... the advanced hydrology of its followers, which enabled irrigation for crops, including above all cotton. The sudden “cotton boom” in ninth-century Iran, which enabled the subsequent Muslim takeover of the global cotton industry, was enabled by Buddhists who were fleeing economic collapse and political turmoil...

... back. back. bush. cotton the ignites light neither white. Moonbone  —daysight caint...

... survive, if it is not then reduced to a mess by the water used to douse the flames. Having been rescued from the ruins of Ashburnham House, which burned in 1731, the detached pages of the Cotton Genesis at the British Library—one of a handful of illustrated biblical manuscripts from late antiquity—now...

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... The Muslims introduced new crops such as bananas and cotton cotton and bananas as such new crops introduced Muslims...

... . Kozer • Six Poems 453 Common Knowledge 454 morning. grow, five orthein six to begins oflight point a out, pours stuffing, cotton, up, hole opens the spreads...

..., as if bitten by a tarantula, are laughing themselves to death.  —  Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester (1674) Tulipmania appears, in Clarence Mackay’s nineteenth-century classic, Extraor- dinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, as the most ludicrous of finan- cial bubbles...

... the ship’s rail: motionless, with a faraway look in his eye as he gazes at this horizon of visions and light, the sea breeze, like the hand of a Romantic painter, 176 tousling his hair and draping his black cotton jacket in a classical style. This is a good opportunity for me...

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... high-singing frogs, cotton-mouth snakes and cot- Rhyme ton fields20 • did it not seem probable that these junctures in the symmetry of her stanza did Kenner not interest Sappho at all: a reason...

... the from far as sleep to aplace given been had they and them; for especially gathered been had forest the from fruits prepared; been had salt no with boiled meat game soap; without washed clothes wear, to clothes cotton...

... ; J. J. Cotton, “Kitty Kirk- “Kitty ; J.Cotton, , October , October eld...

... is made of ivory or some metal inlaid with ivory, and is drawn by two white horses. . . . Grasping the reins in one hand, holding the other hand aloft in a regal gesture, is the boy, naked save for a cotton loincloth. ( C , 237–38) David, however, has intuited a rival vision of number, which Coetzee...