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...atholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches, with the dissenter... ... lineaments of the perfect man or woman, shall ever train her children to become men or women: just as no artist, who doth not present before his yo... ..., to come to particulars, I believe that all the individuals of the human race, men and women, who have ever lived, who do now live, and who shall l... ... are of opinion that he shall have no father, but a mother only, the most wicked of all women; even as Christ, in as far as he was a man, had only a... ...the fenced cities throughout all Judah.” Verse 19. The number of individuals, among men women and children, which would result from a computation pr... ...utation proceeding upon this, may be compared with the number of individuals, among men women and children, who came forth from Babylon and returned...

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...mortally afflicted, suffer on the whole more overtly and more grossly than women, and resist with a ruder, an inferior strategy. I had thus to take th... ...her dedicated friend. The more or less associated consciousness of the two women deals thus, unequally, with the next presented face of the subject—de... ...or its pleasure. More “dressed,” often, with fewer accessories, than other women, or less dressed, should occasion require, with more, she probably co... ...hink. But many of them are things I dare say I may take for granted—things women can do for each other and that 30 The Wings of the Dove you wouldn’t... ...y contrived to keep from ever becoming her own luncheon; and the two young women were still in the presence of the crumpled table cloth, the dispersed... ...etired, with much movement and noise, under imperfect control of the small Irish governess whom their aunt had hunted up for them and whose brooding r... ...e night before, as his ship steamed, beneath summer stars, in sight of the Irish coast, he had felt all the force of his particular necessity. He hadn...

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...ady of high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam-... ...ty in England, where (in company) the men are the pointed talkers, and the women conversationally fair Circassians. They are, or they know that they s... ...shamed of his wonderment, and accounts for it by ‘not having known she was Irish.’ She ‘turns out to be Dan Merion’s daughter.’ We may assume that he ... ...ion, unbuttoned, and a laugher. We know that he could be chivalrous toward women, notwithstanding the per- plexities he brought on them, and this the ... ...eing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked Islands. Henry Wilmer... ... is faced, and that is all. The position is one of the battles incident to women, their hardest. It asks for more than justice from men, for generosit... ...should reputation of woman trail a scent! How true! and true also that the women of waxwork never do; and that the women of happy marriages do not; no... .... She held a brief for her beloved Ireland. She closes a dis- cussion upon Irish agitation by saying rather neatly: ‘You have taught them it is Englis... ..., tries him with water-gruel to prove him sane. 11 George Meredith Of the Irish priest (and she was not of his retinue), when he was deemed a revolut...

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...most improbable here is the actual fact. The Comte de Bourke was really an Irish Jacobite, naturalised in France, and married to the daughter of the M... ...‘M. Arture’ was really of the party, but I have made him Scotch instead of Irish, and I have no knowledge that the lackey was not French. The imbecili... ...t he should fall under suspi- cion. He would not venture on taking so many women on board his own vessel, being evidently afraid of his crew of more t... ...rses; but this was not the garb of any province of the kingdom, and was as Irish as the brogue in which she was conversing with the tall fine young ma... ... contrasting with the dark brows, and the eyes and complexion of that fine Irish type that it is the fashion to call Milesian. He looked proud of his ... ...rpose!’ ‘Ah! I thought I should disembarrass myself of a great troublesome Irishman!’ ‘No!’ retorted the boy, ‘you knew Laurent was going, for Maitre ... ...f hope in intrigue; and for our men, no occupation worthy of their sex. We women are not so ill off, with our children and domestic affairs; but it br... ...lans are always ill-af- fected to us French.’ ‘Nay; but you are a party of women, and belong to an ambassador!’ was the answer. ‘What do those robbers... ...ures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong: Madame de Bour...

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...ns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved jewelry of the women. These two classes, and that of the sailors in their jerkins and varn... ...he old Breton, despite his fifty years, had fallen in love with a charming Irish woman, daughter of one of the noblest and poorest families of that un... ...his shoulder; but so simple a matter did 21 Beatrix it seem that even the women scarcely thanked him. The baron and his guests uttered neither curses... ... seated on one of the antique chairs, presented the type of those adorable women who exist in England, Scotland, or Ireland only. There alone are born... ...n! When you see a woman displaying in her own home the coquetry which most women spend on a single sentiment, believe me, that woman is as noble a mot... ...tion, however. The chevalier had remarked the abstraction of the beautiful Irish woman. When they reached Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel’s door-step, and he... ...Calyste, that splendid offspring of the oldest Breton race and the noblest Irish blood, had been nurtured by his mother with the utmost care. Until th... ...nd francs a year. Charlotte de Kergarouet, with her aunt’s fortune, a rich Irish girl, or any other good heiress would have suited the baroness, who s... ...es like an Englishman,” said the marquise, indiffer- ently. “His mother is Irish,—an O’Brien,” continued Charlotte, who thought herself insulted by su...

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...s in his shirt-sleeves, trimming the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.”... ...is as tender as it is refreshing. About a question of marriage I have seen women who hate each other kiss and cry together quite fondly. How much more... ...righton, and about that infernal traitor Bonaparty, and the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the o... ...her dishes were washed and her curl-papers removed, by Miss Flannigan, the Irish servant), there to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent... ... quite impossible to describe in print. But who has not beheld these among women, and recognised the presence of all sorts of qualities in them, even ... ...me better regiment soon, and to get his wife away from those damned vulgar women. But this vulgarity of being ashamed of one’s society is much more co... ...arity of being ashamed of one’s society is much more common among men than women (except very great ladies of fashion, who, to be sure, indulge in it)... ...splendid amongst these, and she had a curl on her fore- head, and a set of Irish diamonds and Cairngorms, which out- shone all the decorations in the ... ...ome: you will have her for a friend, and we may get rid now of this damn’d Irishwoman.” To this Amelia did not answer, yes or no: and how do we know w...

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...ll anything of that sort distinctly now. I had a very lively inter- est in women, even when I was still quite a little boy, and a certain—what shall I... ...a certain—what shall I call it?—imaginative slavishness—not towards actual women but towards something magnificently 31 H G Wells feminine. My first ... ...sible,” said the doctor. “There was no connexion,” said Sir Richmond. “The women of my adolescent dreams were stripped and strong and lovely. They wer... ...yself to their beauty. My mother had nothing whatever to do with that. The women and girls about me were fussy bunches of clothes that I am sure I nev... ...d not in the clumsy skirts and frills that it was the custom to inflict on women in those days. Her hair was tied up in a blue handkerchief. She ran s... ...le to her.” “H’m,” said Sir Richmond. “I assure you we don’t like it. This Irish business. We feel a sort of ownership in England. It’s like finding y... ...at devastate the world. I am bored by Ireland, Orange and Green. Curse the Irish—north and south together! Lord! how I hate the Irish from Carson to t...

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...se beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland, and still more voluble, the Irish traveller will be able to form an opinion of their capabilities. Thro... ... little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the very same head-clothes, and ye... ...he houses curiously small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal too big for the chambers they inhabited; the ... ... us. Boom! the gun fired at the end of the funny little entertainment. The women and the balconies, the beggars and the walking Murillos, Pooch and th... ...- antry, with handsome red-sashed gallegos clad in brown, and ill-favoured women, came and got their permits, and were off, as we lay bumping up again... ...is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest and simplest of Irishmen:he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garr... ...quer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without depriving you of any blessed rest. Men of... ...skull-caps. But in the outer man, the Greek has far the advan- tage of the Irishman: most of them are well and decently dressed (if five-and-twenty ya... ...me. Another story about Sheikhs may here be told a propos. That celebrated Irish Peer, Lord Oldgent (who was distin- guished in the Buckinghamshire Dr...

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...aisy of creation is passed over without remark. Morgiana was a tulip among women, and the tulip fanciers all came flocking round her. Well, the said “... ...may get Morgiana. Mrs. C. goes the other way, I know: but I tell you what, women will go their own ways, sir, and Morgy’s like her mother in this poin... ...a bullock’s heart, a baked shoulder of mutton and potatoes, pig’s- fry and Irish stew. I ordered the dinner, sir, and got more credit for inventing it... ... tragedian, Mrs. Serle and her forty pu- pils, all the box-keepers, bonnet-women—nay, the ginger-beer girls themselves at “The Wells,” knew that Capta... ...d his mother-in-law on the premises. As for Morgiana, she was one of those women who encourage despotism in husbands. What the husband says must be ri... ... the college in Queer Street, ma’am, haw, haw! Mulligan, you divvle (in an Irish accent), a glass of wine with you. Wine, here, you waiter! What’s you... ...doggedly when there is a necessity for so doing, the former fights like an Irishman, and has a pleasure in it. He has been “on the ground” I don’t kno... ... of Ireland, and at that period generally volun- teers a couple or more of Irish melodies, selecting the most melancholy in the collection. At five in... ... curious for the contemplative mind to mark those mysterious hangers-on of Irish members of Parlia- ment—strange runners and aides-de-camp which all t...

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...have you a literary turn, Mr. Moodie? or have you taken up the advocacy of women’s rights? or what else can have interested you in this lady? Zenobia,... ... hearty welcome. At her back—a back of generous breadth—appeared two young women, smiling most hospitably, but looking rather awk ward withal, as not... ... sparkled among her hair. Her hand, though very soft, was larger than most women would like to have, or than they could afford to have, though not a w... ...lectable to hear, but not in the least like an ordinary woman’s laugh,—”we women (there are four of us here already) will take the domestic and indoor... ...ogether! It is odd enough that the kind of labor which falls to the lot of women is just that which chiefly distinguishes artificial life—the life of ... ...e to draw a cool breath at the back door. As soon as she disap peared, an Irish man servant, in a white jacket, crept slyly forth, and threw away the... ...e dwelt among poverty stricken wretches, sinners, and forlorn good people, Irish, and whom soever else were neediest. Many families were clustered in... ...here, long ago, and held his levees in a great room where now slept twenty Irish bedfellows; and died in Fauntleroy’s chamber, which his embroidered a... ...d simple neighbors whispered strange things about Priscilla. The big, red, Irish matrons, whose innumerable progeny swarmed out of the adjacent doors,...

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...ire as other men think of the soft lines 5 H G Wells and tender beauty of women. Thousands of men there are to-day almost mastered by this white pass... ...ween my world and Machiavelli’s. We are discovering 8 The New Machiavelli women. It is as if they had come across a vast interval since his time, int... ...orthy men to toil, and wasted the hours of Princes. He left the thought of women outside with his other dusty things when he went into his study to wr... ...ened with its sense of the immense, now half ar- ticulate, significance of women. They stand now, as it were, close beside the silver candlesticks, sp... ...r Britten was short and thick-set with dark close curling hair and a ruddy Irish type of face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than ... ...rticularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford- shire,” and he hated all other... ...stling with extraor- dinary degrees and prizes capturned in provincial and Irish and Scotch universities—and had made a name for himself as the most f... ...f I remember rightly, to represent the new Labour party, and green for the Irish. I engaged myself to speak at one or two London meetings, and lunched... ...gthy speculation of why the House had come to like an originally unpopular Irishman named Biggar… . The opening of Parliament gave me some peculiar mo...

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... twists about like the Kermes of Rubens. No less than seven little men and women in nightcaps, in frocks, in bibs, in breeches, are clam- bering about... ...te little worlds upon paper, and whole generations of smiling, jovial men, women, and children half inch high, whose portraits are car- ried abroad, a... ...n our subject when and wherever we can lay hold of him. For Jews, sailors, Irishmen, Hessian boots, little boys, beadles, policemen, tall life-guardsm... ...mer drawing we see Englishmen laughing at the troops of the line, here are Irishmen giggling at the militia. We have said that our artist has a great ... ...e know not if Mr. Cruikshank has ever had any such good luck as to see the Irish in Ireland itself, but he certainly has obtained a knowledge of their... ...preach upon? There is not a broken nose in the room that is not thoroughly Irish. We have then a couple of compositions treated in a graver manner, as... ...into the character of the “little people.” They are something like men and women, and yet not flesh and blood; they are laughing and mischievous, but ... .... We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney char- acter; English country character is quite... ...hmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs and take frig- ates, they relieve women in distress, and are yard-arm and yard-arming, athwart-hawsing, marli...

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...for it is as well to know at once that they were not of that poor order of women who yield their admiration to a thing for its abstract virtue only)—t... ...elp to his fair associate, she thought not the worse of him, so heroic can women be toward any creature that will permit himself to be clothed by a my... ...ien ideas were not unimpressed by the picture of those daintily-clad young women demurely stepping homeward, while the air held a revel of skylarks, a... ... let off, in fact, as a firework for the nonce. Among the queenly cases of women who are design- ing to become the heads of a circle (if I may use the... ... re- marked, “If you tell her the company is grand, she will come, and her Irish once heard here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump ... ... here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump was the wealthy Irish widow of an alderman, whose unaccountable bad taste in going to Irela... ...saloon was critically still; so still that Adela fancied she heard a faint Irish protest from the parlour. Wilfrid was perhaps the most critical audit... ...pa’s head would have twirled. He would have begun to think Mr. Barrett the Irish widow, and Mrs. Chump the organist.” Arabella rejoined: “Your wit mis... ...rmits worried by a demon. Her brogue! Do you remember it? It is not simply Irish. It’s Irish steeped in brine. It’s pickled Irish!” She feigned the bu...

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... and that is the Prince de Bethune. How is it that men do not consider, as women do, that the hat is the first thing that strikes the eye? And why hav... ... of the world should belong to France; Paris will forever give the tone to women’s fashions, 19 Balzac and yet the hats which all Frenchmen wear to-d... ...ess it deserves. “Madame,” said the intrepid hoaxer, showing her a pair of women’s slippers, “these belonged formerly to the Empress Josephine.” He fe... ...startling details as to the secret penury of certain so-called fashionable women. This dealer in cast- off clothes, getting lively as she talked, pict... ...ch a business?” asked Gazonal. “For my son’s sake,” she said naively. Such women almost invariably justify their trade by alleg- ing noble motives. Ma... ...o, nevertheless, leave their porters in a condition worse than that of the Irish, in holes more dreadful than a mud cabin, and pay them less money to ...

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... money to my tailor and every- body else who would trust me, possessing an Irish brogue, and my full pay of 120l. a year. I need not say that with all... ...ther intended her for a Member of Council at least, and not for a beggarly Irish ensign. It was, however, my fate to make the passage to India (on boa... ... “A cornet!” said he, in a voice choking with emotion; “a pitiful beggarly Irish cornet aspire to the hand of Julia Jowler! Gag—Gahagan, are you mad, ... ...our third brother, the Chef de Bataillon, Count Godfrey Gahagan, was in my Irish Brigade.” Gahagan. “Sire, it is true. He and my countrymen in your Ma... ...nd beat Wellington back. It was the only time, as your Majesty knows, that Irishmen and Englishmen were beaten in that war.” Napoleon (looking as if h... ...I was afterwards familiarly known among the natives,—the men, that is. The women had a softer appel- lation for me, and called me ‘Mushook,’ or charme... ...st words of Lord Lake to me, as I left him, were, ‘Gahagan, I commit those women to your charge. Guard them with your life, watch over them with your ... ...occasioned by my words. The men stood irresolute and mute with terror; the women, trembling, knew scarcely whither to fly for refuge. ‘Who are yonder ... ...n (mollahs) and seven En- glish officers, whom I found in the village; the women have been transferred to safe keeping in the harems of my officers an...

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..., and wanted to have had their two babies left with him, but the two young women refused to part with them; and it was after that that he mar- ried ag... ...erce old Norse blood, and his daughters were tall, fair, magnificent young women, not at 8 My Young Alcides all uneducated nor vulgar, and it... ...r, and she said the two wives were very noble-looking, high-spirited young women. She had gone to see them several times when their husbands were in p... ...fort Miss Woolmer gave. No one else could see any at all, except a few old women in the parish, who spoke tenderly of poor Mr. Ambrose and Mr. Eustace... ...Diana T racy called them. She was sister to Lord Erymanth, and widow to an Irish gentleman, and had settled in the next parish to us, with her childre... ...Mr. Prosser said many people’s minds had changed with regard to English or Irish demagogues, and that the Alison Brothers themselves might very probab... ... lived in a distant county. His sister, Lady Diana, had been married to an Irish Mr. T racy, who had been murdered after a few years by his tenants, u... ...ldren to live at Arked House. I never could guess how she came to marry an Irish landlord, and I always thought she must have exasperated his people. ... ...unty Cavan, Ireland, was grandson to an English peer, great grandson to an Irish peer, and nephew to the existing Edward St. Glear, 6th Earl of Eryman...

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...atience knows the cavern,” murmured Steadfast to his father. “Best have no womenfolk, nor young maids in such a mat- ter,” said the Vicar. 8 Under th... ...he sound of a powerful voice, and presently they could see all the men and women of the parish as it seemed, gathered about the lych gate, where, on t... ...ther emerg- ing from the cottages that stood around the village green. The women were all hotly angry with Jeph for going off and leav- ing his young ... ...ave,” exclaimed a whole clamour of voices. “Belike he knew what a clack of women’s tongues there would be, and would fain be out of it,” replied the o... ...always civil to country folk and women— leastways unless they take ‘em for Irish—and thinking that, they did make bloody work with the poor ladies at ... ... friends.” “The child of a Midianitish woman!” exclaimed Jeph, “one of the Irish idolaters of whom it is written, ‘Thou shalt smite them, and spare ne... ... and spare neither man, nor woman, infant, nor suck- ling.’” “But I am not Irish,” broke out Emlyn, “I am from Worcestershire. My father is Serjeant G... ...hts of hospitality enough not to touch his weapon even when he thought her Irish, “we harm not women and babes save when they are even as the Amalekit... ...e of deathless hope, the little shamrock, birth.” —Irish Ballad. THE K ING’S VISIT left traces. Emlyn had become far more rest...

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...tness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath dec... ...thed meant to be teachers. Of these there were two sorts: care- less young women who admitted that they intended to leave the “beastly classroom and g... ...f a beautiful town remained. When she encountered an item about small-town women’s clubs or a photograph of a straggling Main Street, she was home- si... ...ow. I suppose that’s so. Honestly, I do love children. But there’s lots of women that can do house- work, but I—well, if you have got a college educat... ... almost gave up library 13 Sinclair Lewis work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi-... ...garding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oratio... ... from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had pain... ... Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taine...

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...grace the part Of Ferragus or Ascabart, But in the absent giant’s hold Are women now, and menials old.’ 19 Sir Walter Scott XXIX. The mistress of the... ...e grave; Or Ellen, innocently gay, T urned all inquiry light away:— ‘Weird women we! by dale and down We dwell, afar from tower and town. We stem the ... ...ur blades that drew, T o arms, and guard that orphan’s head! Let babes and women wail the dead.’ Then weapon- clang and martial call Resounded through... ...one, Ere Douglas of the stalwart hand Was exiled from his native land. The women praised his stately form, Though wrecked by many a winter’s storm; Th... ...when I relied on it with the same hope of producing effect, with which the Irish post-boy is said to reserve a “trot for the avenue.” I took uncommon ... ...o be used, is not on record; and tradition is silent on this head. But, as Irish harpers occasionally visited the High- lands and Western Isles till l... ...Highland fami- lies, sometimes preceptor to the young laird, celebrates in Irish verse the original of the tribe, the famous warlike actions of the su... ... is, I believe, universally received by the inferior ranks of the na- tive Irish. “The death of the head of a Highland family is also some- times supp... ...of the Highlanders, like the Ululatus of the Romans, and the Ululoo of the Irish, was a wild expression of lamenta- tion, poured forth by the mourners...

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....” And the baronet’s fair friend, Lady Blandish, and some few true men and women, held Austin Wentworth high. He did not live with his wife; and Sir A... ...l tenets in front of him. He was charming after din- ner, with men or with women: delightfully sarcastic: per- haps a little too unscrupulous in his m... ...ty, he had no intellect. He was affable: there- fore he was frivolous. The women liked him: therefore he was a butterfly. In fine, young Ralph was pop... ...rit of justice, “how all but impossible it is to legislate where there are women!” “I do not object,” he added; “I hope I am too just to object to the... ... don’t name such a thing. My child shall not be robbed of her youth.” “Our women marry early, Helen.” “My child shall not!” The baronet reflected a mo... ...onsense! There’s no so much harm in being young, here and there. I knew an Irish lady was married at fourteen. Her daughter married close over fourtee... ...priate illustrations to the ballad-monger’s repertory. Clare sang a little Irish air. Her duty done, she marched from the piano. Mothers are rarely de...