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...n a vacuous place called Hell, the Demons may still prowl in yet more dry caves. If they live, they lie beneath our talons right now. When Lei-kun... ...s soft as talc. What's the sense of dragons dulling their talons in dark caves to get it? he wondered. Despite all of Kuan-ti's teaching, all my r... ...r? Is a jerboa tasty? Believe it. They're breeding like maggots in the caves right now. They'll be tens of thousands of them just to start. Soo... ...o their dainty little claws bled a little while they were carving out the limestone blocks. That was no reason to cry and complain. Can't be runni... ...ey find all those little females buried around the chorten, hidden in the caves, they'll come after me. Me, I'm only little. Helpless. They'll ri... ...lf-indulgence? -- allow me to disengage. As he swam down toward the deep caves, he did wish he could be more involved, be different for Nü-kua, get...

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...aces of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE... ...on of Japan -- Houses covered with gold -- A story of wealth that exceeded the caves of Genii -- The capture of one city -- Beheading of the captives ... ...ere existed on the shores of the Red Sea a race of people who dwelt chiefly in caves among the hills of the sea coast and subsisted by fishing; whatev... ...f Anak, both of which designations have reference to their living in holes and caves. The Grecian name of Troglodytes, with which we are so familiar, ... ...resembling pitch, and along it a great multitude of people half wild living in caves. Their stature was very small, and they were so timid that at the... ...ht and nine feet across the shoulders. They have been carved out of the native limestone with no little skill and evidently with tools of steel, or so...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...ith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither ... ...itants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its shining walls rose against A... ...ories high, yellow brick with glassy roof-garden above and portico of huge limestone columns below. The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen s... ...ts; white arched entrances to movie theaters, like frosty mouths of winter caves; electric signs—serpents and little dancing men of fire; pink-shaded ...

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...” I cried, “the marine deposits formed in the second period, these shales, limestones, and sandstones. We are turning away from the primary granite. W... ...” he asked. “See,” I said, pointing to the varied series of sandstones and limestones, and the first indication of slate. “Well?” “We are at the perio... .... The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendour from the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls. It might have been thought t... ...d; then came dark cherry-coloured marbles relieved by the lighter tints of limestone. The greater part of these bore impressions of primitive or- gani... ...e reflection of our lamps from the side walls. The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless linin... ... a hole; dnw, to creep into. The name of an Ethio- pian tribe who lived in caves and holes. ??????, a hole, and ???, to creep into. 114 A Journey to ...

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...and upright in it, though it ran about twelve yards back. There were white limestone drops like icicles hanging above from the roof; and bats, disturb... ...ce, wench, and aid me, I know this rock is hon- 91 Yo n g e eycombed with caves, like a rabbit warren, no place so likely.” “I help thee—no indeed’” ... ... after tumbling out the straw and fern that served for fodder in the lower caves, where the sheep and pigs were sheltered in winter, had scrambled up ... ...t, and not untruly, on the health of the young stock he kept penned in the caves, which were all, he hoped, of which Peter was aware. All this was har... ...llers’ joy the men peering about with their dark lantern, looking into the caves where the pigs were, among the trees, and he held Growler’s mouth tog...

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...rents to the land of Moab for refuge, and himself took up his abode in the caves of the wild limestone hills that had become familiar to him when he w... ...of Moab for refuge, and himself took up his abode in the caves of the wild limestone hills that had become familiar to him when he was a shepherd. Bra... ...ses and lands, and drove their cattle with them up into the wild hills and caves, where David had once made his home; and all the Jews who wished to b...

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..., laughing; “you can easily see the cunning of the place—the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no un- comfortable pillo... ...s, who still lay within the protection of the little chasm between the two caves. “I tell you, Uncas,” said the former, as Heyward joined them, “you a... ...e. Cries were heard in the startling vicinity of the chasm between the two caves, which mingled with hoarser yells that arose out of the abyss of the ... ...ollected in and around that secret place. As the inner passages to the two caves were so close to each other, Duncan, believing that escape was no lon...

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...of always keeping fair weather over his head. The platform, as well as the caves of the house, were surmounted by gaudily painted railings, and the ge... ...dance of materials. This little torrent, whose dark waters gushed over the limestones that lined its bottom, was nothing less than one of the many sou...

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...ny is not so microscopic, in- vaded her, resembling a tide-swell into rock-caves, which have been filled before and left to emptiness, and will be lef... ...ing to him, waving him to fly forth from the London oven:—lo, the Tyrolese limestone crags with livid peaks and snow lining shelves and veins of the c...

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... as to bring the red brick into terms of friendly com- panionship with the limestone ornaments surrounding the three gables, the windows, and the door... ...with father to see about some work there. It’s a wonderful sight—rocks and caves such as you never saw in your life. I never had a right notion o’ roc... ...grey donkeys, just visible in front of the gorse bushes, stood as still as limestone images—as still as the grey- thatched roof of the mud cottage a l...

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...d. Mrs. Cave can remember nothing about it. In the evening of that day the Caves seem to have exhausted their emotions, and Mr. Cave, who had been out... ... She put a white hand upon my shoulder and pointed towards great masses of limestone flushing, as it were, into life. I looked. But first I noted the ... ...a vast multitude of little rooms, very cool and sunny, hollowed out of the limestone of a sort of cape, very high above the sea. The whole island, you...

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...f his. Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half starved.... ...hful skies Gallow the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves.” Lear, Act III. sc. ii. To common land usages, the word is now compl... ...han left his pre adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, ...

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...his. Besides, ar- gued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half- starved... ...han left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, ...

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... Doth the Dead Guier’s stream complain, Where that wet smoke, among the woods, Over his boiling cauldron broods. Swift rush the spectral v... ...ter-time in the world—ah me! And I lose my poor soul, Merman! here with thee.” I said: “Go up, dear heart, through the waves; Say thy prayer, and come...

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...everal animals, belonging to the most different classes, which inhabit the caves of Styria and of Kentucky, are blind. In some of the crabs the foot-s... ...reased the size of the eyes; whereas with all the other inhabitants of the caves, disuse by itself seems to have done its work. It is difficult to ima... ...rk. It is difficult to imagine conditions of life more simi- lar than deep limestone caverns under a nearly simi- lar climate; so that on the common v... ...s from the outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves, as did European animals into the caves of Europe. We have some evide... ...ew of their in- dependent creation. That several of the inhabitants of the caves of the Old and New Worlds should be closely related, we might expect ... ...o- portion of the bones of tertiary mammals have been discovered either in caves or in lacustrine deposits; and that not a cave or true lacustrine bed...

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...methodically kept the count. The lepers crowded into the open space before the caves. At first they were frightened, but as the shells continued their ... ...o soldiers were attempting the passage, Koolau started back on the run for the caves. All the time the shells were moaning, whining, screaming by, and... ...was rumbling and reverberating with the explosions. As he came in sight of the caves, he saw the two idiots cavorting about, clutching each other’s ha... ...e dog. The rest of the lepers, with the exception of Kapahei, had fled into the caves. “Seventeen,” said Kapahei. “Eighteen,” he added. This last shell... ...ahei. “Eighteen,” he added. This last shell had fairly entered into one of the caves. The ex plosion caused all the caves to empty. But from the part... ...g the gorge, the way plunged sharply upward until they crossed a saddle of raw limestone which attracted his geologist’s eye. Still climbing, although... ...le roof, the gloomy gorge between the shouldering mountains, the saddle of raw limestone, and the mesa of black, volcanic sand. Down the spiral path o...

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... anything about it. Hence we heard of beds of coal, of gold and silver, of caves, and of forests, all of which inflamed my curiosity, only to disappoi... ...ion of the Pampaean 144 The V oyage of the Beagle estuary deposit, with a limestone containing some of the same extinct sea-shells; and this shows ei... ...d of a hol- low-horned ruminant, discovered by MM. Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil, are highly interesting facts with respect to the geographi... ...ny on the following day a gentleman to his estancia, where there were some limestone rocks. The town is built on a stony promontory something in the s... ...er with 150 broken-in horses, and 600 sheep. There was plenty of water and limestone, a rough house, excellent corrals, and a peach orchard. For all t... ...s of Australia — by the great collection lately brought to Europe from the caves of Brazil by MM. Lund and Clausen. In this collection there are extin... ...r, of the terrestrial quadrupeds now inhabiting the provinces in which the caves occur; and the extinct species are much more numerous than those now ... ...eached 475 Charles Darwin Waiomio. Here there are some singular masses of limestone, resembling ruined castles. These rocks have long served for buri... ... of the land; and lastly, in a solitary and superficial patch of yellowish limestone or travertin, which contains numerous impressions of leaves of tr...

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... from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. Walden 26 Howev... ...on, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be ... ...ngles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily obtained than suitable caves, or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well tem p... ...riment; so that I knew where my materials came from. I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to do s...

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...ch from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. However, if one ... ...mnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be ... ...hingles, lime and bricks, are cheaper and more easily obtained than suitable caves, or whole logs, or bark in sufficient quantities, or even well tempe... ... that I 154 Walden knew where my materials came from. I might have got good limestone within a mile or two and burned it myself, if I had cared to do...

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...o have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil po- etry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infi- nite masses of the shells of a... ...elling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture. The partial action of each ... ...know nothing of.” In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff- swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared ...

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... near, By the road an ancient cross. No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a... ...ll; But now hearts cry that hearts are slaves, And toss and turn in narrow caves; But here there is nor law nor rule, 378 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B....

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... come. Along the northern coast, Just back from the rock bound shore and the caves, In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country, With the ... ...feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal, The blast furnace and the puddling furnace, the loup lum...