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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...llinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford c... ...reer. Daily, on the library steps or in the hall of the Main Building, the co-eds talked of “What shall we do when we finish col- lege?” Even the girl... ... behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for people.” “Oh—oh well—you know—sy... ...t, very dusty. There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut int... ...arers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-opera- tive leagues. And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pio- neer... ...Sam Clark as he rolled to the door and shouted, “Welcome, little lady! The keys of the city are yourn!” Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room... ...air Lewis box last Tuesday, whether No. 7 was going to put on an extra day-coach; and the name of the president of the road was familiar to every brea... ... “Go to it. No skin off my ear, Nat. Think I want to be fifth wheel in the coach?” “No, but look here: The little Swiftwaite has a friend with her fro...

... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...were made by taking articles in common use, such as knives, forks, spoons, keys, &c., and pasting upon them labels with their names printed in raised ... ...mong them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry—boats laden with people, coaches, horses, waggons, baskets, boxes: crossed and recrossed by other fe... ...lf a dozen have gone by within as many minutes. Plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large wheeled tilburies, and pri vate carriag... ...ic vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement. Negro coachmen and white; in straw hats, black hats, white hats, glazed caps, fur... ...he roof there dangle, limp and drooping, two useless windsails. A man with keys appears, to show us round. A good looking fellow, and, in his way, ci... ...the world! Look at them, man — you, who see them every night, and keep the keys. Do you see what they are? Do you know how drains are made below the s... ...tatives at Washington. ‘I have a great respect for the chair,’ quoth North Carolina, ‘I have a great re spect for the chair as an officer of the hous... ...district of Columbia, to pieces. ’—’I warn the abolitionists, ’ says South Carolina, ‘ignorant, infuriated barbarians as they are, that if chance shal... ...t a felon’s death. ’—’Let an abolitionist come within the borders of South Carolina,’ cries a third; mild Carolina’s colleague; ‘and if we can catch h...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

... the Count de Favria (a giddy youth) having commanded me to get behind his coach, his grandfa- ther ordered that I should get behind no coach, nor fol... ... proper place, but which ought not to be omitted. My uncle Bernard died at Carolina, where he had been employed some years in the building of Charles ... ...dious invention for easily noting by ciphers every possible kind of music, keys, rests, octaves, measure, time, and length of note; things on which So... ...e. The greatest advantage of my scheme was to supersede transpositions and keys, so that the same piece of music was noted and transposed at will by m... ...n a few verses, and by very rapid modulations, symphonies and choruses, in keys very different from each other; for I was determined neither to change... ... daughters, all except her eldest daughter, married to the director of the coaches of Augers, came to Paris. Everything I did for Theresa, her mother ... ... from Paris. The state of my finances not permitting me to pay for hackney coaches, at two o’clock in the afternoon, I went on foot, when alone, and w... ...eived at the French theatre than by them. I mentioned this to La None, the co- 373 Rousseau median, with whom I had become acquainted, and who, as ev...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...oked ahead; and, by George, I was no longer pioneering, I had struck an old track overgrown, and was restoring an old path. So I laboured till I was i... ...enario. Chapter I. . . . 43 V ailima Letters CHAPTER VII SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH. MY DEAR COLVIN,—I got back on Monday night, after twenty-three hours i... ...s of D. Balfour?Sure I should have had the whole, at least the half, of them by now; and it would be all for the advantage of the Atalantans. I have w... ...nd L’Ensorcelee?They are admirable, they reek of the soil and the past. But I was rather thinking just now of Le Rideau Cramoisi, and its adorable set... ...y are the best of the thing such as it is. If it has a merit to it, I should say it was a sort of deliberation and swing to the style, which seems to ...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...nd since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been falling. The coachmen on the boxes of the carriages that succeeded one another in an int... ...nected with” the staff of the great brokerage firm of Gretry, Converse and Co. He was astonishingly good-looking, small-made, wiry, alert, ner- vous, ... ...ed the numbers in a roar- ing, sing-song that dominated every other sound. Coach- men, their wet rubber coats reflecting the lamplight, called back an... ...er, at a time when Page was ready for the High School. The mother, a North Carolina girl, had died long before. Laura’s education had been unusual. Af... ...his way toward the brokerage and commission office of Gretry, Converse and Co., on the ground floor of the Board of Trade Building, only a few steps a... ...prolonged, musical rasp of the call bells. In the Western Union booths the keys of the multitude of instruments raged incessantly. Bare- headed young ... ..., wavered, stopped at length, and on the instant the hundreds of telegraph keys scattered throughout the building began clicking off the news to the w... ...mbat encumbered the field. At last even the click of the last of telegraph keys died down. Shouldering themselves into their overcoats, the op- erator... ...s of the company for dinner. Just now everyone awaited the arrival of the “coach,” Monsieur Gerardy, who was always late. “T o my notion,” observed Co...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...s a young man it had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in t... ...aid the Governor. “‘Magnus Derrick, Los Muertos, Bonneville, from Ditson & Co., Rochester.’ These are ours, boy.” Harran breathed a sigh of relief. “A... ...tter, then rose to his feet and read: Magnus Derrick, Bonneville, Tulare Co., Cal. Dear Sir: By regrade of October 1st, the value of the railroad la... ...e City and County of San Francisco against Ex- celsior Warehouse & Storage Co., I would say—” His voice continued, expressionless, measured, distinct.... ...lroad. When Beatrice was a baby and had little colics, I used to jingle my keys in front of her nose, and it took her attention from the pain in her t... ...ith a deafening clamour, and a swirl of smoke, in a long succession of way-coaches, and choco- late coloured Pullmans, grimy with the dust of the grea... ...every citizen of every State from Maine to Mexico, from the Dakotas to the Carolinas, have you not the monster in your boundaries? If it is not a Trus... ...n the street-railway cars, upon the ferryboats, on the locomotives and way-coaches of the local trains, she was reminded of her father’s death, and of...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle

...t,’ which is the German for ‘Company.’ It is a customary contraction like our ‘Co.’ ‘P,’ of course, stands for ‘Papier.’ Now for the ‘Eg.’ Let us glan... ... remarkable, save that the passage window could be reached from the top of the coach house. I walked round it and examined it closely from every point... ...uld not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, w... ...ouse. I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safe... ...by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I liked and do what I liked, so long as I did n... ... records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self poisoner by co caine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the main points of my analy... ...anches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Geor gia, and Florida. Its power was used for political pur... ...hat it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very first key fitted to perfection, and I... ... as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on his face which made him a very differen...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...ctive pathos and bold imagery of rare structural beauty, well up as from a co- pious fountain, yet each in its proper place, and contribut- ing to for... ...an overseer, or allowed an overseer to address him. Old master carried the keys of all store houses; measured out the allow- ance for each slave at th... ...ame evidences of pride and luxurious extravagance. Here are three splendid coaches, soft within and lustrous without. Here, too, are gigs, phaetons, b... ... to which I have already referred in another connection. Besides two other coachmen, Col. Lloyd owned one named William, who, strangely enough, was of... ...ld be an end to all rule and order on the plantation. That very convenient co- vert for all manner of cruelty and outrage that cowardly alarm- cry, th... ... with indifference. CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XV Co Co Co Co Cov v v v vey ey ey ey ey, the N , the N , the N , the N , the ... ...ound. Whether on the coast of Africa, among the savage tribes, or in South Carolina, among the refined and civilized, slavery is the same, and its acc... ...olidating their forces for the accomplishment of their appointed work. The keystone to the arch of this grand union of the slavery party of the United...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...ench, but receiving no answer, she tried us in English. She was the ship La Carolina, from Havre, for New York. We desired her to report the brig Pil... ...ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND HO!’’—POMPERO—CAPE HORN After speaking the Carolina, on the 21st August, nothing occurred to break the monotony of o... ..., for the last six years, have been by the single house of Bryant, Sturgis & Co., to whom our vessel belonged, and who have a permanent agent on the ... ...he country, with a silver chain round his neck, supporting a large bunch of keys. From this, we took him to be the steward of the mission, and addre... ...ness than slave trading. He was once tried for his life in Charleston, South Carolina, and though acquitted, yet he was so frightened that he never ... ..., Edward H. Faucon, master, for Callao and California, by Bryant, Sturgis & Co.’’ No one has ever been on distant voyages, and after a long absence r... ...s, promising to go and see them, and to take them down to Marble, head in a coach. Saturday, 17th. The wind was light all day, which kept us bac... ...it, were densely crowded with express wagons and hand carts to take luggage, coaches and cabs for passengers, and with men,—some looking out for frie... ... three store houses and other buildings, forming a small depot; and a stage coach, I found, went daily between this place and the Pueblo. I got a sea...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...and Khalid al Mihdhar boarded the flight and were seated in 12A and 12B in coach. Hani Hanjour, assigned to seat 1B (first class), “WE HAVE SOME PLANE... ...4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 4 Reports from two flight attendants in the coach cabin, Betty Ong and Madeline “Amy” Sweeney, tell us most of what we ... ...cted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.Thi... ...s in a rapid descent. 35 At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency ... ...to enroll at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.After a semester at Chowan, KSM transferred to North Carolina Agri... ...e of the hijacking,American Airlines flight attendants all carried cockpit keys on their person. See Craig Marquis, Craig Parfitt, Joe Bertapelle, and... ... United flight attendants, unlike those at American, did not carry cockpit keys. Instead, such keys were stowed in the cabin—on Flight 175, in the ove... ...ment:The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996). 15. David M.Alpern with Anthony Marro and Stephan Le... ...ft) and the absence of procedures to properly manage and safeguard cockpit keys. Michael Woodward interview (Jan. 25, 2004). For the quote on reinforc...

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