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...steady on Boötes that sets late, and on the Ursa, that they also call the Dipper, (italics are mine) and that goes round and round watched fearfu... ...we can set our course, and use, as Ulysses did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sk... ...oute. Four stars other than the North Star comprise the "cup" of the Big Dipper, and unless we look at them as well, we cannot know where the Nort... ...ore complete knowledge of the four stars that make up the "cup" of the Big Dipper. We can decide that they represent the four fundamental values tha... ...e mentioned earlier, when we were talking about the stars found in the Big Dipper: Love, freedom, truth and beauty. Like stars, they are grouped tog...

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... our feet imprinting the salt flats that we stood on. When I tired of standing, I lay down on the desert floor. I identified the big sauce pan of the dipper and followed it across to Polaris like I was a little kid again. We guessed possible constellations; we discerned the distinct yellow light of planets compared to the blue light of the stars; we saw distant blinking sa...

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...steady on Boötes that sets late, and on the Ursa, that they also call the Dipper, (italics are mine) and that goes round and round watched fearfu... ...we can set our course, and use, as Ulysses did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sk... ...oute. Four stars other than the North Star comprise the "cup" of the Big Dipper, and unless we look at them as well, we cannot know where the Nort... ...ore complete knowledge of the four stars that make up the "cup" of the Big Dipper. We can decide that they represent the four fundamental values tha... ...e mentioned earlier, when we were talking about the stars found in the Big Dipper: Love, freedom, truth and beauty. Like stars, they are grouped toge...

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...e surf snarling, stars breaking through fast clouds: I remembered the big dipper and frightened people... Libus woke us early and we did our best to... ...hue, then sank, to be towed to sea: all night a gentle sea rocked us, the dipper above our rocky shore. In the morning, while the bay lay limpid, be... ... These are emotions we can not share but must suffer alone till dawn, the dipper proving we are children. I believe that we, as human beings, prove...

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...e surf snarling, stars breaking through fast clouds: I remembered the big dipper and frightened people... Libus woke us early and we did our best to... ...hue, then sank, to be towed to sea: all night a gentle sea rocked us, the dipper above our rocky shore. In the morning, while the bay lay limpid, be... ... These are emotions we can not share but must suffer alone till dawn, the dipper proving we are children. I believe that we, as human beings, prove...

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... brought the cup to her. “Sugar or honey?” “Honey, please.” Pulling the dipper from the honey pot, Daniel held it over her cup and let the golden...

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...iness. The Gordian Knot, the Path of the Gourd, the Drinking Gourd, the Big Dipper, pouring out all of its goodness… creating an empty gourd so hu...

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...he dulled ones. “Water!” said Disko Troop. “Scuffle-butt’s for’ard an’ the dipper’s alongside. Hurry , Harve,” said Dan. He was back in a minute with ... ...’s alongside. Hurry , Harve,” said Dan. He was back in a minute with a big dipperful of stale brown water which tasted like nectar, and loosed the jaw... ... They’ d guy him dreadful. Penn couldn’t stand that no more’n a dog with a dipper to his tail. He’ s so everlastin’ sensitive. Hello, Penn! Stuck agai...

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... carried him 4 McTeague back to the time when he was a car-boy at the Big Dipper Mine in Placer County, ten years before. He remembered the years he ... ...ollowing a blind and unreasoned instinct, McTeague had returned to the Big Dipper mine. Within a week’s time it seemed to him as though he had never b... ...pursuit which had harassed him during the last week of his stay at the Big Dipper mine had worn off, and he believed himself to be very cunning. “I’m ... ...and rowelled him to be moving on. It had goaded him to flight from the Big Dipper mine, and he had obeyed. But now it was different; now he had sudden... ...ch; he had lighted on a treasure—a treasure far more valuable than the Big Dipper mine itself. How was he to leave that? He could not move on now. He ...

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...steps. The pond, which was three feet deep in the middle, formed a sort of dipper, the handle of which seemed to come from the little eminence, and we...

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...h-wood, each set upon three wooden legs; a hutch for bread, a large wooden dipper, a bucket and some earthen milk- pans, a spinning-wheel on the top o...

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...n for ages hummed through by the Cathedral bell and organ, until those venerable bees had made sublimated honey of everything in store; and it was alw...

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...ont, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned an...

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...ont, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned an...

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...nkee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 64 able all the time by pouring a dipper of water into my armor now and then; yet already I was getting dis...

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...ll the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet an...

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...Once, when he had been without water during two sweltering days, he took the dipper in his hand, and the sight of the limpid fluid, and the misery of ...

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...tea was black tea, without milk to color or sugar to sweeten it, and two tin dippers were our tea cups. This beverage is as indispensable to the logge... ..., after whetting our appetite on some raw pork, a wafer of hard bread, and a dipper of condensed cloud or waterspout, we all together be gan to make ... ...ck in the midst of the torrent to mend a rent in his clothes, or unstrap the dipper at his belt to take a draught of the water. At one place we were s... ...d not miss the milk. While we were getting breakfast a brood of twelve black dippers, half grown, came paddling by within three or four rods, not at a... ...there is any, around a large piece of birch bark for a table, each holding a dipper in one hand and a piece of ship bread or fried pork in the other, ... ... was no wonder they were, for Polis had a sweet tooth. He would first fill his dipper nearly a third full of sugar, and then add the coffee to it. Here ... ... front from time to time, as if to direct them. We also saw many small black dippers, which behaved in a similar manner, and, once or twice, a few bla... ... say at the end of a long day’s walk; or you may run down to the shore for a dipper of water, and get a clearer view for a short distance up or down t... ...o I proceeded to gather up the gun, axe, paddle, kettle, frying pan, plates, dippers, carpets, &c., &c., and while I was thus engaged he threw me his ...

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...d its blade in the fresh water of the stream, ladled out a little in a tin dipper, and offered Levin a drink. “What do you say to my home-brew, eh? Go... ...arm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper. And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with h... ... a cup, stirred it with the handle of a spoon, poured water on it from the dipper, broke up some more bread, and having seasoned it with salt, he turn... ... sun was already sinking into the trees when they went with their jingling dippers into the wooded ra- vine of Mashkin Upland. The grass was up to the... ...er in the short row, kept urging one an- other on to the sound of jingling dipper and clanging scythes, and the hiss of the whetstones sharpening them...

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...see a bucket empty, Take the bucket on thy shoulder, On thine arm a silver dipper, Hasten off to fill with water From the crystal river flowing; Grace... ... for eating; Brought the water from the river, Thirsty, sipped it from the dipper, Ate of fish the worst in Northland, Only smelts, and worthless swim... ...kegs of barley? Others sent thee grain in cupfuls, Brought it sparingly in dippers, While I sent thee fullest measure, Sent the half of all my garners... ... court a well he conjured, On the well a golden cover, On the lid a silver dipper, That the boys might drink the water, That the maids might lave thei...

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...sed its blade in the fresh water of the stream, ladled out a little in a tin dipper, and offered Levin a drink. “What do you say to my home brew, eh? ... ...s warm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper. And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with... ...in a cup, stirred it with the handle of a spoon, poured water on it from the dipper, broke up some more bread, and having seasoned it with salt, he tu... ...he sun was already sinking into the trees when they went with their jingling dippers into the wooded ravine of Mashkin Upland. The grass was up to the... ...gether in the short row, kept urging one another on to the sound of jingling dipper and clang ing scythes, and the hiss of the whetstones sharpening ...

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...ter another, a pure, cold, spring like water, but yet I could not fill my dipper, though I con trived little siphons of grass stems, and ingenious a... ...th pure cold water, and the birds too came and drank at it. So I filled my dipper, and, making my way back to the observatory, collected some dry stic... ...o travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sug...

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...er, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying pan, a dipper, a wash bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon... ...hem that I drank at the pond, and pointed thither, offering to lend them a dipper. Far off as I lived, I was not exempted from the annual visitation w...

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...r of tongs and andirons, a 40 Walden kettle, a skillet, and a frying pan, a dipper, a wash bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spo... ... them that I drank at the pond, and pointed thither, offering to lend them a dipper. Far off as I lived, I was not exempted from that annual visitatio...

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... and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin si...

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...Belgian. Of course they and The Fighting Sheeney had been using the common dipper and drink pail. Le gouvernement français couldn’t be expected to loo...