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...very and a sullied self-image was easily forgotten. There were imitation mountains and waterfalls all around. He swam to the opposite side of the po... ...memories of Kumpee and their parents incessantly driven toward chasing any scheme that would put a few extra coins in their hands; Kazem's secondhand ... ... "What's in Canada, Nawin? It's got a few walking snowmen but what else? Snowy landscapes and cold temperatures good for penguins. When someone thi... ... of the desks, and to scrutinize wanton little individuals prepossessed of schemes for cheating that could improve their chances of getting good grade...

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...imate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL%... ...cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation,... ...ers ; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; ... ...e size of Washington, D.C. Land boundaries: 105 km total Climate: temperate; snowy, cold winters with cool, dry summers Terrain: rugged mountains diss... ...ion; sparse natural water resources Special notes: largest water development scheme in world being built to bring water from deep wells under Sahara D... ...km total Climate: temperate, but varies with alti- tude; cold, cloudy, rainy/snowy winters; cool to warm, cloudy, humid summers with occasional shower...

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...cross my belly. “Now, I know,” I say to him. “You know what?” “That you schemed with Pittakos, to have me exiled, with Alcaeus.” “What?” “After a... ... ancients, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...snowy peaks...whispering groves...the hunting cry...” Warming my feet on a... ...d we have talked far into the night: “He liked a gold cup...he liked the mountains...he liked the cove...yes, he went farther out to sea than anyon... ...those who have died. Dreaming, I counted our island, our town, our trees, mountains and sea. I added my home. However childish to enumerate like thi... ...g in the vineyards. The blue of the Jordan flashed through oleanders. The snowy top of Hermon sent out a string of flamingos. At Cana, Mother greete... ...e was tall and stately and wore a dark blue robe. His hair and beard were snowy white...” It was a harsh journey into Egypt, some of the time withou... ...her said. “Rome is the great insti- gator of crimes. The Kittim! Political schemes are hatched in the Forum with the wild beasts. Rome appoints a gov... ...ient trees, uprooted trees, torn to pieces by the fury...the fragments of mountains must spill into valleys...immensity must burst the barrier of riv... ...t, cheered by the Puritans! We worried over money, badgered, confronted, schemed. We placated the constabulary and loved the annuncios—the children!...

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...or another. Sung Ki lit a cigarette and sat on a balcony that overlooked the mountains and rice patties of Umsong. After a few more moments of silence... ...d (encounters both sexual and cultural). Large buildings were like the small mountains of Umsong with a topping of cloud on a rainy day--monuments of ... ...m to its domain that edified and exhilarated his appetites and his love. The mountains, until recently, transported his imagination to green blankets ... ...that her word choice was rather masterful although she wondered if the rhyme scheme wasn't a bit excessive. "Gabriele. Will you play checkers with me... ...hings to do than argue with you about things so boring and irrelevant to the scheme of things. The boy's already one year behind his peers. Being le... ...She felt that she was without a similar peer in the world and that from some snowy mountaintop closer to the sun she was peering onto the world and de... ... thing." They spent the second day of the honeymoon in a rented car going up snowy, mountainous hills through forests of dangling icicles as thick as ... ...disconnection -- not really. What did her disconnection matter at all in the scheme of things, anyway? When she asked this question she was not able ... ... be had was their own burial. She was at last leaving the pine trees and the snowy slopes where she had once skied with Kato and her husband. She was ...

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...y night, no matter how cold or hot it is, and eat cooked food; when there are mountains of fresh vegetables and fruits and nuts available that do no... ...to our origins? Now it is buried under 53 million years of soil erosion and mountains of sand. It was the one place in Africa during the Age of V... ...s the destruction of Life. The earth, the ground, the valleys and plains and mountains cannot be separated from the eco-systems they are in and sepa... ... from others; and accumulating it and concentrating it. The oldest pyramid scheme ever invented is the concept of profit. In order to have more t... ...o on it. You aren’t a good consumer unless you are part of their advertising schemes. Just as you were not a good European in the Middle Ages unles... ..., it will explode, as it did in 2010 with illegal credit default swaps. Ponzi schemes, false debt. Do the math: and try to figure out how much mone... ... Water forced high up into the purest, cleanest air… until the clouds become snowy white… but when they descend lower: they become gray in color. ...

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...Excerpt: Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for suc...

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...e he thus speaks:— “Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work tha... ...e calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. When he had left the mountains and received On his smooth breast the shadow of those towers I... ...sions parcelled out and all With crosses and with cyphers scribbled o’er, We schemed and puzzled, head opposed to head In strife too humble to be name... ...res, when the winning forms 50 Of Nature were collaterally attached To every scheme of holiday delight And every boyish sport, less grateful else And ... ...ther skill prevailed Or happy blunder triumphed, bursts of glee Made all the mountains ring. But, ere night fall, 165 When in our pinnace we returned ... ...hat book upheld as with maternal care 560 When she would enter on her tender scheme Of teaching comprehension with delight, And mingling playful with ... ...mountains for its neighbours, and in view 655 Of distant mountains and their snowy tops, And thus proceeding to Locarno’s Lake, Fit resting place for ...

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... pride, on the part of the aggressor. Now whoever will please to take this scheme, and either reduce or adapt it to an intellectual state or commonwea... ... hardly have countenance to bear you out in boasting of either. Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials ... ... into stars. Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot fling ers from the snowy mountains of RhÆtia. There came a vast body of dragoons, of different... ...stars. Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot fling ers from the snowy mountains of RhÆtia. There came a vast body of dragoons, of different natio... ... – Swift 16 a malignant deity called Criticism. She dwelt on the top of a snowy mountain in Nova Zembla; there Momus found her extended in her den, u... ...ealth, or exer cise, he scours along, wishing to meet some tiger from the mountains, or a furious boar; if chance a wild ass, with brayings importune... ...nt about thirty six hours sooner than it hap pened; but upon reviewing my schemes, I quickly found the cause of that error. I likewise foretold the B...

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...I was still greatly exer- cised, I spent some vacillating months, over the scheme of this book. I tried first a recognised method of viewing ques- tio... ... ultimate mean- ing of the personal life, and all our Utopias no more than schemes for bettering that interplay. At least, that is how life shapes its... ...er, a universal tongue would serve you there. While I sit here among these mountains—I have been filing away at them for this last aeon or so, just to... ...gic, the systems of counting and measure- ment, the general categories and schemes of resemblance and difference, are established for the human mind f... ...t would be pleasant for us to do so; but as we come down from these lonely mountains to the roads and houses and living places of the Utopian world- s... ...atus, to mark unfamiliar trees and plants and flowers and beasts, to climb mountains, to see the snowy night of the North and the blaze of the tropica... ...ar trees and plants and flowers and beasts, to climb mountains, to see the snowy night of the North and the blaze of the tropical midday, to follow gr... ...deeply sunburnt, and suddenly there passes before my mind the picture of a snowy moun- tain waste at night-fall and a solitary small figure under the ...

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...d the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into b... ... how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Ocean, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative ... ...at were left in the city and went back to where even now they dwell on the snowy tilths of Thrace. Do ye therefore stay and settle with us; and should... ...ll. For by her power the winds and the sea and all the earth below and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she... ...elow and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronos, g... ...eyes glared on him, like to a lion struck by a javelin when hunters in the mountains are hemming him round, and, though pressed by the throng, he reek... ... daughter of Zeus, give ad vice. What must be done? Wilt thou devise some scheme whereby they may seize the golden fleece of Aeetes and bear it to He... ...thou didst ask me outright. But not yet do I think that I have conceived a scheme to aid the cour age of the heroes, though I have balanced many plan... ...y might vent forth in ruin their grievous insolence, for all their haughty schemes. For never would he have welcomed the Aeolid Phrixus as a guest in ...

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...y on her own authority, into the texts of 1839; nor has it come within the scheme of this edition to record every conjectural emendation adopted or pr... ...revented our mutual explanation, has unfortunately rendered my 23 Shelley scheme abortive. I do not doubt but that on some other oc- casion he will p... ...orning rise, Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread Its shadowy mountains on the sunbright sea, Where the loud roarings of the tempest-wave... ... progress, or create That peace which first in bloodless victory waved Her snowy standard o’er this favoured clime: _425 There... ... _140 And Persia, and the wild Carmanian waste, And o’er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and e... ...ious paradise, O Sleep? Does the bright arch of rainbow clouds And pendent mountains seen in the calm lake, Lead only to a black and watery depth, ... ...it the colours of that varying cheek, _600 That snowy breast, those dark and drooping eyes. The dim and horned moon hung lo... ...hospital, _615 The patriot’s sacred couch, the snowy bed Of innocence, the scaffold and the throne, A mighty voice invokes... ...r arms _365 With the strange might of unimagined pains The powers who scheme slow agonies in Hell, And my commission is to lead them here, Or wha...

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...palm towards the imaginary warmth, and talk over 7 Hawthorne our exploded scheme for beginning the life of Paradise anew. Paradise, indeed! Nobody el... ... a value that lurks not in the most ponderous realities of any practicable scheme. They are not the rubbish of the mind. Whatever else I may repent of... ...o them. His heart, I imagine, was never really interested in our socialist scheme, but was forever busy with his strange, and, as most people thought ... ... at length, I saw that the storm was past, and the moon was shining on the snowy landscape, which looked like a lifeless copy of the world in marble. ... ...ging for at least a temporary novelty. I thought of going across the Rocky Mountains, or to Europe, or up the Nile; of offering myself a volunteer on ...

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... the arithmetical measure of the verse, and the degree of regularity in scansion, we see the laws of prosody to have one common purpose: to keep alive... ...of the ages. It may be told us in a carpet comedy, in a novel of adventure, or a fairy tale. The scene may be pitched in London, on the sea-coast of B... ...ent in its place, and a pillar in the main de- sign. Nothing would find room in such a picture that did not serve, at once, to complete the compositio... ...he mason chooses the acanthus to adorn his capital, because they come naturally to the accustomed hand. The old stock incidents and accessories, trick... ...ted year I came to live with my father and mother at Kinnaird, above Pitlochry. Then I walked on the red moors and by the side of the golden burn; the... ...., with whom he was to stay. A hearty welcome, a face not altogether changed, a few words that sounded of old days, a laugh provoked and shared, a gli...

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...s castled steep, And T weed’s fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot’s mountains lone; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates wh... ... now—for now are still Thy bowers, untenanted Bowhill! No longer, from thy mountains dun, The yeoman hears the well-known gun, And while his honest he... ...en, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake’s crystal edge; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink; And just a trace of silver san... ...re; And mark the wild swans mount the gale, Spread wide through mist their snowy sail, And ever stoop again, to lave Their bosoms on the surging wave:... ...e, 37 Sir Walter Scott And wheeling round the giant’s grave, White as the snowy charger’s tail Drives down the pass of Moffatdale. Marriott, thy h... ...d when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan. 68 Marmion The noon had long been passed before They gain... ...arvel deem That Marmion’s paramour (For such vile thing she was) should scheme Her lover’s nuptial hour; 144 Marmion But o’er him thus she hope... ... sit, and deeply brood On dark revenge, and deeds of blood, Or wild mad schemes upreared. My friend at length fell sick, and said, God would rem...

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... calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. When, having left his Mountains, to the Towers Of Cockermouth that beauteous River came, 290 Be... ...derer then In the high places, on the lonesome peaks 340 Where’er, among the mountains and the winds, The Mother Bird had built her lodge. Though mean... ...nd embark’d. 385 The moon was up, the Lake was shining clear Among the hoary mountains; from the Shore I push’d, and struck the oars and struck again ... ...ions parcell’d out, and all With crosses and with cyphers scribbled o’er, We schemed and puzzled, head opposed to head In strife too humble to be name... ...ures, when the beauteous forms Of Nature were collaterally attach’d To every scheme of holiday delight, And every boyish sport, less grateful else, An... ...In her great school—with further view, perhaps, To enter early on her tender scheme Of teaching comprehension with delight And mingling playful with p... ...ith mountains for its neighbours, and in view Of distant mountains and their snowy tops, And thus proceeding to Locarno’s lake, 590 Fit resting place ...

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...underer blackens all the skies, And the winds whistle, and the surges roll Mountains on mountains, and obscure the pole. The tempest scatters, and div... ...s, and burning in his breast “O shame to manhood! shall one daring boy The scheme of all our happiness destroy? Fly unperceived, seducing half the flo... ...; There sate all desolate, and siqhed alone, With echoing sorrows made the mountains groan. And roll’d his eyes o’er all the restless main, Till, dimm... ...s a radiant zone embraced With flowers of gold; an under robe, unbound, In snowy waves flow’d glittering on the ground. Forth issuing thus, she gave h... ...the following day: Then swell’d to sight Phaeacia’s dusky coast, And woody mountains, half in vapours lost; That lay before him indistinct and vast, L... ...ease. There no rude winds presume to shake the skies, No rains descend, no snowy vapours rise; But on immortal thrones the blest repose; The firmament... ... whirling spindle glow’d With crimson threads, while busy damsels call The snowy fleece, or twist the purpled wool. Meanwhile Phaeacia’s peers in coun... ...ved the deep design: ’T was for our lives my labouring bosom wrought; Each scheme I turn’d, and sharpen’d every thought; This way and that I cast to s... ...olent: his unknown guest With hunger keen devours the savoury feast; While schemes of vengeance ripen in his breast. Silent and thoughtful while the b...

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...man’s; a splendid forehead, furrowed by the strong median line which great schemes, great thoughts, deep meditations stamp on a 18 Albert Savarus gre... ...d. At the climax of the pleasure the poor unoccupied man derived from this scheme, Rosalie said, as she kissed him, “Above all, do not tell mamma who ... ... the streets; for a moment she had felt as though her mother must read her schemes on her brow, and forbid her going to confession, and she now felt n... ...uelen offer every combination that the most exacting fancy can de- mand of mountains and rivers, lakes and rocks, brooks and pastures, trees and torre... ...s in Switzerland. They offered him a bedroom looking over the lake and the mountains, and from whence he had a view of one of those immense sweeping r... ...ure, so vast in its expanse, so rich in detail, where the sternness of the snowy peaks and their hard folds standing clearly out against the blue sky,...

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...n hills.’ ‘No, it is hard on Hampshire downs to compare them to Cumberland mountains.’ ‘But it is so sunny and beautiful,’ said the bright young bride... .... Mr. Moss was the person universally given up to reprobation. ‘A thorough schemer,’ said the Irish captain. As to the Miss Mosses, they were lady-lik... ... in this temper. I’ll go and see what I can make of her ladyship. What new scheme have they for John? Rickworth, eh?’ He was soon at his mother’s side... ...of fantastic forms, gorgeous masses of American plants, the flaming or the snowy azalea, and the noble rhododendron, in every shade of purple cluster ... ...- tions must be high, if she is not satisfied; one comfort is, the Brogden scheme is only John’s and papa’s. My aunt can’t bear it, because it seems q... ...; then, how pretty the country, and, thereupon, Violet said it only wanted mountains to be beautiful. ‘Ah! when one has once seen a mountain one canno... ...nxiety had left deep traces on her worn face, and had turned her hair to a snowy whiteness; her frame was fragile, and the melancholy kindness of her ... ...y dreamily, figur- ing to herself Arthur enjoying himself on the moors and mountains, till Helvellyn’s own purple cap came to brighten her dreams. CHA...

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...d Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire. It being the winter vacation at his college, Eustac... ...et charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences. They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype them 5 Hawthorne selv... ...e same strong impression, repeated day after day. A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines ... ...ting against his life. He therefore made little or no objection to Medea’s scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the y... ... dear sister were really leaving them for ever. And what do you think the snowy bull did next? Why, he set off, as swift as the wind, straight down t... ...reacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europa between them, stretchi... ...le, through their tears, until they could no longer distinguish the bull’s snowy head from the white capped billows that seemed to boil up out of the ... ...eart, and the head that knew how to rule. While they were talking of these schemes, and beguiling the tediousness of the way with laying out the plan ... ...r may set sail and escape.” 80 TanglewoodTales As nobody objected to this scheme, Ulysses proceeded to count the whole band, and found that there wer...

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...that soft rainy climate, on that wild-wooded rocky coast, with its gnarled mountains and green silent val- leys, with its seething rain-storms and man... ... earliest scene of it, had faded away from him: Bute also, with its shaggy mountains, moaning woods, and summer and winter seas, had been wholly a dis... ...ng only one range of moun- tains to it, if even one: certainly the central Mountains of Wales do gradually rise, in a miscellaneous manner, on the nor... ...xcellent discernment: who knows how long he had repressed the unreasonable schemes of his followers, and turned a deaf ear to the temptings of fallaci... ...him haggard and iron-bound; flatly refusing to be handled according to his scheme of it. No Spanish soldiery nor citizenry showed the least dispositio... ...traces of attempts towards Anti-Slavery Philanthropy; shadows of extensive schemes in that direction. Half-desperate outlooks, it is likely, towards t... ... her too shocking nudity; and shame Flushed from her heart o’er all the snowy frame: *Pp. 7, 8. 188 The Life of John Sterling And, struck from ...

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... We will make merry in that pleasant bower. Till the foundations of the mountains fail My mansion with its arbour shall endure, —The joy of the... ...Many a long look of wonder, and at last, Risen from his seat, beside the snowy ridge Of carded wool—which the old Man had piled He laid his impl... ...uding poem of a series of pastorals, the scene of which was laid among the mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland. I men- tion this to apologise for... ... so had fared Through twenty seasons; but he had been rear’d Among the mountains, and he in his heart Was half a Shepherd on the stormy seas. ... ...on, nor ever lost, And to the Bridge they came. They follow’d from the snowy bank The footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank, A... ...brighten’d. The Old Man was glad. And thus resum’d. “Well I Isabel, this scheme These two days has been meat and drink to me. Far more than we h...