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... by peeling posters for lachrymose Turkish films. He pushed the crib outside the penumbral circle and waited. Curious folks besieged the old man an... ...rother lies bleeding on the rug. Two gory rivulets, two injured wrists, delineate a perfect circle. They cross his ashen palms and waxen, twitching ... ...ction and I feign recoil, as though intimidated by your loudness. Withdrawing to my second line of defence, I surrender to your simulated wrath. Th... ...he anguish, and your fears. I am your only friend, monopolist of your invisible cries, your inner haemorrhage of salty tears, the tissued scar that ... ... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...pected). I couldn't cope even with mine. I turned around, into the public park, across the inner yard, down to the looping street that bordered on ... ...pressed hostility and pent aggression. I begrudge it the spontaneity and variegation of its inner and outer lives. Following a period of obsequious ... ...ul banter of the staff, some heated arguments, the weary vacuuming of carpets, the squeaky linen trolley. The equanimity of the eternal. Bathed in a... ...r stroke, so she withdrew and sat up, tense, straddling the edge of a recliner. Thus, they circled one another wearyingly. A longcase clock ticked ...

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...ence work in the office for the present. ‘I know,’ he said, ‘it is not the line your fam- ily might prefer, but it is present occupation; and I do not... ...artyn. We were much more Cockney than al- most any one is in these days of railways. We were unusually devoid of kindred on both sides, my father’s ho... ...ch it was only just possible for my tall brothers to stand upright, at the innermost end. These opened into the cellars which, no doubt, belonged to t... ...ullion chambers, as she named them; but Griff pounced on them at once, the inner for his repose, the outer for his guns and his studies—not smoking, f... ...and how the devoted husband ‘wowed he would get up a still more hexclusive circle, and shut hout these himpertinent fashionables who regarded Halmack’... ...y father forbade any further mention of such rank folly and deception. The inner mullion chamber was turned into a lumber-room, and as weeks passed by... ...ould interest any of us, and covering every available flap up to the blank circle left for the trim red seal. Promotion had come to Clarence in the na... ...a desponding mood. Tidings were less rapid when tele- graphs were not, and railways incomplete. Clarence did not reach Baden till ten days after the d... ...as pleased to send all ‘the children’ out on the beach, then free from the railway. It was a beautiful day, with the intensely blue South Devon sea da...

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...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...g is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writer to his own circle; but his own circle is a narrow one. Whereas, in aristocratic classe... ...er’s society, and from illness had lived perfectly se- cluded, our nursery circle knew her but little, and were cer- tainly more affected by the death... ...e given in the “Legends of the Christian Saints” to that golden diadem or circlet of supernatural light (that glory, as it is commonly called in En- ... ...tions) he saw a much rarer phenomenon, which he described in the following lines:— “Such thou art as when The woodman winding westward up the glen 41... ...s classical instructions. One sole cotton factory had then risen along the line of Oxford Street; and this was close to a bridge, which also was 54 T... ..., perceived by him- self, or meant to be understood by others, that to his inner conscience he also was not clear of blame. Had he, then, in any degre... ... as a philosopher. That man, indeed, whom Emerson ranks as one amongst his inner consistory of intel- lectual potentates cannot be the absolute trifle... ...longer simply intellectual, but had deepened into a moral sense as of some inner dignity continually violated. Once the petty round of school tasks ha...

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...t I — Chapter 3 7 to conservative views, which here held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but f... ...med a harassed expression. “To go, or not to go!” he said to himself; and an inner voice told him he must not go, that nothing could come of it but fa... ... that it was in the Shtcherbatskys’ house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he... ...eady, one a colonel, and another a professor, another director of a bank and railways, or president of a board like Oblonsky. But he (he knew very wel... ...he same time, feeling a need of violent exercise, he skated about describing inner and outer circles. At that moment one of the young men, the best of... ...eling a need of violent exercise, he skated about describing inner and outer circles. At that moment one of the young men, the best of the skaters of ... ...ing the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men. Although he did go more or less in... ...eleven o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the gre... ...vitch, laughing good humoredly. “Will the train soon be in?” Vronsky asked a railway official. “The train’s signaled,” answered the man. The approach o...

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... is always concen- trated. ‘Now I am right, and now I’ll take my corner, Jack. Any dinner, Jack?’ Mr. Jasper opens a door at the upper end of the room... ...ot grow worse as I grow older. At all events, I hope I have something impressible within me, which feels – deeply feels – the disinterestedness of you... ...ed press a peculiar-looking pipe, which he fills – but not with tobacco – and, having adjusted the contents of the bowl, very carefully, with a little... ... Reverend Septimus administered and escaped all sorts of punishment, and wound up by getting the old lady’s cap into Chancery - such is the technical ... ...parture and arrival, in good time for dinner, of Mr. Neville and Miss Helena; and stock for soup became fragrant in the air of Minor Canon Corner. In ... ...ually struck but one. Miss Twinkleton estimated the distance to the omnibus at five-and-twenty minutes’ walk, when it was really five. The affectionat... ...word can be used of one who had no apparent lights or shadows about him – complimented by the question. ‘As a particularly Angular man, I do not fit s... ...you know?’ Mr. Crisparkle, with a significant need complied; and rejoining Neville, went away with him. They dined together, and parted at the yet unf... ...eparted. It was, at that very moment, going off. ‘Stop and take me, if you please, Joe. I am obliged to go to London.’ In less than another minute she...

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...lection of having been in New York a success ful member of the choregraphic circle; her sister Edith was, as every one said, so very much more fetchi... ...demeanour, and of having, as she thought, eyes like the balanced basins, the circles of “ornamental water,” set, in parterres, among the geraniums. “T... ...hty wrestler and that he was still, on occasion—in the privacy of the family circle as it were—quite capable of flooring his man. Isabel liked him—she ... ...ou know everything interests me and I wish to see as much as possible of the inner life.” Isabel judged best not to show this letter to her uncle; but... ... the meagreness of the glimpse that had as yet been vouchsafed to her of the inner life. Landscapes by Turner and Assyrian bulls were a poor substitut... ... responsive—as with a positive passion for argument— to her remarks upon the inner life. “Oh, I see; I dare say you found it very quiet at Gardencourt... ...th the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and i... ...contracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was... ... under her cousin’s escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in t...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fam...

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...YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE AS THE MOST striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the c... ...isting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with prison- ers... ...ld take who have the power And they should keep who can.’ [Footnote: These lines of Wordsworth on Rob Roy’s grave almost literally translate the speec... ...ossed as before, and this was repeated again to a considerable height, the inner ends of the beams being fastened to a planking within the wall, so th... ...ase, and a plain in front about three miles wide. Every- where else it was circled in by high hills, and here Caesar resolved to shut these brave men ... ...ed resolved to watch him all night. The woman and child went to bed in the inner room, and Ivan signed to his master to take the guitar, and began to ... ...e of the commands, entreaties, and cries of his master, he dashed into the inner room, and killed the sleeping child, lest it should give the alarm. K... ...been crowned with St. Stephen’s Crown; but if he had once worn that sacred circle, he thenceforth was held as the only lawful monarch, unless he shoul... ...n combined the two. It had the two arches of the Roman crown, and the gold circlet of the Constantinopolitan; and the difference of workmanship was ev...

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... of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character he received car riage money. This sport... ...gious alarum on the bell. The Begging Letter Writer often has an extensive circle of acquaintance. Whole pages of the ‘Court Guide’ are ready to be re... ...ut up in the gloomy dungeon, are strained, two or three at a time, into an inner cell, to be examined as to passports; and across the doorway of commu... ...scued and soothed. If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris. But, our French watering place, when it... ...s—of the name of Bigby—had made every preparation for its admission to our circle. I hope and believe I am a quiet man. I will go farther. I know I am... ...e. I wish to know why, when my child, Augustus George, was expected in our circle, a provision of pins was made, as if the little stranger were a crim... ... gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the old little fis... ...stolen goods?—O yes, Inspector Field.—Go to Bark’s next. Bark sleeps in an inner wooden hutch, near his street door. As we parley on the step with Bar... ...in the kitchen! We are shut up, half a dozen of us, in Bark’s house in the inner most recesses of the worst part of London, in the dead of the night—...

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... very finest 12 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater cloth, and richly lined with silk. Amongst the anecdotes which circulated about him, it was a... .... There is not a doubt that the motive of the murderer for standing on the inner side of Marr’s front-door, whilst Mary stood on the outside, was—a ho... ...tness, from his secret stand, noticed the fact of Williams’s surtout being lined with silk of the finest quality. One other fact he noticed, which eve... ...to the King of Saxony, by means of introductory letters floating them into circles far above any they had seen in homely Germany, are qualified by our... ...ue it is, and disgraceful enough, that Pope (like modern contractors for a railway or a loan) let off to sub-contractors several por- tions of the und... ...wards; but the why did not travel; and the innumerable blockheads of lower circles, not understand- ing the real cause of fear, sought a false one in ... ...al secrets, which had once roused so much consternation within a lim- ited circle, and (like the French affair of the diamond neck- lace) had sunk int... ...ore effective. The Coryphaeus himself seemed, to my eyes, no better than a railway laborer, fresh from tun- nelling or boring, and wearing a blouse to... ...uthor, the reader may see noticed and condemned by Kant, in his Reli- gion innerhalb die gronzen der blossen Vernunft; and another of much earlier dat...

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...ion held by Prince Kropotkin*, who says: “Chichikov may buy dead souls, or railway shares, or he may collect funds for some charitable institution, or... ... numerous errors and inaccuracies of detail; with the result that in every line of the book there is something which calls for correc- tion. For these... ... who stands remote, 12 Dead Souls both by life and by education, from the circle of folk which I have pictured in my book, but who knows the life of ... ...le of folk which I have pictured in my book, but who knows the life of the circle in which he himself revolves, would under- take to read my work in s... ...n expression. Behind the portmanteau came a small dispatch-box of redwood, lined with birch bark, a boot- case, and (wrapped in blue paper) a roast fo... ...rs. In their midst Nozdrev looked like a father lording it over his family circle. Erecting their tails—their “stems,” as dog fanciers call those memb... ...house himself, who requested his guest to enter, and then led him into the inner part of the mansion. A covert glance at Sobakevitch showed our hero t... ...so comes wafted to your ear the sound of peasants’ laughter, while in your inner man you are be- coming conscious of an appetite which is not to be wi... ...uble fleeces which carried between their outer 225 Gogol layers and their inner enough lace of Brabant to sell to the tune of millions of roubles; wh...

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...rring liberal to conserva- tive views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but fro... ...d a harassed expression. “To go, or not to go!” he said to himself; and an inner voice told him he must not go, that nothing could come of it but fals... ...at it was in the Shtcherbatskys’ house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he h... ...dy, one a colonel, and another a professor, another director of a bank and railways, or president of a board like Oblonsky. But he (he knew very well ... ... violent exercise, he skated about 40 Anna Karenina – Part One describing inner and outer circles. At that moment one of the young men, the best of t... ...e, he skated about 40 Anna Karenina – Part One describing inner and outer circles. At that moment one of the young men, the best of the skaters of th... ... the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men. Although he did go more or less into... ...even o’clock in the morning Vronsky drove to the station of the Petersburg railway to meet his mother, and the first person he came across on the grea... ...tch, laughing good-humoredly. “Will the train soon be in?” Vronsky asked a railway official. “The train’s signaled,” answered the man. The approach of...

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...k pink of his complexion, running perfectly level to the brick pink of his inner eyelids, gave them a curious, sinister expression—like a mosaic of bl... ...p into pockets all over his person, on his shoulders, on his heels, on the inner side of his sleeves; and he stands perfectly still and does nothing. ... ...was at its best in a black or a dog-skin glove and there was always a gold circlet with a little chain supporting a very small golden key to a dispatc... ...n of rules applies to anybody—to the anybodies that you meet in hotels, in railway trains, to a less degree, perhaps, in steamers, but even, in the en... ...ke a cold bath every morning and who move, roughly speaking, in diplomatic circles. But the inconvenient—well, hang it all, I will say it—the dam- nab... ...ts. I have been exceedingly impatient at missing trains. The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their connections at ... ... of the Kilsyte case. Ashburnham had, you know, kissed a servant girl in a railway train, and it was only the grace of God, the prompt functioning of ... ...life. I tell you, I had no regret. What had I to regret? I suppose that my inner soul—my dual personality—had realized long before that Florence was a... ... to which she occasionally went for what is called a “retreat” in Catholic circles.) And poor dear Ed- ward knew nothing—absolutely nothing. He did no...

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...estioned fashion and orthodoxy, and a pillar of the most exclusive Dresden circles. Such a work, would, I believe, have a large sale, and be read with... ...ctually is an opera. It is generally understood, however, that there is an inner ring of superior persons to whom the whole work has a most urgent and... ...ce of those who wish to be introduced to the work on equal terms with that inner circle of adepts. 13 Shaw My second encouragement is addressed to mo... ...those who wish to be introduced to the work on equal terms with that inner circle of adepts. 13 Shaw My second encouragement is addressed to modest c... ...it might be a whitelead factory, or a chemical works, or a pot- tery, or a railway shunting yard, or a tailoring shop, or a little gin-sodden laundry,... ...a. He seeks the First Mother; and through her womb, eternally fertile, the inner true thought that made him first a god is reborn as his daughter, unc... ...ried’s T od, with its leading characters sketched on the ordinary romantic lines from the old Sagas, and not yet reminted as the original creations of... ...is not a miser: he seeks dividends, comfortable life, and admission to the circles of Wotan and Loki. His only means of procuring these is to restore ... ...Ring is a big undertaking only in the sense in which the construction of a railway is a big undertaking: that is, it requires plenty of work and plent...

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...inheritance; I had reason to think myself popular amongst the very slender circle of my acquaintance; and finally, which perhaps was the crown- ing gr... ... and the more than cherub loveliness of that countenance, which yet in its lineaments was noble, whilst its expression was purely gentle and confiding... ...at the summit of my happiness, whilst for herself she thus com- pleted the circle of her relations to this life’s duties, by pre- senting me with a so... ...rophetess; and very extraordinary instances were cited amongst the highest circles of her success in the art which she professed. So ample were the pe... ... their hopelessness. But this, on the other hand, was a ground that in his inner thoughts he treated with scorn; and I could easily see that, with a l... ...the latter days of my wife; for, besides pistols always lying loaded in an inner room, there happened to be a long narrow passage on entering the hous... ...vening, revealed the boat in the very act of mounting like a horse upon an inner reef, instantly filling, and throwing out the crew, every man of whom... ...1845, and the report is now, (August, 1846,) gathering strength, that some railway potentate, having taken a fancy for the ancient college of Glasgow,... ...aved a road to the moon. And what is that expressed in time? Let us see: a railway train, worked at the speed of the Great West- ern Express, accompli...

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... am sure of it,’ returned Miss T ox. Mrs Chick coughed as before, and drew lines on the carpet with the ivory end of her parasol. Miss T ox, who had e... ...ther, when the great door clashes, and Mr Sownds and Mrs Miff treading the circle of their daily lives, unbroken as a marriage ring, come in. Again, t... ...metimes prevailing higher up? In this round world of many 90 Dombey & Son circles within circles, do we make a weary journey from the high grade to t... ...s Mr Carker, who now smiled among the company, and who, as he stood in the circle that was gathered about Mrs Dombey -watchful of her, of them, his ch... ...at! what was it?’ Florence heard her father demand like a madman. ‘But the inner dressing-room was locked and the key gone.’ Her father seized a candl... ... her tears; with such a low, soft tremble in her frame and voice; that the innermost chords of his heart were touched, and his sight was dim as he lis... ...l cold hall or corridor, a dining-room, a drawing-room, a bed-room, and an inner drawingroom, or boudoir, smaller and more re- tired than the rest. Al... ...ll in the same stunned condition, he remem- bered a certain station on the railway , where he would have to branch off to his place of destination, an... ...indistinctly resolved to tarry and rest. With this purpose he slunk into a railway carriage as quickly as he could, and lying there wrapped in his clo...

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...ld man, shaven and wrinkled, evidently a merchant, wearing a large heavily-lined cloak and a big cap. This merchant sat down opposite the empty seats ... ...ter a parlor or a ball-room, washed, shaven, and perfumed, with very white linen, in dress coats or in uniform, as emblems of purity, oh, the disgust!... ...rom one another according to the purpose of their life, according to their inner life, this will necessarily be reflected also in their outer life, an... ... see it. Not far from my estate this spring some moujiks were working on a railway embankment. You know what a peasant’s food is,— bread, kvass,* onio... ...hment he lives, he is alert, he makes light work in the fields. But on the railway this bill of fare becomes cacha and a pound of meat. Only he restor... ...ned me. I lighted a cigarette, and, as always happens, when one turns in a circle of inextri- cable contradiction, I began to smoke. I smoked ciga- re... ... car I had a vivid imagination of having already ar- rived, or because the railway acts upon people in such an exciting fashion? At any rate, after bo... ... But what does that matter to her! She loves. “And again it all began, the circle of the same thoughts. I suffered so much that at last I did not know... ...s as quick as lightning, and the deed followed immediately. The act, to my inner sense, had an extraordinary clearness. I perceived the resistance of ...

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...ortance that our government protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowledge without regard to an individual’s ability to pay.? -- Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About Michael Hart -- Bibliography -- Index --...

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...ss to knowledge without regard to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions Epilogue Acknowledgments ... ...e honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where it‘s been. Other bir... ...od, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where it‘s been. Other birds and beasts make s... ...emorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of poetry. Church ritual and liturgy were passed down in the same ma... ...ched Dynasty that ruled northern China, Manchuria, and much of modern-day Inner Mongolia. After Genghis Khan had spent about four years consolida... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...n the Versailles fashion by great moustached heroes frown- ing and drawing lines with a large black soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned.... ...certainly be as un- precedented as its prelude. Before it meets, the broad lines of the settlement will have been drawn plainly with the ap- proval of... ... action at the Peace Congress), should be elected ad hoc upon demo- cratic lines. I know that this will be a very shocking proposal to all our able sp... ...m to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the life of ... ...ough the possessions of several Powers) and in the regula- tion of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of pe... ...e middle African Customs, the regulation of inter-State trade, inter-State railways and wa- terways, quarantine and health generally, and the establis... ...ly greater in extent and denser in population, but they are in- creasingly innervated by more and more rapid means of com- munication and excitement. ... ...nation’s interest. From nearly every outstanding man out- side that little inner world of political shams and dodges, who has given any attention to t... ...pposition to Proportional Representation of Mr. Sidney Webb and his little circle is a trifle more “scientific” in tone than these naive objections of...

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...first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and pro- foundly than he speaks; and the best ... ...t for others, try earnestly to set forth as much as they can grasp of this inner law; but the vast majority, when they come to advise the young, must ... ...s and dies, is but the aggregate of the outer and lower sides of man. This inner consciousness, this lantern alternately obscured and shining, to and ... ...d by such extremities. But although all the world ranged themselves in one line to tell you ‘This is wrong,’ be you your own faithful vassal and the a... ...he world did as you did, and according to their means extended help in the circle of their affections, there would be no more crying want in times of ... ...ture of capital and competition; it stands and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the ... ...rivate property, the days of the independent jour- nal are numbered. State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspape... ...as if courting applause, after a torrent of diluted truism. They talk in a circle, harping on the same dull round of argument, and returning again and... ... of domestic virtues. We can- not excuse his limiting these virtues to the circle of his court. We must only remember that such was the feeling of the...

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... there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentle- man, whom I shall danomminate Mun... ...hich his ferocious tribe took its designation, was painted a light-blue, a circle of green and orange was drawn round each eye, while serpentine strip... ...PECULATOR. “CONSIDERABLE SENSATION has been excited in the upper and lower circles in the West End, by a startling piece of good fortune which has bef... ...uare, and humbly begged pardon of his master for not having instructed the Railway Sec- retaries who answered his applications to apply at the area-be... ...have ad Earls and Ycounts— Barnits as many as I chose: and the pick of the Railway world, of which I form a member. Last Sunday was a grand Fate. I ha... ... He came down at full gallop, his own sword making ten thou- sand gleaming circles in the air, shrieking his cry of battle. The contest did not last a... ...ied but by a few brave men, Lieutenant Gahagan succeeded in escalading the inner and fourteenth wall of the place. Fourteen ditches lined with sword-b... ...r a while, an attendant came to tell me that my supper was prepared in the inner apartment of the tent (I suppose that the reader, if he be possessed ... ...car- pets, chimneys, and sash-windows complete). I entered, I say, into an inner chamber, and there began with my fingers to devour my meal in the Ori...

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...as been disturbed by new fashions and methods, or by the enterprise of the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Satur- day to Monday of life a... ...mplate his pro- file as well as the blinds will permit. On his left is the inner wall, with a stately bookcase, and the door not quite in the middle, ... .... [He comes to Octavius]. What would you not give, Tavy, to turn it into a railway accident, with all her bones broken or something equally respectabl... ... weeping Magdalen and an innocent child branded with her shame. Not in our circle, thank you. Morality can go to its father the devil. RAMSDEN. I thou... ...l a mortal, you will not be able to bear them. Y ou will try to get into a circle which has never known you except as an angel. 61 Man & Superman ANN... ...spot at which the high road over one of the passes crosses a tunnel on the railway from Malaga to Granada, is one of the mountain amphitheatres of the... ...y canonical author- ity for assuming that there is any barrier between our circle and the other one? ANA. But surely there is a great gulf fixed. THE ... ...ower that governs the earth is not the power of Life but of Death; and the inner need that has nerved Life to the effort of organizing itself into the... ...o, but the, philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, in invention to discover the means of fulfilling t...

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...O THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912 ................... 194 PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS—1914 .................................................................. ...e of free- dom—the freedom of expression and the freedom of confessing his innermost beliefs—which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen.... ...t be made, that something has to be given up, is the truth engraved in the innermost recesses of the fair temple built for our edification by the mast... ...ualities. He is a great analyst of illusions. He searches and probes their innermost recesses as if they were realities made of an eternal substance. ... ...g and unflagging; and there runs through his work a steady vein of friend- liness for the old country which the succeeding gen- erations of his compat... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in England—to “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-... ...hat work the submarine came to the surface quite close and made a complete circle round us, the seven men that we counted on the con- ning tower laugh...

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...f the horizon. The sunshade continued to approach slowly. Be neath its pink lined shelter were his wife, Mrs. Pontellier, and young Robert Lebrun. Wh... ...from her friend’s face. She stood watching the fair woman walk down the long line of gal leries with the grace and majesty which queens are sometimes... ...gure. The charm of Edna Pontellier’s physique stole insensibly upon you. The lines of her body were long, clean and symmetrical; it was a body which o... ...in the evening. There was now an apparent disposition to relax; to widen the circle of confidences and give a more general tone to the conversation. M... ...l boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet. In a sweeping passion she seized a glass vase from the table and... ...e,” asked the Doctor, with a smile, “has she been associating of late with a circle of pseudo intellectual women—super spiritual superior beings? My w... ...h the darkness. He knew his fellow creatures better than most men; knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed* eyes. He was sor... ...se to her against the yellow shimmer of her gown. There was the whistle of a railway train somewhere in the distance, and the midnight bells were ring...

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... a quiet hotel; below, under a steep cliff, it beholds the traffic of many lines of rail, and the scream of the engine and the shock of meet- ing buff... ...nd the shock of meet- ing buffers mount to it all day long. The aisles are lined with the inclosed sepulchres of families, door beyond door, like hous... ...est; how, linking us with others, and still spreading wide the influential circle, they weave us in and in with the fabric of contemporary life; and t... ...k and forth, as they do for Mr. Gladstone; and crowd him to suffocation on railway platforms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy ... ... eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were rows of sheds, railways, travelling-cranes, a street of cottages, an iron house for the re... ...hosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out. He had a circle of his own, in- deed, at home; few men were more beloved in Edinburg... ...burgh, where he breathed an air that pleased him; and wherever he went, in railway carriages or hotel smoking-rooms, his strange, humorous vein of tal... ...on that the sayings can scarce be quoted with their full effect beyond the circle of common friends. To have their proper weight they should appear in... ...e, Moliere, Montaigne, The Egoist, and the Vicomte de Bragelonne, form the inner circle of my intimates. Behind these comes a good troop of dear acqua...