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"When shall this slough of sense be cast, This dust of thoughts be laid at last, The man of flesh and soul be slain And the man of bone remain?" "Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die." "Make some day a decent end, Shrewder fellows than your friend. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die." "Now, you see, they hang me high, And the people passing by Stop to shake their fists and curse; So 'tis come from ill to worse." The star filled seas are smooth to night From France to England strown; Black towers above the Portland light The felon quarried stone. | 7090 | 7090_91801_000039_000000 | male |
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Suddenly the nightingale up in the thicket becomes silent, stops in the middle of its highest trill, and begins to snarl. As she does so, she feels as if an eel were winding its pliant body round her chest. He is now lying outstretched in midday drowsiness, enjoying the great peace that rests on the lake. The otter, with a newly caught fish in its mouth, had been on its way out to a little island, intending to have its meal under a sallow, when it was suddenly attacked and robbed of its prey. The certainty of booty fills them all. | 7959 | 7959_109185_000007_000000 | female |
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These proved, however, to be the tracks, not of enemies, but of friends. Along the main shore, in spots where the sun lay warm, the spring fisheries had already begun, and the melting snow was uncovering the acorns in the woods. They had set guards: but these, it seems, were drowsy or negligent; for the ten Iroquois, watching their time, approached with the stealth of lynxes, and glided like shadows into the midst of the camp, where, by the dull glow of the smouldering fires, they could distinguish the recumbent figures of their victims. In the forests far north of Three Rivers dwelt the tribe called the Atticamegues, or Nation of the White Fish. | 4335 | 4335_15081_000013_000002 | male |
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Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke. On a fair Saturday afternoon in November Penrod's little old dog Duke returned to the ways of his youth and had trouble with a strange cat on the back porch. His head was proudly up; he was the incarnation of menacing power and of self confidence. He stared insanely. Seemingly this left gave Duke three lightning little pats upon the right ear, but the change in his voice indicated that these were no love taps. | 4519 | 4519_80189_000007_000006 | female |
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Fagin appeared to receive this communication with great interest. 'That ain't no word for it. A diseased governor? What's your name?' Fagin followed up this remark by striking the side of his nose with his right forefinger,--a gesture which Noah attempted to imitate, though not with complete success, in consequence of his own nose not being large enough for the purpose. I'm coming to it! Those are the lights of London.' | 497 | 497_129325_000044_000000 | male |
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He also proceeded as far as Samaria, where is now the city Sebaste, which was built by Herod the king, and encompassed it all round with a wall, and set his sons, Aristobulus and Antigonus, over the siege; who pushed it on so hard, that a famine so far prevailed within the city, that they were forced to eat what never was esteemed food. And when he asked them why they so hated him, and what he should do in order to appease them, they said, by killing himself; for that it would be then all they could do to be reconciled to him, who had done such tragical things to them, even when he was dead. | 3289 | 3289_171107_000025_000003 | male |
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The Dutch saw also, but at too great a distance to shoot them, buffalos, stags, and ostriches, and from a single nest they obtained ten ostrich eggs. When he had realized a small sum, which was increased by the sale of a vessel bequeathed to him by his first master, he made more extended voyages; he visited the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Guinea, and laid out all his capital in purchasing a cargo which he hoped to sell in the West Indies. At the same time, to long wars succeeds a peace, destined to endure throughout the reign of Elizabeth, so that a great number of adventurers know not how to find indulgence for their love of violent emotions. | 7926 | 7926_254949_000003_000000 | male |
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The Huntsman pitied the poor Old Woman, put his hand in his pocket, and made her a present according to his means. "It's a lonely road, you know," he called after me. . . . Why not? She told the girl how he had got it, and at last said: 'If you don't get it from him, it will be the worse for you.' I had played-I had done. The Witch had no suspicions, and her mouth so watered for the new dish, that she went to the kitchen herself to prepare it. Indeed I gripped his arm and shook him. I had awakened. | 6877 | 6877_79973_000004_000000 | male |
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'The promise shall be kept. 'Better-much better!' replied Oliver, hastily. Her words and manner had touched Rose Maylie's heart; and, mingled with her love for her young charge, and scarcely less intense in its truth and fervour, was her fond wish to win the outcast back to repentance and hope. 'Tell them to fetch a hackney coach, and be ready to go with me. 'I did,' replied mrs Maylie; 'but, on reflection, I determined to keep back the letter until I had heard mr Losberne's opinion.' | 114 | 114_129324_000071_000001 | female |
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Her pallor struck him then, even as the red spot on her cheek deepened, and he held out his arms for the child. She was not thinking, only looking, seeing into the past and down the long vista of her future. Shown that long, empty gallery resounding with those aged footsteps, and the pictures-pictures-pictures-of men and women who had once been babes like her little son and David's, now dead and gone-not one soul among them all to greet her. She had tried to find him, her David, and had been shown the dead, and the glory of the dead-all past and gone-her David's glory. Why, what was it to him what place she asked for? | 5290 | 5290_26685_000035_000001 | female |
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At last, after blundering about like this for many days, getting their clothes torn and their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the King's back garden by mistake. He came strolling down the gravel walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding. When they began to settle on the sands, along the ropes of the ship-anywhere and everywhere except the trees-the Doctor could see that they had blue wings and white breasts and very short, feathered legs. Then the ends of these strings were tied on to the front of the ship; and the swallows took hold of the strings with their feet and flew off, pulling the boat along. | 101 | 101_126859_000011_000000 | male |
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The streets of the Latin quarter, filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of their dream. SENATOR VEST'S EULOGY ON THE DOG. It exudes from the heart wood where wounds have been made by forest fires or the ax, and forms irregular, crisp, candy like kernels of considerable size, something like clusters of resin beads. When fresh it is white, but because most of the wounds on which it is found have been made by fire the sap is stained and the hardened sugar becomes brown. At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed. Rules for Riding. | 597 | 597_134789_000016_000001 | female |
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Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak. Don Quixote went over and unhooked Sancho, who, as soon as he found himself on the ground, looked at the rent in his huntingcoat and was grieved to the heart, for he thought he had got a patrimonial estate in that suit. | 3180 | 3180_138043_000033_000007 | male |
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Leaving the old mare to ruminate upon this eccentric proceeding, he advanced a pace or two, and dropped down upon his knees. But Fort was content for a while to merely watch Mona, who was driving. Zeb took no notice of these grotesque demonstrations; but, once more bending over the prostrate form, proceeded to complete the examination already begun. "Whose care?" What kin they be? They air more like the claws o' a tom cat. thirteen There was a determined, purposeful ring about it which was altogether unlike his usual reckless tones. You know it already. It was the former he intended to reach-which he did in a ride of less than a quarter of an hour. | 4586 | 4586_61776_000052_000000 | male |
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Frost-which of course is but frozen dew-at this season of the year will form on a still autumn night, although the atmosphere at some distance above the ground is some degrees above the freezing point. "Now, why couldn't you have done that long ago, you addlepated old fool," he said mildly to Netteke. It was as familiar to the ancients as it is to us, and yet it is only about three quarters of a century since the cause of it has been understood. Everyone has noticed that at certain times in the year the grass becomes wet in the evening and grows more so till the sun rises the next day and dispels the moisture, and this when no cloud is seen. | 5809 | 5809_58763_000012_000005 | female |
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VINCENT remained two years in the house of Father de Berulle, in the hope of obtaining permanent work. The incident made a lasting impression on both Vincent and the Countess. "I should like my children to be saints rather than great noblemen," said Madame de Gondi when she presented the boys to their tutor, but the prospect seemed remote enough. To meet this necessity Vincent inaugurated a kind of guild for young priests who desire to live worthy of their vocation. They were the forerunners of those "Sisters of Charity" who were in after years to carry help and comfort among the poor of every country. | 7981 | 7981_112056_000003_000000 | male |
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In defense of his course, Jack referred to the treatment which he had received while in servitude under his old master, in something like the following words: "I served under my young master's father, thirty five years, and from him received kind treatment. William and one of the accommodating Captains running on the Richmond and Philadelphia Line, to the effect that he, William, should have a first class Underground Rail Road berth, so perfectly private that even the law officers could not find him. Andrew was about twenty four years of age, very tall, quite black, and bore himself manfully. | 8183 | 8183_282977_000006_000003 | female |
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The graver Covenanters, while they applauded the fervour of their riotous brethren, were apprehensive that proceedings so irregular might give scandal, and learned, with especial concern, that here and there an Achan had disgraced the good cause by stooping to plunder the Canaanites whom he ought only to have smitten. But this proclamation, not being supported by troops, was very little regarded. For nothing disgusted the rigid Covenanter more than the reverence paid by the prelatist to the ancient holidays of the Church. That such reverence may be carried to an absurd extreme is true. They were for the most part strongly attached to the Church established by law. | 1323 | 1323_149236_000006_000003 | male |
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The Countess made an involuntary sign of denial, but her face had grown white and drawn with the struggle to maintain the composure that she did not feel, and no tremor was lost on the merciless prosecutor. The old merchant's sympathetic glances sustained the mistress of the house through this ordeal; with wonderful strength of mind, she underwent the curious scrutiny of her guests, and bore with their trivial prosings. In spite of difficulties, the Countess had maintained her independence with considerable skill until the day when, by an inexplicable want of prudence, she took occasion to close her salon. | 3851 | 3851_9210_000077_000000 | female |
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if on they rusht, repulse Repeated, and indecent overthrow Doubl'd, would render them yet more despis'd, And to thir foes a laughter; for in view Stood rankt of Seraphim another row In posture to displode thir second tire Of Thunder: back defeated to return They worse abhorr'd. | 1811 | 1811_129443_000007_000002 | male |
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"Well," said I, "I trust we shall not fall in with him again. She was fearfully close, but appeared to be at the moment sheering away from us. We had found the day dreadfully tedious, cooped up as we were in our low cabin, and a meal was a most welcome break in the monotony. "Honest going merchant ships ain't so plaguy careful of their spars as that chap-leastways, not such small fry as he is. | 5776 | 5776_46889_000051_000000 | male |
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But if Araujo had no map to guide him, his experience served him more surely, and it was wonderful to see him unraveling the chaos, without ever turning aside from the main river. The pirogue was filled with these interesting amphibians, and they arrived just in time for breakfast. Minha was flying aft, pursued by the monster, who was not six feet away from her. Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture? | 2012 | 2012_139356_000051_000000 | male |
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To which of the stages of language does this belong-the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist? It surprised me to see these enormous gate ways, made of great masses of stone, some of which were thirty feet long, fifteen high, and six thick." But its remains exist to day, the marvel of the Southern Continent, covering not less than twenty square miles. When the wave of fire was going over us, a tidal wave of the sea came out from the shore and did the rest. | 5239 | 5239_32139_000053_000004 | male |
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In November, previous to William's escape, her long looked for dissolution took place. If you can, I will pay the expense of the whole. These they expected, but all were overcome, and they reached the Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia safely, and were cordially welcomed. FIRST LETTER. In this sad case, the slaves could imagine no other fate than soon to be torn asunder and scattered. The fact was soon made known that the High Sheriff had administered on the estate of the late mistress; it was therefore obvious enough to William and the more intelligent slaves that the auction block was near at hand. | 8183 | 8183_282977_000021_000000 | female |
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He saw before him a garden of such splendor and magnificence as he had never dreamed of even in his wildest fancy. Here have I been coming to this place seven months, and have never yet thought to try whether yonder door was locked or not!" "Nothing is easier," said Zadok. "I have come," said Zadok, "and first let me cure thy smarts, O master." Behind the slaves stood a double row of armed men, and behind them a great crowd of other slaves and attendants, dressed each as magnificently as a prince, blazing and flaming with innumerable jewels and ornaments of gold. When the crowd that stood waiting saw the young man appear, they shouted: "Welcome! | 5975 | 5975_54006_000041_000000 | male |
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He removed the cloths from the young man's back, and rubbed the places that smarted with a cooling unguent. There was a key of brass in the door. Instantly the beautiful slave dropped the golden basin upon the stone floor, and began shrieking and tearing her clothes. The young man opened the door of adamant and entered the first of the vaulted rooms. "Tell me, Zadok," cried the young man; "I command you to tell me, where is that wand of silver and gold?" He led the way, and the young man followed, filled with wonder and astonishment. All the city was shrouded in gloom, and everywhere was weeping and crying. | 5975 | 5975_54006_000007_000000 | male |
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"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton." With lips that brim with laughter But never once respond, And feet that fly on feathers, And serpent circled wand. thirty eight You smile upon your friend to day, To day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. THE DAY OF BATTLE And like the cloudy shadows Across the country blown We two face on for ever, But not we two alone. " 'tis long till eve and morn are gone: Slow the endless night comes on, And late to fulness grows the birth That shall last as long as earth." | 7090 | 7090_91801_000043_000000 | male |
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This is recognized of late by writers that perhaps do not fully mark its significance to economic theory. The increased demand resulting from the cheapening of a product may call for more workers than were employed before the new machinery came in, and yet some of the former workmen may be thrown out of employment. As it becomes possible to expend more for food, the change is made in quality, variety, flavor, rather than in quantity. Planters and seeders, reapers, harvesters, corn shellers, hay loaders, automatic unloading forks, elevators, water power, steam, and gasoline engines allow great economies. CHAPTER eighteen | 7825 | 7825_258970_000026_000002 | male |
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All that is requisite, continued Yorick, is to apprize Didius, and let him manage a conversation after dinner so as to introduce the subject.--Then my brother Toby, cried my father, clapping his two hands together, shall go with us. Weigh out four pounds of flour, and rub three pounds and a half of it with four ounces of butter, four beaten eggs, and a couple of tea spoonsful of salt. Set the dough in a warm place when risen, mould the dough with the hand into small cakes, lay them on flat tins that have been buttered. Let it remain till lukewarm, then add a tea cup full of family, or half a tea cup of distillery yeast. | 3521 | 3521_175962_000013_000003 | male |
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Moreover, the name of our farm was pure proof; a plover being a wild bird, just the same as a raven is. Before we had finished meditating upon this loose outrage-for so I at least would call it, though people accustomed to the law may take a different view of it-we had news of a thing far worse, which turned the hearts of our women sick. All this was very fierce and fine; and so I pressed for a peaceful corner in the lower dexter, and obtained a wheat sheaf set upright, gold upon a field of green. And from the description of one of those two, who carried off the poor woman, I knew beyond all doubt that it was Carver Doone himself. | 3105 | 3105_163726_000004_000006 | male |
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"But surely papa knows I cannot go to bed without my good night kiss when he is in the same house with me," she said, winding her arms about his neck. I know you need comfort, my poor little pet," he said, taking the offered seat, and passing his arm round her waist. If there were any gauge by which to measure love, I know not whose would be found the greatest." "I ask no favors from a man who throws the lie in my teeth," muttered Arthur angrily. "Yes, aunt, if she wants to come. "I have no fault to find with you on that score, my dear child," he said tenderly, "but if you can be cheerful, it will be for your own happiness, as well as ours." | 6388 | 6388_64974_000058_000000 | female |
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She pulled a white cambric handkerchief out of her pocket, and took it by one corner in her right hand, to wave it in the dance. She was suffering from a slight feverish chill-the first symptom of the long illness which followed that night. Why did you lock them in? "Why Siberia? The psychological Ippolit Kirillovitch heard this with a subtle smile, and ended by recommending that these remarks as to where Dmitri Fyodorovitch would go should be "included in the case." She really meant it. "Nothing," muttered Mitya, through his teeth. After sternly reprimanding Mitya, he cut short all further inquiry into the romantic aspect of the case, and hastened to pass to what was essential. | 3922 | 3922_715_000090_000001 | female |
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A little reflection will convince the most incredulous that any such dualism as has been fancied to exist in the native religions, could not have been of indigenous growth. The exhibitions of force in nature seemed to them the manifestations of that mysterious power felt by their self consciousness; to combine these various manifestations and recognize them as the operations of one personality, was a step not easily taken. This notion, which has its historical origin among the Parsees of ancient Iran, is unknown to savage nations. No better success attended the attempt of Nezahuatl, lord of Tezcuco, which took place about the same time. | 6993 | 6993_83607_000015_000000 | male |
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"Not a bit," said Tom. | 4846 | 4846_18524_000087_000000 | female |
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Yesterday was the worst experience of the trip and gave a horrid feeling of insecurity. Did pretty well in the afternoon, marching three and three quarters hours; the sledge meter is unshipped, so cannot tell distance traversed. The old tracks show so remarkably well that we can follow them without much difficulty-a great piece of luck. On discussing the symptoms we think he began to get weaker just before we reached the Pole, and that his downward path was accelerated first by the shock of his frostbitten fingers, and later by falls during rough travelling on the glacier, further by his loss of all confidence in himself. | 3927 | 3927_6557_000021_000003 | male |
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Did our Divine Lord work less efficaciously for the Church when He hung on the Cross than when He preached? saint John Chrysostom says: "When anyone loads you with injuries, close your mouth, because if you open it you will only cause a tempest. It is most necessary for religious, as, not being able to seek comfort abroad, they are obliged to live in the same house, often in the same employment with characters less sympathetic than their own. There are few prayers better calculated to dispose the soul to receive this great grace than the sixteen. and seventeen. chapters of the fourth. | 6499 | 6499_87508_000036_000000 | male |
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For example, it is quite demonstrable that during the making of a simple dash of the Morse alphabet by the neutral relay at the home station the distant pole changer may reverse its battery several times; the home pole changer may do likewise, and the home transmitter may increase and decrease the electromotive force of the home battery repeatedly. An essential part of this relay consists of a swinging PERMANENT magnet, C, whose polarity remains fixed, that end between the terminals of the electromagnet being a north pole. This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained. | 2364 | 2364_131735_000026_000001 | female |
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From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood. Here we are apt to see only the flower stems, heads as it were, without body, stuck promiscuously into a vase. The whole Korin school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we seem to find the vitality of nature herself. One of the greatest schools of painting owes its origin to the tea master Honnami Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer artist and potter. The tea master deems his duty ended with the selection of the flowers, and leaves them to tell their own story. | 868 | 868_131295_000013_000010 | male |
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The latter, it will be remembered, is an element which was known to be in the sun many years before the discovery that it also exists in small quantities on the earth. Toward the north the spectacle was appalling. But neither of the startled observers could have anticipated what was to follow, and, indeed, it was an occurrence which has never been precisely duplicated. To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race. | 2388 | 2388_153731_000011_000002 | male |
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Directly after cutting Grace Harlowe, she had turned her runabout into Main Street, where a billboard had caught her eye, displaying in glaring red and blue lettering the fact that the "Peerless Dramatic Company" would open a week's engagement in Oakdale with daily matinees. "Well, it seems that some of your juniors are still in need of discipline. I know what I am talking about because I used to be just as ridiculous as she is, and knowing what you suffered through me, I can't bear to see you unhappy again over some one who is too trivial to be taken seriously." At Julia's first words Eleanor dropped the small spade she held and straightened up, the picture of defiance. | 6054 | 6054_41614_000025_000001 | female |
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'How sweet the country is, to be sure!' sighed mrs Rogers; 'I almost wish I lived in it always.' mrs Raddle smiled sweetly, mr Raddle bowed, and mrs Cluppins said, 'she was sure she was very happy to have an opportunity of being known to a lady which she had heerd so much in favour of, as mrs Rogers.' A compliment which the last named lady acknowledged with graceful condescension. 'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take care of them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing,' observed mr Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and looking round, 'the country is all very well. | 1265 | 1265_135635_000050_000000 | male |
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Then, whilst tea was being taken away by the women, he turned to his uncle, who, pulling out a pipe from his pocket, sat down by the open door to smoke. 'This is our would be soldier,' said Colonel Graham-'the "button boy," as I hear he is called. First Victories Teddy was upon his feet in an instant, and with a wild whoop and shout he was scudding across the green, his curls flying in the wind, and his little feet hardly seeming to touch the ground. | 7704 | 7704_106965_000044_000001 | male |
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"These Extraterrestrials' Rights Association people are a lot of blasted fanatics, themselves. We're a gang of bloody handed, flint hearted, imperialistic sons of bitches in their book, and anything we say's sure to be a Hitler sized lie." "Then why's Gurgurk been supporting this damned Rakkeed?" Blount wanted to know, hastily interposing a piece. He chain lit another cigarette and stubbed out the old one. "Or sympathetic magic?" "See that head, there?" he asked, rolling it over with his toe. If he could do that, he should have her. "Ritual killing?" he asked. | 3274 | 3274_167022_000043_000001 | male |
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As the aliens were nearly all Democrats, that party insisted on their voting, and the Whigs objected. They spent their money mostly in printer's ink and in the payment of active and zealous colporteurs. The result was a decisive defeat for the slave party. The market was glutted with Illinois bonds; one banker and one broker after another, to whose hands they had been recklessly confided in New York and London, failed, or made away with the proceeds of sales. There are those who can see only envy and jealousy in that strong dislike and disapproval with which mr Lincoln always regarded his famous rival. | 7833 | 7833_102239_000021_000001 | male |
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But now that she had failed she bore her mistress a grudge for not being won over, or at the best was become indifferent to the business, so that she might very readily blab. On this, mr Tebrick, who had let the old woman have most of her management to see what she could make of her, took her back under his own control. But by good luck they walked above four miles across country and saw nobody. But just after nightfall they got in, and he was content to leave unharnessing the horses and baiting them to Simon, mrs Cork's son. Luckily they were all swimming when she got there (for a stream running into the pond on the far side it was not frozen there). | 5519 | 5519_39478_000022_000003 | male |
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He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless and brilliantly lighted up. Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his head that this was not so. He resumed: He pushed open the door, entered the house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. | 5448 | 5448_19209_000010_000000 | male |
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The priest pointed to the heaving, tumbling billows of smoke that were rolling below, and; asked, "How would you like to be thrown into the lime?" "Not at all," I gasped, in a voice scarcely audible, "it would burn me to death." I suppose he thought I was sufficiently frightened, for he bade his men close the door. They called it the fasting room; but if fasting were the only object, why were they placed in those kettles, instead of being allowed to sit on chairs or benches, or even on the floor? These thoughts filled my mind, as I followed the priest from the room; and for a long time I continued to speculate upon what I had seen. | 5002 | 5002_72876_000006_000004 | male |
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It rises aloft with steep cliffs, looking towards the Bithynian sea; and beneath it smooth rocks, ever washed by the sea, stand rooted firm; and round them the wave rolls and thunders loud, but above, wide spreading plane trees grow on the topmost point. Son of Aeson, no longer fear thou so much the hest of thy king, since a god hath granted us escape between the rocks; for Phineus, Agenor's son, said that our toils hereafter would be lightly accomplished." Not so much for my prowess in war did Jason take me with him in quest of the fleece, far from Parthenia, as for my knowledge of ships. | 7909 | 7909_106370_000007_000003 | male |
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She was overjoyed at the sight of her sister and of Paul, and brought him a shirt belonging to the dragon, which made every one who wore it twice as strong as they were before. All day long he drank till he was too stupid to attend to his business, and everything in the kingdom went to rack and ruin. He had scarcely put it on, when the whole castle began to shake violently, and the dragon flew up the steps into the hall. Let every man jump across, and as he does so cry out "Hop! The robber, indeed, granted him his life, but took out both his eyes, which he thrust into the prince's hand, saying brutally: Have you forgotten me? | 5810 | 5810_8689_000027_000001 | male |
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It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there. We met their laughter cordially, and doffed our hats to them, at which they laughed again, delightedly. He was a man's man, very much so, generous and brave and clever; but I don't think any of us in college days was quite pleased to have him with our sisters. They left me for a landmark and made a limited excursion on either side. Instantly each of us was seized by five women, each holding arm or leg or head; we were lifted like children, straddling helpless children, and borne onward, wriggling indeed, but most ineffectually. | 339 | 339_132717_000020_000001 | female |
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Overworked, not having had "a good night's sleep in fifteen years!" They did so, and their first work was the printing of a penny "Morning Post," which suspended in three weeks, they losing sixty dollars. saint Louis, Albany, Indianapolis, Nashville, and other cities held memorial meetings. After a year, business grew dull, and he was without a place. mr Greeley received nearly three million votes, while General Grant received a half million majority. He wrote four columns of editorial matter (his copy, wittily says Junius Henri Browne, "strangers mistook for diagrams of Boston"), dozens of letters, often forgot whether he had been to his meals, and was ready to see and advise with everybody. | 7313 | 7313_91072_000033_000003 | male |
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When I think of her first, it is always as making some complaint to my father against us. The consequence was that the older we grew, the more our minds were alienated from her, and the more we came to regard her as our enemy. If she really meant to be our friend after the best fashion she knew, it was at least an uncomely kind of friendship, that showed itself in constant opposition, fault finding, and complaint. It was necessary I should grow fat, and necessary that good Joseph, your master, should grow lean. But Ruby never turned his head, or took any notice of him. Depend upon it, Ruby, no cabman likes to be abused any more than his fare. | 288 | 288_121741_000002_000005 | female |
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Instantly the pain and smarting ceased, and the merchant's son had perfect ease. "And to think," said he, "if I had listened to that accursed Talisman of Solomon, called The Wise,' all this happiness, this ecstasy that is now mine, would have been lost to me." "How can I open the door, seeing that there is no lock nor key to it?" "What," he cried, "art thou not contented with all thou hast and with all that we do for thee without asking the forbidden question?" "All-all this," he exulted, "belongs to me. Why are the people all gone mad this morning, and why do they weep and wail, and why do they go crazy when I do but ask them why they are so afflicted?" | 5975 | 5975_54006_000007_000001 | male |
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"Three Eyes," said the mother, "climb up, and try what you can do; perhaps you will be able to see better with your three eyes than One Eye can." | 3001 | 3001_160952_000044_000000 | female |
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For these dread monsters too, I ween, the goddess Hera, bride of Zeus, had nurtured to be a trial for Heracles. And therewithal came the rest of the martial heroes returning to meet the foe before they reached the height of outlook, and they fell to the slaughter of the Earthborn, receiving them with arrows and spears until they slew them all as they rushed fiercely to battle. Nor did anyone note with care that it was the same island; nor in the night did the Doliones clearly perceive that the heroes were returning; but they deemed that Pelasgian war men of the Macrians had landed. | 7777 | 7777_106367_000000_000002 | male |
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When he woke in the morning, he remembered the Old Woman's promise, and looked under his pillow to see if it was true. I see neither apples nor pears, nor any other fruit, nothing but salad and herbs.' They waded breast deep in the water, emerging, coming shoreward, a woman, with her hair coiled about her head, and in pursuit of her a man, graceful figures of black and silver, with a bright green surge flowing off from them, a pattering of flashing wavelets about them. All had doors and windows carelessly open, and none showed a light. He quickly lay down again and pretended to be fast asleep. | 6877 | 6877_79973_000013_000000 | male |
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Read the selections on pages thirty and forty eight, emphasizing every word. seven. five. Why? The power of variety lies in its pleasure giving quality. The kind of force that we want applied to the emphatic word is not entirely physical. Here your own intelligence must guide-and greatly to your profit. Of course, there are many ways of delivering it; this is only one of several good interpretations that might be chosen. His emphasis was both correct and powerful. This principle must be borne in mind in all our marked exercises. Why? Now and then this principle should be applied to an emphatic sentence by stressing each word. | 5656 | 5656_44577_000066_000001 | male |
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Hereupon some brought dried wood, others from the meadows leaves for beds which they gathered in abundance for strewing, whilst others were twirling sticks to get fire; others again were mixing wine in the bowl and making ready the feast, after sacrificing at nightfall to Apollo Ecbasius. For they hated their lawful wives, and, yielding to their own mad folly, drove them from their homes; and they took to their beds the captives of their spear, cruel ones. At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him. | 7777 | 7777_106367_000006_000002 | male |
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The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain. "This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations." I almost fancied I should presently see some ship issue from it, full sail, and take to the open sea under the southern breeze. By next evening, thanks to the industry and skill of our guide, the raft was made. "Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth." | 724 | 724_123283_000009_000000 | male |
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She's a fairy. Late that afternoon Helma and Ivra and Eric gathered ferns and flowers to deck themselves for the evening. But she's queer just the same, and she can't fool us." She had the jolliest, the nicest face in the world. Her dress was a purple slip just to her knees, with a big rent in the skirt. Come, cheer up. He had never been to a dance before, and just at first he did not think there would be much fun in it. Wild Thyme jumped back into the dance and the Tree Mother stood alone. But although she stood as still as a moonbeam under the tree, she made Eric think of dancing more than all the others put together. | 7802 | 7802_104394_000039_000003 | female |
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The chaperone's eyes followed him, and then she looked at the curious faces about her. The quest of the plant, flower, or fruit of life is referred to in many folk tales. Among the myths attached to his memory in the Ethiopic "history" is one which explains how "he knew and comprehended the length and breadth of the earth", and how he obtained knowledge regarding the seas and mountains he would have to cross. Gilgamesh, however, resolved to encounter any peril, for he was no longer afraid, and he was allowed to go forward. From her mother. For a moment Denton stood white and wild eyed; then came a terrible faintness, and he sat before one of the little tables. | 6458 | 6458_232057_000102_000001 | male |
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If, therefore, my intellect is distinct from yours, what is understood by me must be distinct from what is understood by you; and consequently it will be reckoned as something individual, and be only potentially something understood; so that the common intention will have to be abstracted from both; since from things diverse something intelligible common to them may be abstracted. If we suppose, however, that the soul is united to the body as its form, it is quite impossible for several essentially different souls to be in one body. For an immaterial substance is not multiplied in number within one species. | 7956 | 7956_245687_000039_000001 | male |
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The driver of the chariot was a tall, elderly man, wearing a wizard's cap; his face was red as with anger, an evil light gleamed in his small malicious eyes. Every year, on the bird boy's birthday, a great gray bird would fly in from over the sea, circle the castle thrice, and disappear, crying mournfully. Now, if you remember the first part of this story, you will recall that Zidoc quarreled with the old enchanter over the right spell for destroying castles. "Nothing whatever," replied the dog. Suddenly, far, far up in the sky, she heard the weird cry of birds flying southward, and lifting her eyes, the Queen beheld bird after bird fly across the golden shield of the moon. | 7241 | 7241_90852_000028_000001 | male |
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They knew everything. I am thirty two now." "Good bye," said Lizzie. "We are at a discount now.... And I liked the idea of it very much." Lizzie pricked up her ears. "True! yes, it is true. She began assuring him she would not stay long, only another ten minutes, only five minutes; but the tax collector stuck obstinately to his point. "Why? "Good bye, my dear." "mrs Carbuncle is-is-is- Oh, Lord George, don't you know what she is?" "Why do you want me at once?" asked his wife. "Well;--I did. That makes it altogether another thing. I have knocked about the world a great deal, and would have almost said that nothing would surprise me. | 667 | 667_107247_000006_000002 | female |
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When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme. The mother continues to watch and spin, lessening her activity from day to day. We might discover an interesting subject of research in the type adopted by each species when the work is accomplished without hindrances. If I tease her with a straw, she parries with big gestures, like those of a prize fighter. They wrap their eggs in a mineral shell held together with silk. What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee? | 3307 | 3307_145145_000055_000003 | male |
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I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher. But now, with my growing knowledge, I felt very differently towards those bronze doors. TREACHERY Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways. Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered. Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition. | 2562 | 2562_133442_000014_000001 | male |
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And never does silence hold that grim headland, but there is a continual murmur from the sounding sea and the leaves that quiver in the winds from the cave. What shall I do, how shall I go over again such a long path through the sea, unskilled as I am, with unskilled comrades? But if she flies onward and perishes midway, then do ye turn back; for it is better to yield to the immortals. And the eddying current held her between the clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship's timbers were held fast. Then Athena with her left hand thrust back one mighty rock and with her right pushed the ship through; and she, like a winged arrow, sped through the air. | 7909 | 7909_106370_000007_000006 | male |
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john the Baptist must have been the Billy Sunday of his day for the crowds that came to hear him were immense. From this body of water to the point where the Jordan empties into the Dead Sea is only sixty five miles by airline, but the way the river winds like a gigantic serpent, one would travel twice that distance were he to go in a boat. There must have been much speculation among these people as to what became of Moses until in some miraculous way joshua was informed that the great leader was dead and that he must now take charge and lead the people across the Jordan into the Promised Land. | 6308 | 6308_68359_000018_000001 | female |
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And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, john Thornton would reverently exclaim, "God! you can all but speak!" A quibble arose concerning the phrase "break out." O'Brien contended it was Thornton's privilege to knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to "break it out" from a dead standstill. "There ain't a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling round among the bones; "not a copper doit nor a baccy box. As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones. | 534 | 534_123059_000070_000006 | female |
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Some experiences have very little else in them than this hit and miss or succeed process. To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence. Its point, its meaning lies literally in what it is going to be, in how it is going to turn out. An experience, a very humble experience, is capable of generating and carrying any amount of theory (or intellectual content), but a theory apart from an experience cannot be definitely grasped even as theory. | 7484 | 7484_39971_000010_000007 | male |
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Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. Killed! The sky presented itself in all directions like an enormous calm. It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to permit of recognition at close quarters. The reader will remember that the hackney coach was waiting in case of need. Oh! | 5448 | 5448_19209_000008_000001 | male |
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I heard the pick ringing on the limestone soil, its iron tip sometimes giving off sparks when it hit a stray piece of flint on the sea bottom. Servants want sometimes to see their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with them into the country. As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand-a hawk, Apollo's messenger. Near two o'clock I was busy organizing my notes in the lounge, when the captain opened the door and appeared. These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life. | 258 | 258_130878_000064_000002 | male |
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When cool, stir in half a tea cup of yeast, and flour to make it stiff enough to mould up. Put a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a pint of sour milk. Yeast cakes will keep good five or six months. When light, take it out into pans, without moulding it up-let it remain in them about twenty minutes, before baking. When lukewarm, stir in half a pint of family yeast, (if brewers' yeast is used, a less quantity will answer,) a table spoonful of salt, knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, and free from lumps. And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock. It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade. | 3521 | 3521_12715_000015_000002 | male |
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Toiling in the midst of a dense thicket, among a tangle of dead leaves and twigs, she may well produce a very inaccurate piece of work; but compel her to labour when free from all impediment: she will then-I am convinced of it beforehand-apply her talents without constraint and show herself an adept in the building of graceful nests. To satisfy this lavish expenditure, she must incessantly, by means of feeding, fill her silk glands as and when she empties them by spinning. There is nothing better for playing upon the folly of the passer by, but also nothing more dangerous to the safety of the family. | 3307 | 3307_145145_000033_000001 | male |
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"Why divide the treasure two ways?" murmured Le Loup, wiping his blade upon the dead man's doublet. "Oh, but of course!" Blood's irony laughed in his eyes. Within an hour, the water casks at least replenished and stowed aboard, the Arabella and the Elizabeth put to sea upon that angry chase. Yet tell me this: Why have you followed me as a wolf follows deer?" He seemed like a great condor about to launch himself upon his victim. The fellow spoken to replied sullenly, "This Solomon Kane is a demon from Hell, I tell you." His eyes were wide and staring; he reeled on buckling legs, and a dark red stain dyed his tunic. | 1283 | 1283_136983_000042_000000 | male |
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Indeed, the leisure class claims the distinction as a matter of pride, and no doubt with some grounds. | 4152 | 4152_5710_000003_000003 | male |
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"I should never have dreamed of that," "in my wildest dreams I hadn't imagined that." This is open partisanship on the part of colloquial usage. But, before he swooned, there reached him the clatter of the murderer's tread as he began to climb over the splintered rocks, and the faint echo of his voice, calling him by name-falsely and in pretence-for help. Not only this but other colloquial usages also express the same feeling. well-known proverbs say, "The pig dreams of acorns, the goose of maize," or ask, "Of what does the hen dream? | 8772 | 8772_270777_000020_000003 | male |
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It was the nervous reaction caused by your fright, and the knowledge that you had done wrong, that made you jump over the handlebars. Instead he shuffled over to where his wheel lay, picked it up, and rode slowly off. "Did you knock me off my wheel?" "I had rather not," answered the lad. They had not been disturbed. "Where are you, Rad?" called the young inventor. I was taken into a small chamber of the cave, and there saw quite a complicated apparatus. Well, here's where I give him a scare." "They are worth every cent of it," declared mr Roberts. | 8498 | 8498_287359_000005_000001 | male |
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In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life. And she turned to fling a handful of barley at a belated group of guinea fowl that came racing toward her. | 770 | 770_131704_000006_000006 | male |
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At night we had no other shelter than our blankets, and we could not keep a fire because the spruce burned too fast and threw too many coals. He talked of the great Saskatchewan, of Peace River, and the delta of the Mackenzie, of the winter journeys beyond Great Bear Lake into the Land of the Little Sticks, and the half mythical lake of Yamba Tooh. When the smoke of battle cleared away, four Tularosa Mexicans lay dead on the ground and Charlie Wall had two bullet wounds in his body, though they were not dangerous wounds. It is better that she should think me a brute than that I should be always haunted by those pleading eyes." The door of the distant church house opened and closed. | 2156 | 2156_17942_000020_000002 | male |
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Moreover, all dreams of desire of adults usually contain something besides satisfaction, something that has its origin in the sources of the purely psychic stimuli, and which requires interpretation to render it intelligible. The unfulfilled wish, to which he reacts by means of the dream, is the psychic sleep disturbing stimulus for the child. In this instance, therefore, the less firmly established of the two main characteristics of the dream holds, while the other proves itself entirely dependent upon the condition of sleep and impossible to the waking state. | 8772 | 8772_270777_000026_000003 | male |
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Hans paid out the rope, permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils. The worthless ones were to be got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were to be sold. They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by john, as if his daring helped them. Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom. But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for john Thornton drew him back to the fire again. "Why shouldn't it?" Charles demanded rather shortly. | 534 | 534_123059_000092_000002 | female |
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"Thirty five hundred dollars for these two stones!" exclaimed Tom. He was soon in one of the largest jewelry stores of Chester. If they were, he could then decide whether or not to go with mr Jenks on the mysterious quest. In addition to his big airship, Red Cloud, Tom owned a small, swift monoplane, which he called Butterfly. But, a little later, Andy cautiously raised his head, and inquired in a frightened voice: "Who told you?" "Huh! "Because there are enemies on my track. "Where is it?" "Who brought these stones in?" asked one of the men, evidently the proprietor, from the deference paid him by the clerk. "Whoever it was, is gone," spoke Tom. "Is it-is it gone?" | 8498 | 8498_287359_000035_000000 | male |
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Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast. He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares. Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed. But, hark! 'Miserable! ('Oh!' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes on Podsnap, 'then there are only two of us, and he's the other.') But, there is another time to come, and it comes in about a fortnight, and it comes to Mr and Mrs Lammle on the sands at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight. | 500 | 500_125123_000036_000006 | male |
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'Tell me O thou little fieldfare, Sing thou, that my ears may hear it, Whether it indeed is better, Whether thou hast heard 'tis better, For a girl in father's dwelling, Or in household of a husband?' She had just sufficient strength for the sudden breaking off of their engagement, none for explanation, and none, alas! to save her from regretting her act of supererogatory virtue. After his dinner-a rather poor and untidily served one-Andrey Yefimitch would walk up and down his rooms with his arms folded, thinking. If you will allow me to make a not quite apt comparison: books are the printed score, while talk is the singing." | 8713 | 8713_302111_000011_000000 | male |
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But I could not consider this argument adequate or conclusive, for there are large general considerations of incomparably greater importance which it leaves out altogether. He is the good Pan, the great Shepherd.... at whose death were moanings, sighs, trepidations and lamentations in all the machine of the universe, heavens, earth, sea, hells. Is it not the worst of sacrilege, a foul profanation of our human nature, which for us, at least, should be holy and awful, when the heroic and saintly martyrdom of a true Man is thus falsified into the self schemed sham sacrifice, ineffectual, of a God? | 7258 | 7258_91906_000002_000002 | male |
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She also took a few youthful prisoners, whom she brought home to play with and amuse a fine family of kittens, which she had in the cottage garret. Guanahani, or Cat Island, a small island of the Bahama group, in the West Indies, is supposed to be so called because wild Cats of large size used to infest it, but I can find no particulars upon the subject in the works of writers on the West Indies. Sometimes, in taking a walk through the wood, you would find yourself suddenly sprawling on all fours, having trampled on one of Gibbey's salmon. At the foot of a certain post master's garden, flows a stream in which his cat takes many a good salmon trout. | 8758 | 8758_291170_000013_000004 | male |
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The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with cold water. Marius was laid upon the back seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. His mother is dead. As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured himself that his heart was still beating. Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person. People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. | 5448 | 5448_19209_000002_000003 | male |
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Besides this, he was able to save the great amount of fifty pennies. Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries. There, he found a new suit, a new hat, and a pair of shoes. Father and son were really about to drown when they heard a voice like a guitar out of tune call from the sea: "Oh-ho, where is the owner of the hut?" cried Pinocchio, very much surprised. "Oh, my dear Cricket," said Pinocchio, bowing politely. Do you know how to draw water from a well?" He succeeded, not only in his studies, but also in his work, and a day came when he put enough money together to keep his old father comfortable and happy. | 369 | 369_125883_000099_000006 | male |
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The original family name was Pfirsching, but was soon shortened to its present form. Young Pershing had early caught the fever, and had worked with construction gangs in Kentucky and Tennessee. General Crook was sent in pursuit of him, and afterwards General Miles took up the chase. Finally in August, eighteen eighty six, the chief and his followers were rounded up. As he gradually got his group of officers licked into shape, he found less to do personally. On the landing stage at the French harbor of Boulogne was drawn up a company of French soldiers, who looked eagerly at the approaching steamer. And they did. | 6098 | 6098_57836_000009_000000 | male |
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six. I asked no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled. twelve. THE SECRET. How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, "But the forty? Did they come back no more?" sixteen. Among other things, it is time for a list of species to be published which no man claiming to be either a gentleman or a sportsman can shoot for aught else than preservation in a public museum. As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear! fifteen. No lifetime set on them, Apparelled as the new Unborn, except they had beheld, Born everlasting now. THE MYSTERY OF PAIN. thirteen. | 240 | 240_144999_000031_000000 | male |
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And as he did so a thunderbolt struck his soul. A man, a heavy, ordinary man, with a composed indifferent face, and a prosaic sort of uniform, with a row of buttons, blocked his way. Now, through a sort of purple haze, could be seen comparatively near to them what seemed to be the upper part of a huge, dark orb or sphere, islanded in a sea of cloud. Man is a contradiction in terms; he is a beast whose superiority to other beasts consists in having fallen. | 2971 | 2971_4275_000051_000008 | male |
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Consequently not all intellectual substances are united to bodies; but some are quite separated from bodies, and these we call angels. Therefore, since the angels were made by God, it would appear that they are corruptible of their own nature. He was forced to make use of this argument, since only through sensible things can we come to know intelligible ones. Now intelligence cannot be the action of a body, nor of any corporeal faculty; for every body is limited to "here" and "now." Hence the perfection of the universe requires the existence of an incorporeal creature. | 3009 | 3009_10328_000013_000006 | male |
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The eyes of the man in black, on the other hand, deep set and staring from under prominent brows, were cold but deep; gazing into them, one had the impression of looking into countless fathoms of ice. "Soon the rest return from that little trip to the hermit's; then we shall see. An observer would have been struck by the eyes of the two men who stood there, facing each other. They would remain behind to extort it whilst fitting their ships for sea. That forehead marked the dreamer, the idealist, the introvert, just as the eyes and the thin, straight nose betrayed the fanatic. | 1283 | 1283_136983_000048_000000 | male |
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"Chemicals!" "If, on my return, I find a fire at the house, I shall believe that the thunder itself came to light it." All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river, the sailor, stopping, said to his two companions,-- Since Ayrton's disappearance they were only four against five, for Herbert could not yet be counted, and this was not the least care of the brave boy, who well understood the trouble of which he was the cause. "What?" Would they not, on the contrary, by employing the cart leave every arm free? Was it impossible to place the mattress on which Herbert was lying in it, and to advance with so much care that any jolt should be avoided? | 6510 | 6510_62516_000045_000000 | male |
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Her broken hearted husband not only consented to Vincent's residence in the College des Bons Enfants, but shortly afterwards, leaving that world where he had shone so brilliantly, he himself became a postulant at the Oratory. "Why not?" replied Vincent quietly; "it is neither stained nor torn." De Berulle decided at once that Vincent de Paul was the man for the position and that, as he was evidently destined to do great work for God, it would be to his advantage to have powerful and influential friends. Many to whom they had been the turning point of a lifetime, felt the need of further help and instruction from the man who had awakened all that was noblest in their natures. | 7981 | 7981_112058_000006_000002 | male |
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Yet some people may be surprised that men with any love of justice, whether inborn or otherwise, could continue to abide the arrogance, and rapacity, and tyranny of the Doones. In order to show how the head, eyes, and lungs are protected, the fireman put on the asbestos and wire gauze cap, and the cuirass, and held the shield before his breast. Hence they concluded that the human body possesses the power of destroying a certain degree of heat when communicated with a certain degree of quickness. | 3105 | 3105_163726_000017_000000 | male |
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A friend of de Berulle's, cure of the country parish of Clichy, near Paris, announced his intention of entering the Oratory, and at de Berulle's request chose Vincent de Paul as his successor. Calling two other priests to his assistance, Vincent set to work at once to visit the convicts in the Paris prisons; but the men were so brutalized that it was difficult to know how to win them. Here, where the conditions were perhaps even worse than in Paris, Vincent met them in the same spirit and conquered by the same means. The fact that he had once been a slave himself gave him an insight into the sufferings of the galley slaves and a wonderful influence over them. | 7981 | 7981_112056_000005_000001 | male |
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Indeed Maud, who had been a secret witness of the deed, already realized that Captain Bramble was the enemy of him whom she had once loved, and whom she now so bitterly despised. It was weary struggling by this path through the wood, but it was the only way to approach the desired point by land. Maud hesitated not, but stole or glided through the tangled undergrowth, as though she had passed her whole life time in the deep, tangled ways of the jungle. He was not repulsed, nor chided, but she delicately rose and turned to her mother's apartment. How small a things will affect the whole tenor of a life time; trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of destiny. | 3448 | 3448_5416_000004_000003 | male |
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Thereupon having well feasted they turned themselves to rest, some near the ship's hawsers, others in groups throughout the mansion. Here, ever since he escaped the god sent doom, never has he forgotten or neglected me; but sorely and against his will do I send him from my doors, so eager is he to remain with me in my affliction." And besides the drink offerings they built an altar to Apollo, saviour of ships, and burnt thigh bones; and Orpheus dedicated his lyre; whence the place has the name of Lyra. I was infatuated aforetime, when in my folly I declared the will of Zeus in order and to the end. | 7909 | 7909_106369_000013_000004 | male |
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