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...rimarily projected might, by this, that or the other turn, not draw in. My business was to watch its turns as the fond parent watches a child perched,... ...e waters produced by the sinking of a big vessel or the failure of a great business; when we figure to our- selves the strong narrowing eddies, the im... ...I found, betimes, not less inspiring than urgent; one begins so, in such a business, by looking about for one’s compositional key, unable as one can o... ...h, from the first, I recall, abso- lutely declined to enact itself save in terms of amplitude. Terms of amplitude, terms of atmosphere, those terms, a... ...amplitude. Terms of amplitude, terms of atmosphere, those terms, and those terms only, in which images assert their fulness and roundness, their power... ...r Gate. Milly’s situation ceases at a given mo- ment to be “renderable” in terms closer than those sup- plied by Kate’s intelligence, or, in a richer ... ...consciously and with the best faith in the world, all by mere force of the terms of their superior passion combined with their superior diplo- macy, t... ... been for a daughter like you quite a distinct value; what’s called in the business world, I believe, an ‘asset.’ “ He continued sociably to make it o... ...he world with, no imagination of the propri- ety of living and minding his business. Criticism had re- mained on Aunt Maud’s part consistent enough; s...

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... was inspired to be a witness to the Jewish church and nation, and believe that all the terms there used of Jerusalem, Zion, Judah, Israel, &c. are ... ...inty of the Lord’s coming. And because both are revealed in scripture by equally strong terms, they cleave to the former as being more pleasant to t... ... but it is most worthy of all which we can bestow upon it. There are only three sets of terms which can be employed to communicate the work of our G... ...e maketh clear, by the verse which follows, wherein he makes the distinction in express terms; “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have th... ... —And this is all I say, or claim a right to say: to which if you continue to apply the terms temerity and audacity, look, my worthy Sir, for words ... ..., and make so long a journey, when it was so easy a matter to treat and to conclude any business, however grave it might be, by means of some one of...

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...l of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—th... ...he yard. It delighted him, as always; it was the neat yard of a successful business man of Zenith, that is, it was per- fection, and made him also per... ...st glass; the ear-pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occa... ... him with Good Fellows, with men who were nice and human, and important in business circles. It was his V.C., his Legion of Honor ribbon, his Phi Beta... ...s, if he’ll go to college and law-school and make good, I’ll set him up in business and—Verona just exactly as bad. Doesn’t know what she wants. Well,... ...d, handy car line. $3700, $780 down and balance liberal, Babbitt- Thompson terms, cheaper than rent. DORCHESTER.—A corker! Artistic two-family house, ... ...s I can get Lyte here to loosen up for a building-mortgage on good liberal terms. Heavens, man, we’d be glad to oblige you! We don’t like these foreig... ... it is that we ought to always speak of each other only in the friendliest terms and institute a spirit of broth- erhood and cooperation, and so I cer... ...is fifty thousand bucks a year, to mingle with the big- gest executives on terms of perfect equality, and to show as big a house and as swell a car as...

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...pect; nor did Foxy, the subtle red-haired school Sergeant, trust them. His business was to wear tennis-shoes, carry binocu- lars, and swoop hawklike u... ... great man?” “Great man,” said Beetle. “All the same bug-huntin’s a filthy business,” said McT urk. “How the deuce does one begin?” “This way,” said S... ...he birds, scattered for the moment by these new animals, returned to their businesses, and the boys read on in the rich, warm, sleepy silence. “Hullo,... ...here was a C on it. I thought it was Mr. Corkran’s. This is a very serious business, young gentlemen. That’s what it is. I didn’t know, perhaps, but t... ...aid Abanazar, who had just remembered he was a prefect. “It’s none of your business, Pussy. Besides, if you did, we’ d have them hostile to us; and we... ...of Stalky’s second-best Sunday trousers. But Stalky had maintained for two terms that the money was his “commission” for effect- ing the pawn; and had... ...succinctly to go about their business. They would not give evidence on any terms. Harrison was one idiot, and Craye was another; but the greatest of a... ..., so far as he could learn, the buys were drilling. He said nothing of the terms on which they drilled. Naturally, General Collinson was delighted and... ...their house-master’s experienced distrust, the three for three consecutive terms had been passed over for promotion to the rank of prefect—an office t...

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...him up. We get him to look into himself, to see directly and in measurable terms what it is that puts him wrong and holds him back. He’s no longer vag... ... low and disagreeable word. So Dr. Martineau de- cided that it was not his business to hear it…. It was speedily apparent that Sir Richmond was an exp... ...bout in motor launches, fouling other people’s boats, are merely the stage business of the drama. The ruling interests of this place are love—largely ... ...sire of the female for the male ignores its end. Nature has set about this business in a cheap sort of way. She is like some pushful advertising trade... ...d work. And very laborious work. I’ve travelled much. I’ve organized great business developments. Y ou might think that my time has been fairly well f... ...men, have the same quality. Because they have gone out of the personal sex business. Haven’t you found that?” “I have never,” said the doctor, known w... ...it in relation to yourself—and things generally?” “Put in the most general terms?” “Put in the most general terms.” “I wonder if I can put it in gener... ...ms?” “Put in the most general terms.” “I wonder if I can put it in general terms for you at all. It is hard to put something one is always thinking ab... ...all. It is hard to put something one is always thinking about in gen- eral terms or to think of it as a whole…. Now…. Fuel? … “I suppose it was my fat...

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...nd peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in terms of harbours and shining navies, great roads engineered marvellously, ... ...eneral intelli- gence far too low, to permit the State to go about the new business it was taking up in a businesslike way, to train teach- ers, build... ...l suburban quality; they were let at first to City people still engaged in business. And then hard on the gasworks had come the railway and cheap coal... ...lanting Italian hand and dealing mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and the distresses of bankruptcy. An... ... mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and the distresses of bankruptcy. And yet, you know, she did have a ... ...iven up, and my Staffordshire uncle arranged for me to lodge during school terms with a needy solicitor and his wife in Vicars Street, S. W ., about a... ...ok in the face or think—even think! until it leads to our coming to—to the business at last with nothing but a few prohibitions, a few hints, a lot of... ...the telling, but I do not think I ever saw the world at large in any other terms. I never at any stage entertamed the idea which sustained my mother, ... ...gs nor of the reaction of things. It did not seem to us, for example, that business had anything to do with govern- ment, or that money and means affe...

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...and had made his money in Chicago real estate. Some of his holdings in the business quarter of the city were enormous; Landry Court had told her about... ...ould see no one not interested in the stage. Why could not men leave their business outside, why must the jar of commerce spoil all the harmony of thi... ..., come home with me now,’ than all the fiddle-faddle, tweedle-deedle opera business in the whole world.” But the orchestra was returning, the musician... ...not; and now as the carriage rolled on through the deserted streets of the business districts, she knew very well that she did not want to marry him. ... ...passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of New England. The novel- i... ... to speak of, and when Laura and the local lawyer had come to close up the business, to dispose of the mill, and to settle the claims against what the... ...in his day a king all-powerful. Since then all deals had been spoken of in terms of the Hargus affair. Speculators said, “It was almost as bad as the ... ...uld slam it right into a couple of fellows over there, if we could come to terms. We came to terms right enough. Some of that wheat I sold at a profit...

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...only so, he knew all about ships, the sea, France, foreign countries, men, business, law, great houses and prisons,—there was nothing that he did not ... ...at Mme. Vauquer accorded to no other boarder. But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her “mamma,” and put his arm round he... ...813, at the age of sixty-nine or thereabouts, “Father Goriot” had sold his business and retired—to Mme. Vauquer’s boarding house. When he first came t... ... very respectfully then) that gave Mme. Vauquer the meanest opinion of his business abilities; she looked on him as an imbecile where money was concer... ...quoisie, who were about to leave a boarding-house in the Marais, where the terms were higher than at the Maison Vauquer. Both these ladies, moreover, ... ...s never heard of again in Paris. The widow often talked of this deplorable business, and regretted her own too confiding disposition. As a matter of f... ... punctual people out in their cal- culations as to the time; even the most business-like folk fail to keep their appointments in such weather, and ord... ...auseant made some comparison between you and your sister, speaking in high terms of you, and saying how very fond you were of my neighbor, M. Goriot. ... ...! Oh! I will buy you another; do not wear it again; let me have it. By the terms of her marriage-contract, she ought to have the use of her property. ...

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...ither hand, regardless of very distinct hints that he should “mind his own business,” he exerted himself in a search for methods of reconciliation. He... ...ration, in profit-sharing, in some more permanent relationship between the business and the employee. “There isn’t,” said the employer compactly. “It’... ...m with duty. This trouble’s as old as the Devil.” “But that is exactly the business of the church,” said the bishop brightly, “to reconcile men to the... ...Whatever we give them they’ll take and press us for more. Directly we make terms with the leaders the men go behind it…. It’s a raid on the whole syst... ...r their wrangling and their stiff resolution. He wanted to think the whole business out thoroughly, for the moment he had nothing to say, and there wa... ...hings. She argues…. I am quite unable to argue with her.” “About this vote business?” “About all sorts of things. Things I didn’t imagine she had hear... ...nse to certain openings of hers, talking to her in almost exactly the same terms as Likeman had used to him. Then suddenly the problem of this theolog... ...fulness of men! I want to know what my chief duty is, to have it plain, in terms so plain that I can never forget. “See in this world,” he said, turni... ...hne, Lady Ella believed, 160 The Soul of a Bishop might get in on special terms at the Notting Hill High School. Scrope found it difficult to guess a...

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...ction 2 ection 2 THAT DREAM was but a moment in a man’s life, whose proper business it seemed was to get food and kill his fellows and beget after the... ... wind, failure and insufficiency and retro- cession. He saw all mankind in terms of the humble Sunday couple upon the seat beside him, who schemed the... ...r the perpetual threat of overhanging rocks and moun- tains go about their business—just as though the possible was impossible, as though the inevitab... ...his was known to such pawns in the game as Barnet and his com- pany, whose business it was to do what they were told by the mysterious intelligences a... ...ly. ‘For my own part,’ said the ex-king confidentially, ‘I think the whole business ridiculous. Who would be such a fool as to hide atomic bombs? Nobo... ... his valet and Firmin came to- gether and told the ex-king Egbert that the business was settled. He started up into a sitting position on the side of ...

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...o very few sea- men have been privileged to behold. But horrid thoughts of business interfered with my enjoy- ment of an accomplished passage. I was a... ... your liberty of action we are writing by the outgoing mail to some of our business friends there who may be of assistance to you. We desire you par- ... ...crumb of the earth, its gossip, its topics of conversation? To draw him on business at once would have been almost indecent—or even worse: impolitic. ... ...e, casually as it were, a complete account of the sugar crop, of the local business houses, of the state of the freight market. All that talk was inte... ... my ears very wide. Ev- ery word was precious. My ideas as to the value of business friendship were being favourably modified. He gave me the names of... ...pe, canvas, etc., etc. Ships in harbour victualled by contract on moderate terms— “I’ve never heard of you,” I said brusquely. His low-pitched assuran... ... He exclaimed: “I say!” But after studying my face for a while accepted my terms with a faint grimace. It seems that these people could not exist with...

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...m into public life! On the word of an honest woman, isn’t it pitiable? His business is doing well, for he gave me a shawl. But perhaps it isn’t doing ... ...e very well received at the Palace? Let us imitate them; let us extend our business, and at the same time press forward into higher society.” “Goodnes... ...ese days. We have one hundred good thousand francs invested outside of our business, our productions, our merchandise. If you want to increase your fo... ...r property. Take advantage of the occasion to marry our daughter; sell the business, and let us go and live in your native place. Why! for fifteen yea... ...ughter and we can keep two thousand for ourselves, and the proceeds of the business will allow us to buy Les Tresorieres. There in your native place, ... ...d a prosperity in which there was noth- ing fictitious. He was on the best terms with the house of Nucingen, to which Roguin had introduced him, and h... ...ld sooner or later build up a fine neighborhood, was a man to keep on good terms with. Grindot accordingly re- solved to sacrifice his immediate gains... ... of how he could dislodge him and relet the improved appartement on better terms. He watched and waited and spun the web of his mischievous legal pro-... ...girl, during the pauses of the quadrille, using, however, the round- about terms of a timid lover. “My fortune depends on you, mademoiselle.” “And how...

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...th modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet. And never ... ...ol could hear a horse kicking his stall, a carpenter shingling a roof. The business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the ra... ...ing at Kennicott, “I brought my machine down to take you home, doc.” “Fine business, Sam!” cried Kennicott; and, to Carol, “Let’s jump in. That big Pa... ...fferent from all the other people in the world? As she came into the small business-section she in- spected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat wh... ...-bass fish- ing almost every summer, and he says if he could get away from business, he’d rather live here than in Boston or New York or any of those ... ...d But?” CHAPTER XXXV She tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She fanatically cleaned house all April. She knit- ted a sweater for...

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...s not at all a picturesque personage; he looked like a jaded, faded man of business. But after a little he came into the gar- 8 The Pension Beaurepas... ...trike you so?” I asked. I thought it very possible he had not inquired the terms. But he appeared not to have heard me; he sat there, clasping his kne... ...rom my house to the cars—and it’s only a little way. I lost my interest in business.” 10 The Pension Beaurepas “You needed a holiday,” I observed. “T... ...id. It wasn’t so very smart of them. I had been paying strict attention to business for twenty-three years.” “In all that time you have never had a ho... ...ng round Europe. I was in a very advantageous position. I did a very large business. I was considerably interested in lum- ber.” He paused, turned his... ...ber.” He paused, turned his head, and looked at me a moment. “Have you any business interests yourself?” I answered that I had none, and he went on ag... ...charming girl, and I felt very sorry for her; but, as I looked at her, the terms in which Madame Beaurepas had ventured to characterise her recurred t...

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...is bread. It was really the same with Mr. David Faux and the confectionery business. His uncle, the butler at the great house close by Brigford, had m... ...ciousness of being a fine fellow is no guarantee of success in any line of business. This difficulty pressed with some severity on Mr. David Faux, eve... ...r, had told his son very frankly, that he must not look to being set up in business by him: with seven sons, and one of them a very healthy and well-d... ...sed population and trading, being substantial men, who liked doing a quiet business in which they were sure of their customers, and could calculate th... ...the most important families to the larger market town of Cattleton, where, business being done on a system of small profits and quick returns, the fas... ...ceived, if he thought Grimworth money was to flow into his pockets on such terms. Edward Freely was the name that shone in gilt letters on a mazarine ...

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...e their social standing was so diverse, after they had known each other on terms of equality in the houses of sundry acquaintances in town. For Gudrun... ... think that the appeal to patriotism is a mistake. It is like one house of business rivalling another house of business.’ ‘Well you can hardly say tha... ...Gerald, who had a real passion for discussion. ‘You couldn’t call a race a business concern, could you?—and nationality roughly corresponds to race, I... ...e while in a mocking, half teasing fashion, as if making game of the whole business. She picked up a twig of the catkin, piqued by Birkin’s attention ... ... her, to see how they hated each other. 38 ‘It’s all that Lady of Shalott business,’ he said, in his strong abstract voice. He seemed to be charging ... ...nwilling suffering. It was almost midday. Gerald rose and went away to his business, glad to get out. But he had not finished. He was coming back agai... ...ke it up. He had hurt her, he had been vindictive. He wanted to be on good terms with her again. He went into her boudoir, a remote and very cushiony ... ... emotional, loving plane—but there beyond, where there is no speech and no terms of agreement. There we are two stark, unknown beings, two utterly str... ...sn’t this rather sudden?’ she mocked. He began to laugh. ‘Best to read the terms of the contract, before we sign,’ he said. A young grey cat that had ...

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...t entrance with its gilt-spiked gates, he undertook to do the gardening; a business he de- lighted in, so long as he could perform it in a gentlemanly... ...claiming her extremity, valour might gain an introduction to her upon easy terms, and would not be expected to be witty. She would, perhaps, after the... ...rning for a ride to meet my nephew. Y ou are, I shall assume, prepared for business.’ ‘Elizabeth? … to meet …?’ General Ople’s impression of anything ... ...uge, so I do. You understand, therefore, I have a false complexion. Now to business.’ ‘If your ladyship insists on calling it business. I have little ... ...s now visible over a corner of the battlefield like a thunder- cloud. ‘The business we have to discuss concerns the young people, General.’ ‘Yes,’ bri... ...ightened by this, he assented: ‘Yes, dear Lady Camper; it is a part of the business; it is a secondary part; it has to be discussed; I say I subscribe... ...he did not partly hint, that the General might have accepted Lady Camper’s terms. The young of- ficer could no longer be welcome at Douro Lodge, so th... ... How break off his engagement with the Lady Moon? Con- sent to none of her terms! Little used as he was to read behind a veil, acuteness of suffering ... ...having sati- ated her revenge, she might now be inclined for peace, on the terms of distant civility. ‘Yes! poor Elizabeth!’ sighed the General, in pi...

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...ck, P .M.,” and then with the utmost seriousness, and in the most emphatic terms, going on to make the extraordinary declaration he had quoted. We did... ... sister worked at tambour work. Our father and our brother had a builder’s business. We all lived together. Ve ry respectably, my dear! First, our fat... ...loved him dearly, and he knew it, and I knew it. It was a very transparent business, that meeting as cousins only. I almost mistrusted myself as growi... ... most ingenuous way, that he had not come to make any secret inroad on the terms she had accepted (rather too implicitly and confidingly, he thought) ... ...ome openly to see her and to see me and to justify himself for the present terms on which he stood with Mr. Jarndyce. As the dear old infant would be ... ...old her, with a patriarchal air, that he had given her late father all the business in his power and that if one of her little brothers would make has... ... gives me comfort. I had need to get some scrap of comfort out of all this business, for it’s a bad one at the best, as I have no occasion to tell you... ...jectionable course: I will not hold John Jarndyce’s favour on those unfair terms of compromise, which he has no right to dictate. Whether it pleases h... ... your natural terms, Richard?” “No, I don’t say that. I mean that all this business puts us on unnatural terms, with which natural relations are incom...

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...r’s Lodgings by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS W HOEVER WOULD BEGIN to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn... ...d his good name is dear to me. I am going into the Lodgings gentlemen as a business and if I prosper every farthing that my late husband owed shall be... ...erent, and there was once a certain person that had put his money in a hop business that came in one morn- ing to pay his rent and his respects being ... ...was intending to hold forth and certainly I ought to know something of the business having been in it so long, for it was early in the second year of ... ... bills and then coming in and viewing the apartments and stick- ling about terms and never at all wanting them or dream- ing of taking them being alre... ...e the statue at Charing-cross by her, saw Mary Anne’s value in the lodging business and went as high as one pound per quarter more, consequently Mary ... ...tain and the money in advance and leave then reserved to renew on the same terms for six months more, I says I was not quite certain but that I might ...

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...g, and in point of quantity the portions were cut with so strict an eye to business that they savored of short commons. In such small matters Paris do... ...r? Suffering exalts all things. And, after all, suppose that we change the terms and for a suit of clothes, more or less fine, put instead a ribbon, o... ...rovincial at Paris “But I belong to Mme. d’Espard’s party.” “It is not our business to know that,” said the man, who could not help exchanging a barel... ... the possibility of cross- ing the footlights and meeting them on familiar terms. The men and women who gave him so much pleasure were surely marvelou... ... read your manu- script by that time; and if it suits me, we might come to terms that very day.” Seeing his acquaintance so easy, Lucien was inspired ... ...ve a future before you, in fact.” “Oh! sir.” “No; I tell you so. We may do business together. I will buy your romance.” Lucien’s heart swelled and thr... ...a cold chill. “Here it is,” said the old bookseller. “Y ou know nothing of business, sir. Before an author’s first book can appear, a pub- lisher is b... ...sition, necessary in all work of a dramatic kind, comes last. Just put the terms of the problem the other way round. Give descriptions, to which our l... ...riments in paper-making; he begged me to take his place and look after the business, and gives me as much help as his preoccupation allows. Alas! I sh...