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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... ways in which I used my Saturday pennies was in going with some of my companions into the country to have a picnic. We used to light a fire behind a hedge or a dyke, or in the corner of some ruin, and there roast our potatoes, or broil a ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... trod. I lay, and thought; and in a trance She came and stood me by- 10 The same, even to the marvellous ray That used to light her eye. "You draw me, and I come to you, My faithful one," she said, In voice that had the moving tone 15 ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... can read great things out of small ones." Holmes shrugged his shoulders. "There is nothing here," said he. "The matches have, of course, been used to light cigarettes. That is obvious from the shortness of the but end. Half the match is consumed in lighting a pipe or cigar. But, ... |
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[ SPANISH FICTION]
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| ... they all made room for him to go past. He went out a back door, pissing oil. What he wrung from his clothes he used to light the lamp of Our Lady of Afflictions for more than a month. The law officers stood there, bathed in oil, and cursing whoever ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... mornings were known only to ourselves. It was my custom then to rise early, to read Latin authors,--thanks to Hebe, still unread. I used to light my fire and make tea for myself, till one rapturous morning I discovered that Hebe was fond of rising early too, and that ... |
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[ DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS]
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| ... Customary gifts exchanges on Purim, usually goodies Shalom - Peace (a watchword and a greeting) Shammes - Sexton, beadle of the synagogue, also, the lighter taper used to light other candles on a menorah, a policeman (slang) Shandhoiz - Brothel, whorehouse Shat, shat! Hust! - Quiet! Don''t get excited Shatnes - Proscription against wearing clothes ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... written and signed. The prisoner does not deny his signature. "I shall be told he was drunk when he wrote it. But that does not diminish the value of the letter, quite the contrary; he wrote when drunk what he had planned when sober. Had he not planned it when ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... eyes beneath firmly marked, straight brows; and in those eyes there was the same intensity behind that apparent laziness, the same latent passion which used to light up Percy's face in the olden days before his marriage, and which Marguerite had again noted, last night at dawn, when she had ... |
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[ ESSAYS]
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| ... said the Caliph, "they are superfluous; if they contradict it, they are damnable; in either case, destroy them." So the books were taken and used to light the fires which heated water for the baths; and so vast was the number that, used in this way, they lasted six months! ... |
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[ LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES]
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| ... well, men will thee praises give;) 19 He to his fathers' race shall go, they never shall see light. 20 Man honour'd wanting knowledge is like beasts that perish quite. Psalm 50 A Psalm of Asaph. This psalm may be considered as a rebuke to the carnal Jews who ... |
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[ SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS]
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| ... to find there an untimely grave. After my second escape from Siberia, I tried to recover it, but in vain. Apparently it had been used to light fires or some such thing by the Swiss landlady who had been intrusted with the custody of the archives. I can't refrain ... |
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