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...l to protect them from the wind. Songbirds and blossoms and mythical beasts spiraled around the small handle, stippled in purple and blue, yellow an... ... the last dummy standing and took aim. The men were close behind them now. "Double-check your position," NightShout said, flatly. "You're overcompen... ...utside and hauled the pack across her shoulders, securing it into place. A double-sling of leather hung loosely against her front. She lifted Abri,... ...venant His stomach complained, making a sound like fabric ripping. A cramp doubled him over. When he blinked, twin tears coursed down his cheeks and... ... another. Laughter pealed like glass shattering over the cobblestones. The spiral walk to the right glistened with smooth pavement so wide that it ... ... tiled mosaic floor up the buttressed dome, almost up to the zenith. Narrow staircases spiraled like ivy up the dome walls. A shaft of sunlight spea... ...ic floor up the buttressed dome, almost up to the zenith. Narrow staircases spiraled like ivy up the dome walls. A shaft of sunlight speared the win...

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... body on the ground near an ancient stupa, prop his head against its stone spiral, and stare out into clouds and distant space. If in doing so he were... ...ing the natural flow of neurotransmitters into different speeds and in new spirals of circuitry and thought). And yet even if this copy of the bird th... ...f speech to interpose between his thoughts so as to stabilize a ruminating spiral into self- destructive, non-sensical darkness where there was a risk... ... in gas stations, in discotheque parking lots, in hotel rooms, empty upper staircases, in boyfriends' and husbands' beds when they were out, several t... ...eings were attracted elements, compounds that enjoyed times of coupling as double compound entities; and cathartic releases of physical desire toward ... ...of foreign travel into something more solid, for as pairs the dopamine was doubled for these mundane presences, leaving him alone in deprivation withi...

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... After that I tried to cast the thing into a shape resembling a little the double personality of Boswell’s Johnson, a sort of interplay between monolo... ...nd all the men and women that you know and I. I doubt if we shall meet our doubles, or if it would be pleasant for us to do so; but as we come down fr... ...man? And this? … But, indeed, it is doubtful if we shall meet any of these doubles during our Utopian journey , or know them when we meet them. I doub... ...rmed, if one desires it warm, by passing it through an electrically heated spiral of tubing. A cake of soap drops out of a store machine on the turn o... ...unges into an arcade through a jutting crag, and there dismisses it with a spiral whirl. “No!” he says. He seems sent by Providence, for just now we h... ... to the quadrangle, and the doors give upon artificially-lit passages with staircases pass- ing up and down. These passages are carpeted with a sort o...

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...from cel- lar to garret. The facade on the court-yard has a portico with a double range of steps, the wall of which is covered with 11 Beatrix vestig... ...rd the court-yard with another tower at the opposite corner, in which is a spiral staircase leading to the two upper stories. The dining-room is hung ... ...h will be of value in the eyes of an archaeologist. The tower in which the spiral staircase goes up is placed at the corner of a great gable wall in w... ...side has no towers corresponding to those on the court-yard; but a slender spiral column rises from the ground to the roof, which must in former days ... ...oth, over a quilted petticoat (a positive mattress, in which were secreted double louis-d’ors), and pockets sewn to a belt which she unfastened every ... ... lost their freshness. The chin, of in- comparable distinction, is getting doubled, but without dig- nity. His voice, never sonorous, is weakening; wi... ... fancy signified, she, whose house possessed a calorifere which heated the staircases, antechambers, and passages. At last, after three days’ meditati...

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...s drive (they assure you at Blois that even with two horses you will spend double that time), I passed through a sort of gap in a wall, which does dut... ...part of his rev- enue. The great feature of the interior is the celebrated double staircase, rising straight through the building, with two courses of... ...e the door is deeply niched; it opens upon a balcony made in the form of a double pulpit,—one of the most charming features of the front. Chenonceaux ... ...mpleted the monument.) Within, the house has been, as usual, restored. The staircases and ceilings, in all the old royal residences of this part of Fr... ...at young woman,— into this great hall and into sundry other halls, winding staircases, galleries, chambers. The cicerone of Langeais is in too great a... ...f the room to the right and left of the trio of chimneys, is all open-work spiral staircase, ascending to— I forget where; perhaps to the roof of the ... ...ame back from the Roman baths, and saw that the corridors, the vaults, the staircases, the external casing, are still virtually there. Many of these p...

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... hiding like a murderous trap, near the bottom of the back stairs, under the double row of bells. One of these bells was labelled, on a black ground i... ... names of the rooms to which their wires were conducted: as “Picture Room,” “Double Room,” “Clock Room,” and the like. Following Master B.’s bell to i... ... and looking at mine. “She’s a true one, sir,” said Ikey, after inspecting a double barrelled rifle that I bought in New York a few years ago. “No mi... ... the Park a quantity of fallen leaves, which a gust took, and whirled into a spiral pillar. As the pillar fell and the leaves dispersed, I saw two men... ...in the last degree oppres sive East of Temple Bar. I found the passages and staircases of the Court House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court i...

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...ong this central area Graham noted openings, pits, apparently the heads of staircases going down with people ascending out of them and descending into... ...e observed one entire side of the outer room was set with rows of peculiar double cylinders inscribed with green let- tering on white that harmonized ... ...pparatus and ex- amined that. He opened a sort of lid and found one of the double cylinders within, and on the upper edge a little stud 45 H G Wells ... ...r years the twelve trustees hid the growing of the Sleeper’s estate, under double names and company titles and all that. The Council spread by title d... ...elf knowing no other means of transit—and to plunge down one of the middle staircases into the blackness of a crossway. Thereupon came some trivial ad... .... Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended. The upper surface was a uniform expanse, with portions... ...egan to dance the strangest figures in the air. Now it would sweep round a spiral of scarcely a hundred yards diameter, now it would rush up into the ... ...ong its shaft and went circling up. He saw Ostrog’s machine beat- ing up a spiral before him. He rose straight towards it, won above it by virtue of t...

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...helped into his furs. The carriage had been ordered before. When the great double door was flung open with a crash, Razumov, who had been standing sil... ...y yawn- ing black with feeble glimmers marking the arches of the different staircases. The sense of life’s continuity depended on trifling bodily im- ... ...aft with a tiny glimmering flame at the bottom, he traced by ear the rapid spiral descent of somebody running down the stairs on tiptoe. It was a ligh...

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...herine’s father, by a Moorish slave. For this rea- son Lorenzino claimed a double right to kill Alessandro,—as a usurper in his house, as well as an o... ..., played the part of a servant. Thus she served her apprenticeship in that double-faced policy which was ever the secret motor of her life. Later, the... ...ine advised him to continue or to begin with so much magnificence. But the double monogram which can be seen at the Louvre offers a daily denial to th... ...re the magnificent structure of the knightly king. The elegance of the two staircases which are placed at each end of the chateau of Louis XII., the d... ...ed in the centre by a hexagon tower, in the empty well of which winds up a spiral staircase,—a Moorish caprice, designed by giants, made by dwarfs, wh... ...erful facade the effect of a dream. The baluster of this staircase forms a spiral con- necting itself by a square landing to five of the six sides of ... ... the spinal column of the castle, in which are sunken deep alcoves, secret staircases, cabinets, while they themselves enclose halls as vast as that g... .... 159 Balzac Absolutely no one but the persons on duty were in the halls, staircases, and courtyard of the royal residence, Le Bailliage. The crowd o...

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...e, of a blotchy red—tumid and threatening. Proceeding up the left leg in a spiral manner, an unnatural hardness and redness would have been discovered... ... wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow; you ride down steeples and staircases and over preci- pices; you hover in horrible suspense over inhab... ...he took no account of Jessie. When the elopement came, therefore, it was a double disappointment to her, for she perceived his hand by a kind of insti... ...me—you have risked things—” “That don’t count,” said Mr. Hoopdriver. “It’s double pay to let me do it, so to speak.” “It is good of you to say that. S... ...arked, quite irrelevantly, “wouldn’t look the same machine if I got a big, double Elarum instead of that little bell.” “Why?” “Jest a thought.” A paus...

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...at Sunday my mother wanted me to go to church very particularly. She had a double reason for that; she thought that it would certainly exercise a favo... ...l tailed out- line, comets are supposed to have. Astronomers talked of its double tail, one preceding it and one trailing behind it, but these were fo... ... such weeping. One thick strand of black hair had escaped, and hung with a spiral twist down her back; never before had I noticed that she had gray ha... ...r more. She staggered. He gripped her arm, and dragged her for- ward. They doubled to the left. We were off the road again and on turf. It felt like t... ...ies. People lay in their dress clothes, in din- ing-rooms, restaurants, on staircases, in halls, everywhere just as they had been overcome. Men gambli... ...fitting deal doors, their dreadful window sashes, their servant-tormenting staircases, their dank, dark cupboards, the verminous papers from their sca...

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... be touched. Bertuccio made amends, however, by loading the ante-chambers, staircases, and mantle-pieces with flowers. What, above all, manifested the... ...f his son; then again, if he disliked his choice, the major takes the key, double-locks his coffer, and Master Andrea would be obliged to live like th... ...hts which had disturbed me during my year of constant agony came back with double force. The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who h... ...e door, and saw the pale moon shedding a long stream of white light on the spiral staircase like a spectre, I leaned against the wall, and nearly shri... ... be able to do so.” “Then make yourself quite easy. M. Danglars would give double that sum to attain the same end.” “Am I, indeed, so happy?” said Alb... ...ut among the guests. In a few minutes, through all the doors, down all the staircases, by every exit, every one has- tened to retire, or rather to fly... ...; “tread in my steps.” “Wait an instant,” said the host; “Number 3 has two staircases, — inside and outside.” “Good,” said the brigadier. “I will take...

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...For the matter o’ that, Phil!’ observed Mr Willet, blow ing a long, thin, spiral cloud of smoke out of the corner of his mouth, and staring at it abs... ...a careful eye. The looker on was a round, red faced, sturdy yeoman, with a double chin, and a voice husky with good living, good sleeping, good humour... ...ne of which, passed over his crown, and tied in a convenient crease of his double chin, secured his three cornered hat and bob wig from blowing off hi... ...fered her to drag him into the house. It was not until she had chained and double locked the door, fastened every bolt and bar with the heat and fury ... ...d then, taking a sheet of paper from a drawer, twisted it into a long thin spiral tube. Having filled this instrument with a quantity of small coal du... ...ds into the open street; traversing in his passage the whole length of two staircases and a long gallery. Nor was the swarm without less dense; for a ... ...hich might be some eighteen or twenty feet below. Upon one of these little staircases—not that at the head of which Lord George appeared from time to ... ...mediately— even among the people in the passages without, and on the other staircases, who could neither see nor hear, but to whom, notwithstanding, t...

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...his presence?” The stranger moved off, leaving Madame d’Espard a prey to a double surprise. The Marquise knew no one in the world who was capable of p... ...in front of an image of the Virgin in painted plaster, kneeling, or rather doubled up, on the floor, her hands folded. The girl was dying. A brazier o... ...depressed, but tell her to obey. We must display our livery of virtue, our doublet of honesty, the screen behind which all great men hide their infamy... ...different floors in this part of the building. They are reached by squalid staircases, a maze in which those to whom the place is unfamiliar inevitabl... ...deputies. All these purlieus, to use a generic term, communicate by narrow spiral stairs and the dark passages, which are a disgrace to the architec- ... ...e room known as the Cabinet de Saint-Louis, in the Tour Bonbec, there is a spiral stair leading to these dens. This degradation of one of the immemori... ... of the two corridors. Under the pretty room in the Tour Bonbec there is a spiral staircase leading from the dark passage, and serving the pris- oners...

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... pale blur. One could scarcely see the black ribs of wrecked ships, or the spiral towers made by the burrowings of great eels, or the smooth green-sid... ... house- maid, I suppose.” “According to that, one ought to pay one’s nurse double; but one doesn’t,” said Helen. “No; but think what a joy to have to ... ...n Mrs. Paley beckoned her back. She could not understand from the book how Double De- mon patience is played; and suggested that if they sat down and ... ...ave red cheeks, and would not take a house because most houses have narrow staircases, and 186 The Voyage Out would not eat meat because most animals... ...d to be asleep. It’s no joke, I can tell you, readin’ a great big book, in double columns, by a night-light, and the light that comes through a chink ... ...and a sheet of paper on his knee. Rachel said nothing. Up and up the steep spiral of a very late Beethoven sonata she climbed, like a person ascending...

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...horny scrub on the neck of the peninsula. On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (it could only have been from their camp-fire) was seen for... ...nchester carbines, revolvers, a couple of shot-guns, and even two pairs of double- barrelled holster pistols. Between them, by itself, upon a strip of... ...hing, made like one disc sustaining the cones of two pointed crowns with a double face underneath. A hoarse mozo would bawl out something to an ac- qu... ...t time. Those Indios, only caught the other day, had gone swinging past in double quick time, like bersaglieri; they looked well fed, too, and had who... ...ense of bodily danger and intellec- tual decay. In the passages and on the staircases of the old palace Montero’s troopers lounged about insolently, s... ...as time to light up. She unlocked the little door, and went heavily up the spiral staircase, carrying her love for the mag- nificent Capataz de Cargad... ...t once to her father, who was wise, and would understand. She ran down the spiral stairs. At the moment of opening the door at the bottom she heard th...

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...y. In a word, even his plain black suit, and state of widower and dangling double eye-glass, all tended 18 Martin Chuzzlewit to the same purpose, and... ...ff, coming softly upon the dark passage 46 Martin Chuzzlewit into which a spiral ray of light usually darted through the same keyhole, was astonished... ... think Mrs Lupin lets him and his friend off very easy in not charging ‘em double prices for being a disgrace to the Dragon. That’s my opinion. I woul... ...k- keeper, aged forty. He was the oldest boarder also; and in right of his double seniority, took the lead in the house, as Mrs Todgers had already sa... ...al table was being set out for supper. There were interminable whitewashed staircases, long whitewashed galleries upstairs and downstairs, scores of l... ...hief, before the passengers appeared like common mortals. And even then, a spiral little cloud went curling up from their two glasses of hot grog, whi... ...that purpose; had mysterious shelvings and bulkheads, and indi- cations of staircases in the ceiling; and was elaborately provided with a bell that ru...

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...dered coral, and in the centre the avenue of cypress formed, as it were, a double colonnade of green obe- lisks from one extremity to the other. Far i... ...ing beneath them in the shade suddenly made them afraid, with its piles of staircases, its lofty black houses, and its vague gods fiercer even than it... ...s, one after another, and the lofty mosses of verdure, emitting long white spirals, looked like volcanoes beginning to smoke. The clamour re- doubled;... ...g white spirals, looked like volcanoes beginning to smoke. The clamour re- doubled; the wounded lions roared in the shade. In an instant the highest t... ...im run between the prows of the galleys, and then reappear along the three staircases until he reached the red door against which he dashed his whole ... ... their windings of white. The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases, terraces, and ram- parts were being carved by degrees upon the ... ...e arm-pits; he wore a scarf, a girdle, and an ample black cloak with laced double-sleeves. But the abundance of his garments, his great necklace of bl... ...ontory of Hermaeum. Sometimes it would sud- denly burst asunder, its black spirals extending far away , as an eagle clove the centre of it, and then d... ... ered bind-weed; and from looking at it she at last came to feel a kind of spiral within her heart, another serpent, as it were, mounting up to her th...

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...xceed- ingly puffy little old gentleman, with big circular eyes and a huge double chin. His dress resembles that of the boys—and I need say nothing fa... ...ll very little, round, oily, intelligent men, with big saucer eyes and fat double chins, and have their coats much longer and their shoe-buckles much ... ...any other old gentleman in the village; and as to his chin, it is not only double, but triple. I have thus painted the happy estate of V ondervotteimi... ...e plunge the gate-way and the moat, the steed bounded far up the tottering staircases of the palace, and, with its rider, disappeared amid the whirlwi... ... affection—I could not help surmising that the upper end of the continuous spiral ladder had been acciden- tally, or perhaps designedly, removed. I pa...

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...said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a sec- ond. “Did your friend w... ...pace. A sort of court. All around, two-story wooden barracks. Little crude staircases lead up to doors heavily chained and immensely padlocked. More l... ... wall dividing the two cours) met the prison building; and here was a huge double door, twice padlocked, through which the waterseekers passed on to t... ...r form upon his person, and no matches. The door was locked behind him and double and triple locked—to judge by the sound— by a planton, usually the B... ...d and completely dis- agreeable youth in bone spectacles, copious hair and spiral putees, whom B. and I partially contented ourselves by nam- ing Jo J...

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... deposit in the manner you mention. A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-need... ...ming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, how- ever, I could do no more than I have done... ...ce, and differ in their length by 0.0000258 of an inch, their intensity is doubled. So also if the difference in length be any whole-number multiple o... ...ale was blowing land- ward that a brig in the remote offing lay to under a double- reefed trysail, and constantly plunged her whole hull out of sight,... ...r were the fancies which ordi- nary images were stirring up. On one of the staircases, I met the physician of the family. His countenance, I thought,...

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... any use to you.’ I hate use—” “Like Ridley, who says he reads a book with double plea- sure if he is not going to review it.” “That Mr. Ridley who ca... ...s, decorated with two enormous snakes, one made of stamps, and the other a spiral of whalebone shavings out of a box. The monster immediately tumbled ... ...less you wish it,” seeing her alarm; and she laid her head down again. The double funeral was accomplished while she was still too ill to hear anythin... ... merry laughter came to her, and then again echoes of “spotted snakes with double tongue” awoke the night echoes; “this is such a solitary place that ... ... My dear Monk, do you think they don’t go beyond a brougham, and unlimited staircases?” “I only know,” cried John, nettled into being a little off his...