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...e advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view--I mean of a practical scheme; but it has struck me that they sometimes throw off a bold conception--such as a...

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...endly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thi...

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...and shoes of the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist?s suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it, he wears a suit of clean white linen, acceptable in color, if not in cut, to the Moorish mind....

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... suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it, he wears a suit of clean white linen, acce... ...ormation. In cawnsequence of that information the Santiago made the twenty knots to Mogador Harbor inside of fifty-seven minutes. Before noon next day... ...cawnsequence of that information the Cadi stimu- lated himself to some ten knots an hour, and lodged you and your men in Mogador jail at my disposal. ...

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...ayfellow all day, running round tables and flying along corridors before a knotted handkerchief, is mightily relaxed. Yet the dread of a separation fr... ...ng from one hand. Part of it was plaited, and at the upper end there was a knot. It resembled the commencement of her manufactory of a whip: she swaye... ...ited silken rope in her two hands to try the strength of it, made a second knot, and consigned it to her pocket. At once she wore her liveliest playfe... ...hers had foreseen, that she is exasperated and grows reckless. Tie another knot in your string, Chloe.’ She looked away, saying, ‘Were you not the cau... ...ve engaged to serve! T oo surely your eyes have been open as well as mine. Knot by knot—I have watched you—where is it?— you have marked the points in... ...Back from a monstrous villainy to the forlorn wretch who winked at it with knots in a string. Count them then, and where will be your answer to heaven... ...he furies, and set her fin- gers travelling along it for the number of the knots. ‘I have no right to be living,’ she said. Seven was the number; seve... ..., ‘He will come’; and saying, ‘He has come,’ her touch rested on the first knot in the string. She had no power to displace her fingers, and the cause... ...he had no power to displace her fingers, and the cause of the tying of the knot stood across her brain marked in dull red characters, legible neither ...

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...gh the seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many Knots unravel’ d by the Road; But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate. XX... ...they jogg’ d each other, “Brother! Brother! Hark to the Porter’s Shoulder-knot a-creaking!” * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LXVII. Ah, with th... ... the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many a Knot unravel’d by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. XXXII. ... ...ey jogg’ d each other, “Brother! Brother! Now for the Porter’s shoulders’ knot a-creaking!” * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * XCI. Ah, with th... ...tmost Anxiety, and hailed with Acclamation. Then it is that the Porter’ s Knot maybe heard— toward the Cellar. Omar has elsewhere a pretty Quatrain ...

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...ewe neck, and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectr... ... in one corner. When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an T assel, sat smok ing at one... ...terious event caused much speculation at the church on the following Sunday. Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the brid...

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...m. There is no sense in urging machinery when Eolus himself gives you good knots for nothing. We are away in earnest now—our nose notched home on our ... ...t’s only habit. Watch our dip-dial! Tim fetches her down once every thirty knots as regularly as breathing.” So is it shown on the dip-dial. For five ... ..., and back slides the arrow to 6000 on a fall- ing slant of ten or fifteen knots. “In heavy weather you jockey her with the screws as well,” says Capt... ...es are giving us an honest two hun- 80 Actions and Reactions dred and ten knots. Very far to the west an elongated blur of red, low down, shows us th... ... one disturbs the High Gods’ market-rates by hurling steel hulls at ninety knots across tremblingly adjusted electric tensions, one must not complain ... ...soberly ringing the world round the Fiftieth Meridian at an honest seventy knots; and white- painted Ackroyd & Hunt fruiters out of the south fled be-... ... Nor-Nor-Nor-Nor West from Sourabaya to the Baltic— Ninety knot an hour to the Skaw! Mother Rugen’s tea-house on the Baltic ... ...became aware of a furious and irregular cannonading some fifteen or twenty knots S. 4 E. Descending to the 500 ft. level, I found a party of Transylva... ...ut a hundred rifles. We have here five.’ The Hajji said: ‘I have untied as knot in my head-handkerchief which will be more to us than a thousand.’ I s...

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... it slip. “Well, sir,” I said in an apologetic tone, “she was going eleven knots very nicely, and I thought she would do for another half-hour or so.”... ...arque, her decks full of water, her gear flying in bights, ran at some ten knots an hour. We had been driven far south—much farther that way than we h... ...d-gales; a tale of difficulties overcome, of ad- versity defied by a small knot of men upon the great loneliness of the sea; a tale of resource, of co... ..., both gazing ahead, while under their feet the ship rushes at some twelve knots in the direc- tion of the lee shore; and only a couple of miles in fr... ...orce of the wind, though we were running before it at the rate of some ten knots an hour, was so great that it drove me with a steady push to the fron... ...o ev- ery sailor in that held-up fleet. Every day added to our numbers. In knots and groups and straggling parties we flung to and fro before the clos... ...f old age— the gray hair, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, and the knotted veins of the hands—were the symp- toms of moral poison, they prowl ... ...hurry and work on their narrow shores. No railway-lines cumbered them. The knots of labourers trooping in clumsily round the corners of cargo-sheds to...

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...geness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear’d, As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert hi... ...e Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage ... ... some shape. NESTOR: What is’t? ULYSSES: This ’tis: Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride That hath to this maturity blown up In rank Achil... ...lf; The bonds of heaven are slipp’d, dissolved, and loosed; And with another knot, five finger tied, The fractions of her faith, orts of her love, The... ..., youth; I am to day i’ the vein of chivalry: Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Unarm thee, go...

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...a and folding her white wings for a rest. The next thing I saw was the top-knot of silver hair sur- mounting Captain Ellis’ smooth red face, which wou... ...ot of her decks was impressed indelibly on my brain, to the very grain and knots of the planks. Y et, all of a sudden, I fell clean over something, la... ...pleasantly the words: “I think he has fainted, sir—” The little motionless knot of men stirred, with low murmurs of relief. “I’ve got him under the ar... ...; and at least five naval surgeons had clambered on board. They stood in a knot gazing up and down the empty main deck, then looked aloft—where not a ...

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...hered in one or two groups— one a little crowd towards Woking, the other a knot of people in the direction of Chobham. Evidently they shared my 19 H ... ...Woking, seemed to grow, and I heard now a faint murmur from it. The little knot of people towards Chobham dispersed. There was scarcely an intimation ... ...f the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag. This was the Dep... ...ple with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smo... ...s these folks came out by twos and threes upon the open, they found little knots of people talking excitedly and peer- ing at the spinning mirror over... ...narrowly escaped an accident at the corner of the road to Pyrford, where a knot of people stood with their backs to me. They said nothing to me as I p... ...of some of the houses, the stirring movement of packing in others, and the knot of soldiers standing on the bridge over the railway and staring down t...

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...d duck, and passed ever and again by huge, illuminated steamers running many knots, and heralding their approach by strains of music. The contrast bet... ...ny joined to discuss these who otherwise would hold their tongues. One small knot had no better occupation than to worm out of me my name; and the mor... ...d. There were no emigrants direct from Europe – save one German family and a knot of Cornish miners who kept grimly by themselves, one reading the New... ...the heroism required is that of patience. There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled. To be honest, to be kin... ...per, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in...

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...ed it, but I admired it with an intensity that I can not describe. A little knot of playmates—they must have been beautiful, for I see them now—were ... ...s and softly carried the body within doors. Others fell off or slunk away in knots of two or three, others whis pered together in groups, and before ... ...ut. I have reason to believe that my barber, who is the chief authority of a knot of gossips, who congregate every evening at a small tobacconist’s ha... ...he idea that the child was lost or stolen. All my thoughts were bound up and knotted together in the one absorbing necessity of hiding what I had done... ...ike so many black pits, in every one of which ill favoured fellows lurked in knots of three or four; some standing upright against the wall, lying in ... ..., invading, with their pleasant harmony, the silence of the time. For then a knot of youthful creatures gather round my fireside, and the room re echo...

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...od and hoop, And when the patch was worn; And legs and arms with love-knots gay. About me leaped and laughed The modish Cupid of the day, ... ... Harriet wore her favourite pistachio ribbon round her cap and as a breast-knot, and her cheeks bore token of one of the various washes with which she... ...lace between his colleagues and the grandees. He was not listened to. Each knot of speakers was becoming louder in debate, and Dr. Boltby’s voice was ... ... for her, a creamy piece of white satin, and a most elabo- rate pattern of knots of roses, lilacs, hyacinths, and labur- nums, at which her heart sank... ... of her own sweet fingers’ work.’ And sure enough, I knew it, for it was a knot of the very ribbon you had in your hair the day I came to talk to your... ...lent and respectable couples who had not been known to be married till the knot had been tied for several days or weeks—so that there was nothing in t... ... were set out in order. The ladies sat in rows, and the gentlemen stood in knots and talked, all in full dress, resplendent figures in bril- liant vel... ...ction, a certain lock that he bore on a chain next his heart, and a little knot, surrounded with diamonds, in a ring, which he had been still wearing ... ... real true parson notwithstanding, and I’ d never leave your side till the knot was tied fast. Then you would laugh at my lady, and be one of the firs...

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...fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connecte... ...ing murmur at my ear, ‘Heap of muffs—go to.’ The pilgrims could be seen in knots ges- ticulating, discussing. Several had still their staves in their ... ...ight thing to them we are all done for,’ said the Russian at my elbow. The knot of men with the stretcher had stopped too, halfway to the steamer, as ... ...hoes you could spare?’ He raised one leg. ‘Look.’ The soles were tied with knotted strings sandal-wise un- der his bare feet. I rooted out an old pair...

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...it there to remind himself of something; as T om Noddy, in the farce, ties knots in his pocket handkerchief. For the last two days, we had seen great ... ...g over any vineyard walk, or turning al most any corner, will come upon a knot of players in full cry. It is observable that most men have a propensi... ...d; and the withered old women, with their wiry grey hair twisted up into a knot on the top of the head, like a pad to carry loads on, are so intensely... ...: and grinning hideously at the ladies. Dotted here and there, were little knots of friars (Frances cani, or Cappuccini, in their coarse brown dresse... ...is the venerable, or patriarchal model. He carries a long staff; and every knot 120 Pictures from Italy and twist in that staff I have seen, faithful... ... of the roof. Then my tired memory comes out upon a flight of steps, where knots of people are asleep, or basking in the light; and strolls away, amon... ...ick gallery to sit in, with very little windows with very small patches of knotty glass in them, and all the doors that open from it (a dozen or two) ...

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...e tack, dangling to and fro in the draft through the cracks at the sash. The knots of blue ribbons appeared like violated flowers. The fire in the sto... ...and the figure of a woman appeared upon the threshold. Her grey hair fell in knotted masses about her shoulders. Her face was crimsoned and wet with p... ...e was leaning against the wall and swearing. Blood stood upon bruises on his knotty forearms where they had scraped Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 31 ... ...e her forever,” she cried. In the darkness of the hallway Jimmie discerned a knot of women talking volubly. When he strode by they paid no attention t...

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...his hat and a small nickel-plated badge on his fat bosom, emerged from the knot supporting a Chinaman who had been stabbed in the eye and was bleeding... ...came out upon a field of aching, snowy lime rolled in sheets, twisted into knots, riven with rents, and diamonds, and stars, stretching for more than ...

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...arped on this; with this our banquets rang; Our dances broke and buzzed in knots of talk; Nothing but this; my very ears were hot To hear them: knowl... ...very face she looked on justify it) The general foe. More soluble is this knot, By gentleness than war. I want her love. What were I nigher this alt...

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... his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of b... ...d, but was formed of the flooring of the room above. This, being very old, knotted, seamed, and beamed, gave a lowering as- pect to the chamber; and r... ...rasts. She was much given to tying up her head in a pocket-handker- chief, knotted under the chin. This head-gear, in conjunction with a pair of glove... ... saying more, and tied the pocket- handkerchief over her head in a tighter knot under her chin. Bella, who was now seated on the rug to warm herself, ... ...tall, the stock, and the keeper, were all as dry as the Desert. Wegg was a knotty man, and a close-grained, with a face carved out of very hard materi... ...Now, what,’ pursued the old fellow, in an inquisitive manner, carrying his knotted stick in his left arm as if it were a baby, ‘what do they allow you... ...by the singularity of the question. ‘He hasn’t,’ repeated the other to his knotted stick, as he gave it a hug; ‘he hasn’t got—ha!—ha!—to keep it warm!... ...ces it had become gnarled and riven, according to the manner of old trees; knots started out of it; and here and there it seemed to twist itself into ... ... might see her. He had nothing with him but his boat, and came on apace. A knot of those amphibious human-creatures who appear to have some mysterious...

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...pon the durtie ground, Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, Pointed with mortall sting. Of her there... ...nd lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All arm’d with ragged snubbes and knottie graine, Him thought at first encounter to haue slaine, But wise a... ...ly backe, Whose wreathed boughts when euer he vnfoldes, And thicke entangled knots adown does slacke. Bespotted all with shields of red and blacke, It... ...ble thyes Of his froth fomy steed, whose courage stout Striuing to loose the knot, that fast him tyes, Himselfe in streighter bandes too rash implyes,... ...am’d with wrath, his raging blade he heft, And.strooke so strongly, that the knotty string Of his huge taile he quite a sunder cleft, Fiue ioynts ther... ..., With sacred rites and vowes for euer to abyde. His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, That none but death for euer can deuide; His owne two han...