... And now — tonight — Ethelred
— ha! ha! — the breaking of the door, and the death cry of the creature, and the
crashing of the shield! — Say, instead, the forcing of the box, and her cries and ... in those
halls of pleasure. The black clock struck once, and stopped. And the flames of the
fires died out. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death ruled over all.
The Barrel of Amontillado
I ... dying from the effects of a wild and
terrible experience.
My family has always produced men of strong' imaginationand uncontrolled
emotion, often of violent temper, and I am no exception....
... speak. And now —
tonight — Ethelred — ha! ha! — the breaking of the door, and the
death cry of the creature, and the crashing of the shield! - Say,
instead, the forcing of the box, and her ... Fall of the House of Usher
During the whole of a dull, dark and silent day in the autumn of
the year, I had travelled alone, on horseback, towards the House
of Usher. As I came in sight of the ... sensitivity and imagination; and these had
shown themselves in many great works of art and music. I knew,
too, the very unusual fact that there were no branches to the
family of Usher. The name and...
...
hearse, and managed to get Partlet out of it; but the fox and the
other mourners, who were sitting behind, were too heavy, and
fell back into the water and were all carried away by the stream
and ... the garden, and took the garland from the
bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the
bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the
river, and the river ... red wheels,
and harnessed six mice to it; and then he and Partlet got into the
carriage, and away they drove. Soon afterwards a cat met them,
and said, ‘Where are you going?’ And Chanticleer...
... walk home; I’ll sit on the box and be coachman, if
into the landlord’s easy chair and the other into his
handkerchief; and, having done this, they crept away as softly as
possible. However, ...
yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran
close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.
An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his
handkerchief to wipe his ... laid by the way, and said
they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying
one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a
handsome supper, and spent the evening...
... means of sprightly tales
and profitable reflections. Sages and men of sense spend their days in the delights of
light and heavy literature, whereas dolts and fools waste time in sleep and idleness. ...
adventures of the hero and demigod, the great Gandharba-Sena. That son of Indra,
who was also the father of Vikramajit, the subject of this and another collection,
offended the ruler of the firmament ... the conciseness of their language, and to
clothe the skeleton with flesh and blood.
To My Uncle,
ROBERT BAGSHAW, OF DOVERCOURT,
These Tales,
That Will Remind Him Of A Land Which
He Knows...
... the bushes were few, and I could find no sign of others or of
t'samma.
And so for days I wandered, finding a few of the berries here and there, often half
maddened and stupefied by them, ... likelihood of a return of the storm; and, full of anxiety and distress,
I made my way to this newly-formed dune, which apparently covered the exact spot of
our camp of overnight; but now no vestige of ... had had no time to pick up anything; and now the half of
our precious water, and much of our stores and ammunition, were covered by the
thousands of tons of the gigantic dune. Search as I could,...
... as a cache of secondary storage data pages. The effect of this kind of caching on the
performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic. Compilation of a small ... speech
understanding system [3] and a parallel implementation of OPS5 [7]. Mach has already been ported to more than a
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dozen computer systems including ten members of the VAX family of uniprocessors and ... advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and
its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association of Computing Machinery.
To copy otherwise,...
... compression of
the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole’
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by Roland Robertson. Anthony Giddens defines globalisation as ‘the intensifi-
cation of worldwide ... the increase in the number of global institu-
tions and movements, social issues of multiculturality and polyethnicity, and
individuals complicated by gender, ethnic and racial considerations.
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Sensitive ... The Reconciliation of Law and Religion (Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1993), ch. 13.
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See Berman, Law and Revolution; and more recently, his Law and Revolution, II: the Impact of
the Protestant Reformations...
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issue of shares, the conduct of meetings
and the appointment of directors
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a
piece of printed paper money (in Eng-
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employment sectors of the republic of Freedonia. Write a report for a university teacher...