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... them. Something else is needed. When you stand expecting the overstrained string to snap at any moment, when everyone is expecting the inevitable cat... ...t the role of the natural sciences in this matter is merely to serve as an instrument for the illumination of one side of it. For the fact that, from ...

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...is burden there discharg’d, forthwith Sprang forward, like an arrow from the string. CANTO XVIII There is a place within the depths of hell Call’d Mal... ...s savage wilderness.” Forthwith so fell his pride, that he let drop The instrument of torture at his feet, And to the rest exclaim’d: “We have no... ...o, at the head of four hundred Florentines of the Guelph party, was signally instrumental to the victory obtained at Benevento by Charles of Anjou, ov...

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...ct of contention, were ascer- tained and secured to him by endowment. This instrument is still in being, bearing the date of 1362. It may be seen in B... ...ese four will gladly come to a window in winter for a little fat hung to a string, and will put themselves into wonderful inverse positions. Long-T ai...

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...Will it not be honourably conveyed?” Edmund spoke of the harp as his favourite instrument, and hoped to be soon allowed to hear her. Fanny had never h... ...y air. Edmund was at the parsonage every day to be indulged with his favourite instrument; one morning secured an invitation for the next, for the lad... ...on associations, it was better for Miss Bertram, who might be said to have two strings to her bow. She had Rushworth feelings, and Crawford feelings, ... ...rnestly invited by the Miss Bertrams to join in a glee, she tripped off to the instrument, leaving Edmund looking after her in an ecstacy of admiratio... ...cation of seeing him advance too, moving forward by gentle degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the ... ...nd natural circumstance. She had scarcely ever been at the Parsonage since the instrument’s arrival, there had been no reason that she should; but Mis...

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... by not refusing the burden of an obligation, confer something better. The instrument is simpler than we are taught to fancy. But it was doubtless owi... ...hat do for ye?’ Mrs. Mel stood with her two hands crossed above her apron- string, noting his sullen lurking eye with the calm of a tamer of beasts. ‘... ...ou want to drive me mad?’ cried Evan. She looked at him to see whether the string she held him by would bear the slight additional strain: decided not... ...f you’ll have the kindness just to oblige me by—’he sped the words and the instrument jointly at Evan, takin’ that there letter, I’ll say good-bye, si... ...h song. Jenny takes her place at the piano; and, as Rose does not care for instrumental music, she naturally talks and laughs with Drummond, and Jenny... ...ice in the sun to hear you,’ causing her to close her performances and the instrument vigorously. Rose was much behind her age: she could not tell wha... ... young woman is an abomination to us all. But to have to perform upon that instrument to the darling of our hearts—would we not rather die? nay, almos...

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...ght have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Pi... ...g herself with her shoulders against the wall; dangling in one hand by the string, a dunghill fragment of a bonnet, and trying to look scornfully at ... ... fig; with all her clothes spoiled; with damp impressions of every button, string, and hook and eye she wore, printed off upon her highly connected ba...

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...t of forgotten hours— Hours when the heart was fresh and young, When every string in freedom sung, Ere life had shed one leaf of green. — James Russel... ...alf so much; but wherever I went, there would be a series of jerks from my string, and not having an integument of rhinoceros hide, I could not disreg... ...s were characteristic, each giving the other a little case of mathematical instruments, “We will work, and we will hope.” “And what for?” said Dolores...

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...thing could be conceived more passive than the obedience promised, or more stringent than the terms by which the juror bound himself. The man who forf... ...r. Malthus; “and not only the victim, but another member, who is to be the instrument in the club’s hands, and death’s high priest for that occasion.”... ...f what was due to the presence of a lady, poured out upon the ambassador a string of the most abominable raillery both in English and Italian, and bad... ...andled his guitar in a manner worthy of himself. Indeed his play with that instrument was as good as a whole romantic drama; it was so dashing, so flo...

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...roper has also a similarly non- industrial but honorific use as a gambling instrument. The fast horse, then, is aesthetically fortunate, in that the c... ...hey are not so much the source as the vehicle, or at the most they are the instrument of commutation, by which the habits of thought enforced upon the... ... facile use of it lends dig- nity to even the most commonplace and trivial string of talk. The newest form of English diction is of course never writ-...

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...er and whom she loved, and then his incomprehensible cruelty and the whole string of hu- miliations and suffering which flowed from and followed that ... ...“What else?” “The upholding of class interests! I think the law is only an instrument for upholding the existing order of things beneficial to our cla... ... food. Simonson, in his rubber jacket and rubber overshoes fastened with a string over his worsted stockings (he was a vegetarian and would not wear t... ...y just found out what a good fellow he was. The grand piano was a splendid instrument, the sym- phony was well performed. At least, so it seemed to Ne...

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...oming established in Rus- sian monasteries. It is true, perhaps, that this instrument which had stood the test of a thousand years for the moral regen... ...ill be- come nothing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my who... ... was a large Russian stove. From the stove to the window on the left was a string running across the room, and on it there were rags hanging. There wa... ...ow. The opposite corner was screened off by a curtain or a sheet hung on a string. Behind this curtain could be seen a bed made up on a bench and a ch... ...ewel! P .S.— I write my curse, but I adore you! I hear it in my heart. One string is left, and it vibrates. Better tear my heart in two! I shall kill ... ..., to my face? You murdered him; you are the real murderer, I was only your instrument, your faithful servant, and it was following your words I did it...

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...fect working of all her main attach ments, that of some wonderful finished instrument, something intently made for exhibition, for a prize. He knew ab... ...es, and followed, without the oppression of a later contingent, by a brief instrumental concert, over the preparation of which, the Prince knew, Maggi... ... and those she could feel again most, count again like the firm pearls on a string, had belonged more particularly to the lapse of time before dinner—d...