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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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...p of the dew and relaxed, they were pulled tight again — and that was all. Ten knots, twelve knots, eleven knots, varying from time to time, is the sp... ...you struggle in my grip. You kick with your legs. Your body draws itself up in knots like a snake’s. Your chest heaves and strains. To live! To live! ... ...gs and feet, pressing the cabin floor with his toes in a clutching sort of way. Knots and ridges and mounds of muscles writhed and bunched under the sk... ...a run up with the glasses and raise some of the boats. We’ve made at least ten knots, and we’re going twelve or thirteen now. The old girl knows how ... ...quoted Chapter XXV 157 while gazing at her. We were not making more than nine knots, but the fog bank was very near. A puff of smoke broke from the M... ... along, racing off the miles till I was certain she was making at least eleven knots. It was too good to lose, but by nightfall I was exhausted. Thoug...

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... great many ribbons—and one of the ladies (a very young person, with a little snub nose and several dimples) offered Percy Beaumont a fan. The fan was...

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..., 1855 Her Fruit- trees all vnpruin’d, her Hedges ruin’d, 1856 Her Knots disorder’d, and her wholesome Hearbes 1857 Swarming with Caterpil...

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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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...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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... of them. Wrapped in their sheets, with their shaved heads and bits of top-knots, and queer faces, they looked like figures on a chim- ney-piece. Awhi... ...at their ground, solemn as judges. I came up hand over fist, doing my five knots, like a man that meant business; and I thought I saw a sort of a wink... ... and was sheering off the other. Like a fool I had come out, doing my five knots; like a fool I went back again. It must have been the funniest thing ...

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...ind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots. Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravia... ...f in 15º 12' long. and 45º 37' lat. She was going at the speed of thirteen knots and a half. At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst t... ...nder this the Abraham Lin- coln attained the mean speed of nearly eighteen knots and a third an hour—a considerable speed, but, neverthe- less, insuff... ...he waves. It made the round of the frigate, which was then making fourteen knots, and enveloped it with its electric rings like luminous dust. Then it... ...eau- tiful things. The course of the Nautilus was E.N.E., her speed twelve knots, the depth below the surface between twenty-five and thirty fathoms. ...

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... like an abandoned outwork of the land at the gates of the bay. Within the knots and loops of the rocks the water rested more transparent than crys- t... ...out of an earthenware bottle before putting it away in a roll of blankets. Knots of traveling traders standing about the deck conversed in low tones; ...

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...siness, was chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in th... ...of the policemen’s faces, the combative headlines of the local papers, the knots of picket- ers who scrutinized any one who passed near the silent, sm...

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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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...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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... 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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... it slip. “Well, sir,” I said in an apologetic tone, “she was going eleven knots very nicely, and I thought she would do for another half-hour or so.”... ...arque, her decks full of water, her gear flying in bights, ran at some ten knots an hour. We had been driven far south—much farther that way than we h... ..., both gazing ahead, while under their feet the ship rushes at some twelve knots in the direc- tion of the lee shore; and only a couple of miles in fr... ...orce of the wind, though we were running before it at the rate of some ten knots an hour, was so great that it drove me with a steady push to the fron... ...o ev- ery sailor in that held-up fleet. Every day added to our numbers. In knots and groups and straggling parties we flung to and fro before the clos... ...hurry and work on their narrow shores. No railway-lines cumbered them. The knots of labourers trooping in clumsily round the corners of cargo-sheds to...

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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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...uese and half Malay, ran out and he was forced to take string and show the knots that he would recommend. He controlled his own gang of tacklemen—mys-... ...he Day’s Work precious little for seventy-five pounds head. We’ve made two knots this last hour and a quarter! Rather humiliating for eight hundred ho... ... the Haliotis did not pause to prove, but held on at an inspiriting eleven knots an hour till nightfall. One thing only he overlooked. The Power that ... ...d his ear sideways, and groaned. You cannot stop engines working at twelve knots an hour in three seconds without disorganising them. The Haliotis sli... ...ip. 103 The Day’s Work Then they began to tow at an average speed of four knots an hour. The Haliotis was very hard to move, and the gun- nery-lieute... ...oat, too.” She went, trailing a fathom of weed behind her. From a slow two knots an hour she crawled up to a triumphant four. Anything beyond that mad... ...teamer visibly laid over as the wind took them. They gave her nearly three knots an hour, and what better could men ask? But if she had been forlorn b... ...re away into a twenty-knot gale forty-five to the minute, three an’ a half knots an hour, the engines runnin’ sweet an’ true as a bairn breathin’ in i... ... ragin’ wi’ hunger, a fair lump o’ sea runnin’, the Kite snorin’ awa’ four knots an hour; an’ the Grotkau slappin’ her nose under, an’ yawin’ an’ stan...

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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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...hile the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots, The one year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne ... ...ng, these things gathering, On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up, Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susque...

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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... from the theme by a lively anecdote. After breakfast the party broke into knots, and canvassed Laxley’s behaviour to Evan, which was generally condem... ... sparkle of the twisting water, and you might dream things half-fulfilled. Knots of fern were about, but the tops of the mounds were firm grass, evide...