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...lf with prisoners. I let them go—and here are 44 A Set of Six their sword-knots.’ “He flung a bunch of them on the table upon the flag. Then General ... ...n to them- selves when they saw her coming along, and offered to teach her knots or splices. I believe she liked the men, for Charley’s sake, I suppos...

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...od... Vanitie (I) Lent Vertue The Pearl - Matthew 13 Affliction (IV) Man Antiphon (II) Unkindnesse Life Submission Justice (I) Charms and Knots Affliction (V) Mortification Decay Miserie Jordan (II) Prayer (II) Obedience Conscience Sion Home The British Church The Quip Vanitie (II) The Dawning Jesu Businesse Dialogue Dulnesse Love-Joy Provid...

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...ing him again. But those T riads! They’re in our blood. They spring to tie knots in the head. They push me to condense my thoughts to a tight ball. Th...

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...on Mosby's ability to strike fast and then melt away before an effective pursuit could be organized kept the Yankee forces awake and often snarled in knots. With daring feats like capturing a Yankee general out of his bed within his defended headquarters, Mosby made his name a synonym for guerrilla warfare. Even today you can purchase in Middleburg, Virginia, a map showing...

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... here. We been losing money hand over fist. We got things tied up in fifty knots.” “What can we do?” said Grubb. “Clear out. Sell what we can for what... ...d. For the most part they presented empty decks, but here and there little knots of men sheltered behind steel bul- warks. The long, agitated noses of...

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...Dr. McDreamy to unclench the suckers. My fingers twisted his hair into knots as Donnie did unimaginably delightful things to me. Not caring a...

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...io, would you please get Angelo." Antonio's stomach immediately twisted into knots. He forced a slight nod and exited through a curtain. A moment l...

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...mbermen call a konchus tree, which they ascertain with their axes, or by the knots. I did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It remind... ...ctions of my umbrella, beginning with the smallest measures, and untying the knots as I proceeded; and when we arrived at Chesuncook the next day, find...

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...came out upon a field of aching, snowy lime rolled in sheets, twisted into knots, riven with rents, and diamonds, and stars, stretching for more than ...

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...s these folks came out by twos and threes upon the open, they found little knots of people talking excitedly and peer- ing at the spinning mirror over...

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...for- est. Spread over the grass and in among the tree trunks, he could see knots and waving lines of skirmishers who were running hither and thither a...

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...ared for relieving the wants of those who were naked.’ Then I loosen’d the knots of the cord, and the dressing- gown gave her Which belong’ d to my fa...

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... ship, notwithstanding the vessel was at that time running at a speed of seven knots an hour. But, as before, the natives could not be persuaded to ei... ...f these was fixed a small platform covered with palm leaves tied in mysterious knots; and this also is called a morai. Some cocoa-nuts, plantains, pie...

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...ile charges I'll have Matloch, I.E. and the Government tied up in so many legal knots that even Houdini couldn't untangle them in time. Besides, the...

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...aver’s knot and released the bobbin. There was nothing difficult about weaver’s knots. He once boasted he could tie them in his sleep. And for that mat... ...ng centuries long in a single night at tying an endless succession of weaver’s knots. Some of the boys shirked, wasting time and machinery by not repl... ...hine. He saw the weight which had been added, and noted that one of Schemmer’s knots had slipped. Then he heard the sergeant’s voice in sharp command.... ...and lungs to bursting, that took the elastic out of the arteries and made hard knots of muscle out of Youth’s sleek suppleness, that wore out nerve an...

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...m. There is no sense in urging machinery when Eolus himself gives you good knots for nothing. We are away in earnest now—our nose notched home on our ... ...t’s only habit. Watch our dip-dial! Tim fetches her down once every thirty knots as regularly as breathing.” So is it shown on the dip-dial. For five ... ..., and back slides the arrow to 6000 on a fall- ing slant of ten or fifteen knots. “In heavy weather you jockey her with the screws as well,” says Capt... ...es are giving us an honest two hun- 80 Actions and Reactions dred and ten knots. Very far to the west an elongated blur of red, low down, shows us th... ... one disturbs the High Gods’ market-rates by hurling steel hulls at ninety knots across tremblingly adjusted electric tensions, one must not complain ... ...soberly ringing the world round the Fiftieth Meridian at an honest seventy knots; and white- painted Ackroyd & Hunt fruiters out of the south fled be-... ...became aware of a furious and irregular cannonading some fifteen or twenty knots S. 4 E. Descending to the 500 ft. level, I found a party of Transylva...

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... all it led to was certain outer receptacles of fra- grant Spanish gloves, knots of ribbon, and kerchiefs strewn over with rose leaves and lavender. H...

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...e you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa. These small finches build a large tear drop shaped nest with complicated knots ... ...tion Marais allowed the new birds access to the traditional nest building materials. To his surprise they built identical nests with identical knots ...

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...ents, you launch that mass with two thousand people on board at twenty-one knots across the sea—a perfect exhibi- tion of the modern blind trust in me... ...e regulations, and going at your three- quarter speed of, say, about forty knots. You per- ceive suddenly right ahead, and close to, something that lo... ...ly, 5,000 tons register, let alone 45,000, and she was not going at twenty knots per hour. I can’t be perfectly certain at this distance of time, but ... ...hese facts made for safety. And, even if she had been engined to go twenty knots, there would not have been behind that speed the enormous mass, so di... ...em. They shall go bounding across from iceberg to ice- berg at twenty-five knots with precision and safety, and a “cheerful bumpy sound”—as the immort... ...e power to keep her easily head to sea, the power to move at five to seven knots towards a rescuing ship, the power to come safely alongside. And all ... ...steamer’s stern com- 219 Joseph Conrad ing at you at the rate of only two knots is a stagger- ing experience. The thing seems to have power enough be...

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... fine afternoon, our vessel going quietly along at the rate of four or five knots, and a pilot fish, the sure precursor of a shark, swimming along... ...ding sails alow and aloft, and were walking off at the rate of eight or nine knots, promising to traverse in twenty four hours the distance which we ... ...s. Under the piazza of a ‘‘pulperia,’’ two men were seated, decked out with knots of ribbons and bouquets, and playing the violin and the Spanish gui... ...was wet, forward. When she was going, as she sometimes would, eight or nine knots on a wind, there would not be a dry spot forward of the gangway. Th... ...sea, he kept a running account, in his head, of the ship’s way—the number of knots and the courses; and if the courses did not vary much during the tw... ..., but, owing to a strong head wind, and a tide, which here runs four or five knots, did not get into the harbor, formed by two points of the island, w... ...d, the tide, which was running out, carrying us at the rate of four or five knots. It was a fine day; the first of entire sunshine we had had for mor... ...r quarter, and every stitch of canvas spread, we could not get more than six knots out of her. She had no more life in her than if she were water logg... ...latitude to day?’’ ‘‘Why fourteen, north, and she has been going seven knots ever since.’’ ‘‘Well, this will bring us up to the fine in fiv...

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...y in a figure eight on the cool, smooth wooden desk. My stomach twisted in knots, and my foot shook because I was so nervous. I glanced down at my blu...

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...ien; Her dress a maid, her air confess’d a queen. Bare were her knees, and knots her garments bind; Loose was her hair, and wanton’d in the wind; Her ... ...w’ring o’er his head in triumph ride. With both his hands he labors at the knots; His holy fillets the blue venom blots; His roaring fills the flittin...

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... mighty ark—a humble cock-boat. When it pauses, we pause; when it runs ten knots an hour, we run with the same celerity; and as, in order to carry the...

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... kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, and certain words or figures written on them, as particularly the wo...

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...ler in the fleet. The captain said she had once gone at the rate of thirteen knots, which is accounted thirteen miles per hour. We had on board, as a ... ...the paquet, Lutwidge, said he believ’d she then went at the rate of thirteen knots, Kennedy made the experiment, and own’d his wager lost. The above f...