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...ection has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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... 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Cote d'lvoire) 124 Jamaica 125 Japan 126 Jersey 128 Jordan (West B... ...ew section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use... ...g 20 March 1984, $210 million, about 63% of central government budget Ionian Sea Sec rtf ionil map V Geography Total area: 28,750 km 2 ; land area: 27... ... Land boundaries: 716 km total Coastline: 362 km Maritime claim: Territorial sea: 15 nm Boundary disputes: none; Kosovo question with Yugoslavia; Nort... ...tion Special notes: strategic location on Strait of Otranto linking Adriatic Sea to Mediter- ranean Sea Population: 3,085,985 (July 1987), average ann... ...lion (1986 est.) Monetary conversion rate: official rate 30.214 kwanza=US$l; black market rate reportedly 1,200-1,500 kwanza=US$l (December 1986) Fisc... ...nality: noun Anguillan(s); adjec- tive Anguillan Ethnic divisions: mainly of black African descent Beligion: Anglican, Methodist, and Catho- lic Langu... ... noun Antiguan(s); adjec- tive Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian o... ...979 census Religion: 18% Russian Orthodox; 9% Muslim; 3% Jewish, Protestant, Georgian Orthodox, or Roman Catholic; population is 70% atheist Language:...

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... have those big, dark eyes and thick 11 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE lashes? Long, black hair framed her oval face and tumbled down her back in abundant curls... ...y the door and led him 16 SUSAN BRACKEN to the garage where the gleaming, black, chromed Buick was parked. “You can use it,” she told him. “I will ha... ...Lacey as she gradually relaxed and signed books and talked to readers. Jet black hair framed her oval face in a pageboy style and was a startling cont... ...now officially that within months, Canada will have a chain of bookstores, coast-to-coast, under the brand name ‘BestBooks Incorporated’.” Jake descri... ... For their first overnight trip, they chose to transit from Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay via the Severn River canal system. They pored over the charts ... ... A COURAGEOUS BATTLE kind in North America, and we are on it!” Arriving in Georgian Bay, they were awed by the oceanic size of the water, and by the t... ...d in a lot of pain, but smiled wanly and spoke of lying on a chaise by the sea. Lacey got books and pamphlets and pored over pictures of tropical beac... ...e got no further as he took out his gun and shoved it into her stom- ach. “Sea tranquila o si no...” he hissed. The older one said, “Be quiet señora, ... ... few days, re- viewing her life: the joy, the sorrow, the achievement, the sea- sons passing before her as she sought meaning one last time for the li...

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...e called upon by the Great Spirit to protect every liv­ ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wonde... ...ming in the sun, who was seated behind the table. His finely cropped, speckled black and white beard offset a stern presence. Seattle, Chief and sp... ...on with as much cer­ tainty as our paleface brothers can rely upon the returning sea­ sons." "The son of the White Chief says his father sends us gre... ...here was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea covers its shell-paved floor, but that time has long since passe... ...n the rocks, which seem to lay dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent sea shore in solemn grandeur, thrill with the memories of past event... ...haled deeply and smiled. River Song was standing with her back toward him; her black-dyed, deerskin dress fit snugly on her tall, shapely fig­ ure. ... ...ther. He had been born Aaron Sergie Matlovich in a small town on the Dalmatian coast. As a young man growing up, nothing made any sense to him. He ... ...owed his customary circular path around the park that passed through a grove of Georgian Pines. Toby began to strain at the leash and bark ferocious... ...id genuinely. MALIBU, CA. LRANTO'S MIND WAS clear as he sped along the Pacific Coast Highway. A stiff breeze swept across the road as he parked the...

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... He felt as though he were being treated like royalty. The Embassy had sent a black limousine to pick him up at the airport, and the Bishop, himself,... ...ights shimmered like jewels set into a royal crown of seven diadems against a black, velvet night. Others on the plane may have merely viewed the be... ...k the Pope just that question, and also, about the role he was to play. The black limousine scaled the narrow streets that led to the rear of the V... ... he had kept hidden. The warm sun, and the exquisite sunsets dipping into the Sea of Cortez, was magical. His good looks were stunning, not pretty... ...losing. "The choice is yours," Brand said coolly, and looked out over a soft sea that was caressing a white, sandy shore. "Enough for now," Cardo... ... were running around the barrio with wet diapers, I made a deal with the west coast Mafia Families. The only condition was that I never divulge our ... ...o the states." "With a limited supply of drugs, what will happen on the East coast? The 196 J.Cross/Artemis Russians and the Puerto Ricans wil... ...let's have suggestions?" The suggestions came fast and furious: Bring in the Coast Guard. Triple the Border Patrol. Put our elite terrorist forces ... ...nto the speaker, “Senator Artemis to see Andrew Farmer." Alex could see the Georgian-style mansion through a small forest of pines. The mansion wa...

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...iting: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new...

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...all window on his left one perceived only dis- tances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many mil... ...eneath it suddenly; it was cov- ered with a cloth whose pattern of red and black had been rendered less monotonous by the accidents of Parload’s ver- ... ...id her hands, that were gnarled and sometimes chapped with scrub- bing, in black, carefully mended gloves, assumed her old black silk dress and bonnet... ...hich we passed, lit below by a gas- lamp and towering up to a sudden sharp black edge against the pallid sky. Those hoardings! They were the brightest... ...en I clean forgot Nettie, in dreaming of battles and victories by land and sea, of shell fire, and entrenchments, and the heaped slaughter of many tho... ...e there, at least hinting themselves. It was a place somewhere on the east coast, I knew, either in Norfolk or Suffolk. “Why!” cried I—and stopped. Wh... ...met ingly across the grass, and the trees rose ghostly out of that phantom sea. Great and shadowy and strange was the world that night, no one seemed ... ...I went down to the Public Library to consult a map. Shaphambury was on the coast of Essex, a long and com- plicated journey from Clayton. I went to th... ...e. Those upper apartments were simple and ample, fine and well done in the Georgian style, and they had been orga- nized to give the maximum of comfor...

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...case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ‘four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (... ...ted in your wish To supersede all warblers here below, And be the only Blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so, And... ...d although here and there some glorious rarity Arise like Titan from the sea’s immersion, The major part of such appelants go To— God knows wh... ...on why, But as for Juan, he had no more notion Than he who never saw the sea of ocean. Yet Julia’s very coldness still was kind, And tremulo... ... But passion most dissembles, yet betrays Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest, it displays Its workin... ...x a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles blue; And the sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the... ...safe and sound, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes ... ...ape, a thing of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing b... ...l fair, And fresh, and ‘beautiful exceedingly,’ Who with the brightest Georgians might compare: They wonder’d how Gulbeyaz, too, could be ...

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...housand inhabitants. Some of these good people dwelt in log huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hillsides. Others ... ... made of a kind of var iegated wood that had been brought from beyond the sea. The windows, from the floor to the ceiling of each stately apartment, ... ...ame the up holsterers, with magnificent furniture; then, a whole troop of black and white servants, the haringers of Mr. Gathergold, who, in his own ... ...n thrown over it, to gleam forever on its surface. If it were the vast old sea, even the deep immensity of its dread bosom seemed to swell the higher,... ... and the nearest settlement, while scant a mile above their heads was that black verge where the hills throw off their shaggy mantle of forest trees, ... ... high crowned hat, shaped somewhat like a crucible. He was from beyond the sea, a Doctor Cacaphodel, who had wilted and dried himself into a mummy by ... ...ustre. Another, so long ago as when the famous Captain Smith visited these coasts, had seen it blazing far at sea, and had felt no rest in all the int... ... owner of the gold opera glass whom we had encoun tered in the Notch; two Georgian gentlemen, who had chilled their southern blood that morning on th... ...o Conway, now a single day’s journey, though it had cost him eighteen. The Georgians held the album between them, and favored us with the few specimen...

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...table like a snow bank. The red tint of his clear-cut face with trim short black whis- kers under a cap of curly iron-grey hair was the only warm spot... ...did it 4 Chance with considerable energy and then turned to us. “If we at sea,” he declared, “went about our work as people ashore high and low go ab... ...iness on shore would ever arrive into port.” Since he had retired from the sea he had been astonished to discover that the educated people were not mu... ...om this point the conversation took a special turn relating exclusively to sea-life. On that subject he got quickly in touch with Marlow who in his ti... ..., the miserable tumble-down little houses far- ther away, a cabstand, boot-blacks squatting on the edge of the pavement and a pair of big policemen ga... ...air of big policemen gazing with an air of superiority at the doors of the Black Horse public-house across 5 Joseph Conrad the road. This was the par... ...n who was a churchwarden of his parish and lived in an old badly preserved Georgian house with a garden: one of these houses standing in a reduced bit... ... he had gone in for the most fantastic schemes: a harbour and docks on the coast of Patagonia, quarries in Labrador—such like specula- tions. Fisherie... ...hat sunken face, with a tightly closed mouth, stared at the distant French coast, vague like a suggestion of solid darkness, lying abeam beyond the ev...

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...ld cause their waters to rush either to- wards the Pole or to the tropical sea. The second region is more varied on its surface, and better suited for... ...d the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a long ridge of rocks and sand, which the sea appears to have left behind as it retired. The mean breadth of this ter... ...nty and unvaried. *See Appendix, A. 29 Tocqueville Upon this inhospitable coast the first united efforts of hu- man industry were made. The tongue of... ...peans first landed on the shores of the West Indies, and afterwards on the coast of South America, they thought themselves transported into those fabu... ...elves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordinary transparency of i... ...either white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their hair long and s... ...either white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes. Their skin was reddish brown, their hair long and s... ...t exist for which bail is inadmissible, but they are few in number.] **See Blackstone; and Delolme, book I chap. x.] 64 Democracy in America cans hav... ...eir lot; and, with this intention, proposals have been made to trans- *The Georgians, who are so much annoyed by the proxim- ity of the Indians, inhab...

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...e entered, her grey hair rough and uncov- ered, and her dress of well-used black silk, her complexion of the red that shows wear and care. “Then it is... ...ould the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a fever in the Red Sea, and I had to keep guard over the brothers at Weymouth till she was rep... ...han ever! Or perhaps you will fulfil them, and go and teach the Australian blacks!” “A very unpromising field,” said Mrs. Best, “though I hear there i... ...ders, the excla- mations were, “Well, I never thought to have gone back to Georgian era.” “Exactly the element of our maiden aunt.” “And nobody to be ... ...ame with Phyllis Devereux, and she and I took poor Betty Bernard out after blackber- ries, and she thought it was a mad bull when it was a railway whi... ... to exist among the Clipstone population, under certain regulations of not coasting down the hills, the girls not going out alone, and never into the ... ...sing the bay?” Neither girl seemed to have eyes for the lovely blue of the sea in the spring sunshine, nor the striking forms of ruddy peaks of rock t... ...the boat; but such a gale was blowing that it was impossible to put out to sea or make any search round the coast. Words could hardly describe the dis... ...wing that it was impossible to put out to sea or make any search round the coast. Words could hardly describe the distress of Mr. Flight 64 Modern Br...

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...sory force of large aeroplanes to co-operate in such an at- tack. The long coasts of Britain, the impossibility of their being fully equipped througho... ...obabil- ity in favour of the Allies. Nor is there anything on or under the sea that seems likely now to produce decisive results. We return from these... ...ources of the Allies, but, thanks to the complete Brit- ish victory in the sea struggle, the purchasable resources of all the world. Conceivably the C... ... statistical increment. The almost vindictive greed of the landowners that blackened the history of England after Waterloo, and brought Great Britain ... ...tates. She was Hohenzollern, claiming to be Caesar, and flaunt- ing a flat black eagle borrowed from Imperial Rome; and also she was the most scientif... ..., misapprehension, and ignorant opposition, for administra- tion (or class blackmail). Yet while I sit as a prophetic amateur weighing these im- palpa... ...uld get rid of sex from most human affairs; the latter would make what our Georgian grandfathers called “The Sex” rule the world. Or compare, say, the... ...- festly appertain not to one nation but many; the former to all the Black Sea nations, the latter to all India. Disregarding ambitions and traditions... ...taly and Bul- garia; more especially if Italy has pushed down the Adriatic coast along the line of the former V enetian possessions. Serbia has been o...

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... the afternoon. It had an inland sweetness and variety to one newly from the sea; it smelt of woods, rivers, and the delved earth. These, though in so... ...n the Friday night, but the sun rose on Saturday without a cloud. We were at sea – there is no other adequate expression – on the plains of Nebraska. ... ...CROSS SUCH A PLAIN is to grow homesick for the moun- tains. I longed for the Black Hills of Wyoming, which I knew we were soon to enter, like an ice-b... ...iful and gloomy colouring, grays warming into brown, grays darkening towards black; and for sole sign of life, here and there a few fleeing antelopes;... ...and using the full supply of life. Outside, in a glimmering night, I saw the black, amorphous hills shoot by unweariedly into our wake. They that long... ...parison with a short bit, five cents. In country places all over the Pacific coast, nothing lower than a bit is ever asked or taken, which vastly incr... ...own by Blue Canon, Alta, Dutch Flat, and all the old mining camps, through a sea of mountain forests, drop- ping thousands of feet toward the far sea-... ... in quiet weather, the distant, thrilling roar of the Pacific hangs over the coast and the adjacent coun- try like smoke above a battle. These long be... ... lay in bed. And, what is more significant, an odd taste that he had for the Georgian costume and for stories laid in that period of English his- tory...

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...he gap it made seemed to close as quickly over his memory as the murderous sea above his living frame. Hereafter men will lament that his tran- scende... ... principal occupation. At night, when the unclouded moon shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bord... ...avourable wind, and I remained awaiting his return by the breakers of that sea which was about to engulf him. He spent a week at Pisa, employed in kin... ... _150 Appeared a vast and shadowy sphere, suspended In the black concave of heaven With the sun’s cloudless orb, Whose rays of rapid l... ...f thy deep mysteries. I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee, ... ...ith burning smoke, or where bitumen lakes _85 On black bare pointed islets ever beat With sluggish surge, or where the secre... ...n of such a voyage. In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a visit to Clifton, he rented a house on Bishopgate... ...ost _270 Of the bounds of English coast; From every hut, village, and town Where those who live and suffer mo... ...ands _585 The cities on the Tigris, and the Georgians Refuse their living tribute. Crete and Cyprus, Like mountain-twin...

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... of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember with infinite gratitude the... ... remember, small green grapes for pies in the spring, and imperfectly ripe black grapes in favourable autumns for the purposes of dessert. The grape- ... ...s of desks before him. Occasionally be would slide to his feet and go to a blackboard on an easel and draw on that very slowly and deliberately in col... ...ifficult to draw, then my father would produce a simplified version on the blackboard to be copied instead. And he would also write on the blackboard ... ...s—Oh, God! one wants a gale out of Heaven, one wants a great wind from the sea! 3 3 3 3 3 While I lived at Penge two little things happened to me, tri... ...l nucleus, its Gothic cloisters, its scraps of Palladian and its dignified Georgian extensions; the con- trast of the old quiet, that in spite of our ... ...London. It became tangible instead of being a frame almost as universal as sea and sky. 84 The New Machiavelli At Cambridge my ideas ceased to live i... ...ate between orchard and garden and a large lawn with an oak tree and a red Georgian house with a verandah and open French windows, through which the t... ...h it at last with a quite childish appreciation of the fact that its solid Georgian proportions and its fine brass furnishings belonged to MY home; I ...

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...things that make and pass, striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which owes l... ...and carved wood, made pottery, paddled down his river until he came to the sea, discovered the wheel and made the first roads. But his chief activity ... ...raph showed a stream and a meadow beyond, and some trees, and in the air a black, pencil-like object with flat wings on either side of it. It was the ... ...it com- modious and interesting, according to the remarkable ideals of Neo-Georgian aestheticism. Such is the illogical quality of humanity that Holst... ... the vanished cinematograph theatre, and marvelled at the high-flung early Georgian houses upon the westward bank of that old gully of a thoroughfare;... ...tine and the field,’ thought Holsten, ‘there have also been wonder and the sea.’ He turned his head and looked up over the back of the seat at the gre... ...of feverish panic;—this was the reverse of the spec- tacle, these were the black and monstrous under-consequences of the Leap into the Air. There is a... ...oolish huge wig, the counsel also wore dirty-looking little wigs and queer black gowns over their usual costume, wigs and gowns that were held to be n... ...ith such a motor barge as ours it would be possible to reach the Yorkshire coast within four-and- twenty hours. But this idea I overruled because of t...

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...house!” Behind the blue-green of the twin trees rose a dark-blu- ish brick Georgian pile, with a shell-shaped fan-light over its pillared door. The ho... ...either side delicately moulded doors gave on to wool-lumbered rooms, whose sea-green mantelpieces were adorned with nymphs, scrolls, and Cupids in low... ... laughed, for it had come to be a permanent Castle in Spain between them. “Black Chinese furniture and yellow silk brocade,” she an- swered, and ran d... ...ld tell him, and—yes, Mrs. Betts in the cottage with the wistaria next the blacksmith’s? I’m afraid this has been rather a shock to you.” Sophie nodde... ... its silence and stolidity steadied her for her errand. Mrs. Betts, small, black-eyed, and dark, was almost as un- concerned as Friars Pardon. “Yiss, ... ...et won From Proteus by Cyrene’s son How the dank sea-god sowed the swain Means to restore his hives again ... ... the glare of Sheerness Double Light. The gale will have us over the North Sea in half-an-hour, but Captain Purnall lets her go composedly—nosing to e... ... streaks of cream round Dingle Bay show where the driven seas ham- mer the coast. A big S.A.T.A. liner (Societe Anonyme des Transports Aeriens) is div... ... se- nior captain laughed, as we went in. We held a good lift to clear the coastwise and Continental shipping; and we had need of it. Though our route...

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...on either side of the mouth. He was tall and lean, and dressed throughout in black; his shirt collar was low and wide, and the triangle of linen, a li... ...m, or even on a bronze medal. His forehead was high and broad, and his thick black hair, perfectly straight and glossy, and without any di vision, ro... ...rry a six shooter and a bowie knife.’ And he took up his hat vaguely— a soft black hat with a low crown and an immense straight brim. Mrs. Luna wanted... ... she remarked to Miss Chancellor that she looked as if she were got up for a sea voyage. ‘I am glad I haven’t opinions that prevent my dressing in the... ...as destined to discover, later, that her nature was like a skiff in a stormy sea Even after her sister had passed out of the room she sat there with h... ...exposed reticence from the habit of looking down from a lecture desk, over a sea of heads, while its distinguished owner was eulogised by a leading ci... ... with Selah Tarrant and his wife that she should remain for many months. The coast was now perfectly clear. Mrs. Farrinder had started on her annual g... ...een tarred and feathered. She herself, at one season, had spent a month in a Georgian jail. She had preached temperance in Irish circles where the doc... ...ht and dim—a shining, slumbering summer sea, and a far off, circling line of coast, which, under the August sun, was hazy and delicate. Ransom regarde...

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...our sex in his person: an art for which she promised well. Out of the long black shadows of the solitary trees of the park, and through low yellow moo... ... accomplish the task before her witch-soul had taken wing in the form of a black night-bird, often to be heard jarring above the spot. Lank dry weeds ... ...west fashion. The sisters remarked a boot-lace hanging loose. The peculiar black lustre of her hair, and thickness of her long black eyebrows, struck ... ...d farther, minutely-radiant in the vista as a shining star, V enice of the sea. Fancy made the flying minutes hours. Now they marched with the regimen... ... wonder whether that boy Braintop’s enjoying it.” Emilia glanced among the sea of heads, and finally eliminated the head of Braintop, who was respectf... ... confessed it, calmly blushing, and that he was in communication with Miss Georgiana Ford, Mr. Powys’s half-sister; about whom Adela was curious, un- ... ...ing permission to speak with her alone. 216 Sandra Belloni CHAPTER XXVIII GEORGIANA FORD would have had little claim among the fair saints to be acce... ...d, and that long clinging to safety confesses too much. Merthyr waited for Georgians patiently. On all other points they were heart-in-heart. It was h... ...itted suicide without a second’s consideration. He felt the great gurgling sea in which they were drowned heave and throb. Then came a fresh set, that...

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...anker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanc- tion, that thing is heresy, wo... ...ll of her body was alive—thin wrists, quince-blossom skin, inge- nue eyes, black hair. The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the slight- ness o... ...ewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they ... ... to have a cell in a settlement- house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a ho... ...hose nature was not very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows. The next day in library class she h... ... in cobalt and crimson and gray, and patterns of purple birds flying among sea-green trees in the val- leys of Nowhere. “These,” Carol announced, “are... ... her vision to flushed youth and they were roaming an island in the yellow sea of chatter when she realized that the guests were beginning that cough ... ...r thin fingers playing a tattoo on her cheeks. She saw in Gopher Prairie a Georgian city hall: warm brick walls with white shutters, a fanlight, a wid... ...nced by it, as mediaeval villages gathered about the castle, she saw a new Georgian town as graceful and beloved as Annapolis or that bowery Al- exand...

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... and had lingered afterward over a cigar in the Gothic library with glazed black-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in ... ...er had once said of him: “If anybody can tell a fellow just when to wear a black tie with evening clothes and when not to, it’s Larry Lefferts.” And o... ...he most admired in the Mingotts was their resolute championship of the few black sheep that their blameless stock had produced. There was nothing mean... ...verses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-cand... ...long ago of the noisy friendly parties at 91 Edith Wharton Highbank, with coasting, ice-boating, sleighing, long tramps in the snow, and a general fl... ... Grindelwald, and August at a little place called Etretat, on the Normandy coast, which some one had recommended as quaint and quiet. Once or twice, i... ...keep. XXI. THE SMALL BRIGHT LAWN stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea. The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus, and c... ...olate colour, standing at intervals along the winding path that led to the sea, looped their garlands of petunia and ivy geranium above the neatly rak... ...the prerevolutionary buildings of their own country, studying and adapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word “Colonial...

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...ever so slightly brightened by art?—and the thick planting of her straight black lashes. Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at o... ...re.” She looked across at the flat-house with its marble porch and pseudo- Georgian facade. “Which are your windows? Those with the awnings down?” “On... ...s she did so, he noted, with a purely impersonal enjoyment, how evenly the black lashes 10 House of Mirth were set in her smooth white lids, and how ... ...nward, wondering if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue. Under the Georgian porch she paused again, scanning the street for a hansom. None was... ... house in Madison Avenue—an appalling house, all brown stone with- out and black walnut within, with the Gryce library in a fire- proof annex that loo... .... It seemed to tire him to rest, and he would sit for hours staring at the sea- line from a quiet corner of the verandah, while the clatter of his wif... ...iston’s existence. She usually contrived to avoid being at home during the sea- son of domestic renewal. On the present occasion, however, a variety o... ...supper at Sherry’s. Mrs. Peniston followed the rise and culmination of the sea- son as keenly as the most active sharer in its gaieties; and, as a loo... ...r. The row of budding trees, the new brick and limestone house-fronts, the Georgian flat-house with flowerboxes on its balconies, were merged together...

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...vening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, ...

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...Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a ... ...r twice, ’tis true, that my family had seen better days afore they came to Blackmoor. But I took no notice o’t, thinking it to mean that we had once k... ...like for supper, — well, lamb’s fry if they can get it; and if they can’t, black pot; and if they can’t get that, well, chitterlings will do.’ ‘Yes, S... ...tlecombe Tout, Dog bury, High Stoy, and Bubb Down. The traveller from the coast, who, after plod ding northward for a score of miles over calcareous... ...ly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadaverous tint, and to a Georgian style. In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woma... ...rk green islands of dry herbage the size of their carcases, in the general sea of dew. From each island proceeded a serpentine trail, by which the cow... ... perhaps the summer fog was more general, and the meadows lay like a white sea, out of which the scattered trees rose like dangerous rocks. Birds woul... ...sible to their eyes under the luminary, like the track of moonlight on the sea. Gnats, knowing nothing of their brief glorification, wandered across th... ...the sky. Southerly, at many miles’ distance, and over the hills and ridges coastward, she could discern a surface like polished steel: it was the Engl...

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...of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. For years the fairy child had come to him. Where others saw but Georgi... ...ng on the V of the vest added a flavor of law and learning. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots, standard boots, extraordinaril... ...and across the back a belt which belted nothing. His scarf was an enormous black silk wad. His flaxen hair was ice-smooth, pasted back without parting... ...gulfed in the folds of his long face; his hair was a tossed mass of greasy blackness; he puffed and rumbled as he talked; his Phi Beta Kappa key shone... ...ay Evening Post—an elm-lined snowy street of these new 90 Babbitt houses, Georgian some of ‘em, or with low raking roofs and—The kind of street you’d... ...l-beloved; warm ivory were her arms; and beyond per- ilous moors the brave sea glittered. 92 Babbitt CHAPTER VIII I The great events of Babbitt’s spr... ...hem that they were set not as verse but as prose. Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as “Chum.” With them were six wives, more or less—it was har... ...ready, sir! Uh—let’s see—what was the name, sir?” Then Babbitt slid into a sea of eloquence: “Ladies and gentlemen of the Sixteenth Ward, there is one...

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...dust. She was filled with repulsion. They turned off the main road, past a black patch of com- mon-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless.... ...erything sordid. It’s like being mad, Ursula.’ The sisters were crossing a black path through a dark, soiled field. On the left was a large landscape,... ... valley with collieries, and opposite hills with cornfields and woods, all blackened with distance, as if seen through a veil of crape. White and blac... ...III VIII BREADALBY BREADALBY BREADALBY BREADALBY BREADALBY BREADALBY was a Georgian house with Corinthian pillars, standing among the softer, greener ... ...ung men and women. But they are apples of Sodom, as a matter of fact, Dead Sea Fruit, gall-apples. It isn’t true that they have any significance—their... ...eal tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intoler- able burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infin... ...’ she said, ‘you know what we mean. Can’t we go up there, and explore that coast?’ She pointed to a grove on the hillock of the meadow-side, near the ... ...orld to a brightness, on and on to heaven, flowing into a bright eter- nal sea, a heaven of angels thronging. But the other is our real reality—’ ‘But...

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...RIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause..............................13 Eidolons....................................

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..........9 As I Ponder’d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands............................... ...................253 A Broadway Pageant.........................253 BOOK XIX. SEA DRIFT ................257 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking .......... ................274 Patroling Barnegat............................276 After the Sea Ship.............................277 BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE ..278 A... ...ver man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self... ... States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor, The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her, The Mississippian ... ...And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give t... ...n the market, I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break down. Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil, Each has his ... ...om his forehead, The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish’d and perfect limbs. I behold the picturesque giant a... ...n walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger...

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...kwater, or rather of an estuary, whose waters flowed in from the invisible sea, and ebbed into a profound silence while the waves with- out were still... ... came to know a good many people. But his gaze was always fixed beyond the sea. It was his hope that the clouds of materialism obscuring the Fatherlan... ...th a gentle haze. To the right the fantastic sky-line of the flats towered black against the hues of evening; to the left the older houses raised a sq... ...nt something different. He pulled himself together. He drank a little tea, black and silent, that still survived upon an upper shelf. He swallowed som... ...ere and there into shapeless mounds, and inter- cepted by narrow creeks of sea.” Leonard was trying to form his style on Ruskin; he understood him to ... ...e a specimen in a bottle. And into what a heaven—a vault as of hell, sooty black, from which soot descended! At lunch her brother, seeing her inclined... ...e public has heard a ‘little too much—they seem Victorian, while London is Georgian—and those who care for the earth with sincerity may wait long ere ... ...us downs of Central England. Nor is Suburbia absent. Bournemouth’s ignoble coast cowers to the right, heralding the pine-trees that mean, for all thei... ...for the lesser. Rather a dull valley lay below, backed by the slope of the coastward downs. They were looking across the Isle of Purbeck and on to Swa...

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...they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.To avoid New Y ork area air traffic and uncertain about what to do, t... ... asked for help in locating United 175. Terminal: I got somebody who keeps coasting but it looks like he’s going into one of the small airports down t... ...that United 93. FAA Headquarters:Y es. Command Center:There is a report of black smoke in the last position I gave you, fifteen miles south of Johnsto... ...spec- ulating, that’s speculation only. 169 The aircraft that spotted the “black smoke” was the same unarmed Air National Guard cargo plane that had s... ...erted to the Russian threat....I’m thinking cruise missile threat from the sea.Y ou know you look down and see the Pentagon burning and I thought the ... ...tion company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qaeda finance officers and top oper- atives used t... ...t- ing that their assistance led to the October 1993 shootdown of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters by members of a Somali militia group and to the subs... ...premise kept shifting.” 45 Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise mis- siles.Though most of them hit their intended ta... ...go to Chech- nya in 1999 to fight the Russians were stopped at the Turkish-Georgian bor- der. Upon arriving in T urkey , they received phone calls at ...

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...ERBOURNE THE SOUTH D OWNS of England descend at about eight miles from the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an upper de... ...a rain- bow frill,” and the belemnites spread their cuttlefish arms to the sea, and darkened the water for their enemies with their store of ink. Nor ... ... ink. Nor can we dwell on the deer which left their bones and horns in the black, boggy soil near the river, for unfortu- nately these were disinterre... ... clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones, and all inverted and very rough in material,... ...inally Chaloner’s Ford, where numerous trees, bearing quantities of little black cherries called merries, used to grow, and where parties used to go a... ...he world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble o... ...ached belongs to a market garden. The two parishes were near enough to the coast to be kept in anxiety by the French schemes for landing. The tenant o... ...space of deer park clear of trees, and making a fit set- ting to the early Georgian red brick house with the gardens on the other side, containing sev...

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...t thinks madness is a fixed and definite thing, as distinct from sanity as black is from white. He is always exas- perated at the hesitation of doctor... ...564 boys and young men were measured and weighed to get these figures. The black columns indicate the weight (+9 lbs. of clothes) and height respectiv... ...ng members of each class at the ages given. The mortality, however, in the black or lower class is probably far higher than in the upper class year by... ...regard to certain elements of population, at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive... ...ts hands clutch drowningly at anything whatever that drifts upon this vast sea of being into which it has plunged so amazingly. And imperceptibly, sub... ...t deliberate slovenliness of technique. Even the ladies’ seminaries of the Georgian days could scarcely have produced a parallel to the miscellaneous ... ... bed of a tropical river, unless he can mingle in the end with the general sea of thought and action. Thought is the life, the spontaneous flexibility... ...surdly narrow. For example, in Folkestone, as in every town upon the south coast, there are dozens of secondary schools that are purely London schools... ...dary watershed, and then include with that Sussex and Surrey, and the east coast counties up to the Wash, you would overtake and anticipate the deloca...