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...he gently wiped clean my grandma's hands and mouth and head and clothed her in her outdoors coat. His business done, he lay besides her and, hugging... ...ter ample reason for being tardy or merely an excuse? No force is more majeure that prison guards. I smile at that and the tension plexus slackens.... ... done?" (you chalky, myopic, intellectual). Right behind him, a woman past her prime, face coated, breasts nestled in a pointed bra. The driver can... ...low exhalations. But her captors persevere. They clench her scarf and the trimmings of her coat and twist them around the Arab's breathless neck. ... ... of plasma on his sinewed wrists. It must have hurt, the old corroded blade, no flesh, just coated skeleton. To saw the bones till blood. To hack th... ...washroom. Shalev slept in his predecessor's bed and kept his munchies in his metal bureau, coated with peeling sepia paper cuttings. Now, he sank i...

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...e could to find an entrance into Disneyland to which there where no security guards to force a departure. He searched though his billfold for a callin... ... listened more intensely to the hail that was like a machine gun with rubber coated pellets. She imagined herself riding on a tank through a desert a... ...ving, Lily. In the bus you dropped one of your gloves from a pocket in your coat. I'm leaving it right here." The radio music suddenly changed to cla... ... person in New York State to have germless plates. Yours also have an extra coating of soap on them to kill any forthcoming germs that might land upo... ... but pervading shadow of Mrs. Dinosaur who often forced him to stand under a coat rack with his nose against the wall as coats and the shortage of bre... ...ting married there before departing to Tokyo. Suddenly the airport security guards, all of whom were Japanese, interrupted the ceremony, whispered so... ...bbingly. "I don't know what to do with her." "Apple her?" asked the security guards. "Apple her!" reiterated the priest. The cooking staff, under thei... ...d take a nap in your present seat.ﾁO By this time he had uniformed security guards and God knows who telling me I needed to go out with them as if I ... ...nﾁOt easy to get to anyway and you would have difficulty getting through the guards. IﾁOll make sure that she comes to you when she gets here. Do yo...

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...th, 1801 And such protest of Pepper Ginger- bread, 1802 To Veluet- Guards, and Sunday- Citizens. 1803 Come, sing. 1804 Lady. I wil... ... Bayted like Eagles, hauing lately bath’d, 2331 Glittering in Golden Coates, like Images, 2332 As full of spirit as the Moneth of May, 2333... ...to-gether, 2418 and throwne ouer the shoulders like a Heralds 2419 Coat, without sleeues: and the Shirt, to say the truth, 2420 stolne fro... ...at thou wer’t a King? 2917 Hot. The King hath many marching in his Coats. 2918 Dow. Now by my Sword, I will kill all his Coates, 2919...

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...o see myself in fancy, and blush. It seemed that my more elegant carriage would but point the insult of the travesty. And I remembered the days when I... ...ted on her charms, and cursed her insensibility, for half the night. How trivial I thought her! and how trivial her sex! A man might be an angel or an... ...eman, and I cannot bear to soil my fingers with such a lump of dirt. Sit still, Philippe Goguelat! sit still and do not say a word, or I shall know yo... ...was he, who had been all his life so great a ruffian, dying in a foreign land of this ignoble injury, and meeting death with something of the spirit o... ...ou will admit is a most natural inquiry,’ said I. ‘To what do I owe the plea- sure of this visit? how did you recognise me? and how did you know I was... ...oint neglected; and I ran to the head of the stairs to find myself already too late. The lawyer was beyond my view; in the archway that led downward t... ...busy upon other things, the course of my eye was the more random; and it chanced that I followed, for some time, the advance of a young gentle- man wi...

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...g, and Aurelia go- ing down the middle with a young gentleman in a scarlet coat. Poor little Robert Rowe was too bashful to find a part- ner, though h... ...wenty years of age, in a laced scarlet uniform, as I think, of the Dragoon Guards, and with a little powder, but not enough to disguise that his hair ... ...n up at least two hours. Aurelia led forward little Eugene in a tailed red coat, long-breasted buff waistcoat, buff tights and knit- ted stockings, wi... ...n thus! What a hoyden he will think you!” as the hoofs went on and the red coat vanished. “He! Who? Not the farmer?” said Aurelia. “This is not laid u... ...my present trim? Besides, I believe it was only young Dick Jewel in a cast coat of Squire Humphrey’s.” The charm of the cowslip gathering was broken. ... ...y?” he concluded, ruefully surveying the dainty little stockings and shoes coated with black mud. But before the buckled shoon had been scraped, or th... ...nkness and simplicity of the boy had not been lost, captain in the dragoon guards as he was, thanks to interest, though he had scarcely yet joined his...

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...to be done? I didn’t buy it; but there is one of those papers in my great- coat pocket. Pollard threw it on my desk; and there was some- thing in it t... ...all, fetch the paper, and make his confession. Alas! we were too late. The coat had been moved, the paper had fallen out; and there stood my mother wi... ...e coachbuilder’s, have the escutcheon altered so as to impale the Griffith coat instead of the Selby, and finally to convey us to our new abode, in pr... ...l of amuse- ment. Their spruce looks in their tall hats, bright ties, dark coats, and white trowsers strapped tight under their boots, looked incongru... ...congregation, the most distinguished members of which were farmers in drab coats with huge mother-of-pearl buttons, and long gaiters buttoned up to th... ...r hot desire to know what they meant, they quoted John, the brother in the Guards, as hav- ing been so droll about poor Ellen’s perfect hero, and espe... ...rs was our great resource; for we did not believe either the sailor or the guardsman to be immaculate, and we knew them to be jealous. We had to remai... ...ccumbed to a cold on the chest caught while his nurse was gossiping with a guardsman. He was buried in London. ‘It was better for Selina to get those ...

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... immediately with London and the General Post-Office, obtained the scarlet coat only as an hon- orary distinction after long (or, if not long, trying ... ...iages, all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak-leaves and ribbons. The guards, as being offi- cially his Majesty’s servants, and of the coachmen s... ...ine evening, these liveries exposed to view, without any covering of upper coats. Such a costume, and the elaborate arrangement of the laurels in thei... ... teaching, “ethical vir- tue is that permanent direction of the will which guards the mean [to méson] proper for us… Bravery is the mean be- 98 The E...

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...re which was enough to justify myself in my own eyes, I half determined to go, and spoke of it with the half-caste priest. And here (confound it) up c... ...lieve of nearly fifty (half at least) fine mats, by Mataafa’s daughter, Kalala. Here I reposed alone; and on the other side of the tafa, Majesty and h... ...I have not joined them because ‘belly belong me’ has been kicking up, and I have just taken 15 drops of laudanum. On Tuesday, the party set out—self i... ...ite kind of suit and white cap to match mine, Lloyd in white clothes and long yellow boots and a straw hat, Graham in khakis and gaiters, Henry (my ol... ...om the King’s chapel—exceeding good—and went across in the hour when the east is yellow and the morning bank is breaking up, to hear it nearer. All ab... ...) day, we had a great triumph; our Protestant boys, instead of going with their own villages and families, went of their own accord in the V ailima un...

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...e Catholic armies. Let us add, that on his monument he is represented in a coat of mail, with his casque and gauntlets on his right side, and a lion a... ...has been here, he is so no longer. We keep a vigilant eye on our gates and guards, and we look after them a little more atten- tively in your absence,... ...vel Pseudo-Gallus, i. 16.] Caesar, to an old weather-beaten soldier of his guards, who came to ask him leave that he might kill himself, taking no- ti... ...he controversy, gave judgment, that I thought it best each should keep the coat he had, for that they both of them were better fitted with that of one... ...ing than we do the punishment of the knavery), and having got it under his coat, rather endured the tearing out of his bowels than he would discover h... ...n their sleep often think they are near the public urinal, and raise their coats to make use of it.”— Lucretius, iv.] They had collation betwixt meals...

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...mes are changed, and so are the weapons. The knight-banneret of old wore a coat of chain armour and a hauberk,; he could handle a lance well and displ... ...th the rank of colonel; he received his arrears of pay and passed into the Guards. All these favours, one after another, came to seek the Marquis de M... ...position. Why, he is one of the great men of the day; he is high up in the Guards, and very useful there. He has not a spark of ambition. He is just t...

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...me to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. And for him, living in ... ...id to Matvey when he came in. “Yes, sir.” Stepan Arkadyevitch put on his fur coat and went out onto the steps. “You won’t dine at home?” said Matvey, ... ...g direc tions to the Tatar waiters, who were clustered about him in evening coats, bearing napkins. Bowing to right and left to the people he met, an... ...id a particularly pertinacious, white headed old Tatar with immense hips and coattails gaping widely behind. “Walk in, your excellency,” he said to Le... ... him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble l... ...ve, and he was late. There were several races fixed for that day: the Mounted Guards’ race, then the officers’ mile and a half race, then the three mile... ...owding to the winning post, and a group of soldiers and officers of the horse guards were shouting loudly their delight at the expected triumph of thei... ...s legs, with an effort stopped its rapid course, and the officer of the horse guards looked round him like a man waking up from a heavy sleep, and just... ...ut he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul. ...

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...un- der of the knocker at some door, a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; bese... ...s (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; beset by Guards at each end: all Citizens are ordered to be within doors. On the Riv... ...n fact knocking in a terrible manner (d’une facon terrible). I fling on my coat, forgetting even the waistcoat, nothing on my feet but slippers; and s... ...eek not to guess, O Reader! Nor what the cruel Billaud ‘in his short brown coat was thinking;’ nor Sergent, not yet Ag- ate-Sergent; nor Panis the con... ...n them by frantic Patriots, who mount even on the carriage-steps; the very Guards hardly refraining. Pull up your carriage-blinds!—No! an- swers Patri... ...cy. Suddenly, however, one of these men steps forward. He had a blue frock coat; he seemed to be about thirty, his stature was above common, his look ... ...e terrible tribunal, where lay my life or my death. The President, in grey coats, with a sabre at his side, stood leaning with his hands against a tab... ...le, of the Tuileries and August Tenth). ‘They stationed me in a corner; my guards crossed their sabres on my breast. I looked on all sides for my Prov... ... sabres on my breast. I looked on all sides for my Provencal: two National Guards, one of them drunk, presented some appeal from the Section of Croix ...

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...shed into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of po- ets) d... ...g mostly on paper. For the Sol- diers at Jales, being peasants or National Guards, were in heart sworn Sansculottes; and all that the Royalist Cap- ta... ...Camp being visible to the bodily eye, got blown asunder by some Na- tional Guards. Also it has to hear not only of Brissot and his Friends of the Blac... ...r. Chapter 2.1.IV. Journalism. As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing what it can; and has enough to do: it must, as ever, wi... ...ansport of grains. Quick, ye organised Patriot Authorities, armed National Guards, meet together; unite your goodwill; in union is tenfold strength: l... ...en months, why should her empty trappings and scutcheons survive? The very Coats-of-arms will require to be obliterated;— and yet Cassandra Marat on t... ...with the soiled check- shirt and bushel-breeches; for both have cast their coats, and under both are four limbs and a set of Patriot muscles. There do... ...y, or private capital, to appearance), entering hast- ily, flings down his coat, waistcoat and two watches, and is rushing to the thick of the work: “... ...s Day of Poniards; and the Chevaliers escape, though maltreated, with torn coat-skirts and heavy hearts, to their respective dwelling-houses. Riot two...

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...on his breeches. The shirt was adorned with a cameo in white and blue. The coat, cinnamon-colored, was a treasure to carica- turists by reason of its ... ...he leg above a pair of tight trousers, and creaked as he walked. Above his coat he wore a spencer, an aristocratic garment adopted by the Clichiens an... ...orresponding with the nation’s enemies, and delivered them to the national guards who took them to prison, the crowd shouted, “Now for the Cinq-Cygnes... ...block. Come,” he said to Marthe, “come, wife, put on your shoes, take your coat, and 32 An Historical Mystery let us be off! No questions—I go with y... ...both the man and his period. He always wore one of those nut-colored great-coats with small collars which the Duc d’Orleans made the fashion after his... ...f medium height, and very well made, he still wore the old-fashioned black coat, silver shoe- buckles, breeches, black silk stockings, and a black wai... ...ed nose as by his words. The Provencal noticed, not without fear, that the guards were no longer present; he and Corentin were alone with the family ....

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...e spot, and with his hand as it had fallen when he dropped it on his black coat. Her heart melted, I suppose (indeed she hath since owned as much), at... ...y; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he left the Court an... ...ood birth and lineage thought a royal blot was an ornament to their family coat. Frank Esmond retired in the sulks, first to Tangier, whence he return... ...s said to have Royal jewels of great value; whereas poor Tom Esmond’s last coat but one was in pawn. My lord had at this time a fine house in Lincoln’... ...his exercise, in which the lad became a very great proficient), a military coat and cloak, and a farmer’s smock, and placed them in the large hole ove... ... sir, if you please. When you address a gentle- man of his Majesty’s Horse Guards, be pleased not to be so familiar.” “I didn’t know, sir,” said the l... ...t, I wish Joseph Addison was here!” Though the troopers of the King’s Life-Guards were all gentlemen, yet the rest of the gentlemen seemed ignorant an... ... old friend Dick the Scholar, who had got promotion, and was Cornet of the Guards, and had wrote a book called the “Chris- tian Hero,” and had all the... ...uards, and had wrote a book called the “Chris- tian Hero,” and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking t...

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... and I am not quite sure that Ida is the eldest.” “If she had a son in the Guards it would make no differ- ence,” said Mackinnon. “There are men who c... ...en induced to pronounce a ver- dict against such ligatures for the body as coats, waist- coats, and trowsers. Her aspirations for freedom ignored all ...

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...f office—and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent in anxious medi- tation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, combined with the ... ... was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature— from th... ... 4 Twenty Years After murmurs of a whole city leagued against the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off... ..., it had none the less won for them the people’s good-will. All attempts to dis- perse the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamati... ...Palais Royal. He was shown in directly; he came to say that if these offensive precautions were not discontinued, in two hours Paris would be under ar... ...the dress demanded. The cardinal, in deep thought and in silence, began to take off the robes of state he had assumed in order to be present at the si... ..., he perceived, was in the courtyard, moving stealthily. True to his custom of never passing anything over that it was within his power to know, D’Art... ...tions, and trusting no one but himself, he had vis- ited personally the successor of Pere Marteau. The latter had surpassed himself; he showed La Rame... ...ess the prince! Once with the army you may be killed at your good pleasure; but until that time, I warn you that in my capacity of general of the army...

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...ess I am vowed to poverty, nor do I change it for aught save a horse and a coat of mail. Yet think not that I care for thy company, or propose myself ... ...ward into this vain hurly-burly—I speak not for endangering the steed, and coat of armour, but for the sake of thine own life and limbs.” “Gramercy fo... ...lieve both that the gang was strong in numbers, and that they kept regular guards around their place of rendezvous. When they arrived on the open heat... ...he bonny lass he loves best.” He then turned to leave the lists. “Let your guards attend me,” he said, “if you please—I go but to cut a rod from the n... ...r cassocks close by,” said W amba, “and see whether they be thy children’s coats or no—for they are as like thine own, as one green pea-cod is to anot... ... in their very dumbness?” It was in vain that Cedric expostulated with his guards, who 187 Sir Walter Scott had too many good reasons for their silen... ...ower the drawbridge, and admit them. The prisoners were compelled by their guards to alight, and were conducted to an apartment where a hasty repast w... ...or much time to do justice to the good cheer placed before them, for their guards gave him and Cedric to understand that they were to be imprisoned in... ...ill soon come that the frock shall protect the Saxon as little as the mail-coat.” “God’s will be done,” said Cedric, in a voice tremulous with passion...

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...tten ‘The Rape of the Lock,’ and dressed Homer so becomingly in an English coat, should have been so barbarously treated? Let the hand of Dennis or of... ... appearance. What a scene it must have been—of teeth gnashing above ragged coats, and eyes glaring through old periwigs—of faces livid with famine and... ...h ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. 70 What guards the purity of melting maids, In courtly balls, and midnight masquera... ...sloven if I stand; My wig all powder, and all snuff my band; You laugh, if coat and breeches strangely vary, 225 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope... ...to our stage give rules, 220 That helps it both to fools’ coats and to fools. And why not players strut in courtiers’ clothes? For th... ...ee the incense rise, Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies: T ruth guards the poet, sanctifies the line, And makes immortal verse as mean as m...

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...a cousin who was a man of influence, he obtained a commission in the horse-guards artillery; and, though with some difficulty, passed his examination ... ...reality. I got up, opened the window and saw Tyeglev. Wrapped in his great-coat, with his cap pulled over his eyes, he stood motionless. “Ilya Stepani... ..., how- ever; an involuntary fear clutched at my heart. I flung on my great-coat and ran out into the road. XIII YES; but where was I to go? The fog en... ....” (A load was lifted from my heart.) “His honour was sitting in his great-coat under a birch tree ... and he was all right. I put it to him, ‘Won’t y... ...nder the birch-tree. I hurriedly approached and recognised Tyeglev’s great-coat, recognised his figure, his head bowed on his breast. “T yeglev!” I cr... ...ed crimson with blood.... The blood was coming from under T yeglev’s great-coat, from the left side of his chest. He had shot himself from a small, si... ...rd to the important person- age at that time commanding the whole corps of guards, an unsealed letter which was in the same envelope. This second lett... ...le her grandfather, Stepan had been valet to a prince and of- ficer of the Guards long since dead. She dressed neatly and was vain over her hands, whi...