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...ently find, what it is impossible to find now, a number of devoted men and women ready to give their whole lives, with a quasi-religious enthusiasm, t... ... now probably from six to ten million people in the British Isles, men and women, either engaged directly in warfare or in the manufacture of munition... ...l probably never know, any more than we shall know the tale of the men and women and children who suffered and died because of their inability to pay,... ...ily ear or the ear of a supposititious child—a question that any three old women might be trusted to settle. After that he rests for a fortnight and r... ...ng men, for example, have abandoned scores of protective restrictions upon women’s labour, upon unskilled labour, for which they have fought for gener... ...d, unless it is under a cantonal system, and that the only solution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in... ... there is nothing to reciprocate the sympathy and pride that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise t...

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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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...- 7 H. G . Wells promised at length on the science course at the Tredgold Women’s College—she had already matriculated into Lon- don University from ... ... But he was not a father one could make much of. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he tho... ... classes had to be kept apart even in thought and remote from one another. Women are made like the potter’s vessels—either for worship or contumely, a... ... she in- sisted that she must leave the chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled classes, and wanted to go to fancy ... ...were in the matter of age just two feminine classes and no more— girls and women. The distinction lay chiefly in the right to pat their heads. But her... ...arry? Plenty of money under her father’s will. Charming girl.” He consumed Irish stew for some moments. “Married already,” he said, with his mouth ful...

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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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... wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whistling clouts, in the pay of our doctors. He braved them; h... ...ong those wheels; and his nerves clutched him, like a troop of house- hold women, to keep him from the hazard of an exposure to the horrid crunch, pit... ...hey let slip of their secrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours”:—women. But no; my dear souls didn’t prick and bother. And they dealt with a... ...he weak in streets and by-places—shocking examples of ruffians maltreating women, in view of a crowd.’ ‘One strong man is an overmatch for your mob,’ ... ...reconcilement of op- posing stations, a defeat of Puritanism. Ay, and poor women!—women in the worser plight under the Puritan’s eye. They may be erri... ...r tropical growths. And the parterres were admired; also the newly-planted Irish junipers bounding the West-walk; and the three tiers of stately desce... ...se would surely be. Nataly was not so sympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a York... ...sea-fish rolling head over-you know not head from tail. Without the Welsh, Irish, Scot; in their composi- tion, there would not be much of the yeasty ... ... be much of the yeasty ferment: but it should not be forgotten that Welsh, Irish, Scot, are now largely of their numbers; and the taste for elegance, ...

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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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...gue; and myself running up and down this ladder, like any fatigue party of Irish hodmen, to the top of any Babel which my wretched admirer might choos... ...ere a priori one, viz., that I had always been tied to the apron string of women or girls; which amounted at most to this—that, by training and the na... ...the second stage of the case, I was delivered over to the custody of young women and girls; whereas the ordinary course would have thrown me upon the ... ...ancy,) naturally I had learned to appreci- ate the indulgent tenderness of women; and my heart thrilled with love and gratitude, as often as they took... ...en as every where else; but, unfortunately, my introduction to these young women was in the very worst of characters. I had been taken in arms—in arms... ...Wellington himself, in the earlier part of his career, when sitting in the Irish House of Commons, was always known to the Irish journals as Captain W... ...n my mother, in company with his son-in-law, Mr. Wilkins, as did a certain Irish Colonel Bowes, who had sons at the school, requesting earnestly, in t... ...uction. But it remained to both of us a lasting mystery. This tutor was an Irishman, of Trinity College, Dublin, and, I believe, of considerable prete... ...d infalli- bly have supposed him mad; she would have written so to all her Irish friends, and would have commended the poor gentleman to the care of h...

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...a mad city—inhab- ited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Contents At the Golden Gate ................ ...red thousand white men. Think of it! Three hundred thou-sand white men and women gathered in one spot, walking upon real pavements in front of plate- ... ...ee or four, something that glittered as it moved very swiftly. A ponderous Irish gentleman, with priest’s cords in his hat and a small nickel-plated b... ...or no names. It was enough that the pave- ments were full of white men and women, the streets clang- ing with traffic, and that the restful roar of a ... ... splendors of the electric lights. It is the use of this city, her men and women folk, to parade between the hours of eight and ten a certain street c... ...ressed, cheerful in man- ner, and self-asserting in conversation. Also the women were very fair. Perhaps eighteen days aboard ship had something to do... ...ith a long knife. The press complains of the waywardness of the alien. The Irishman and the native Californian in their hours of discontent use the re... ...ust be taken literally) a plank road that would have been a disgrace to an Irish village. Then six miles of macadamized road showed us that the team c...

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...each eye, like a pair of horned spectacles. He is much thought of by the old women, who consider him a kind of conjurer, because he has two of three s... ...ing Horses; Signior Polito; the Fire Eater; the celebrated Mr. Paap; and the Irish Giant. The children, too, lavish all their holiday money in toys an... ...delighted with the music of the Miss Lambs, who would condescend to strum an Irish melody for them on the piano; and they would listen with wonderful ...

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...nant. Already, though there was sunlight in the haze, tattered old men and women were nodding off to sleep 6 The Voyage Out upon the seats. When one ... ...red behind one cloak, seemed to her sordid, past their passion; the flower women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- d... ...cab, but only vans and waggons, and that not one of the thou- sand men and women she saw was either a gentleman or a lady, Mrs. Ambrose understood tha... ...me a vivacious and malicious old ape. Winding veils round their heads, the women walked on deck. They were now moving steadily down the river, pass- i... ...to the intimacy of three or four weeks on board ship which was threatened. Women of her own age usu- ally boring her, she supposed that girls would be... ...had reached the second column of the report, a spas- modic column, for the Irish members had been brawling three weeks ago at Westminster over a quest...

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...ary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the passengers increased. T wo of the women wept. Any one who had come aboard might have suppose... ...l we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes risso... ...o create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as ‘Irish Stew,’ three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young... ...; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but ashamed to own his country... ...and began to draw together, by inscrutable magnetisms, upon the decks. There were Scots and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good ... ..., the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received w... ...hurricane deck, and the rest knitting arms or taking hands, we made a ring to sup- port the women in the violent lurching of the ship; and when we wer... ...Strathspey time. A white- faced Orpheus was cheerily playing to an audience of white- faced women. It was as much as he could do to play, and some of ... ... write huge works upon recondite subjects. What could Mr. Dar- win have done for these sick women? But this fellow scraped away; and the world was pos...

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...enu- merate, or tell what all the Gaedhil suffered in common— both men and women, laity and clergy, old and young, noble and ignoble — of hardship, an... ...eland had been known for a good many years, but its only dwellers had been Irish Culdees, who sought that lonely land to pray in peace. Now, however, ... ...bringing with her many of mixed blood, for the Gaedhil (pronounced “Gael”, Irish) and the Gaill (pronounced “Gaul”, strangers) not only fought furious... ...ng years in which the northern races pressed upon their frontier; from the Irish during the existence of the west- ern viking-kingdoms; but what I par... ...e, could stretch its limbs, as it were, and be told in prose. Something of Irish influence is again felt in this new departure and that marvellous new... ...tence. At the feast or gathering, or by the fireside, as men made nets and women spun, these tales were told over; in their frequent repetition by men... ...olf, and so remained for nine years; Giraldus Cambrensis will have it that Irishmen may become wolves; and Nennius asserts point-blank that “the desce... ...ins there a great victory. Now as Helgi fared from the fight he met a many women right fair and worthy to look on, who rode in exceeding noble array; ... ...wrangle any longer with thee.” (1) Valkyrja, “Chooser of the elected.” The women were so called whom Odin sent to choose those for death in battle who...

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...d had married Kimball O’Hara, a young colour sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment. He afterwards took a post on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Ra... ... gullies and lanes, the crawl up a waterpipe, the sights and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to h... ...a was his trove, and he purposed to take possession. Kim’s mother had been Irish too. 14 Kim The old man halted by Zam Zammah and looked round till h... ... is no more than a pig of an Afghan horse dealer, with no thought ex cept women and horses. Moreover, he may have sent it away by now–if ever there w... ...ter and sweetmeat vendors, shouts of native policemen, and shrill yells of women gathering up their baskets, their families, and their husbands. ‘It i... ... times.’ ‘Ay, by ten thousand tongues,’ grunted he. ‘The Gods help us poor women if we may not speak. Oho! He is of that sort which may not look at or... ...ing round. Swiftly Kim took up the money; but for all his training, he was Irish enough by birth to reckon silver the least part of any game. What he ... ... which is the crest of the Mavericks–the great Red Bull on a background of Irish green. ‘I see, and now I remember.’ said the lama. ‘Certainly it is t... ...alace at Pekin–a red gold bull with lowered head, ramping upon a field of Irish green. To him the Sahibs held out their glasses and cried aloud confu...

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...ght have exulted if he had gone back far enough to explain that mystery. The women he had hitherto known had been mainly of his own soft clime, and it... ...er quality, her destiny; nothing could be more distinctly written. There are women who are unmarried by accident, and others who are unmarried by opti... ...celebrated—?’ ‘Yes, the celebrated; the great apostle of the emancipation of women. She is a great friend of Miss Birdseye.’ ‘And who is Miss Birdseye... ...s that the human race has got to bear its troubles.’ ‘That’s what men say to women, to make them patient in the position they have made for them.’ ‘Oh... ... them patient in the position they have made for them.’ ‘Oh, the position of women!’ Basil Ransom exclaimed.’ The position of women is to make fools o... ...t spittoons, the elbowing loungers, the disconsolate ‘guests,’ the truculent Irish porters, the rows of shaggy backed men in strange hats, writing let... ...season, had spent a month in a Georgian jail. She had preached temperance in Irish circles where the doctrine was received with missiles; she had inte...

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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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...the King is old enough himselfe 507 To giue his Censure: These are no Womens matters. 508 Queene. If he be old enough, what needs your G... ...d choycely, from each Countie some, 1619 And trie your hap against the Irishmen? 1620 Yorke. I will, my Lord, so please his Maiestie. 162... ...unke for Crowes to feed vpon. Exit. 2990 Enter Yorke, and his Army of Irish, with 2991 Drum and Colours. 2992 Yor. From Ireland thus ...

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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...