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...ot less than we, his esoteric friends. His integrity was perfect; it was a law of nature with him, rather than a choice or a principle; nor can it be ... ...let Letter I looked upon it as an evidence, in some measure, of a sys tem naturally well balanced, and lacking no essential part of a thorough organi... ... the habit of bygone days awoke in me, was that which brings it within the law of literary propriety to offer the public the sketch which I am now wri... ...awthorne need them, and because the practice of many years has made it the law of political warfare, which unless a different sys tem be proclaimed, ... ...n the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly i... ...e threshold of the prison door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if... ...pillory, and then and there 51 Hawthorne after, for the remainder of her natural life to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom.” “A wise sentence,” re... ...e people, as touching the vileness and blackness of your sin. Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to u... ...ly there was no physical defect. By its perfect shape, its vigour, and its natural dexterity in the use of all its un tried limbs, the infant was wor...

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...o the things among which he lives; he listens to them, he consults them—so naturally superstitious is he. At this moment the countess turned her eyes ... ... of what the language of that day called “the Religion,” but, by a not un- natural turn of mind, he included in that antipathy all hand- some men. Bef... ...arming cousin, Georges de Chaverny. Faithfully the youth promised to study law and customs. He laid aside the splendid trappings of the nobility of th... ...features so distorted with terror that it was impossible to guess at their natural expression. “God’s death! you scamp,” said the count, giving him ba... ...e of Herouville. Never in any age were the nobles so little informed as to natural science, and never was judicial astrology held in greater honor; fo... ...rch persecuted science and all research which was based on the analysis of natural phenomena. Persecu- tion begat mystery. So, to the people as well a... ...l antagonist was the heart of his mother whose love increased, by a tender law of nature, as perils threatened him. Buried in solitude after the abrup...

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...a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when wishing to open my mind to those ... ...e you get a will nine times out of ten you’ll get a dirty face with it and naturally lodgers do not like good society to be shown in with a smear of b... ...he point of admitting that the Black is a man and a brother, but only in a natural form and when it can’t be got off.” Well consequently I put poor So... ...t in a liberal spirit though it may have been ac- cording to her rights in law or an act I would myself have stooped to, the Major being so much the g... ...o her, but the instant I touched her it came to me like magic and I had my natural voice and my senses and even almost my breath. “Mrs. Edson!” I says... ...y. “Right,” says the Major. “We have here a toasting-fork, a potato in its natural state, two potlids, one egg-cup, a wooden spoon, and two skewers, f...

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...companies authorized by the ordi- nance. In response to this request a new law had been pro- mulgated a few days before this history begins, organizin... ... Morbihan, Loire-Inferieure, and Maine-et-Loire. “These legions,” said the law, “will be specially employed to fight the Chouans, and cannot, under an... ...ricts. This devoted soldier made use of the illusory provisions of the new law to declare that he would equip and arm at once all recruits, and he ann... ...of military service under the Republic, the levies were made under the new law on the faith of its prom- ises, and with such promptness that even the ... ...ooks. The group of young officers paused to examine a scene so filled with natural beauties. The eyes of some roved among the copses, which the sterne... ...cused a tardi- ness their feelings comprehended. Then, with the generosity natural to soldiers, they disguised their indulgence under an apparent desi... ...lues.” “Well, where’s the harm of that?” asked the young lady, to whom the natural shrewdness of a woman explained the whole scene. “You have lost men... ... having any of the conven- tional nobility of society, was not without the natural dig- nity of a modest young girl, who can look back upon her past l... ...inguish at a glance the elegant shape and nameless something that tells of natural nobility. The face of the young man, which was rather ordi- nary at...

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...ears of adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English P... ...e very highest level of grant-earning effi- 19 H G Wells ciency, and very naturally he cast all other methods of expo- sition aside. First he posed h... ...ded and resumed his discourse. 3 3 3 3 3 My father, I am afraid, carried a natural incompetence in practical affairs to an exceptionally high level. H... ...ckles, tonics and condiments, and suchlike solicitudes of a people with no natural health nor appetite left in them… . Well, we have to do better. Fai... ...iceman have nothing of its subtle wicked- ness. It was an outrage upon the natural kindliness of men. The contents were all admirably adjusted to keep... ... inexplicable incest, of gods faded beyond sym- bolism, of that Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can... ...ers flat together, carried the point against him. He quoted Cato and Roman law and the monasteries of Thibet. “Well, anyway,” said Hatherleigh, escapi... ...rence and inconsistency, go uncriticised for the sake of it:— “Keep ye the Law—be swift in all obedience— Clear the land of evil, drive the road and b... ... young days— we talked about something called liberty.” “Liberty under the law,” I said, with an unexpected approv- ing murmur from Margaret, and took...

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...y and success had corrupted the simplicity of his man ners, and tainted the natural goodness of his heart; in short, that he was setting up for a pub... ... He would have been invaluable to a fire office; never was a man with such a natural taste for pumping engines, running up ladders, and throwing furni... ...s presence with indecent haste by the head and shoulders, and brings us very naturally to relate, that on the very same evening on which Mr. Nicholas ... ...ing strong which went on the top of it. Whether the brass armour checked the natural flow of perspiration, and thus prevented the spirit from evaporat... ...band sustained any personal damage from the brass armour, she would have the law of Nicholas Tulrumble for manslaughter. When she had said all this wi... ...tro phe has cast a damp and gloom upon us in the midst of our exhilaration; natural in any case, but greatly enhanced in this, by the amiable qualiti... ...r some hesitation a Member replied that the pig faced lady was his mother in law, and that he trusted the Presi dent would not violate the sanctity o... ...s orders of churchwardens and overseers in council assembled, to enforce the law against people who come upon the parish, and other offenders, has any... ...ve yet to learn that a beadle will be permitted by the commissioners of poor law regulation to wear out the soles and heels of his boots in illegal in...

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...as perfectly different to what he was before. He had on blue goggles and the naturalest looking long brown whiskers and mustaches you ever see. His ow... ... of course without intending it — you are in the wrong. If you’d ‘a’ studied natural history the way you ought, you would know that all over the world... ...its head, the way he said he would. Huck, I never see anything look any more naturaler than what It does.” “Nor I neither,” I says; “I’d recognize it ... ...t was Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain 52 his duty to stand whatever the law done to him, and he would stick to the jail plumb through to the end,... ... Mark Twain 57 same as a regular lawyer, nearly, because it was Arkansaw law for a prisoner to choose anybody he wanted to help his lawyer, and To... ...ain] — “and you know I couldn’t think a preacher would hurt him — it warn’t natural to think such an onlikely thing — so I never paid much attention,... ...from a felon’s death, and for exposing to infamy and the pun ishment of the law a cruel and odious scoun drel and his miserable creatures!” Well, si...

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...generally understand by “go,” about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the work of a young man writing currente calamo, ... ...racter of him drawn ... by a con- temporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick... ...h the native growths. Damon and Thyrsis, Phyllis and Chloe had been fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for ... ...Dona Isabel de Saavedra, who is de- scribed in an official document as his natural daughter, and then twenty years of age. With his crippled left hand... ...ket- place stages and strolling companies, and with his old love for it he naturally turned to it for a congenial employment. In about three years he ... ... and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature’s law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could this steril... ...red to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight;... ...nd of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her. Arbitrary law had not yet established itself in the mind of the judge, for then there... ...tality and kindly welcome ye offer me and my squire; for though by natural law all living are bound to show favour to knights- errant, yet, seeing tha...

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...ith which our young friend gave himself up to it; nothing, that is, save a natural benevolence which had not yet been extinguished by the consciousnes... ...in a high hat and a white over- coat—who seemed united to Miss Day by this natural tie. And there was some one else too, as he gradually recol- lected... ...red, impressed upon her he estimated indeed rather in a borrowed than in a natural light, for if she was native to a small town in the interior of the... ...e light of the child’s preference, about the towns of the interior. He was naturally exempt from the common doom. The officer who took him in hand, an... ...at one could afford to neglect occasions. At the end of two winters he had naturally had a good many of various kinds—his study of American society ha... ...ald, with stony wrinkles in their faces, like busts and statues of ancient law-givers. There seemed to him something chill and exposed in their being ...

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...that goes be- neath the old delimitation of the novelist hide-bound by the law—”male and female created he them.” He had the same extreme susceptibili... ...ue, after which he entered the university. His great ambition was to study law, but his father, who had a violent hatred for nihilists, made him go in... ... 27 Turgenev from childhood had made him sensitive and irritable, but his natural generosity had kept him from becoming suspi- cious and mistrustful.... ...ork con- secutively. All his friends loved him. They were attracted by his natural sense of justice, his kindness, and his pure- mindedness, but Nejda... ...d has not yet discarded collars and cuffs; but, unfortunately, she studies natural his- tory, and is even interested in the woman question. Isn’t that... ...h just missed the nose of the eloquent guest. Sipiagin left his brother-in-law in peace; neither did Valentina Mihailovna speak to him; it was evident... ...e can’t make them understand the cause of their poverty.” “Your brother-in-law’s old serfs, as far as one can judge, do not seem to be poor,” Nejdanov... ...t surprised at this frank- ness, that he looked upon it, in fact, as quite natural. Mariana turned round suddenly, stopped in the middle of the path w... ... abashed, looked at him calmly and resolutely, and called him “dear” quite naturally. She was very much concerned about what he might hear at Markelov...

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...eep within the borders of the neighboring province of New Y ork, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to ... ... easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described. It became, *As e... ... imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators. They had recently seen a chosen army from that count... ...e terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare. Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in... ...ough Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion, believe me, his natural tones are better fitted for a mellow tenor than the bass you heard.... ...ess?” 33 James Fenimore Cooper “Believers in religion, and friends to the law and to the king,” returned he who rode foremost. “Men who have journeye... ... He said to the Mohawks do this, and do that, and he was minded. He made a law, that if an Indian swallowed the fire-water, and came into the cloth wi... ...hough the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Whoever recked, whe... ...ared to muse. “There is a principle in that,” he said, “different from the law of the woods; and yet it is fair and noble to reflect upon.” Then heavi...

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...f his writing to you,” said I, repeating his emphasis. “As if it were not natural for him to do so, guard ian; as if he could write to a better frie... ...uses to breed such diseases. His blood is infected, and objects lose their natural aspects in his sight. It is not his fault.” “But it is a terrible ... ...on’t know who had given Stubbs his name, but it seemed to belong to him as naturally as his rough coat. Once we put him in a little chaise and drove h... ...many little occurrences which suggested to me, with great consolation, how natural it is to gentle hearts to be considerate and delicate towards any i... ...he was absent. I am not sure. Her face and figure were associated with it, naturally; but I cannot say that they repelled me from it, though something... ...ovely place,” said Richard, looking round. “None of the jar and discord of law suits here!” But there was other trouble. “I tell you what, my dear gir... ...ticed to the trade of dancing—was waiting to carry upstairs. Her father in law was extremely kind and consid erate, Caddy told me, and they lived mos... ... was dressed in a great many colours and was discovered at a table reading law papers with his forefinger to his forehead. Bleak House – Volume Two ... ...dent on him in the Vale of Taunton. The one great principle of the English law is to make busi ness for itself. There is no other principle distinctl...

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... masked knight could be. “Also the Emperor became more and more excited with curiosity, and with great suspense one awaited the hour, when according t... ...th enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. The two sat side by side on the limb and discussed me as freely and offensively as two... ...tion; but the German student already has his mansard roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular bra... ... it did not last the lawful fifteen minutes (of actual fighting), and partly because neither man was disabled by his wound. It was a drawn battle, and... ...observing the duel then in progress. My acquaintanceship with a party to the coming contest had the effect of giving me a kind of personal interest in... ..., or even leans back, it is considered that he did it to avoid a blow or contrive an advantage; so he is dismissed from his corps in disgrace. It woul... ...d make him unpleasantly conspicuous, and properly so, since he knew, when he joined, that his main business, as a member, would be to fight. No, there... ... The length of these swords is about three feet, and they are quite heavy. One’s disposition to cheer, during the course of the duels or at their clos... ...no desire but to be let alone. I do not wish to suggest that the rest of the people there were like me, for, indeed, they were not. Whether it was tha...

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...occupation an independent gentleman for 5 George Meredith the term of his natural days. But this is a nightmare! said he, startling himself with an a... ... I have, though perhaps my reputation is against it, I was saying I have a natural timidity with your sex, and I am grey-headed, white-headed, but hap... ...Wilsonople, if we are to speak plainly, thou art but a fool.’ He, perhaps, naturally objected to that. He was, however, giddy, and barely knew. Yet on... ...ay that before me.’ ‘I submit, my lady,’ said the poor scourged man. ‘Why, naturally you do. Vulgar phrases have to be endured, except when our intima... ...ite taken by surprise. I say Elizabeth’s conduct—though, poor child! it is natural to her to seek a mate, I mean, to accept a mate and an establish- m... ...isgust of Lady Camper’s conduct, and stoutly advised an application to the Law Courts. He gave ear to them abstractedly, but after pulling out the who...

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...e didn’t wear tight, long, old-fashioned undergarments, like his father-in-law and partner, Henry Thompson. His second embellishment was combing and s... ...t was a standard suit. White piping on the V of the vest added a flavor of law and learning. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boot... ...tor and—And here I’ve told him a hundred times, if he’ll go to college and law-school and make good, I’ll set him up in business and—Verona just exact... ...or from a differential.” Not unreasonably was Ted lofty with her. He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints... ...e nine members of the staff, besides Babbitt and his partner and father-in-law, Henry Thompson, who rarely came to the office. The nine were Stanley G... ...bble, I’m awfully afraid if we go on shilly-shallying like this we’ll just naturally lose the Allen sale, I had Allen up 32 Babbitt on carpet day bef... ...’m aw- fully afraid that if we go on shilly-shallying like this we’ll just naturally lose the Allen sale. I had Allen up on the carpet day before yest... ... at the bottom of the correspondence-file, in the outer office. “I’ll just naturally be ashamed to go poking in there all day long, making a fool of m... ..., and when a buyer and a seller came in for a conference at eleven-thirty, naturally he had to offer them cigars. His conscience protested, “Why, you’...

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...Benham’s aristocratic conceptions. 12 The Research Magnificent And it was natural that he should consider fear as entirely inconvenient, treat it ind... ...hat for all the stuffed trophies of the sportsman and the specimens of the naturalist is still almost as unknown as if it was upon another planet. Wha... ...ard. Like so many clergymen and schoolmasters, he had early distrusted his natural impulse in conversation, and had adopted the defensive precaution o... ...ing wealth and sublimity to Sir Godfrey’s house in Desborough Street. Very naturally he fell into thinking of these discreet and well-governed West En... ... predecessor for the onerous duties of a schoolmaster’s wife, but whatever natural buoyancy she possessed was out- weighed by an irrepressible convict... ... money and bought and kept a small terrier in the school house against all law and tradition, under the baseless pretence that it was a stray animal o... ...n years old or thereabouts, the boy who doesn’t grow up.” “But doesn’t the law—?” “There’s no law. Only custom and the T urkish tax collector. “You se... ... happening. Persia. Af- rica…. Russia staggers. And I who should serve the law, I who should keep order, wander and make love…. My God! may I never fo... ...y towards an ultimate unity in God, science to- wards an ultimate unity in law, towards a fundamental ele- ment and a universal material truth from wh...

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...our of departure drew near, the maternal anxi- ety of Mrs. Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe. A thousand alarming presentiments of ... ... was hardly understood by her. After chatting some time on such matters as naturally arose from the objects around them, he suddenly addressed her wit... ...hment. “Why should you be surprised, sir?” “Why , indeed!” said he, in his natural tone. “But some emo- tion must appear to be raised by your reply, a... ...from Catherine, to whom they were entirely new; and the respect which they naturally inspired might have been too great for familiarity, had not the e... ...bella had arrived nearly five minutes before her friend, her first address naturally was, “My dearest creature, what can have made you so late? I have... ...e is a deceased man—defunct in un- derstanding. Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in! Open, candid... ...ple, forming no pre- tensions, and knowing no disguise.” “Such a sister-in-law, Henry, I should delight in,” said Eleanor with a smile. “But perhaps,”... ... solicited her company at Northanger, and designed her for his daughter-in-law. On discovering his error, to turn her from the house seemed the best, ... ...and bold. The general, accustomed on every ordinary occa- sion to give the law in his family, prepared for no reluctance but of feeling, no opposing d...

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...ies with him the laws of our actual life and extends them over his preter natural conquests. Twelve or fifteen years ago, on the con trary, all the ... ...dge it wiser, if not more saga cious, to follow out one’s daydream to its natural consum mation, although, if the vision have been worth the having,... ...uce something that shall really deserve to be called poetry,—true, strong, natural, and sweet, as is the life which we are going to lead,—something th... ... It did one good to see a fine intellect (as hers really was, although its natural tendency lay in another direction than towards literature) so fitly... ...—and certainly I could not always claim to be one of the exceptions—have a natural indifference, if not an absolutely hostile feeling, towards those w... ...o us. Young men and boys, on the other hand, play, according to recognized law, old, traditionary games, permitting no caprioles of fancy, but with sc... ..., an optical delusion, created by the sunshine of pros perity, it was his law to vanish into the shadow of the first intervening cloud. He seemed to ... ...ored attire; pretty young men,—the schoolmaster, the lawyer, or student at law, the shop keeper,—all looking rather suburban than rural. In these days... ...and accuser should all be comprehended in one man! I demur, as I think the law yers say, to the jurisdiction. But let the learned Judge Coverdale sea...

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...use dialogue, magnificent in Scott’s work, but colorless in your own. Lead naturally up to your dialogue. Plunge straight into the action. Treat your ... ... and the living world about him—thought and fact. His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a nu... ...ork; he wrote articles for encyclopaedias, dictionaries of biogra- phy and natural science, doing just enough to enable him to live while he followed ... ... Lucien.” “He is a poet,” said d’Arthez. “But do you grudge me such a very natural feeling?” asked Lucien. “We should bear in mind that he did not hid... ...e to him in a column and a half. I shall say that instead of giving us the natural history and archaeology, he ought to have interested himself in the... ... make her first appearance, a little old fogy named Cardot, and his son-in-law Camusot, and Finot, and—” “Does your druggist do things properly?” “He ... ...Camusot (Coralie’s protector), and a worthy little old soul, his father-in-law. All three of these city men were polishing their opera-glasses, and an... ...is idea. Camusot’s conduct was sanctioned by the presence of his father-in-law, a little old fogy with powdered hair and leering eyes, highly respecte... ... Coralie drew Lucien to one of the two, in which Camusot and his father-in-law old Cardot were seated already. She offered du Bruel a fifth place, and...

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...allies till he had met and conferred with little Hartopp, President of the Natural History Society, an insti- tution which Stalky held in contempt, Ha... ...he interests of science bounds were largely relaxed for the members of the Natural History Society. They could wander, if they kept clear of all house... ...said Stalky, turning to some fags’ lockers be- hind him. “Fags are dabs at Natural History. Here’s young Braybrooke’s botany-case.” He flung out a tan... ... Stalky, reading the near- est. “‘Prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law. G. M. Dabney, Col., J.P .,’ an’ all the rest of it. ‘Don’t seem to me ... ...ss the combe rab- bits thumped and frolicked. “Whew! What a place! Talk of natural history; this is it,” said Stalky , filling himself a pipe. “Isn’t ... ... the boys. The man, too, gave them a squirrel, which they presented to the Natural History Society; thereby checkmating little Hartopp, who wished to ... ...,” said Stalky, warningly, and Beetle closed the book, in obedience to the law under which he and his companions had lived for six checkered years. Th... ...t night of the term. This thing was mon- strous, tyrannical, subversive of law, religion, and morality. They would go into the form-rooms, and they wo... ...eep in consultation by the vaulting-horse, Stalky as usual laying down the law. The Sergeant watched them uneasily, know- ing that many waited on thei...