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In this chapter we meet the Swan and the Camel
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The Swan Posture (Swanasana) As its name indicates, it is a graceful exercise and will, therefore, especially appeal to women readers, although its benefits also to male sufferers from backache can hardly be over-estimated
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Like many other Yoga asanas the Swan Posture consists of two opposite movements which I have demonstrated in figures 15 and 16, page 61
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I stood awhile and saw the large male swan who had been up river gently float by
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Then the spaniel spotting the sitting swans and went for the female sitting next to me, well that was its first mistake as the male swan gave sharp hiss and drove the spaniel away
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Zeus did to Europa, in the guise of a white bull? Or when He’d ravished the Spartan Queen Leda after turning into a swan
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We moved from farm country to the woods at the base of the Swan Mountains in Montana, living on acres of dense pine and fir forest laced with snowberry and wild spirea, black hawthorn, birch, and aspen
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Lady Swan became Cross Cleave in a blurring of the blade that reflected the light, becoming Shadow Dancer followed by Night Hawk’s Wings
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meal and she would always play The Swan Princess while preparing
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have our Swan Princess” declared Miss Lovensky and called out the
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It was a place called The Singing Swan, and it was a gathering place for the contemplation of life
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Cygnus - The Swan
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She walked out to the specific boulder that is in the middle of the stream while snapping a photo of Tater chasing a swan
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Rather than dressing in a utilitarian style, they’ll swan about in elaborate national dress
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was going to land her into danger but, then the mother swan glided over her head and landed onto
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The father swan waited for the cygnets to walk up his back
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"Go in and he will follow," the father swan spoke
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The father swan looked at the ruffling hedges, flapped its wings towards the policeman’s arms
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"He couldn't have survived," the mother swan slid her head behind her right wing
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"I'm with Slinks and the Blind man, look, it’s only a baby swan," Daniel protested as he stroked Babsy
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"Quack," said the eldest swan
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He looked at the upset swan and its cygnets
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He walked up to the father swan and it widened his wings
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policeman peered over the bridge, he could see the swan out on his own, the young cygnets
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The swan looked
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"I need to return it to you," he shouted running after the flying swan
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neck, the mother swan swung her left wing out and battered them with one heavy blow
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The Hindu name for this stage is the Hamsa, which means a swan, but the word is also considered to be a form of the sentence So-ham,
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There is a tradition, too, that the swan is able to separate milk
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For you see, Clarice was formerly homely herself, and now looked as though she were a glorious swan or multifaceted peacock
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But a clean tanging wind bellied her silken sail, and as a wild swan cleaves the sky to her nest, she sped seaward, flames mounting higher and higher from her deck to lick at the mast and envelop the figure that lay lapped in scarlet on the shining pyre
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I clocked a packet of Marlboro cigarettes on the side table in the living room and picked it up along with the box of swan vestas sitting on top of it
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Captain Swan opened the communicator and pushed a button
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” Captain Swan said
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” Captain Swan said as he picked up a limb and went up the rope ladder
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Captain Swan taped the device on his chest and in a flash of light he was gone
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“Captain Swan, this is Tim
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Captain Swan and his crew appeared all around them
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“Where is the guy with the communicator?” Captain Swan asked
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“Captain Swan is here
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” Captain Swan told him
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” Captain Swan told the men holding him
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Captain Swan opened it and pushed the button to turn off the transmission
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” Captain Swan told them
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” Will told Captain Swan
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” Then does a swan dive out
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The beautiful swan was very still and Jessica notice that the wing was at an unusually angle and she gasp when she saw blood coming from its beak
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So much for this swan being in a Christmas post card this year, a piece of the biosphere during the earth quake
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But it was too late, the swan was floating upside down
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The Angel went and walked on top of the water to where the dead swan was floating
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swan and the Angel had both disappeared back into the depths of inner creation itself
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Jessica waded into the pond to the area that the Angel and the swan were just standing
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swan feather that she had from the biosphere, and put it into the dream catcher as sacred
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They sang an old Celtic song about a swan in the enchanted forest
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I also have received payment from Dailey Swan Publishing for a number of short stories to go in their anthology and had short stories published in MediaVirus magazine (as editors pick) and in The Absent Willow Review magazine
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Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, “You’re on!” Just as the neo-Conservative placed his money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death
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Twenty seconds after her jump started, Nancy was still falling, still in a swan dive stance, and was approaching the 200 meter altitude mark
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They booked into the Waters Motel overlooking the Swan River and spent a week sightseeing and visiting estate agents, they both decided they didn’t want to live in a city, so they decided to head north, travelling up the coast still keeping to the rule of switching drivers and not exceeding six hundred kilometres a day, Shirl saw a couple of sites she liked, and visiting Monkey Mia they were both captivated by the friendly dolphins she was not too happy with Shark Bay, the craft they used for the cruise was a hover boat and could put you directly over the shark’s without disturbing them, the bay was quite shallow varying between two metre to one metre deep, the waters were crystal clear and to Shirl’s horror the water revealed thousands upon thousands of shark’s and ray’s of all sizes, Shirl, because of the dolphin’s, had been thinking seriously about settling in Denham but after seeing Shark Bay she decided to keep looking, Murray had left the choice of location up to Shirl, he would live where-ever she settled
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Anyway, he disguised himself as a swan, and when she went to embrace the swan, he mated with her
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―It was a swan, and yes, I have no idea why a woman would want to have sex with a swan, but she did, and as a result, her daughter hatched out of an egg
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Then he hooks up with ladies while he"s dressed like a swan
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―Dad, we‘ve got it! I put in the search you told me, and it came back with that story about Zeus being a swan
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―But then it said that after the lady fooled around with the swan, she had three kids, not just Helen
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The father of the gods (ZEUS, WHO APPEARED AS CYGNUS, THE SWAN)
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“What instructions does the Captain of the Black Swan wish you to pass
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aptly named the Black Swan
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By rights the Black Swan should have ten powerful rocket motors which would
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the Black Swan and Michael now remembered where he had seen one before
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The Black Swan was now the possessor of six new engines and one of its
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Swan had sufficient power to operate as an interplanetary craft
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power supply was connected the Black Swan became a war machine with a
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The results of the test firings meant that the Black Swan had left the
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were gratefully received into the resources of the Black Swan
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distance were against him and he dared not show the Black Swan at an Official
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serenely away and for the first time Michael realized that the Black Swan was
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Meanwhile the Black Swan weaved undetected amongst the outer
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Swan had taken the copy belonging to the First Officer
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that the official arms chest had been transferred to the Black Swan, thus
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Very soon the Black Swan would decelerate and all the loose cargo would
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There was a sullenness aboard the Black Swan which annoyed Harry
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the prisoners safely secured, the Officers and the Crew of the Black Swan
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Harry made the count, the retros fired and the Black Swan slowed
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guided the Black Swan with his one good eye alternating between the view
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With great skill Harry gently brought the Black Swan to its moorings and the
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refuel the Black Swan
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Swan in readiness for a long journey
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Swan shot off into the void to make her rendezvous
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the Black Swan was missing
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“It certainly is, but it would be a lot better if the Black Swan was here as
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possibly to warn the Black Swan of the
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Ten minutes later Harry treated the Black Swan to some unusually rough
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to obtain a' fix' on the Black Swan, should it answer their call, Neville had
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unaccustomed sloppiness, the supplies were thrown out of the Black Swan and
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drifting towards the nose of the Black Swan
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“This is Black Swan
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“Is Charlotte still on board the Black Swan, Ben?"
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course, but there was still no sign of the Black Swan
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Soon the Black Swan was in view and it was headed straight for Mars,
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Black Swan is going to burn up in the Martian atmosphere how long has she
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Swanned in here at seven o'clock, picked up a bottle of Grouse and said he had some business to do
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The clouds looked brighter although still foreboding, as they swanned across the rapidly lightening sky
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In particular they kept a lookout for pickpockets and swindlers, who simply swanned in the roulette salons, and reaped a rich harvest
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He would have loved to criticise her for not doing a better job and swanning off to London when she was needed there, but unfortunately couldn’t because he had authorised the trip, a decision he was now starting to regret
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He said to me, “What are you doing here swanning about?”
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Even before the letter he’d been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South
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over the heads of slowly spiralling swans
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who stand on the slipway talking to the winter grubby swans
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straining to see the swans as they merge into the melting air
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They were at a tranquil pond shaded by willows and populated with graceful swans
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grassy banks watching the swans
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I noticed two swans across the river Avon dipping their heads in the swift flowing river obviously combing the water weed for insects
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I sat awhile and then continued my walk in an anti clock direction until I came to a spot with a view of the lower river, and here concentrated, where a flock of young swans some loosing their grey plumage and a few others with a full set of the bright white plumage
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A couple of the younger swans had started to approach me and his appearance made them move back
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He looked me over, I had heard swans could be dangerous, so I moved away and carried on with my walk
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Every so often I would return with brown crusts in my pocket and always I would sit on the same bench and both the swans the female in the lead would come across the river from their island home and sit with me whilst I fed them
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I called to him to be aware of the swans and the put his spaniel on the lease
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Well he did not but kept on coming straight and shouting ' this be our path not for the likes of swans
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Then the spaniel spotting the sitting swans and went for the female sitting next to me, well that was its first mistake as the male swan gave sharp hiss and drove the spaniel away
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“Well I got her for ten minutes and then she padded back to the water, I went down where the young swans are and I see what you meant, he's very protective about his area
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"I DID hear you Seaboy, but something inside of me said TOUCH THE FLOWER", Flitter shrugged his shoulders, "Anyhow Old Harold's island is not the best place to visit, his swans get mad if we get too close
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The swans called out but did not approach
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The swans that brushed the evening tide
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swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments! 22 With what and what
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21 Not so do siren melodies or songs of swans attract the hearers to listening O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments! 22 With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! 23 But religious reasoning having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings enabled her to forego for the time parental love
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even a smal lake with ducks and swans
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Several waterfalls descended from the rocks above to form ponds laden with fish and swans
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window where the swans and ducks were asleep
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"The swans belong to me, they are my spies," Krome shouted
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He watched the swans disperse into a line of five babies and two parents
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"He cannot walk, he will not be able to go far in this windy night, look, the swans and the rabbits are hiding behind that bush," Kimberley protested
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As the storm became persistent within Frith Le Firth, the swans, geese and ducks flew over to
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"Jezzabell must be in this storm," the policeman looked at the swans
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seagull’s are mean things, they enticed the swans to fight trespassers
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provided protection for the swans, ducks who wanted to shelter
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memories of fatty thighs of swans,
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But what I liked most were the beautiful swans in the pond
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Regarding this matter there was a warning sign to any person who molested any of the swans
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The Water Swans Ascended
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swans that inhabited the pond
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The swans makes its nests by the ponds edge every spring
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Elephants must have a bell around their necks to warn swans; hunting camels is prohibited; it’s illegal to eat grass from a place where cows or sheep graze
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“Enough for us and all the swans and ducks on the river, by the look of it!” said Frank as he peered into the basket while struggling with the cork
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swans and fearsome pirates with beautiful princesses
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Of the broken-winged swans in their struggle to fly
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Could they be happy as swans? It seems that the spirit of
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“They killed the swans, Mommy,” said Jasmine through her
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pair of swans, male and female that had lived on the island in
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The swans had been sort of mascots to the university,
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university cut off the heads of the two swans that
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I know the swans are trivial in the face of war and
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the urn to the lake where the swans had lived and sprinkled its
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the horizon, two swans swam in front of the island followed by
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She put her headphones on and sat alone on a bench next to the water, watching the ducks and swans
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They may at first seem to be ugly ducklings but they also have the potential of becoming mighty and beautiful swans
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The glass-paned doors in an old cornflower blue hutch revealed many fine collectables; gold-rimmed dishware, pitchers with red hearts, whimsical figurines (graceful ballerinas, magical magicians, and white as snow swans), and ceramic roses in various shades of red
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There were no swans in here, no dragons threatening to jump out of his closet and eat him whole
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Birds would fly above, deer would graze in the distance, and swans would glide in the water, spreading their wings and bellaring cries of just, for this land was theirs and theirs alone
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Together, and with the utmost care in the world, the swans flew into the distance, toward the land of the sparkling sea and the never-ending sun
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Anna Marqes, a seven-year-old who attended the local primary school, could make origami swans
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She’d found that, once in a great while, Anna would leave a room without saying a word and disappear to make swans in some random part of the house
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Paper swans didn’t fly, especially not when you tried to catch them
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We called ours Swans, Kookaburras, and Ducks, but it’s the same thing
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Behind them swans and ducks floated on the easy-flowing river
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known as the Sydney Swans
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The lochs are grandiose and beautiful with swans and ducks residing there as their natural habitat
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Swans are the closest thing in bird culture to human love
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The swans (Snow Geese) of Hokkaido in northern Japan, are born in Siberia, but migrate every year to their island sanctuary in Japan, when the Russian winter becomes too severe
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Swan Lake is an ancient ox-bow lake where legend is that blue Swans swim and the devil himself has a stylish domicile nearby
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But it is a restricted lake and nobody I know has ever seen any blue swans or the devil
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And then imagine that we were to suddenly exist, to suddenly appear today in modernity, as adults, to perceive the stars, moon, sun, trees, grass, mountains, sea, lakes, animals, horses, elephants, swans and other people, etcetera, wouldn’t we be absolutely amazed, astounded, bewildered, and shocked at the sight and vision before our eyes? Perhaps we have forgotten, or never realized or never had time to reflect and think about how miraculous and incredible creation is
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Instead, his answer was to take a step to her, put his arms around her, squeeze her tightly, then lift her feet from the porch floor and carry her into the house, down the hallway, and into the bedroom, where he placed her gently on the queen sized bed covered with its wool blanket custom-woven for the cottage on nearby Swans Island
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better mates Gary Potteraya suggested we shoot the swans; and in spite of my violent
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dead swans with dangling throats
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There were no gilded swans or towers of sugar, but there was plenty of roasted meat, boiled fish, new bread, beans and spring berries
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And then a herd of swans tried to eat me
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At this point you’re probably rereading that last line and wondering what’s wrong with me and the answer to that is that SWANS TRIED TO EAT ME
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Swans don’t eat people
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These swans jumped out of the water, snorting and hissing and running at me like goddamn cheetahs
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I stopped to catch my breath and was about to inform him that I’d just been accosted by an angry mob of swans, but then I considered how that might sound
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Also I wasn’t sure if two swans could be classified as a mob but then I decided that you should always be honest in marriage
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Victor disagrees with me about this, mostly because my honesty often ends with me insisting that I’ve just been assaulted by swans
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And, yes, I know that it’s not technically assault if they didn’t actually touch me or pull out a knife, but I can recognize intent and I’m fairly certain that the swans were not furiously chasing me down in order to scream “HUG ME!!!” Mostly because swans are mute
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I don’t know the psychology of swans
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Victor insisted I had misunderstood the swans and so I looked swans up on the Internet and it was mostly pictures of their being all graceful and regal but when I looked hard enough there were plenty of websites saying “Oh, those motherfuckers will tear a bitch a down
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Swans are dangerous but are never held accountable, I suspect because of racial profiling
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Then Victor tried to explain that “prophylactics” means “preventative care” and doesn’t automatically equal birth control but I was too busy to listen because I may have just been forcibly impregnated by a murder of swans
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Then Victor pointed out that it’s a “murder of crows” and that a group of swans is called a “lamentation” but I’m pretty sure that just proves my point because swans are mute, yet they’re named after a word that means “wailing in horrible pain”? If that’s not a sign then I don’t know what is
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After that day I’d drive slowly by the swan pond on the way home and the swans would glare at my car
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Regardless, I’m pretty sure these swans were onto me
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They had identified me as an outsider, which should have endeared me to them since all swans start out as ugly ducklings, but no
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These swans had obviously forgotten where they came from and they were doing their best to make sure that nobody else remembered either
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They can't do anything except for money; if they walk round the lake they have to make bets about how many swans they see
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And charm the swans from the ponds with lily-white hands
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She and Keith circled it like swans on water, a long, slow gyre on the path that might have been laid only for them
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ships, or a phalanx of flying swans; there was a red thunderstorm and a
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`Yes,' said Aragorn, 'and they are black swans
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Far to the west in a haze lay the meres and eyots through which it wound its way to the Greyflood: there countless swans housed in a land of reeds
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“He knows not what Torture a Black Man feels being e’er a Raven in a Nest of Swans, an Orange in a Basket of Apples
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But somewhere between half a million and a million people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and the scars it left in people’s minds lasted for years: Jung Chan’s memoir Wild Swans tells the story of its devastating effect on three generations of women in her family
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For most of the history of Western civilization people thought black swans did not exist and were impossible; all swans were white