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He aimed them towards Uweinat and its granite plateau so they could get water, take shelter in the caves. It was a halfway point. In the 1930 he had discovered caves with rock paintings there. But the plateau was crawling with Allies and he couldnt
I left them with the others and went to join a man in Kufra and spent many days with him, trying out theories I had kept secret from the rest of the expedition. I returned to the base camp at El Jof three nights later. The desert fire was between us.
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 4 All this June week, Doremus was waiting for 2 P.M. on Saturday, the divinely appointed hour of the weekly prophetic broadcast by Bishop Paul Peter Prang. Now, six weeks before the 1936 national convent
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 2 As he took his wife home and drove up Pleasant Hill to Tasbroughs, Doremus Jessup meditated upon the epidemic patriotism of General Edgeways. But he broke it off to let himself be absorbed in the hills
Chapter 1 The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club. Here in Vermont the affair was not so p
CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the white, stumbling stuff near the palm terrace. Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think; and only her
7 A TINY BIT of light came through the shower curtains and all from our room, and I could see him lying in bed. I knew damn well he was wide awake. Ackley? I said. Y'awake? Yeah. It was pretty dark, and I stepped on somebody's shoe on the floor and d
Chapter 6 - Balashvs interview with Napoleon Though Balashev was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury and magnificence of Napoleons court. The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception room where many generals, gentlemen-in-waiti
Chapter 8 - Prince Andrew on Kutzovs staff in Moldavia. He visits Bald Hills After his interview with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrey went to Petersburg, on business as he told his family, but really to meet Anatole Kuragin whom he felt it necessary
Chapter 22 - Pierre meets old acquaintances Staggering amid the crush, Pierre looked about him. Count Peter Kirilovich! How did you get here? said a voice. Pierre looked round. Boris Drubetskoy, brushing his knees with his hand (he had probably soile
Chapter 6 - The fox hunt The old count went home, and Natasha and Petya promised to return very soon, but as it was still early the hunt went farther. At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees. Nikolai standing in
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 29 Mr. Collins's triumph, in consequence of this invitation, was complete. The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himsel
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 10 While I hate befogging my pages with scientific technicalities and even neologies, I feel constrained to say here that the most elementary perusal of the Economy of Abundance would convince any intell
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 13 And when I get ready to retire I'm going to build me an up-to-date bungalow in some lovely resort, not in Como or any other of the proverbial Grecian isles you may be sure, but in somewheres like Flor
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 14 I joined the Christian, or as some call it, the Campbellite Church as a mere boy, not yet dry behind the ears. But I wished then and I wish now that it were possible for me to belong to the whole glor
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 18 In the little towns, ah, there is the abiding peace that I love, and that can never be disturbed by even the noisiest Smart Alecks from these haughty megalopolises like Washington, New York, etc. Zero
Chapter 38 His packing was done. It had been very simple, since his kit consisted only of toilet things, one change of clothes, and the first volume of Spengler's Decline of the West. He was waiting in his hotel lobby for time to take the train to Wi