World's Work, Volume 1Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts W. Heinemann, 1903 |
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... gait and carriage in keeping the line true . By three minutes past nine two hundred and fifty boys are ranged in the hall . At the desk the head- master . Before him the assistant master , who beats. 30 THE DAY'S WORK.
... gait and carriage in keeping the line true . By three minutes past nine two hundred and fifty boys are ranged in the hall . At the desk the head- master . Before him the assistant master , who beats. 30 THE DAY'S WORK.
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... hundred girls are running , skipping , dancing and shouting . They have had nearly two hours of Scripture and geography and reading , but for ten minutes the real girl peeps through the Education Bill and shows her heels - perhaps a ...
... hundred girls are running , skipping , dancing and shouting . They have had nearly two hours of Scripture and geography and reading , but for ten minutes the real girl peeps through the Education Bill and shows her heels - perhaps a ...
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... hundred per cent . increase in the value of the work done . " " Mr. Stewart took charge of the work in April , 1901 , and in the first part of January , 1902 , the whole of the superstructure was finished , a record which made him the ...
... hundred per cent . increase in the value of the work done . " " Mr. Stewart took charge of the work in April , 1901 , and in the first part of January , 1902 , the whole of the superstructure was finished , a record which made him the ...
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... hundred and fifty miles to the nearest point of Corsica . That interval can be covered in seven or eight hours by a torpedo - boat ; in less by a destroyer ; and there are French ports at both ends of it ; so that any spot in the ...
... hundred and fifty miles to the nearest point of Corsica . That interval can be covered in seven or eight hours by a torpedo - boat ; in less by a destroyer ; and there are French ports at both ends of it ; so that any spot in the ...
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... hundreds of millions of money and hundreds of thousands of lives . No sane man , I think , believes that we shall ever ... hundred miles from land of some sort ; and although in the ante - steam era such a sea was sufficiently large to ...
... hundreds of millions of money and hundreds of thousands of lives . No sane man , I think , believes that we shall ever ... hundred miles from land of some sort ; and although in the ante - steam era such a sea was sufficiently large to ...
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Page 207 - I saw brown, bronze, yellow faces, the black eyes, the glitter, the colour of an Eastern crowd. And all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. They stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea.
Page 207 - I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
Page 483 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Page 482 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Page 207 - A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib...
Page 209 - I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
Page 630 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 226 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 209 - I MUST go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking...
Page 699 - Quality they be, in Fee simple, for Term of Life or Lives, or in any other manner howsoever, and also any Goods, Chattels, or Personal Estate whatsoever, as well for enabling them the better to carry into Execution, encourage and promote by just and lawful Ways and Means, such Measures as will tend to promote and extend just and lawful Commerce...