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... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...; and she heard again the startled bells and thick puffing of high-stacked river steamers wrecked on sand-reefs sixty years ago. Along the decks she s... ...garlanded water-pitcher and bowl. The scent was of horsehair and plush and Florida Water. “How could people ever live with things like this?” she shud... ... applauded. Mr. Dawson was beatified. He had been called many things— loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a... ...hape tonight.” “Tut! Come on!” Sam loudly explained to Carol, “Ella is our shark at elocuting. She’s had professional training. She studied singing an... ... cuts of beef were not cuts. They were hacks. Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks’ fins. The meat-dealers shipped their best to the city, with its hig... ... to get chilly here. Let’s run down to Charles- ton and Savannah and maybe Florida. 450 Main Street “A second honeymoon?” indecisively. “No. Don’t ev...

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...d of public schools, whose de- lightful playing fields, noble trees, broad river, and exquisite view of Windsor Castle give it a peculiar charm, joini... ...unday. About half a mile from the town there is a very large meadow by the river, where a small town of booths, tents, &c., is erected, and where shoo... ...m warmth of the semi-tropical winter, chiefly varied by catch- ing a young shark, and contrasting him with his attendant pilot, as the ugliest and pre... ...w- ing rooks, and church towers and Sunday bells, and the bright sparkling river and leaping trout: and the hedges with prim- rose and violet (I shoul... ...t once, and the crew while swimming out had been some of them eaten by the sharks, and others killed by the natives; indeed, there were sixty European... ... Ysabel, called Anudha, but marked in the charts (though not correctly) as Florida. ‘It would weary you if I wrote of all the numerous adven- tures an... ...way with us, without giving me the trouble of taking a swim at all; how at Florida Island, never before reached by us, one out of some eighty men, you... ...hey are talking with perfect freedom, and there- fore idiomatically, about sharks, cocoa-nuts, yams, &c. All translations must fail to represent a lan... ... the right time.’ Savo was then touched at; and the Bishop slept ashore at Florida, and left Mr. Brooke there to the hospitality of three old scholars...

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...h a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’ That very next mornin... ...ar families, ‘Goodbye. I am going to the great grey- green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has f... ... till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.... ...fish for dinner, and Taffy went too. Tegumai’s spear was made of wood with shark’s teeth at the end, and before he had caught any fish at all he accid... ...n draw pictures if I’ve anything sharp to scratch with. Please lend me the shark’s tooth off your necklace.’ The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) di... ...Taffy put up her little hand and pulled at the beautiful bead and seed and shark-tooth necklace round his neck. The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara)... ...on the fallen trees and the still water, and they became the Everglades in Florida, and you may look them out on the map. Then he went South and found...

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...led in the wake of the ship, to the great satisfaction (I must say) of the sharks. Small craft radiated in all directions round the Abraham Lincoln as... ...ry harpooner, “what do you suppose they eat here? Tortoise liver, filleted shark, and beef steaks from seadogs.” 42 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea “We ... ...ng upon my credulity? The future would decide that. CHAPTER XIII THE BLACK RIVER THE PORTION of the terrestrial globe which is covered by water is est... ... equal to about the quantity of water which would be discharged by all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years. During the geological epochs t... ...spot where the given latitude and longitude crossed. The sea has its large rivers like the continents. They are special currents known by their temper... ...- teringly by. My blood froze in my veins as I recognised two formi- dable sharks which threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creature... ...round the sub- merged vessel, and in one instant I read on the stern— ”The Florida, Sunderland.” CHAPTER XVIII VANIKORO THIS TERRIBLE SPECTACLE was th... ...warm water known by the name of the Gulf Stream. After leaving the Gulf of Florida, we went in the direction of Spitzbergen. But before entering the G...

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...lowed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through it from end to end; and h... ... and threw a sudden flare over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering pro... ...t without danger to a boat so badly ballasted as ours; and we crept over the river in the darkness, trailing one paddle in the water like a wounded du... ... form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are f... ...ible lands; as the gull, who wings safely through the hurricane and past the shark. Yet we should not be forgetful of these hardships of the past; and... ...hich flow from the existence of these large landholders – land-thieves, land-sharks, or land-grabbers, they are more commonly and plainly called. Thus...

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...ith the boy and her nerves, trying to find out what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He ... ...in’ we make here- 18 Captains Courageous fishin’. The men’ll be back like sharks after a dead whale in ha’ af an hour.” “What for?” said Harvey . “Su... ... s the packet that can beat them all. “Now the Dreadnought she lies in the River Mersey , Because of the tug-boat to take her to sea; But when she’ s ... ... week later the two nearly upset the Haitie S. in a wild attempt to stab a shark with an old bayonet tied to a stick. The grim brute rubbed alongside ... ... and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany to Boston. Indispen... ... the heat of the hills as they turned east to the Needles and the Colorado River. The car cracked in the utter drouth and glare, and they put crushed ...

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...ders. Bridgefield House stood on the top of a steep slope lead- ing to the river Dun, with a high arched bridge and a mill below it. From the bridge p... ...s had stone walls separating it from the paddock, which sloped down to the river, and was a good deal broken by ivy-covered rocks. Adjoining the stabl... ...m buildings and barns, for there were several fields for tillage along the river-side, and the mill and two more farms were the property of the Bridge... ...thed a thanksgiving as her husband read, and he forbore to tell her of the sharks, the tornadoes, and the fevers which might make the tropical seas mo... ...ffe rising white from the waves, of phosphorescent seas, of storms, and of shark-catching. Supper over, the audience again gathered round the young tr... ...tion had taken place, he had been laid low with fever during the attack on Florida by Sir Francis Drake’s little fleet; and the return to England had ...

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...on Mifflin, 1900. 2 JACK LONDON life. You should have seen the chase, down the river and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the ... ...e. And well it might; for it was just midnight, and seventy five miles of rough river trail was not to be sneered at for a twelve hours’ run. The talk ... ...that ’s a stiff two hundred miles. Watch out for open water on the Thirty Mile River, and be sure you take the big cut off above Le Barge.” “How did y... ...uadalcanar, skirted halfway along it, and crossed the Indispensable Straits to Florida Island. It was here that they killed the San Cristoval boy, sav... ...g!” was his comment, when he surveyed the damage he had wrought. The skin of a shark is like sandpaper, but the skin of a ray fish is like a rasp. In t... ... piled high with the bodies of the slain, consigned to Vera Cruz, food for the sharks of the bay. Again he crawled over the grisly heaps, seeking and ... ...water glass. “There will be no more bites for a while,” he announced. “The fish sharks are prowling around, and we shall have to wait until they are go...

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...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ...wenty Years.....................................539 Orange Buds by Mail from Florida....540 Twilight............................................540 Yo... ...ith eidolons only. The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities, like eyesight, ... ...exican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or o... ... steam ship trails hind ways its long pennant of smoke, Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water, Where the half burn’d brig... ... of pine, Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull’d off a live oak in Florida as it hung trailing down, Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and... ...–Whitman 178 BOOK X OUR O LD F EUILLAGE Always our old feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always t... ...urface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes, The leaden eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea leopard, and the sting ray, ... ...jail, the horrible, rank, malignant, Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute; (What is the part the wicked and the loathe...

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....................................................................... 12 Go Sharks! Beth Olexa ........................................................... ...and have done my part to protect it. In 1998 I took part in the Lackawanna River 2020 program. Its ultimate goals were to rid the river of debris and ... ...nd edu- cate the population of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania about our major river’s importance to our future, essentially to allow our grandchil- dren ... ...uture, essentially to allow our grandchil- dren the same access to a clean river that we’ve had. I have also taken part in the Nay Aug Park Restoratio... ...scuba diving with her husband (who could imagine her being married?) and a shark bit off her husband’s foot. She would tell the story as if she were p... ... a trillion kind of something. I recently heard that she has moved back to Florida to pursue her career as a marine biologist. I only have one thing t... ...pursue her career as a marine biologist. I only have one thing to say, “Go sharks!” Go Sharks! 14 Beth Olexa Argumentation and the Use of Details The ...