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...kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview s...

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...into an entity independent of the food chain that engendered the Covenant's sacred guilt. Choking on her sobs, TripStone had asked at last for the m... ...she left for Basc. Guilt collected like pebbles, bright, smooth curios. The sacred ones among them were preserved especially well. Collect enough an... ...hen had come searing pain, nausea, fever. At first the pain itself had been sacred. TripStone had never felt so alive as when on the brink, ready to... ...n beard curled against dry knuckles. "It's almost like being drunk." It was sacred, beloved food, doorway between life and death. Deliverer from the... ...t that so easily held him in thrall. "If there's anything in my life that's sacred," he told her, "it's you." She grinned tiredly at him. "And our w... ...e map: here were the wildflowers, there the roots and tubers. Here were the groves where she once walked freely, a respected herbalist of Basc. Ther...

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...Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. H...

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...name from Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked through the sacred forest his grandfather would tell him how the Great Spirit ha... ...e sacred forest his grandfather would tell him how the Great Spirit had woven a sacred web of life, and that all things were connected and dependent... ...e about daily life as he grew up and their con­ versations were always about the sacred web. When his grandfa­ ther spoke of a loving relationship bet... ...me, the Great Spirit will reveal it". Though young Sealt did not understand the sacred web of life, he was told over and over that he had the respon... ...e that do not know that they, too, have the same re­ sponsibility to protect the sacred web." Why was he chosen? His grandfatl1er's words weighed hea... ...ettle in like a shroud over the for­ est. Hawk and Gray Shadow met in one of the groves. "You must protect Dr. Bailey, the CDC Director. Brent says t...

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... Look, what you’re doing... take your money away...you know our temple is sacred. God’s temple is a temple of peace.” Later, when a judge demanded ... ...granted: we are to be permitted to claim his body. It is best to have the sacred privilege of farewell. We tell each other that we must succeed for h... ...they remind me: Go to Cana, go to Bethlehem, to Galilee, to Jericho. Date groves. Olive groves. Roses. As if I needed a reminder. This afternoon I ...

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...captain said. What a peaceful island, our Lesbos... We saw Mt. Ida, olive groves, cypress, temples, bouldered shores, goatherds, date palms, sailboa... ...Sappho and her daughter, Kleis, walk along a path through hillside olive groves, the ocean white below, the murmur of waves part of their leisure ... ...land of swift horses, where the nightingale sings its melodies among the sacred foliage, sheltered from the sun’s fire and the winter’s cold. He... ...ate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...snowy peaks...whispering groves...the hunting cry...” Warming my feet on a warming stone, I said I ... ...ted to your taste? Is she to fall in love your way? Deeper, I discern the sacredness of life, elements of faith and love. Thinking these things, I ... ...bove us lie the hills, around us stir the branches of the olives. Peace: sacred grove, we dedicate these two: give them luck: a light will fall: th... ...e; as I played my harp and sang he remained near, boggling his head. Our sacred grove, filled with people, trees streaked with fog, was still in my ... ...vory figurines on his dusty counter, Amazons, ibis, Etruscan warriors and sacred cats, none bigger than my hand. “The cats are from Luxor,” Serfo s...

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...captain said. What a peaceful island, our Lesbos... We saw Mt. Ida, olive groves, cypress, temples, bouldered shores, goatherds, date palms, sailboa... ...Sappho and her daughter, Kleis, walk along a path through hillside olive groves, the ocean white below, the murmur of waves part of their leisure ... ...land of swift horses, where the nightingale sings its melodies among the sacred foliage, sheltered from the sun’s fire and the winter’s cold. He... ...ate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...snowy peaks...whispering groves...the hunting cry...” Warming my feet on a warming stone, I said I ... ...ted to your taste? Is she to fall in love your way? Deeper, I discern the sacredness of life, elements of faith and love. Thinking these things, I ... ...bove us lie the hills, around us stir the branches of the olives. Peace: sacred grove, we dedicate these two: give them luck: a light will fall: th... ...e; as I played my harp and sang he remained near, boggling his head. Our sacred grove, filled with people, trees streaked with fog, was still in my ... ...vory figurines on his dusty counter, Amazons, ibis, Etruscan warriors and sacred cats, none bigger than my hand. “The cats are from Luxor,” Serfo s... ...they remind me: Go to Cana, go to Bethlehem, to Galilee, to Jericho. Date groves. Olive groves. Roses. As if I needed a reminder. This afternoon I ...

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...back to Tlascala -- A desperate fight in the mountain passes -- Capture of the sacred banner -- Cortez recovers from terrible wounds 217- 227 CHAPTER ... ...surably civilized, recognized social bonds, practised agriculture, and holding sacred the ties of matrimony forbade polygamy so as to protect the righ... ...earth. Every follower of the prophet must, at least once in his life, kiss the sacred Kaaba stone and recite his prayers in the mosque consecrated by... ...ct reliance in the destructive power of gunpowder and the protection which the Sacred banner of the cross afforded. Though Cortez was in sight of Mexi... ...es of his court, and other attendants spread before him rich carpets, that his sacred feet might not be profaned by contact with the ground. He showed... ... name of The Facardins. But though he observed on the shore tempting cocoa-nut groves and a great abundance of beautiful flowers, as well as of birds,...

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...of the hearse, to be collected in turns by the monks while sprinkling some sacred water from a small wooden flask on the ground. In Ban Mae Kong Nya t... ...te to 'extinguish the ashes' or 'cleanse the bones'. This means sprinkling sacred somploi water on the ashes and pieces of bone remaining on the pyre.... ...up further down. One does not step on the mats wearing shoes, it is like a sacred place where only those with legitimate access may sit. Esteemed, hon... ...e phii trees of Lampang villages may be likened with pre-Christian Finnish sacred trees and village burial groves, where souls of the deceased lived. ... ... may be likened with pre-Christian Finnish sacred trees and village burial groves, where souls of the deceased lived. The habitats of the souls were s... ... groves, where souls of the deceased lived. The habitats of the souls were sacred places, and it was not permitted to fell a tree, break a twig or sta...

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...ldn’t of insisted on having the trial before Christmas. Lowell’s social schedule is sacred this time of year.” “It’s called the Speedy Trial Stat... ...agitated, he thought, as the black Lincoln headed north past peanut farms and pecan groves. He laid the folded newspaper on his lap and slouched hi... ...“Why not use the original?” “Sacrilege. It came from Hebei province. They’re sacred.” “So he compromised.” Johnelle called, “You’re t...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and ...

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...wn of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- sota.” But... ...he social leaders were common merchants. Sell- ing nails was considered as sacred as banking. These up- starts—the Clarks, the Haydocks—had no dignity... ...ear, don’t you suppose I know? These first tender days of marriage—they’re sacred to me. Home, and children that need you, and depend on you to keep t... ... Main Street chairs which, in Gopher Prairie, seemed flippant. She hid the sacred family phonograph in the dining-room, and replaced its stand with a ... ... you shouldn’t criticize the Jolly Seven- teen if you want to. They aren’t sacred.” “Oh yes, they are! The dollar-sign has chased the cruci- fix clean... ...dred this afternoon?” She remembered her father’s Christmas fantasies: the sacred old rag doll at the top of the tree, the score of cheap presents, th... ...Pasa- dena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Fran- cisco and a forest of sequoias. ...

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... for it what we judged fittest, if indeed doing nothing did not seem the fittest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me....

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...ttest to us. This message, communicated after his decease, was naturally a sacred one to Mr. Hare and me. After some consultation on it, and survey of... ...bound to it by evident considerations, one of which ought to be especially sacred to me, I decide to fling down on paper some outline of what my recol... ...ing hands bent over these, and filling them up with some choice quotation, sacred or profane;—no, the galleries of art, the theatrical exhibitions, th... ...try of the brightest green; dotted all over with handsome villas, handsome groves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as... ...recollections of all you have been and done for me; which now are the most sacred and deepest, as well as most beautiful, thoughts that abide with me.... ...s Camden, and other relics, which came to me in that way, and are among my sacred possessions. The very Letters of his friends he sorted and returned;...

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...treated? Let the hand of Dennis or of your poetasters be cut off; yours is sacred.” It was perhaps in keeping that those mutilated fingers were soon t... ...h to sport on Windsor’s blissful plains: Fair Thames, flow gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs thro... ...when the nightingale to rest removes, The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves, But, charm’d to silence, listens while she sings, And all the aëria... ...s of Alexander Pope – V olume One DAPHNIS. Celestial Venus haunts Idalia’s groves; Diana Cynthus, Ceres Hybla loves; If Windsor-shades delight the mat... ... skies to brighten, and the birds to sing. DAPHNIS. All nature laughs, the groves are fresh and fair, The sun’s mild lustre warms the vital air; If Sy... ...dy grove, But Delia always; absent from her sight, Nor plains at morn, nor groves at noon delight. 80 DAPHNIS. Sylvia’s like autumn ripe,... ...HON. Say, Daphnis, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And g... ...rove, While your Alexis pines in hopeless love? In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides? As in the ... ...ove. And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d the grove. Ye Mantuan nymphs, your sacred succour bring; Hylas and Ægon’s rural lays I sing. Thou, whom the Ni...

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...slands, and when I left him he was in full tide of discourse on all things sacred and profane. But he seems to put away the objective side of his life... ...dish things does the very name spirit up! Na- ked houris—cannibal banquets—groves of cocoanut—coral reefs—tattooed chiefs—and bamboo temples; sunny va... ...d jealous of the folds which encircled its form, they sought to pierce the sacred veil of calico in which it was enshrined, and in the gratification o... ...ed, short glimpses of blooming valleys, deep glens, waterfalls, and waving groves hidden here and there by pro- jecting and rocky headlands, every mom... ...mselves enamelled and softly swelling plains, shaded over with deli- cious groves, and watered by purling brooks, and the entire country but little el... ...e spot we could select, and T oby produced from the bosom of his frock the sacred package. In silence we partook of the small morsel of refreshment th... ...ar can it be. So glorious a valley—such forests of bread-fruit trees— such groves of cocoanut—such wilderness of guava-bushes! Ah! shipmate! don’t lin... ...ooed Kanaka’ is an islander whose person has been made to a certain extent sacred by the operation of a singular custom hereafter to be explained. The... ...ned to instant death the sacrilegious female who should enter or touch its sacred precincts, or even so much as press with her feet the ground made ho...

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...ught most influence upon the condition of humanity. And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to... ...woes, O Muse! resound; Who, when his arms had wrought the destined fall Of sacred T roy, and razed her heaven built wall, Wandering from clime to clim... ...ital my ship resides At Reitorus, and secure at anchor rides; Where waving groves on airy Neign grow, Supremely tall and shade the deeps below. Thence... ...ink with silent joy. But, oh! forbear that dear disastrous name, To sorrow sacred, and secure of fame; My bleeding bosom sickens at the sound, And eve... ...nge my right, impartial Jove! By him and all the immortal thrones above (A sacred oath), each proud oppressor slain, Shall with inglorious gore this m... ...ssert my right, impartial Jove! By him, and all the immortal host above (A sacred oath), if heaven the power supply, Vengeance I vow, and for your wro... ...the faithful slave Whom to my nuptial train Icarius gave To tend the fruit groves: with incessant speed He shall this violence of death decreed 83 Po... ...uttle guides. Without the grot a various sylvan scene Appear’d around, and groves of living green; Poplars and alders ever quivering play’d, And noddi... ... rejoice. As when o’er Erymanth Diana roves, Or wide T uygetus’ resounding groves ; A sylvan train the huntress queen surrounds, Her rattling quiver f...

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...s the gods appointed of yore, Two the nights of his sleeping alone in the place of gore: The drunken slumber of frenzy twice he drank to the lees, On ... ...drank to the lees, On the sacred stones of the High-place under the sacred trees; With a lamp at his ashen head he lay in the place of the feast, And ... ... Round all his martial body, and in bands across his face, The marks of the tattooer proclaim his lofty place. I too, in the hands of the cunning, in ... ...that falls from above! Ever at morn in the blue, and at night when all is black, Ever it skulks and trembles with the hunter, Death, on its track. * “... ...that shall be slain ere noon, Rua the child of the dirt, Rua the kinless loon. For him shall the drum be beat, for him be raised the song, For him to ... ...rrow,” and nodded and seemed to smile: “Rua the child of dirt, the creature of common clay, Rua must die to-morrow, since Rua is gone to-day.” Out of ... ...men. Wide blew the riotous trade, and smelt in his nostrils good; It bowed the boats on the bay, and tore and divided the wood; It smote and sundered ...

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...the innocent bird, hath goadings on That drive her as in trouble through the groves; With me is now such passion, to be blamed No otherwise than as it... ...y Milton left unsung; More often turning to some gentle place 170 Within the groves of Chivalry, I pipe 6 The Prelude of 1850 To shepherd swains, or ... ...retaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. When he had left the mountains and received On his smooth breast ... ...nate, all a summer’s day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort; or, when rock and hill, 295 The woods, and dist... ...praise, Fit reverence for the glorious Dead, the sight Of those long vistas, sacred catacombs, 340 Where mighty ‘minds’ lie visibly entombed, Have oft... ...ude’ appeared That far famed region, though our eyes had seen, As toward the sacred mansion we advanced, Arms flashing, and a military glare 425 Of rio... ...y foil, Appeared more touching. One will I select— A Father—for he bore that sacred name;— Him saw I, sitting in an open square, Upon a corner stone o... ...of mine Had caught the accents of my native speech Upon our native country’s sacred ground. A patriot of the world, how could I glide 245 Into communi... ...ere not some nook of thine, From the first play time of the infant world Kept sacred to restorative delight, 425 When from afar invoked by anxious love...

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...ught most influence upon the condition of humanity. And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to... ...arest to those, his style must of course bear a greater resemblance to the sacred books than that of any other writer. This consideration (together wi... ... and release the fair. Not so Atrides; he, with kingly pride, Repulsed the sacred sire, and thus replied: “Hence on thy life, and fly these hostile pl... ...bright presence gilds thy Chrysa’s shores. If e’er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane, 9 Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain; God of the silver ... ...e, ’Tis time to save the few remains of war. But let some prophet, or some sacred sage, Explore the cause of great Apollo’s rage; Or learn the wastefu... ...bend: Thus o’er the field the moving host appears, With nodding plumes and groves of waving spears. The gathering murmur spreads, their trampling feet... ...tray, Or Thespia sacred to the god of day: Onchestus, Neptune’s celebrated groves; Copæ, and Thisbe, famed for silver doves; For flocks Erythræ, Gliss... ..., and nods his plumy crest: In throngs around his native bands repair, And groves of lances glitter in the air. Divine Æneas brings the Dardan race, A... ...etia breeds her savage mules, Where Erythinus’ rising cliffs are seen, Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever green, And where Ægialus and Cromna lie, And l...

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...ht, And steady bliss, and all the Loves Now sleeping in these peaceful groves! 10 I heard a Stockdove sing or say H... ...en thine, though few thy wants!—Roof, window, door, The very flowers are sacred to the Poor, The roses to the porch which they entwine: Yea, all... ... His banner in accursed league with France, First open T raitor to her sacred name! 42 SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET TO THOMAS CLARK... .... 90 The Boy must part from Mosedale’s Groves, And leave Blencathara’s rugged Coves, And quit the Flowers that... ...hat bring the philosophic mind. And oh ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, 190 Think not of any severing of our loves! Yet in my hear...

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...th less quiet instincts—goadings on That drive her as in trouble through the groves. With me is now such passion, which I blame 155 No otherwise than ... ...le by Milton left unsung; More often resting at some gentle place Within the groves of chivalry I pipe Among the shepherds, with reposing knights Sit ... ...owledge, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. When, having left his Mountains, to the Towers Of Cockermouth tha... ...ternate all a summer’s day, or cours’d Over the sandy fields, leaping through groves 300 Of yellow grunsel, or when crag and hill, The woods, and dista... ... The long backed chapel of King’s College rear His pinnacles above the dusky groves. 5 Soon afterwards we espied upon the road A student clothed in go... ...there not some nook of thine From the first playtime of the infant earth Kept sacred to restorative delight? Child of the mountains, among shepherds re...

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... the restoration of their shattered health would have been those delicious groves! But hard-hearted Jermin assured them, with an oath, that foot of th... ... hundred hogs, ten houses in different parts of her native valley, and the sacred protection of an express edict of the Taboo, declaring his person in... ... in various places. Some of the uninhabited islands are covered with dense groves; and the ungathered nuts which have fallen year after year, lie upon... ...ce, heightened by the palm-trees waving here and there, and the deep-green groves of the Bread-Fruit in the background. The squalid huts of the common... ...ike an aeronaut’s grapnel, her rusty little anchor was caught in the coral groves at the bottom of Papeetee Bay. This must have been more than forty d... ...ort, it is Sunday—their “Taboo Day”; the very word formerly expressing the sacredness of their pagan observances now proclaiming the sanctity of the C... ...gal authority. Laid upon the sacrifice in the temple, it made the offering sacred; and with it the priests chastised and put to flight the evil spirit... ...o this mode of capturing them. At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with... ...test com- 264 Omoo motion by a conjugal assault and battery made upon the sacred person of Pomaree by her intoxicated Tanee. Captain Bob once told me...

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... all. I seek her from afar, I come from temples where her altars are, From groves that bear her name, Noisy with stricken victims now and sacrificial ... ...h libations, but with shouts and laughter We drenched the altars of Love’s sacred grove, Shaking to earth green fruits, impatient after The launching ...