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...erchantman, and made himself Full sailor; and he thrice had pluck’d a life From the dread sweep of the down-streaming seas: And all me look’d upon him... ...s of hand-to-mouth, And her, he loved, a beggar: then he pray’d ‘Save them from this, whatever comes to me.’ And while he pray’d, the master of that s... ...o? 7 Enoch Arden, &c. There yet were many weeks before she sail’d, Sail’d from this port. Would Enoch have the place? And Enoch all at once assented... ...ndian fashion, fell Sun-stricken, and that other lived alone. In those two deaths he read God’s warning ‘wait.’ 16 Tennyson The mountain wooded to ... ...his tide’s roar, and his, Our Boanerges with his threats of doom, And loud-lung’d Antibabylonianisms (Altho’ I grant but little music there) Went both... ...d. A little after you had parted with him, He suddenly dropt dead of heart-disease.’ 45 Enoch Arden, &c. ‘Dead? he? of heart-disease? what heart ha... ...m pleased: He saw not far: his eyes were dim: But ours he swore were all diseased. ‘A ship of fools’ he shriek’d in spite, ‘A ship of fools’ he sn...

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...grant continuance: 135 Nor do I now make mone to be abridg’d 136 From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care 137 Is to come fairely off ... ... you Anthonio 140 I owe the most in money, and in loue, 141 And from your loue I haue a warrantie 142 To vnburthen all my plots and pu... ... faire, and fairer then that word, 172 Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes 173 I did receiue faire speechlesse messages: 174 H... ... 243 sadnesse in his youth.) I had rather to be marri-ed 244 to a deaths head with a bone in his mouth, then to ei-ther 245 of these: Go... ... the same foode, hurt with the same wea-pons, 1273 subiect to the same diseases, healed by the same 1274 meanes, warmed and cooled by the same... ...hou canst raile the seale from off my bond 2049 Thou but offend’st thy Lungs to speake so loud: 2050 Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fa...

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...t have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between vamps and humans, Savannah and Donatello discover there's more to life than saving the world -- like falling in love. www.DesertBreezePublishing.com...

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... could do it when I wanted to chuck it and hide under my bed. Susan, my sis from another mother. Val, who loves a good Vampire story and demands y... ...astic Slayer, but this being my first night on the job I doubted it resulted from anything but dumb luck with a smattering of innate skill. Then agai... ...taken down a flipping Vampire not three hours out of the gate! The euphoria from that alone would quell the little voices pointing out all my inadeq... ...ve and a negative in front of it fit his type. What if I had some incurable disease and he didn’t want to catch it? I could have Mono. Okay, who h... ... pounds of Vampire shoving my ribs through my spine. The air rushing from my lungs couldn’t be a good sign either. Slayers weren’t supposed to oorum... ...ll do to me? I could at this very moment be infected with some weird Vampire disease.” In the middle of my mad rant something suddenly occurred to ... ...ie was my boyfriend! It sounded so good I wanted to yell it at the top of my lungs. If my mouth wasn’t occupied moaning at the moment, I’m sure I w... ..., total package was a given. “Donnie,” I whispered, more like gasped cuz my lungs were still trying to kick start themselves back to peak operation... ...ogether. As good as he felt against me, come tomorrow we’d either go to our deaths or our separate ways. Damn life for conspiring against us. Just...

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...ng enough (cats can still speak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymore). Fire and Fur?s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The ...

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...nymore). Fire and Fur’s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid ex... ...Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Languages from Ohio State University. He has authored six scholarly books and edite... ...ointed tail curled lazily back upon itself and flicked an annoying nugget from beneath a scale, leaving behind the protective coating of gold. The... ...e if you want, but I will tell you this. Throughout history, unexplained deaths, like Kuan-ti's, have always been harbingers of great suffering and... ... before we see the end of this . . . if we live to see the end. Unnatural deaths are the darkest of omens. Our world is going to be turned inside o... ...aze. Now their machinations had made it yet another call to some wasting disease that crept and rotted its way into the mind. Lei-kung's whisper ... ...courage to join in. "Ao Rue's nothing!" Yolbas answered. "I'll rip his lungs out." "Don't speak too quickly. He'd probably rip yours out. And ...

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...d. He drew a fresh sheet of paper toward him as he looked at me. I glanced from him about his apartment and back to the little table. A fascicle marke... ... forty. And I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it borderi... ... system of yellow and olive-green stains caused by the percolation of damp from above. The walls were covered with dun-colored paper, upon which had b... ...now. It was a dark world; it was full of preventable disorder, preventable diseases, and preventable pain, of harshness and stupid unpremeditated crue... ...upid relative excess in production, but 35 H. G . Wells “dumping”—not the disease, but the consequences of the disease. The necessary knowledge to pr... ...xample, the English, with much dysentery and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of abou... ...m her ropy arms, peeling potatoes as I read. It was like one of a flood of disease germs that have in- vaded a body, that paper. There I was, one corp... ... was the common experience. Men stood up; they took the new air into their lungs—a deep long breath, and the past fell from them; they could forgive, ...

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...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...ed his brother not to keep the offer open. And then ill-luck made its last lunge at their crumbling business and brought it to the ground. 2 2 2 2 2 I... ...e advice of a shilling fortune- teller at Margate, that he was weak in the lungs. He now proceeded to unbutton his fetish, to attack it with a perikni... ...al New York all America had risen like one man, resolved to die a thousand deaths rather than submit to Germany. The Germans grimly resolved upon beat... ...The economic world staggered and fell dead. It was like the stroke of some disease it was like the water vanishing out of the blood of a living creatu... ...ied out for want of food. At times came robbers and thieves, at times came diseases among the beasts and shortness of food, once the country was worri...

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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...g destruction I heard a mighty voice shouting the word ‘Erminia!’ with the lungs of a giant. An earthquake is a great leveller of distinctions. I coll... ... background. It is atrocious and it is an allegory. The snake sym- bolizes disease, weakness—perhaps mere hunger, 114 A Set of Six which last is the ... ... weakness—perhaps mere hunger, 114 A Set of Six which last is the chronic disease of the majority of mankind. Of course everybody knows the B. 0. S. ... ...ubert’s turned-up feet looked thoroughly dead. General Feraud expanded his lungs for a stentorian shout to his seconds, but, from what he felt to be a... ...ts joys and sorrows regulated by the course of Na- ture—marriages, births, deaths—ruled by the pre- scribed usages of good society and protected by th... ... upon such lonely men, whose only business is to wait for the unavoidable. Deaths and marriages have made a solitude round them, and one really cannot...

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... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...’s frock. She put this aside, rose, and began to take her husband’s dinner from the oven. “You stopped confabbing long enough tonight,” she said. “Yes... ...t her!” he said. “Look at Lesbia who hates love.” “No, but perhaps it is a disease. Perhaps we are all wrong, and we can’t love properly,” put in Jose... ...uld tease him, and he would stop to give them cheek. One afternoon a giant lunged after him: the boy darted gracefully among the heaps of vegetables, ... ...uid nourishment. I’ll come round in the morning and give you an injection. Lungs are all right so far.” “How long shall I have to be in bed?” said Aar... ...ene machine they called the war, that I never would, no, not if I died ten deaths and had eleven mothers violated. But I would like to kill my enemy: ... ...for him. She who did die with him, many terrible and magnificent connubial deaths, in his arms, her husband. Her husband! How bitter the word grew to ... ...in Florence. The young men had engaged a room at Bertolini’s hotel, on the Lungarno. Bertolini’s was not expensive—but Aaron knew that his friends wou...

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...ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard Hawk, a lowly archaeology professor, explores the forests of his ancestors. Here he discove...

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...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ...understand the words he had been given. And soon after that he changed his name from Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked throu... ... him of a campfire. Something scraped his feet, and an instant later his body lunged forward and somersaulted onto a rough surface. He came to res... ... pathologist, ·was completely smmped. There had been at least two dozen cancer deaths, and he was unable to find any common denomi­ nator. No doctor... ...mpant out-break of so many serious illnesses, let alone the unexplained cancer deaths. It was 12 :42 am when Dr. Alex Greene met with an exhausted ... ...ore Greene arrived on the scene some six years before, spoke up, "Alex, all the deaths do have one thing in common." "What's that?" "They all died ... ...he ground in cold, damp, dark caverns with only a kerosene lamp for light. His lungs choked on the coal dust that swirled around him like a thick, ... ...e to its limit. "Are you all right down there?" Again he shouted, building his lungs to capacity, "Are you all right?" and then quickly moved his e...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...ardly were the crews landed on the shore when a terrible and hitherto unknown disease broke out among them. Their flesh decayed upon their bones, the... ...s only to be himself pulled into the water by his reluctant captive. But human lungs have limits of endurance, so one by one the divers were tired out... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...fficient to bury the dead, so rapid was its ravages. It was not long until the disease invaded the Mexican capital, and one of its first victims was t... ...oubt abandoned their city in the belief, which for a while obtained, that this disease, of which they had never before heard, was another supernatural... ...n never be mentioned or thought of but with horror; for the heads, hearts, and lungs of several of our people were seen lying on the beach, and, at a ...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...his mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of mov... ... the Sunday excursionists began to return from all over the South-Western “lung”—Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth—at unnaturally ea... ...es, ear, and tactile tentacles. Besides this were the bulky 107 H G Wells lungs, into which the mouth opened, and the heart and its vessels. The pulm... ...pon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago. A hun- dred diseases, all the fevers and contagions of human life, con- sumption, cance... ...end the red weed succumbed almost as quickly as it had spread. A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the 125 H G Wells action of certain bacte... ... even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against al...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...r made in England. All this time, he was afflicted with a terrible unknown disease, which caused him violent and frequent pain that nothing could reli... ...h a dagger and a cup of poison, and left her to the choice be tween those deaths. How Fair Rosamond, after shedding many piteous tears and offering m... ...le mother’s sake. A Child’s Histroy of England 196 Now came that terrible disease, the Plague, into Europe, hurrying from the heart of China; and kil... ...thin three weeks of this murder, Henry died one of those convenient sudden deaths which were so common in the T ower; in plainer words, he was murdere... ...nt was received with shouts of rejoicing—from a good many people of strong lungs, who were paid to strain their throats in crying, ‘God save King Rich... ...aving been always rather melancholy, and hav ing been made more so by the deaths of four of her children when they were very young. So, the King fell...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ...nspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs, The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dar... ... breasts of melons. And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) I hear y... ... the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female, The lung sponges, the stomach sac, the bowels sweet and clean, The brain in i... ...ectric telegraphs of the earth, I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 14... ...he groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain, I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers. I see Christ eati... ...ds, step, A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome eater’s face, venerealee’s flesh, Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous, Joints rheumati...

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...Stack up on that fer a high cyard,” approved Big Jim Belden, who had come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christ mas, and who, as every one ... ... ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.” The Jesuit took the pipe from his lips, but could only express his gratification with patriarchal... ...ow, and jest and song and tales of past adventure went round the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, P... .... What with the Fear of the North, the mental strain, and the rav ages of the disease, they lost all semblance of humanity, taking on the appearance ... ... of the axe had caused 42 JACK LONDON Cuthfert to drop the pistol, and as his lungs panted for release, he fumbled aimlessly for it among the blanket... ...to the camp, and he ate heartily, and the hunters grumbled. But he chilled his lungs on the divide by the Mayo, and the dogs afterwards nosed the ston... ...s perfect as though made the moment before. One wolf had been caught in a wild lunge of the maddened victim and trampled to death. A few bones, well p... ... the mat, was a woman whose heavy hips and generous breast gave the lie to her disease corroded face. It was a dance of the living dead, for in their ... ...s. There is no way. Those men are not wiser than goats. They may fall to their deaths. Let us watch.” “They are brave men,” said Koolau. “Let us watch...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...dred thousand spectators, in many a fifth part of that amount,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare... ...east to their persons which never otherwise could have illus- trated their deaths? I remembered, indeed, the words of a sea-captain who had taken such... ... Perhaps it may save the wretch after all from the pangs of some lingering disease; and then again I shall have the character of a murderer, if known ... ...hey absolutely fancy themselves to see. They absolutely hear the tellurian lungs wheezing, pant- ing, crying, ‘Bellows to mend!’ periodically as the E... ...w his mind from the sadness which sometimes overshadowed it, for the early deaths of some young friends whom he loved. And this leads me to mention a ... ...pheric air, being thus carried round by a longer circuit, and reaching the lungs, therefore, in a state of less rawness, and at a temperature somewhat...

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... in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It was seething in its depths. Historic ... ...t was seething in its depths. Historic figures were not borne by the waves from one shore to an- other as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spo... ...t they describe as the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte,... ...d shriv- eled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim. After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid suc- cession, she felt herself ... .... She talked only because she physically needed to exercise her tongue and lungs. She cried as a child does, because her nose had to be cleared, and s... ... and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, vir...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...grew, they launched, with observed and acquired detail, into the lives and deaths and doings of the Elphicks and the Moones and their collaterals, the... ...u?” said the Princess. “Our stock was not strong. So you came—as any other disease might have come. Hang close, all my people.” When the sun rose, Vei... ... bub- bling of relieved pressures. The deep-sea freighters are ris- ing to lung up after the long night, and the leisurely ocean is all patterned with... ...d the leisurely ocean is all patterned with peacock’s eyes of foam. “We’ll lung up, too,” says Tim, and when we return to the c. p. George shuts off, ... ..., bless ye the Lord! Praise Him and magnify Him for ever.” “She’s a public lunger or she wouldn’t have been singing the Benedicite; and she’s a Greenl... ...st of the Sa- haran Sanatoria are against them except at the outset of the disease. (2) We do not recommend boarding-houses or hotels in this column. ...

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... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ... in- clement night of crossing the Channel had brought on an attack on the lungs, from which he only rallied enough to amaze his English friends at fi... ...all its details. ‘Yea, truly,’ replied Sidney; ‘methought that it betokens disease in the mind of a nation when their festive revelry is thus ghastly,... ...t is impossible.’ ‘And after what my aunt has said, I would die a thousand deaths ere speaking that word. I asked her, Veronique! She would have venge... ...into this abhorrent marriage. No—no— no—my child and I would die a hundred deaths together rather than fall into the hands of Narcisse.’ ‘Calm yoursel... ...a host of watchful eyes and ears, and every time he marked the progress of disease; and though such a hint could be given by an Ambassador, he thought...

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...ar, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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...’d gods restor’d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majesti... ...l combin’d T o kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. For this, far distant from the Latian coast She drove the remnants of the Trojan host; And sev’n ... ...ffending foe, The bolts of Jove himself presum’d to throw: With whirlwinds from beneath she toss’d the ship, And bare expos’d the bosom of the deep; T... ...undred mouths, a hundred tongues, And throats of brass, inspir’d with iron lungs, The Aeneid Virgil 153 I could not half those horrid crimes repeat... ...d nail’d it to his side, The Aeneid Virgil 234 Transfix’d his breathing lungs and beating heart: The soul came issuing out, and hiss’d against the ... ...d Virgil 238 Fix’d in the wound th’ Italian cornel stood, Warm’d in his lungs, and in his vital blood. Aphidnus next, and Erymanthus dies, And Mero... ... skies, and torrents tear the ground, Thus rag’d the prince, and scatter’d deaths around. At length Ascanius and the Trojan train Broke from the camp,... ... dart, and draw the far deceiving bow. The Aeneid Virgil 269 Thus equal deaths are dealt with equal chance; By turns they quit their ground, by tur... ...sh, and horse to horse. The face of heav’n their flying jav’lins hide, And deaths unseen are dealt on either side. T yrrhenus, and Aconteus, void of f...

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...ssages in the poem, viz. vi. 531 sqq., in which occurs an illustration drawn from the man and beast fights of the amphitheatre, which were suppressed ... ... these poets consist of fragments amounting to no more than a very few lines from each, and of the “summaries of contents” made by the grammarian Proc... ... descriptions of incident that are found in the fragments differ essentially from the corresponding incidents as described by Quintus, but even in th... ...y my stricken heart withal! Thou know’st All agonies I have suffered in the deaths Of dear sons whom the Fates have torn from me By Argive hands in t... ... the corslet curious wrought That lapped the stalwart frame: hard, fast they lunged, And on their shoulders clashed the arms divine. Roared to the ver... ...ffice to sing their fate, How fain soever, though within my breast Were iron lungs. Aeneas slew withal Antimachus and Pheres, twain which left Crete ... ... his radiant chariot team Races the red star Sirius, scatterer Of woefullest diseases over men; So flashed upon the eyes of Ilium’s host That battle e... ...alls That shrieking daughter of King Eetion. Then, as on those three fearful deaths she thought Of husband, child, and father, Andromaehe Longed sore ... ... footsteps lightly touched the ground; And, as he quaked to see that work of deaths His father led him through the roar of fight, And clinging hung on...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...ld lady , wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning... ...uns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers di- recting the march rode ... ...omething more which Rostov did not hear, and the soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “Hur- rah!” Rostov too, bending over his saddle, shouted “Hu... ... consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be rendered,... ...ey were ordered not to do so, as it was a noxious plant. That spring a new disease broke out broke out among the soldiers, a swelling of the arms, leg... ...al, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medi- cine—not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, bu... ...had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim. After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid succession, she felt herself a ...

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...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...e mourners entered the publican’s house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the impor- tant question, what it should be? and re... ...a poor chap six- pence.’ The postillion laughed hollow from the end of his lungs. ‘Sixpence for a night’s work! It is a joke, if you don’t mean it for... ... hand, as he held it up at the breakfasttable, reading it, I saw among the deaths, Sir Abraham Harrington, of Torquay, Baronet, of quinsy! Twice that ... ... length out of the machine; but his comrade, with a determined blow of the lungs, gave another valiant pull, and George Stokes was on his legs, marvel... ...lt scornful princesses. He tried to be hon- est, and was as much so as his disease permitted. The black cloud had swallowed the sun; and turning off t... ...’s fault but there is no doubt among the faculty that love is a contagious disease, and we ought not to come within miles of the creatures in whom it ... ...n object of pity to Rose. Some excellent and noble natures cannot tolerate disease, and are mystified by its ebullitions. It was very sad to see the s...