root/Trunk/SpeechSubmission/VFSpeechSubmission/java/src/speechrecorder/englishPromptList.txt

rp-01 When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air,
rp-02 they act as a prism and form a rainbow.
rp-03 The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors.
rp-04 These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above,
rp-05 and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon.
rp-06 There is , according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end.
rp-07 People look, but no one ever finds it.
rp-08 When a man looks for something beyond his reach,
rp-09 his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
rp-10 Throughout the centuries people have explained the rainbow in various ways.
rp-11 Some have accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation.
rp-12 To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods.
rp-13 The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign
rp-14 from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain.
rp-15 The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge
rp-16 over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky.
rp-17 Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically.
rp-18 Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by
rp-19 reflection of the sun's rays by the rain.
rp-20 Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection,
rp-21 but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows.
rp-22 Many complicated ideas about the rainbow have been formed.
rp-23 The difference in the rainbow depends considerably upon the size of the drops,
rp-24 and the width of the colored band increases as the size of the drops increases.
rp-25 The actual primary rainbow observed is said to be the effect of
rp-26 super-imposition of a number of bows.
rp-27 If the red of the second bow falls upon the green of the first,
rp-28 the result is to give a bow with an abnormally wide yellow band,
rp-29 since red and green light when mixed form yellow.
rp-30 This is a very common type of bow, one showing mainly red and yellow,
rp-31 with little or no green or blue.
ar-01 Once there was a young rat named Arthur who never could make up his mind.
ar-02 Whenever his friends asked him if he would like to go out with them,
ar-03 he would only answer, "I don't know;" he wouldn't say yes or no either.
ar-04 He would always shirk making a choice. His Aunt Helen said to him,
ar-05 "Now look here! No one is going to care for you if you carry on like this."
ar-06 You have no more mind than a blade of grass.
ar-07 One rainy day the rats heard a great noise in the loft.
ar-08 The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe.
ar-09 At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground.
ar-10 The walls shook, and all the rats' hair stood on end with fear and horror.
ar-11 "This won't do," said the captain; "I'll send out scouts to search for a new home."
ar-12 Within five hours the ten scouts came back and said,
ar-13 We found a stone house where there is room for us all.
ar-14 There is a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree.
ar-15 The rats crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line.
ar-16 Just then the old rat saw Arthur. Stop. he ordered coarsely.
ar-17 "You are coming, of course." "I'm not certain," said Arthur, undaunted,
ar-18 "The roof may not come down yet."
ar-19 "Well," said the old rat, "we can't wait for you to join us. Right about face! March!"
ar-20 Arthur stood and watched them hurry away.
ar-21 "I think I'll go tomorrow," he said calmly to himself, "but then again I don't know;"
ar-22 "it's so nice and snug here,".  That night there was a big crash.
ar-23 In the foggy morning some men with some boys and girls rode up and looked at the barn.
ar-24 One of them moved a board and saw a rat quite dead, half in and half out of his hole.
rb-01 Hand-held devices such as personal digital assistants and smartphones are quite small.
rb-02 Most of them use either a touch screen interface or a miniaturized keyboard for user input.
rb-03 Built-in keyboards are usually operated with the thumbs, since touch typing and 
rb-04 hunt and peck typing using the fingers are pretty much out of the question.
rb-05 Devices with a touch screen interface often use an on-screen keyboard, or handwriting 
rb-06 recognition for inputting text. This has a couple of drawbacks.
rb-07 The keyboard, whether it's an on-screen version or not, strongly reduces 
rb-08 the amount of available "screen real-estate". 
rb-09 On top of that thumbing or thumb typing puts a lot of strain on the thumb, 
rb-10 which is not as dexterous as the fingers are. 
rb-11 A good solution would be to use speech recognition, 
rb-12 especially since most of these devices often already have a built-in microphone. 
rb-13 Many phones already offer the possibility of so-called voice dialing. 
rb-14 A major stumbling block is the still limited computing power of these phones. 
rb-15 One way to deal with this is to use only a limited number of available commands. 
rb-16 That way the software only needs to compare 
rb-17 the voice input with a small number of possible options.
rb-18 Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices. 
rb-19 That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software, 
rb-20 it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run. 
rb-21 A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software 
rb-22 that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands. 
rb-23 In practice this will allow end users to issue commands such as "go to previous paragraph" 
rb-24 "go up one paragraph" or even "I want to edit the previous paragraph".
rb-25 Where all these commands might lead to the same result on that powerful PC, 
rb-26 the software on a hand-held device might only respond to one specific command.
rb-27 The same would be the case for other tasks such as browsing the Web, 
rb-28 searching for documents in the file browser, and starting or closing programs. 
rb-29 Therefore, behind your PC, "go online" "start my Web browser" or "visit my home page" 
rb-30 might all be valid commands, 
rb-31 whereas on your mobile phone you would have to stick to "run browser". 
rb-32 Obviously, when running a file browser the same logic would apply. 
rb-33 When working on a powerful PC or laptop 
rb-34 commands like "go to the folder with my University documents 
rb-35 and open my thesis might soon be quite common.
rb-36 It is however likely that on mobile devices we will have to use more rudimentary commands 
rb-37 like "go up one folder" "open the folder University" or "open document thesis".
a0001 Author of the danger trail, Philip Steels, etc.
a0002 Not at this particular case, Tom, apologized Whittemore.
a0003 For the twentieth time that evening the two men shook hands.
a0004 Lord, but I'm glad to see you again, Phil.
a0005 Will we ever forget it.
a0006 God bless 'em, I hope I'll go on seeing them forever.
a0007 And you always want to see it in the superlative degree.
a0008 Gad, your letter came just in time.
a0009 He turned sharply, and faced Gregson across the table.
a0010 I'm playing a single hand in what looks like a losing game.
a0011 If I ever needed a fighter in my life I need one now.
a0012 Gregson shoved back his chair and rose to his feet.
a0013 He was a head shorter than his companion, of almost delicate physique.
a0014 Now you're coming down to business, Phil, he exclaimed.
a0015 It's the aurora borealis.
a0016 There's Fort Churchill, a rifle-shot beyond the ridge, asleep.
a0017 From that moment his friendship for Belize turns to hatred and jealousy.
a0018 There was a change now.
a0019 I followed the line of the proposed railroad, looking for chances.
a0020 Clubs and balls and cities grew to be only memories.
a0021 It fairly clubbed me into recognizing it.
a0022 Hardly were our plans made public before we were met by powerful opposition.
a0023 A combination of Canadian capital quickly organized and petitioned for the same privileges.
a0024 It was my reports from the north which chiefly induced people to buy.
a0025 I was about to do this when cooler judgment prevailed.
a0026 It occurred to me that there would have to be an accounting.
a0027 To my surprise he began to show actual enthusiasm in my favor.
a0028 Robbery, bribery, fraud,
a0029 Their forces were already moving into the north country.
a0030 I had faith in them.
a0031 They were three hundred yards apart.
a0032 Since then some mysterious force has been fighting us at every step.
a0033 He unfolded a long typewritten letter, and handed it to Gregson.
a0034 Men of Selden's stamp don't stop at women and children.
a0035 He stopped, and Philip nodded at the horrified question in his eyes.
a0036 She turned in at the hotel.
a0037 I was the only one who remained sitting.
a0038 We'll have to watch our chances.
a0039 The ship should be in within a week or ten days.
a0040 I suppose you wonder why she is coming up here.
a0041 Meanwhile I'll go out to breathe a spell.
a0042 How could he explain his possession of the sketch.
a0043 It seemed nearer to him since he had seen and talked with Gregson.
a0044 Her own betrayal of herself was like tonic to Philip.
a0045 He moved away as quietly as he had come.
a0046 The girl faced him, her eyes shining with sudden fear.
a0047 Close beside him gleamed the white fangs of the wolf-dog.
a0048 He looked at the handkerchief more, closely.
a0049 Gregson was asleep when he re-entered the cabin.
a0050 In spite of their absurdity the words affected Philip curiously.
a0051 The lace was of a delicate ivory color, faintly tinted with yellow.
a0052 It was a curious coincidence.
a0053 Suddenly his fingers closed tightly over the handkerchief.
a0054 There was nothing on the rock.
a0055 Philip stood undecided, his ears strained to catch the slightest sound.
a0056 Pearce's little eyes were fixed on him shrewdly.
a0057 I have no idea, replied Philip.
a0058 I came for information more out of curiosity than anything else.
a0059 His immaculate appearance was gone.
a0060 Anyway, no one saw her like that.
a0061 Philip snatched at the letter which Gregson held out to him.
a0062 The men stared into each other's face.
a0063 Yes, it was a man who asked, a stranger.
a0064 The fourth and fifth days passed without any developments.
a0065 They closed now until his fingers were like cords of steel.
a0066 He saw Jeanne falter for a moment.
a0067 Surely I will excuse you, she cried.
a0068 In a flash Philip followed its direction.
a0069 It was his intention to return to Eileen and her father.
a0070 He would first hunt up Gregson and begin his work there.
a0071 What was the object of your little sensation.
a0072 But who was Eileen's double.
a0073 The promoter's eyes were heavy, with little puffy bags under them.
a0074 And now, down there, Eileen was waiting for him.
a0075 There has been a change, she interrupted him.
a0076 The gray eyes faltered; the flush deepened.
a0077 It is the fire, partly, she said.
a0078 Then, and at supper, he tried to fathom her.
a0079 It was a large canoe.
a0080 What if Jeanne failed him.
a0081 What if she did not come to the rock.
a0082 His face was streaming with blood.
a0083 A shadow was creeping over Pierre's eyes.
a0084 Scarcely had he uttered the name when Pierre's closing eyes shot open.
a0085 A trickle of fresh blood ran over his face.
a0086 Death had come with terrible suddenness.
a0087 Philip bent lower, and stared into the face of the dead man.
a0088 He made sure that the magazine was loaded, and resumed his paddling.
a0089 The nightglow was treacherous to shoot by.
a0090 The singing voice approached rapidly.
a0091 His blood grew hot with rage at the thought.
a0092 He went down in midstream, searching the shadows of both shores.
a0093 For a full minute he crouched and listened.
a0094 He had barely entered this when he saw the glow of a fire.
a0095 A big canvas tent was the first thing to come within his vision.
a0096 Perhaps she had already met her fate a little deeper in the forest.
a0097 Then you can arrange yourself comfortably among these robes in the bow.
a0098 Shall I carry you.
a0099 A maddening joy pounded in his brain.
a0100 You must sleep, he urged.
a0101 You, you would not keep the truth from me.
a0102 He will follow us soon.
a0103 But there came no promise from the bow of the canoe.
a0104 She was sleeping under his protection as sweetly as a child.
a0105 Only, it is so wonderful, so almost impossible to believe.
a0106 The emotion which she had suppressed burst forth now in a choking sob.
a0107 If you only could know how I thank you.
a0108 He waded into the edge of the water and began scrubbing himself.
a0109 Do you know that you are shaking my confidence in you.
a0110 Much, replied Jeanne, as tersely.
a0111 Instead, he joined her; and they ate like two hungry children.
a0112 He was wounded in the arm.
a0113 I suppose you picked that lingo up among the Indians.
a0114 Her words sent a strange chill through Philip.
a0115 He had no excuse for the feelings which were aroused in him.
a0116 Was it the rendezvous of those who were striving to work his ruin.
a0117 She added, with genuine sympathy in her face and voice.
a0118 Pierre obeys me when we are together.
a0119 Jeanne was turning the bow shoreward.
a0120 My right foot feels like that of a Chinese debutante.
a0121 They ate dinner at the fifth, and rested for two hours.
a0122 Two years ago I gave up civilization for this.
a0123 She had died from cold and starvation.
a0124 It was Jeanne singing softly over beyond the rocks.
a0125 He was determined now to maintain a more certain hold upon himself.
a0126 Each day she became a more vital part of him.
a0127 It was a temptation, but he resisted it.
a0128 This one hope was destroyed as quickly as it was born.
a0129 Her face was against his breast.
a0130 She was his now, forever.
a0131 Providence had delivered him through the maelstrom.
a0132 A cry of joy burst from Philip's lips.
a0133 Philip began to feel that he had foolishly overestimated his strength.
a0134 He obeyed the pressure of her hand.
a0135 I am going to surprise father, and you will go with Pierre.
a0136 About him, everywhere, were the evidences of luxury and of age.
a0137 Then he stepped back with a low cry of pleasure.
a0138 In the picture he saw each moment a greater resemblance to Jeanne.
a0139 He told himself that as he washed himself and groomed his disheveled clothes.
a0140 Accept a father's blessing, and with it, this.
a0141 It seems like a strange pointing of the hand of God.
a0142 Such things had occurred before, he told Philip.
a0143 Ah, I had forgotten, he exclaimed.
a0144 But there was something even more startling than this resemblance.
a0145 I have to be careful of them, as they tear very easily.
a0146 Of course, that is uninteresting, she continued.
a0147 A moment before he was intoxicated by a joy that was almost madness.
a0148 Now these things had been struck dead within him.
a0149 For an instant he saw Pierre drawn like a silhouette against the sky.
a0150 Goodbye, Pierre, he shouted.
a0151 And MacDougall was beyond the trail, with three weeks to spare.
a0152 Philip thrust himself against it and entered.
a0153 MacDougall tapped his forehead suspiciously with a stubby forefinger.
a0154 He was smooth-shaven, and his hair and eyes were black.
a0155 Won't you draw up, gentlemen.
a0156 A strange fire burned in his eyes when Thorpe turned.
a0157 He had worshiped her, as Dante might have worshiped Beatrice.
a0158 Does that look good.
a0159 They look as though he had been drumming a piano all his life.
a0160 You want to go over and see his gang throw dirt.
a0161 Take away their foreman and they wouldn't be worth their grub.
a0162 That's the sub-foreman, explained Thorpe.
a0163 Philip made no effort to follow.
a0164 He came first a year ago, and revealed himself to Jeanne.
a0165 They are to attack your camp tomorrow night.
a0166 Two days ago Jeanne learned where her father's men were hiding.
a0167 I was near the cabin, and saw you.
a0168 Low bush whipped him in the face and left no sting.
a0169 Suddenly Jeanne stopped for an instant.
a0170 There was none of the joy of meeting in his face.
a0171 And when you come back in a few days, bring Eileen.
a0172 Gregson had left the outer door slightly ajar.
a0173 The date was nearly eighteen years old.
a0174 They were the presage of storm.
a0175 Down there the earth was already swelling with life.
a0176 For the first time in his life he was yearning for a scrap.
a0177 She had been thoroughly and efficiently mauled.
a0178 Every bone in her aged body seemed broken or dislocated.
a0179 Tomorrow I'm going after that bear, he said.
a0180 If not, let's say our prayers and go to bed.
a0181 So cheer up, and give us your paw.
a0182 This time he did not yap for mercy.
a0183 And the air was growing chilly.
a0184 Don't you see, I'm chewing this thing in two.
a0185 The questions may have come vaguely in his mind.
a0186 Like a flash he launched himself into the feathered mass of the owl.
a0187 Ahead of them they saw a glimmer of sunshine.
a0188 Two gigantic owls were tearing at the carcass.
a0189 The big-eyed, clucking moose-birds were most annoying.
a0190 Next to them the Canada jays were most persistent.
a0191 For a time the exciting thrill of his adventure was gone.
a0192 He did not rush in.
a0193 It was edged with ice.
a0194 He drank of the water cautiously.
a0195 But a strange thing happened.
a0196 He began to follow the footprints of the dog.
a0197 Such a dog the wise driver kills, or turns loose.
a0198 Sometimes her dreams were filled with visions.
a0199 Thus had the raw wilderness prepared him for this day.
a0200 He leapt again, and the club caught him once more.
a0201 He cried, and swung the club wildly.
a0202 She turned, fearing that Jacques might see what was in her face.
a0203 They were following the shore of a lake.
a0204 The wolf-dog thrust his gaunt muzzle toward him.
a0205 From now on we're pals.
a0206 He says he bought him of Jacques Le Beau.
a0207 How much was it.
a0208 Youth had come back to her, freed from the yoke of oppression.
a0209 It was not a large lake, and almost round.
a0210 Its diameter was not more than two hundred yards.
a0211 It drowned all sound that brute agony and death may have made.
a0212 Fresh cases, still able to walk, they clustered about the spokesman.
a0213 Between him and the beach was the cane-grass fence of the compound.
a0214 Besides, he was paid one case of tobacco per head.
a0215 They die out of spite.
a0216 The other felt a sudden wave of irritation rush through him.
a0217 Oppressive as the heat had been, it was now even more oppressive.
a0218 The ringing of the big bell aroused him.
a0219 At first he puzzled over something untoward he was sure had happened.
a0220 A dead man is of no use on a plantation.
a0221 I don't know why you're here at all.
a0222 What part of the United States is your home.
a0223 My, I'm almost homesick for it already.
a0224 She nodded, and her eyes grew soft and moist.
a0225 I was brought up the way most girls in Hawaii are brought up.
a0226 That came before my A B C's.
a0227 It was the same way with our revolvers and rifles.
a0228 But it contributed to the smash.
a0229 The last one I knew was an overseer.
a0230 Do you know any good land around here.
a0231 The Resident Commissioner is away in Australia.
a0232 I cannot follow you, she said.
a0233 I never allow what can't be changed to annoy me.
a0234 Why, the average review is more nauseating than cod liver oil.
a0235 His voice was passionately rebellious.
a0236 Don't you see I hate you.
a0237 So Hughie and I did the managing ourselves.
a0238 It happened to him at the Gallina Society in Oakland one afternoon.
a0239 He cried in such genuine dismay that she broke into hearty laughter.
a0240 Wash your hands of me.
a0241 I think it's much nicer to quarrel.
a0242 I saw it when she rolled.
a0243 I only read the quotations.
a0244 He was the soul of devotion to his employers.
a0245 Out of his eighteen hundred, he laid aside sixteen hundred each year.
a0246 You have heard always how he was the lover of the Princess Naomi.
a0247 They ought to pass here some time today.
a0248 I had been sad too long already.
a0249 All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude of expectancy.
a0250 He had observed the business life of Hawaii and developed a vaulting ambition.
a0251 I may manage to freight a cargo back as well.
a0252 O'Brien had been a clean living young man with ideals.
a0253 He it was that lived to found the family of the Patino.
a0254 Straight out they swam, their heads growing smaller and smaller.
a0255 You won't die of malnutrition, be sure of that.
a0256 See the length of the body and that elongated neck.
a0257 They are coming ashore, whoever they are.
a0258 Soaked in seawater they offset the heat rays.
a0259 Think of investing in such an adventure.
a0260 Nobody knew his history, they of the Junta least of all.
a0261 I have been doubly baptized.
a0262 They wouldn't be sweeping a big vessel like the Martha.
a0263 Joan looked triumphantly at Sheldon, who bowed.
a0264 And I hope you've got plenty of chain out, Captain Young.
a0265 The discovery seemed to have been made on the spur of the moment.
a0266 They handled two men already, both grub-thieves.
a0267 Eli Harding asked, as Shunk started to follow.
a0268 Now go ahead and tell me in a straightforward way what has happened.
a0269 That's where they cut off the Scottish Chiefs and killed all hands.
a0270 And after the bath a shave would not be bad.
a0271 Now please give a plain statement of what occurred.
a0272 You can take a vacation on pay.
a0273 They are big trees and require plenty of room.
a0274 And Raoul listened again to the tale of the house.
a0275 There are no kiddies and half grown youths among them.
a0276 Oolong Atoll was one hundred and forty miles in circumference.
a0277 McCoy found a stifling, poisonous atmosphere in the pent cabin.
a0278 It would give me nervous prostration.
a0279 She said with chattering teeth.
a0280 I'll be out of my head in fifteen minutes.
a0281 I do not blame you for anything; remember that.
a0282 If you mean to insinuate -- Brentwood began hotly.
a0283 The woman in you is only incidental, accidental, and irrelevant.
a0284 There was no forecasting this strange girl's processes.
a0285 But what they want with your toothbrush is more than I can imagine.
a0286 Give them their choice between a fine or an official whipping.
a0287 Keep an eye on him.
a0288 Those are my oysters, he said at last.
a0289 They are not regular oyster pirates, Nicholas continued.
a0290 One by one the boys were captured.
a0291 The weeks had gone by, and no overt acts had been attempted.
a0292 Here, in the midmorning, the first casualty occurred.
a0293 They were deep in the primeval forest.
a0294 He had been foiled in his attempt to escape.
a0295 And twenty men could hold it with spears and arrows.
a0296 Bassett was a fastidious man.
a0297 There's a big English general right now whose name is Roberts.
a0298 This tacit promise of continued acquaintance gave Saxon a little joy-thrill.
a0299 I tell you I am disgusted with this adventure tomfoolery and rot.
a0300 From my earliest recollection my sleep was a period of terror.
a0301 But all my dreams violated this law.
a0302 It is very plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis.
a0303 But they make the mistake of ignoring their own duality.
a0304 I graduated last of my class.
a0305 They had no fixed values, to be altered by adjectives and adverbs.
a0306 He was pressing beyond the limits of his vocabulary.
a0307 Very early in my life, I separated from my mother.
a0308 His infernal chattering worries me even now as I think of it.
a0309 White Leghorns, said Mrs Mortimer.
a0310 Massage under tension, was the cryptic reply.
a0311 Therefore, hurrah for the game.
a0312 It lived in perpetual apprehension of that quarter of the compass.
a0313 Broken-Tooth yelled with fright and pain.
a0314 Thus was momentum gained in the Younger World.
a0315 Saxon waited, for she knew a fresh idea had struck Billy.
a0316 We had been chased by them ourselves, more than once.
a0317 He was a wise hyena.
a0318 Production is doubling and quadrupling upon itself.
a0319 And the Edinburgh Evening News says, with editorial gloom.
a0320 With my strength I slammed it full into Red-Eye's face.
a0321 The log on which Lop-Ear was lying got adrift.
a0322 This is a common experience with all of us.
a0323 He considered the victory already his and stepped forward to the meat.
a0324 It was not Red-Eye's way to forego revenge so easily.
a0325 Whiz-zip-bang. Lop-Ear screamed with sudden anguish.
a0326 Cherokee identified himself with his instinct.
a0327 They were less stooped than we, less springy in their movements.
a0328 The Fire People, like ourselves, lived in caves.
a0329 Ah, indeed.
a0330 Red-Eye never committed a more outrageous deed.
a0331 Poor little Crooked-Leg was terribly scared.
a0332 Unconsciously, our yells and exclamations yielded to this rhythm.
a0333 This is no place for you.
a0334 He'll knock you off a few sticks in no time.
a0335 Red-Eye swung back and forth on the branch farther down.
a0336 So unexpected was my charge that I knocked him off his feet.
a0337 Encouraged by my conduct, Big-Face became a sudden ally.
a0338 The fighting had now become intermittent.
a0339 They obeyed him, and went here and there at his commands.
a0340 It was like the beating of hoofs.
a0341 Why, doggone you all, shake again.
a0342 Seventeen, no, eighteen days ago.
a0343 You mean for this State, General, Alberta.
a0344 He seemed to fill it with his tremendous vitality.
a0345 She was trying to pass the apron string around him.
a0346 Get down and dig in.
a0347 They are greatly delighted with anything that is bright or giveth a sound.
a0348 They only lifted seven hundred and fifty.
a0349 It was simple, in its way, and no virtue of his.
a0350 Is that Pat Hanrahan's mug looking hungry and willing.
a0351 It was more like sugar.
a0352 I'm sure going along with you all, Elijah.
a0353 Here the explosion of mirth drowned him out.
a0354 Fresh meat they failed to obtain.
a0355 A burst of laughter was his reward.
a0356 You don't catch me at any such foolishness.
a0357 A month passed by, and Bonanza Creek remained quiet.
a0358 They continued valiantly to lie, but the truth continued to outrun them.
a0359 Earth and gravel seemed to fill the pan.
a0360 But he no longer cared quite so much for that form of diversion.
a0361 But he did not broach it, preferring to mature it carefully.
a0362 Nope, not the slightest idea.
a0363 It is not an attempt to smash the market.
a0364 We have plenty of capital ourselves, and yet we want more.
a0365 These rumors may even originate with us.
a0366 A wildly exciting time was his during the week preceding Thursday the eighteenth.
a0367 There is not an iota of truth in it, certainly not.
a0368 I just do appreciate it without being able to express my feelings.
a0369 In partnership with Daylight, the pair raided the San Jose Interurban.
a0370 He saw all men in the business game doing this.
a0371 It issued a rate of forty two dollars a car on charcoal.
a0372 He saw only the effect in a general, sketchy way.
a0373 Points of view, new ideas, life.
a0374 But life's worth more than cash, she argued.
a0375 The butchers and meat cutters refused to handle meat destined for unfair restaurants.
a0376 Your price, my son, is just about thirty per week.
a0377 This sound did not disturb the hush and awe of the place.
a0378 That's why its boundaries are all gouged and jagged.
a0379 How old are you, daddy.
a0380 But in the canyons water was plentiful and also a luxuriant forest growth.
a0381 My name's Ferguson.
a0382 Daylight found himself charmed and made curious by the little man.
a0383 To his surprise, her answer was flat and uncompromising.
a0384 The farmer works the soil and produces grain.
a0385 That's what Carnegie did.
a0386 I can't argue with you, and you know that.
a0387 Bob, growing disgusted, turned back suddenly and attempted to pass Mab.
a0388 It was my idea to a tee.
a0389 Mab, she said.
a0390 I'll go over tomorrow afternoon.
a0391 But he reconciled himself to it by an act of faith.
a0392 There is that magnificent Bob, eating his head off in the stable.
a0393 Already he had begun borrowing from the banks.
a0394 It's the strap hangers that'll keep us from going under.
a0395 As for himself, weren't the street railway earnings increasing steadily.
a0396 A rising tide of fat had submerged them.
a0397 Call me that again, he murmured ecstatically.
a0398 In the car were Unwin and Harrison, while Jones sat with the chauffeur.
a0399 And here's another idea.
a0400 Manuel had one besetting sin.
a0401 The man smiled grimly, and brought a hatchet and a club.
a0402 Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again and leaped aside.
a0403 His newborn cunning gave him poise and control.
a0404 Perrault found one with head buried in the grub box.
a0405 It seemed the ordained order of things that dogs should work.
a0406 And that was the last of Francois and Perrault.
a0407 Mercedes screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria.
a0408 The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test.
a0409 He could feel a new stir in the land.
a0410 So we have to fit the boat throughout with oil lamps as well.
a0411 It will break our hearts and our backs to hoist anchor by hand.
a0412 There is another virtue in these bulkheads.
a0413 But I am at the end of my resources.
a0414 Now our figuring was all right.
a0415 It lasted as a deterrent for two days.
a0416 The added weight had a velocity of fifteen miles per hour.
a0417 It is also an insidious, deceitful sun.
a0418 The Portuguese boy crawled nearer and nearer.
a0419 The Portuguese boy passed the Hawaiian.
a0420 When I came to I was waving my hat and murmuring ecstatically.
a0421 By golly, the boy wins.
a0422 Halfway around the track one donkey got into an argument with its rider.
a0423 McVeigh when he returns from a trip to Honolulu.
a0424 Obviously, it was a disease that could be contracted by contact.
a0425 Otherwise no restriction is put upon their seafaring.
a0426 They do not know the length of time of incubation.
a0427 Enters now the psychology of the situation.
a0428 It was not exactly a deportation.
a0429 Quick was the disappointment in his face, yet smiling was the acquiescence.
a0430 Nevertheless we found ourselves once more in the high seat of abundance.
a0431 Wada and Nakata were in a bit of a funk.
a0432 The boy at the wheel lost his head.
a0433 To her the bridge was tambo, which is the native for taboo.
a0434 A half a case of tobacco was worth three pounds.
a0435 What do you mean by this outrageous conduct.
a0436 But Martin smiled a superior smile.
a0437 By that answer my professional medical prestige stood or fell.
a0438 At sea, Monday, March Sixteenth, Nineteen Oh Eight.
a0439 At sea, Wednesday, March Eighteenth, Nineteen Oh Eight.
a0440 Yes, sir, I corrected.
a0441 Violent life and athletic sports had never appealed to me.
a0442 You live on an income which your father earned.
a0443 He was worth nothing to the world.
a0444 Then you don't believe in altruism.
a0445 The creative joy, I murmured.
a0446 He deluged me, overwhelmed me with argument.
a0447 Ah, it is growing dark and darker.
a0448 I was Hump, cabin boy on the schooner Ghost.
a0449 A sinewy hand, dripping with water, was clutching the rail.
a0450 No man ate of the seal meat or the oil.
a0451 I noticed blood spouting from Kerfoot's left hand.
a0452 Three oilers and a fourth engineer, was his greeting.
a0453 Eighteen hundred, he calculated.
a0454 The sharp voice of Wolf Larsen aroused me.
a0455 I obeyed, and a minute or two later they stood before him.
a0456 But it won't continue, she said with easy confidence.
a0457 What I saw I could not at first believe.
a0458 The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell.
a0459 There's too much of the schoolboy in me.
a0460 I had forgotten their existence.
a0461 Ah, we were very close together in that moment.
a0462 But she swung obediently on her heel into the wind.
a0463 They are his tongue, by which he makes his knowledge articulate.
a0464 Between the rush of the cascades, streaks of rust showed everywhere.
a0465 He'll never do a tap of work the whole Voyage.
a0466 Captain West may be a Samurai, but he is also human.
a0467 And so early in the voyage, too.
a0468 In the matter of curry she is a sheer genius.
a0469 The eastern heavens were equally spectacular.
a0470 He spat it out like so much venom.
a0471 I saw Mr Pike nod his head grimly and sarcastically.
a0472 He is too keenly intelligent, too sharply sensitive, successfully to endure.
a0473 The night was calm and snowy.
a0474 I sailed third mate in the little Vampire before you were born.
a0475 His outstretched arm dropped to his side, and he paused.
a0476 At this moment I felt a stir at my shoulder.
a0477 Wada, Louis, and the steward are servants of Asiatic breed.
a0478 Also, she has forbidden them smoking their pipes in the after-room.
a0479 I tried to read George Moore last night, and was dreadfully bored.
a0480 Tom Spink has a harpoon.
a0481 Nimrod replied, with a slight manifestation of sensitiveness.
a0482 And their chief virtue lies in that they will never wear out.
a0483 Beyond dispute, Corry Hutchinson had married Mabel Holmes.
a0484 No-sir-ee.
a0485 Each insult added to the value of the claim.
a0486 For the rest, he was a mere automaton.
a0487 The river bared its bosom, and snorting steamboats challenged the wilderness.
a0488 Their love burned with increasing brightness.
a0489 They were artists, not biologists.
a0490 Both Johnny and his mother shuffled their feet as they walked.
a0491 And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied.
a0492 Burnt out like the crater of a volcano.
a0493 The boy, O'Brien, was specially maltreated.
a0494 O'Brien took off his coat and bared his right arm.
a0495 He bore no grudges and had few enemies.
a0496 And Tom King patiently endured.
a0497 King took every advantage he knew.
a0498 The lines were now very taut.
a0499 And right there I saw and knew it all.
a0500 Who the devil gave it to you to be judge and jury.
a0501 You're joking me, sir, the other managed to articulate.
a0502 Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send a fellow to Molokai.
a0503 His beady black eyes saw bargains where other men saw bankruptcy.
a0504 He was an athlete and a giant.
a0505 We fished sharks on Niihau together.
a0506 The Claudine was leaving next morning for Honolulu.
a0508 Soon shall it be thrust back from off prostrate humanity.
a0509 Yet, in accordance with Ernest's test of truth, it worked.
a0510 Much more Ernest told them of themselves and of his disillusionment.
a0511 There is more behind this than a mere university ideal.
a0512 No, it is a palace, wherein there are many servants.
a0513 We must give ourselves and not our money alone.
a0514 We are consumed in our own flesh-pots.
a0515 But here amongst ourselves let us speak out.
a0516 Also, there was awe in their faces.
a0517 Out of abstractions Ernest had conjured a vision and made them see it.
a0518 Illuminating oil was becoming all profit.
a0519 Such an act was in direct violation of the laws of the land.
a0520 He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem.
a0521 Without them he could not run his empire.
a0522 For such countries nothing remained but reorganization.
a0523 They could not continue their method of producing surpluses.
a0524 At once would be instituted a dozen cooperative commonwealth states.
a0525 The Oligarchy wanted violence, and it set its agents provocateurs to work.
a0526 Nowhere did the raw earth appear.
a0527 The lush vegetation of that sheltered spot make a natural shield.
a0528 Men who endure it, call it living death.
a0529 As I say, he had tapped the message very rapidly.
a0530 Ask him, I laughed, then turned to Pasquini.
a0531 In what bucolic school of fence he had been taught was beyond imagining.
a0532 May drought destroy your crops.
a0533 Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse.
a0534 But Johannes could, and did.
a0535 A new preacher and a new doctrine come to Jerusalem.
a0536 He would destroy all things that are fixed.
a0537 He was an enthusiast and a desert dweller.
a0538 What Pascal glimpsed with the vision of a seer, I have lived.
a0539 I should like to engage just for one whole life in that.
a0540 Yea, so are all the lesser animals of today clean.
a0541 The Warden with a quart of champagne.
a0542 Without a doubt, some of them have dinner engagements.
a0543 I had been born with no organic, chemical predisposition toward alcohol.
a0544 He may anticipate the day of his death.
a0545 The Italian rancho was a bachelor establishment.
a0546 I lost my balance and pitched head foremost into the ooze.
a0547 Men like Joe Goose dated existence from drunk to drunk.
a0548 Also, churches and preachers I had never known.
a0549 Do you know that we weigh every pound of coal we burn.
a0550 This also became part of the daily schedule.
a0551 All an appearance can know is mirage.
a0552 Yet he dreams he is immortal, I argue feebly.
a0553 I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii.
a0554 Jack London, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu.
a0555 Jerry was so secure in his nook that he did not roll away.
a0556 Why, he's bought forty pounds of goods from you already.
a0557 The last refugee had passed.
a0558 And the foundation stone of service, in his case, was obedience.
a0559 Peace be unto you and grace before the Lord.
a0560 His mouth opened; words shaped vainly on his lips.
a0561 Bill lingered, contemplating his work with artistic appreciation.
a0562 What the flaming.
a0563 Mrs McFee's jaws brought together with a snap.
a0564 Then it is as I said, Womble announced with finality.
a0565 With them were Indians, also three other men.
a0566 Dennin's hands were released long enough for him to sign the document.
a0567 Now Irvine was a man of impulse, a poet.
a0568 He was just bursting with joy, joy over what.
a0569 At Lake Linderman I had one canoe, very good Peterborough canoe.
a0570 Behind him lay the thousand-years-long road across all Siberia and Russia.
a0571 He had forgotten to build a fire and thaw out.
a0572 I never saw anything like her in my life.
a0573 There was no law on the Yukon save what they made for themselves.
a0574 Good business man, Curly, O'Brien was saying.
a0575 There weren't any missions, and he was the man to know.
a0576 And the big Persian knew of his existence before he did of hers.
a0577 Once the jews harp began emitting its barbaric rhythms, Michael was helpless.
a0578 But we'll just postpone this.
a0579 There was the Emma Louisa.
a0580 This is my fifth voyage.
a0581 It was this proposition that started the big idea in Daughtry's mind.
a0582 Daughtry elaborated on the counting trick by bringing Cocky along.
a0583 Enjoy it he did, but principally for Steward's sake.
a0584 I have long noted your thirst unquenchable.
a0585 Wonder if he's a lion dog, Charles suggested.
a0586 We don't see ourselves as foolish.
a0587 He had comparatively no advantages at first.
a0588 He had proved it today, with his amateurish and sophomoric productions.
a0589 I was sick once -- typhoid.
a0590 In a way he is my protege.
a0591 We are both children together.
a0592 It's only his indigestion I find fault with.
a0593 She'd make a good wife for the cashier.
b0001 Gad, do I remember it.
b0002 You got out by fighting, and I through a pretty girl.
b0003 I can see that knife now.
b0004 When I can't see beauty in woman I want to die.
b0005 His slim fingers closed like steel about Philip's.
b0006 He seized Gregson by the arm and led him to the door.
b0007 Hear the Indian dogs wailing down at Churchill.
b0008 Burke himself had criticized it because of the smile.
b0009 I'd say there was going to be a glorious scrap.
b0010 He turned the map to Gregson, pointing with his finger.
b0011 His eyes never took themselves for an instant from his companion's face.
b0012 Something that Whittemore had not yet said thrilled him.
b0013 Lakes and rivers, hundreds of them, thousands of them.
b0014 Whitefish, Gregson, whitefish and trout.
b0015 They robbed me a few years later.
b0016 He chuckled as he pulled out his pipe and began filling it.
b0017 Everything was working smoothly, better than I had expected.
b0018 I was completely lost in my work.
b0019 His slim hands gripped the edges of the table.
b0020 He made no reply as he waited for Whittemore to continue.
b0021 Philip dropped back into his chair.
b0022 If I was out of the game it would be easily made.
b0023 MacDougall, my engineer, believes it.
b0024 It is growing, every day, every hour.
b0025 Now, you understand.
b0026 You have associated with some of these men.
b0027 And there's no chivalry, no quarter shown in this fight.
b0028 Lord Fitzhugh is the key to the whole situation.
b0029 All operations have been carried on from Montreal and Toronto.
b0030 Gregson held a lighted match until it burnt his fingertips.
b0031 Gregson had seated himself under the lamp and was sharpening a pencil.
b0032 He caught himself with a jerk.
b0033 How does your wager look now.
b0034 He confessed that the sketch had startled him.
b0035 After all, the picture was only a resemblance.
b0036 He wondered, too, where Roscoe was.
b0037 Philip knew that she was not an Indian.
b0038 In her haste to get away she had forgotten these things.
b0039 Philip took a step toward Gregson, half determined to awaken him.
b0040 The thought set his blood tingling.
b0041 But if Pierre did not return, until tomorrow.
b0042 Ten minutes had not elapsed since he had dropped the handkerchief.
b0043 It won't be for sale.
b0044 For a few moments he ate in silence.
b0045 Philip did not pursue the subject.
b0046 Philip produced a couple of cigars and took a chair opposite him.
b0047 Suppose you saw me at work through the window.
b0048 He looked like one who had passed through an uncomfortable hour or two.
b0049 There was nothing more, except a large ink blot under the words.
b0050 All this day Gregson remained in the cabin.
b0051 The sixth day he spent in the cabin with Gregson.
b0052 The flush was gone from her face.
b0053 That is why I am, am rattled, he laughed.
b0054 He understood the meaning of the look.
b0055 She was even more beautiful than when I saw her, before.
b0056 I'll give a thousand if you produce her, retorted Gregson.
b0057 They have won popular sentiment through the newspapers.
b0058 We must achieve our own salvation.
b0059 In moments of mental energy Philip was restless.
b0060 He would keep his faith with Gregson for the promised day or two.
b0061 Something about it seemed to fascinate him, to challenge his presence.
b0062 Now it was missing from the wall.
b0063 He boiled himself some coffee and sat down to wait.
b0064 I'm going down there with you, and I'm going to fight.
b0065 Now have you got anything to say against me, Mr Philip.
b0066 If I meet her again I shall apologize, said Eileen.
b0067 Below him the shadow was broken into a pool of rippling starlight.
b0068 Only the chance sound had led him to observe them.
b0069 Could the incident have anything to do with Jeanne and Pierre.
b0070 There was no chance to fire without hitting him.
b0071 There was no answer from the other side.
b0072 Then he hastened on, as Pierre had guided him.
b0073 With these arguments he convinced himself that he should go on alone.
b0074 Yet, behind them there was another and more powerful motive.
b0075 In that case he could not miss them, if he used caution.
b0076 Before Philip could recover himself Jeanne's startled guards were upon him.
b0077 It is the nearest refuge.
b0078 There was pride and strength, the ring of triumph in his voice.
b0079 The truth of it set Jeanne quivering.
b0080 Tomorrow it will be strong enough for you to stand upon.
b0081 You were going to leave after you saw me on the rock.
b0082 He bit his tongue, and cursed himself at this fresh break.
b0083 In it there was something that was almost tragedy.
b0084 Your face is red with blood.
b0085 Her eyes smiled truth at him as he came up the bank.
b0086 He can care for himself.
b0087 They will search for us between their camp and Churchill.
b0088 Until I die, he exclaimed.
b0089 Her beautiful hair was done up in shining coils.
b0090 The Churchill narrowed and its current became swifter as they progressed.
b0091 For a full half minute Jeanne looked at him without speaking.
b0092 I want to die in it.
b0093 Darkness hid him from Jeanne.
b0094 And yet if she came he had no words to say.
b0095 He heard a sound which brought him quickly into consciousness of day.
b0096 Within himself he called it no longer his own.
b0097 Besides, that noise makes me deaf.
b0098 Philip looked back from the crest and saw Jeanne leaning over the canoe.
b0099 Fifty yards ahead of her were the first of the rocks.
b0100 There was one chance, and only one, of saving Jeanne.
b0101 You're a devil for fighting, and will surely win.
b0102 I'll only be in the way.
b0103 He lifted his eyes, and a strange cry burst from his lips.
b0104 Shooting pains passed like flashes of electricity through his body.
b0105 I know that you are in charge there, and Jeanne knows.
b0106 For a full minute the two men stared into each other's face.
b0107 He was sure, now, of but few things.
b0108 It was a miracle, and I owe you my life.
b0109 Philip ate lightly of the food which Pierre had ready for him.
b0110 Such men believe, when they come together.
b0111 The journey was continued at dawn.
b0112 Jeanne and Pierre both gazed toward the great rock.
b0113 There was something pathetic in the girl's attitude now.
b0114 He moved his position, and the illusion was gone.
b0115 For two hours not a word passed between them.
b0116 I have hunted along this ridge, replied Philip.
b0117 That's Thorpe's, said the young engineer.
b0118 We saw your light, and thought you wouldn't mind a call.
b0119 Billinger may arrive in time.
b0120 There's the hitch, replied Thorpe, rolling a cigarette.
b0121 I want my men to work by themselves.
b0122 Philip saw MacDougall soon after his short talk with Thorpe.
b0123 Neither could they understand the growing disaffection among Thorpe's men.
b0124 Two weeks passed, and in that time Thorpe left camp three times.
b0125 It was the third or fourth time that Philip had heard MacDougall swear.
b0126 Blood was oozing slowly from the wounded man's right breast.
b0127 He destroyed everything that had belonged to the woman.
b0128 Philip bent low over Pierre.
b0129 Did Thorpe go to see any one in Churchill.
b0130 She saw the answer in his face.
b0131 Thorpe and his men were to destroy this camp, and kill you.
b0132 There is no need of further detail, now -- for you can understand.
b0133 There followed a roar that shook the earth.
b0134 Blind with rage, he darted in.
b0135 In it was the joy of life.
b0136 Swiftly his eyes measured the situation.
b0137 But this little defect did not worry him.
b0138 And then, steadily, he began to chew.
b0139 Together they ate the rabbit.
b0140 They edged nearer, and stood shoulder to shoulder facing their world.
b0141 It was beating and waiting in the ambush of those black pits.
b0142 Something vastly more thrilling had come into it now.
b0143 It took him half an hour to reach the edge of it.
b0144 But there was no longer the mother yearning in his heart.
b0145 Besides, had he not whipped the big owl in the forest.
b0146 After all, it was simply a mistake in judgment.
b0147 Had it struck squarely it would have killed him.
b0148 The Indian even poked his stick into the thick ground spruce.
b0149 Pebbles and dirt flew along with hair and fur.
b0150 And he was filled with a strange and foreboding fear.
b0151 It was steel, a fisher trap.
b0152 OW, a wild dog, he growled.
b0153 He was a pariah; a wanderer without a friend or a home.
b0154 That is the strange part of it.
b0155 His freshly caught furs he flung to the floor.
b0156 For that reason Le Beau had chosen him to fight the big fight.
b0157 In the crib the baby sat up and began to prattle.
b0158 She obeyed, shrinking back with the baby in her arms.
b0159 His teeth shut with a last click.
b0160 It was over when he made his way through the ring of spectators.
b0161 In a flash he was on his feet, facing him.
b0162 He thought he saw a shudder pass through the Factor's shoulders.
b0163 The moon had already begun its westward decline.
b0164 They laughed like two happy children.
b0165 He pulled, and the log crashed down to break his back.
b0166 Fast, but endure.
b0167 A little before dawn of the day following, the fire relief came.
b0168 The Indian felt the worship of her warm in his heart.
b0169 He drew in a deep breath as he looked at them.
b0170 Then he shouted, Shut up.
b0171 He changed his seat for a steamer reclining chair.
b0172 On the far corner of the compound fence a hawk brooded.
b0173 To these he gave castor oil.
b0174 Hatred and murder and lust for revenge they possessed to overflowing.
b0175 Sheldon glanced at the thermometer.
b0176 I'll see to poor Hughie.
b0177 Her gray eyes were flashing, and her lips were quivering.
b0178 Also, I want information.
b0179 Let them go out and eat with my boys.
b0180 I, I beg pardon, he drawled.
b0181 And you preferred a cannibal isle and a cartridge belt.
b0182 I was in New York when the crash came.
b0183 No, I did not fall among thieves.
b0184 Such things in her brain were like so many oaths on her lips.
b0185 Your being wrecked here has been a godsend to me.
b0186 I can't go elsewhere, by your own account.
b0187 Her achievements with cocoanuts were a revelation.
b0188 He glanced down at her helplessly, and moistened his lips.
b0189 That is what distinguishes all of us from the lower animals.
b0190 Idealism led him to philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off.
b0191 He also contended that better confidence was established by carrying no weapons.
b0192 Outsiders are allowed five minute speeches, the sick man urged.
b0193 So was Packard's finish suicide.
b0194 Joan cried, with shining eyes.
b0195 Nobody knows how the natives got them.
b0196 How can you manage all alone, Mr Young.
b0197 The planters are already considering the matter.
b0198 I use great trouble advisedly.
b0199 Dear Sir, Your second victim has fallen on schedule time.
b0200 We leave the eventuality to time and law.
b0201 I also understand that similar branch organizations have made their appearance in Europe.
b0202 Society is shaken to its foundations.
b0203 A month in Australia would finish me.
b0204 Down through the perfume weighted air fluttered the snowy fluffs of the cottonwoods.
b0205 You were destroying my life.
b0206 Horses and rifles had been her toys, camp and trail her nursery.
b0207 I'm as good as a man, she urged.
b0208 You read the quotations in today's paper.
b0209 He's terribly touchy about his black wards, as he calls them.
b0210 Whatever he guessed he locked away in the taboo room of Naomi.
b0211 This is eighteen eighty.
b0212 Death is and has been ever since old Maui died.
b0213 Some boy, she laughed acquiescence.
b0214 Let us talk it over and find a way out.
b0215 It is a good property, and worth more than that.
b0216 I wish you were more adaptable, Joan retorted.
b0217 Such is my passage engaged on the steamer.
b0218 The issue was not in doubt.
b0219 Well, there are better men in Hawaii, that's all.
b0220 Harry Bancroft, Dave lied.
b0221 It's a Yankee, Joan cried.
b0222 He was the leader, and Tudor was his lieutenant.
b0223 They likewise are disinclined to being eaten.
b0224 But to culture the Revolution thus far had exhausted the Junta.
b0225 The President of the United States was his friend.
b0226 Your face was the personification of duplicity.
b0227 Shorty turned to their employers.
b0228 You were engaged.
b0229 I saw it all myself, and it was splendid.
b0230 Now run along, and tell them to hurry.
b0231 What's that grub-thief got to do with it.
b0232 It was a superb picture.
b0233 So she said, the irate skipper dashed on.
b0234 And watch out for wet feet, was his parting advice.
b0235 Raoul yelled, in order to make himself heard.
b0236 Oolong was two hundred and fifty miles from the nearest land.
b0237 They just lay off in the bush and plugged away.
b0238 The very thought of the effort to swim over was nauseating.
b0239 And there was a dog that barked.
b0240 There are four, all low, McCoy answered.
b0241 The women they carried away with them to the Big Valley.
b0242 The Japanese understood as we could never school ourselves or hope to understand.
b0243 They had been on the same lay as ourselves.
b0244 You are positively soulless, he said savagely.
b0245 Harrison is still my chauffeur.
b0246 The boy grew and prospered.
b0247 He wanted to give the finish to this foe already so far gone.
b0248 Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol.
b0249 I know they are my oysters.
b0250 By this time Charley was as enraged as the Greek.
b0251 They must have been swept away by the chaotic currents.
b0252 It resembled tea less than lager beer resembles champagne.
b0253 The very opposite is true; they are discouraged vagabonds.
b0254 At the same time spears and arrows began to fall among the invaders.
b0255 Then, again, Tudor had such an irritating way about him.
b0256 Outwardly, he maintained a calm and smiling aspect.
b0257 Tudor surveyed him with withering disgust.
b0258 You fired me out of your house, in short.
b0259 Her mouth opened, but instead of speaking she drew a long sigh.
b0260 It's worth eight dollars.
b0261 And he did hurt my arm.
b0262 Saxon's onto her job.
b0263 Only once did I confide the strangeness of it all to another.
b0264 But this time it was Saxon who rebelled.
b0265 I was not to cry out in the face of fear.
b0266 And now put yourself in my place for a moment.
b0267 The boy threw back his head with pride.
b0268 Saxon nodded, and the boy frowned.
b0269 Why not like any railroad station or ferry depot.
b0270 We could throw stones with our feet.
b0271 It was put together in a casual, helter-skelter sort of way.
b0272 These were merely stout sticks an inch or so in diameter.
b0273 Then it was that a strange thing happened.
b0274 From the source of light a harsh voice said.
b0275 But I did not enjoy it long.
b0276 We were now good friends.
b0277 Two of the Folk were already up.
b0278 Now animals do not like mockery.
b0279 He gave one last snarl and slid from view among the trees.
b0280 Again the girls applauded, and Mrs Hall cried.
b0281 Just the same I'd sooner be myself than have book indigestion.
b0282 Some of the smaller veins had doubtless been ruptured.
b0283 But we were without this momentum.
b0284 There was one difficulty, however.
b0285 The hyena proceeded to dine.
b0286 The time was considered auspicious.
b0287 Or have they already devised one.
b0288 We would not spend another such night.
b0289 At first his progress was slow and erratic.
b0290 He placed his paw on one, and its movements were accelerated.
b0291 The awe of man rushed over him again.
b0292 The Fire-Men wore animal skins around their waists and across their shoulders.
b0293 Between him and all domestic animals there must be no hostilities.
b0294 For a much longer time Lop-Ear and I remained and watched.
b0295 All right, Sir, replied Jock with great regret.
b0296 At times I wondered where Sir Archibald got his style.
b0297 Why should a fellow throw up the sponge after the first round.
b0298 His hand shot out and clutched Crooked-Leg by the neck.
b0299 Miss Brodie's smile was slightly sarcastic.
b0300 Does the old boy often go off at half-cock that way.
b0301 A flying arrow passed between us.
b0302 I pulled, suddenly, with all my might.
b0303 Here we allow our solicitors to look after our legal work.
b0304 His previous wives had never lived long enough to bear him children.
b0305 It was our river emerging like ourselves from the great swamp.
b0306 Cameron looked at his hands with their long, sinewy fingers.
b0307 We got few vegetables and fruits, and became fish eaters.
b0308 We never made another migration.
b0309 Nor was Elam Harnish an exception.
b0310 A little treatment, massage, with some help from the doctor.
b0311 The twenty ninth very foggy.
b0312 Dig in; you're sure good, was Daylight's answer.
b0313 The apron string loomed near and he shied like an unbroken colt.
b0314 He had been born with this endowment.
b0315 And this was their sole conversation throughout the meal.
b0316 Though the aurora still flamed, another day had begun.
b0317 He did not believe in the burning of daylight for such a luxury.
b0318 Again he had done the big thing.
b0319 Daylight was tired, profoundly tired.
b0320 The regret in his voice was provocative of a second burst of laughter.
b0321 Instead, he arrived on the night of the second day.
b0322 Their supply of grub was gone.
b0323 Crickets began to chirp, and more geese and ducks flew overhead.
b0324 Not till the twentieth of May did the river break.
b0325 It was a gigantic inadequacy.
b0326 Our Mr Howison will call upon you at your hotel.
b0327 He had been so easy.
b0328 Change chairs, Daylight commanded.
b0329 I'd sooner have my chips back.
b0330 They only had a little thirty thousand dollar fire.
b0331 His partners had starved and died on the Stewart.
b0332 As to how she dressed, he had no ideas at all.
b0333 It does, was her audacious answer.
b0334 Oh, it's just a novel, a love story.
b0335 Whoever lived on the ranch did that.
b0336 How old are you, mother.
b0337 Here he got a fresh thrill.
b0338 It was unobtrusive, yet it was there.
b0339 Well, I'll be plumb gosh darned.
b0340 These quick little joys of hers were sources of joy to him.
b0341 I play that choice wide open to win.
b0342 Each improvement makes the value of everything else pump up.
b0343 But how are you going to do it.
b0344 Lots of men take women buggy riding.
b0345 Daylight made no answer, and the door closed behind him.
b0346 There's not an iota of truth in it.
b0347 But ever his gaze returned to that Crouched Venus on the piano.
b0348 Would you be satisfied with that one hundredth part of me.
b0349 In such a tumbling of values was no time to sell.
b0350 Stand off butcher and baker and all the rest.
b0351 Matthewson, who's this bookkeeper, Rogers.
b0352 Now just what do you want to know.
b0353 I want to know how all this is possible.
b0354 It's that much junk.
b0355 There was proper division of labor in the work they individually performed.
b0356 He loved to play Chinese lottery.
b0357 The Law of Club and Fang
b0358 The temperature dropped to fifty below zero and remained there the whole trip.
b0359 And as never before, he was ready to obey.
b0360 This state of mind comes of an undue prominence of the ego.
b0361 There are the canals of China, and the Yangtse River.
b0362 We threaten to be of the one mind before the voyage is completed.
b0363 She was built primarily to sail.
b0364 In the Bohemian Club of San Francisco there are some crack sailors.
b0365 My age, in years, is twenty two.
b0366 I forgot how easily I had taught myself from the printed page.
b0367 Any average young fellow can teach himself in a week.
b0368 Please do not think that I already know it all.
b0369 You see, we were teaching ourselves.
b0370 And now behold the perversity of things.
b0371 Yield yourself to the waters that are ripping and tearing at you.
b0372 Mr McVeigh told me about him.
b0373 Unlike Joshua, he stood in no need of divine assistance.
b0374 To say the least, Captain Cook was a rather thorough going empiricist.
b0375 Man could not conquer them.
b0376 Thought I, and a worthy fool he proved.
b0377 A scarlet loincloth completed his costume.
b0378 I like to speculate upon the glorious future of man.
b0379 Christmas is an easy problem compared with a Polynesian giving-feast.
b0380 He had peeled off his shirt and was wildly waving it.
b0381 And how would we ever find ourselves.
b0382 I defy any man to get a Solomon Island sore in California.
b0383 A bush chief had died a natural death.
b0384 The skipper's and Nakata's gymnastics served as a translation without words.
b0385 Last night he showed all the symptoms of coming down with pneumonia.
b0386 My idea was that he would have more influence over the natives.
b0387 It is merely the simple superlative.
b0388 I made no more overtures.
b0389 Among my minor afflictions, I may mention a new and mysterious one.
b0390 The voyage was our idea of a good time.
b0391 At sea, Tuesday, March Seventeenth, Nineteen Oh Eight.
b0392 Yes, sir, he answered, with cheerful alacrity.
b0393 I was still weak from my prolonged immersion.
b0394 The boy hesitated, then mastered his temper.
b0395 I was beneath the water, suffocating and drowning.
b0396 The pain from my hurt knee was agonizing.
b0397 The hunters were still arguing and roaring like some semi-human amphibious breed.
b0398 I have been robbed, sir, I amended.
b0399 You were looking squeamish this afternoon, he began.
b0400 How could I answer the question on the spur of the moment.
b0401 I learned it myself in English ships.
b0402 An altruistic act is an act performed for the welfare of others.
b0403 Knowing him, I review the old Scandinavian myths with clearer understanding.
b0404 Yes, and no, sir, was the slow reply.
b0405 And each year something happened, and I did not go.
b0406 How in hell did he know it was you in the dark.
b0407 Of course much grumbling went on, and little outbursts were continually occurring.
b0408 You have all the advantage.
b0409 The dirk mentioned by Wolf Larsen rested in its sheath on my hip.
b0410 Have you ever earned a dollar by your own labour.
b0411 He gave no reason, but his motive was obvious enough.
b0412 Ah, it was sweet in my ears.
b0413 He may desire to escape pain, or to enjoy pleasure.
b0414 It was impossible to hoist sail and claw off that shore.
b0415 There was nothing for us but the wide raw ocean.
b0416 I arose obediently and went down the beach.
b0417 The next thing to watch out for is bed sores.
b0418 At that moment I got the impression that she was willowy.
b0419 Your father's fifth command, he nodded.
b0420 On occasion, on this traverse, the Cape Verde Islands are raised.
b0421 She is essentially the life-giving, life-conserving female of the species.
b0422 This was when the explosion occurred.
b0423 Also, at regular intervals, he would mutter.
b0424 It is a very tenable hypothesis, and will bear looking into.
b0425 There were orange-green, gold-green, and a copper-green.
b0426 The Gabriel voice of the Samurai rang out.
b0427 The sunsets grow more bizarre and spectacular off this coast of the Argentine.
b0428 The history of our westward-faring race is written in it.
b0429 And the Eurasian Chinese-Englishman bowed himself away.
b0430 They were babbling and chattering all together.
b0431 Too much, he told me, with ominous rolling head.
b0432 He is a candidate, rising from the serf class to our class.
b0433 We are cooking on the coal stove and on the oil burners.
b0434 The steward has just tendered me a respectful bit of advice.
b0435 Well, did they eat.
b0436 Famine had been my great ally.
b0437 Nowhere in the North is the soil so prolific.
b0438 They ran the canoe in and climbed the high earth bank.
b0439 The land exchanged its austere robes for the garb of a smiling wanton.
b0440 There were stir and bustle, new faces, and fresh facts.
b0441 And there was Ethel Baird, whom also you must remember.
b0442 He had become a man very early in life.
b0443 I did not think you would be so early.
b0444 He did not know what went on in the minds of his superiors.
b0445 Mops, sir, eagerly answered the sailor at the wheel.
b0446 Some one had thrust a large sheath-knife into his hand.
b0447 O'Brien emitted a shriek that sank swiftly to a gurgling sob.
b0448 Sandel would never become a world champion.
b0449 Also, she wouldn't walk.
b0450 To my dearest and always appreciated friend, I submit myself.
b0451 You used to joyride like the very devil.
b0452 They saw each other for the first time in Boston.
b0453 Isaac Ford, the austere soldier of the Lord, the old hypocrite.
b0454 Eighteen, he added.
b0455 His reward should have been peace and repose.
b0456 He was an amphibian and a mountaineer.
b0457 It was sanctification and salvation.
b0458 The history of the eighteenth century is written, Ernest prompted.
b0459 They are not biologists nor sociologists.
b0460 The more his opponents grew excited, the more Ernest deliberately excited them.
b0461 By virtue of that power we shall remain in power.
b0462 One guess will do, Ernest retorted.
b0463 Take my advice and accept the vacation.
b0464 I could not agree with Ernest.
b0465 But such divergence of opinion would constitute no menace to society.
b0466 It is dog eat dog, and you ate them up.
b0467 Let us run them for ourselves.
b0468 It was introduced by Representative Dick of Ohio.
b0469 Very few people knew of the existence of this law.
b0470 The very thing, Ernest agreed.
b0471 Also a fellow Senator, Chauncey Depew, said.
b0472 Ernest saw in the affair the most sinister import.
b0473 Then there was the campaign.
b0474 He was manifestly distressed by my coming.
b0475 Not a wheel moved in his empire.
b0476 The reorganization of these countries took the form of revolution.
b0477 You're going in for grab sharing.
b0478 The Oligarchy will encourage such ambition and the consequent competition.
b0479 Violation of this law was made a high misdemeanor and punished accordingly.
b0480 Without discussion, it was the agents provocateurs who caused the Peasant Revolt.
b0481 The task we set ourselves was threefold.
b0482 Many other similar disconcerting omissions will be noticed in the Manuscript.
b0483 The flower of the artistic and intellectual world were revolutionists.
b0484 This the Iron Heel foresaw and laid its schemes accordingly.
b0485 The mob came on, but it could not advance.
b0486 But why continue the tirade, for tirade it was.
b0487 After all superfluous flesh is gone what is left is stringy and resistant.
b0488 Beyond refusing to sell us food, they left us to ourselves.
b0489 He was a merry monarch, especially so for an Asiatic.
b0490 What an excited whispering and conferring took place.
b0491 Jacob Brinker, who was his roadmate, brought the news.
b0492 Thus he turned the tenets and jargon of psychology back on me.
b0493 You yellow giant thing of the frost.
b0494 Never so strange a prophet came up to Jerusalem.
b0495 We who have endured so much surely can endure a little more.
b0496 I have seen myself that one man contemplated by Pascal's philosophic eye.
b0497 One great drawback to farming in California is our long dry summer.
b0498 I remembered the red wine of the Italian rancho, and shuddered inwardly.
b0499 I said, and dismissed the matter as not worth thinking about.
b0500 Then came my boy code.
b0501 And wherever I ranged, the way lay along alcohol-drenched roads.
b0502 And as we hurried up town, Joe Goose explained.
b0503 The scents of strange vegetation blew off the tropic land.
b0504 The life there was healthful and athletic, but too juvenile.
b0505 How valiantly I went at it that first day.
b0506 It would help to tide me along until I got steady employment.
b0507 Did I possess too much vitality.
b0508 In his anxiety and solicitude and love they did not count.
b0509 He had fulfilled his duty and paid properly.
b0510 He knew what taboos he was violating.
b0511 Do you value your hide.
b0512 You should have seen them when they heard me spitting Chinook.
b0513 He plodded on for half an hour, when the hallucination arose again.
b0514 Tomorrow or the next day it might be gone.
b0515 But already he had composed himself.
b0516 Zilla relaxed her sour mouth long enough to sigh her satisfaction.
b0517 Eggshell is not good to eat.
b0518 But there was also talk of witchcraft in the village.
b0519 Yea, I will tell thee.
b0520 Hans hurled himself upon the prostrate man, striking madly with his fists.
b0521 And he thought of Oona, and of her words.
b0522 Nor would it thaw out his hands and feet.
b0523 The Russian music player, the Count, was her obedient slave.
b0524 So far as flags were concerned, they were beyond all jurisdiction.
b0525 New idea, he volunteered, brand new idea.
b0526 Thirty pounds, said the captain with finality.
b0527 The very idea of it was preposterous.
b0528 Captain Doane's orders were swiftly obeyed.
b0529 Come on, Del Mar challenged.
b0530 He had a big chimpanzee that was a winner.
b0531 I am sure it must have been some adventure.
b0532 That Longfellow chap most likely had written countless books of poetry.
b0533 His abnormal power of vision made abstractions take on concrete form.
b0534 I'll tell you, the librarian said with a brightening face.
b0535 He read his fragments aloud.
b0536 Typhoid -- did I tell you.
b0537 But she had become an automaton.
b0538 At the best, they were necessary accessories.
b0539 You were making them talk shop, Ruth charged him.