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| ... telling you she would not have at all.'' ''Thank you. Now, my good friend Larry, drive me to Clonbrony, and do not say another word, for I''m not in a talking humour.'' Larry nodded, mounted, and drove to Clonbrony. Clonbrony was now a melancholy scene. The houses, which ... |
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| ... able to make, would keep from shaking, in any weather, wind or no wind. Alfred is a young fellow who pretends to be "fast" (another word for loose, as I understand the term), but who is much too good and sensible for that nonsense, and who would have distinguished himself ... |
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[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... together evidence. The World Court accepted their case, ruled in their favour, […] condemned what they called the "unlawful use of force," which is another word for international terrorism, […] ordered the United States to terminate the crime and to pay massive reparations. The United States, of course, dismissed the ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... cracked and splintered clouds. But we have said "daybreak" so often that we do not see the picture any more, it has become only another word for dawn. The poet must be constantly seeking new pictures to make his readers feel the vitality of his thought. Many of the poems ... |
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| ... deprived themselves of the principal benefits of a familiar intercourse with Greece and Rome, the knowledge of antiquity, the purity of taste, and the freedom of thought. Confident in the riches of their native tongue, the Arabians disdained the study of any foreign idiom. The Greek interpreters were chosen among ... |
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| ... and courage. The lower part of the face, on the other hand, suggests a good deal of animalism: the finely cut nostrils show egotism--another word for selfishness; the nose itself, vanity; the lips, sensuousness and love of luxury. I wonder what sort of woman she really is." He laid ... |
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| ... letting you come with us." I climbed up on the fence to shake hands with him and to say good-by, and I had another word for him. Beneath my dress and next my skin was a little Catholic medal which had been blessed by my confessor. It hung around ... |
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| ... proverb of Solomon: "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich." Perseverance is sometimes but another word for self-reliance. Many persons naturally look on the dark side of life, and borrow trouble. They are born so. Then they ask for ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... more, the world shall know it; And so, your servant! gloomy Master Poet!" Firm as my creed, Sirs, ''tis my fix''d belief, That Misery''s another word for Grief: I also think-so may I be a bride! That so much laughter, so much life enjoy''d. Thou man of crazy care ... |
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| ... who travelled through the country and studied the subject, "evidently belongs to a period of the English occupation of Aquitaine, when a Frenchman was another word for an enemy."[3] But the word has probably a more remote origin. When the Franks, of German origin, burst into Gaul, and settled ... |
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[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... of Solomon: ``He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.' Perseverance is sometimes but another word for self-reliance. Many persons naturally look on the dark side of life, and borrow trouble. They are born so. Then they ask for ... |
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