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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...d yellow Clothes-screen yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To-day, with- out a Yesterday or a To-morrow; and had not ... ...gracefully out in folded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell-girdles; swell out in starched... ...d-climac- teric itself, and St. Martin’s Summer of incipient Dotage, would crown with no new myrtle-garland. To the Profes- sor, women are henceforth ... ...character than of a biographic? The Editor, appreciating the sacredness of crowned heads, nay perhaps suspecting the possible trickeries of a Clothes-... ...nd must suppress much. Let not the sacredness of Laurelled, still more, of Crowned Heads, be tampered with. Should we, at a future day, find circumsta... ...n Cordwainery, and perhaps the post of Thirdborough in his hundred, as the crown of long faithful sewing,—was nowise satisfaction enough to such a min...

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Mcteague : A Story of San Francisco

By: Frank Norris

...as most attracted. Heaps and heaps of blue-black coils and braids, a royal crown of swarthy bands, a veritable sable tiara, heavy, abundant, odorous. ... ...ecame interested; perhaps he could do something, something in the way of a crown or bridge. “Let’s look at that again,” he said, pick- ing up his mirr... ...ter its extraction, he was sure it would not be strong enough to sustain a crown. All at once he grew obstinate, resolving, with all the strength of a... ...ies of the case. No, evidently the root was not strong enough to sustain a crown; besides that, it was placed a little irregularly in the arch. But, f... ...ot and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? He made up his mind to do it. Why he should pled... ...ting gold. Here and there at long distances upon the canyon sides rose the headgear of a mine, surrounded with its few un- painted houses, and topped ...

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Dynevor Terrace Vol. Ii

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... much spirit to pine like poor Marianne. I’d take my affidavit that if the crowner could sit upon her when she dies—and die she will— that there fine ... ...ad emerge we to the cheering day, Some sun-ranged height, or Alpine snowy crown, Or Chimborazo towering far away O’er the great Andes chain, and, l... ...ooked very like a graceful conclusion to Oliver’s exertions that he should crown their union, and the county paper, which had likewise been forwarded,... ... steady head, and firm, enterprizing hand and foot, enabled her to see the crowning wonder of the mountain, one of the ventanillas or windows. Mr. War... ...ling floor, and Mary found herself beneath an opening through the mountain crown, right up into the sky, which, through the wild opening, looked of th... ..., and remembering that captive mermaid, who had but to resume her maritime headgear and return to her native element, to forget the very existence of ...

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The Nibelungenlied

By: Daniel B. Shumway

...gelind were still alive, the dear child of them twain wished not to wear a crown, but fain would he become a lord against all the deeds of force withi... ...t turn back, till it be known to me. I also am a warrior and was to wear a crown. Fain would I bring it to pass that it may be said of me: Rightly dot... ... shining armor-rings the daring Dankwart broke! Then Sir Liudegor espied a crown painted on the shield in Siegfried’s hand. Well he knew that it was S... ...he sake of his dear friends. Then comely women hasted apace with robes and headgear which they were to don. The noble Uta heard tales told of the prou... ...able with his guests. At his side men saw fair Brunhild stand, wearing the crown in the king’s domain. Royal enow she was in sooth. Good broad tables,... ...- ever merry men made, the lord of the land was sad enow, albeit he wore a crown that day. As was the usage which they had and which they kept by righ...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... filling it with mealy gold light for a few minutes; but to Kim it was the crown of the Umballa Brahmin’s prophecy. ‘Hark!’ said the lama. ‘One beats ... ...dress yourself This servant of your Honour has pres ently no place to lay crown of his head, but going to Benares by train on account of persecution ... ...ises of a city below the hillside, and the breath of a cool wind in deodar crowned Jakko, shouldering the stars. The house lights, scattered on every ... ...hem. And in the evenings he wrote charms on parchment–elaborate pentagrams crowned with the names of devils–Murra, and Awan the Companion of Kings – a... ...owed the Way. See!’ He pointed to a curiously built mound of coloured rice crowned with a fantastic metal or nament. ‘When I was Abbot in my own plac... ...s teeth in the morning chill, a fair coloured woman with turquoise studded headgear drew him aside. ‘The others have gone. They left thee this kilta a... ... to Desire. Make ready, chela.’ Kim turned to the woman with the turquoise headgear who had been idly pitching pebbles over the cliff. She smiled very... ...laid aside, smoking at noon on a cot, while a woman with turquoise studded headgear points south easterly across the bare grass. Litters, she says, do...

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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...to rest, struggling on through severe toils and labours till her hopes are crowned even at the gates of death. Psyche, the soul or life, whose emblem ... ...o one side with the fatigue of the hours during which it had sustained her headgear. This consisted of a tiny flat hat, fastened on by long pins, and ... ...rought with curious needlework on the breast and back, the mothers in high-crowned hats and stout dark blue woollen gowns, the children, either patche... ...dainty habit of white cloth, trimmed and faced with blue velvet, and a low-crowned hat with a white feather. On her pretty grey horse, the young Madam... ...ley by protesting that I had often visited my Lady there, and offer- ing a crown-piece if she would direct me to her.” “A crown! a kingdom, if she wou... ...airs, as she was about to get into a sedan, telling him I would give him a crown if he gave it me as I came off pa- rade.” “Noon! Is there time?” “Bar...

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An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Stephen Crane

.... He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles. There was a portion of the world’s history which h... ... the hats. The hats of a regiment should properly represent the history of headgear for a period of years. And, moreover, there were no letters of fad... ...y would receive laurels from tra- dition. He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glori-ous memories were shams. Howeve...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

... When Serpents Die 7 “My turn now,” Claudia said, pulling the headgear over her wild brown hair. In Claudia, Laura Kate saw h... ...t Bobby was about to do? Her hands softened. “A drink? Here? And now?” “I got Crown Royal and an ice chest. Cups under the seat.” He motione... ...aching under the seat, she brought out red plastic cups. “It’s too early for me and Crown to get together.” “You drink Crown, too?” Bobby took a... ...him for a small ice chest. “I prefer scotch.” “Ain't got no scotch. Always keep Crown and ice with me, though. Happy to fix you one?” “Thanks, ... ...friends. I lost my wife and best friend at the same time. Maybe that’s why me and Crown get cozy these days. “Anyways, Hannah says ‘No – I h... ...ssed her lips together, annoyed by his transparent deception, even with the cups of Crown in him. “Hire someone to be with Hannah.” “Expensive.” F...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...&c.) It was so de- lightful to have one’s Philosophe Theorem demonstrated, crowned in the saloons: and now an infatuated people will not continue spec... ...number. In lowly parlour, as in lofty sa- loon, the wine-cup passes round; crowned by the smiles of Beauty; be it of lightly-tripping Grisette, or of ... ...h health to the souls of men? Alas, by the simplest: by Two Hundred shaven-crowned Individuals, ‘in snow-white albs, with tri- color girdles,’ arrange... ...a man for courage.” (Dumont, p. 211.)—And so, under the void Night, on the crown of that knoll, she has spoken with a Mirabeau: he has kissed loyally ... ...eous, and even piteous, to behold! Jurant and Dissident, with their shaved crowns, argue frothing everywhere; or are ceasing to argue, and stripping f... ...he moment. Note too how the Jacobin Brethren are mounting new sym- bolical headgear: the Woollen Cap or Nightcap, bonnet de laine, better known as bon...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...an clutches a rolling ball with his hat, which takes fire; when cool, they crown it with a bonnet rouge. ’ Memorable also be that nimble Barber, who w... ... Guadets triumphed. Vergniaud’s Ezekiel-visions of the fall of thrones and crowns, which he spake hypothetically and prophetically in the Spring of th... ...rs, if thou couldst but act!’ 92 The French Revolution - V olume Three To crown all, victorious Dumouriez, in these New-year’s days, is arrived in Pa... ...clothes parade themselves; a ‘lugubrious music’ wailing harsh naeniae. Oak-crowns shower down from windows; Presi- dent Vergniaud walks there, with Co... ...e Peace-makers wanting; of whom likewise we men- tion two; one fast on the crown of the Mountain, the other not yet alighted anywhere: Danton and Barr... ...als themselves in sabots: the very Citoyennes had to petition against such headgear. But now in this winter 1794, where is the red nightcap? With the ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...out the matter. The priests went aside for a moment, laid their shaven old crowns to- gether, and went over a little mummery. Whereupon, their leader ... ...and having disagreed with the constitutions of several of the runaways. To crown all, the captain again relapsed, and became quite ill. The men fit fo... ...et with a second mishap, there were no more ledges beneath to stand upon. “Crowning’s but a shabby way of going out of the world,” he exclaimed, upon ... ... plaited into the shape of a coal-scuttle, and stuck, bolt upright, on the crown; with a yard or two of red ribbon flying about like kite-strings. Mil... ...a coat, for instance, pantaloons are by no means indispensable; and a bell-crowned hat and a girdle are full dress. The young sailor, for whom Kooloo ... ...the foot, being confined across the instep by three straps of leather. Our headgear deserves a passing word. My comrade’s was a brave old Panama hat, ...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...ly coloured reminiscences—De La Cuesta, holding his grant from the Spanish crown, with his power of life and death; the romance of his marriage; the w... ...e chin, flushed and eager, his yellow hair disordered, the one tuft on the crown standing stiffly forth like the feather in an Indian’s scalp lock; Br... ...re prominent than ever, his wiry, yellow hair in disarray, the tuft on the crown sticking straight into the air like the upraised hackles of an angry ... ...hand the one stiff lock of yellow hair that persistently stood up from his crown like an Indian’s scalp-lock. At once his suspicions were all aroused.... ... air. A second, similarly hooded, followed. The pair, stu- pefied in their headgear, stood rigid and bewildered in their tracks, clucking uneasily. Th... ...w hair was twisted into a bristling mop, the little persistent tuft on the crown, usually defiantly erect as an Apache’s scalp-lock, was nowhere in si...

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End of the Tether

By: Joseph Conrad

... squarely under the projecting brim of an ancient Panama hat. It had a low crown, a crease through its whole diameter, a narrow black ribbon. Imperish... ...iameter, a narrow black ribbon. Imperishable and a little discolored, this headgear made it easy to pick him out from afar on thronged wharves and in ... ...orrect too, walking at the water’s edge on the back- ground of grass slope crowned with a low long bun- 98 End of the Tether galow with an immensely ...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

...her night at the Brys’, in that plain white dress, looking as if you had a crown on, I said to myself:’By gad, if she had one she’d wear it as if it g... ...r saw her so handsome. Lady Skiddaw took her everywhere in Cannes, and the Crown Prin- cess of Macedonia had her to stop for a week at Cimiez. People ... ...le say that was one reason why Bertha whisked the yacht off to Sicily: the Crown Princess didn’t take much notice of her, and she couldn’t bear to loo... ...hose fault was it? The Duchess was spend- ing the night at Cimiez with the Crown Princess; Bertha got bored with the show, and went off early, promisi... ...d self- indulgence. Every girl in Mme. Regina’s work-room knew to whom the headgear in her hands was destined, and had her opinion of its future weare... ...n for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. Last of all, she drew forth from the bottom...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e ending in demands that would be either impossible or mischievous for the Crown to grant, and moreover in misery for themselves. Sir Patrick added so... ... jewels are pledged to the Lombards.’ ‘There are moneys falling due to the Crown,’ said the Bishop, ‘and I can advance enow to Sir Patrick to provide ... ...that the Bishop will pay to Morini, sums owing, he says, by himself to the Crown—though I shrewdly suspect ’tis the other way, gude man!—then the Lomb... ...urges will, on seeing this bit bond, supply us up to the tune of a hundred crowns. Thou look’st mazed, Lily, but I have known the like before. ’Tis no... ...ls. Jean was in raptures with the graceful veils depending from the horned headgear, worn, she was told, by the Duchess of Burgundy; but Eleanor wept ... ...es, not by sieges. Thus Fotheringay had spread out into a huge pile, which crowned the hill above, 35 Yo n g e with a strong inner court and lofty do... ...ed man,’ said Lady Drummond, who had already risen, and was adjusting that headgear of Eleanor’s that never would stay in its place. And her matronly ... ...reless glance at the illuminations, and ex- claimed at Queen Isabel’s high headgear and her becloaked greyhound. Eleanor looked and longed, and sighed... ...at her beautiful flaxen hair was loose, and not encumbered with the rolled headgear with two projecting horns, against which Elleen had rebelled; sinc...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...d we made our reports to him through the key- hole, as it were. It was the crowning achievement of his amiable character that the answers we got were ... ...ce, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, 13 Joseph Conrad accord... ...e, he is the executive supervisor of the whole. There are his anchors, his headgear, his foremast, his station for manoeuvring when the captain is in ... ...uplings behind their backs, and run malevolent glances over your ship from headgear to taffrail, only wishing to tyrannize over the poor creature unde... ...of her name, as in a gallery of plaster-casts, figures of women with mural crowns, women with flowing robes, with gold fillets on their hair or blue s... ...riors, of allegorical women, of hero- ines and statesmen and heathen gods, crowned, hel- meted, bare-headed, has run for good off the sea stretching t...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...that sense contagious—so beautifully tangled a web, when not so glorious a crown, does he weave by having at heart, and by cherishing there, the confid... ...im, as we join him, was the sense of how he had been justified. Capture had crowned the pursuit—or success, as he would otherwise have put it, had rewa... ...wonderful, of which the “worth” in mere modern change, sovereigns and half crowns, would be great enough, but as to which, since there were finer ways ... ...—great enough, at least, to marry into his; and the name of the navigator, crowned with glory, was, very naturally, to become so the fashion among the... ...r, from all the portents, was the beauty with which his age might still be crowned. He was 80 The Golden Bowl happier doubtless than he deserved but ... ...it for humility. She looked out as from under an improvised hood— the sole headgear of some poor woman at somebody’s proud door; she waited even like ...

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Sophocles Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

By: F. Storr

...e brings! PRIEST As I surmise, tis welcome; else his head Had scarce been crowned with berry-laden bays. OEDIPUS We soon shall know; he s now in ears... ...ttlefield of life, What spite and envy follow in your train! See, for this crown the State conferred on me. A gift, a thing I sought not, for this cro... ...roach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue, My murderer and the filcher of my crown? Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice o... ...his thou art witless seeking to possess Without a following or friends the crown, A prize that followers and wealth must win. Oedipus the Kin Sophoc... ...n our striken State, Doubly fall n should discord grow Twixt you twain, to crown our woe. OEDIPUS Well, let him go, no matter what it cost me, Or cert... ... I see a woman Riding upon a colt of Aetna s breed; She wears for headgear a Thessalian hat To shade her from the sun. Who can it be? She or ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... chariot is the nucleus of a comet; whose train fills whole streets:’ they crown him in the theatre, with immortal vivats; ‘finally stifle him under r... ...t smug- gling; tamer of hell-dogs, in the Parlement Maupeou; and fi- nally crowned Orpheus in the Theatre Francais, Beaumarchais has now culminated, a... ... a Parlement in rebellion, and an Oeil-de-Boeuf in suppression, the King’s Crown is in danger;—whereupon, singular to say, her Majesty, as if hurt, ch... ...on of the ill-fated murdered Lally; on whose head, in consequence, a civic crown (of oak or parsley) is forced,—which he forcibly transfers to Bailly’... ...nay it is a transcendental one, overstepping all rules and experience; the crowning Phenom- enon of our Modern Time. For here again, most unexpectedly... ... the moment. Note too how the Jacobin Brethren are mounting new symbolical headgear: the Woollen Cap or Nightcap, bonnet de laine, better known as bon... ...als themselves in sabots: the very Citoyennes had to petition against such headgear. But now in this winter 1794, where is the red night- cap? With th...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...He remembered vast halls full of green and gold silks, and great beds with crowns over them 76 Three Soldiers where Napoleon and Josephine used to sl... ...hed he would go on talking a long time without a pause. “If you aren’t the crowning idiot of the ages,” Andrews went on in a low voice. He took Chrisf... ...me now if it wasn’t for a gin mill in Alsace. Say, don’t ye think that big headgear they sport up there is awful good looking? Got my goat every time ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...speedy work. His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still- accumulating res... ...an’t eat fowls of a bad char- acter at a high price.” “Well, madam, half-a-crown: I couldn’t let ‘em go, not un- der.” “Half-a-crown, these times! Com... ...e have very commonly worn in all latitudes under a more or less be- coming headgear. Rembrandt would have painted her with pleasure, and would have ma... ...ouble to himself, and his first impulse was always to be liberal with half-crowns as matters of no importance to a gentleman; it had never occurred to... ... gentleman; it had never occurred to him to devise a plan for getting half-crowns. He had always known in a general way that he was not rich, but he h... ...s were on a level; but imagine Rosamond’s infantine blondness and wondrous crown of hair-plaits, with her pale-blue dress of a fit and fashion so perf...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...and yellow Clothes screen yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To day, without a Yesterday or a To morrow; and had not ... ...w gracefully out in folded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell girdles; swell out in starch... ...grand climacteric itself, and St. Martin’s Summer of incipient Dotage, would crown with no new myrtle garland. To the Professor, women are henceforth ... ...c character than of a biographic? The Editor, appreciating the sacredness of crowned heads, nay perhaps suspecting the possible trickeries of a Clothe... ... and must suppress much. Let not the sacredness of Laurelled, still more, of Crowned Heads, be tampered with. Should we, at a future day, find cir cum... ... in Cordwainery, and perhaps the post of Thirdborough in his hundred, as the crown of long faithful sewing,—was nowise satisfaction enough to such a m...

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