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And while The Dry Salvages is probably out of print for good, there will be a revised version released next year as a free ebook (to coincide with the release of A is for Alien).
He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards... greygirlbeast 2008
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At the Salvages, which islands La Perouse took at a distance for masses of scoriae, even fibrous gypsum is found.
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At nightfall Madeira was in full sight: the next morning at sun-rise we saw the islands called Salvages, and in the evening we descried the Pico of Teneriffe, on the island of that name.
Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny 1818
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At the Salvages, which islands La Perouse took at a distance for masses of scoriae, even fibrous gypsum is found.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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On the 21st of September we saw the islands called the Salvages, to the north of the Canaries; when, the principal of these bore S. 1/2 W. at the distance of about five leagues, we found the variation of the compass by an azimuth to be 17° 50.
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The Salvages were the first that found their bodies, which so much the more encouraged them to effect their proiects.
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On the 29th we paffed clofe by the ifles, or rather the rocks, called the Salvages, lying in the latitude of twenty-nine degrees twenty-five minutes north, and longitude of fixteen degrees thirty-fix minutes from London.
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It had an enormous influence on The Dry Salvages, though I don't think I was aware of the influence when I was writing the novella.
"With my eyes closed I'll look closer..." greygirlbeast 2009
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As architecturally astonishing as TS Eliot's Four Quartets is, the chances are that when you think of it, you're thinking of the good bits: the last few lines of Little Gidding, the opening of Burnt Norton, or that amazing bit in the middle of The Dry Salvages.
People of Britain, it's time to carve a few lines of poetry into your wheelbarrow 2011
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"We had the experience but missed the meaning" ( "The Dry Salvages," II, 93), he wrote.
Where Time and the Timeless Intersect James Zinsmeister 2010
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