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The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony, In Eight Fits

By: Lewis Carroll

...ill look at a bride: And in charity meetings it stands at the door, And collects—though it does not subscribe. “ Its flavor when cooked is more e...

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...on as he had re lit a cigar and walked away the Trantridge people began to collect themselves from amid those who had come in from other farms, and pr...

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Virginibus Puerisque, And Other Papers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...the world, or else – and this, thank God, in the majority of cases – we so collect about us the interest or the love of our fellows, so multiply our e... ...llery, and found them all there.” It would be difficult to say whether the collection was more interesting on the score of unity or diversity. Where t... ...othing in the world besides his own occupation of the moment. Although the collection did not embrace, I understand, nearly the whole of Raeburn’s wor... ...n one; how he distributed starlight, and, as soon as the need was over, re-collected it; and the little bull’s-eye, which was his instrument, and held...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...one’s hand. Of course, among her theories, this young lady was not without a collection of views on the subject of marriage. The first on the list was ... ...brary was provided with a complete set of those authors which no gentleman’s collection should be without, she sat motionless and empty handed, her ey... ...ublime soul. Lord Warburton loomed up before her, largely and brightly, as a collection of attributes and powers which were not to be measured by this... ...st make the best of that.” “I shall not keep you in suspense; I only want to collect my mind a little.” He gave a melancholy sigh and stood looking at... ...iticize his small defects as well as his great—which latter consisted in the collective reproach of his being too serious, or, rather, not of his bein... ...rough us all and she works us up.” “Well, I must say I never have had such a collection of had material!” Henrietta declared, looking from Isabel to L... ...nny steamer to the Tower; they looked at pictures both in public and private collections and sat on various occasions beneath the great trees in Kensi... ...examined in her society the bric ` a brac, of which Ralph had a considerable collection, and afterwards, when the host proposed they should go out int... ...should signify less. ‘He’s very cultivated,’ they say: ‘he has a very pretty collection of old snuff boxes.’ The collection is all that’s wanted to ma...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...ing, though his pursuits were diversified and his occupations numerous. He collected the rents of whole colonies of filthy streets and alleys by the w... ... ferry, and once exhibited by particular desire at a turn pike, where the collector, being drunk in his solitude, paid down a shilling to have it to ... ...is tail, after which he appeared full of thought but quite comfortable and collected. The old gentleman having exhausted his pow ers of persuasion, a... ...r sat; a few dog’s eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 190 peg tops, balls, kites... ...ife, ’ and then another scroll, on which was written, ‘The only stupendous collection of real wax work in the world, ’ and then several smaller scroll... ...Now exhibiting within’—’The genuine and only Jarley’— ’Jarley’s unrivalled collection’—’Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry’—’The Royal ... ...ma’am.’ ‘Why, bless you, child, what are you thinking of? How could such a collection be here, where you see every thing except the inside of one lit... ...t to work without loss of time, and very busy they were. As the stupendous collection were yet The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 218 concealed by clo... ...; and Mrs Jarley served out the tin tacks from a linen pocket like a toll collector’s which she wore for the purpose, and encour aged her assistants...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- graduate news; it is far more sat- isfactory to the ed... ...." DUNLAP, STETSON, CHASB, QUYfcR and SPHINX all contribute to the Cutting collection of Stiff and Soft Mats, $S,00, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 and $2.00. C.... ...mis' every two weeks ' MODEL LAUNDERING CO. North Adams, flass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'07&VANDECARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEG* All laundry left where th... ...llectors DURFEE'07&VANDECARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEG* All laundry left where the collector can get it on Monday morning will b« returned Wednesday. Work tak... ...w." DUNLAP, STETSON, CHASE, QUVaR and SPHINX all contribute to the Cutting collection of Stiff and Soft Hats, $5.00, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 and $2,00. C.... ...On Broadway TROY. N. Y. MODEL LAUNDERIN6 CO. North Adams, Hass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'07&VANDEGARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEGB All laundry left where th... ...llectors DURFEE'07&VANDEGARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEGB All laundry left where the collector can get it on Monday morning will b« returned Wednesday. Work tak... ...w." DUNLAP, STETSON, CHASE, QUYER and SPHINX all contribute to the Cutting collection of Stiff and Soft Hats, $5,00, $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 and $2.00. C.... ...n Broadway TEOY, N. Y. MODEL LAUNDERING CO. North Adams, flass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'G7&VANDEGARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLKGB All laundry left where th...

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You Know Me Al

By: Ring Lardner

...he six Jack Keefe stories that compose this volume were originally written as individual magazine articles, but the epistolary format made it easy to collect them into a single running narrative covering Jack's first two years in the Big Leagues. It isn't necessary to know baseball history to enjoy the book, which is as much about Jack's troubles with girlfriends, wives an...

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Σχεδιασμός χώρου και αειφορική διαχείριση ομβρίων με χρήση βέλτιστων τεχνικών : Μελέτη εφαρμογής στην περιοχή Βιοτεχνικού Πάρκου Πάτρας

By: ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ ΠΑΠΑΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ

...f urbanized areas. In order to deal with flood waters in urban areas, mostly drainage systems were developed. However, the expansion of networks that collect water and transport it to the sea is a classic approach of dealing with rainwater runoff that has grave quantity and environmental consequences and is thus nowadays hydraulically inefficient, technically doubtful, env...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

... this mo- ment, stands in need. Did I not tell you so? Be frank, my friend.” “Y our eminence said so.” “Well, what sum did I say I wanted?” “Forty-fiv... .... 143 Dumas CHAPTER 20 Of the Society Which Was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d’Or, to Carry Out M. d’Artagnan’s Idea AFTE... ... amongst certain dens of Paris sufficed for his recruiting; and, without allowing his adventurers to com- municate with each other, he had picked up a... ..., when, at a hundred leagues from London, he de- clared himself for the parliament. Lambert, on the con- trary, as we have said, lived in the capital.... ... Surintendant Fouquet, whose accounts I gave you to verify some months ago.” Colbert bit his lips at the name of Fouquet. “His maj- esty,” said he, be... ...and not to allow myself to be turned aside by any feeling whatever. Fouquet, my friend! it is of immense importance!” “Y ou astonish me, marquise; I w... ...ithout being at the same time inclined to be a dreamer. He had picked up, here and there, some scraps of M. de la Rochefoucauld, worthy of being trans... ...first time — for before he had only caught a glimpse of him, — the stranger had black and brilliant eyes, a yellow complexion, a brow a little wrinkle... ...” Aramis darted a look at Porthos, as if to ask if all this were true, if some snare were not concealed beneath this outward indifference. But soon, a...

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Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

...or these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar an...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...to Paris somewhere about the year 1810, it was in the character of a rabid collector, loaded with pictures, statuettes, frames, wood-carving, ivories,... ... intricacies of modern orchestra- tion; and at length, in the pleasures of collecting, he found such ever-renewed compensation for his failure, that i... ... be believed?—Pons would have pro- 10 Cousin Pons nounced for his beloved collection. Pons was of the opinion of Chenavard, the print-collector, who ... ...from Italy, he had regularly spent about two thousand francs a year upon a collection of masterpieces of every sort and description, a collection hidd... ...f the marvels of Pompadour France in their tumbril carts; he had, in fact, collected the drifted wreck of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; he... ...tained many a piece by exchange, and therein lies the ineffable joy of the collector. The joy of buying bric-a-brac is a secondary delight; in the giv... ...t; in the give-and- take of barter lies the joy of joys. Pons had begun by collect- ing snuff-boxes and miniatures; his name was unknown in bric-a-bra... ...Pons, was a musician; he was likewise a comparatively poor man, and he had collected his bric-a-brac in much the same way, with the same love of art, ... ...ove of art, the same hatred of rich capitalists with well- known names who collect for the sake of running up prices as cleverly as possible. There wa...

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Lady Hester : Or, Ursula's Narrative

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...he could not wish for his life, and gloated over all the reports she could collect of his weakness. I felt more and more horror of her; God forgive me... ... business-like way, while Bertram gave him all the information he had been collecting in his absence. I would not listen. I was determined against goi... ...he called it. She knew every bird and beast on the farm, fed the chickens, collected the eggs, nursed tender chicks or orphan lambs and weaning calves... ... entered so quietly that the listening, watching servants never heard him, collected all the valuables he could easily carry away, changed his dress, ...

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...end to be men; or they would 39 run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and for- get where th...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ertained it before. I placed the slip of paper on the back of a book, and, collecting the fragments of the phosphorus matches which I had brought from... ...of the sheet we had used before for this purpose. We had no other means of collecting the rain than by holding the sheet spread out with one of the fo... ...mained seven months (from August, 1790, to April, 1791) for the purpose of collecting sealskins. In this time he gathered no less than five thousand s... ...roductive- ness of the soil. The population occupied themselves chiefly in collecting sealskins and sea elephant oil, with which they traded to the Ca... ...the minds of our party as the mirror had done in the case of Too-wit. Upon collecting a basinful, and allowing it to settle thoroughly, we perceived t... ... precipi- tous ravine, we at length reached what we were told was the only collection of habitations upon the island. As we came in sight of them, the... ...islanders, and the readiness with which they would render us assistance in collecting it, Captain Guy resolved to enter into negotiations with Too-wit... ...ution was at hand. 142 Poe in Five V olumes CHAPTER 21 AS SOON AS I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and grovelli... ...able, and very nearly resembling in flavour the common English filbert. We collected our hats full immedi- ately, deposited them within the ravine, an...

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Yest Ye Become One

By: Nickolaus A. Pacione

... Excuses as one collects; everything they fabricate becomes everything someone believes as they hang on every other word. One lie leads to destruction of another man – a question we see coming to mind; how many collate and then trim and pa...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...a (PRK; pro-Vietnamese, in Phnom Penh); the three resistance groups function collectively as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) T... ...iday: Canada Day, 1 July Branches: federal executive power vested in cabinet collectively responsible to House of Commons and headed by Prime Minis- t... ...sources are very meager so large water catchments (concrete or natural rock) collect rain water Special notes: strategic location on Strait of Gibralt... ...7), average annual growth rate 0.08% Nationality: noun Irishman(men), Irish (collective pi.); adjective Irish Ethnic divisions: Celtic, with English m... ...e sector 42%, and agriculture and forestry 4%; the sale of postage stamps to collectors, estimated at $10 million annu- ally, provides for 10% of stat... ...a 1,643,000 and related Betsileo 760,000) on the one hand and coastal tribes collectively termed the Cotiers, with mixed black, Malayo-Indonesian, and... ... power supplied by France Trade: full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Mona- can trade duties; also participates in EC mark... ...7), aver- age annual growth rate 0.15% Nationality: noun Briton(s), British (collective pi.); adjective British Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% ... ...Parliament (House of Lords, House of Commons); executive authority lies with collectively responsible Cabinet led by Prime Minister; House of Lords is...

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Collected Poems of Alexander Pope : The Reader's Library, Volume 12

By: Alexander Pope; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most of his minor and early poetry as well....

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...oud. His engine, classed as an interstellar ramjet, in one version would collect the cloud material en route to use as a working fluid and would us... ...e main part of the journey is to be interstellar hydrogen and other ions, collected en route. Thus the range of SS Alpha is determined ultimately b... ...nues to gain speed the main engine becomes more-and-more self-sufficient, collecting larger-and-larger amounts of hydrogen and other ions from the t... ...s." The main engine is 41 now self-sustaining at which time some of the collected propellant begins flowing into the tanks, soon refilling them. ... ...smarandache/Russo-faster- than-light.pdf. [13] Smarandache, Florentin. Collected Papers, Vol. III, Abaddaba Publ. Hse., Oradea, Romania, 158, 200... ...ife at Infinite Speed", Arizona State University, Hayden Library, Special Collections, Tempe, USA, 1972. [17] Smarandache, Florentin. "Neutrosop...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...e had spiked the punch, or whatever they were drinking.” Alex paused to re-collect himself. A complete silence draped over the room. Father Anton... ...ce. "It's exactly like me. I have reacted many times, including, saving your collective asses. Remember the CIA investigation into the connection b... ...d win." "You're as crazy as he is." "And you've got your head stuck in the collective Beltway sand. There's a whole country out there, Ratzo," Br... ...tending to be checking. "Cut the shit Rawlings. I need some advice." After collecting himself from Radcliff’s outburst, "You want anyone else in t... ...down, Alex, I know this is important." Alex took a deep breath, and tried to collect himself. "Mr. President, and gentlemen, I apologize for my uns... ...been planted and the timers set. Another five minutes passed, before they all collected at the van. "Drive," Hakeem exclaimed to the driver who was...

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Pink Lotus

By: Manfred Mitze

... many Maybeetles flying around or climbing in trees. The brown, fat, shiny beetles would eat leaves, and the kids were allowed to shake the trees and collect them. It was much fun to keep them in shoeboxes with small holes punched in them, then feed the beetles until they really stunk and Mother or Father would throw them out. By then, most of the beetle collection had alr...

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The World's Library 2014

By: World Public Library

...y for the promotion of social welfare. Our mission is to serve and aid the public, students, and educators, by providing the world's most complete collection of electronic books, documents, and articles online, as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post-baccalaureate s...

...sive as these libraries were, neither allowed access to the general public. The great renaissance libraries that followed were much the same; private collections for the wealthy and intellectual elite. The first truly public, lending library was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. This library allowed anyone to borrow, member or not, but required that non-members ...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... listlessness and inactivity which accompany it. Giving up all attempts to collect my things together, I lay down upon the sails, expecting every m... ...ssion stands a little back of the town, and is a large building, or rather collection of buildings, in the center of which is a high tower, with a ... ... which was yearly greater and greater, it would take us a year, at least, to collect our own cargo, beside the passage out and home; and that we were ... ...ect our own cargo, beside the passage out and home; and that we were also to collect a cargo for a large ship belonging to the same firm, which was s... ...ia, belonging to the same firm, had been nearly two years on the coast; had collected a full cargo, and was now at San Diego, from which port she was... ...hich port she was expected to sail in a few weeks for Boston; and we were to collect all the hides we could, and deposit them at San Diego, when the n... ...housand, was to be filled and sent home; and then we were to begin anew, and collect our own cargo. Here was a gloomy prospect before us, indeed. The ... ...r thirty two thousand, had been two years getting her cargo; and we were to collect a cargo of forty thousand beside our own, which would be twelve ... ... interest in the voyage; cared nothing about the cargo, which we were only collect- ing for others; began to patch our clothes; and felt as though w...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...grave. No one has yet invented any method for the political expression and collective direction of a migratory population, and nobody is attempting to... ...King who understands the need for in- cessant, acute criticism to keep our collective activities intel- ligent and efficient, and for a flow of bold, ... ...usive prosperity as a Zollverein might afford; it can hold out no hopes of collective con- quests and triumphs—its utmost military rôle must be the gu... ...pt, contemplates vaguely but persistently the assumption of con- trol by a collective forecastle. He is like a private soldier ob- sessed with the ide... ... and most will toil very cheerfully in subordination if they feel that the collective end is a fine thing and a great thing. Now, this force of self-r... ...glut of coal, and he goes about the world trying to see the fine and noble collective achievements that justify the devotion of his whole life to humb... ...ompany, and on the other some more completely organised development of the collective bargain. We have to bring the directive intelligence of a concer... ...plexity, we want overmuch to sim- plify, we clamour for panaceas, we are a collective invitation to quacks. Our situation is an intricate one, it does... ...duly subordinated to our “firstly”; our game is better indi- vidually than collectively; we are like a football team that passes badly, and our need i...

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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...ace. After a violent epileptic fit she was usually for some time unable to collect her thoughts or to articulate distinctly . And so it was now. After...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were re- ally of remarkable beauty, ... ..., with an easy smile, “but I have docu- ments. I began a long while ago to collect documents. They want arranging, but when a question has struck me, ... ...I can’t let you off, you know, because I have some beetles to show you. We collectors feel an interest in every new man till he has seen all we have t... ...to my study, mother,” said the Vicar, laughing. “I promised to show you my collection,” he added, turning to Lydgate; “shall we go?” All three ladies ... ...ct under- standing. “I am a good deal occupied as a magistrate, and in the collection of documentary evidence, but I regard my time as being at the di... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...ny act that seemed a triumphant eluding of his purpose revolted her. After collecting papers of business which she wished to ex- amine, she locked up ... ... let it drop, run away in search of it, and not easily come back again. To collect documents is one mode of serving your country, and to remember the ... ...a sur- prise to his system which tended to scatter his energies instead of collecting them Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves mi...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable beauty, th... ...ke, with an easy smile, “but I have documents. I began a long while ago to collect documents. They want arranging, but when a question has struck me, ... ...I can’t let you off, you know, because I have some beetles to show you. We collectors feel an interest in every new man till he has seen all we have t... ...ered into a snuggery where the chief furniture would probably be books and collections of natural objects. The Vicar himself seemed to wear rather a c... ...to my study, mother,” said the Vicar, laughing. “I promised to show you my collection,” he added, turn ing to Lydgate; “shall we go?” All three ladie... ...fect understanding. “I am a good deal occupied as a magistrate, and in the collection of documentary evidence, but I regard my time as being at the di... ...he was something more unmanageable than a dragon: he was a benefactor with collective society at his back, and he was at that moment entering the room... ...he was not fond of visiting that house, but she liked, as she said, to see collections of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral; and ... ...ny act that seemed a triumphant eluding of his purpose revolted her. After collecting papers of business which she wished to examine, she locked up ag...

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