou most overwhelming of mankind pelides


gave up he quit he was nothing but a head that was hard and a body that was dead what right did he have thinking he had any control over what happened to him he was incapable of doing anything himself he had to wait until something happened to him and he knew what was going to happen so that's what he'd do he'd just wait


from district to district and giving little heed to the future at length he began to crave a more active life and was about to seek it on some other island when the noted war of kawaleos of kawai gave employment to his spear kawaleo had been driven


some old debts due to his father who had settled in the country had recently died he was a tall strong handsome young fellow and i hated him perhaps on account of his healthy appearance on the previous evening he had come in and i had disliked seeing him at marguerite's side she had looked so fair and pretty and he had gazed so intently into her face when she seemingly thanked him for his


above him there were wonderful green things flickering and fluttering twinkles of sunlight danced through the leaves and dazzled him something soft and cool blew back the new bristles on his lips and ruffled his satiny red fur he was so much interested that he sat there staring


the lord then people ought not to wear black for mourning said matilda with a brightened but undecided face i think myself it is a very unchristian fashion it is not according to the spirit of the early christian times for people then who had friends slain by wild beasts and burned to death for the truth of jesus


with their roots higher than a man twined together like writhing serpents they appeared through the thick bush with its green leaves drooping down to the very water's edge but mostly they looked ahead over the bow of the boat along the green brown water that lay ahead of them dappled with sunlight under the trees for they were facing an unknown district where savage people


about one o'clock a shell burst right in the middle of the street at x killing one soldier and badly wounding four more i was not far away i took them to the hospital at dear law where i found the rest of the section getting themselves installed in their new quarters in the evening we went at eight o'clock to pull


was ushered into the chief's lodge where there were several old men and women whom were conceived to be members of the family my capture was known throughout the village in five minutes and hundreds gathered around the lodge to get a sight of the prisoner in the crowd was some who had talked to green with a few weeks before


comparison between his dukedom and wallenstein's in mecklenburg is therefore imperfect. on the contrary, he had to renounce all connection with the empire and declare himself explicitly a vassal of the crown of sweden, to whom in the event of his dying without male issue the duchy was to escheat.


poor head aches again i've scratched it so and all in vain oh for a trap a trap a trap just as he said this what should hap at the chamber door but a gentle tap bless us cried the mayor what's that with the corporation as he sat looking little wondrous fat nor brighter was his eye nor moister than a too long opened oyster


his revenue then what was given to the poor and other pious uses and lastly what rested for him and his and having done that he then blessed each year's poor remainder with a thankful prayer which for that they discover a more than common devotion the reader shall partake some of them


you sell your pig cried mr mcqueen you mean you want to sell it yourselves you can help us eileen answered but it's our pig and we want to sell it don't we larry larry nodded his head up and down very hard with his mouth tight shut he was so afraid the secret would jump out of it well i never heard the likes of that said mr mcqueen


in time mark built more complicated conversations into charles he couldn't give the robot free choice of course but he managed a pretty close approximation of it slowly charles's personality emerged but it was strikingly different from mark's where mark was


and she was in blessed ignorance of anything being amiss till the next morning after breakfast she was bidden to mrs girly a quarter of an hour later on her emerging from the lady's private sitting room her eyes were mere swollen slits in her face instead however of sponging them


you see everyone looked disbelieving especially the unhappy singer i've played much harder things than that continued laura well perhaps you might try said mrs strachey with the ingrained distrust of the unmusical laura rose and went to the piano


i have been risking my life every day for the last fortnight to keep her out of the house she got in one day and kicked up a row about those miserable rags i picked up in the storeroom to mend my clothes with i wasn't decent at least it must have been that for she talked like a fury to kurtz for an hour pointing at me now and then i don't understand the dialect of this tribe luckily


with a little bit helps and it's getting mighty hot careful don't scald yourself the heavy metal of the door was bright to dull red all over half its area and that area was spreading rapidly the air of the room grew hot and hotter bursts of live steam billowed out and condensing fogged the helmets and made the atmosphere even


thus humanity was still lying the body of her aunt what would she have thought of herself if at such a moment she could have listened to words of love and promised herself as a wife while such an intimate was in the house she little knew that he within the same room had pledged himself to her who was now lying there


you must have needed me andy or how did you get back to me despite the weakness of her voice the fear in it rang out loudly he tried to laugh and told her he was perfectly fine except for worry about her he made up a story about lying on his bunk sipping a cool lemonade and listening


bash away kill it we're stronger than he was there isn't an ounce of weakness in us we've got what it takes a guy can stand just so much bosh there's no limits of what a man can stand from the visit plate behind them came an urgent voice radio room tuning in sir lawton swung about


he here i promised a complete discretion with great gravity i have a canoe and three black fellows waiting not very far i am off could you give me a few martini henry cartridges i could and did with proper secrecy he helped himself with a wink at me to a handful of my tobacco between sailors you know


the irrevocable knot upon us among the indians the daughter receives no patrimony on her wedding day and her mother and father never pass a word with the son-in-law after a custom religiously observed among them though for what reason i never learned the other relatives are under no such restraint my brothers made me a present


the silent are ambitious all to be close mourners of his funeral if not in common pity they forbear by repetitions to renew our care or knowing grief conceived and hid consumes man's life insensibly as poisons fumes corrupt the brain take silence for the way to enlarge the pain


in the style of the english agitators of a rather later date this document insisted on the payment within four months of the outstanding balances failing which instead of continuing to fight the enemy the officers and troops would establish themselves as a corpus in the conquered lands and hold these in pledge for their pay the paper was numerously signed


sheer or of mohammed ali and i never could see that she attached much more importance to the one than the other in doing acts of charity in stimulating the druzes to rise in arms against ibrahim pasha in fostering the sultan's declining power in bringing


consideration had been urged by mr adams which was proper to be urged nothing remains undone in this way but we shall avail ourselves of my journey here as if made on purpose just before the expiration of our commission to form our report to congress on the execution of that commission


to his position of trust for which it might be difficult to find a parallel oxenstierna brought besides a perfect knowledge of his late master's mind the insight and judgment of a great statesman he proved indeed unable to solve the perennial problem of a working


swaying to her in the flush of surrender but he remained doggedly seated meeting her look with an odd clearing of his heated gaze as if a shrewd businessman had suddenly replaced the pining gentleman at the window hang it so am i he rejoined and undine saw that in the last issue he was still the stronger of the two


come out and climb come out and climb no sooner said than done they all ran out of the hollow tree and jumped from branch to branch one after another cried come follow me to the tallest tree it is very exciting as you see by and by twinkle toes said back to mother everything goes when twilight comes says she


you will have seen by official reports the german presented us again with some twenty to thirty big shells on monday night and although i was at pont a mousson i was in a good cellar about three people were killed but one woman was wounded just down the road and the doctor and i had to run out and bring her in we were sufficiently excited not to think


and still less to question its omnipotent influence on the british court i have the honor to be with the highest respect and esteem sir your most obedient and most humble servant thomas jefferson letter one sixty three to colonel humphreys london march fourteenth seventeen eighty six dear sir


to discharge the first duty of a mother and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection that ennobles instinct either destroy the embryo in the womb or cast it off when born nature in everything demands respect and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity


when the boys took their seats at the table the lee queen was the man short a saucer and queen made some remark about everyone having a saucer but him owens shoved his saucer over to queen striking his cup and knocked a little coffee out on the table and at the same time remarked here baby take this one this seems to offend queen very much and he threw the saucer back to owens


professor himmelstein by this time doubtless far away on the broad bosom of the atlantic at the same moment sophie jenny and edna who were ascending the steps leading into the ladies sitting room were attracted by a sight which whatever it may have seemed to the gatekeeper was to them decidedly novel look at that funny man cried edna pointing to a person


and then cast a glance around him before he made any reply to my address he had the gauntness sallowness of complexion and deliberateness of manner peculiar to the people of new england and though he was a very ugly lank uncouth man i protest he was as fair in my sight as if he had been the ambrosial angel


did not feel greatly alarmed at my situation on arriving at the village i was ushered into the chief's lodge where there were several old men and women whom i conceived to be members of the family my capture was known throughout the village in five minutes and hundreds gathered around the lodge to get a sight of the prisoner


been confined to the house the whole week women are accustomed to that and do not feel it as you would however i will walk with you if you'll take me of course i'll take you and then we must settle our future plans have you fixed upon any day yet for returning of course the longer you stay the kinder you will be i can do no good


i once knew when i was in egypt a mr bogaz a polite and accomplished gentleman who've left very agreeable recollections of himself in my memory i hear now there is a bogaz bay the minister of his highness the viceroy of egypt and that he has joined in a revolution


chapter nine captain aylmer's promise to his aunt what had captain aylmer meant by telling her that they might be the dearest friends by saying so much as that and then saying no more of course clara asked herself that question as soon as she was alone in her bedroom after leaving captain aylmer below


the same wax surely it does this all confess no one denies it no one doubts it what therefore was there in it that was so evidently known surely none of those things which i perceived by my senses for what i smelt tasted have seen felt or heard are all vanished


if we succeed in making a rent in the bubble we'll break out the helicopter veins and descend vertically the rotaries won't backfire again i've had their burnt out cylinder heads replaced an agitated voice came from the visit plate on the captain's desk tuning in sir lawton stopped pacing abruptly he swung about and grasped the desk edge with both hands


they got it through the crow minder who would bury a piece for them in the field where their work lay with the corn he hid it in a certain place and marked the spot that it might be easily found at night when they were all shut up together he would tell them about this and next day when they went to work they had no trouble in finding it the bother was to smoke it for the only chance was the dinner hour


why he actually hugged himself with delight but as this feeling might not last long i should advise you not to pry into other people's affairs and if you go in the woods keep away from the house of the three bears end of chapter nine


even so much is stirred after they had gone the king said to the lion there now you have been telling lies you see yourself they walk like men because they knew they were being put to the test answered the lion and so they made an effort but just set a dozen spinning wheels placed in the anteroom when they pass through you will see how pleased they will be quite unlike any man the king was pleased


which would not be sufficient to make me certain of the truth of a thing if it were possible that anything that i so clearly and distinctly perceive should be false wherever i may lay this down as a principle whatever i clearly and distinctly perceive is certainly true but i have formerly admitted of many things


young birds building their first nests seem afraid to trust in the strength of their own weaving these nests are invariably shallow and so suffer most from birds of prey in the choice of building material the birds are very careful they know well that no branch supports the nest from beneath


their nests they are noticeably deeper and so better protected from bird enemies the same thing is sometimes noticed of nests built in maple or apple trees which are without the protection of drooping branches upon which birds of prey can find no footing some wise birds secure the same protection


but a pure effect of your natural temper and that is it a great virtue in others to do the self same things you perform for in what you have hitherto done you have made little or no progress at all because you have overcome yourself in little or nothing but others have made a very great one because they have resisted and overcome themselves


monsieur there is good and holy action to be performed monsieur and much money to be gained at the same time madame bonacieux knew that in talking of money to her husband she took him on his weak side but a man were he even a mercer when he had talked for ten minutes with cardinal richelieu is no longer the same man much money to be gained


others of them that have superadded forms to them as when i will when i fear when i affirm when i deny i know i have always whenever i think some certain thing as the subject or object of my thought but in this last sort of thoughts there is something more which i think upon than barely the


to gnaw hard nuts or bark every day to keep those teeth from growing too long. when the young squirrels were three months old in july they were big enough to take care of themselves. away they scampered from the old home tree and found new homes in stumps and hollows. the smallest one used to curl up in an old robin's nest to sleep at night.


seeing fires she murmured when her reasoning having prevailed a reconciliation had ensued and you have issued from them if possible truer metal than you went in mr paxton felt that that indeed was very possible he allowed the compliment to go unheeded conscious no doubt that it was undeserved


little eager heads at every new sound the scream of a blue jay in the treetop above sent them scampering inside again to cuddle close together in the darkest corner it was fun to see something new and exciting even if it did make them shiver all over soon the mother squirrel came springing from branch to branch to reach the hollow how the babies


i may more thoroughly understand what i am than if i should say at present i am awake and perceive something true but because it appears not evidently enough i shall endeavor to sleep that in a dream i may perceive it more evidently and truly wherefore i know that nothing i can comprehend by my imagination can belong to the notion i have of