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...Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over the ownership of the ranches, which the farmers had leased from the railroad nearly ten years ...

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...e of Haya. Because of the force of circumcision and rolling up, man’s soul sloughs the impure force, and the soul can receive the perfection of Ohr H... ...hut with the Light of AV I, called “holy”) has passed over him. Since the sloughed desires (Orla) are cast away, the impure force sees that it is gi...

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...at when they come to verse 4 th , they already find themselves in an impassable slough. § 2. B OTH prophets say, that in those times whereof they sp...

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...shoulders, or like a 143 of 263 Interview With The Future snake sloughs its skin. He no longer acts by the calculation of what will be goo...

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...exposure of fat • Crater-like ulcers appearing on the skin • Appearance of slough or yellowish dead tissue at the bottom of the wound • Spreadin... ...Stage IV • Large scale tissue loss at the site of the ulcer • Appearance of slough or eschar, which is dark, crusty and dead tissue at the bottom o... ... which tissue from the endometrium—the lining of the uterus—which should have sloughed off during a menstrual period instead migrates and implants on...

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...A way we stole, and transient in a trice From what was left of faded woman-slough To sheathing splendours and the golden scale Of harness, issued in t... ... up warriors! See now, though yourself Be dazzled by the wildfire Love to sloughs That swallow common sense, the spindling king, This Gama swamped in...

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...ed, and should be con- taminated to all eternity if I put my foot in these sloughs where go these shameless hussies. A man’s wife is one thing, and hi... ... to laugh. “Never mind,” said he. “I have a means of plunging you into the sloughs of three brazen hussies, as you call them.” “Never, while I live.” ... ..., to shake off this devil in long robes. Then he was quiet, falling into a slough under the feet of the advocate, whom he recognised through the mists...

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...ound it are all unfin- ished; and it is approached through seas of mud and sloughs of despond, which have been contrived, as I imagine, to lessen, if ... ...w a stranger visiting them would declare that they are wallowing in a very slough of despond. The only trade open is the trade of war. The axe of the ... ...on of the government, I might be considered cynical; but undoubt- edly the sloughs of despond which were deepest in their despondency were to be found...

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...shioned road, which, preferring ascents to 64 Chronicles of the Canongate sloughs, was led in a straight line over height and hollow, through moor an... ...teith in one drove; and how he placed the laird of Ballybught na- ked in a slough, for having threatened to send for a party of the Highland Watch to ...

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...y man who was not a paludier. The horrible aspects of these marshes, these sloughs, the mud of which was systematically raked, the dull gray earth tha...

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...n their hair of murders, Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander, T reading blood from lungs that had...

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... ewe suddenly put off and abjure her own nature, in a service of love—yes, slough it as com- pletely as ever serpent sloughed his skin. Her lamb had f... ...s, (for even four horses could scarcely extricate the chaise from the deep sloughs which occasion- ally seamed the road through tracts of two or three...

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...tty almost child’s head thus distracted, the delicate foot mincing in this slough of blood and dirt, were types of the disjointed time. This was the C... ...d the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. The agony of our impatience is then so great, that in our wi...

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...r a dream of good: God, if that were enough? If to feel, in the ink of the slough, And the sink of the mire, V eins of glory and fire Run through and ...

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...I hear my bones within me say, ‘Another night, another day. ‘When shall this slough of sense be cast, 5 This dust of thoughts be laid at last, The man...

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...e them; and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; ... ...ubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the letter. Cast thy humble slough, says she; be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let th...

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... Even the limp-legged beggar a sick desperado has flattered Back to a half-sloughed life cheered by the mere human tone. 27 George Meredith Poem: Alt... ...but the coward in us! That way lies The wisdom making passage through our slough. Am I not heard, my head to Earth shall bow; Like her, shall wait to...

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...ied, “before the end of this evening, I will hunt that murderer out of the slough in which he is hiding.” Every day, before our eyes, a moral phenomen...

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...te gan his herte colden, Seyng his frend in wo, whos heuynesse His herte slough, as thoughte hym, for destresse. This woful wight, this Troilu... ... mayden free, 1475 That with his manhod, er he wolde stente, This boor he slough and hire the hed he sente. "Of which as olde bokes tellen vs, ... ...processe al by lengthe. She tolde ek how Hemonydes asterte Whan Tideus slough fifty knyghtes stoute; She tolde ek alle the prophecyes by herte... ...t eyther brother, Ethiocles and Polymyte also, At a scarmuche ech of hem slough other, And of Argyues wepynge and hire wo, And how the town wa... ...s I kan heere; But weilawey, saue only goddes wille, 1805 Despitously hym slough the fierse Achille. And whan that he was slayn in this manere...

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... heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to Eton. The air and the sleep had both refreshed me; but I was wear... ...ther cause to complain, for I now hasten to its close. In the road between Slough and Eton I fell asleep, and just as the morning began to dawn I was ...