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... twenty years, he was at last to marry, getting his death in so doing, the Polish Madame Hanska. These, with some relations of the last named, especia... ...amilies, its places and things, its persons and their deeds; as it has its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politi...

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..., belted with patent leather, bright blue plush breeches, a red waistcoat, polished leather top-boots, a shiny hat with black lacing, and brass button... ...ys no one knew how great a tax on a man’s capital were six francs spent in polish to spread on his boots or shoes, yellow gloves at fifty sous a pair,... ...salie had never read anything but the Lettres edifiantes and some works on heraldry. No newspaper had ever defiled her sight. She attended mass at the... ...t will do, mademoiselle!” said the Baroness. “You insisted on her learning heraldry,” said Monsieur de Watteville, “and she knows it very well.” “Go o... ...ckness. A pair of hands as beautiful as ever a Greek sculptor added to the polished arms of a statue grasped Rodolphe’s arm, and their whiteness gleam...

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...he beak of a bird of prey, the clear, cold eye, the gentle voice—she is as polished as the steel of a machine, she touches everything except the heart... ..., Lavienne strewed straw on the wet floor. By long use the benches were as polished as varnished mahogany; at the height of a man’s shoulders the wall... ... in rows, lengthwise, in front of the shelves; and that floor had not been polished for two years. The tables and shelves were covered with ex votos, ... ...to the use of ice instead of water, and nothing but cold food, by a famous Polish lady of our day who spends a life, now verg- ing on a century old, a... ...l- ter. During the last century a printing establishment had worn down the polished floors, soiled the carved wood, blackened the walls, and altered t... ...as having him taught Eastern languages, the interna- tional law of Europe, heraldry, and history from the original sources, charters, early documents,...

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... cency generally hide the moral deficiency. But often there is a mind well polished, married to a conscience and natural impulses left as they were in... ...e been begun very early. Or possibly the mind and nature were incapable of polish; or he may have had a coarse and sordid domestic life around him in ... ...ry at least—would be required for the slow toil of hewing, chiselling, and polishing a gentleman out of this ponderous block, now rough from the quarr... ...Hawthorne or kindred; because it was that kind of natural history of which heraldry alone keeps the menagerie. But it was just as familiar to his reco... ...e library filled with books of English an tiquities, and genealogies, and heraldry; the two latter, in deed, having the preference over the others. ... ...w therefore can you care for genealogies, or for this fantastic science of heraldry? Having no antiquities, being a people just made, how can you care... ...the walls. Some suits of armor, that hung beneath the festal gallery, were polished till the old battered helmets and pierced breastplates sent a glea... ..., and all can died conserves of the Indies, was put on the long extent of polished mahogany. There was a tuning up of musicians, an interrogative dra...

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...al law, mathematics, carpentry, after Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s precept, and heraldry, to encourage chivalrous feel- ings, were what the future “man” wa... ...ne side, he opened his eyes. The same fields, the same steppe scenery; the polished shoes of the trace-horses flashed alternately through the driv- in... ...with especial fervour 82 the praises of a mysterious black-tressed “noble Polish lady.” There were rumours, it is true, that this “noble Polish lady”... ... discreetly wringing her marvellously-beautiful fin- gers with their rosy, polished nails. “Theodore, I have wronged you, deeply wronged you; I will s...

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... the three ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons with al... ...lantes; the Latins arma cantantia; and your En- glish authorities, canting heraldry; being indeed a species of emblazoning more befitting canters, gab... ...n playing upon the word, than the noble, honourable, and useful science of heraldry, which assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and genero... ... have tired of the conversation of so violent an asserter of the ‘boast of heraldry’ as the Baron; but Edward found an agreeable variety in that of Mi... ... folios of history, but certain gigantic tomes in High Church polemics. In heraldry he was fortu- nately contented to give her only such a slight tinc... ...ty Years sooner than he did, he would, in all probability, have wanted the polished man- ner and knowledge of the world which he now possessed; and ha... ...hen, wheel- ing out beneath from among the smooth dark rocks, which it had polished for ages, it wandered murmuring down the glen, forming the stream ... ... with the royal Adventurer. Unaccustomed to the address and man- ners of a polished court, in which Charles was eminently skil- ful, his words and his... ...had also given his man- ners some peremptory hardness, notwithstanding the polish which they had received from his intimate acquaintance with the high...

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...is’ epigrams. And unfortunately, the corruption lurking beneath the utmost polish tricked itself out in Voltairean wit. If the Chevalier went rather t... ...an, was breakfasting with the family. He took no part in counsels based on heraldry, nor in the indit- ing of letters addressed to divers mighty perso...

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...nd Dand, stiff-necked, straight-backed six-footers, with severe dark faces, and their plaids about their shoulders; the convoy of children scatter- in... ...gh, low. Laird, landed proprietor. Lane, alone. Lave, rest, remainder. Linking, tripping. Lown, lonely, still. Lynn, cataract. Lyon King of Arms, the ...

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... of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon. The ... ...escaped by the proper vent. The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them w... ...osed to have occasioned the introduction of supporters into the science of heraldry. 63 Sir Walter Scott front of the pavilions, and the whole was gu... ... original purpose; “to place the vanquished be- side the victor were false heraldry.” “Knave upon fool were worse,” answered the Jester, “and Jew upon... ...reeted her new dignity. Meantime, the sun shone fierce and bright upon the polished arms of the knights of either side, who crowded the opposite extre... ...end, the Sable Knight dealt a stroke on his head, which, glancing from the polished helmet, lighted with violence scarcely abated on the chamfron of t... ...imed the anxious enquirer. * The author has been here upbraided with false heraldry, as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, howe... ...as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, however, that heraldry had only its first rude origin during the crusades, and that all t... ...lso greatly to limit his own power of affording them pleasure. In a highly polished country, where so much genius is monthly employed in catering for ...

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...w face; and above it a cocked hat, that shone so, I thought it was made of polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with bl... ...s glittering and pure as the Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasur... ...had been battling, and which had charmed all—from our great statesman, our polished lawyer, our young Oxonian, who sighed over certain passages that h... ...ts-of-arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be barons and counts of the Empir... ...ley of Jehoshaphat at the cheap- est rate. We saw the tall form of the old Polish Patriarch, ven- erable in filth, stalking among the stinking ruins o... ...n more black and durable than that with which Psammetichus’s base has been polished. Every one of these jolly faces was on the broad 128 Notes on a J...

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...a Scotch paper costing fifteen sous a roll on the walls, brick floors well polished, walnut furniture in the parlor, and a tiny kitchen that was very ... ... with the motto; “T oujours fidele”). Possessed with a mania for talk- ing heraldry, he once asked the young Vicomte de Portenduere why his arms were ... ...y mediocrity to please minds of its own calibre. The Restoration, like the Polish revolution, proved to nations as to princes the true value of a Man,...

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...evised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the Empire,... ... said she, “finish your novel without mak- ing any sacrifice to necessity; polish the style, work up the subject.—I have played the fine lady too long...

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...t.” “No, I was careful about that. I said, ‘My friend and I would like to know what your name is, if you don’t mind. ’” “No, that was not abrupt. Ther... ...top of it with ropes and pulleys, and painted all over it, in blue letters bigger than those in Schiller’s name, these words: “Try Sozodont;” “Buy Sun... ...not thoroughly searched; we were satisfied he was there, somewhere, so we resolved to wait over a day at Leuk and come back and get him. Then we sat d... ...Mr. Darwin, whom I understood to be a man with- out prejudices, but it occurred to me that perhaps he would not be interested in it since it did not c... ...f lunacy. I got my gun and stole up there. The fellow was in the midst of an acre of sprawling boots, and he had a boot in his hand, shuffling it—no, ... ...ed as if they meant to punish him. It will not do for me to find merit in American manners— for are they not the standing butt for the jests of critic...

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...y wainscoted with dark, foreign wood of a brown colour, and bearing a high polish, said to have been brought from the Western Indies, and to have been... ... an armed Moor, who held in his left arm a round buckler of silver, highly polished, interposed betwixt his breast and the light, which was thus brill... ... noble mirror reflect such charms as were seldom presented to its fair and polished surface; “I have more of the milk-maid than the countess, with the... ...at all times—to hold up my mind and my thoughts before him as pure as that polished mirror—so that when he looks into my heart, he shall only see his ... ...worth account of his profound learning, which, though it only re- lated to heraldry and genealogy, with such scraps of history as connected themselves... ...study to free her from the villain’s nets of infamy.” “They are called, in heraldry, Laquei Amoris, or Lacs D’Amour,” said Mumblazen. “It is in that I... ...th Varney as is fitting.” “Patience and Varney,” said Mumblazen, “is worse heraldry than metal upon metal. He is more false than a siren, more rapacio... ...es with real or affected shuddering, she noted with a curious eye the high polish and rich, damasked ornaments upon the glittering blade. “Had I been ...

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...g had the benefits of a university education, and acquired the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and cont... ...his coat off at once—he stood up to the Banbury man for three minutes, and polished him off in four rounds easy. Gad, how he did drop, sir, and what w... ...s on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite u...

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...f glistening watered silk, trimmed with steel buttons, beautifully cut and polished. His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroider... ...powers bestowed on him by nature, easily acquired, as well as that outward polish and polite- ness he had before been wanting in, and which is seldom ... ...iling, shed their refulgent beams on feet cased in elegantly made boots of polished leather, over which de- scended fashionably cut trousers of black ... ...wledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry — I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid... ... heaven, M. Bertuccio, you make use of heraldic terms; where did you study heraldry?” “In your service, excellency, where everything is learned.” “Go ... ...eatest polite- ness, ask me if I am going. Indeed, count, you are the most polished man in the world. And your servants, too, how very well behaved th... ...re trousers of blue cloth, boots tolerably clean, but not of the brightest polish, and a little too thick in the soles, buckskin gloves, a hat somewha...

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...d peculiar attributes of a hea- then God. He was a disposer of men: he was polished, luxu- rious, and happy—at their cost. He lived in eminent self- c... ...on the young heir. Lady Attenbury of Longford House had brought her highly-polished specimen of mar- ket-ware, the Lady Juliana Jaye, for a first intr... ...ng had aforetime a bad charac- ter. Notwithstanding what years had done to polish it into fair repute, the Raynham kitchen stuck to tradition, and pre... ...e was caught by Sir Austin’s eye. The baronet smiled, and said, “You study Heraldry, too? Are you fond of the science?” 108 Ordeal of Richard Feverel... ...much remarking it, for his suspicions had not risen to print. “A Manual of Heraldry?” the baronet politely, and it may be ironically, inquired, before...

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...arents, as a young lady not unworthy to occupy a fitting position in their polished and refined circle. Those vir- tues which characterize the young E... ...uld wish—the frankest, kindest, most agreeable creature—want- ing a little polish, but so good-natured. The girls Christian- named each other at once.... ...g had the benefits of a university education, and acquired the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and cont... ...his coat off at once—he stood up to the Banbury man for three minutes, and polished him off in four rounds easy. Gad, how he did drop, sir, and what w... ...s on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 485 Thackeray The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled and ... ...ed with particular care. He waxed his mustachios into a state of brilliant polish and put on a tight cravat and a trim buff waistcoat, so that all the...

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...f year at Eton had not produced superciliousness, though it had given Eton polish to the home-bred manners; it had made sisters valuable, and awakened... ...hically treated, they become 116 The Trial a perfect school in historical heraldry, nay, in languages, in mathematical drawing, in illumination, said... ...e, on which he had been engaged for many years, but had never succeeded in polishing to his own fastidious satisfaction, or in coming to the end of ne...

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... perambulate the room with a duster in her hand, with which she stopped to polish the backs of already lustrous books, musing and romancing as she did... ...ood would pass away, and the duster would be sought for, and the old books polished again. These spells of inspiration never burnt steadily, but flick... ...up her duster; but she was too much annoyed to find any relief, as yet, in polishing the backs of books. “Besides,” she said, giving the sheet she had... ...it to old Miss Trotter at Ealing, who was an authority upon the science of Heraldry, never failed to excite her laughter. She wanted to know everythin... ...ides of the road the shop windows were full of sparkling chains and highly polished leather cases, which stood upon shelves made of thick plate-glass.... ... purple and white of the bowl, standing in a pool of variegated light on a polished Chippendale table in the drawing-room window, made her stop dead w...

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...t might have served the sculptor for a model, exquisitely-turned limbs and polished foreheads of so transparent a texture that the blue veins might be... ...ers, which upon the darkest nights have a watchful consciousness of French polish; the old Spanish mahogany winked at it now and then, as a dozing cat... ...y to be useful, went off directly. ‘You will excuse Thomas Pinch’s want of polish, Martin,’ said Mr Pecksniff, with a smile of patronage and pity, as ... ...knife as he laid it on the table, by breathing on the blade and afterwards polishing the same on the apron already mentioned. When he had completed hi... ...ing white ornament on the rails on either side like a petrified pineapple, polished; a little oblong plate of the same material over the knocker where... ...t the bit until his chest was white with foam, and rearing like a horse in heraldry; the plated harness and the patent leather glittered in the sun; p...

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...rs flocking to Paris, and the almost universal ignorance of the science of heraldry, are beginning to bring the title of prince into fashion. There ar... ...d him, laughing, that they now offered him a most seductive opportunity to polish up his heart and know the supreme fascinations which love conferred ...

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...e couchant Or; the well- known cognizance of the house, blazed in gorgeous heraldry on a hundred banners, surmounting as many towers. The long lines o... ...five thousand men, their standards flapping in the air, their long line of polished jack-boots gleaming in the golden sunlight. “And now we are here,”... ...vers in the rampart there were silken banners embroidered with wonder- ful heraldry; men-at-arms marched where now you shall only see a bank of moss o... ...ended from the prickles and stones by the rudest sandals, and his bald and polished head was bare. “Holy hermit,” said the knight, in a grave voice, “... ...His adversary’s weapon had glanced harmless along the blank surface of his polished buck- ler; and the victory so far was with him. The expression of ... ...connec- 373 Burlesques tions got him that famous suit); his Excellency in polished steel. My wife wore a coronet, modelled exactly after that of Quee... ...lady; two magistrates of the county, and the very pink of Croydon; several Polish noblemen; two Italian counts (besides our Count); one hundred and te...

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...had better look to your sauce.” Couchant means squatting, you know. That’s heraldry! Well, that wasn’t bad sparring of Mel’ s. But, bless you! he was ... ...sh I had married a fishmonger! Silva, indeed, is a most excellent husband. Polished! such polish as you know not of in England. He has a way—a wriggle... ...difference to expense, and the inexplicable minor characteristics, such as polished boots, and a striking wristband, and so forth, which will show a c... ...ding his hat to assume some- 101 George Meredith thing of the gentlemanly polish of its youth, and might have been observed now and then furtively ca... ...k in jesses. The Elburne arms are, Or, three falcons on a field, vert. How heraldry reminds me of poor Papa! the evenings we used to spend with him, w... ...disposition, very handsome. He has just as much and no more of the English polish one ordinarily meets. When he has given me soup or fish, bowed to me... ... think I shall make a scholar of you in one or two essentials. You do want polish. Have I not a right to take you in hand? I have de- fended you alrea...

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...as to equity, it was only that she substituted the equity of camps for the polished (but often more iniquitous) equity of courts and towns. As to the ... ...e slight horses of the Cossacks were unable to support the weight of heavy Polish dragoons and a body of trained cam- eleers (that is, cuirassiers mou... ..., through other openings or vistas, at far distant points, the flashing of polished arms. But sometimes, as the wind slack- ened or died away, all tho... ...tarry heavens from their earliest creation, as a prefiguration—as a silent heraldry of hope through one period, and as a her- aldry of gratitude throu... ...ry.” The English quatrain must be familiar to every body:— “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er ... ...larly in a great Southern school, never carried his Latin to any classical polish. There is another accomplishment of Coleridge’s, less broadly open t...

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...pon his daily livelihood would, by this chase after the armorial honors of heraldry, have made himself a butt for ridicule, such as no fortitude could... ... the widest has its uses; and, for the extension of his influence with the polished classes amongst whom he lived, he did wisely to add other language... ...s neighborhood, could not be expected to display any very high standard of polish. Yet, on the other hand, as an independent city, governed by its own...

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...interested the dear Maid I’ve view’d — her soul affectionate yet wise, Her polish’d wit as mild as lambent glories That play around a sainted infan... ...ds in Jesu’s side He would proclaim it far and wide, With trump and solemn heraldry, That they, who thus had wronged the dame, Were base as spotte... ...ho’ each day did new feathers bring, All swore he had a leathern wing; Nor polish’d wing, nor feather’d tail, Nor down-clad thigh would aught avail...

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...th a faint ruddiness upon the walls and ceiling, and a reflected gleam upon the polish of the furniture. This warmer light mingles itself with the cold... ...ith the glittering frontispiece of the house, spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate. “Mother,” cried she, “I see you her... ...ers came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry. In the cottage there 180 The Scarlet Letter were articles of...

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...he sea-shell preexists in the se- creting organs of the fish. The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pro- n... ... symbol of a mother and child, or a gar- dener and his bulb, or a jeweller polishing a gem. Either of these, or of a myriad more, are equally good to ... ...aughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criti- cism, the first lines of written prose and verse of a na-... ... exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are al- ways filled or filling from the first. T... ...you will hide the 260 Essays want of measure. This perception comes in to polish and perfect the parts of the social instrument. Society will pardon ...

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..., but is not quite so common as Katka. She used to sew, tidy up the rooms, polish the metal cases of the icons and do other light work, and sometimes ... ...ide- board to match, stood in the oblong room, the floor of which had been polished by three men the day before. On the table, which was covered with ... ...Ah, the Senate! Yes, my dear Cousin Leo is in the Senate, but he is in the heraldry department, and I don’t know any of the real ones. They are all so... ...hat clean shirts and hands they all have, and how well all their boots are polished! 288 Resurrection Who does it for them? How comfortable they all ... ...d with my neighbours in the cells next to mine. They were both caught with Polish proclamations and arrested in the same cause, and were tried for an ... ...came up to my door. A handsome young fellow he was, you know, of that nice Polish type: broad shouldered, his head covered with fine, fair, curly hair...

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...ran- deur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of... ...p him of his wild disguise, Melt down his dross, refine his massy ore, And polish that which seem’d rough-cast before, Search his deep sense, unveil h... ...atins and anniversaries in the choir, I make withal some crossbow-strings, polish glass bottles and bolts, I twist lines and weave purse nets wherein ... ...in public, or present him- self in company, that hath not been pretty well polished in the shop of Minerva. I see robbers, hangmen, freebooters, tapst... ...id watch and ward, and not one was exempted from carrying the basket. Some polished corslets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mai... ...med to us like your rough sugar-plums, of many colours, like those used in heraldry; some words gules (this means also jests and merry sayings), some ...