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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if ...

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...ickens Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 1. DOMBEY AND SON D OMBEY SAT IN THE CORNER of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedsid... ...practical knowledge of his position in society. That Mrs Dombey had always sat at the head of his table, and done the honours of his house in a remark... ... had been married ten years, and until this present day on which Mr Dombey sat jingling and jingling his heavy gold watch-chain in the great arm-chair... ...t pres- ently summoning courage, and what she called presence of mind, she sat down by the bedside, and said in the low pre- cise tone of one who ende... ...ng, loose, round-shouldered, shuffling, shaggy fellow, on whom his clothes sat negligently: with a good deal of hair and whisker, deepened in its natu... ...stery and gloom of his house. As she walked up and down the glass room, or sat hushing the baby there—which she very often did for hours together, whe... ...tle Florence laid aside the bonnet she had held in her hand until now, and sat down on a stool at the Nurse’s feet, looking up into her face. ‘Once up... ...away to Heaven!’ The child, who had dropped her head, raised it again, and sat looking at her intently. ‘So; let me see,’ said Polly, not a little flu... ... to his eye with as critical an air as he could possibly assume. His Uncle sat looking at him for some time in silence. When their eyes at last met, h...

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...erything was cold and separate. And in a little glass case beside the road sat a small, hewn Christ, the head resting on the hand; and he meditates, h... ...in the high sunlight, along the uppermost terrace of the military road. It sat in the warm stillness of the transcendent afternoon. The four o’clock s... ...at- tending with my dark soul to their inaudible undertone. All the time I sat still in silence, I was one with them, a partaker, though I could hear ... ...hing, because of the mountains in the west. Already the olive wood where I sat was extinguished. This was the world of the monks, the rim of pallor be... ...e corner, among all the pink geraniums and the sunshine, the Signora Gemma sat laughing with a baby. It was a fair, bonny thing of eigh- 38 D. H. Law... ...H. Lawrence teen months. The Signora was concentrated upon the child as he sat, stolid and handsome, in his little white cap, perched on a bench picki... ... the roof of the section below us. When we came to the brink of the roof I sat down. The padrone stood behind me, a shabby, shaky little figure on his... ...is the present. Either that is enough, the present, or there is nothing. I sat and looked at the lake. It was beautiful as paradise, as the first crea... ...It remains for the young Italian to em- brace his mistress, the machine. I sat on the roof of the lemon-house, with the lake below and the snowy mount...

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...of the brain was no more stifled than the issue of the womb: no envious juno sat cross legged over the nativity of any man’s intellectual offspring;... ...n other countries, where this kind of inquisition tyrannises; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had, and been counted happ...

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... well for her. 901 Eno. I will tell you, 902 The Barge she sat in, like a burnisht Throne 903 Burnt on the water: the Poope was b... ...imselfe in Chaires of Gold 1756 Were publikely enthron’d: at the feet, sat 1757 Caesarion whom they call my Fathers Sonne, 1758 And all th...

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...ll in a twelvemonth. All these I have mentioned in the order in which they sat at table. I presided, and the matronly presence faced me. We were not l... ...st among us to 13 Charles Dickens think that we ought to take hands as we sat, in deference to the toast, or whether any one of us anticipated the ot... ...an I do. He was a poor trav- eller , with not a farthing in his pocket. He sat by the fire in this very room, and he slept one night in a bed that wil... ... his mother , and she was a widow. ” It was a Sunday evening, and the lady sat at her quiet garden-window , reading the Bible; read- ing to herself, i... ...n he awoke, that she might see him from her table at the bedside where she sat at work, was held undrawn; and a woman’s voice spoke, which was not her... ...Badajos.” Left alone with the sound of his own stern voice in his ears, he sat down to consider , What shall I do, and how shall I tell him? At that t... ...nce, which has wholly saved me here on earth,—and that he did no more?” He sat down, with his head buried in his hands, and, when he rose up, made the...

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...harles Dickens 6 have been, and never were, are always wandering. When he sat, as already mentioned, gazing at the fire. When, as it rose and fell, t... ...serve. “What is that the old man has in his arms?” asked Mr. Redlaw, as he sat down to his solitary meal. “Holly, sir,” replied the quiet voice of Mil... ...at the holly. “His mother — my son William’s my youngest son — and I, have sat among em’ all, boys and girls, little children and babies, many a year,... ... had sprung away. He came back with his lamp, locked his door hastily, and sat down in his chair, covering his face like one who was frightened at him... ...indeed, alone. Alone, alone. CHAPTER II The Gift Diffused A SMALL MAN SAT IN A SMALL PARLOUR, partitioned off from a small shop by a small sc... ...ted to anybody, and could never be delivered any where. The small man who sat in the small parlour, making fruitless attempts to read his newspaper p... ...; with a poetic legend attached, im porting that united in one cause they sat and joked, one chewed tobacco, one took snuff, one smoked: but The Haun... ...Bargain Charles Dickens 31 her value while she is still among you!” He sat down again in his chair by the fire, and com posed himself, cross legg... ...for she’s the brightest gem that ever sparkled on your early brow.” Johnny sat down on a little stool, and devotedly crushed himself beneath the weigh...

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...ith that we walked side by side to his box, entered it, closed the door, and sat down by the fire. “I have made up my mind, sir,” he began, bending fo... ...s of the telegraph wires.” That was all very well, he returned, after we had sat listen ing for a while, and he ought to know something of the “The S... ...an attitude in stone figures on tombs. “Did you go up to it?” “I came in and sat down, partly to collect my thoughts, partly because it had turned me ... ...t into the train at midnight, and had fallen asleep, and had woke up and had sat looking out of window at the brilliant Northern Lights in the sky, an... ...m ashamed to believe that I would have done wager by battle with the man who sat opposite me. That opposite man had had, through the night—as that opp... ... supposition that he was in the civil engineering way of life, if he had not sat staring straight over my head whenever he listened. He was a goggle e... ... was slumbering or grieving, I could not discern. Amazed to see him there, I sat up, moved my position, leaned out of bed, and watched him. As he did ... ...bedrooms, which were never used, and possessed, in one large room in which I sat read ing, times out of number at all hours, and next to which I slep... ...ent of hooded women. Noises? With that con tagion downstairs, I myself have sat in the dismal parlour, listening, until I have heard so many and such...

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...ony with the darkness of the street and the mustiness of the place. As she sat there, motionless, in her chair, it might have been thought that she wa... ...or, with a basket on her arm, was out purchasing provisions, the old woman sat in the adjoining room by the further window, opposite a young girl. At ... ...r pretty face was clouded by anxiety, and he could guess when Caroline had sat up late at work; but above all, he noted how the gloomy thoughts that d... ... I think, Monsieur 18 A Second Home Roger, that the ‘little Corporal’ has sat where you are sit- ting,” she went on after a pause. “Poor man! how my ... ... a small dressing-table in front of a long glass, and here the needlewoman sat, out of pa- tience with Plaisir, the famous hairdresser. “Do you think ... ...g the sweet picture of the child clinging to Caroline’s white bosom as she sat, as fresh as a newly opened lily, while her hair fell in long brown cur... ...half; her name has figured in three wills already.” So the three old dames sat on. However, the Abbe presently came out, and at a word from him the wi... ... stormy season, and services of that kind are not forgotten.” The Minister sat silent for a few minutes. “Before long,” he went on, “I shall have thre... ...Granville to a little strength. One morning, on coming home from Mass, she sat down on a stone bench in the little garden, where the sun’s kisses remi...

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...lf for, the pleasure I could see her feel in my admiration and wonder as I sat at supper with four tall candles and with my pupil, in a high chair and... ...s and that had received them—with a publicity perhaps not edifying—while I sat with the children at their tea, served on Sundays, by exception, in tha... ...is, except the very much stranger in which it quickly merged itself. I had sat down with a piece of work—for I was something or other that could sit—o... ...ory had my subsequent sojourn been less agitated. I had not gone to bed; I sat reading by a couple of candles. There was a roomful of old books at Bly... ...agine the general complexion, from that moment, of my nights. I repeatedly sat up till I didn’t know when; I selected moments when my roommate un- mis... ... with the lapse of the season, the afternoon sun was now agreeable; and we sat there together while, before us, at a distance, but within call if we w... ...u didn’t undress at all?” He fairly glittered in the gloom. “Not at all. I sat up and read.” “And when did you go down?” “At midnight. When I’m bad I ... ...shouldn’t take him in.” My companion, after an instant and for all answer, sat down again and grasped my arm. “Make him at any rate come to you.” I st... ...ion, but my being aware of this had somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read into 72 The Turn of the Screw what my little...

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...inor discipline involved for our friend in the picture Waymarsh made as he sat in trousers and shirt on the edge of his couch. With his long legs exte... ...ribute to the “frill” had grown slightly more marked. The connexion, as he sat there and let his imagination roam, 52 The Ambassadors was to strike h... ...e was so much greater than he had dreamed it would be; and what he finally sat there turning over was the strange logic of his finding himself so free... ...n this process of saving Chad; nor was that effect a bit more marked as he sat, half an hour later, with his legs under Chad’s mahogany, with Mr. Bilh... ..., of a rela- tion to the irregular life. It was the way the irregular life sat upon Bilham and Miss Barrace that was the insidious, the delicate marve... ...ur. They commended his munificence and approved his taste, and in doing so sat down, as it seemed to Strether, in the very soil out of which these thi... ...“Exactly. And it was on the scene of their doings then that Waymarsh and I sat guzzling.” “Oh if you forbore to guzzle here on scenes of doings,” she ... ...m twice and had nevertheless not said more than a word. Waymarsh meanwhile sat opposite him with their host- ess between; and Miss Gostrey spoke of he... ...nd dear old Waymarsh. You,” she declared, “have been a good bit of it.” He sat massive. “A good bit of what, ma’am?” “Why of the wonderful consciousne...

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...ed of having yielded to this weakness, hastily pushed Esther away, and she sat down quite abashed, for he said: “You are still the courtesan.” And he ... ...cien had lost all his good spirits; he never went out, dined with Herrera, sat pensive, worked, read volumes of diplomatic treatises, squatted Turkish... ...eath’s head, showed the man’s real countenance. It was ap- palling. Lucien sat on his divan, his hands hanging limp, overpowered, and gazing at the Ab... ...a dozen Madelonnettes put together, she might have robbed her parents, and sat on the bench of a police-court. Asie was terrifying, but you knew her t... ...young commercial traveler named Gaudissart, who frequented the Cafe David, sat drinking from eleven o’clock till midnight with a half-pay officer. He ... ...the cafe, asked for a glass of brandy, and did not look at Canquoelle, who sat reading the papers; but when he had gulped down the brandy, he took out... ...fashion—almost that of a Minister of State. He inquired of the servant who sat on a bench on the steps whether the Baron de Nucingen were at home; and... ...rvant; by and by you will say, ‘It was I.’” And he bowed to the chief, who sat passive to conceal his amazement. Peyrade returned home, his legs and a... ...nce they could see Paris, where no one could overhear them. They all three sat down in the rising sun, on the trunk of a felled 138 Scenes from a Cou...

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...t. The articulation of faultless English was his object. His sister Martha sat vice-regally to receive his loyal congratula- tions on the illustrious ... ... the glass on her father’s part; more he would not pay. Tinman and Phippun sat with her in Crickledon’s cottage, and Mrs. Crickledon brought down two ... ...ines, or any other thing that is naughtily Aus- tralian and kangarooly. He sat at the dinner-table at Elba, eating like the rest of mankind, and looki... ...nd review; good, then, for the silly sheep of letters and the butchers. He sat down to Mrs. Crickledon’s table at half-past six. She was, as she had p... ...ent, Mart. You dosed me with the stuff you buy for wine, while your sister sat sugaring and mollify- ing my girl; and she did the trick in a minute, t... ...t bring Van Diemen to his senses, and Annette running to him for mercy. He sat down that night amid the howling of the storm, wind whistling, water cr... ...of water. Van Diemen had no idea of calamity being at work on land when he sat down to breakfast. He told Herbert that he had prayed for poor fellows ...

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...grandpapa another dose, and let us to breakfast.” In this merry humor they sat down to the table, great- grandpapa and Pansie side by side, and the ki... ...n these, when Pansie had been kissed and put to bed, and Grandsir Dolliver sat by his fireside gazing in among the massive coals, and absorbing their ... ... then fear- fully watched the result of the madman’s potation. The Colonel sat a moment in his chair, panting for breath; then started to his feet wit...

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...e’s grand ora- tion for the defence. So seductive was it to the Powers who sat in judgement on the case, that they all, when the sen- tence came, turn... ... by his neighbour. The mover of armed hosts for the defence of the country sat in a third-class carriage of the train, approaching the first of the st... ...tie. An anecdote of immediate diversion was wanted, expected: and Fenellan sat stupidly speculating upon whether the doctor knew of a cupboard locked.... ...sed Chan- nel! The very breeze he had wished for! Luck was with him. Nesta sat by the rails of the vessel beside her Louise. Mr. Sowerby in passing, e... ...tly rebuking the thought; for he had read chapters of Military History. He sat eyeing the front row of figures in his third-class carriage, musing on ... ...d of honest creatures who will not accept a lift from fiction, drearily he sat before the ladies, confessing to an emptiness he was far from feeling. ... ...ich one or other of the residents about Lakelands had been taken before he sat at Victor’s London table. He was already winning his way, apparently wi... ...current of opinion. Victor played-off Colney upon Dudley, for his internal sat- isfaction, and to lull Nataly and make her laugh; but he could not, as... ...usive. Dr. Schlesien heard remarks, upon which his weighty Teu- tonic mind sat crushingly. Do these English care one bit for music?—for anything finer...

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...ridau. On the evening of that sad day Agathe refused to play at cards, and sat on her sofa plunged in such grief that the tears stood in her handsome ... ...he widow trembled in every limb; her eyes dilated and then grew fixed; she sat down and burst into tears. “Where is he?” she cried amid the sobs. “Per... ... from idleness. Agathe, who no longer received her friends in the evening, sat in the chimney-corner reading her prayers, while Madame Descoings consu... ...t I could put it back before you missed it. Oh! I have suffered much.” She sat down. Her dry, fixed eyes wandered a little. “It was he who did it,” wh... ...entreat a secrecy no one desired to break. They returned to the salon, and sat beside the fire. “ Ah! my children,” cried Madame Descoings, “I am stab... ...e fire in her own chamber, and brought her sewing to the studio, where she sat by the little iron stove, leaving the room if a comrade or a model ente... ... tor Rouget set spurs to his horse and returned to Issoudun. He had hardly sat down to dinner, before his cook announced the arrival of the citoyen an... ...ties the Rabouilleuse addressed to Rouget when she was angry. The poor man sat down in deep distress at a corner of the table in the middle of the roo... ...n-Jacques Rouget. From the windows of the room where Madame Hochon usually sat, it was easy to see what went on at the Rouget household, and vice vers...

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... At meal-times, and especially when we indulged in af- ter-dinner chat, we sat about the chests like a parcel of tailors. In the middle of all were tw... ... pilot her in. I’ve been to Tahiti before and I can do it.” Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest-lids, and cymbaling of tin pans... ...is shoulders, “you now keepy steel.” The doctor and myself, more discreet, sat quietly in the bow of the cutter; and for my own part, though I did not... ...large mahogany chest (a well-filled one, by the bye), and finding infinite sat- isfaction in merely sitting thereon, was detected in the act of applyi... ... one part of the gallery. I was amused by a party in a corner. The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When th... ... the scientific interest of the case. Soon after his departure, the doctor sat up; and upon being asked what upon earth ailed him, shook his head myst... ...treat to listen, and therefore I never interfered; but, with the planters, sat in mute admiration before him. This apparent self-abasement on my part ... ...ns; but be- ing so remote from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, their religion sat lightly upon them. We had been told, even, that many heathenish games a... ...t nightfall. They gave us a cordial reception, and a hearty supper; and we sat up talk- ing until a late hour. We now prepared to go round to T aloo, ...

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... his benefactor, looked strangely enough; none the less, that, somehow, it sat not altogether unbecomingly upon the ben- eficiary, being free from any... ...ou had no confidence.” The lady was, in an extraordinary way, touched. She sat in a sort of restless torment, knowing not which way to turn. She began... ...ed web of some character, and then raise admiration still greater at their sat- isfactory unraveling of it; in this way throwing open, some- times to ... ...e never driven out without a respirator, and for a given time of every day sat bolstered up in a sort of gasometer, inspiring vapors generated by the ... ...s scarce a sufferer, this noonday, writhing on his bed, but in his hour he sat satisfactorily healthy and happy; that the Samaritan Pain Dissuader is ... ... life. Deep melancholy overspread the before cheery face of Charlemont; he sat for some moments tremu- lously silent; then pushing a full decanter tow... ...a mild glance upon the speaker, who, now occupying the chair opposite him, sat there purely and coldly radiant as a prism. It seemed as if one could a... ...viscount, then turned with silent appeal to the stranger. But the stranger sat more like a cold prism than ever, while an expression of keen Yankee cu... ...en, ink, and paper were provided, and grave as any notary the cosmopolitan sat down, but, ere taking the pen, glanced up at the notification, and said...

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... _40 Rush to my heart, and fell into a trance; And when it passed I sat all weak and wild; Whilst you alone stood up, and with strong words Che... ...tumbled over one another, And broke their skulls.—Upon the floor Meanwhile sat Peter Bell, and swore, And cursed his father and his mother; ... ...21. 21. 21. 21. And all the while with loose fat smile, The willing wretch sat winking there, Believing ’twas his power that made ... ...mory sees, In vacant chairs, your absent images, And points where once you sat, and now should be But are not.—I demand if ever we ... ...till every sphere Shall be one living Spirit,—so shall Greece— SA SA SA SA SAT T T T TAN: AN: AN: AN: AN: Be as all things beneath the empyrean, ...

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...ours of half-past nine and five, of a sallow-faced man in rusty brown, who sat upon an uncommonly hard stool in a species of butler’s pantry at the en... ...about other people’s affairs usually are, or need to be. Mr Ralph Nickleby sat in his private office one morning, ready dressed to walk abroad. He wor... ...dirt. It was into a place of this kind that Mr Ralph Nickleby gazed, as he sat with his hands in his pockets looking out of the window. He had fixed h... ...ry inviting in the object, but Mr Nickleby was wrapt in a brown study, and sat contemplating it with far greater attention than, in a more conscious m... ...e. A very strongly- marked countenance for the purpose, sir. Have you ever sat before?’ ‘You mistake my purpose, I see, ma’am,’ replied Mr Nickleby, i... ...of it, where he thrust him into a chair, and mounting upon his high stool, sat, with his arms hanging, straight down by his sides, gazing fixedly upon... ... opportunity of talking on the subject which occupied his thoughts; so, he sat down again, and (his sanguine imagination warming as he spoke) entered ... ... legs being too short to admit of their feet resting upon anything as they sat, and the little boys’ bodies 55 Charles Dickens being consequently in ... ...th century was scarce two years old at the time, and King Henry the Fourth sat upon the throne of England—there dwelt, in the ancient city of York, fi...

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...ns like a three years’ child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancie... ... And he had passed a restless night, And was not well in health; The women sat down by his side, And talked as ’twere by stealth. ‘‘The Sun peeps ... ...‘‘They’re mostly green’’; says that, ‘‘They’re amber-like to me.’’ So they sat chatting, while bad thoughts Were troubling Edward’s rest; But soon... ...When he waked up, and stared like one That hath been just struck blind. He sat upright; and ere the dream Had had time to depart, ‘‘O God, forgive... ..., and forthwith burst Into ungentle laughter; And Mary shivered, where she sat, And never she smiled after. - 260 - The Three Graves. A fragment o... ...quarrels now! let’s all make head, YOU DROVE THE POOR OX MAD.’’ As thus I sat, in careless chat, With the morning’s wet newspaper, In eager haste... ...ngy kidling with its tinkling bell Leaped frolicsome, or old romantic goat Sat, his white beard slow waving. I moved on In low and languid mood: fo... ...ur Lordship had made his appearance in boots. You, my Lord, with your star, sat in boots, and the Spanish Ambassador thereupon thought fit to vanish... ..., beneath mine eyes I found The plot of mossy ground, On which we oft have sat when Rósa was alive. — Why must the rock, and margin of the flood, ...

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...ed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o’clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, h... ... not injuring her. We are but preventing her from injuring another. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need o... ...hing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that was even redder than mine. He said a f... ...e’s not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon his forehead.” Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. “I thought as much,” sa... ...in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the... ...ry capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving ... ...ague.” “You see, Watson,” he explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, “it was perfectly ... ... Identity 41 A Case of Identity 3 M Y DEAR fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is... ..., with a promise to come again whenever she might be summoned. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still pressed together,...

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...eides and dashed to earth the staff studded with golden nails, and himself sat down; and over against him Atreides waxed furious. Then in their midst ... ..., and with them went the woman all unwilling. Then Achilles wept anon, and sat him down apart, aloof from his comrades on the beach of the grey sea, g... ...neath her; and themselves were scattered amid their huts and ships. But he sat by his swift faring ships, still wroth, even the heaven sprung son of P... ... sitting apart from all on the topmost peak of many ridged Olympus. So she sat before his face and with her left hand clasped his knees, and with her ... ...pense.” So spake she; but Zeus the cloud gatherer said no word to her, and sat long time in silence. But even as Thetis had clasped his knees, so held... ...r footed Thetis, daughter of the Ancient of the sea, for she at early morn sat by thee and clasped thy knees. T o her I deem thou gavest a sure pledge... ...achable against thee.” He said, and Hera the ox eyed queen was afraid, and sat in silence, curbing her heart; but throughout Zeus’ palace the gods of ... ...ll the Olympian forthwith be gracious unto us.” So speaking he rose up and sat in his dear mother’s hand the twy handled cup, and spake to her: “Be of... ...ng sea roareth on the long beach and the main resoundeth. Now all the rest sat down and kept their place upon the benches, only Thersites still chatte...

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...geon was so very disagreeable, but because his uneasiness was so great. He sat all night on his stool, starting at the least noise; and when the first... ...as terrogated, told me this morning that the night before last her Majesty sat up very late, that this morning she wept much, and that she was writing... .... The leader closed the window, came out an instant after by the door, and sat- isfied himself that the woman was in the carriage. His two companions ... ... waited at the door, and that carriage with a coachman in grand livery who sat wait- ing on his seat?” 307 Alexandre Dumas Porthos had seen neither t... ... he ran, and arrived at his quarters very pale and quite out of breath. He sat down without saying a word to anybody, and began to reflect. This event... ..., brought a chair for each of themselves and one for Athos. All three then sat down with their heads together and their ears on the alert. “You will g... ... the cardinal said.” Milady , under the influence of inexpressible terror, sat down without uttering a word. “Y ou certainly are a demon sent upon the... ...yes and his finger toward heaven. Grimaud put his basket on the ground and sat down with a shake of the head. Athos took a pistol from his belt, looke... ...hat to do.” The soldier went out to obey the orders of his officer. Felton sat down upon an armchair which happened to be near the door, and waited wi...

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...nt, if this humiliation had been prepared for him. But as he saw nothing upon the impassible visage of the cardinal, nothing on that of his mother, no... ... 77 Dumas “Thirty-nine millions two hundred and sixty thousand.” “That is correct, Bernouin; that is all I wanted to know. Leave us now,” said the car... ...breast. He was silent himself, suffocated by the flood of bit- ter remembrances he had just poured upon that royal head. Charles II., with a violent e... ...igneur’s.” 137 Dumas D’Artagnan repressed his inclination to laugh, because the brevity of Aramis’s letter gave rise to reflection. He followed Mousq... ...was only efficacious upon a very small number; but of what importance was it to Monk? for Monk was very absolute, under the appearance of the most per... ...u will take all that into consideration. But now, general, you are at lib- erty to get up and walk.” This said, he cut the bonds which fastened the ar... ...f, kind as he was, conciliated with difficulty; for, scarcely established, the protected might again stand in need of the protector, and would, conse-... ...artner. D’Artagnan en- tered with a bent back and a dull eye: the Gascon had an idea with regard to Planchet. “Good God!” thought the grocer, looking ... ... assistance of Bernouin. “I am here, my lord,” said the young man, as he ap- proached. “Take my cards, you are lucky. Win a little money for me 289 D...

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...flesh begot 1856 Those Pelicane Daughters. 1857 Edg. Pillicock sat on Pillicock hill, alow: alow, loo, loo. 1858 Foole. This cold ...

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...should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed. After that, he sat feeling his right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs. Joe... ..., knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on. “Now, perhaps you’ll mention what’s... ...alf a pint; but was made to swallow that (much to his distur- bance, as he sat slowly munching and meditating before the fire), “because he had had a ... ...ed to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread-and-butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost dr... ...ed. Escaped.” Administering the definition like T ar-water. While Mrs. Joe sat with her head bending over her needle- work, I put my mouth into the fo... ... got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads. It began the moment we sat down to dinner. Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation – as ... ...nsable necessity for my communicat- ing with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone. But, I delivered this written communicatio... ...s afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feel- i... ... much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I m...

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...oids and seeing the aged pa tient out by the side door, Krestyan Ivanovitch sat down to await the next visitor. Mr. Golyadkin walked in. Appa... ... not know The Double – Dostoevsky 9 ing what to do next, took a chair and sat down, but, realiz ing that he had sat down without being asked to do... ..., was overcome with embarrassment, sank into expressive silence, and finally sat down for good and did not get up again. Only, to protect himself from... ... getting Mr. Golyadkin once and for all into the armchair. Mr. Golyadkin sat down at last, still keeping his eyes fixed on the doctor. With an ext... ...patients all right, but still … he’s as stupid as a post.” Mr. Golyadkin sat down, Petrushka shouted “Off!” and the carriage rolled towards Nevsky... ...ent to the window and looked to see whether his carriage was there … then he sat down again in his place and took up the paper. It was noticeable that... ...s. For a long time he walked up and down the room in agita tion; at last he sat down in a chair, propped his brow in his hands and began doing his ve... ...ion which was none the less disagreeable for being vague and unconscious; he sat timidly down in his invariable place next the head clerk, Anton Anton... ...d his pipe, and offered a second, which was brought in, to his visitor. They sat facing each other, and the visitor began telling his adventures. ...

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...of the cour- tesy, and entered room number 2. I looked into six eyes which sat at a desk. T wo belonged to a lawyerish person in civilian clothes, wit... ...s pink evil eyes swelling with wrath. “I’m staying,” I replied calmly, and sat down on a curb, in the midst of my ponderous trinkets. A crowd of genda... ...he v-f- g’s numerous confrères looked scared and twirled their whiskers. I sat on the curb and began to fill a paper with something which I found in m... ...salutation, by the way, that I have ever exchanged with a human being) and sat down opposite one another—he, plus my baggage which he helped me lift i... ...is own large slovenly procedure out of earshot …. Some of the Black People sat down near me and smoked. Their enormous faces, wads of vital darkness, ... ...guard over my two sacs and overcoat. 42 The Enormous Room The older and I sat down, and the younger took his turn at promenading. I got up to buy a F... ...ind after the fatal dose. I de- cided that it would be useless to vomit. I sat up. I looked around. The darkness was rapidly going out of the sluggish... ...o the gnome, and the clean-shaven man, who accepted his with some dignity) sat down without much ado on B.’s bed— which groaned ominously in protest—a... ..., yet which moved on the fleshless neck with a horrible agility. Dull eyes sat in the clean-shaven wrinkles of a face neatly hopeless. At the knees a ...

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...rms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones; 360 Though of their Names in heav’nly Records now Be n... ...rch Angel: but his face 600 Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under Browes Of dauntless courage, and cons... ... our hopes. But he who reigns Monarch in Heav’n, till then as one secure Sat on his Throne, upheld by old repute, Consent or custome, and his Re... ...a Towred structure high, Where Scepter’d Angels held thir residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King 735 Exalted to such power, and gav... ... The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat 795 A thousand Demy-Gods on golden seat’s, Frequent and full. Afte... ...th richest hand Showrs on her Kings BARBARIC Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d 5 To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus hig... ...’n. Which when BEELZEBUB perceiv’d, then whom, SATAN except, none higher sat, with grave 300 Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem’d A Pillar ... ...rising seem’d A Pillar of State; deep on his Front engraven Deliberation sat and publick care; - 26 - BOOK II. Milton: Paradise Lost And Prince... ... we send, 415 The weight of all and our last hope relies. This said, he sat; and expectation held His look suspence, awaiting who appeer’d To...

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...ughby took his usual place between the two elder Miss Dashwoods. Mrs. Jennings sat on Elinor’s right hand; and they had not been long seated, before s... ... “Our dear Willoughby is now some miles from Barton, Elinor,” said she, as she sat down to work, “and with how heavy a heart does he travel?” “It is a... ...y to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written... ...t, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents. “What are Mrs. ... ...is gravity and thoughtfulness returned on him in their fullest extent — and he sat for some time silent and dull. 64 Sense and Sensibility Chapter 18... ...ferent as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each. Elinor sat down to her drawing table as soon as he was out of the house, busil... ... her memory, her reflection, and her fancy. From a reverie of this kind, as she sat at her drawing table, she was roused one morning, soon after Edward... ...rs; Mrs. Dashwood and Margaret came down stairs at the same time, and they all sat down to look at one another, while Mrs. Jennings continued her stor... ...de, to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward w...

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...ishop at the Restoration, and in after days the Count and the Abbe met and sat together on the same bench of the House of Peers. In 1795 Jerome-Nicola... ...s-windowed cages had been built out into the yard at the back; the foreman sat in state in the one, the master printer in the other. Out in the yard t... ..., and the two dens in the far corners where the master printer and foreman sat—and you will have some idea of the life led by the two friends. One day... ...presses and old woodwork had grown intolerable to him, and to- gether they sat down under the vines, keeping the office and the door in view. The sunb... ...d-white check pattern. On the sofa, covered with thin mattressed cushions, sat Mme. de Bargeton; the poet beheld her by the light of two wax candles o... ...ing about a closer union of soul and soul. Eve opened the door, and Lucien sat down without a word at the little table on an X-shaped trestle. There w... ..., he shifted about from one foot to another as he spoke, and half rose and sat down again when anybody spoke to him. He seemed ready to do some menial... ... say them over,” and ended with the delicate idyll Neere. Mme. de Bargeton sat with one hand buried in her curls, heedless of the havoc she wrought am... ...116 Two Poets as well have run away with him at once. It is true that they sat in the boudoir, now grown so familiar to Lucien that he felt as if he h...

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...ettles watching for his prey; So on the rim, that fenc’d the sand with rock, Sat perch’d the fiend of evil. In the void Glancing, his tail upturn’d it... ...se diseas’d, who strove in vain To lift their forms. Then two I mark’d, that sat Propp’d ‘gainst each other, as two brazen pans Set to retain the heat... ...laces he died. v. 114. The servants’ servant.] Servo de’ servi. So Ariosto, Sat. 3. Degli servi Io sia il gran servo . v. 124... ...na, Atque affigit humi divinae particulam aurae. Hor. Sat. ii. l. ii. 78. v. 82. Of her sands.] Compare Lucan, Phars. l. ix. ... ...isibly written blessed in his looks. Within a hundred spirits and more there sat. “In Exitu Israel de Aegypto;” All with one voice together sang, with... ...n Thru’ idleness might stand. Among them one, Who seem’d to me much wearied, sat him down, And with his arms did fold his knees about, Holding his fac... ...whom all other thoughts Were barr’d admittance. On the very ground Alone she sat, as she had there been left A guard upon the wain, which I beheld Bou... ... front The four. Like monster sight hath never seen. O’er it methought there sat, secure as rock On mountain’s lofty top, a shameless whore, Whose ken... ... v. 14. Aquinum’s bard.] Juvenal had celebrated his contemporary Statius, Sat. vii. 82; though some critics imagine that there is a secret derisi...

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...Tuskegee I was asked to make an address to the school on Sunday evening. I sat upon the platform of the large chapel and looked forth on a thousand co... ...gle instance during my child- hood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together, and God’s blessing was asked, and the famil... ...on accomplished waiter. He soon gave me charge of the table at which their sat four or five wealthy and rather aristo- cratic people. My ignorance of ... ...at on one occasion when I went into one of these cabins for dinner, when I sat down to the table for a meal with the four members of the family, I not... ...could play upon it. In the case to which I have referred, where the family sat down to the table for the meal at which I was their guest, I could see ... ...ver touched the ground.” This flag Sergeant Carney held in his hands as he sat on the platform, and when I turned to address the survivors of the colo... ... by a degree from the oldest and most renowned university in America. As I sat upon my veranda, with this letter in my hand, tears came into my eyes. ...

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...nourable. The whole of this class has one name, because it is intended to be sat upon, being always a seat for something. YOUNG SOCRATES: What is it? ...

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...t until yesterday evening. At the same time he felt for the truckle bed, and sat down at my feet, and then he said: Yesterday quite late in the evenin...

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... had a high fever and needed looking after. Then he lit a cigar and went and sat near the open door to smoke it. Mrs. Pontellier was quite sure Raoul ... ...ellier sprang out of bed and went into the next room. She soon came back and sat on the edge of the bed, leaning her head down on the pillow. She said... ...r of satin mules at the foot of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro. It was ... ...ot reveal so much as all this to Madame Ratignolle that summer day when they sat with faces turned to the sea. But a good part of it escaped her. She ... ... Madame Lebrun was busily engaged at the sewing machine. A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine. T... ...tellier what she would like to hear me play,” she re quested of Robert. She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert... ...the heavy perfume of a field of white blossoms somewhere near. But the night sat lightly upon the sea and the land. There was no weight of darkness; t... ... back, and she invited Robert to be seated and wait for him. But he went and sat outside the door and smoked. Madame Antoine busied herself in the lar... ...t like stealthy, gro tesque monsters across the grass. Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground—that is, he lay upon the ground beside her, occasiona...

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...ked for anything. Every time he went straight to a corner by the stove and sat down in a chair there. If the seat by the stove were occupied, after st... ... up a news- paper, never uttered a single word, a single sound, and simply sat there, staring straight before him with wide-open eyes, but with such a... ...ften the mas- ter of the shop joined some customer of his acquaintance and sat beside him at the table, when a certain amount of punch would be consum... ...he window, while the dog was lying as always, stretched out at his feet. I sat down in a corner without speaking, and inwardly asked myself why had I ... ...the room stopped me again. I have said already that as soon as the old man sat down in his chair he would fix his eye on something and not remove it t... ...t and held his head propped in both hands, with his elbows on his knees. I sat down beside him. “Listen,” said I, hardly knowing how to begin. “Don’ t... ... through ten years in that year. Infinity lay between us. And I remember I sat there before the old man, saying nothing, with unconscious fingers tear... ... unconscious fingers tearing the brim of my hat, which was torn already; I sat and, I don’t know why, waited for Natasha to come in. My clothes were s... ..., the same anxi- ety which clouded the face of her old husband, too, as he sat now brooding, while his tea grew cold. I knew that they were terribly w...

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...ut cast aside, they might speak freely of it, but not till then. Thus they sat a considerable time, speech- less, confused, and shrinking uneasily fro... ...onquerable obstinacy did he resist all her entreaties. At length Elizabeth sat silent. For a few moments she appeared lost in thought, considering, pr... ... it back till he should speak. He even raised himself in bed; and there he sat, shivering with the arms of death around him, while the black veil hung... ...did but dream of a dance! The selectman nodded to the constable; and there sat the light-heeled rep- 38 Twice Told Tales robate in the stocks; or if ... ...happy tree, which in after times was believed to drop poison with its dew, sat the one solitary mourner for innocent blood. It was a slender and light... ... boy was in truth a being which had sprung up out of the grave on which he sat. But perceiving that the apparition stood the test of a short mental pr... ... be without precedent in this parish. The muffled female, who had hitherto sat motionless in the front rank of the audience, now arose, and with slow,... ... stairs. The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the di- vine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the do... ... worn by imprisonment and stripes. The hale and weather-beaten old man who sat beside him had sustained less injury from a far longer course of the sa...

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...c vein—the tenderness of his pathos—the point and polished strength of his sat- ire—the force and vraisemblance of his descriptions of char- acter—the... ...ter likes a field. Through his young woods how pleased Sabinus stray’d, Or sat delighted in the thickening shade, 90 With annua... ...llow lion and a bristly boar.’ This, long revolved in his paternal breast, Sat heavy on his heart, and broke his rest; 550 This, ... ...tender youth has wedded stooping age. 340 The beauteous dame sat smiling at the board, And darted amorous glances at her lord. Not Heste... ...h’ entrancing raptures of th’ approaching night, 350 Restless he sat, invoking every power To speed his bliss, and haste the happy hour. Mea... ...ht, As all were nothing he had done by night, And sipp’d his cordial as he sat upright. He kiss’d his balmy spouse with wanton play, And feebly sung a... ...odging went. The female tribe surround him as he lay, And close beside him sat the gentle May: Where, as she tried his pulse, he softly drew A heaving... ... unable, 180 E’en though the Pope himself had sat at table: But when my point was gain’d, then thus I spoke: ‘Billy, my d... .... Oft, when his shoe the most severely wrung, He put on careless airs, and sat and sung. 240 How sore I gall’d him only heaven c...

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... he come? He will be sure to come, he replied. He came as he was bidden, and sat down between Critias and me. Great amusement was occasioned by every ...

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...w- ing with its fantastic bulk the councils of Central and Western Europe, sat upon the gravestone of autoc- racy, cutting off from air, from light, f... ...y the fear of un- worthiness rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a v... ...dy awaiting, with the trumpet at his lips, the stroke of the fatal hour, I sat there, thinking that this life of ours is nei- ther long nor short, but... ...ing, in a little oasis of light made by two candles in a desert of dusk, I sat at a little table to worry and ink myself all over till the task of my ... ...ent firmness. We used to shut our door, and there, away from everybody, we sat weighing the news, hunting up discrepancies, scenting lies, finding rea...

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...itle to permanent remembrance, that in the very first year during which he sat in Parliament, he originated (or re originated after the unsuccessful a... ... active part in the work of a Committee presided over by Mr. Ayrton, which sat through the greater part of the Session of 1866, to take evidence on th...

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... his home. Lee remarked again that this would have a happy effect. He then sat down and wrote out the following letter: Headquarters Army of Northern ...