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...The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape by the unusual means of hijacking a balloon. The five are Cyr...

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... a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and Girls is a retelling of Homer’s Iliad, centred around the events of the siege of Troy during the final year. (Summary by Lizzie Driver)...

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...riseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy....

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... Book VI The Visit to the Underworld Book VII War in Latium Book VIII The Site of Rome Book IX The Siege Book X The Relief and Battle Book XI Councils of War Book XII The Death of Turnus...

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...ur and burning flesh took my nose hostage but for some reason, I stood and watched the horror with my feet grounded defensively. The invaders took siege of the bush holding their torches as they continued to set it ablaze. I went round and saw people being butchered by the invaders, anyone that jumped out of the burning bush was instantly killed. The sight was awful and...

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...The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of...

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...ahad was gotten or born, there came in an hermit unto King Arthur upon Whitsunday, as the knights sat at the Table Round. And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was void. Sir Arthur and all the knights answered:...

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...sunday, as the knights sat at the Table Round. And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was vo... ...ir Arthur and all the knights answered: There shall never none sit in that siege but one, but if he be destroyed. Then said the hermit: Wot ye what is... ...gotten, and this same year he shall be gotten that shall sit there in that Siege 4 Thomas Malory Perilous, and he shall win the Sangreal. When this h... ... Wit you well, Sir Bors, that this child is Galahad, that shall sit in the Siege Perilous, and achieve the Sangreal, and he shall be much better than ...

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...n Is Our Soul's Left Hand...) To the Countess of Bedford (You Have Refin'd Me...) To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Julyers To the Countess of Bedford (T'have Written Then, When You Writ...) To the Countess of Bedford On New-Years Day To the Countess of Huntingdon (Man to God's Image; Eve...) To M(r.) I(zaak) W(alton) To M. T...

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...uing months, the news of the spread of the revolt - the occupation of Delhi by the mutineers; the siege of the Residency in Lucknow where many of th... ...ept the worst reports from her. The Residency at Lucknow was relieved by Henry Havelock after a siege of eighty-eight days, and Gavin brought the g... ...ll, gentlemen and ladies,’ said Sir James. To be forewarned is to be forearmed and we know that a siege of the fort is imminent. We will resist unti... ...e will resist until we are relieved. Fortunately, the Emperor Akbar built this fort to withstand siege and its walls are almost impregnable. On one ... ...ead, this moment would be theirs to treasure. The next day was hectic; the fort was preparing for siege. The ramparts were thronged with soldiers, c... ...use of the low rainfall that summer, it was not as full as they would have wished, but before the siege started, the soldiers had taken mules to the... ... obvious that Prince Ali had succeeded in overthrowing his father and brother. The morning saw a siege train of heavy artillery being hauled by pala... ...nes, so it is anyone’s guess when the Punjabi relief force will arrive.’ Now, after two weeks of siege, rationing was introduced, one main meal a d... ...ents to the skin, soon brought the little patients back to health. It was the fourth week of the siege when the reason for the apparent inaction of...

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... man. “I was actually just passing by when I saw that the place was under siege. I’m always looking for a good reason to waste some Grand Army goons... ...when she got of the exit to see that the Seekers had already begun to lay siege to the mall. From the air and land they were pressing the rebels. Sh... ... of their scouts was spoted by a Seeker S&D squad. Now the base was under siege. The Seekers who had discovered them wasted no time report- ing what ... ...Those fools can’t remain down there forever.” “No, but we don’t need this siege to drag out. I am handling this personally. It’s time to test the ho... ...ics store from the high- way, but he didn’t like what he saw. It was under siege by a Seeker S&D squad. “Dammit, what the hell is this!?” Vincent cu...

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...with the heavily armored phalanx taking up the front, the cannoneers behind them, and the siege engines taking up the rear. Alaj knew the element o... ...ments affixed to the gates. Their weapons were drawn and ready to fire. Beyond the gates, siege weapons rolled out, coming into full view of the ad- ... ...ineries were instantly obliterated. Splinters of wood and rock flew in every direction. “Siege engines, fire!” Alaj ordered. The King’s army return... ...pults. “Phalanx, rush the gate, use the battering ram!” Traeus called out. “Target their siege engines with our catapults. Cannoneers, give the phal...

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...rrorist bombing of the Ealing school coach, and who was involved in the fire and siege 209 at Brent Valley General Hospital, has now himself be...

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... with their myriad papers. America (specifically New York City) was under siege. The boys gestured the "wei" to him. He saw prayerful hands in ...

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...and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chasse, with the utmost gallantry, but nevertheless ineffectually....

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... revolution. In that revo- lution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp, which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Ch... ...se, with the utmost gallantry, but neverthe- less ineffectually. After the siege Antwerp became quite a show place; and among the visitors who flocked... ...walls of Antwerp. Let the curious in these matters read the horrors of the siege of Troy, or the history of Jerusalem taken by Titus. The one may be f... ...ed to the guide as he detailed to us, in already accustomed words, how the siege had gone. Then we got into the private apartments of the general, and... ...inner bolt, my friend was able to protect himself. “There shall be another siege, at any rate as stout as the last, before I surrender,” said he. As t...

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... 25 years. The main historical events that are addressed are the bloodless occupation of Buda, the seat of the Hungarian kings, in 1541, and the 1552 Siege of Eger (now in Northern Hungary) by the Turks that forms the major topic of the novel. The story also addresses some other historical topics like the impact of the Reformation, the discord between Hungarians and the Ho...

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................................................... 11 CHAPTER I: BEYOND THE SIEGE AND THE RETURN, OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY ACCORDING TO ULYSSES .... ... particular train of thought. ***** 15 CHAPTER I BEYOND THE SIEGE AND THE RETURN, OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY ACCORDING TO ULYSSES ... ...ute and eloquent paper entitled “Oltre l’assedio e il ritorno” {Beyond the siege and the returning}, found on pages 123-133 in the volume of the Act... ...lopment of western literature: the second is that, beyond the theme of the siege and the return, “tertium non datur” {there is no third possibility}... ...rception of nothingness in the end, man has no chance other than to plan a siege on life, or to console himself with the epic of the return to nothi... ...f with the epic of the return to nothingness, after having experienced the siege. I don’t believe that this is the second Homer’s thought, the on... ...cci by saying that this, in my opinion, is the possible alternative to the siege and the return. Clearly, the alternative that I propose comes ne... ... of expectations that assail his life just as the arrogant Suitors place a siege on his house, with Penelope as their accomplice. The Suitors say... ...and especially Penelope’s heart. It took ten years of keeping Troy under siege and then the cunning idea of the wooden horse to be able to break d...

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...l the rest will turn monstrously into Alexander the Greats ordering their sieges of Tyre in Phoenicia in their great pique that they, the Sons of Go...

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...lief Of olives and cypress, breasts, birds, Stinging and perspiration’s siege, Roots climbing out of centuries. P Beauty, the wedding is over a...

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...t ‘em!” “Aye, but does Lord Ranulf want to attack the castle and lay it under siege or give a warning and attack their marketplace?” “I don’t know,... ...peicans wish to launch a surprise attack either on the castle to lay it under siege or to attack the market and kill innocents.” King Patrick grima...

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...Dirkk. “What is your plan?” “To take Cinnard and overthrow Tessa.” “How?” “A siege?” Patrick said. “Hafgan does not store enough wares to feed an army... ...the dragons.” Regan ignored him, continuing to talk to Dirkk and Patrick. “A siege would work. Hafgan is a miser. In a few weeks, he would be willing ...