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How different it all was from the harsh red angularities of Mars! He was outside, breathing deeply, inhaling the perfumed air with delight. This was the only heaven; beyond that far-flung immensity of planetary orbs was hell! He, Hilary Grendon, the carefree, smiling skeptic of old, was a Fundamentalist now.
The solemn hills that flanked the wide stretches of Sunset Valley seemed to hint of it somberly. Mystery was in the serene calm that seemed to encompass the big basin; from the far reaches westward, in the misty veil that seemed to hang from the far-flung shafts of sunlight that penetrated the fleecy clouds, came the sinister threat the whole section seemed to pulse with it.
The house that Prosper Gael had built for himself and for the woman whom Joan came to think of as the "tall child," stood in a cañon, a deep, secret fold of the hills, where a cliff stood behind it, and where the pine-needled ground descended before its door, under the far-flung, greenish-brown shade of fir boughs, to the lip of a green lake.
Yet, on the whole, progress, especially in the last twenty years, has been unquestioned and rarely paralleled. Political has kept pace with economic change. The far-flung Dominion is at last being welded into one, and a Canadian nationality is arising of a distinct character and with conscious unity.
Tom Corbett's first day at Space Academy began at 0530 hours with the blaring of the Cadet Corps Song over the central communicators: "From the rocket fields of the Academy To the far-flung stars of outer space, We're Space Cadets training to be Ready for dangers we may face.
Mulligatawny soup and tinned lobster will not bring you the favor of the woodlanders. Every cañon commends itself for some particular pleasantness; this for pines, another for trout, one for pure bleak beauty of granite buttresses, one for its far-flung irised falls; and as I say, though some are easier going, leads each to the cloud shouldering citadel.
Ready hands tore away her disguise, she was tilted by crowding in the poop nearly every man on board, the engines throbbed, and she was afloat. At daybreak the thousand-foot peak of Fernando Noronha was a dark blur on the western horizon. No sail or smudge of smoke broke the remainder of the far-flung circle. The fugitives could breathe freely once more. They were not pursued.
As seems to have been demonstrated in the valley of the Aisne, they are apparently ineffective against field forces deeply intrenched in a far-flung line. Early on Tuesday morning, October 6, one of the fiercest of the engagements outside Antwerp ended with the crossing of the River Nethe by the Germans and their approach to the inner forts.
Alexander was sitting on the mossy rock, her eyes wandering off across the far-flung landscape. Now their gaze came back, recalled by something wistful in her companion's voice, and it occurred to her that this man himself would have towered above the generality. "Ye're a right sizable sort of feller yore own self, Jerry," she reminded him and he laughed a shade bitterly.
It must have been a far-flung romance, for the Craigs reputedly came from up in the Wind River district. "At any rate there they are. Myrah is a good housekeeper and has been a good caretaker of an aged man. Joe was never a cow man. He has a crippled hand. In his young days he roamed the country as a hunter and trapper.
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