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...clothed in drab breeches and high gaiters, and his head protected by a low-crowned broad-brimmed white hat, such as a wealthy grazier might wear. He w... ...ere such sturdy, jolly fellows, that it was a treat to see them. Among the shipping announcements and steam-packet list’s which decorated the counting... ...WHICH NICHOLAS FALLS IN LOVE. HE EMPLOYS A MEDIATOR, WHOSE PROCEEDINGS ARE CROWNED WITH UNEXPECTED SUC- CESS, EXCEPTING IN ONE SOLITARY PARTICULAR ONC... ...wore his hat, too, in the newest taste, with a pocket- handkerchief in the crown, and a twisted end of it straggling out behind after the fashion of a... ...ned,) and who afterwards unfortu- nately went out to Botany Bay in a cadet ship—a convict ship I mean—and escaped into a bush and killed sheep, (I don... ... caution; and stretching out his neck, said in a loud whisper, ‘ Are you a princess?’ ‘Y ou are mocking me, sir,’ replied Mrs Nickleby, making a feint... ...that she came, twelve months before her death, to appeal to my old friend- ship; sadly changed, sadly altered, broken-spirited from suf- fering and il...

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...speedy work. His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still- accumulating res... ...an’t eat fowls of a bad char- acter at a high price.” “Well, madam, half-a-crown: I couldn’t let ‘em go, not un- der.” “Half-a-crown, these times! Com... ...Dorothea to him, one morning, early in the time of court- 57 George Eliot ship; “could I not learn to read Latin and Greek aloud to you, as Milton’s ... ...ouble to himself, and his first impulse was always to be liberal with half-crowns as matters of no importance to a gentleman; it had never occurred to... ...r. He says, `Y o goo’— that’s just as good as `Y ou go.’” “But he says, `A ship’s in the garden,’ instead of `a sheep,’” said Letty, with an air of su... ...ep,’” said Letty, with an air of superiority. “Y ou might think he meant a ship off the sea.” “No, you mightn’t, if you weren’t silly,” said Ben. “How... ...his lot. But her soul thirsted to see him. How could it be otherwise? If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from am...

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...speedy work. His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still accumulating resu... ...“How should I be able now to persevere in any path without your companion ship?” said Mr. Casaubon, kissing her candid brow, and feeling that heaven ... ... can’t eat fowls of a bad character at a high price.” “Well, madam, half a crown: I couldn’t let ’em go, not under.” Middlemarch 39 “Half a crown, th... ... his liking for the Vicar of St. Botolph’s grew with growing acquaintance ship. That, entering into Lydgate’s position as a new comer who had his own... ...rouble to himself, and his first impulse was always to be liberal with half crowns as matters of no importance to a gentleman; it had never occurred to... ...ier. He says, ‘Yo goo’— that’s just as good as ‘You go.”’ “But he says, ‘A ship’s in the garden,’ instead of ‘a sheep,”’ said Letty, with an air of su... ...his lot. But her soul thirsted to see him. How could it be otherwise? If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four footed creature from am...

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...’ ‘What do you find so beautiful?’ he asked. ‘Oh, you dull fellow! Why the ships, and the houses, and the smoke, to be sure.’ 37 George Meredith ‘The... ...hips, and the houses, and the smoke, to be sure.’ 37 George Meredith ‘The ships? Why, I thought you despised trade, mademoi- selle?’ ‘ And so I do. T... ...de, but tradesmen. Of course, I mean shopkeepers.’ ‘It’s they who send the ships to and fro, and make the pic- ture that pleases you, nevertheless.’ ‘... ...n a side pocket apart, and observed: ‘A sixpence kindly meant is worth any crown-piece that’s grudged—that it is! In you jump, sir. It’s a jolly night... ... to Fallow field, and as he rode under black visions between the hedgeways crowned with their hop-garlands, a fragrance of roses saluted his nostril, ... ...irony. He said adieu to her,—pronouncing it with a pathos to melt scornful princesses. He tried to be hon- est, and was as much so as his disease perm... ...o often,’ returned Old Tom, jumping out. ‘There. What’s the fee? There’s a crown for you that ain’t afraid of a live donkey; and there ‘s a sixpenny b...

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...ied upside down over his father’s shoul der, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father’s hand, accordi... ...s breakfast. If Bounderby had been a Conqueror, and Mrs. Sparsit a captive Princess whom he took about as a feature in his state processions, he coul... ...MES 130 Slackbridges. We’ll indict the blackguards for felony, and get ‘em shipped off to penal settlements.’ Stephen gravely shook his head. ‘Don’t t... ...eer afore I coom, an’ will be heer when I am gone. Put that clock aboard a ship an’ pack it off to Norfolk Island, an’ the time will go on just the sa... ...is the drifting icebergs setting with any current anywhere, that wreck the ships. When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a ... ...do you say;’ Mr. Bounderby, with his hat in his hand, gave a beat upon the crown at every little division of his sentences, as if it were a tambourine... ...have it, and got rid of her’—would be to get the utmost possible amount of crowning glory out of the connection, and at the same time to punish Mrs. S...

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...elp from you. If you had loved me I would have taken all from your friend- ship; but a benfit given by pitty my soul refussis. I would be baser to tak... ..., Victor, Jean-Joseph Bourignard. The Sieur Gratien Bourignard is a former ship-builder, once very rich, and, above all, one of the handsomest men of ... ...he porter, after making sure that they were alone:— “Fouguereau, a hundred crowns if you tell me the truth; dismissal if you deceive me; and nothing a... ...an-Bleu at fifty francs a head, and rolls in her carriage as if she were a princess, and de- spises her mother for a Colin-Lampon. Heavens and earth! ... ...ft that absolute solitude, when, for the first time, I braided my hair and crowned it with almond blos- soms, when I added, with delight, a few satin ... ...onal man grows out of the city of Paris,—that chimerical creation like the ship which is its emblem, that creature of reason moving on a thousand paws... ...rs of T wo Brides The Ball at Sceaux Modeste Mignon The Secrets of a Princess The Gondreville Mystery A Daughter of Eve Maulincour, Baronne ...

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...the links, the place told of nothing but dead mariners and sea disaster. A ship beating to windward on the horizon, and a huge truncheon of wreck half... ...cret, in such a married life as ours, is like the rose-leaf which kept the Princess from her sleep. From this the talk branched into other subjects, a... ...n in the village. He said he had once seen some Norwe- gians, who had been shipwrecked on the other side of Graden Ness and rescued by the lifeboat fr... ...e limit to their fortune – that of time; and a spendthrift with only a few crowns is the Emperor of Rome until they are spent. For such a person to lo... ...be hanged, I was told it was because they could not scrape together enough crowns to satisfy the men-at-arms.” “These things are a necessity of war, w...

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... been, though she would confess to herself how terrible had been the heart-shipwreck which that other one had brought upon herself; still she was able... ...een Mrs Finn’s in- tention to ask him to desist altogether from his court- ship. This woman was regarded by Lady Mary as her mother’s dearest friend. ... ...ition of that romantic folly by which she had so nearly brought herself to shipwreck her own early life. If it had been so,—even whether it had been s... ...y of the country was second only in importance to the main- tenance of the Crown. How should the aristocracy be main- 164 The Duke’s Children tained ... ...isgust. ‘He’s just the fellow,’ continued Popplecourt, ‘to think that some princess has fallen in love with him. ’ Then the Duke left the room. ‘You ... ...to know the truth. 383 Anthony Trollope From the sole of your foot to the crown of you head I love you as I think a man would wish to be loved by the... ...en boroughs, the House of Lords immediately afterwards, and after that the Crown. ’ ‘Those are not my governor’s ideas. ’ ‘You governor couldn’t help ... ...well think of marrying one of the stars. ’ ‘One of the stars!’ ‘Or a royal princess. ’ ‘Well! Perhaps that is your opinion, but I can’t say that I ag...

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...to fodder and water his horses! What is his destiny to him compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire Make a stir? How godlike... ...dignity of an art. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a... ...dchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurio... ...that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. After all, the man whose horse ... ...showered and thundered without. I had sat there many times of old before the ship was built that floated this family to Amer ica. An honest, hard work...

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... fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic gl... ...wed him seated, harp 104 The House of the Seven Gables in hand, among the crowned choristers of the spiritual world. On his tombstone, too, the recor... ... Phoebe. No grovelling jealousy was in her heart. Had it pleased Heaven to crown the heroic fidelity of her life by making her personally the medium o... ...rk, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a quiet harbor. There, as he lay more than half lifeless on... ...f her old gentility, but resting upon it so much the more, as justifying a princess-like condescen- sion—exhibited a not ungraceful hospitality. She ... ...reams. As a supernumerary official, of some kind or other, aboard a packet-ship, he had visited Europe, and found means, before his return, to see Ita...