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...ol 89 Domesticated 91 Don't Give the Girl Jager Shirt 93 Dead Mice 93 Million Dollars/Someone Forgot 95 Victory is Mine 97 The Peace Accord 98 Gunpowder Adrenaline 99 Jac My World 101 Ugly is Ugly 102 Egg Sandwiches and Chinese Food 103 Problems Letter 105 Maiya and Julie 106 At Home in Cloth Walls 107 Two Hours Gone 108 Settling into our Marriage 109 Six S...

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... left few traces in American literature. ... The landscapes that Muir saw ... will live in good part only in his writings, for fire, axe, plough, and gunpowder have made away with the supposedly boundless forest wildernesses and their teeming life. (From the Editor's note to the 1918 first edition)...

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... the conditions in the fort were becoming squalid. The air was filled with the smell of death and gunpowder. Rationing of food was now tighter, most...

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...ith an exasperated sigh as his bullet sliced through the neck. The crack of gunpowder sent crows leaping in a black cloud from the treetops. TripSto... ...dle such a thing and not swoon? She listened to small eruptions around her. Gunpowder sparked, lightning propelling lead. "How could Destiny be so i... ... The sun climbed higher. Voices carried on the air. Commands, explosions of gunpowder. When the sun crested the treetops, she would rejoin the troop... ... wood. He shrugged his vest back on as his partner added several pouches of gunpowder, frowning at one of the bags whose straps had loosened. Watu ... ...ying invisible. He remained silent as well, waiting. "Father, there's been gunpowder spilled here." She looked directly at him and still saw nothin... ...nd Crossroads, probably for a purpose other than hunting. But then, why the gunpowder? "I should stay here." TripStone peered down the second trail,... ...it and peered over the edge. Two men, both Masari, hauled twin sacks below. Gunpowder? They had spilled gunpowder heading toward the hunting grounds... ...heard the muscle in their voices. They would be armed if they traveled with gunpowder. He'd had to let her go. His lips parted; his breath passed si... ...s blood had made him tremble, his swagger quelled by wonderment. They have gunpowder, daughter. You should have a gun. Come back. It was no use wis...

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...evolutionary InfoTech. Arrival in the West of the Chinese inventions of gunpowder and the compass revolutionized warfare and made possible the voy...

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...revolutionary InfoTech. Arrival in the West of the Chinese inventions of gunpowder and the compass revolutionized warfare and made possible the voy...

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...ayish lumps on the altar table. She pinched her nose against the tang of blood and gunpowder and stared at the chalked outline of human legs at the ... ...our sixth sense and the smell. When I went there, the place stank of blood and old gunpowder.” Hannah caught her breath at the idea. “I noticed...

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...y clause, a dash should preferably be used (see I 19) : "These discoveries-gunpowder, printing-press, compass, and telescope-were the weapons befor...

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...ible battle and the cavalry is repulsed -- The gates of Principe blown down by gunpowder, but the fight continues in the streets -- Capture of the cit... ...n more dreadful were the fumes of the sulphur pots and the hissing of the damp gunpowder. The onset of the Portuguese was so sudden, it left the India... ...riking self-assurance, reposing a perfect reliance in the destructive power of gunpowder and the protection which the Sacred banner of the cross affor... ...ered city. Something must be done, so in the darkness of night some barrels of gunpowder were rolled to one of the gates. A fuse was attached, the gat...

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...s of death in everything they used: they washed themselves with it, they made gunpowder from it, they used the gunpowder to kill each other with it, ... ...vilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 1181 Where did gunpowder come from? From China: thousands of years ago. Why di... ...e from? From China: thousands of years ago. Why did the Chinese invent Gunpowder? Because of their culture. Because of Ancestor worship. ... ...en to be expressed found a subconscious way to erupt and explode by exploding gunpowder physically as a vicarious way of venting and exploding your ... ...stead. And you do it as safely and as cunningly and sneakily as possible. Gunpowder spread across the world like wildfire. People found a safe p... ...or one thousand years. We could not control our addiction to destruction and gunpowder for more that twenty years; after it destroyed Europe in the ... ... Mass destruction. Did the Chinese manage to keep the secret of how to make gunpowder indefinitely so nobody else could use it against them? No. ... ...e attacked and raped by modern nations with modern technology… with the same gunpowder they gave to the world as a safe way of killing others withou... ...re as an acceptable release of their mass subconscious rage; do not only have gunpowder. They have atomic bombs. Do you think that one of them wil...

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...nt sailing into the air. It landed with a sharp crack and the acrid smell of gunpowder filled the room. Margeaux screamed and doubled over, clutching ...

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...ur gory sword. You will dump boiling oil on him...you will blast him with gunpowder...but you won’t dissect him...you won’t learn how we are made! ...

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... changing our world. Just as with most technologies in the past (arrows, gunpowder, dynamite, the telephone, and more), they can be used for both go...

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...ave had fire and mettle in his day, if we may judge from the name he bore of Gunpowder. He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master’s, the ch... ...hool master now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stan... ...ll there was no answer. Once more he cud gelled the sides of the inflexible Gunpowder, and, shutting his eyes, broke forth with involuntary fervor in... ...t kept aloof on one side of the road, jogging along on the blind side of old Gunpowder, who had now got over his fright and way wardness. Ichabod... ...! His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping by a sudden movement to give his companion the slip; bu... ...ght. They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but Gunpowder, who seemed possessed with a de mon, instead of keeping up it,... ...ed that he felt his hot breath. Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks... ...anium with a tre mendous crash, —he was tumbled headlong into the dust, and Gunpowder, the black steed, and the goblin rider, passed by like a whirlw...

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... war and engines of all kinds; and likewise new mixtures and compositions of gunpowder, wild fires burning in water and unquenchable, also fire works... ... the in ventor of ships, your monk that was the inventor of ordnance and of gunpowder, the inventor of music, the inventor of letters, the inventor o...

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...ed to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which he commanded himself, would on those occas... ...at the Arabs were better subjects than Hollanders who dealt ille- gally in gunpowder with the Malays. The innocent Almayer recognised there at once th... ..., severity, and general tyranny, as exem- plified in the total stoppage of gunpowder trade and the rigor- ous visiting of all suspicious craft trading... ...In fact, Dain knew very well that Lakamba was too deeply implicated in the gunpowder smuggling to care for an investigation the Dutch authorities into... ...als, and above the temptation of the great prices he was ready to give for gunpowder. He went to Sambir as a last and almost hopeless resort, having h... ... here, Babalatchi, and take Almayer to Batavia to punish him for smuggling gunpowder, what will he do, you think?” “I do not know, Tuan.” “Y ou are a ... ...sit. He had a general notion that something must have leaked out about the gunpowder trade, but apprehended nothing beyond some tem- porary inconvenie... ...utenant. “He passed here under the name of Dain Maroola. Y ou sold him the gunpowder he had in that brig we captured.” “How did you hear about the bri...

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...xcept the sharp crack of the bullets against the rock, and the echo of the gunpowder. There had been no groan as of a man wounded, no sound of a body ... ...e wailing in despair. For a few seconds all was dark with the smoke of the gunpowder, and then the empty mouth of the cave was again yawning before th...

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...er over which my 39 Thackeray pen runs so glibly, and a yawning barrel of gunpowder forms my rough writing-table. Around me, below me, above me, all—... ...ers, the sole objects worthy of a soldier’s consideration, are beefsteaks, gunpowder, and cold iron. The two latter means of competency we possessed; ... ...ns of competency we possessed; I had in my own apartments a small store of gunpowder (keeping it under my own bed, with a candle burning for fear of a... ...ny tea you like,” said fat Mrs. Van. “What do you say, then, to some prime gunpowder?” Of course they said it was the very thing. “And do you like hot...

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...ERFUME John Donne: Elegies When, like a tyran King, that in his bed Smelt gunpowder, the pale wretch shivered. Had it beene some bad smell, he wo...

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...t Greenwood waiting for them with a bundle of straw, a spade, and a little gunpowder. Maurice carried a basket containing all his prepa- rations, on w... ...l- diers went to find lodgings for themselves, and, entering a magazine of gunpowder, made a fire on the floor to dress their food. A most dangerous t... ...n there, lest they should strike fire. One spark, light- ing on a grain of gunpowder, scattered on the floor, might communicate with the rest, make it... ...elf a faithful servant by refusing to let Master Maurice have one grain of gunpowder without express leave from the squire. Maurice then had re- cours... ...idden purchase. Emily was both annoyed and alarmed when she found that the gunpowder was actually in the house, and she even thought of sending a note... ...urned towards the window, and suddenly exclaiming, ‘There is Ben! Oh! that gunpowder!’ darted out of the shop. She had seen the groom on horseback, an... ...id, as he sank down upon the sofa, ‘Now, Phyllis, what has happened?’ ‘The gunpowder—I made it go off, and it has burnt poor Ada’s face! Mr. Saunders ... ... der and burnt Ada.’ ‘What, my dear? where is Ada?’ ‘In bed. I blew up the gunpowder and burnt her face,’ repeated Phyllis. ‘We have had an accident,’... ... as Jane remembers, and I 184 Scenes and Characters forgot that Maurice’s gunpowder was in the room.’ Eleanor shook her head sorrowfully, and looked ...