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"It was only three weeks in that thing," Ava said, "From Third Canal in the Yakhan
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I've never felt more at home than I do at our home off Third Canal, not even in the home I had as an Angel
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"I like that porch between the basin and canal," she said, "I like their crossed salad bowls
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They turned right onto the tenth floor street of third canal, indoor at that point, and were immediately outside again between third canal and the yacht basin
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Here the structures of the canal-front only extended to this level, there were no residential trees above the single building that separated the basin from the canal
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It had been over fifty Earth years that Kulai had owned this place, but this structure had been completed while Europe was in the dark ages and Third Canal had been the beachfront
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The boat was undoubtably fast, as fast as an ocean racer from old Earth in all likelihood, but could go no faster than traffic on Third Canal
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Third was pretty industrial along here only two and a half miles north of the Kassikan, but there were still at least thirty floors of residences above each side of the canal
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The canal and the avenues on each side were not as wide as their height above them
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They were above the highest bridge across the canal
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She could see more than a mile up the canal, but they had come farther than that on the way here
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"What canal is this?" he asked from the cabin
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The city is not on Beghtik dam, but draws water power thru the cut into the last canal of the interconnects
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She clung to the companionway rail while he charged thru the remaining canal
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Then, he took Serpent's mate to create Woman's birthing canal
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He had to have the kedas slow way down till he was sure they were going to get under one stone arch where they went under a canal
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‘There’s even a canal which used to carry the coal along
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pristine canal of Cotswold stone
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"Because it was first used to move great boulders, I built the whole thing for one project, a canal project I think
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With Byram Hermosa from the shop, he cruised down the narrow canal between the thick roots of towering apartment trees and into the open lake, bound for the Yakhan, determined to cover the fifteen hundred miles in a native week
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It was best just to walk along the most interesting level of whatever canal you were on and take in whatever you happened across
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Cargo was transferred from lake vessels to urban canal rafts in the outer harbor and then towed by rope into and thru the canals
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It would be like this all the way to the address where she now lived, a palatial urban estate in the old stone off third canal
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At each cross canal, traffic was a nightmare
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He was held up for a good fraction of an hour in a big rope-snarl across the whole canal coming from the upstream lock
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Its windows began on the tenth floor from here, the top floors of the finished stone, but its front door would be on the indoor street that crossed Third Canal on the eleventh floor
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Most of the buildings on the back side of this yacht basin were similar, while those out front along third canal had twenty to thirty floors of stone and crystal instead of ten to fifteen, and the eleventh floor street was indoors
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Instead he took her to breakfast at The Balconies; well down the canal
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Shipping cut comes up the side of the city, and right at the turn the buildings along the canal are small so the view of the whole city from the land side spreads before you
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In a couple miles you reach lake henarDee and the dam itself where there are three miles of seventy-story waterfront till the beginning of the Grand Canal that goes on to Chardovia
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Early in Morningday they had passed the Trans-Lantis Canal and the town of Chefiyaiya
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That canal goes over to the Lita river and so is a short-cut to Bostok
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Their big still here was their only one in Wescarp, barrels went out on river boats and canal barges from here
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To get thru behind the main pier and Lastriss Point there is a canal of stone blocks, covered by the streets and plazas above except in a few atriums
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It was commercial sidewalks along the canal, dimly torchlit even in Dusksleep, though most of the stalls were empty
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There is one point where it opens out into a pond larger than the one in Yoonbarla, three different canals lead under ten floors of city out to the harbor, another goes back into the city and the ship canal
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She looked around a little and saw the trace of a kayak canal, now filled in with leaves and a bit of struggling chussweed
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They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile
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This mineral has an antiseptic effect on the alimentary canal, is a constituent of the haemoglobin and keeps the blood purified, and prevents toxic impurities from accumulating in the body
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A meander had been shot thru with a canal, then there was a complex corridor a few miles to the northeast, with a couple sets of tide control locks to pole thru
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Byia waved cheerfully to them as they rode calmly up the thru canal in a line of traffic that reached out of sight ahead and behind
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“My sentence includes both ends of the alimentary canal
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Even though he never activated an alimentary canal in his personification, his brain definitely sent the upchuck command to his stomach and he would have done so if that part of his personification was rendered
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The bad news was, without magic she had the alimentary canal to deal with, and she had to deal with it while bobbing in this boat that seemed no bigger than a bottle cap in the wide expanses of sea they crossed
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The canal gliders in Kassidor Yakhan were closer to the casino ships she saw on media as a mortal than this boat
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This was any five mile stretch of any main canal in the Yakhan, twenty miles or more from the center of the city
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She wasn’t really going with anyone lately, but she still spent a lot of time in his universe, most of it in the Highlands, and now she was spending a lot of sleeps back in the Yakhan in a small marble palace off Third Canal
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There were some places where the canal cut thru the bank, and one interesting spot where this three hundred foot wide canal strode above the ground as an aqueduct for more than two miles, at one point passing a hundred and forty feet above a small river in a valley that looked stuck in a much earlier age
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They hardly ever used any sail here, just poles and wheel-spars that bore on the well shaped curb stones of the canal
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There were feet of tide here and it ripped thru the canal relentlessly, carrying the traffic with it
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“Yes, stay on this canal, it’s way up
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After another hour on this crowded residential canal behind North Beach he was getting stiff from the tiller and turning in the seat to handle it
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The greying plank of the balcony rails was in the firm grip of thickly knotted vines, heavy with pods and flowers in the narrow crack of sunlight that penetrated this canal
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This far up the canal, only small trees were growing above them, still dwarfed by their initial crystal support pillars
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The street was on the second floor of the homes along this canal
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The homes were between street and canal here, there was no walkway along the side of the canal along here, just a stubby dock where the needleboats and u-paddles stopped and a stairway between two homes that lead up to the street
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The homes overhung the canal a foot or two on their upper floors, except at this public dock
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The homes were of generous size however and from the amount of laundry showing on the multiple floors of ropes strung across this small canal, probably heavily tenanted
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He couldn’t cross the lake and had to take the canal around the North Sentinels
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Ava stretched out in an early Noonsleep while the hours slid by on the canal
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She may have come down this canal on her way to that
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“I think we’re in Chardovia,” she said, “It’s the first big city on the Grand Canal
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It was a little auto-lock that took them up to the Eleknane Canal about halfway down that lake
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Jorma tied and locked the boat on the quiet side of a public dock in a sleepy little village center with some perishables stands, a keda yard, an inn behind it, and an arched stone bridge on a paved road that paralleled the lake from Chardovia to Sistril passing right in front of the inn, one small field back from the canal
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“We really only exchanged a few sentences about him, it was down at the Bigtree, down by the canal
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It was three blocks back from the canal on an inner corner of a path barely wide enough for two people or a push-cart to pass
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Its yard went thru from the main street to the canal, but was nothing but well-chewed keda graze with some troughs in it
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It hadn’t used it’s trunks as part of the front wall as well as some, and it didn’t have canal frontage
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” She pointed inland, up the canal and away from the lake
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He wound up just watching the noontime wee-flutters and listening to the charraspas on the hedges that lined the canal for quite a few hours
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They were at the foot of the crystal along Second Canal, around here they had to find an inn with boat parking
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It was down in a backwater between the foundations one lock down off Fourth Canal, still within a long walk of the Kassikan
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There was a thick brick wall eight feet high above the uppermost public street line, generally the sixth to twelfth floor except here on the Third Canal side where it was more like the twentieth
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This was well below lake level, probably below the level of the next large canal downslope
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Kulai’s mother was quite independent now and had a career as a janitorial inspector in a large retail operation on Second Canal and Gazzizon Locks
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“We don’t make those, there’s a shop on the back canal
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” He pointed to the back way out of the yacht basin that lead to a small lock and residential canal
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He was not on duty at the Kassikan, he was not on Kassikan property, but in a sense he was a spokesman for the Kassikan in this wasn’t he? “I know of no way to get farther back than when that boatman from North Shore Canal noticed she wasn’t getting off,” Kulai said and that was solid truth
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They were already on the long bridge over Third Canal
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The bridge itself had a fine view of the busy canal but the traffic was heavy and they couldn’t loiter or even converse while crossing
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The Morningday sun was already bright on the plaza by the canal where they ate their lunch, and before they were done, Kulai was afraid the whole deal was going to fall apart because of the beer
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On top of that, he provided a delicious breakfast, made by his servant, on a deck overlooking a yacht basin right back of Third Canal
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Almost all the water inside the Kassikan’s walls was indoor and most of it was on two levels, that of Second Canal’s third small, and that of Third Canal
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I know where this is, it’s down beyond Seventh Canal about six locks south
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There she went down to the cargo level and dodged teams and wagons and came aboard with a load of brined karga that would probably be Nightday dinner on Grand Canal
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All thru Nightday and well into Dawnsleep she paced the deck while the darkrunner toiled in foul winds thru Shipping Cut and the Grand Canal
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As they beat back and forth across the canal in the chill glimmers of dawn, a needleboat cruised by them, and she couldn’t help herself thinking it was Jorma
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Back by Ninth Canal it was probably the 53rd when that area was filled in
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Ninth Canal had crossed Canyon Lake on a bridge when he was young
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Now that the morn was warm enough to venture out, he was strolling the second level on Fourth Canal, actually half a block up from the canal, strolling the crystal-way on the sixth floor
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It was toward the Kassikan, but closer to Third Canal
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Kulai’s place was on a mid level street that crossed Third Canal on a suspension bridge at the eleventh floor
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When he arrived back at Kulai’s he was brought inside to a large room overlooking a major street that ran toward the canal along the yacht basin ten stories below
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This one lived back in the small fields well behind the busy street that was along the canal
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“Yeah, I lived up Chardovia way for awhile about that time, but it was out on main canal south
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When he got there he found the canal was a one way, more for irrigation than transportation and he had to pull the heavy little needleboat to park
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The shore of Canyon Lake itself is a wall of cliff, three hundred to six hundred feet high, but the cliff is all balconies with Canyon Lake docks and beaches at the base, Ninth Canal at the tops of the elevators
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It was an hour and a half til be got there, delighted to do the last twenty minutes under motor on a less built-up side canal, one with actual crop land along the shore here and there, a thin line of well-kept town homes lining the remaining bank
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You’re getting closer to 4/1/7 Canal by then
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Jorma did not take the most direct route to the side canal and the dock where his boat was hidden
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Her side of the headboard was picked over, the light stuff was gone, a picture of a home in the inner canals remained, a feathered set of hair rings was gone
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They were well down into the central parts of the main canals now, close to the Kassikan, though she could not see even a shadow of the pyramid from here
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the canals and wires that connect the universal whole
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Their own small community was twenty seven miles inland of Gengee City in sparsely settled cerrado far beyond the reach of the city's irrigation canals
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He tried to stay out of the thirty square miles where the main canals were closest to each other to the south of the Kassikan
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There were too many Gnomes on the streets, reminding you that the cellars go down dozens of floors in that area, damp with seepage from the great canals above
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It was just before breakfast on an Afternoonday and he was working his way thru the city in a long line of rafts getting towed by keda teams along the canals
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Cargo was transferred from lake vessels to urban canal rafts in the outer harbor and then towed by rope into and thru the canals
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They did have some silent little motors that could move them sedately thru the canals
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They had another bite of late lunch with Athnu, there was traffic on the canals
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They had to pole the ship thru the canals they cut thru the weeds
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The plots within a day's paddle of the city center are a maze of canals, most of them only about six feet wide
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There is one point where it opens out into a pond larger than the one in Yoonbarla, three different canals lead under ten floors of city out to the harbor, another goes back into the city and the ship canal
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As Smith dreamed and experimented and changed the fabric of time and space, as He formulated infinite varieties of life and death across the vast expanse of the void, small packages of His thought leaked out from beyond the horizon of Smith’s dreaming and drifted through the aeons and along the canals and wires that connect the universal whole
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canals of mortar, marks the spot where he is buried
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Thru that Nightday they maneuvered thru heavy traffic as the boating and irrigation canals became common on the west side of the city and the enthora plantations had ended
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Great canals had been carved thru the inner island and those rowboats covered the water, along with sailing ships of every description
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From here she could see canals went into the island that had many of those rowed taxi cabs plying their waters
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“All along the Konocongcus, the third set of locks and canals from here, the one with the strobing lanterns,” Ava was already beginning to move off in the direction of the dock
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They are connected by wide canals that follow the contours of the relatively flat land in this area
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Three weeks later on a Morningday they were sitting on the starboard foredeck in the last of the canals of the interconnect
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The Canals of the Yakhan
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But after a few hours of struggling thru city traffic in the mazes of small canals or the ships and barges of the main canals, he was already thinking they probably should have taken a lake runner to Chardovia
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You said Hyondahi was from The Hub and found himself ‘stuck’ out here in the north canals these decades later, I don’t remember how many
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He got on with a group of tourists however and they gawked at the miles of crystal walls they had to paddle thru where the canals run close to each other
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He walked from there, it was little more than three more miles but there were eight canals and all their locks in those miles so walking was much faster
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And after that, why did she have to get attached to him all over again once they got here? Why did a simple peasant have to look so manly at the controls of that needleboat on that stupid ride? Why couldn’t Tdeshi’s hormones let her be unmoved by the line of his jaw, the ruffle of his hair in the breeze as they cruised the canals all the way to the north end of the burbs and back?
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Only two locks down from Seventh, it was out of the bustle of the major canals, close to neighborhoods she was familiar with
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Still, there would be land, water, air, men and women, canals, homes, pickup places
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He was sleeping in the boat under docks right in the city canals since he hadn’t gone back to the room Ava rented and couldn’t afford anything else
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The third of the land that was nearest the canals was urban in these parts, just barely urban
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He could see from the sky that he should stick to the canals, the wind was still blowing and the lake would be covered with chop
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The canals here were a mess however and it took him over two hours to get thru henarDee
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He still had miles of canals and locks to go, but he would still get where he was going well before Nightday lunch
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This had been dismissed as a ruin earlier, in the midst of thick jungle earlier but now that they knew what to look for they saw a densely populated lacework of canals
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Being naked had been a little daring in the canals of Dos but not in the yaag dens of Wescarp
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This was a very different city, the hangleaf fronds and numerous large canals curving with the dam were unlike anything on Earth
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There were miles and miles of marble city blocks, big canals and many smaller lakes choked with ships
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dog floating in one of the canals, from then on keeping his
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crossing canals and a garden that was (literally) a tourist
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Even though the Yakhan is actually bigger, it is spread out into satellites and long, narrow urban strands along the canals
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canals, lanes and courtyards of the town, sans crowds
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on the land, but live constantly in little fishing-boats upon the rivers and canals
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town
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islands and just as many canals – it’s a city which has the
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Since we don't have open country here, but winding back streets, canals, a scattering of village centers every few thousand yards, plenty of foot and wagon traffic, I don't think ground pursuit is practical right now
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They flew between the buildings of the city along canals, they could not fly over them
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In here it was like the Central Fastness of Zhlindu but with canals
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They could see a good part of the whole sweep of the lake around them, the beach north of the city, the lacework of canals, the towers of the beach and the sparkling waters of the lake beyond
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To the east he could see that the lacework of canals went for many miles further than they could see from the floater
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There was no one clump of city as large as the clump in Zhlindu, but there were so many canals with so many miles of city along them that there could well be more in total
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Just south of them the main canals ran near each other for miles so there was often hardly any low or single-layer city between them, but that was on the other side of the pyramid
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The reliefs on the walls are out of this world, and I love the paved roads and water canals
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When high-roads, bridges, canals, etc
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In China, and in several other governments of Asia, the executive power charges itself both with the reparation of the high-roads, and with the maintenance of the navigable canals
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This branch of public police, accordingly, is said to be very much attended to in all those countries, but particularly in China, where the high-roads, and still more the navigable canals, it is pretended, exceed very much every thing of the same kind which is known in Europe
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But in order to render that produce both as great and as valuable as possible, it is necessary to procure to it as extensive a market as possible, and consequently to establish the freest, the easiest, and the least expensive communication between all the different parts of the country; which can be done only by means of the best roads and the best navigable canals
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In Europe, therefore, the sovereign does not feel himself so directly called upon to promote the increase, both in quantity and value of the produce of the land, or, by maintaining good roads and canals, to provide the most extensive market for that produce
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The sovereigns of China, those of Bengal while under the Mahometan govermnent, and those of ancient Egypt, are said, accordingly, to have been extremely attentive to the making and maintaining of good roads and navigable canals, in order to increase, as much as possible, both the quantity and value of every part of the produce of the land, by procuring to every part of it the most extensive market which their own dominions could afford
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in a similar way to the approaching aircraft, but in time rather than space - the canals, electricity, railways, roads, television, mobile phones, the
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Of this kind are the duties, which, in French, are called peages, which in old Saxon times were called the duties of passage, and which seem to have been originally established for the same purpose as our turnpike tolls, or the tolls upon our canals and navigable rivers, for the maintenance of the road or of the navigation
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“There’s a network of canals that brings water down from
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The days passed by quickly as one by one the drainage canals were repaired and upgraded
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“While the flood still covers everything”—his words seemed careful, measured, almost hesitant—“the drainage canals run across the flow
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“And Lowell later, who thought he saw canals
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“As it turned out, there happens to be a huge difference between canali and canals
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None of these missions found canals or direct signs of life
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There were ruder houses of mud and thatch barely visible along side streets and the numerous canals
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Instead, the inhabitants get around by boat on the network of canals
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She mostly loved sailing through the city’s canals and dining at some of the best Italian cuisine
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Similar to some canals in Venice, this Great Canal does not resemble in any way the one of that beautiful Italian city
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They had river transportation and dug canals
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Austria, like Prussia, was modernizing with new roads, bridges, canals, and railroads
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only wherever water could be coaxed out of the nearby river or one of the many canals
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The 21-mile drop in elevation between Lake Superior and Lake Huron allows the passage of huge Lake carriers though the system of locks, dams and canals built since 1855
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He propped another can in the regular spot, they rolled earplugs between their fingers and screwed them into ear canals, Frankie was sent to the rear
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I’ve travelled by ship through both the Panama and Suez canals
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After another nightmare train trip I arrived back in Alexandria, with its canals and swamps, where a charming Lebanese took me by the hand and we wandered the city, drinking sherbets
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After analysing all the relevant data, Tony predicted that if we ever had a king tide accompanied by unusually high rainfall in the coastal ranges, coinciding with cyclonic winds from the sea, or something like that, then the canals would burst and join the river systems, drained land would revert to swamp, and silt would create a sandbar parallel to the coast, causing the river to sweep south and scour out the beach in front of us here
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The big news was the storm surge, the damage, potential danger to their properties, the ruined canals – everything except the art
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„That"ll teach them to dig those abominable canals and destroy some of the most beautiful wetlands this country has known
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Acid soils, created by draining melaleuca wetlands, had been attacking concrete foundations since the canals were first dug, and insurance companies had been refusing cover on some places for years
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The roads, except for those patches along the coast that had fallen into the sea, were fine, they"d been built to last, well drained and not slap up against canals
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No one mourned the passing of fast-food outlets, the busy road that had usurped the once peaceful Esplanade, the high-rise apartments, or the canals
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Drive to the far end of the old K Mart car park where the canal"s become a swamp
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The milliners’ workshops comprised a long, shadowy row of single-storey warehouses and sheds backed on to one of the city’s many canals
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We had considered exploding the ice but it is impenetrable and aside from that, if we were successful we could not gauge the damage of water flooding our rivers and canals
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Crossing the various navigable tributaries and canals along the encroaching Mediterranean, heavy artillery positions, the turrets of buried tanks and anti aircraft positions could be seen to either side of each inlet
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building called the hall of records and pools of beautiful waters and canals
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He auctioned off his roosters to the highest bidder, recruited men, bought tools, and set about the awesome task of breaking stones, digging canals, clearing away rapids, and even harnessing water-falls
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It is quite another thing to wage war on the blind canals of nature
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It was necessary to dig canals to get the water out of the house and rid it of the frogs and snails so that they could dry the floors and take the bricks from under the bedposts and walk in shoes once more
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Convinced that Úrsula would carry the secret to her grave, Aureliano Segundo hired a crew of diggers under the pretext that they were making some drainage canals in the courtyard and the backyard, and he himself took soundings in the earth with iron bars and all manner of metal-detectors without finding anything that resembled gold in three months of exhaustive exploration
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I also have dental insurance that has covered, perhaps $12,000 for visits, cleaning, fillings, extractions, and root canals and crowns over the last 9 years
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Most of my days were spent either in the fields with Gled and my mother, or clearing the debris from the leagues of canals that supplied our water
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“Your great-grandfather led the council with wise and fair judgement and our village was a happy and prosperous place, the taxes and work details demanded by Teotihuacan were paid each season with ample left for the village, the irrigation canals and sluice gates that Teotihuacan taught us to build and maintain, gave us water whenever it was needed, the gods smiled and life was good, soon after we married, your father took his place on the council and life happily went by, until one evening not long after you were born I noticed he began to look worried and tired, I asked what troubled him and all he would say was that it was council business, not satisfied, I soon had the whole story from him
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The invaders would have to cross rivers and canals more than twenty metres wide and had no means of getting across
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From my start at the University of Montpellier Medical School, to my training with Julius Scaliger in Agen, to my curing of the plague in Aix-en-Provence, to my building of the canals of Salon, I have always put the interests of my fellow man before my own
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‖ ―The business about building canals seems a far stretch to go to make a point,‖ said the professor, writing down ―canal