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...-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course, the cats do speak (often caustically) since a few dragons are interesting enough (cats can still speak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymo...

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...will continue to be both an inspiration and "goad." The references to Chinese mythology and the Gobi desert were inspired by The LaRousse Encycl... ...gons, Dumb Choices.” It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course,... ...rtality ripped from them: For what? Power? Glory? Destiny? The furred creatures always seemed to know when a dragon would choose the Last Flight... ...th awesome powers -- confident, majestic, compelling. Cats were the only creatures who didn't automatically just fall into their depths. "Ah, the... ...n rules. Always questioning. Always thinking, brooding. Dragons aren't creatures of real feeling." She knew well, though, that he was. "Venom! ... ...Feng-po and Ch'ang-o are coming back." For once, Ao Rue wished Feng-po's legendary staying powers were even greater. The time had flashed by like ... ...ow. I never believed his stories. He was the dragon slayer. He was the legendary tom! Our greatest hero. Legend incarnate. To think I never kn...

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...cover Truth in this our life on earth, then we are the most deluded of all creatures. But unless we search we will not even know that much.” The Buddh... ...l Ltd, London, 1921. vol.1. book III, chapter VIII. For a popular Buddhist legendary account of the Buddha’s life see Edward Conze (tr.) Buddhist Scri... ...tions. HOW MUCH DOES HISTORICAL TRUTH MATTER? Whether historically true or legendary, are events claimed to have taken place two thousand years ago ac... ... in this respect, it was that the Buddha extended compassion to all living creatures, human and animal. But perhaps even this difference was not truly... ...ssence of God, not knowing at all where it is, knowing nothing but God. 77 Chinese Taoist: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name t... ...p our daily existence, when he feels himself to be merely one of countless creatures made by and subordinate to God: When I came out of the Godhead in... ...liade, pp. 526-7, spelling and wording somewhat modernized. MYSTICISM 129 legendary date of the founding of Rome, and the time of the Chou dynasty in... ...here Quakerism originated and spread, and the cultural underlay of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism which gave rise to Zen. There is a definite t... ...nity is part, are unified. Such a concept equates with that of the ancient Chinese in the Tao, which is variously inadequately interpreted and trans- ...

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...the First he encountered the Houynmnnms, those very intelligent equine-like creatures who limited every family to two children, one male and one fem... ...Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outperforming their Anglo-Christian counterparts pa... ... today. “I had a couple of friends die of skin cancer. One was the legendary surfer Tommy Zahn, who my father used to lifeguard with. Too m... ...se if the general wins the war we accept his totalitarian leadership. If the Chinese one child policy allows for a more economically satisfying life ... ...ese one child policy allows for a more economically satisfying life for the Chinese we may accept it. If the Pope blesses us for following his comma...

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...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ...t is not an imaginary figment of the human brain; it is created by two living creatures coming together to give birth to another living creature; no... ...idiculous simply because it doesn’t go back far enough. Simple single celled creatures existed long before chickens did. Single cell creatures are... ... see the same organic design of Splitness in the eyes and faces of all living creatures: the two irises expand and contract just like the twin 2-d... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...of unhappiness, misery and loneliness have been recorded. Their stupidity is legendary. They are easily killed by man, and many of their species ha...

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...im. Listening to his grandfather, he wondered how anyone could protect all the creatures. The great trees of the forest didn't ap­ pear to need any ... ...ve 10il Johnachan Cross your life, or die trying. A reputation that grew into legendary proportions, primarily because Rapini would make sure that... ...w translated. "We are the twelve spokes of the wheel oflife. We are the spirit creatures that lived before the Red Man came to this land. It was a ... ...the Red Man the obligation to protect the land, and care for it. He gave us the creatures of the land, to sustain our needs and clothe us. In return... ...ollow your brother, he will show you the right thing to do'. Your heroics were legendary. Your strength was our strength. Your nobility was as grea... ...n solve it. 'IS Johnathan Cross It won't be easy, but it is solvable. As the Chinese say, 'In every crisis there is opportunity'." River Song gr...

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... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...with shock and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in ext... ...(to itself) only answerable questions. This way, it remains confined to a fabulous, legendary, contradiction- free domain. It ignores other questions... ...al information is superfluous and artificial. There is a magnitude bias here: being creatures of the macrocosm, form and function look to us distinc... ...bsidy offered by the (World) Bank." Thus, the antidote to moral hazard is not this legendary beast in the capitalistic menagerie, market discipline... ...e survived without some kind of love or attention lavished on us. We are dependent creatures throughout our lives. Thus, in an unavoidable path, as...

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... Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe... ...o defend the external source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to ref... ...ts, equipped with a book of instructions in English. Through one window messages in Chinese are passed on to him (in the original experiment, two ty... ...with shock and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in ext... ...(to itself) only answerable questions. This way, it remains confined to a fabulous, legendary, contradiction- free domain. It ignores other questions... ...al information is superfluous and artificial. There is a magnitude bias here: being creatures of the macrocosm, form and function look to us distinc... ...bsidy offered by the (World) Bank." Thus, the antidote to moral hazard is not this legendary beast in the capitalistic menagerie, market discipline... ...e survived without some kind of love or attention lavished on us. We are dependent creatures throughout our lives. Thus, in an unavoidable path, as...

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...reat... During the war, I conceived of a series of island poems, bucolic, legendary, praise of this life.” And he motioned toward the ocean and our ... ...they can’t apply some of their art to themselves. They are such emaciated creatures, I wonder what they eat? Each waits for the other to speak; each... ...ort. His mosaics reflect his regard for ease...scenes of old days and old creatures. I was glad when Libus gave up staying with Alcaeus; I had misse... ...e the painstaking calendar he had chiseled into the wall beside his cot...Chinese characters along the top section of the calendar—a dragon undernea... ...ies—you understand. Your unicorn motif is overdone in color...several sea creatures are neglected, it seems to me. LdV - Then you are dissatisfied?...

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... a scurvy dog. The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism. Som... ... of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. The Brah- ... ...e Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing abo... ...es from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days, so... ...hey were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the miserable drug ... ... Passepartout was surprised at all he saw. San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who... ...a- dies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys. These poor creatures seemed to be neither well off nor happy. Some—the more well-to-do...

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...ion, is the same in kind, (though different in degree,) amongst all living creatures; this instinct therefore, because it annihilates all distinctions... ...., the di- vine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man,— was gone, vanished, exti... ...to find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and unclean creatures. Failing in this coup d’essai, she would not simply disappoint ma... ...—whom the learned more accurately called Fi, Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...ing the granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of wild semi-legendary ani- mals,—griffins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes,—till at length... ...veller. That which really is a lie in the account of the unicorn—viz., his legendary rivalship with the lion—which lie may God preserve, in preserving... ... sea-lions, &c. The mermaid has been discredited by her human name and her legendary human habits. If she would not coquette so much with melancholy s...

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... be. It is a pity there are no longer any of this congenial race of rustic creatures for our friend to consort with!” “Hush, naughty one!” returned Hi... ...e, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain caudal append... ...e pleasantness of sylvan life, all the genial and happy characteristics of creatures that dwell in woods and fields, will seem to be mingled and knead... ...ed, a flight of a dozen steps gave access to the roof of the tower and the legendary shrine. On the other side was a door, at which Miriam knocked, bu... ...Her copies were indeed marvellous. Accuracy was not the phrase for them; a Chinese copy is accurate. Hilda’s had that evanescent and ethereal life—tha... ...ace front, with niches and many bas-reliefs, out of which looked Agrippa’s legendary virgin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the ba...

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... called by any name, but I will hazard a guess that it is either Washington or Broadway. Here are the blacksmith’s, the chemist’s, the general merchan... ...ng pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing... ...infamous, a centre of pistol-shots: and an- other who, if not yet known to rumour, will fill a col- umn of the Sunday paper when he comes to hang – a ... ...uzz. One dwelt habitually in the wood-pile, and sometimes, when we came for fire- wood, thrust up his small head between two logs, and hissed at the i... ...ir idle, happy, deaf- ening vociferations rise and fall, like the song of the crickets. I used to sit at night on the platform, and 80 ...

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...d have made one of those beautiful furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets: the fineness and the lustre of its coat would certainly fe... ...- dable sharks which threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent ... ... and more as a possible victim than as a naturalist. Happily the voracious creatures do not see well. They passed without seeing us, brushing us with ... ... exclaimed. The Malays, who carry on a great trade in these birds with the Chinese, have several means that we could not employ for taking them. Somet... ...ome. I see no reason for hindering them. After all, these Papuans are poor creatures, and I am unwilling that my visit to the island should cost the l... ...ent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who placed its disappearance amongst the legendary tales. I had it there now before my eyes, bearing upon it the une...

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...himneys; sabbath bells rang peacefully; old people lived and died; the timid creatures of the field, the simple flowers of the bush and garden, grew a... ...he lapse of time, even these remains of the old conflict; and wore away such legendary traces of it as the neighbouring people carried in their minds,... ...d sword! Stupid, wasteful, positively ridicu lous; you laugh at your fellow creatures, you know, when you think of it! But take this smiling country ... ... writing (the cramped hand, to say nothing of the phraseology, being so much Chinese to him), and also on turning them round to see whether there was... ...orld to be, in which some love, deep anchored, is the portion of all hu man creatures; nor, how such a trifle as the absence of one little unit in th...

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...im the ocean stream.” Paradise Lost. —— “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I g... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists —... ... trembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black tro... ... same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese... ...se comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Busines... ... the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care kil...

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... be. It is a pity there are no longer any of this congenial race of rustic creatures for our friend to consort with!” “Hush, naughty one!” returned Hi... ...e, downy fur. In the coarser representations of this class of mythological creatures, there is another token of brute kindred,—a certain caudal append... ...e pleasantness of sylvan life, all the genial and happy characteristics of creatures that dwell in woods and fields, will seem to be mingled and knead... ...ed, a flight of a dozen steps gave access to the roof of the tower and the legendary shrine. On the other side was a door, at which Miriam knocked, bu... ...Her copies were indeed marvellous. Accuracy was not the phrase for them; a Chinese copy is accurate. Hilda’s had that evanescent and ethereal life—tha... ...ace front, with niches and many bas-reliefs, out of which looked Agrippa’s legendary virgin, and several of the allegoric sisterhood; while, at the ba... ...he case, he would have judged it well to go. He made parting visits to the legendary dell, and to other delightful spots with which he had grown famil...

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...im the ocean stream.” —Paradise Lost. — “There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And see... ...on broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake- houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I ... ...e tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal pro... ...hich stem him. And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists—... ...rembling reverence and awe. Nor can it be ques- tioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness c... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally in- vested him, with wide black t... ...same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese draw- ing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chine... ...a 463 Herman Melville delicious grief, and her orphans a truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and all of them a care- ki... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...

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...le number of tad- 12 The Food of the Gods poles, or any such experimental creatures, into their flat. She had no objection whatever to his use of one... ...ain to effective maturity before the domestic fowl— and in fact of all the creatures that were—through the gener- ous carelessness of the Skinners—par... ...d and strange as a rat’s appetite must be, is it conceivable that the same creatures that could leave a lamb only half eaten, would finish up Skinner—... ...l of the great hog of Oakham hung, a por- tentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire…. It was to the... ...ith the man but with the creation of the newspapers and caricaturists, the legendary Caterham, Jack the Giant-killer, Perseus, and all the rest of it....

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...whom the learned more accu- rately called Fi Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...nks of natural associa- tion she brings along with her a troop of dreadful creatures, fabulous and not fabulous, that are more abominable to the heart... ...e, being the granddaughter of a crocodile, awakens a dreadful host of semi-legendary animals—grif- fins, dragons, basilisks, sphinxes—till at length t... ... find out the royal personage amongst the whole ark of clean and un- clean creatures. Failing in this coup d’essai, she would not simply disappoint ma... ...hat everybody hated her and thirsted for her blood; nay, many kind-hearted creatures that would have pitied her profoundly, as regarded all political ...

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...y to be a priest, and to spend your days and nights in helping your fellow creatures to draw peaceful dying breaths.” 33 Hawthorne “And by which of m... ...ut Priscilla, and kept her, as yet, from taking a very decided place among creatures of flesh and blood. The mysterious attraction, which, from her fi... ...happy, especially a feminine creature.” “They are always happier than male creatures,” said I. “You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale,” replied... ...writing it out, my pen has perhaps allowed itself a trifle of romantic and legendary license, worthier of a small poet than of a grave biographer. 14... ...e seen the diorama of Moscow or Bunker Hill, or the moving panorama of the Chinese wall. Here is displayed the museum of wax figures, illustrating the...

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...s to the combination, by a painter or a sculptor, of real flesh- and-blood creatures with allegoric abstractions. This is the objection to such combin... ...the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, even with regard to Latin, his own secretary doubts, upon one... ... case the water cups, in which the bed-posts rest, for- bid the transit of creatures not able to swim or to fly. A flea indeed leaps; and, by all repo... ... endary superstition, in the other half it wears the grace of chivalry and legendary romance. Any malignant scoff, there- fore, against the peerage of... ... readers, he did not scruple to give birth and currency to the grossest of legendary lies. The Duke’s death happened a few months before Pope’s birth....

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...iry tales have given these an added charm. They have peopled all that region with gnomes, and dwarfs, and all sorts of Mark Twain 10 mysterious and u... ...le from the hotel, and presently fell into a train of dreamy thought about animals which talk, and kobolds, and enchanted folk, and the rest of the pl... ...among birds and beasts. Said he: “There’s more to a bluejay than any other creature. He has got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than... ...y individuals. On a summer afternoon in the Castle gardens, I have seen six students march solemnly into the grounds, in single file, each carrying a ... ... tering and chattering foreign birds, and other great cages and greater wire pens, populous with quadrupeds, both na- tive and foreign. There were som... ... enchanting bopple.’ What is ‘bopple’?” “‘Picture. ’ It’s Choctaw.” “What is ‘schnawp’?” “‘Valley.’ That is Choctaw, also.” “What is ‘bolwoggoly’?” “T... ...ese for ‘hill.’” “‘Kahkahponeeka’?” “‘Ascent. ’ Choctaw.” “‘But we were again overtaken by bad hogglebumgullup.’ What does ‘hogglebumgullup’ mean?” “T...

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... out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their begi... ...o use. And earlier still was Archimedes of Syracuse, and still earlier the legendary Daedalus of Cnossos. All up and down the record of history whenev... ... and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintain... ...ight in a darkened room,’ he says. ‘These men were praying to their fellow creatures as once they prayed to God! The last thing that men will realise ... ...the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. T...

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...! Pretend to look out of window – Mrs. Tisher!’ Through a fortuitous concourse of accidents, the matronly Tisher heaves in sight, says, in rustling th... ...e! Is she stupid in everything?’ ‘No; in nothing.’ After a pause, in which the whimsically wicked face has not been unobservant of him, Rosa says: ‘An... ...nventory, or make a catalogue. I see a French clock. I never saw him before, in my life, but I instantly lay my finger on him and say “Paris!” I see s... ...st extraordinary thing,’ 54 The Mystery of Edwin Drood remarked the Minor Canon in the same tone as before, ‘that these philanthropists are so given ... ...an inflammatory Wen in Minor Canon Corner. Though it was not literally true, as was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he cal...

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... ter- rible realities at the time, left vague perplexing memories, strange creatures, strange scenery, as if from another planet. There was a distinct... ...kes It rumbled again, and a crop-haired anaemic lad with fea- tures of the Chinese type, clad in coarse pale blue canvas, appeared together with a com... ...read. “What of the yellow peril?” he asked and Asano made him explain. The Chinese spectre had vanished. Chinaman and European were at peace. The twen... ...nd the old man in the street had spoken. Strange places reminiscent of the legendary Sybaris, cities of art and beauty, mercenary art and mercenary be... ...la Marguerite. The pigtail was in evidence; it would seem that citizens of Chinese extraction were no longer ashamed of their race. There was little u... ...on his habits of thought than this place. The spectacle of the little pink creatures, their feeble limbs swaying uncertainly in vague first movements,...

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...h is daily contrasted with the happiness and power of some of their fellow-creatures, excites in their hearts at the same time the sentiments of anger... ...h is daily contrasted with the happiness and power of some of their fellow-creatures, excites in their hearts at the same time the sentiments of anger... ...n acquires a kind of preternatural power over the future lot of his fellow-creatures. When the legislator has regulated the law of inheritance, he may... ...rnish to the nations among which it exists. T ravellers assure us that the Chinese have peace without hap- piness, industry without improvement, stabi... ...America motionless state in which they found the minds of this people. The Chinese, in following the track of their forefathers, had forgotten the rea... ...ment, but they no longer possessed the art of altering or renewing it. The Chinese, then, had lost the power of change; for them to improve was impos-... ...tion of his being. Amongst a democratic people poetry will not be fed with legendary lays or the memorials of old traditions. The poet will not attemp...

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...ther Sarria. He remained always a mys- tery, living a life half-real, half-legendary. In all those years he did not seem to have grown older by a sing... ...Angele had loved him with a love no less than his own. It was one of those legendary passions that sometimes occur, idyl- lic, untouched by civilisati... ...fast in the kitchen of the ranch house, pre- ferring not to wait until the Chinese cook laid the table in the regular dining-room. He scented a hard d... ...ock. The half hundred men of the gang threw themselves upon the supper the Chinese cooks had set out in the shed of the eating-house, long as a bowlin... .... In an- swer to Annixter’s embarrassed inquiry after Magnus, she sent the Chinese cook to call him from the office; and Annixter, after tying his hor... ..., I assure you,” she said. “Such a movement as we have started. Those poor creatures. The photographs of them are simply dreadful. I had the com- mitt...

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...yce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was ... ...rth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags se cretly groping among the swept out rubbish for pins a... ...d goldfinches—I should think at least twenty . “I began to keep the little creatures,” she said, “with an object that the wards will readily comprehen... ...n Cook; and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engravings of the months—ladies... ...thout the addition of what he presently said. “It’s only you, the generous creatures, whom I envy,” said Mr. Skimpole, addressing us, his new friends,... ... in a hundred Chesney Wolds, one within another, like the ivory balls in a Chinese carving. The fellow, by his agent, or secretary, or somebody, write...

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...yce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was ... ...rth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags se cretly groping among the swept out rubbish for pins a... ...d goldfinches—I should think at least twenty . “I began to keep the little creatures,” she said, “with an object that the wards will readily comprehen... ...n Cook; and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engravings of the months—ladies... ...thout the addition of what he presently said. “It’s only you, the generous creatures, whom I envy,” said Mr. Skimpole, addressing us, his new friends,... ... in a hundred Chesney Wolds, one within another, like the ivory balls in a Chinese carving. The fellow, by his agent, or secretary, or somebody, write...

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...rever doing the unexpected thing, the inconsistent thing. Women were queer creatures, mysterious even to themselves. “I am so pleased that you are enj... ...een fifteen, yes twenty years ago.” The deal of which Jadwin spoke was the legendary op- eration of the Board of T rade—a mammoth corner in Sep- tembe... ... engravings of the style of the seventies, “whatnots” crowded with shells, Chinese coins, lacquer boxes, and the inevitable sawfish bill. The mantel w...

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...ur lies in making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert proverb... ...with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the l... ...ging for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a special courier. He asked me, or to be...

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...arying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the...

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... aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in... ...t strik- ing sentences had the bees for text. “They are indeed wonder- ful creatures, mem,” he said once. “They just mind me o’ what the Queen of Sheb... ...doubt it added to the fear in which men stood of John a touch of something legendary. For my own part, he was at first my enemy, and I, in my characte... ...er how they could follow and retain so long a story. But John denied these creatures all intelligence; they were the constant butt of his passion and ... ...s the faculties of man – that be- cause vain glory finds no vent in words, creatures supplied with eyes have been unable to detect a fault so gross an...

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... was needed, for the servants, two of whom at the least were most faithful creatures, and devotedly attached to their young mistress, stood ready of t... ...w of the case as herself; and, though otherwise the gentlest of all gentle creatures, yet here, from the generous fervor of her reverence for justice,... ...mposed of men seeking indeed for truth, but themselves erring and fallible creatures; the witnesses had been full of lies, the judges of darkness. But... ...ally, the tragical retribution to Zebek-Dorchi at the hunting-lodge of the Chinese emperor;—all these situ- ations communicate a scenical animation to... ...China, therefore, and as their first rendezvous to the shadow of the great Chinese Wall, it was settled by Zebek that they should direct their flight.... ...ng state paper upon the subject of this Kalmuck migration, drawn up in the Chinese language by the Emperor himself. Parts of this paper have been tran... ...and Miscellaneous Papers yet, perhaps, both alike would bend so far to the legendary faith as to allow a child to believe, and would perceive a pure c...

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...Putois lives in his strength and malevolence. He lives after the manner of legendary heroes, of the gods of Olympus. He is the creation of the popular... ...here only to frame the deeds of the Service. His novels, like amphibi- ous creatures, live on the sea and frequent the shore, where they flounder depl... ...it be lovely if what he says were true!” Here you have Woman! The charming creatures will neither strain at a camel nor swallow a gnat. Not publicly. ... ...spirit of an honest, of an artistic, per- haps of a sublime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian a... ...essed of wisdom, of great fame, of a fine conscience—not an obscure hollow Chinese monstrosity ornamented with Mr. Stiggins’s plug hat and cotton umbr... ... less than a year. It was on the same occasion that I had my only sight of Chinese firemen. Sight is the exact word. One didn’t speak to them. One saw... ...a qualm at the awful thought that he may be shutting up some of his fellow creatures in a death-trap; that he may be sacrificing the lives of men who,...

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...s discovered in the deep, Where only body’s laid asleep. For the elemental creatures go About my table to and fro, That hurry from unmeasured mind To ... ...ous wings. THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 127 I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All’s changed since I, hearing at twil... ...is fed with light and heaven is bare. Robartes. When the moon’s full those creatures of the full Are met on the waste hills by countrymen Who shudder ... ...r traffic in the grasshoppers or bees. THE TOWER 209 II When Loie Fuller’s Chinese dancers enwound A shining web, a floating ribbon of cloth, It seemed... ... man Old William pollexfen, The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back, Half legendary men. Infirm and aged I might stay In some good company, I who have...

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... human arms. It became a monstrous, goat legged thing, more vast than the creatures of nightmare. She saw the horns and the long beard, the great hai... ...tely she felt herself again surrounded by a hurrying throng. Then came all legendary monsters and foul beasts of a madman’s fancy; in the darkness she... ...oads, with paws pressed to their flanks, and huge limping scarabs, shelled creatures the like of which she had never seen, and noisome brutes with hor... ...ars in Monte Carlo. ‘They said there that he was attempting to make living creatures by a magical operation.’ She glanced at the doctor, but spoke to ... ...s, little bloated legs, and an absurd squat body, so that it looked like a Chinese mandarin in porcelain. In another the trunk was almost like that of...

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... have been gathered as food for the cu- riosity of the public. I leave the legendary side, which is always in evi- dence in the case of a celebrated m... ...knickknacks: small vases, statuettes, groups in Dresden china, gro- tesque Chinese figures, old ivory, and Venetian glass, which filled the large room... ...ies, affording an en- trance to two schools, opened, and a flood of little creatures, boys on one side, girls on the other, poured out and began playi... ...?’ And they began to explain, and then they came to words. Oh! Lord! those creatures know some good ones. They shouted so loud, that our two witnesses... ...separate them, and all I received was scratches and bites. Good Lord, what creatures! Well, it took me five minutes, and perhaps ten, to separate thos...

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..., is, I admit, at the first blush stronger. You may say: Why give us these creatures of a novelist’s imagination, these phantom and fantastic thinking... ...osophical interest, therefore, in a note or so upon the attributes of this legendary being. I write “leg- endary,” but thereby I display myself a scep... ...om the responsibility of political and social work, than he will to make a Chinese toy of her and bind her feet. He and she will love that they may en... ...t, and grasps the sceptre of the world. Before man the great and prevalent creatures followed one another processionally to extinction; the early mons...

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...t surely, Norman, it is better they should do what they can for those poor creatures, than for Ethel to learn Greek.” “I don’t know that. Let those wh... ...f liberalism and the rights of the poor! He who cut off Randall’s poor old creatures in the almshouses from their short way! and then came some storie... ...g of a free heart is the thing. To offer praise is the great object of all creatures in heaven and earth. If the happier we are, the more we praise, t... ...ou remember how Mrs. Ward’s sister told us that a whole crowd of tottering Chinese ladies would lean on her, because they felt her firm support, thoug... ...ould not be denied choosing that for his sub- ject. We reproached him with legendary saints, and over- whelmed him with antiquarianism, to show that t... ... said Ethel, not in too complimentary a strain. “Yachting, farming, Cochin-Chinese—or something,” said Flora. “Anything not so wearing as this!” “That...