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...“April 20 th ?” – mused Dan – “That’s 204 or 420, depending on the country. In some regions of the world, the month comes first – in others, the day.... ... organization of former SS officers. They operated after the war mainly In Europe, South America, and the Middle East. They are supposed to have be... ..., others what we would call today war criminals. He wanted safe passage for them to South America, Canada, the Middle East, anywhere out of the reac... ...ost notoriously Juan Peron’s dictatorial regime in Argentina. But he was not alone. Brazil, Paraguay, Chile in South America. Syria and Egypt in the... ...s dictatorial regime in Argentina. But he was not alone. Brazil, Paraguay, Chile in South America. Syria and Egypt in the Middle East – they all vol...

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...friend discovered one of my articles in a magazine he found at a bus stop in Southern California. That article had been published in another state. Bu... ...’s hands. Will I write more cowboy stories? Well, another man, this one from South Dakota, told his wife, after he read Dakota Printer, “That’s the be... ...ry War novel, HOPE IS CONSTANT, won Treble Heart Books Best Historical Book. SOUTHERN COMPLICA TIONS is about the Reconstruction Era in Georgia. Kate... ... Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, grew 171 attached to the region and never moved back. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in En... ...www.RhondaEudaly.com. Catherine Fox: My family and I were missionaries in Brazil for a short time. I worked for seventeen years with handicapped ...

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...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...I don‘t know how true it is but I‘ve read in the popular press that 70% of Brazilian women use artificial contraception.‖ --―Father, I was l... ...of the world's Catholics, but the number of evangelicals is surging. Some Brazilians warn that Brazil could eventually become a Protestant country. S... ...s authorities for advocating the use of condoms to stop HIV transference. Brazilians, like so many other Catholics want to see the Church change its ... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... .... But because this simple basis for happiness was so important, people in southern Asia began making statues of Siddarth Gautama, the Buddha, the en... ...40% Muslim, 30% Orthodox and 15% Catholic in a much more ethnically mixed region. Kosavo was 80% Muslim and about 10% each of Catholics and Orthodox... ...moving everyone in a minority ethnic or religious group from the majority region.‖ ―In the U.S., perhaps because of the influx of people f... ...course all these benefits are paid for by taxes. The maximum national and regional tax in Sweden is 56%, compared with about 43% in the USA. Unlike ...

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...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ...mentioned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South ... ... without feet. Or there is Cato Zahl Pederson who won 13 gold medals in the summer and winter Para-Olympics and skied across Antarctica to the South ... ...refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York or Baghdad, in the wars of Europe, in the slums of Brazil... ...ecords relate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville PART I CHAPTER I. MY RECEPTION ABOARD IT WAS ... ...e mere circumstance, therefore, of a ship like ours penetrating into these regions, was sufficient to cause any reflecting mind to feel at least a lit... ...hing at the mouth?” he continued; “and bless me! look at the abdomen!” The region thus denominated exhibited the most unac- countable symptoms. A low... ...est fruit of the is- lands, and in their greatest perfection. The “Ve,” or Brazil- ian plum, here attained the size of an orange; and the gor- geous “... ... rovers like ourselves, but to penniless people generally. In these genial regions one’s wants are naturally diminished; and those which remain are ea...

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...y crea- ture, from the white whale, the terrible “Moby Dick” of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose ten- tacles could entangle a ship of ... ... and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North. I am portraying this hardy companion as I really knew... ...n, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south. Before eight days were over the Abraham Lincoln would be ploughing t... ...on, I would not bet in its favour. 21 Jules Verne The frigate skirted the south-east coast of America with great rapidity. The 3rd of July we were at... ...ree o’clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extrem- ity of th... ...s to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the north- ern regions of the Pacific. The frigate was then in 31º 15' N. lat. and 136º 42... ...eat displeasure, did not like the neighbourhood of the inhabited coasts of Brazil, for we went at a giddy speed. Not a fish, not a bird of the swift- ...

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...n vain, for the help of those on whom fall the smiles of a kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. ... ...ty-seven consonants and fifty-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants... ...lst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a southern language.” These were very fair conclusions, I thought. “But what ... ...is it not known at the present time that the greatest cold of the ethereal regions is never lower than 40 degrees below zero Fahr.? Why should it not ... ... of a certain church spire situated in the island of Amak, which forms the south-west quarter of Copenhagen. I was ordered to direct my feet that way;... ... my part—” “Oh, M. Liedenbrock, they are all over the country. In this icy region we are fond of study. There is not a farmer nor a fisherman that can... ...es of the world, the leptotherium (slender beast), found in the caverns of Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating beast), found in the ‘drift’ of icecl...

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...took leave of Mrs. George Osborne for a while, and dived down to the lower regions of the house to a sort of kitchen-parlour (occupied by Mr. and Mrs.... ...aid down her knife and fork. The windows of the room were open, and looked southward, and a dull distant sound came over the 60 V anity Fair – V olum... ... neighbouring places on market-days. He drove the family coach-and-four to Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, ever... ...unt, while Mr. Pitt sent peaches and grapes and venison from the Hall. The Southampton coach used to carry these tokens of affection to Miss Crawley a... ...ly was consoling the child. The Colonel’s dressing-room was in those upper regions. He used to see the boy there in private. They had interviews toget... ...his mother.” Sometimes—once or twice in a week—that lady visited the upper regions in which the child lived. She came like a vivified figure out of th... ...ord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expediti... ...there—never was there at all. He was nowhere; he was gone out altogether. “Brazil,” said one gossip to another, with a grin—”Brazil is St. John’s Wood... ...the conversa- tion at dinner, how his dear friend, George Gaunt, liked the Brazils? He and George had been most intimate at Naples and had gone up V e...

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...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ... sit at his breakfast-table, decide between tea from Ceylon or coffee from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealan... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...tellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the... ...ed, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of ... ...lism and hysterical fanaticisms in the valleys of the Semoy and the forest region of the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russ... ...k in America. The weather was stormier than men had ever known it in those regions, with much thunder and lightning and wild cloud-bursts of rain…. CH...

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...ep: his hat was in the hall: there was a hackney-coach standing hard by in Southampton Row. “I’ll go and see the Forty Thieves,” said he, “and Miss De... ...the young 60 V anity Fair ladies in Russell Square. As George walked down Southampton Row, from Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion,... ...n. He was said to be paying his ad- dresses to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, Lord Southdown’s third daughter, and whose sister, Lady Emily, wrote those sweet... ...eyes passed between the other three ladies. The obedient bell in the lower regions began ringing the an- nouncement of the meal. The tolling over, the... ...the strange event, and Firkin, not less moved, dived down into the kitchen regions, and talked of it with all the male and female company there. And s... ...n, save of one only, a little square piano, which came down from the upper regions of the house (the state grand piano having been disposed of previou... ...ord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expediti... ...there—never was there at all. He was nowhere; he was gone out altogether. “Brazil,” said one gossip to another, with a grin—”Brazil is St. John’s Wood... ...the conversa- tion at dinner, how his dear friend, George Gaunt, liked the Brazils? He and George had been most intimate at Naples and had gone up V e...

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...Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quart... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...( we look yet for a time to give confidence to the people in the contested regions that the in- surgent power will not again overrun them. Until that... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ...tant. Pirate Florida captured by the Wachusett October 7, on the coast of Brazil. The information is certain. A. LINCOLN. 213 The Writings of Abrah... ...Nevertheless, unforeseen political difficulties have arisen, especially in Brazilian and British ports and on the northern boundary of the United Stat... ...st assigned to them. In view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and de...

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...re.” Mary Boyne and her husband, in quest of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carrie... ... she had missed him, it was clear that he had taken the shorter way by the south door, instead of going round to the court. She crossed the hall to th... ...range, enchanting, mysterious, leading on the eye and the imagination into regions of fabulous delight. As she gazed, her heart beat with a soft and r... ...on.” Mrs. Roby, returning to Hillbridge from a prolonged sojourn in exotic regions—the other ladies no longer took the trouble to remember where— had ... ..., she had seen the book at her brother’s, when she was staying with him in Brazil, and had even carried it off to read one day on a boating party; but... ...er indignantly; “but I keep them in my husband’s dressing-room.” From this region, after some difficulty and delay, the parlour- maid produced the W-Z... ...ed slowly toward the expectant group. “It’s a river.” “A river?” “Y es: in Brazil. Isn’t that where she’s been living?” “Who? Fanny Roby? Oh, but you ... ...ume. “It’s the only XINGU in the Encyclopaedia; and she has been living in Brazil,” Miss V an Vluyck persisted. “Y es: her brother has a consulship th...

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...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...d lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a different one. There are good, patriotic me... ... our new home about the time that State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I ... ...sented itself in this country, that I have said anything publicly within a region of country where the institu- tion of slavery exists, I will take th... ...This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in other word... ...l regiments from that State. Probably they should come from the triangular region between the Ohio and Wabash Riv- ers, including my own old boyhood h...

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..., and for the most part, like the hunted generations of wolves in the same regions, leaving comparatively few successors; which would seem cause for u... ...ural Scenery is Evinced in the Case of The Missourian, Who, in View of the Region Round-About Cairo, has a Return of his Chilly Fit AT CAIRO, the old ... ...astle recreant? No, but unbeknown to them, the enemy stole on the castle’s south side, its genial one, where Suspicion, the warder, parleyed. In fine,... ... fellow wears it.” “And who of my fine-fellow species may you be? From the Brazils, ain’t you? T oucan fowl. Fine feathers on foul meat.” This ungentl... ...o be readily accounted for. But Indian rapine having mostly ceased through regions where it once prevailed, the philanthropist is surprised that India... ...sive removals with their families, at last established themselves near the south- ern frontier of the Bloody Ground, Kentucky: ‘They were strong, brav...

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...hafts that have been made in connection with an ex- tension of the railway southward. It is protected from the intrusion of the public by a hoarding u... ...ssion did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement. Scientific ... ...seemed but a pale yellow ghost of itself, hanging huge in the sunset. In a South African City a great man had married, and the streets were alight to ... ...wind blew now with its rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia, and Brazil, and down the St. Lawrence val- ley, it shone intermittently through... ...g population of their valleys. And along the coast of Argentina and up the South Atlan- tic the tides were higher than had ever been in the memory of ... ...nd flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew its food supply from regions ten thousand miles away—” The man with the white face paused. I gla...

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...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...at Seagate from the sequelae of snake-bite, malaria, and a gun accident in Brazil. She ran away with him, and she was divorced. She was, however, unab... ...to the ends of the earth. She became sick with de- sire for the forests of Brazil, and the Pacific, and—a peak in Darien. Immediately the school was f... ...etween the absolutely impossible and the altogether pos- sible there’s the region of risk. Y ou think a man ought to take that risk—” He reflected. “I... ...aps of London and books about London. He made plans to explore its various regions. He tried to grasp it all, from the conscious picturesqueness of it... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...ting up, and the clustering excitements of the late hours. And he went out southward and eastward into gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew n... ...ments of the late hours. And he went out southward and eastward into gaunt regions of reeking toil. As yet he knew nothing of the realities of industr...

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...m a widow! 97 Balzac “I have had one passion, once have been happy—a rich Brazilian—who went away a year ago—my only lapse!—He went away to sell his ... ... could the world have to say? It knew nothing of the former episode of the Brazilian, Monsieur Montes de Montejanos—it could say nothing. Besides, the... ...but she hurried to the door, ex- claiming: “My cousin!” and as she met the Brazilian, she whispered: “You are my relation—or all is at an end between ... ...ve me, do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have l... ...y love that you may require.” “Well, then, to-night—” “But you, son of the South, my splendid jaguar, come ex- pressly for me from the virgin forest o... ...r- haps not be lost on some artists. Intellectual work, labor in the upper regions of mental ef- fort, is one of the grandest achievements of man. Tha... ...y on account of the perpetual miracles wrought by true love in the sublime regions of the spiritual world. The woman who loves is, in relation to the ... ... by the shifting of the centre in Paris life—henceforth transferred to the region be- tween the Bourse and the Madeleine, now the seat of the politica...

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...ns, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil are all of them also in America. Or else we have to call them Virgin... ...ve the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany ... ...m and Lorraine because of the stra- tegic and economic importance of those regions to Germany, and he was arguing that before we English got into such... ...tewardship. For an unchecked fragmentary control of tropical and cha- otic regions, it substitutes the possibility of a general author- ity. And this ... ... (2) Shipping and international trade; and (3) Small nationalities and all regions in a state of political impotence or confusion? It is our case agai... ...he New Statesman. Then a kind of illustrative gesture would be made to the South American republics, although the in- ternal disturbances of the South... ...every side. Consider, moreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does could be discharged at ...

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...tion to American slavery which they now bear to the slavery of Cuba or the Brazils,” is a statement, in a few words, which contains the result and the... ...ginal, Negro stock. If the friends of “Caucasus” choose to claim, for that region, what remains after this analysis—to wit: combination—they are welco... ... give that hate telling effect. Women—white women, I mean—are IDOLS at the south, not WIVES, for the slave women are preferred in many instances; and ... ...rrible peculiarities, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in ... ...slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so com- pletely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolition... ...dge, and persecuted because I was feared. I was the only slave now in that region who could read and write. There had been one other man, belonging to...

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... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” —Ulloa’ s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the impor-... ...is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” — Baron Cuvier. “In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of Ma... ...g, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this e... ...which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of the world,... ... all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions. Mean- while, the whale he had struck must also have been on its tr... ...ory (AS TOLD AT THE GOLDEN INN) T he Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great h... ...gs that you do those of *That part of the sea known among whalemen as the “Brazil Banks” does not bear that name as the Banks of Newfound- land do, be...

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...’s mother, the milliner, and William had made a party to the Art Museum at South Kensington, I think. Anyhow, Jane had calmly but firmly accosted them... ...e through the sky- light. The patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to th... ... He seemed to take my measure. “I was in the East Indies two years, and in Brazil seven. Then I went to Madagascar.” “I know a few explorers by name,”... ... in the same direction. Presently it came up over the horizon again to the south-westward about. The afterglow of sunset was well over now and the dim... ... to- wards a point between Orion’s belt and sword; and the void about that region opened vaster and vaster every second, an incredible gulf of nothing... ...he firm, undeviating footsteps that he never overtook, in groping into new regions of this endless devil’s dyke, in clambering up and down the pitiles... ...ssion did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any very great excitement. Scientific ... ...wind blew now with its rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia, and Brazil, and down the St. Lawrence val- ley, it shone intermittently through... ...s promotion had been romantic and irregular, the affections of a prominent Brazilian lady and the captain’s liq- uid eyes had played a part in the pro...

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..., No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled. Brazil? He twirled a button, Without a glance my way: “But, madam, is there... ... each year leads her daisies back, Recording briefly, “Lost.” But when the south wind stirs the pools And struggles in the lanes, Her heart misgives h... ...y, But overlooked my father’s house, Just quartering a tree. XXXVIII SOUTH winds jostle them, Bumblebees come, Hover, hesitate, Drink, and are g... ...thy chamber is,— I ’m knocking everywhere. Thou stirrest earthquake in the South, And maelstrom in the sea; Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Hast thou n... ...peared, When but a little child,— Supposed they visited remote, Or settled regions wild. Now know I they both visited And settled regions wild, But di...

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... reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square mil... ...e Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its ter... ...e even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south- east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist archi- tectur... ...heaped up the products of a commerce which extends to Mexico, Chili, Peru, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and all the Pacific islands. Passepartout, in his joy... ... and the travellers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming. The railway track wound in and out... ...les of the Humboldt Range, and half-past nine when it penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake, the sin- gular colony of the Mormons. 126 A... ... for the banks of the Great Salt Lake, where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their wa...

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...ternoon he had carried her books home for her. I do not know if this story will be plain to southern readers; but to me it recalls many a school idyll... ...ties. And the workman dwells in a borderland, and is always within sight of those cheerless regions where life is more difficult to sustain than worth... ...f stimulating details—vast cities that grow up as by enchantment; the birds, that have gone south in autumn, returning with the spring to find thousan... ...nd grey- brown ploughlands and white roads, was like going three whole days’ journey to the southward, or a month back into the summer. I was sorry to... ...n and seen it take wing and disappear. The wild swan in question was now an apoth- ecary in Brazil. He had flown by way of Bordeaux, and first landed ... ...les and be repeatedly caned in public, and now this fourth, perhaps, to be an apothecary in Brazil. As for his old father, he could conceive no reason...

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...Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately trav- elled; and the light upon the window of... ... those shelves; and for days and days I can remember to have gone about my region of our house, armed with the centre-piece out of an old set of boot-... ...ely) the spikes on the opposite wall. As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure stree... ...the boatmen first, and received various answers. One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, tha... ...rden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall. There were two great aloes, in tubs, on the turf outside the wi... ... myself live but to be united. Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder? They are not expressive of affection, ... ...nd brilliant scen- ery, were so dazzling, and opened up such il- limitable regions of delight, that when I came out into the rainy street, at twelve o...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all t...

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...qual opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, And representative of all th... ...to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 5 ... ...ve in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The second dr... ...n his blind eye. But worst of all is nausea, or a pain About the lower region of the bowels; Love, who heroically breathes a vein, Shrinks... ... done. Now go and dine from off the plate Presented by the Prince of the Brazils, And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from...

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...attaining to the condition of Thinking. In the North, life is long; in the South, it is shorter; but in the North we see torpor, in the South a consta... ...t-nipped in the bud; but they will, perhaps, find the flowers expanding in regions far above the highest places of the earth. “Paris, September-Octobe... ...azes our eyes in the zoological world when we compare the butter- flies of Brazil with those of Europe, is even more startling in the world of Mind. A...

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... on the 5 Thackeray 22nd of August, the “Lady Mary Wood” was sailing from Southampton with the “subject of the present memoir,” quite astonished to f... ...lete, and which, if perfect, might outvie the Tower of Babel. The mines of Brazil must have been productive of gold and silver indeed when the founder... ...e box of wood and iron, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTAR SUPPOSE ALL T... ...and the shops where ready-made jackets and pelisses were swinging, and the region where, under the ragged awning, regi- ments of tailors were at work.... ...population, which, according to the Sacred Histories, was crowded into the region, these mountain steps may have been gardens and vineyards, such as w... ...over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Morai. The histories which they are called upon to reverence are ...

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...ned by a com- parison. A traveller wearied with the rich aspects of Italy, Brazil, or India, returns to his own land and finds on his way a delightful... ...le society of the Marais, the faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the circumjacent regions. Elisabeth never wore anything but cotton gowns in sum- mer and mer... ... only esteemed. Fleury, as you will have guessed already, was a 85 Balzac Southerner, destined, no doubt, to become the responsible editor of a liber... ... Hungary, or it may be Austria—” Bixiou. “T yrol, the Basque provinces, or South America. Why don’t you set it all to music and play it on the clarion... ...ated, because it shows how great ideas are allowed to perish in the higher regions of State affairs, and in what way statesmen console themselves. Des...

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...c Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Transactions’ con- tain... ...tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have publishe... ... and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, in his great work... ...asing effect to the nearer parts of the scen- ery. BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29th. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, howev... ...ings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitic... ..., and I shall then have occasion to remark on it. Along the whole coast of Brazil, for a length of at least 2000 miles, and certainly for a considerab... ...tation, certainly appeared in much fewer numbers than in our own temperate regions. I was much surprised at the hab- its of Papilio feronia. This butt... ...thorns, which seem to warn the stranger not to enter on these inhospitable regions. The settlement is situated eighteen miles up the river. The road f... ...arm mineral springs — the wide expanse and depths of the ocean — the upper regions of the atmosphere, and even the surface of perpetual snow — all sup...

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...much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabit- ants of South America, and in the geological rela- tions of the present to the past... ... they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. The savages in South Africa match their draught cattle by colour, as do some of the Esquim... ...and how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant w... ... long-con- tinued action of different physical conditions in two different regions; but I have not much faith in this view; and I attribute the passag... ...statements of the rate of increase of slow-breed- ing cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in Australia, had not been well authenticated, ... ...which will suffer most. When we travel from south to north, or from a damp region to a dry, we invariably see some species gradually getting rarer and... ...ul collection of fossil bones made by MM. Lund and Clausen in the caves of Brazil. I was so much impressed with these facts that I strongly insisted, ... ...gigantic birds of New Zealand. We see it also in the birds of the caves of Brazil. Mr. Woodward has shown that the same law holds good with sea-shells... ... have become wholly extinct, and have left no progeny. But in the caves of Brazil, there are many extinct species which are closely allied in size and...

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...tates a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pag... ...in Rich- mond, V a., who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty... ...t which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the “Southern Literary Messenger,” a monthly magazine, published by Mr. Thomas W... ...ion of my adventures, from facts afforded by myself, publishing it in the “Southern Messenger” under the garb of fiction. To this, perceiving no objec... ...g- gest. The representations of Peters, who had frequently vis- ited these regions, had great weight, apparently, with the muti- neers, wavering, as t... ...h him respecting the Pacific Ocean, and the islands he had visited in that region. He asked him whether be would not like to go with the mutineers on ... ...ree Cape V erds and steered southwest, stretching over toward the coast of Brazil, so as to cross the equator between the meridians of twenty-eight an...

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...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...that the plane was “flying erratically . ”A minute later, Flight 11 turned south. American also began getting identifications of the hijackers, as Ong... ...ht—Delta 1989—that in fact was not hijacked.At 9:19, the FAA’s New England regional office called Herndon and asked that Cleveland Cen- ter advise Del... ... at the FAA’s 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers. They are grouped under regional offices and coordinate closely with the national Air Traffic Contr... ...r Defense Sector (NEADS) NORAD Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis Center New Y ork Center FAA Air... ...ommunity after Y ousef ’s arrest, visiting the Sudan,Y emen, Malaysia, and Brazil in 1995. No clear evidence connects him to terrorist activities in t... ...pt to meet with Bin Ladin. But KSM did see Atef, who gave him a contact in Brazil. In January 1996, well aware that U.S. authorities were chasing him,... ..., he traveled to China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bosnia (a second time), Brazil, Sudan, and Malaysia. Most, if not all, of this travel appears to ha...

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...s, are altogether new markets. New Granada, the Yucatan, Paraguay, and the Brazils, were, before discovered by the Europeans, inhabited by savage nati... ...hat if we were to judge of the quantity of gold annually imported from the Brazils to Lisbon, by the amount of the tax paid to the king of Portugal, w... ...the other. The tax, in- deed, of the king of Portugal upon the gold of the Brazils, is the same with the ancient tax of the king of Spain upon the sil... ...ow one of Great Britain. The value of the greater part of the lands in the southern counties of Scotland, which are chiefly a sheep country, would hav... ...7 10d. In pursu- ance of the 8th George I. c.21, the bank purchased of the South- sea company, stock to the amount of £4,000,000: and in 1722, in cons... ...tal sufficient to im- prove and cultivate all their lands. The wool of the southern coun- ties of Scotland is, a great part of it, after a long land c... ...tries which lie round the Mediterranean sea, to that with the more distant regions of America and the West Indies; from which the returns are necessar...

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...dic- tate a gambler’s “Yes” or “No.” The glow of fire and gold was on that southern face. Some seven or eight onlookers stood by way of an audience, a... ...e of various lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, his fancy fled to the hot tawny south of Italy. He was present at Borgia’s orgies, he roved among the Abruz... ...the footprints of a mammoth. These forms stand erect, grow large, and fill regions commensurate with their giant size. He treats figures like a poet; ... ...te women’s forms should grace that night! I would be borne away to unknown regions beyond the confines of this world, by the car and four-winged steed... ...ssed in their bliss; handsome Normans, with splendid figures; women of the south, with black hair and well-shaped eyes. Lebel might have summoned toge... ...ity and alarm. Here was the affection that I had looked for in the glacial regions of the great world, true affection, unostentatious but tender, and ... ...- able aunt, la Marquise de Montbauron. “‘I would sooner take ship for the Brazils, and give the Indians lessons in algebra, though I don’t know a wor...

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...te caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- risk are all asway with the south-west wind that was also blowing yesterday. M. Blériot has done very w... ...ising sons, who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly be... ...y, to be profitable to move great multitudes of workers seasonally between regions where work is needed in this season and regions where work is neede... ...themselves with a minimum of loss and a maximum of facility into any other region that proves more attractive. In America politi- 19 H. G . Wells cal... ...hods and traditions is leading us towards grave dangers, intensi- fies. In South Africa the Boers taught us in blood and bitter- ness the obvious fact... ... of prominent politicians in the days before Mr. Chamberlain’s return from South Africa and the adoption of T ariff Reform by the Unionist Party; and ... ...ments that the bulk of the irksome toil is to be found. There remain large regions of more specialised and individualised production that many Sociali... ...t) a bank in New Zealand, a railway in Cuba, another in Canada, several in Brazil, an electric power plant in the City of Westminster, and so on, and ...

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...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ...the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether the people of that settlement... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...inhabited country between the two was. The extent of our territory in that region depended not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempt... ... and, it seems to me, the difficulty is cleared. One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [Mr. Rhett] very much deprecates these statistics. He partic... ...the continent which we could ac- quire, if we except some extreme northern regions which are wholly out of the question. In this state of affairs the ... ...ding in slaves between foreign countries, as, for instance, from Africa to Brazil. In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two slave-State laws in ...

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... and lived in a style of luxury which alarmed all speculative suitors in a region and at a period when sons were as calculating as their parents. The ... ... alone know how to distinguish be- tween the diamonds of Asia and those of Brazil. The stones of Golconda and Visapur are known by a whiteness and gli... ...teness and glit- tering brilliancy which others have not,—the water of the Brazilian diamonds having a yellow tinge which reduces their selling value.... ...ins, and said, in a mumbling tone:— “ A good many Portuguese diamonds from Brazil are among them. They are not worth more than a hundred thousand to m... ...heir gossip with other valets spread the information, which from the lower regions rose to the ears of the masters. The attention of soci- ety, and of... ...s thus constituted the north wind drives away the clouds as rapidly as the south wind brings them; they stop at effects and never hark back to causes....

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...ten, in regard to French patois— leaving out of count the languages of the South—that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are bu... ...loyed. But there is no need why these researches should be extended to the region of fancy . Gargantua has been proved by some to be of Celtic origin.... ... to the bum-gut and the rest the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains. And think not that the felicity of the her... ...f Onyx, and with cruel piracies molest all the Armoric Islands and confine regions of Britany. Yet was he in a set naval fight justly taken and vanqui... ...nibus libri tres. The Entrance of Anthony de Leve into the T erritories of Brazil. (Marforii, bacalarii cubantis Romae) de peelandis aut unskinnandis ... ...all the diversity of precious stones that are to be seen in the orient and south parts of the world. Let nothing of all these be hidden from thee. The... ...know not what of the west and occident of my time, and signifieth that the south and meridian of mine age is past. But what then, my gentle companion?...

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...ne? VALENTINE. He doesn’t want his rent at all. He’s broken his tooth on a Brazil nut; and he wants me to look at it and to lunch with him afterwards.... ...McCOMAS (making a fresh effort to lead the conversation into dispassionate regions). If I may be allowed to change the subject, Miss Clandon, what is ... ...make me do such a silly thing, Finch! I haven’t danced since the soiree at South Place twenty years ago. GLORIA (peremptorily at Valentine). Get up. (...

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...ORD PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEU- TENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH WALES. MY LORD, THIS T REATIS... ...records of history, hath not navigation discovered, in these later ages, whole nations, at the bay of Soldania, in Brazil, [in Boranday,] and in the C... ...e prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, because he can 233 John... ...count of a common, but much credited story, that I had heard so often from many others, of an old parrot he had in Brazil, during his government there... ...t there was of the first. He told me short and coldly, that he had heard of such an old parrot when he had been at Brazil; and though he believed noth... ... remove differ very little one from the other. There are fishes that have wings, and are not strangers to the airy region: and there are some birds th... ...the original way of knowledge, i.e. by the visible agreement of ideas. Tell a country gentlewoman that the wind is south-west, and the weather lowerin...