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...table sneer under all this, until he said, as we were parted, like the other knots of talkers, by the announcement of dinner: ‘Mr. Sampson, you are su...

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...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...

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...mpest. Shops were closed, and men in blouses were beginning to assemble in knots—here and there the red-cap loomed ominously in the far end of narrow ...

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...replaced by a more complex differential curve with ups-and-downs and with knots - because evolution means cycles of involution too. (“Yin and yang co...

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... had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle....

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...t had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the mi...

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...sket containing the white bread, the mutton, and the bottles, were all corded together in a very elaborate system of knots, and I looked on the result... ...h and slacken by the way, even a very careless traveller should have seen disaster brewing. That elaborate system of knots, again, was the work of too... ... life upon the ruins of the old. Thus they partake of the nature of many different trees; and even their prickly top-knots, seen near at hand against ...

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...irl, I ll knit it up in silken strings With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots. To be fantastic may become a youth Of greater time than I shall show...

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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 ... ...: and grinning hideously at the ladies. Dotted here and there, were little knots of friars (Frances cani, or Cappuccini, in their coarse brown dresse... ... 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...

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...; but even as it was, the pas- sengers seemed to swarm in the streets, and knots of persons who had been unable to witness the spectacle, sat with gaz... ...ort dryly. “But how—how was it?” asked Richard eagerly. “Men sometimes tie knots faster than they intend,” said Henry. “When Roger Mortimer took Simon...

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...oyshop of their heart, 100 Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. Th...

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...when ut seemed right an’ reasonable, and sat down on the deck countin’ the knots, an’ gettin’ her snarled up hijjus. The Marilla she’d struck her gait...

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...me, and began knotting them up in her handkerchief, in a chain of separate knots, for safe keeping through the night. All this while, Defarge, with hi... ...t, contemplating the wine shop and the street. In both, there were several knots of loungers, squalid and miserable, but now with a manifest sense of ...

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.... I began to unite it to show them there was nothing, but we had drawn the knots too tight, and Gaspard’s little sword would not of course cut, nay, t... ... wonderful mixture of black gowns and cassocks, with blue scarfs and sword-knots, lawyers, ladies, warriors, and priests. He continued to bring us tid...

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...aring. The river stretched to broad lengths; gulls were on the grey water, knots of sea- weed, and the sea-foam curled in advance of us. ‘By jingo!’ T... ...Harry Richmond At a turning of the ascent she pointed her whip at the dark knots and lines of the multitude mounting by various paths to behold the ce... ...as not so accurate a guide to him. An exciting public scandal soon gathers knots of gossips in Clubland. We saw Wedderburn break from a group some way...

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...bbery and the corner of the inner park, in a series of brilliantly attired knots, all making for the flying machine. Filmer walked in a group of three...

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...up and down, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’...

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...ut in serene benevolence, he waddled along to the distant door between the knots of other visitors. The murmur of conversations paused on his passage....

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... beauty when time should have ripened it. And so the room became full, and knots were formed, and every new comer paid his respects to my lord and pas... ...fine edges, while those not so highly tempered sever the every-day Gordian knots of the world’s struggle, and win wealth and renown? Steel too highly ...

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... up, let him garnish the exhausted negroes with as many flow- ers and love-knots as he will. The pastry-cook has done his duty like a man, though, and... ...e by one, with a sob and a snivel for each, and tied them up separately in knots in his pockethandkerchief; then he ascended to the roof of the house ... ...r; and with them come spring-vans and waggons, and an army of porters with knots. All day long, the men with carpet caps are screw- ing at screw-drive...

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...eighten the color of the episode. Newman had sat with Western humorists in knots, round cast-iron stoves, and seen “tall” stories grow taller without ...