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...d. yyyyy Axiana walked to the gardens, which were located behind the Palace, in the southern part of the Royal compound. The eighty-room stone... ...spect of these things and I’m just wondering if the stars on this papyrus could be actual constellations.” She looked at the intricate depiction of ... ...d Bob to run that computer program that can turn back time, so to speak, and show how the constellations we see today Secret of the Sands 61 ...

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...y in their daily lives. Then came a famous planetarium show—‘The Constellations’. ‘A Trip to Mars’, ‘The Star of Bethlehem’ and probably ... ...this side of the lake. My next door neighbor was Strother Martin. He was the Southern prison warden in “Cool Hand Luke” who said to Paul Newman “what...

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...w unpronounceable name of God. Sabaoth was a title perhaps meaning “of the Constellations.” 90. Bible: Isaiah 6: 1-9, author’s translation. THE RELIGI... ... from the traditional custom of “seeing” imaginary shapes, the traditional constellations, amidst the random pattern of stars in the night sky. Jung h... ...ons. The dramatic wet and dry seasons of the tropical north, the temperate southern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coas... ...onial unveiling” of a boy’s masculinity in circumcision. In large areas of southern Australia, circumcision has been un- known, and is said to have sp...

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...gnating direction or point of com- pass : oriental customs, the orientals, southern states, a southerner (but: Northman = Scandinavian); an invasio... ...fic (Latin) names of species; and in astronomical matter, names of stars or constellations: Felis leo, Rosa Carolina; Saturn, Cassiofieia. 62. In r...

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...ing, familiar sounds; through my window I see the Milky Way and the great constellations and I am aware God is affirming his handiwork. VOICES FRO... ...ing was a bitter one. Yes, it is true Mary has relatives fighting for the Southern cause. So has Gen- eral Grant and other officers. Does this imply ... ... South. VOICES FROM THE PAST 588 As the war continues I learn that Southern railroad cars lack windows for lack of factory labor. House glass... ...ve Mansion October 2, 1864 An officer has given me a war diary kept by a Southern soldier, Fred Parker, corporal. Rain has soaked its pages; pages ... ... he still has a home. The black who has fought for the North may find his Southern neighbors have become enemies. The black who has found a meas- ure... ...de little or no provision for the wounded. Our hospitals are in- adequate. Southerners will return to their farms with little more than the horse tha...

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...he Hunter, Taurus, the Bull, Aquarius, the Water Bearer and all the rest of the constellations. As the blue sky faded into darker and darker hues, R... ...meant. Most of his attitudes about L.A. were formed by colleagues who had left Southern California and settled in the Seattle area for a slower lif... ...n minute stops for gas, coffee, and the rest room. The Senator had asked in his Southern gentlemanly style, to get him there fast. Matthew's job was...

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...s ill.” But then my doctor was, perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a countr... ... population, counting by the voters, is 1500, and of these 700 were in the Southern army. The place had been made a hospital for Northern soldiers, an... ...wn as Alexandria? And then out of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have foun... ...ssissippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, an... ...not that the Northern men thought that they were to be beaten, or that the Southern men feared that things were going bad with their party across the ... ...ed that society in Washington had been almost destroyed by the loss of the Southern half of the usual sojourners in the city. The Senators and mem- be...

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...penetrating look, and the vi- vacity which characterises the population of Southern France. The second stranger merits a more detailed descrip- tion. ... ... that the commander and his companion were born in low latitudes. There is southern blood in them. But I cannot decide by their appearance whether the... ...h, a third in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at ... ...s that would shine in some hours’ time. The moon shone in the midst of the constellations of the zenith. The night slipped away without any mischance,... ... of the world. He did nothing of the kind, but continued on his way to the southern regions. Where was he going to? To the pole? It was madness! I beg... ... the northern only, and as much in Behring as in Davis Straits.” “Then the southern whale is still unknown to you. It is the Greenland whale you have ... ...e last gleams of twilight were melting into night. The cold was great, the constellations shone with wonderful intensity. In the zenith glittered that...

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...revaricating city.? ?That has an unflattering sound for me,? said the young man. ?I pretend not to prevaricate.? ?Dear me, what?s the good of being a Southerner?? the lady asked. ?Olive told me to tell you she hoped you will stay to dinner. And if she said it, she does really hope it. She is willing to risk that.? ?Just as I am?? the visitor inquired, presenting himself wi...

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...ng man. ‘I pretend not to prevaricate.’ ‘Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?’ the lady asked. ‘Olive told me to tell you she hoped you wil... ...Ransom replied, with a smile, and the curious feminine soft ness with which Southern gentlemen enunciate that adverb. Mrs. Luna explained that she ha... ...t believe he had ever heard of her, Mrs. Luna, though he pretended, with his Southern chivalry, that he had. She must be off to her dinner now, she sa... ...culiar; the way he spoke told her that it was no wonder he had fought on the Southern side. She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and s... ...ore that her best hours had been spent in fancying that she was helping some Southern slave to escape. It would have been a nice question whether, in ... ...d Doctor Prance to detach herself from the circle and wander forth under the constellations, all of which he was sure she knew. He asked her permissio...

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...all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor’s sense begun the en... ...hole year of more or less hard life before one, because there was hardly a southern-going voyage in the yesterday of the sea which meant anything less... ...as on a gray afternoon in the lull of a three days’ gale that had left the Southern Ocean tumbling 52 The Mirror of the Sea heavily upon our ship, un... ...nd we managed to clear the sunken floe which had come all the way from the Southern ice-cap to have a try at our unsuspecting lives. Had it been an ho... ... and now, when I open an atlas and look at the tiny dots on the map of the Southern Ocean, I see as if engraved upon the paper the enraged physiognomy... ...he great Pacific, rich in groups of islands remote and mysterious like the constellations of the sky. The first impulse of navigation took its visible...

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...eemed to fly Through the abyss of an immense concave, Radiant with million constellations, tinged With shades of infinite colour, ... ...escription of such a voyage. In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a visit to Clifton, he rented a house on B... ... gathering—when with many a golden beam _565 The thronging constellations rush in crowds, Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal f... ...Victory, Victory to the prostrate nations! Bear witness Night, and ye mute Constellations 116 V olume One Who gaze on us from your crystalline cars! ... ... _190 Which pours beyond the sea one steadfast beam, Whilst all the constellations of the sky Seemed reeling through the storm ….They did but s... ...y, And bright Arcturus through yon pines is glowing, _195 And far o’er southern waves, immovably Belted Orion hangs—warm light is flowing From the... ...licate spirit That guides the earth through heaven. From afar The populous constellations call that light The loveliest of the planets; and sometimes ... ... the despair they too generally experienced, founded on contempt for their southern countrymen. While the fate of the progress of the Austrian armies ...

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...n his ear to more melodious harmonies, can seat him on clouds of shin- ing constellations and teach him to question them. The Heart can do still great... ... takes the place of wine and its pleasures,— reserved more exclusively for Southern climes. Certainly nothing proclaimed in her, or in him, a being wi... ...for heaven re-appeared, tender as child- hood. The deeds of his life, like constellations, adorned him with their brightness. His acts of faith shone ...

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...k that already they had pronounced her doom unless perhaps the change to a southern climate could re-establish her declining strength. For me it seems... ...ade head of the remount establishment quartered outside the kingdom in our southern provinces, whence almost all the horses for the Polish cavalry wer... ...sts, Kafirs, soldiers, sailors, elephants, lawyers, dandies, microbes, and constellations of a universe whose amazing spectacle is a moral end in itse... ...ic and at the same time placid in expression, he is a fine specimen of the southerner of the calm type. For there is such a type in which the volatile... ...outherner of the calm type. For there is such a type in which the volatile southern passion is transmuted into solid force. He is fair, but no one cou... ...e pellucid, colourless atmosphere bathing the drab and gray masses of that southern land, the livid islets, the sea of pale, glassy blue under the pal...

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...would be still, dumb, almost invisible—but for the blotting out of the low constellations occulted in turns behind the vague masses of the islets whos... ...der- ing on the earth, held their unswerving course for the passage at the southern end of the group. Some- times there were human eyes open to watch ... ...ern trade of the time. Why, that new route re- duced the average time of a southern passage by eleven days for more than half the year. Eleven days! I... ...wn open. He’s wise, I think. These good times won’t last for ever.” In the southern hemisphere Captain Whalley’s daughter had no presentiment of evil ...

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...e heavens, with different mountain-tops along the sky-line and differ- ent constellations overhead. We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which ... ...r a scent; and sometimes not until, one fine morning, he wakes up with the southern sunshine peeping through the persiennes, and the southern patois c... ...armony of faint colour that is always characteristic of the dress of these southern women, will come borne to him unexpectedly, and awake in him that ...

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...en in the cry drawn from her by pain. Eugene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. In his figu... ...uccess should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by t... ...at the Bouffons, in my own house.” With the impetuosity of his adventurous southern temper, he did all he could to cultivate an acquaintance with this... ...before him. The time seemed long; he would have left the house but for the southern tenacity of purpose which works miracles when it is single-minded.... ...me had all the power of a fairy’s wand; those closed compart- ments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac’s care- fully drilled faculties r... ...hausee- d’Antin to enter this seventh heaven and shine among the brightest constellations of their sex. But his cautious disposi- tion stood him in go...

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...uspense, and the star rose not. Once again men set their eyes upon the old constellations they had counted lost to them forever. In England it was hot... ....’ “And though we presently saw a squadron of aeroplanes flying across the southern sky we did not heed it. There it was—a line of little dots in the ... ...d the clusters of phantom white mallow flowers and through the thickets of southern-wood and lav- ender, and knee-deep across a wide space of mignonet...

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...g Stages of London were collected together in an irregular crescent on the southern side of the river. They formed three groups of two each and retain... ...w him was one of the big windvanes of south-west London, and beyond it the southernmost flying stage crowded with little black dots. These things seem... ...n the bars he looked upon the wind-clear north- ern sky and saw the starry constellations all unchanged. Capella hung in the west, Vega was rising, an... ...gazing towards the glaring stage. Then his eyes went back to the northward constellations. 176 When the Sleeper Wakes For a long time he was silent. ... ... it? The man in yellow was pointing to two aeropiles driving upward in the southern sky. No doubt they were looking for the coming aeroplanes. That—pr...

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...s third quarter crept into view over the rim of her disc. I looked for the constellations. Only that part of Aries directly behind the sun and the Lio... ...my life—notably a dagger-shaped group 119 H.G . Wells that I knew for the Southern Cross. All these were no larger than when they had shone on earth,... ...l at last a thousand years was but a moment in my perception. At first the constellations had shone motionless against the black background of infinit... ... me at most, few nearer, travelling with unimagin- able rapidity, shooting constellations, momentary darts of fire, through that black, enormous night... ...out. They were recognisably the same as those we see, arranged in the same constellations. Mr. Cave recognised the Bear, the Pleiades, Aldebaran, and ... ...uspense, and the star rose not. Once again men set their eyes upon the old constellations they had counted lost to them for ever. In England it was ho... ....’ “And though we presently saw a squadron of aeroplanes flying across the southern sky we did not heed it. There it was—a line of little dots in the ... ...d the clusters of phantom white mallow flowers and through the thickets of southernwood and lavender, and knee-deep across a wide space of mignonette....

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...rs of Heaven, now seen in their old haunts— White Sirius glittering o’er the southern crags, Orion with his belt, and those fair Seven, 245 Acquaintan... ...ids, so to represent 340 Their knowledge of the heavens, and image forth The constellations—gently was I charmed Into a waking dream, a reverie That, ...