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...picked up humans with their trunks, and oarsmen in the facsimiles of royal barges competing against each other. The boats had the same body and count... ...ws they had seen of the kings' ancient boats that were housed in the Royal Barge Museum. The night and its dark appetites were mature in fu... ...iver in round wild and random organisms of light before motor-gondolas and barges, so he felt that something brief but beautiful had happened to him a... ... a child first introduced to colors through crayons. They watched the lit barges on the river and gorgeous glassy skyscrapers with lit angular tiaras...

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...s his eyes with his hand as if observing Arnold] he is on the shore; his barge of eight oars obeys the signal; he [ 43 I OF BENEDICT ARNOLD stand... ...er leaves his hand. The prow of the British sloop of war looms above his barge. They see his signal. They are letting down the gangway. They are t...

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...me (as a rail link had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a steamboat. The journey was slow b... ...d it spotted a corpse amidst all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘s...

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...mension, but you want to continue somehow. You wouldn't touch this with a barge pole. This is going to liquidate what you call you, all of you. This...

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...talk to me? I was the lonely new guy who was made to feel as if I was diseased, totally stupid, unloved and on an unfriendly planet. I couldn’t just barge in and demand to be someone’s mate.’ ‘I wanted to, but I felt too shy and inadequate. You’re smart and a loner and recently you’ve been sort of hanging out with those up-themselves wealthy wankers. I thought you and Ra...

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...hand tells Matthew: “Sometimes it just takes a strong hand” 309. Shut out, Matthew listens as Dennis describes “the ultimate development” 310. Matt barges into the house and destroys the sound equipment 311. With Ellen left behind, Morris visits Steward, not knowing why 312. At Scott’s Bluff, Morris struggles to regain the old ideal 313. Morris returns to the family h...

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...vage Islanders -- Reception to the King of Ternate -- Description of the royal barge -- Punctilious etiquette of the King's court -- The King's friend... ...t Egyptians......................................... 68 Ancient Egyptian State Barge............................................. 68 Caravels of the f... .................................................. 124 The Empress Fanfur and her Barge........................................ 126 Battle ships of the C... ...es of the Pelew Islanders........................................... 368 Royal barge of the King of Ternate...................................... 369 ... ...y hue, and where sported birds of as many colors. On the lake was also a royal barge, which the King and Queen used for recreation and in which to vi... ... left Seville, and a few days later the Admiral came down the river in his own barge and hurried the preparations to put to sea. One delay after anoth... ...slands over which his authority extended. The King's visit was made in a royal barge of magnificent equipment, accompanied as he was by three smaller ... ...ressed in flowing robes of white muslin, while as they sat in the seats of the barges they were protected from the sun by a canopy or awning of perfum... ... these were again encircled by the rowers, of which there were eighty to each barge, placed in galleries raised above the other seats, three on each ...

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...bling so. The servant moved to block her, fearing, she supposed, she might barge into the house just to get a glimpse of her idol. Though she long... ...rboats were like nuggets of smoky topaz on the wide necklace of the river. Barges strung out before laboring tugs heading up toward Hartford or dow... ... sail appeared on a tiny craft wending like a butterfly among the lumbering barges. Ronan saw it, too, and pointed eagerly toward it. A bit of a sm... ...tead, fueled by her eagerness to be rid of her unwanted house guest, Morgan barged into the library, knocking as she entered. “Daniel, that woman...

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...d waterways: 203 km; 122 km navigable by motorized craft and 200- metric-ton barges Ports: 1 major, 6 minor Civil air: 1 DC-3 and 1 light aircraft Air... ...h, 2,700 km unimproved Inland waterways: Lac Kivu navigable by shallow draft barges and native craft Civil air: 1 major transport aircraft Airfields: ... ...nimproved earth) Inland waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges Pipelines: 84 km natural gas Ports: 17 major and 30 minor t Civil ...

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...rt nodded and lobbed his cup into the garbage bin. Stiffened when he saw Otto barge past, only twenty feet away. “I’m going to place my bets for th... ...tch stalls. Should have guessed Otto was unstable. He controlled his urge to barge into the barn and paused outside the door. Heard nothing but the... ...he second door on the right and whined softly. Kurt turned the knob, and Blue barged past and ran to the bed. His pink tongue slopped over Julie’s ... ...d out Archer's number and rushed from the room, ignoring their protests. He barged into the motel office. A wide-eyed clerk was taking pictures thr...

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...r, the air motionless, the past was there, Hunt’s past, Cleopatra’s...her barge, like a burnished throne, burnt on the water; the poop beaten gold, ... ...d. As I signed, I remembered slaves, slaves in a slave depot, slaves on a barge, slaves on a Kentucky plantation; I remembered the dead and the dyin...

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... a taloned foot and dismembered a wolf from throat to tail. Like an open-sea barge, she surged forward, pushing the wolves like flotsam before her. Th...

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... of Ionian white and gold. The river sweats Oil and tar The barges drift With the turning tide Red sails ... ... 270 Wide To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. The barges wash Drifting logs Down Greenwich reach Past the Isle... ... iv, letter of De Quadra to Philip of Spain: In the afternoon we were in a barge, watching the games on the river. (The queen) was alone with Lord Rob...

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... for tootling on the sentimental flute in literature; and not a man among us will go to the head of the march to sound the heady drums. It was agreeab... ...of the rudder, and perhaps a jug or a flower-pot in one of the windows; a dinghy following behind; a woman busied about the day’s dinner, and a handfu... ...as it moved gently along the water with nothing to mark its advance but an eddy alongside dying away into the wake. Of all the creatures of commercial... ...nd the man dreaming at the tiller sees the same spire on the horizon all day long. It is a mystery how things ever get to their desti- nation at this ... ...a life is both to travel and to stay at home. The chimney smokes for dinner as you go along; the banks of the canal slowly unroll their scenery to con... ...y unroll their scenery to contemplative eyes; the barge floats by great forests and through great cities with their public buildings and their lamps a... ...ly necessary for unhealthy people. The slug of a fellow, who is never ill nor well, has a quiet time of it in life, and dies all the easier. I am sure... ...tion under heaven that required attendance at an of- fice. There are few callings, I should say, where a man gives up less of his liberty in return fo... ...d as iron; and so far as I can make out, time stands as nearly still with him as is compatible with the return of bed-time or the dinner-hour. It is n...

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...nd gaily coloured peasants’ automobiles, the hues of the innumerable motor barges in the canal vied with the eventfulness of the roadways; and everywh... ...s lined by the neutral, unmolested, ambiguously obser- vant Dutch. All the barges and shipping upon the canals had been requisitioned for transport. I... ... this refuge until dawn and then if the traffic was still choked leave the barge and march the rest of the way into Alkmaar. ‘This place we had got in... ... still, and hear the voices of the soldiers. Pres- ently five or six other barges came through and lay up in the meer near by us, and with two of thes... ...of us and beyond were a cluster of roofs and one or two church towers. The barge was rather cramped for so many men, and I let several squads, thirty ... ...net’s men were too weary for that sort of thing, and soon the bank and the barge were heaped with sleeping forms. ‘I alone seemed unable to sleep. I s... ...I was over-weary, and after a little feverish slumber by the tiller of the barge I sat up, awake and uneasy…. ‘That night Holland seemed all sky. Ther... ...to meet this amazing crisis. He got his men aboard and hailed the adjacent barges; he got the man who acted as barge engineer at his post and the engi... ...otal fall of the front could not have been much more than twelve feet. Our barge hesitated for a moment, took a dose over her bows, and then lifted. I...

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...to the oc- casion. He secured some of the men who came round the vessel in barges clamouring for employment, and—Grisell scarce knew how—Leonard on hi... ...knew how—Leonard on his bed was lifted down, and laid in the bottom of the barge. The big bundles and cases were committed to the care of another barg... ...of the same serpent which Grisell had learnt to know so well, and here the barge hove to, while two servants, the man in a brown belted jer- 121 Char... ...uly sunshine lay glittering on the canals, grace- ful skiffs, and gorgeous barges, and bringing out in full de- tail the glories of the architecture a... ...forth very early in the morning, slowly gliding along several streets in a barge, watching the motley crowds thronging banks and bridges—a far more br... ...ian Dukes at the very climax of their magnificence. After landing from the barge Ridley, with Grisell on his arm, and Anton with his mistress, had a s...

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...’s self.” An ancient and still bullet-speckled stern-wheel steamer, with a barge lashed to her side, came round the river bend. She whistled to tell t... ...vernor his dinner was ready, and the horse, seeing his fodder piled on the barge, whinnied back. “Moreover,” the Sheikh added, “in the days of the Op-... ...* * It was four, as a matter of fact, ere a steamer with a melodi- ous bargeful of hounds anchored at that landing. The In- spector leaped down am... ...e high bank, went about his night’s work. An eddy carried his scent to the barge, and three villages heard the crash of music that followed. Even then... ...ervision,” said the Governor. They began at sunrise. The pack flew off the barge in every direction, and, after gambols, dug like terriers at Abu Huss... ...ips. Scorpions were added; for May Queen nosed one, and was removed to the barge la- menting. Mystery (a puppy, alas!) met a snake, and the blue- mott... ... a James Pigg!” Farag waved his hand to his uncle, and led Royal on to the barge. The rest of the pack followed. * * * Gihon, that had seen ma... .... * * * Gihon, that had seen many sports, learned to know the Hunt barge well. He met her rounding his bends on grey Decem- ber dawns to music... ...eat the feathers?” “On no account must they eat the feathers. Farag in the barge will tell thee how they are to live.” There is no instance of any def...

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...r an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that split the cur- rent into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from ... ... you when you were a babby, was picked out of the river alongside the coal barges. The very basket that you slept in, the tide washed ashore. The very... ...ot out in the perishing night, I hope, father?’ ‘No, my dear. Lay aboard a barge, by a blazing coal-fire.— Where’s that boy?’ ‘There’ s a drop of bran... ...ful whether some of your lime don’t get into bad company as it comes up in barges.’ ‘Y ou hear Eugene?’ said Lightwood, over his shoulder. ‘Y ou are d... ...for some time past given the other man a bad name arising out of your lime barges, and that the other man has been avoided in consequence. I don’t say... .... And what’s more,—the boat’s drove tight by the tide ‘atwixt two tiers of barges. And what’s more,—he’s in luck again, by George if he ain’t!’ Chapte... ...amma’s cottage, ‘That’ s to drown YOU in, my dears!’ Not a lumbering black barge, with its cracked and blistered side impending over them, but seemed ... ...ur of this work, and Riderhood unshipped his sculls, stood holding on to a barge, and hand over hand long-wise along the barge’s side gradually worked... ...Riderhood. ‘Not so easy done. His luck’s got fouled under the keels of the barges. I tried to haul in last time, but I couldn’t. See how taut the line...

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...d a reddened nose) informed me, their cargoes were frozen-in up-country on barges and schuyts. In the distance, beyond the waste ground, and running p... ... by rail in trucks, till the thaw set in; and then fast, in a multitude of barges, with a great rush of unbound waters. The gentle master stevedore ha... ...e presented imposing pro- portions. And, behold! the brown sprit-sail of a barge hid it entirely from my view. Coming in from the eastward, the bright... ...f a hasty settle- ment upon a wild and unexplored shore. The famous Thames barges sit in brown clusters upon the water with an effect of birds floatin... ...e, by blackened timber and grimed glass and rusty iron, covered with black barges, whipped up by paddles and screws, over- burdened with craft, overhu... ...e lightless walls seem to spring from the very mud upon which the stranded barges lie; and the narrow lanes coming down to the foreshore resemble the ...

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...ils, pains, and woes: His steed now flounders in the brake, Now sinks his barge upon the lake; Now leader of a broken host, His standard falls, his h... ...ks upon the tide, That, slow enlarging on the view, Four manned and massed barges grew, And, bearing downwards from Glengyle, Steered full upon the lo... ... the time—speed, Malise, speed!’ Like heath-bird, when the hawks pursue, A barge across Loch Katrine flew: High stood the henchman on the prow; So rap... ...oss Loch Katrine flew: High stood the henchman on the prow; So rapidly the barge-mall row, The bubbles, where they launched the boat, Were all unbroke... ... man Unfit for arms; and given his charge, Nor skiff nor shallop, boat nor barge, Upon these lakes shall float at large, But all beside the islet moor... ...darted forth By morrice-dancers of the north; And saw at morn their |barges ride, |little fleet, Close moored by the lone islet...