Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf, the fleet shadow of Baba-Jaga, man-eating witch. Meanwhile their more venturesome brethren, scowling pirates of the Aegean and Baltic, forgot their ferocity beneath a vibrant pattern of stars...
...manger. For the first hour or two they munched noisily on hay. Tiring of this, they would bite each other on the neck in a friendly way, or would spray us violently through their nostrils. All the while they were lunging about restlessly against the walls and the manger (beneath which we lay), and stamping about as though to shake the flimsy structure to pieces...
...octagonal pavilion with draw curtains, this surmounted by a great golden Phoenix with wings spread. Pavilion and chair rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura...
Like all great musicians her flawless technique seemed almost beneath notice. Her personality had absorbed it and it was that consummate artistry that made a blase audience break into cheers, demand encore after encore. Musical critics have scant use for dancers. La Argentina turned the tables, sent them fairly scampering to their offices to write her notices worthy of a Casals or a Kreisler...
...Blettsworthy, supercargo, found ship's quarters confining, and ship's officers hostile. The horizon, interminably empty, offered no distractions from his recent troubles; the officers, continually quarreling, added to the gloom. The captain, who by all standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast; all hands were escaping by boat; the captain, before clearing, locked his supercargo...