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...al monuments of Moghul power - particularly that symbol to everlasting love, the ‘Taj Mahal’; the sites of famous battlefields of India’s past and h... ...her Saitan” the name given to a tiger, which is preying on the villages around the forest hunting site.’ ‘But is that so strange, tigers are predato... ...tten by her ancestor, the sixteenth century prince, to his beautiful dancing girl, whose tomb is sited in your garden.’ Helen took the little, red,... ...lankenhagen 304 Sir James Cameron and Gavin followed the course of the mutiny. Standing over a map, spread out on a table, Gavin’s fingers traced ...

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... the distance is closed by an ampitheatre of hills. The magic charm of the site and the rich simplicity of the building make this episcopal palace one... ...rous gorge by highwaymen, whose deeds of violence went unpunished, for the site favored them; they could instantly disappear, by ways known to them al... ...ore a post-house of this kind, the walls of which resembled a geographical map, while the thatched roof, blooming like a flower-gar- 75 Balzac den, s...

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...nore her altogether. In addition, the builder was totally in charge of the site and in the event she gave lip, the builder had his blessing to give a... ...k of femininity. “I’d rather shoot myself in the foot at a nuclear testing site.” Concealing his amusement in a swig of coffee, Rick decided that Chr... ...xpressed concern. “How dreadful.” “Yes. I really only stopped to look on a map for a public toilet.” Rick coughed with the muffled sound of Chris’s r...

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...e he was wise, The moment one looked in his face! He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the... ...tige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. “What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles... ...rroll, be sure to return to PSU’s Electronic Classics Series Lewis Carroll’ site: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/carroll.htm. To read more cl... ...o read more classics in English, return to PSU’s Electronic Classics Series site: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/jimspdf.htm. 20 The Hunting ...

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...es on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I gr... ... in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its bo... ...untry, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird—a sill... ...n the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of re... ...abin. The pilgrims were dining in the mess-room, and I took my place oppo- site the manager, who lifted his eyes to give me a ques- tioning glance, wh...

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...ere the streams join in one; it had a fine autumn smell of burning, the smoke blew in the woods, and the boys were pretty merry and busy. Now I had a ... ...ed; the better for a rowing, when he calls me ‘Papa’ in the most wheedling tones; desperately afraid of ghosts, so that he dare not walk alone up in t... ...road; the garden is part burned, part dug; and Henry, at the head of a troop of underpaid assis- tants, is hard at work clearing. The part clearing yo... ...g you will see from the map; from the house run down to the stream side, up the stream nearly as high as the garden; then back to the star which I hav... ... was; and about 1500 of these are in the dark- ness of the pit. But now the moon is on tap again, and the roads lighted. I have been exploring up the ... ... and like Falconet’s horse (I have just been reading the anec- dote in Lockhart), Mortes forbye. News: Our old house is now half demolished; it is to ...

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... stript away; except, indeed, that the low roofs of a few of these ancient sites of worship were cov- ered with dingy stucco, and frescoed with script... ...who still journey from remote coun- tries to kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especi... ...sy as the lane was, it skirted along heaps of shapeless ruin, and the bare site of the vast temple that Hadrian planned and built. It terminated on th... ...nge straight downward into a stonepaved court. “I prefer this to any other site as having been veritably the T raitor’s Leap,” said Kenyon, “because i... ...ggestion, they turned aside, for the sake of treading loftily past the old site of Pompey’s Forum. “For there was a great deed done here!” she said,—”... ... battlemented walls and towered gateway, were scattered upon this spacious map; a river gleamed across it; and lakes opened their blue eyes in its fac...

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...is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. As a result, the original site of that settlement is not now in Louisiana at all, but on the other ... ...obody smiled at these colossal ironies. These performances took place on the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas, and there the first confis... ...ver. Marquette’s and Joliet’s voyage of discovery ended at the same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon. When De Soto took his fleeting glimp... ...e river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. Therefore, three out of th... ...rican heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘passed the sites, since become historic, of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf,’ and visited a... ...ion. But I was ashamed to go home. I was in Cincinnati, and I set to work to map out a new career. I had been reading about the recent exploration of ...

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... will be watched as constantly as its me- teorological phases, and a daily map of the country within a radius of three or four hundred miles showing a... ...ntation; but I think on the whole I have got the main lines of this sketch map of my mental basis true. Whether I have made myself comprehensible is a... ...question al- together. It is for you rather than me to say how this sketch map of mine lies with regard to your own more systematic cartography…. Here... ...anism, of no particular value. To return to the Electronic Classic Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to t...

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.... So much we do know, though we are ignorant, and ever shall be so, of the site of His cross and of the tomb. And then we de- scended on the eastern s... ...nian convent at Ramlath, or Ramath. This place is supposed to stand on the site of Arimathea, and is marked as such in many of the maps. The monks at ...

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... to veil the confusion upon the table, and which proved to be the Ordnance map of the county, embellished with numerous streaks of paint. ‘The outline... ...? She understands anything but going to school— poor child! Yes, burn that map of the strata,—not that—it is to be a painted window whenever I can aff... ...ield called ‘Great Courtiers,’ and the farm called ‘Small Profits,’ on the map, but did not know their ups and downs much better than the coast of Chi... ... about to speak even more warmly; and Mary did the honours of the proposed site for the cottages, a waste strip fronting a parish lane, open to the so...

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...public din- ners, which led to a dancing worse than speech-making. So is the cave where the flaring eyes of the old goat made such a goblin appearance... ...is all very well, but we have no proof of the results, sir, no proof. On the first head of local advantages and special selection. Would Limehouse Hol... ...e turned it the right way in so workmanlike a manner, that the horse could never have got any height into the air, and the story couldn’t have been. H...

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... ROKOVOKO, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. When a new-hatched savage running wild about hi... ...after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket. Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it... ... the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down went his mark oppo- site that article upon the paper. Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling... ... and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the oppo- site hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;—all these, wi... ...ain. Under all these circumstances, would it be unreasonable to survey and map out the whale’s spine phrenologically? For, viewed in this light, the w... ...n of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any 353 Herman Melville whale to sw... ...ook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you lan... ... He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noah’s flood...

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...ey are always related, but they are never identical. They are always oppo- site, but there exists a relation between them. This is the Holy Ghost of t... ... flesh, the flesh only. It is the corresponding reaction, but in the oppo- site direction. But that is all four hundred years ago. Enrico Persevalli h... ...ilight in Italy ness full to the south, to the lake and the mountain oppo- site, seem more terrible than Pompeii in their silence and utter seclusion.... ...look at the night. The stars were very bright overhead, the mountain oppo- site and the mountains behind us faintly outlined themselves on the sky. Be... ... Zurich, spread there be- yond with its girdle of low hills, like a relief-map. I could not bear to look at it, it was so small and unreal. I had a fe... ...s so small and unreal. I had a feeling as if it were false, a large relief-map that I was looking down upon, and which I wanted to smash. It seemed to...