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... topic as Clothes, too often the manner of treating it betokens in the Au- thor a rusticity and academic seclusion, unblamable, in- deed inevitable in... ... printed Paper should rise so far as to choke up the high- ways and public thoroughfares, new means must of neces- sity be had recourse to. In a world... ...t thatch myself anew; day after day, this despicable thatch must lose some film of its thickness; some film of it, frayed away by tear and wear, must ... ...uty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break: too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, ... ...t him; paralyzing any little enthusiasm that might still have rendered his thorny Biographical task a labor of love. It is a suspicion grounded perhap... ... so much as know that it was a Sun. So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo... ...of the Unborn, where the Present seems little other than an inconsiderable Film di- viding the Past and the Future? In those dim long-drawn expanses, ... ...read the Earth, as if it were a firm sub- stance: fool! the Earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet’s s... ... two Buchan-Bullers extending; till now there is but a foot- plank, a mere film of Land between them; this too is washed away: and then—we have the tr...

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...ther, a burglar’s in still another. As a guide or incentive to any au thoritatively prescribed line of morals or conduct (leaving training out of... ...d have made the impulse which moved me more powerful, more masterful, more thoroughly irresistible. I played the limit! O.M. Very well. You begin to s... ...Essays 48 never needs your help. I think the mind is purely a ma chine, a thoroughly independent machine, an automatic machine. Have you tried the ot... ... one is a human impossibility; that as soon as the Seeker finds what he is thoroughly convinced is the T ruth, he seeks no further, but gives the rest... ...ough complex field maneuvers at the word of command? Y.M. Not if he were a thorough idiot. O.M. Well, canary birds can learn all that; dogs and el ep... ... was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was prodigal profusion of brig... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ...

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... that again is the strong westerly blow through which we rose. Overhead, a film of southerly drifting mist draws a theatrical gauze across the firmame... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...ulder. “I’m chasing the night west.” The stars ahead dim no more than if a film of mist had been drawn under unobserved, but the deep airboom on our s... ...US ANEOUS ANEOUS ANEOUS [ WANTS ] REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY, FOR East Africa, a thoroughly competent Plane and Dirigible Driver, acquainted with Petrol Rad... ...otten the needs of his Growing Nation, and was earnestly parting the white-thorn stems with his fingers. * * * Giuseppe and Jimmy did as they ... ... contradictory orders. But when they could they cursed Jimmy with splendid thoroughness. “Have you anything to do with the house?” panted Jimmy at las... ... should be blocked up with bundles of dhurra stalks—or, better, bundles of thorns.” “Better thorns,” said the Governor. “Thick ends inner- most.” The ... ...behalf of a Committee by a lady secretary, but composed by some person who thor- oughly understood the language of the Province. After tell- ing the t... ... letter, telegram, and consultation at the proper rates in a cinematograph-film of a bill. At the end of a month he said it looked as though M’Leod, t...

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...ing of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite au thors, the fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incanta... ... a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow creatures and the au thor of your own speedy ruin.” As he said this he led the way across the ... ...hat, with whatever conse quences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw... ...ike those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever. In ...

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...e was seated, for the rea- son that both eyes were covered with the yellow film pro- duced by cataract. Madame Mignon may be sketched in one sentence.... ... constant devotion, combined with a tenderness rare among young girls, was thoroughly appreci- ated by those who witnessed it. To the Latournelle fami... ...ehension, not only of the works, but of the characters of her favorite au- thors,—Goldsmith, the author of Obermann, Charles Nodier, Maturin. The poor... ... shall find nothing but plea- sure in writing to each other. Understand me thoroughly. The soul speaks to God and asks him for many things; he is mute... ...lly warned, recovered her impenetrable composure. Dumay’s distrust was now thoroughly aroused, and he resolved to go the mayor’s office early in the m... ...And so the poor youth cried aloud with all the rapture of an applauded au- thor, “At last I am beloved!” When a woman, be she maid, wife, or widow, le...

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...r we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; w... ...re Electricity, vitreous or resin- ous; it was the God Donner (Thunder) or Thor,—God also of beneficent Summer-heat. The thunder was his wrath: the ga... ...er was his wrath: the gathering of the black clouds is the drawing down of Thor’s angry brows; the fire-bolt bursting out of Heaven is the all- rendin... ...t bursting out of Heaven is the all- rending Hammer flung from the hand of Thor: he urges his loud chariot over the mountain-tops,—that is the peal; w... ...s “brewing ale” to hold their feast with Aegir, the Sea-Jotun; sending out Thor to get the caldron for them in the Jotun country; Thor, after many adv... ...ke much their robust simplicity; their veracity, directness of conception. Thor “draws down his brows” in a veritable Norse rage; “grasps his hammer t...

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...y pleased, and in his brown library Carol absorbed Balzac and Rabelais and Thoreau and Max Muller. He gravely taught them the letters on the backs of ... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... the movies. I’m a real fan. One trouble with books is that they’re not so thoroughly safeguarded by intelligent censors as the movies are, and when y... ...r and blue and silver. At supper he hinted his love for Sir Thomas Browne, Thoreau, Agnes Repplier, Arthur Symons, Claude Washburn, Charles Flandrau. ... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ...rted; Byron and Tennyson and Stevenson, a manual of gas-engines, a book by Thorstein Veblen, and a spotty treatise on “The Care, Feeding, Dis- eases, ... ...ood. She talked of Kennicott’s overshoes and medical ideals till they were thoroughly bored. They regarded her as agreeable but green. Till the end sh... ...nees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring. She couldn’t reach the dining-room. She w...

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...n only by name, came to shake hands with him, and spoke of him as the most thorough Vendeen of them all. Notwith- standing this ovation, none of these... ...t chance Emilie had met the Unknown of the Sceaux gardens. In spite of the film which age had drawn over his gray eyes, the Comte de Kergarouet could ... ...scern that he had had a brilliant education, and that his knowledge was as thor- ough as it was extensive. He knew so well the right thing to say in a... ...oils, and rides a horse like the late Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He has a thor- ough knowledge of all our vintages. He is as good an arithme- tician ... ... o’clock in the country where the lady was? In fact, he ruined a very nice thoroughbred that I had just given him. Forgive my chatter, mademoiselle; I...

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...alian side of the Pass, and had arrived first, were four in number: a ple- thoric, hungry, and silent German tutor in spectacles, on a tour with three... ...e convent smoke which rose straight and high from the chimneys in a golden film, al- ways standing on one jutting point looking down after them. Long ... ...im to be a coward, while he himself was daring and coura- geous; though he thoroughly knew him to be disliked by Minnie; and though he cared so little... ...to Y oung Sparkler; and doesn’t let him come after me until she has got it thoroughly into his most ridiculous of all ridiculous noddles (for one real... ...eing no workman, Doyce.’ ‘No workman?’ said Doyce. ‘Y ou would have been a thor- ough workman if you had given yourself to it. Y ou have as good a hea... ...always, to this day, a sudden pause in that place to the roar of the great thoroughfare. The many sounds become so deadened that the change is like pu... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, ove...

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...ke County is dotted with spas; Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs are the names of two stations on the Napa Valley rail- road; and Calistoga itself... ... 12 This tardy favourite of fortune – hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I... ...one, he and his pipes suddenly disappeared from Sacramento, and when I last heard, the police were looking for him. I cannot say how this story amused... ...unselfish joy they gave expression in language that was beautiful by its simplicity and truth. Take them for all in all, few people have done my heart... ...ool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road. But it was pla... ...ving merely out of society: the one bent up in every corporal agent to capacity in one pursuit, doing 51 at least one thing ke...

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... to- gether before this new target. ‘Next holidays,’ said Dick, as the now thoroughly 9 Rudyard Kipling fouled revolver kicked wildly in his hand, ‘w... ...’a chromo-litholeomargarine fake! What possessed him to do it? And yet how thor- oughly he has caught the note that catches a public who think with th... ...’ ‘Go and design decorative medallions for rich brew- ers’ houses. You are thoroughly good at that.’ Dick was sick and savage. ‘Better things than med... ...keting in the Edgware road. ‘He deserves it. I shall have the studio floor thor- oughly scrubbed while you’re away. It’s very dirty.’ Maisie had enjoy... ... keep your things in!’ said Bessie, some days later, when she felt herself thoroughly at home. ‘I s’pose your clothes are just as bad. Gentlemen never... ...ith white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to de- scribe the gray film in the studio. ‘We all want a little patching and repairing from time ... ...gued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blind- ness, all t... ...t it. It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pain...

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...unscrupulous in the choice of means, thinking all equally good, he was too thoroughly convinced that the success of money was the absolution of all mo... ... in India, in foreign countries, in the departments. Macassar Oil has been thoroughly advertised; we must not underrate its 60 Rise and Fall of Cesar... ...s head as if to show the perfumer that he caught his ideas. When Cesar had thoroughly explained everything, the young man pro- ceeded to sum up for hi... ... her own defects of race, as did the redness of her hands, the sign of the thoroughly bourgeois life. Sooner or later she would grow stout. She had ca... ... white hazel-nut of the Alps. The Rue Perrin-Gasselin is one of the narrow thorough- fares in a square labyrinth enclosed by the quay, the Rue Saint-D... ...denesse, the Baron de la Billardiere, the il- lustrious Vauquelin. A light film dimmed his eyes, and his uncle Pillerault, who held his arm, felt him ...

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...ded and poor sister-woman! why was not I there; and some Sword Balmung, or Thor’s Hammer in my hand? Her head is fixed on a pike; paraded under the wi... ... through thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respect- ability; trample it not, lest the f... ... ecstasy by the Jacobin Pa- triot: who shall say that Robespierre is not a thorough- going man; bold in Logic at least? To the like effect, or still m... ...me pity, some human love, though it takes an effort. And now, so much once thoroughly attained, the rest will become easier. To the eye of equal broth... ... she will march. But on the other hand, that Montelimart Town has said, No thor- oughfare; and means even to ‘bury herself’ under her own stone and mo...

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...e to loving natures. Consequently, two isolated beings who know each other thoroughly ought to seek their enjoyments in the higher regions of thought;... ... must be prepared for whatever might happen to us. Gabriel ought to have a thor- ough education and a personal value. But tell me, what ca- reer is be... ...rlor, Balthazar’s eyes would fasten on the spot where his wife had died, a film of tears rolled like hot grains of sand across the arid pupils of his ... ...ank me before the family for carrying out your wishes, and be the sole au- thor of the good that has been done here.” Balthazar lifted his eyes to hea...

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...ssed the servant, unpacked his trunk, washed, and changed. The journey had thoroughly exhausted him. The constant presence of a stranger during the la... ...e was surrounded by a sort of mist, which seemed to hang before him like a filmy curtain, separating him from 73 Turgenev the rest of the world. And ... ..., separating him from 73 Turgenev the rest of the world. And through this film, strange to say, he perceived only three faces—women’s faces—and all t... ... my work in about an hour, and will be quite free. We can talk things over thoroughly. You are also free, are you not?” he asked, turning to Nejdanov.... ...danov asked sig- nificantly. Solomin looked away. “We can talk things over thoroughly,” he remarked a sec- ond time. “Please excuse me a moment … I’ll... ...ut do you know them?” “Not at all! But listen. Do think over my suggestion thor- oughly. It seems to me a brilliant one. Markelov is Sipiagin’s brothe... ...… He still searched around for Mariana with his eyes, but a menacing white film was spreading over them. “That’s right,” were his last words. He had b...

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...e to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of th... ...hat I know it to speak.” “But, Count,” I said, “You know and speak English thoroughly!” He bowed gravely. “I thank you, my friend, for your all to... ...ng at papers of the law with my other friend, Peter Hawkins. So!” We went thoroughly into the business of the pur chase of the estate at Purfleet.... ...an races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Ice land the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin game them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell i... ... that to change would be certain to militate against his interest. He seemed thor oughly to understand, and went on to ask if there would be any prac... ...tish, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground. None of it that I...

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... and elegance. When fifteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian. At sixteen, he wrote the “Pastora... ... Nature’s old original forms—the ocean, the mountains, and the stars— what thorough sympathy could a man have who never saw a real mountain or a battl... ...It was first printed surreptitiously (i.e., with the connivance of the au- thor) in Dublin, and then reprinted in London. The first perfect edition, h... ...e attacked in return. He was a bully and a coward. He threw himself into a thorn-hedge, and was amazed that he came out covered with scratches and blo... ...se; Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. Go, gentle gales, and bear my sighs along! The birds shall cease to ... ...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ...oose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipp’d in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disport...

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...pression even in the cry drawn from her by pain. Eugene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. ... ...y energy in her move- ments; the Marquis de Ronquerolles had called her “a thor- oughbred,” “a pure pedigree,” these figures of speech have replaced t... ...autrin, “we are not set on convincing you. You are too young to know Paris thor- oughly yet; later on you will find out that there are what we call me... ... king’s ransom, but, at any rate, I shall call on my so-called cousin in a thoroughly aristocratic fashion. Goriot has cost me ten francs already, the... ...n and requires salts. At this moment, there- fore, M. d’Ajuda-Pinto was on thorns, and anxious to take his leave. He told himself that in some way or ... ...fusion of serum in the brain; they look as though they were covered with a film of fine dust, do you notice? I shall know more about it by to-mor- row...

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...arity of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible au- thor who fathers these pages. You have to clear your mind of any preconcept... ...is suffi- ciently marked to justify a doubt whether there will be any more thoroughly communistic Utopias for ever. A Utopia such as this present one,... ...hese things on hire, or otherwise alienated them from his intimate self. A thorough-going, Democratic Socialist will 61 H G Wells no doubt be incline... ...ns, physical or mental, and, in 117 H G Wells fact, does its best to make thoroughly efficient motherhood a profession worth following. And suppose i... ...deed, a mere clerk of the post, and he has all the guarded reserve of your thor- oughly unoriginal man. “You are not the two persons I as- certained y... ...last triumph of realisation, but the swimming moment of opacity before the film gives way. To come to individual emotional cases, is to return to the ...

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... linked with no memories. But even their experience may hardly enable them thoroughly to imagine what was the effect on a simple weaver like Silas Ma... ...rday. He had been in a rage with Dunstan, and had thought of nothing but a thorough break-up of their mutual understanding; but what it would be reall... ...as all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter’s beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her... ...e warm hearth, where there was a bright fire of logs and sticks, which had thoroughly warmed the old sack (Silas’s greatcoat) spread out on the bricks... ... for “mammy”, though always clinging to Marner, who had apparently won her thorough confidence. Godfrey had come back with the boots, and felt the cry... ...ften the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the precious- ness of the fruit...