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[001] of a high mound. There Top stopped, and gave a loud, _____ bark. Spilett, Herbert, and Pencroft dashed into the
[002] alf crazy when I saw these footprints. They were very _____ and went towards the downs. I followed them for a qu
[003] e." "No, it was not I," replied the Negro. "It's very _____ that the captain came here by himself," said Pencroft
[004] captain came here by himself," said Pencroft. "It is _____ in reality," observed Spilett, "but it is not credibl
[005] eaned, was soon roasting like a suckling-pig before a _____ , crackling fire. The Chimneys had again become more
[006] they had conjectured, the waters of the stream flowed _____ and limpid between high banks of red earth, the color
[007] the watercourse. It was only a large stream, deep and _____ , formed of the mountain water, which, half river, ha
[008] Yes," replied the engineer. 'Also, since the night is _____ , I will try, this very evening, to obtain our latitud
[009] ecessary to take the height of the pole from above a _____ horizon, that is, a sea horizon, and as Claw Cape hi
[010] -day if the weather permitted. The sun rising above a _____ horizon, announced a magnificent day, one of those be
[011] ap of the Pacific, but my memory has preserved a very _____ recollection of its southern part. The latitude whic
[012] rything for his astronomical observation. He chose a _____ place on the shore, which the ebbing tide had left p
[013] ture, let it settle, then decanted it, and obtained a _____ liquid containing in solution sulphate of iron and su
[014] ngth. All the carpenter's work that was needed was to _____ some trees of their branches: this was a business of
[015] then eight o'clock in the morning. The sky was very _____ , as it often is after prolonged cold; but warmed by t
[016] lue as that of a Mediterranean gulf, when the sky is _____ . Claw Cape, bent in the form of a yataghan, tapered a
[017] rhood were very numerous, among others, certain very _____ marks of claws. Herbert did not hesitate to affirm th
[018] hich interrupted its course. This creek was deep and _____ , but it was absolutely unnavigable. "We are cut off!
[019] rren side must have refused. The weather was fine and _____ , and from a height of a hillock on which Neb and Pen
[020] d have taken the settlers four hours to do this, on a _____ ground and without hurrying themselves; but as it was
[021] attacks of other beasts." "Then," added Neb, "we can _____ the plateau, and transplant wild plants to it." "And
[022] d beasts, from which Gideon Spilett was so anxious to _____ their domain. Before the cold season should appear the
[023] tever appeared on the shore! And yet the document was _____ enough; there was a castaway, and this castaway shoul
[024] r which filled the deck escape. Then the vessel being _____ , he descended to his cabin without having uttered a w
[025] ck to enter the gulf, and I should like to see my way _____ in these unknown quarters." "Quarters which appear to
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[001] this is coal. Nature gives us these things. It is our _____ to make a right use of them. To-morrow we will commen
[002] om any task: a determined sportsman, he would make a _____ of what till then had only been a pleasure to him. H
[003] as to clear some trees of their branches: this was a _____ of some days. Directly the bridges were established,
[004] asure; but he had no equal in the sewing part of the _____ . Indeed, everybody knows that sailors have a remarka
[005] is the December of the northern zones, and the great _____ was the making of warm and solid clothing. The musmon
[006] on was raised, and Spilett, who had not forgotten his _____ as reporter to the New York Herald, having declared t
[007] s blowing from the northeast, which will soon do our _____ for us." There was no reason for delaying the inaugu
[008] inst six, the chances are equal. To the most pressing _____ first." Ayrton and Pencroft pulled vigorously towards
[009] hat remained to be seen. Chapter 6 However, the chief _____ of the colonists was to make that complete explorati
[010] esident Kennedy today pushed aside other White House _____ to devote all his time and attention to working on t
[011] hborhood grocery and variety stores be allowed to do _____ on Sunday. The only day they "have a chance to co
[012] y outlets and department stores not be allowed to do _____ " on Sunday. They "operate on a volume basis", it was
[013] states, and a strong fight against discrimination in _____ and industry. "We must keep the bloodstream of Ne
[014] len Elementary school, Fortier High school and Soule _____ college. From June, 1942, until December, 1945,
[015] they could not draw up a plan for reorganization. _____ relations between the companies and city have been u
[016] n countries by helping them help themselves. Private _____ is more effective than government aid, he explained,
[017] he last couple of years the Bears management got the _____ from the "Living Room Athletic Club" when games were
[018] from English into Italian. He will be coming here on _____ in December, when the wedding is to take place in Wa
[019] luxury of the relatively new and fast-grossing motel _____ . #ALL FOR $14!# At the Boxwood Motel in Winchester
[020] the past 25 years that totals $840,000. #IT'S BIG _____ # "Big
[021] # "Big _____ , this little Thrift Shop
[022] , this little Thrift Shop _____ ", say the members. For most of the 25 years the oper
[023] fficial bodies use recording machines for all public _____ in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstan
[024] ced". Admitting that main streets and the central _____ district should have priority, the Councilman said
[025] me to Portland in 1920. He owned a logging equipment _____ here from 1923 to 1928, and later became Northwest
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[001] e water would have obliterated all marks. Neb did not _____ to find his master living. It was for a corpse that he
[002] Neb to say,-- "Why, friend Pencroft, what more do you _____ ?" "Half a pound of tobacco," replied Pencroft seriou
[003] age to you," shouted the sailor, who himself did not _____ any great result from this mode of correspondence. W
[004] They were in a frame of mind to imagine anything or _____ anything. They listened eagerly for sounds outside. T
[005] t I must add that they are more human than one could _____ from his appearance." "However, we shall see," replie
[006] few hours the colonists would definitely know what to _____ . Cyrus Harding and Herbert having immediately called
[007] t is necessary that we should know beforehand what to _____ ." Ayrton took the glass and pointed it in the direct
[008] il she is nearer, and then we shall soon know what to _____ ." So saying, Ayrton sat down in a corner of the room
[009] Should the settlers fall into their hands, they must _____ no mercy! "Well, we shall know how to die!" said the
[010] incoln Island, until then so happy, and who might now _____ still greater misfortunes. Spilett remained in Granit
[011] e sailor. Certainly, this man, whoever he was, might _____ a somewhat too energetic embrace from the worthy Penc
[012] de up long ago, my boy," answered Pencroft. "I shall _____ you. You will bring me your wife and children, and I
[013] gent's cooperation, the governor said. "I would _____ the proposed committee to hold public hearings", Mr.
[014] e [the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry] _____ to establish closer relations with nations and their
[015] ht", says Mrs. Grinsfelder, "that is exactly what we _____ to offer them. We've been working for weeks. The pro
[016] tions conference. It disclosed that the builders: _____ their own production volume, and presumably sales, t
[017] es to take part in politics, but the American people _____ them always to remember the obligations of national
[018] rch takes upon himself a life of giving. He does not _____ to get great riches or he would not have chosen to a
[019] lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and _____ interpretation of the infinite through him- we who r
[020] to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to. We _____ him to be noble, and to make us so- yet he knows, an
[021] ies to tell us, how very humble man must be. We _____ bestowal of God's love through him. But how little l
[022] ement possibly come from? You certainly can't _____ the infield to do any better than it did last year.
[023] o even better in 1961 than he did in 1960. You can't _____ it, though. Robby's performance last year was tremen
[024] omething about pitching to him last year. They don't _____ to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
[025] reat glove and the long ball going for him. But they _____ to reduce his over-all offensive production. #BREE
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[001] doubt, were watercourses. On the first cone rested a _____ , slightly rounded, and placed a little on one side, l
[002] re pierced by reddish rocks. They wished to reach the _____ cone, and proceeding along the ridge of the spurs se
[003] rength by eating first and sleeping afterwards. This _____ stage of the mountain rose on a base of rocks, among
[004] of the first magnitude, at its left arm a star of the _____ , and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude.
[005] ot of the pole and my visual ray for hypothenuse; the _____ has for its sides the perpendicular cliff, the height
[006] he place where the pole was thrust into the sand. The _____ distance between the stick and the bottom of the clif
[007] Greenwich, that is to say, on the hundred and fifty- _____ degree of west longitude. Cyrus Harding announced thi
[008] n the islet for the first, and his companions for the _____ time. On their landing some hundreds of penguins look
[009] itself into a ball, and bristled with spines, and the _____ because it had sharp claws, a long slender snout whic
[010] he first lump, and was used as a hammer to forge the _____ on a granite anvil, and thus they obtained a coarse
[011] ion of the metal, gives natural or puddled steel; the _____ , produced by the carburation of the iron, gives stee
[012] efore his master could restrain him, he had plunged a _____ time into the lake. All ran towards the bank. The do
[013] n the ground several feet distant from the mine. The _____ fiber being set on fire, it would burn till it reache
[014] o be raised to the level of Granite House. As to the _____ ladder, it was secured both at its lower part, which
[015] crop we shall reap eight hundred grains which at the _____ will produce six hundred and forty thousand; at the
[016] Fahrenheit, that is, thirteen degrees below zero. A _____ fireplace had been established in the dining-room, wh
[017] t think of complaining. However, once or twice in the _____ week of August, the traps supplied the hunters with
[018] sary for eating and sleeping. They hunted much in the _____ part of September, which led Pencroft to again entre
[019] been constructed in five days. A seat in the stern, a _____ seat in the middle to preserve the equilibrium, a thi
[020] a cold chisel and hammer, and the lid thrown back. A _____ casing of zinc lined the interior of the chest, whic
[021] d arranged with care. This was also indicated by the _____ case of metal which had preserved them from damp, an
[022] ten o'clock in the morning when the canoe reached a _____ angle of the Mercy, nearly five miles from its mouth.
[023] , and transplant wild plants to it." "And prepare our _____ corn- field!" cried the sailor with a triumphant air.
[024] thways, and after having been rendered malleable by a _____ heating, it was extended on a plate and spread out wi
[025] 1500 to 1550; In south latitude: from 300 to 350 The _____ gave exactly: In longitude: 1500 30' In south latitud
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[001] shall know what we have to depend upon, and we will _____ accordingly." The meal ended, fresh armfuls of wood
[002] to have this point settled." "I think that we should _____ with caution," said the reporter. "Such is my advice,
[003] e thing to be done at present; wait for day, and then _____ according to circumstances. But let us go to the Chi
[004] e floor of the bridge and establish a pile- driver to _____ on the tops of these piles, which would thus form two
[005] an incident would come to his aid and change into an _____ of humanity that which was at first only a doubtful
[006] erything then was in favor of these brave men whom an _____ of humanity was taking far from their island. Thus i
[007] ious plants, and in this way the acid and potash could _____ on each other through the clay. Cyrus Harding then t
[008] beach! Cyrus Harding and his companions were ready to _____ , but, determined though they were, they must not forg
[009] ? Pure bravado doubtless, unless it was a sign of the _____ of taking possession. Harding knew now that the vesse
[010] It hides us from the eyes of the pirates, and we can _____ without attracting their attention. The most importan
[011] es in which any one else would not have been able to _____ ? If it was he, he possesses a power which renders hi
[012] ou would not wait until they had committed some fresh _____ of hostility against us?" "Isn't what they have done
[013] ow did the colonists possess an efficacious agent to _____ against the inflammation which might occur? Yes. They
[014] stion of knowing how, in their condition, they were to _____ against the pirates, was thoroughly discussed on the
[015] we have to chastise crime, we have, on the other, an _____ of gratitude to perform." "That was well said, captai
[016] pilett in the sailor's ear, "then will be the time to _____ ." Pencroft, convulsively clasping the butt-end of his
[017] s said in Granite House, to have been able always to _____ in the very nick of time? Every one, wrapped up in h
[018] mbiguous". It recommended that Fulton legislators _____ "to have these laws studied and revised to the end o
[019] for a friendly test suit to test the validity of the _____ , and then the sales will begin and contracts let for
[020] approval of Gov. Price Daniel's "abandoned property" _____ seemed certain Thursday despite the adamant protests
[021] vigation District. The third amended the enabling _____ for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District,
[022] sed in questioning. Karns said it was a "wrongful _____ " for Wexler to take statements "privately and outsid
[023] ss on a bill amending the National Defense Education _____ of 1958. This would provide for long-term Federal lo
[024] tlands where birds breed; a pesticides co-ordination _____ ; stronger water pollution control programs, and Fede
[025] atile "Kings /4, Plus Two". This is the strongest _____ to hit the area in a long while- a well integrated,
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[001] of the said scissors. The manufacture of a hand- saw _____ infinite trouble, but at last an instrument was obta
[002] Pencroft, drawing from his lips the object which had _____ him a grinder!-- It was not a pebble--it was a leaden
[003] t that the peccary had received the bullet which had _____ Pencroft a grinder. In the meanwhile, considering the
[004] in its profoundest recesses? It was necessary at any _____ to ascertain this. Harding also reminded his companio
[005] hich she carried. This Ayrton resolved to learn at any _____ , and as an hour after his arrival the vociferations
[006] ermittent fever, and this fever must be cured at any _____ before it should assume a more serious aspect. "And
[007] st and most beautiful trees, which would besides have _____ immense labor to fell, and the small ones only were
[008] ents of this terrible war? How much blood had it not _____ ? How many of their friends must have fallen in the s
[009] ombined to achieve greater efficiency and reduce the _____ of administration". The City Purchasing Departmen
[010] ore deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced _____ to the state. There was no debate as the Senate p
[011] DC dependency". #"MUST SOLVE PROBLEM"# The monthly _____ of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the count
[012] itol hill. It was defeated in Congress last year. # _____ UP TO $37 A YEAR# It would be financed by boosting t
[013] , except that the patient would pay $10 a day of the _____ for the first nine days. _2._ Full payment of n
[014] . In addition, the government would pay a $1,000 " _____ of education" grant to the schools for each $1,500
[015] nts. Officials estimated the combined programs would _____ 5.1 million dollars the first year and would go up t
[016] n Co. contracted to do the work at an impossibly low _____ with a bid that was far less than the "legitimate" b
[017] the Hughes concern contracted to do the repairs at a _____ of $500 for each joint. The bid from A. Belanger and
[018] hotels and multi-family dwellings to $5 a room. The _____ of a license now is $2, with an annual renewal fee o
[019] ed goods of the country, at what he termed a "social _____ ". Martin said the government has been working to
[020] d", he said ruefully. Each of the four wayward shots _____ him two strokes. So he wound up with a dozen. "
[021] ig event. In addition to the bundles, guests pay the _____ of their dinners. Members of the young set who would
[022] he builders were "resistance to high interest rates, _____ advantage of buying over renting has narrowed, shelt
[023] the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at _____ to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set
[024] mbership in a system. All services are given without _____ to members. So obvious are these advantages that nea
[025] ed to let things ride- a course that would appear to _____ him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in
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[001] selves. After working an hour, Pencroft, who was in a _____ state of perspiration, threw down the pieces of wood
[002] . It was more than the sleep of a volcano; it was its _____ extinction. Cyrus Harding's attempt would succeed. Li
[003] s lost in obscurity. But there was no doubt as to the _____ extinction of the volcano. Before eight o'clock Hard
[004] shore appeared to be an absolute desert. Until a more _____ exploration, it might be admitted that the island was
[005] , Shark Gulf." "Capital!" cried Pencroft, "and we can _____ the resemblance by naming the two parts of the jaws
[006] f the island was thus finished, and later, they would _____ it as they made fresh discoveries. As to the points o
[007] be said, however, that the settlers were men" in the _____ and higher sense of the word. The engineer Harding co
[008] re ranged near each other, until the time when their _____ desiccation would permit them to be used in building
[009] arewells of the warm season. It was now necessary to _____ the observations of the evening before by measuring
[010] make charcoal. They then left the transformation to _____ itself, and it would not take less than ten or twelve
[011] of their little world. His faith in the engineer was _____ ; nothing could disturb it. He believed him capable of
[012] on could be pronounced on this question until after a _____ exploration of the island. Two days after--the 28th o
[013] arding, "I do not quite see the use of it; and a more _____ supply of clothes or more abundant ammunition would h
[014] ft seriously, "and nothing would have been wanting to _____ my happiness!" No one could help laughing at this sp
[015] cautionary measure, Pencroft did not as yet allow him _____ liberty, rightly wishing to wait until the limits of
[016] vel of the lake was lowered, though very slightly. To _____ the enclosure the bed of the stream on the beach was
[017] e future use of the colony. Cyrus Harding, wishing to _____ his performance, established a pigeon- house in a co
[018] te House, the arrangement of which was becoming more _____ from day to day. The engineer made a turning-lathe,
[019] reporter for languages, masters who were delighted to _____ his education. The tempest ended about the 9th of Ma
[020] The operation, ably directed by Cyrus Harding, was a _____ success. The wool, previously impregnated with a solu
[021] storm howling without. Their comfort would have been _____ , if
[022] , if _____ comfort could ever exist for those who are far from
[023] y some inexplicable laws, appear to agree and become _____ at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that wa
[024] ust, the plateau of Prospect Heights was menaced with _____ destruction. After a busy day the colonists were slee
[025] that hill," said Spilett, "we can no doubt obtain a _____ view of the island, which will greatly facilitate our
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[001] same trees, belonging, for the most part, to the pine _____ . In certain places, less crowded, growing in clumps,
[002] or making their bows. It was the crejimba, of the palm _____ , which does not bear edible fruit. Long straight bran
[003] ladium macrorhizum," an herbaceous plant of the arum _____ . They had an excellent taste, and were very nutritiou
[004] spite of their size, they were of the same liliaceous _____ as the onion, chive, shallot, or asparagus. These tre
[005] animal in question did not belong to the redoubtable _____ of the plantigrades. It was only a koala, better know
[006] had not gone half a mile when from a thicket a whole _____ of quadrupeds, who had made a home there, disturbed
[007] p and drawing out one of these representatives of the _____ of sus by the little appendage which served it as a t
[008] to one of the four species which are included in the _____ , and they were also of the species of Tajacu, recogn
[009] hen there were numerous groups belonging to the same _____ , among others one in particular, the fruit of which p
[010] add," said Herbert, "that the eucalyptus belongs to a _____ which comprises many useful members; the guava-tree,
[011] rees or iron- bark trees in Australia, belong to this _____ of the myrtaceae, which contains forty-six genera an
[012] ape and gazed at it attentively. He belonged to the _____ of anthropoid apes, of which the facial angle is not
[013] orilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon. It is to this _____ of the anthropoid apes that so many characteristics b
[014] of the berries of these shrubs, which belong to the _____ of the caprifoliaceae. The only thing to be collecte
[015] pped for the distant voyage, in which the nobleman's _____ and the captain's children wished to take part, and
[016] from all that a man holds dearest in the world, his _____ , his friends, his native land!" Matters being thus de
[017] ion in employment "one of the most serious causes of _____ breakdown, desertion, and ADC dependency". #"MUST
[018] aid, are "two of the principal underlying causes for _____ breakups leading to ADC". #CALLS FOR EXTENSION#
[019] es, including both parents, as a means of preserving _____ unity. Research projects as soon as possible on t
[020] ncrease the fee for rooming houses, hotels and multi- _____ dwellings to $5 a room. The cost of a license now is
[021] ty wife, Connie informed him that an addition to the _____ can be expected late next summer. Unfortunately
[022] , 20; Kathy, 15, and Patricia, 9, round out the Shea _____ . Shea was born in Manhattan. He attended New York
[023] summer, probably a hundred times as many gas up the _____ car, throw suitcases, kids and comic books in the ba
[024] ery. Mr. Shoettle has agreed to do a portrait of the _____ of the person who wins the door prize. The even
[025] , will rejoin her father, Dr. Eugene Vickery, at the _____ home in Richmond pl. Wednesday for part of the Carni
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[001] in a porcupine, rather inferior eating, but of great _____ , thanks to the quills with which it bristled. These q
[002] d necessitate measuring the height of the cliff. The _____ of this angle would give the height of Alpha, and con
[003] material, rough, no doubt, and such as would have no _____ in a manufacturing center of Europe or America, but
[004] pons and his tools," replied Pencroft. "You know the _____ which castaways set on such articles as these the la
[005] ts harbor, its resources of all kinds so increased in _____ by the colonists, and the concealment afforded by Gra
[006] 1st of October--were employed in saving everything of _____ , or of any use whatever, either from the cargo or rig
[007] plants, zoophytes, chaplets of pearls of inestimable _____ ; and, finally, his eyes rested on this device, inscri
[008] quainted. That coffer yonder contains diamonds of the _____ of many millions, most of them mementoes of the time
[009] lter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the _____ of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J.
[010] for selling their country's secrets. #"OF HIGHEST _____ "# The fact that secrets of the Dreadnought, and ther
[011] information, he said, would have been of the highest _____ to a potential enemy. #COURT CLEARED# Just how man
[012] y could make the information involved seem of little _____ to a jury, the chances of their clients would improv
[013] e company must apply its percentage allowance to the _____ of the raw materials removed from the ground, not to
[014] ply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the _____ of the finished products rather than the lower
[015] of the finished products rather than the lower _____ of raw clay alone. President Kennedy, in signing
[016] nuers stressed, the deduction must be reduced by the _____ of the benefit received. #@# A RULE on the Federal
[017] , and they are- but with a difference. They know the _____ of being just that- an ordinary, happy family.
[018] ncrete progress at lower levels. But Mr. Kennedy saw _____ even in an informal meeting, provided that undue hop
[019] Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the _____ of the President's making a final effort in the summ
[020] t there is also a certain depreciation in the market _____ of his services. A man does not make that kind of ga
[021] y any classes of citizens intended to ... effect the _____ of labor ... tend to convert all its branches into m
[022] by the demand for the manufactured article and the _____ of that which is paid for it; but the right does not
[023] osition. Since Laos is of no more purely military _____ to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this appr
[024] educational stations have found them of considerable _____ . But, lacking money from commercial sponsors, the st
[025] T TO TOGETHERNESS# REACHING AGREEMENT on projects of _____ to the whole community has long been one of Greater