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Besides, he swallows some of your badgers or fox-dogs by the way of pills and boluses. This is our misfortune. Cease to fear, good people, cried Pantagruel; this huge Wide-nostrils, this same swallower of windmills, is no more, I will assure you; he died, being stifled and choked with a lump of fresh butter at the mouth of a hot oven, by the advice of his physicians.
William the Testy, a dreamer, a speculative philosopher, an impractical inventor, with a smattering of all knowledge, was easily recognised as the President of the United States. His suggestion of windmills as a means of defence was a burlesque on Jefferson's little gunboats, and his government by proclamation a parody on the embargo and its proclamations.
There were miles of these ditches cutting through farms and woods, past windmills and red barns and rolling wheat fields, stretching away to the northwest, parallel to the river. "They've done a lot of work here," said I, impressed by the extent of these operations. Astor answered with a smile that puzzled me. "They have done more than you dream of, more than any one dreams of," he said.
A series of windmills, a group of inflated balloons, a flock of geese all asleep on one leg, a circle of ballet-dancers, just poised to begin, a band of patriots just kneeling to take an oath upon their country's altar, a senate of tailors, a file of soldiers, a whole parish of Shaker worshippers, a Japanese embassy performing Ko-tow: these all in turn come like shadows, so depart.
His manner, when he found, and indeed when I admitted that I was following him, was not the manner of an honest man. 'Oh! she cried, throwing up her hands as in desperation, 'Don Quixote, Don Quixote, have you again been tilting against windmills? And then, with a laugh, 'Poor soul! she added, 'how you must have terrified him!
The captain spoke too loudly." We went out to the guns which were to do a little shooting, and found them camouflaged from aerial eyes in the grim desolation of the battlefield, all white after a morning's snowstorm, except where the broken walls of distant farmhouses and the windmills on Kemmel Hill showed black as ink.
Later, he went about, first on the shore which gradually widened and became so large that there was room for fields and meadows and farms then up on the flat highland, which lay in the middle of the island, and where there were no buildings except windmills, and where the turf was so thin that the white cement shone under it.
Meantime the real Gloria had a far different part to play. Every morning, with a terrible reality at her heart, she glanced over the newspapers for news of John Storm. She had not far to look. A sort of grotesque romance had gathered about him, as of a modern Don Quixote tilting at windmills.
The works of man breathe over us a dismal, sepulchral, stand-still feeling. The villages have the nightmare, and men wear wooden shoes. The day's ride, however, was memorable with novelty; and when we saw Mont Martre, and its moth-like windmills, telling us we were coming to Paris, it was almost with regret at the swiftness of the hours.
When isolated tracts of the atmosphere have been rendered rare and light under the concentrated warmth of the sun, it is simple weight the weight of colder and heavier portions of the air that makes winds rush into the spots where the deficient downward pressure is, and that causes the sails of innumerable windmills to whirl before the impulse of the breeze.
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