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...h makes the light of civilisation across dark fields to one walking in the country. “It’s odd that every one should be an old friend of Mr. Pepper’s,”... ...able for a season, by one of the accidents of political life, to serve his country in Parliament, Mr. Dalloway was doing the best he could to serve it... ... and how we’ve gone on century after century, sending out boys from little country villages—and of men like you, Dick, and it makes one feel as if one... ...r of ring- doves, a lemur, and at one time a martin.” “Did you live in the country?” Rachel asked him. “We lived in the country for six months of the ... ... be willing to talk to her. He had sisters and pets, and once lived in the country. She stirred her tea round and round; the bubbles which swam and cl... ... the idea of two separate sys- tems of life. Acquaintances showed signs of developing into friends, for that one tie to Mrs. Parry’s drawing-room had ...

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...have cared to venture, even had they been thor oughly acquainted with the country; and which, to one who knew nothing of the way he rode, was attende... ...o a look of fondness. He turned his head the other way, and the cold black country seemed to frown him off, and drive him for a refuge into its hospit... ...wo he looked about him like a man who had been transported to some strange country in his sleep, but soon recognising familiar objects, rubbed his eye... ...ive offence,’ said Miggs, confident in the strength of her compliment, and developing strongly in the throat as usual, ‘and I did not expect it would ... ...e and so pursued his solitary way. To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long ... ...you give me. Death! Is it much to ask of such as you! I have come from the country, and desire to rest where there are none to question me. I am faint...

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.... Findlayson, C. E., turned on his trolley and looked over the face of the country that he had changed for seven miles around. Looked back on the humm... ...oo, it leaks like the devil, and the crops will also be short all about my country. Now you shall back her out, Hitchcock. I—I do not understand steam... ... this yer bogspavined Kansas sunflower goes up an’ daown the length o’ the country, traded off an’ traded on, boastin’ as he’s shed women—an’ childern... ..., shy, full of untold superstitions. The races whom we call natives of the country found the Bhil in possession of the land when they first broke into... ... Chinn the First, father of Lionel, grandfather of our John, went into his country, lived with him, learned his language, shot the deer that stole his... ... methodical person. There was, indeed, a danger—his seniors said so—of his developing into a regular “Auntie Fuss” of an adjutant, and when an officer...

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...t morning he had decided to make a long excursion through the neighbouring country, partly on foot and partly on his bicycle, and now noon was come al... ...ak and the red roof of Hooven’s barn that stood near it. All about him the country was flat. In all directions he could see for miles. The harvest was... ...to its ruin. But overhead, a mammoth live-oak, the largest tree in all the country-side, towered superb and magnificent. Grey bunches of mistletoe and... ..., and in the days when the raising of cattle was the great industry of the country, it had enjoyed a fierce and brilliant life. Now it was moribund. T... ...gs. Adios.” “You are travelling to-day, senor?” “A little turn through the country, to get the kinks out of the muscles,” Presley answered. “I go up i... ...l ephemeral, filmy, dreamy, the mystic forming of the Vision—the invisible developing a concrete nucleus, the starlight coagulating, the radiance of t...

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...romising buds! Satisfied, when I know that every alley and lane of town or country reeks with vice and corruption, and that there is one cry for worke... ...verything through some speculation of their brother. I believe he fled the country under some terrible suspicion of dishonesty; and though no one thou... ... ascertain where Edward was, so as to be sure of the date. It was a little country village, and I 83 Yo n g e made a blunder in copying the spelling ... ...h! but have we not just heard that this is not the genuine article, only a country-made imitation? No wonder it was not proof against an honourable co... ... It often happened in these parties that the ladies would come in from the country in reasonable time, while their lords would be detained much later ... ...enderly- made, delicately-featured boy , whose personal pronouns were just developing, and his consonants very scanty, though the elder of the two, du...

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...the poet grew more and more gloomy and at last cried out: “God! What a sad country Russia is!” And later he said of it: “Gogol invents nothing; it is ... ...other—by this I mean some one who possesses the power of entering into and developing the ideas of the author whose work he may be reading— would scan... ...stands a man of incomparably inferior enlightenment and school- ing—a rude country bumpkin whose life, throughout, has been passed in retirement—a bum... ...n also made searching inquiries concerning the hygienic condi- tion of the countryside. Was there, he asked, much sick- ness about—whether sporadic fe... ...en a larger suburban villa, and then a villa close to a town, and lastly a country estate which comprises every amenity! That is to say, having served... ...y the hand, he besought him to do him, Manilov, the honour of visiting his country house (which he declared to lie at a distance of not more than fift...

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...arried his wife to see the execution! He was so execrated that he fled the country; he went to Holland, curried favour with William of Orange, brought... ...t, she has over-polked herself in Lon- don, and is sent here for quiet and country air. I want to call on her, and to ask Sir Guy to give me some idea... ...en curious to see what would happen when Eveleen was sent to Hollywell for country air. She had a very good opinion of Lady Eveleen. Since the former ... ...only made him cling closer to home. Still he was but twenty, it was only a country neighbourhood, and there was much more for him to see before he cou... ...one Jack White, a jockey- ing sort of man who attends all the races in the country, and makes his livelihood by betting and gambling. And now, my dear... ...uy’s mind. High spirits, prosperity, and self-discipline, had kept it from developing itself until the beginning of his troubles, but since that time ...

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...; they were in every board of directors of every prodigious combine in the country; and still as time drifted along, the millions went on piling up, f... ... a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she was now trembling, every Sab bath hour, lest ... ...apacity, and whatever this muscu *Further on it will be seen that he is a country expert on the fiddle, and has a three township fame. 65 Mark Twain... ...ed a little into her seventeenth. He had almost grown up in the Chero kee country, with the same equal proportions as one of the natives. But little ... ...wenty two; and the other facts stand thus: he had grown up in the Cherokee country with the same equal proportions as one of the natives—how flowing a... ...So far from meeting with a generous encouragement like other children when developing intel lectually, I was now furiously scowled upon by my father;...

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...ng portion of this docu- ment: And the Lord showed me [Peter] a very great country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the a... ...lad in the raiment of shining angels and their raiment was like unto their country; and angels hovered about them there. And the glory of the dwellers... ...t that almost no environment will over- come them. Instances of strong men developing out of poor environment are not rare. Many of these may be subje... ... To many it makes no ap- peal, although music and art and beauty do. In no country has society so utterly neglected and ignored the emotional side of ... ... of the city. All crime is doubtless much more common in the city than the country, and the young criminal especially is a product of the crowded comm... ...ms and almshouses. Every child needs the open air and the open life of the country. He needs, first of all, exercise which should be in the form of ou...