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...ed, Which to late age were neuer mentioned. Who euer heard of th’Indian Peru? Or who in venturous vessell measured The Amazon huge... ...moulds in idle cell, Vnto her happie mansion attaine: Before her gate high God did Sweat ordaine, And wakefull watches euer to abide: ... ... Which hauing ended, after him she flyeth swift. All these before the gates of Pluto lay, By whom they passing, spake vnto them nought. ... ...ner thought. At last him to a litle dore he brought, That to the gate of Hell, which gaped wide, Was next adioyning, ne them parted oug... ...efore his house is vnto his annext; Here Sleep, there Richesse, & Hel gate th&etilde; both betwext. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 84 So soone... ...se. He brought him through a darksome narrow strait, T o a broad gate, all built of beaten gold: The gate was open, but therein did wai... ... The first and eldest, which that scepter swayd, Was Elfin; him all India obayd, And all that now America men call: Next him was nobl... ...keene, Headed with flint, and feathers bloudie dide, Such as the Indians in their quiuers hide; Those could he well direct and streight...

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...e of gap-hedged fields possessed to their cen- tres by clumps of brambles. Gates were not, and the rabbit- mined, cattle-rubbed posts leaned out and i... ...rom aid, and of the duty 23 Kipling thereto of the mistress of Pardons. A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea... ...r and bewilderment that made her reel. She leaned against one of their new gates and looked over their lands for some other stay. “Well,” she said res... ...he beasts!” she went on. “They’d be sure to build a red-brick lodge at the gates, and cut the lawn up for bed- ding out. You must leave instructions i... ...T TA A A A AGE GE GE GE GE 0 NE NIGHT, a very long time ago, I drove to an Indian military cantonment called Mian Mir to see amateur theatricals. At t... ... wan of them. How’s the dog takin’ it ?” “Like a man. He’s the best dog in India. Can’t you make Stanley take him back?” “I can do no more than I have... ... goes to the Hills? The doctor’s put him on the list.” It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stati... ...arm kept his bones. Even Vixen was not allowed to sit near it. In the full Indian moonlight I could see a white uniform bending over the dog. “Good-by... ...f kings; and the Deputy Inspector-General of the veterinary service of all India. They pronounced upon his symptoms, and I told them his story, and Ga...

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...all restless. She wore a straw bonnet with white ribbons, and a long, red, India scarf, which, on the front of her dress, reached to her feet. In her ... ...ll!” said Gertrude. Charlotte went down the large brick walk to the garden gate; her companion strolled slowly toward the house. At 19 Henry James th... ...te; her companion strolled slowly toward the house. At 19 Henry James the gate Charlotte met a young man, who was coming in—a tall, fair young man, w... ... on her way. Mr. Brand went into the garden, where Gertrude, hear- ing the gate close behind him, turned and looked at him. For a moment she watched h... ...at home for bad weather, but never for good. Your sister,whom I met at the gate, tells me you are depressed,” he added. “Depressed? I am never depress... ...th a high forehead and a clean shaven face, came forward toward the garden gate. Charlotte Wentworth walked at his side. Gertrude came behind, more sl... ...hat bewildered by the obtrusive distri- bution of her wardrobe. There were India shawls sus- pended, curtain-wise, in the parlor door, and curious fab... ...ky little apple-trees, pulling the husks off a 54 The Europeans lapful of Indian corn. That will be local color, you know. There is n’t much of it he...

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...ouspeakest well of fools! [Re-enter MARIA.] MARIA: Madam, there is at the gate a young gentle- man much desires to speak with you. OLIVIA: From the ... ...er SIR TOBY BELCH.] OLIVIA: By mine honor, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin? SIR TOBY BELCH: A gentleman. OLIVIA: A gentleman! what gen... ...I, scene v SIR TOBY BELCH: Lechery! I defy lechery. There s one at the gate. OLIVIA: Ay, marry, what is he? SIR TOBY BELCH: Let him be the devil... ...like to be feigned: I pray you, keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you. ... ... Why, what would you? VIOLA: Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contem... ...BELCH: Here comes the little villain. [Enter MARIA.] How now, my metal of India! MARIA: Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio s coming down ...

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..., whom they hoped to manage like a sharp-edged and at the same time crushing instrument, — 8 The Black Tulip “moreover, will there not, from the Buyt... ...11 Dumas brother, who, as you know, is condemned to exile, and to carry him out of the town.” Whereupon the jailer, a sort of bear, trained to lock an... ...he sovereign people — to listening to the speech of Mynheer d’Asperen. “Now, then,” the young man coolly remarked, whilst the crowd was rushing into t... ... last reached such a pitch that the old building shook to the very roof. At length, the living stream poured back through the gal- leries and stairs t... ...ne, whilst all the people are wait- ing in the High Street to see you come out by the principal 26 The Black Tulip entrance. From there I should try ... ...on the edge of the water, and their balconies, open towards the river, decked out with silk tapestry embroidered with gold flowers, the wonder- ful ma... ...n which his father and grandfather, old established princely mer- chants of the princely city of Dort, were born. Mynheer van Baerle the father had am... ...ed to this queen of flowers its natural distinctive perfume, which she has lost in passing from her Eastern to her European throne, and which she must...

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... So heavily it hung. The scouts had parted on their search, The castle gates were barred; Above the gloomy portal arch, Timing his footsteps to a ... ...hen to the castle’s lower ward Sped forty yeomen tall, The iron-studded gates unbarred, Raised the portcullis’ ponderous guard, The lofty palisade ... ... their neck, Stood on the steps of stone, By which you reach the donjon gate, And there, with herald pomp and state, They hailed Lord Marmion: T... ...y Lord Marmion paid, Solemn excuse the captain made, Till, filing from the gate, had passed That noble train, their lord the last. Then loudly rung th... ..., wassail-rout, and brawl. Methought that still, with trump and clang, The gateway’s broken arches rang; Methought grim features, seamed with scars, G... ... As venturous in a lady’s bower: Such buxom chief shall lead his host From India’s fires to Zembla’s frost. 70 Marmion V. Resting upon his pilgrim st...

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...n from the mine to the coast on the backs of mules, at- tended by friendly Indians and guarded by white men; from thence it was conveyed over to Silve... ... fellows—they call those natives Sambos, when they are half-negro and half-Indian—had come off outside the reef, to pilot us in, and remained on board... ...hey were both young men of about my age, who had been delicate in the West India climate. I even took that in bad part. I thought I was much fitter fo... ...round it, and steps down to the door. Charker and I were looking in at the gate, which was not guarded; and I had said to Charker, in reference to the... ...re troublesome, she turned us over to a young woman, English born but West India bred, who served her as her maid. This young woman was the widow of a... ...to the Fort as quick as you can, rouse up every soul there, and fasten the gate. I will bring in all those who are at the Signal Hill. If we are surro... ...e never run at any other time in all my life: no, not even in a dream. The gate was not fast, and had no good fastening: only a double wooden bar, a p... ...being Mr. Macey, I told him how the three men of the guard would be at the gate directly, if they were not already there, and how Sergeant Drooce and ... ..., Maltese, Greeks, Sambos, Ne- groes, and Convict Englishmen from the West India Islands; among the last, him with the one eye and the patch across th...

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... —Dirge of the Langurs 22 The Second Jungle Book T HERE WAS ONCE A MAN in India who was Prime Minister of one of the semi-independent native States i... ...erial Progress of the State,” and the Foreign Office and the Government of India were delighted. Very few native States take up English progress altog... ...preserves, as well as of whole hosts of tourists who travelled up and down India in the cold weather, show- ing how things ought to be managed. In his... ...n strictly English lines, and write letters to the “Pioneer”, the greatest Indian daily paper, explaining his master’s aims and objects. At last he we... ...have ever met at dinner since cloths were first laid.” When he returned to India there was a blaze of glory, for the Viceroy himself made a special vi... ...ps the cloak he no longer needs. Behind him, as he walked through the city gates, an ante- lope skin and brass-handled crutch under his arm, and a beg... ...dst seen the black herd-bulls pour down the ra- vine, or hurry through the gates when the Man-Pack flung 36 The Second Jungle Book stones at me!” “I ... ...ked of Mang what he had seen. He said that the Red Flower blossomed at the gate of the village, and men sat about it carrying guns. Now I know, for I ... ...m home,” said Mowgli, with a grin; I do not wish them to be at the village gates till it is dark. Can ye hold them?” Gray Brother bared his white teet...

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...l need to be done up in wood with balconies and galleries) westward to the Gate by the river (where also shall be wood, in triumphal arches), we count... ... too common, it rains, our Federate Volunteers will file through the inner gateways, Royalty standing dry. Nay there, should some stop occur, the beau... ...feel that he could die a thousand deaths for her: then again, at the outer gate, and even a third time, she shall see him; nay he will make her do it;... ...nd Painting have vied, for the upper Authorities; triumphal arches, at the Gate by the River, bear inscrip- tions, if weak, yet well-meant, and orthod... ...ntily illumine the highest leaves: trees there are all sheeted with varie- gated fire, shedding far a glimmer into the dubious wood. There, under the ... ...hich may never arrive. Few years ago Bouille was to have led a French East-Indian Expedition, and recon- quered or conquered Pondicherri and the Kingd... ...hether those Dirks of improved structure with barbs be ‘meant for the West-India market,’ or not meant. Men beat, the wrong way, their ploughshares in... ...urs; Diligences ruffling up all France into one terrific terrified Cock of India; and the Town of Nantes in its shirt,—may fancy what an affair to set...

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...ens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a larg... ...from this moment to the end of time, and that when the great filigree iron gates are once closed on her, she and her awful sister will never issue the... ...e sprang up behind the carriage. “Stop!” cried Miss Jemima, rushing to the gate with a parcel. “It’s some sandwiches, my dear,” said she to Amelia. “Y... ...d her from completing either sentence. The carriage rolled away; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is bef... ...she not spare it? and had not her brother Joseph just brought her two from India? When Rebecca saw the two magnificent Cashmere shawls 19 Thackeray w... ... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...h Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of whic... ...eared, at the period of which we write, in the Bengal division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley W ollah, an honourable and lucrativ... ... but had lodgings of his own, like a gay young bachelor. Before he went to India he was too young to partake of the delightful pleasures of a man abou...

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...is head to me out of the bow window when I turned round to close the front gate. It was a distinct and complete impression, some- thing that I don’t k... ...een her described her to me as “nothing much to look at.” But in the great Indian famine of the seven- ties that ship, already old then, made some won... ...nd therefore a fit abode for sail- ors. A few years afterwards I met in an Indian port a 39 Joseph Conrad man who had served in the ships of the same... ...EIGNS over the seas surrounding the coasts of these kingdoms; and from the gateways of the channels, from promontories as if from watch- towers, from ... ...ries as if from watch- towers, from estuaries of rivers as if from postern gates, from passage-ways, inlets, straits, firths, the garrison of the Isle... ...large caravans of ships to the number of three hundred or more at the very gates of the English Channel. And the worst of it was that there was no ran... ...th their far-famed wine-cellars—down through the interesting group of West India Docks, the fine docks at Blackwall, on past the Galleons 97 Joseph C... ...my earlier professional memories are centred, belongs to the group of West India Docks, together with two smaller and much older basins called Import ... ...l things human. At one time they must have been full of good old slow West Indiamen of the square-stern type, that took their captivity, one imagines,...

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...he shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the astonishing passage of th... ...o a gallant young Englishman of twenty seems at first the tiger-hunting of India, which yet (when examined 26 Memorials, and Other Papers searchingly... ... the earliest friends of my mother’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the kin... ...arture from home long enough to see them again, died before returning from India. What a world of desolation seemed to exist for them! How silent was ... ... seen; nor had they, consciously. These two fathers must both have died in India, before my inquiries had begun to travel in that direction. But, as o... ... Lady Carbery again for nearly an entire year. In passing through the park-gates of Laxton, on my depar- ture northward, powerfully, and as if “with t... ...uggestion, he had been summoned to Laxton, in the hope that he might miti- gate the torments of Mrs. Schreiber’s malady. If I am right in supposing th... ...ege from which the official procession moved, had said, no doubt, that the gates of University, the halls of University, &c., were at such a point of ... ...nty-five such establishments in Ox- ford, had regularly corrected it into “gates of the University,” &c. Here is the first misconception of all strang...

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...d, with the ominous inscription “Excise Office” not yet faded out from the gateway, as indicating the very last thing that poverty could get rid of. T... ...what it was called. If you want to see Tom himself, you must go in at that gate.” He faintly indicated with his chin a little mean ruin of a wooden ga... ...er’s ground. And if you want to see Tom,’ he says, ‘you must go in at that gate.’ The man come out at that gate himself, and he ought to know.” “Certa... ...o fur- ther breath of information was to be derived, betook himself to the gate. Swung upon its rusty hinges, it admitted him into a yard in which the... ...inutes ago—by a Tinker too.” 11 Charles Dickens As he glanced towards the gate in saying it, the Her- mit glanced in that direction likewise. “Yes. H... ...iddler’s Ground remained behind, for her relations and friends were all in India, far away. A self-helpful steady little child is Miss Kitty Kimmeens:... ...onely thoughts and turned bad. It was all very well for Papa, a widower in India, to send her home to be educated, and to pay a hand- some round sum e...

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...arke do there disgorge Their warlike frautage: now on Dardan Plaines The fresh and yet unbruised Greekes do pitch Their brave Pavillions. Priams six- gated City, Dardan and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenoridus with massie Staples And corresponsive and fulfilling Bolts Stirre up the Sonnes of Troy. Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits, On one and other side...

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...t vnbruised Greekes do pitch 16 Their braue Pauillions. Priams six- gated City, 17 Dardan and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, 18 ... ... the open Vlcer of my heart, 88 Her Eyes, her Haire, her Cheeke, her Gate, her Voice, 89 Handlest in thy discourse. O that her Hand 90 ... ... 133 What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we: 134 Her bed is India, there she lies, a Pearle, 135 Between our Ilium, and where shee... ... Cre. So he is. 231 Pan. Condition I had gone bare- foote to India. 232 Cre. He is not Hector. 233 Pan. Himselfe? no?... ... 1030 And flye like chidden Mercurie from Ioue, 1031 Let’s shut our gates and sleepe: Manhood and Honor 1032 Should haue hard hearts, wold ... ...xtended: who like an arch reuerb’rate 1973 The voyce againe; or like a gate of steele, 1974 Fronting the Sunne, receiues and renders backe 19... ...hen sweet my Lord, Ile call mine Vnckle down; 2259 He shall vnbolt the Gates. 2260 Troy. Trouble him not: 2261 To bed, to bed: sleepe ...

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...t haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its new... ... in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodati... ...ce of— I will not say how many years, I see it clearly. I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs.... ...y was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne? In such vault I had been told did Mr. ... ... and rested her head upon them; in that attitude she remained silent as an Indian. I was the first who spoke— “Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom... ...d me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with... ...ave hope for me?” “Hope of what, sir?” “Of my final re-transformation from India-rubber back to flesh?” “Decidedly he has had too much wine,” I though... ...in short. A crimson vel- vet robe, and a shawl turban of some gold-wrought Indian fabric, invested her (I suppose she thought) with a truly im- perial... ...roached him. “Look at his wings,” said he, “he reminds me rather of a West Indian insect; one does not often see so large and gay a night-rover in Eng...

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...ussorah, who turned pastrycook after he was set down in his drawers at the gate of Damascus; cobblers are all Mustaphas, and in the habit of sewing up... ...ld and beautiful face, raising a dead girl by the hand; again, near a city gate, calling back the son of a widow, on his bier, to life; a crowd of peo... ...oad heights, until we stop at last, with sudden silence, at an avenue. The gate-bell has a deep, half-awful sound in the frosty air; the gate swings o... ...ge which at such a time is always seen by somebody, waiting near the great gates in the stable-yard. Or thus, it came to pass how Lady Mary went to pa... ...nd in that hour and minute, as it afterwards appeared, this cousin died in India. Or, it was a certain sensible old maiden lady, who died at ninety-ni... ...d many offers), she went to stay at a place in Kent, which her brother, an Indian- Merchant, had newly bought. There was a story that this place had o... ...aid, “Father, I am going to sea,” and another said, “Father, I am going to India,” and another, “Father, I am going to seek my fortune where I can,” a...

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.... He says nothing could be more exemplary than Kendal’s whole con- duct in India, he only regretted that he kept so much aloof from others, that his p... ...he hap to live with sensible women.’ ‘When their children grew too old for India, she came into some little property at Bayford Bridge, which enabled ... ...t be endured. Albinia’a heart is gone, he is a very good man, and spite of India, first wife, and melancholy, he does not look amiss!’ Mr. Ferrars smi... ...nerous pity in the en- gagement of their favourite niece to a retired East India Company’s servant—a widower with three children. 9 The Young Step-Mo... ...ouses on one side, something like hedge or shrubbery on the other—a stop—a gate opened—a hollow sound beneath the carriage, as though crossing a woode... ..., show- ing off the room, the chiffonieres, the ornaments, and some pretty Indian ivory carvings. There was a great ottoman of Aunt Maria’s work, and ... ...e secure that no ac- quaintance was near, he emerged with Albinia from the gate, and crossed the road as the chime of the bells changed. ‘We are late,... ... had to make him restore the hand- kerchief to his mouth; he held open the gate, showed her a shoal of minnows, and tried to persuade her to come roun... ... hill, exhilarated by each step she took into the fresh air, to the garden-gate, which she was just unhasping when the hearty voice of the Vicar was h...

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... whole way on foot, together with General Churchill, chief of the staff in India, who had arrived only two days before from Bombay. The immense weight... ...f the rest of the French marine, any more than a cuirassed colossus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British sol... ...ule” to the Imperial Car. And, now having conducted our hero almost to the gates of Paris, I must tell you what preparations were made in the capital ... ..., and gray-headed. I have seen a poor mother buy a halfpenny wreath at the gate of Montmartre burying-ground, and go with it to her little child’s gra... ...e of the age of three and one, and belong to a son and daughter who are in India. The grandfather, who is as proud of his wife as he was thirty years ...

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...know you again.” He dismissed them with many compliments by the high Lodge-gate in the split-oak park palings and they stood still; even Stalky, who h... ...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ...Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-gates on the upper road—they were careful to ingra- tiate themselves with t... ...r extended bounds ran up to his no- tice-boards in the combe and his Lodge-gates on the hill. They were amazed at their own virtue. “And even if it wa... ... army had left their mark on Foxy. He obeyed. “Now. March!” The high Lodge gate shut with a clang. “My duty! A sergeant to tell me my duty!” puffed Co... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ..., as they splashed down a lane. “Where did it happen, Beetle?” “Oh, out in India somewhere. We’re always rowin’ there. But look here, Stalky, what is ... ...out Fat-Sow, of course. What’s Crandall done. sir?” “I’ve brought over an Indian paper that his mother sent me. It was rather a—hefty, I think you sa... ...school. When Crandall minor that was—Lieutenant R. Crandall of an ordinary Indian regiment—arrived from Exeter on the morning of the match, he was che...

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...okeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, “It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers.” The po... ...e fugitive had not, in imitation of his mighty namesake, taken the college gates along with him in his retreat. To all appearance, the equanimity of S... ... the castle. The arms of the family, carved in freestone, frowned over the gateway, and the portal showed the spaces arranged by the architect for low... ...ect for lowering the port- cullis, and raising the drawbridge. A rude farm-gate, made of young fir-trees nailed together, now formed the only safe- gu... ...hem. These tribes were, in short, the Parias of Scotland, living like wild Indians among European settlers, and, like them, judged of rather by their ... ...f hostili- ties on either side. 62 Guy Mannering CHAPTER VIII. So the red Indian, by Ontario’s side, Nursed hardy on the brindled panther’s hide, As ... ... mar- ried—poor—poor Sophia Wellwood. “You will say, my military career in India, when I followed my regiment there, should have given me some satisfa... ...ubject of discussion between us. “Sophia, as you well know, followed me to India. She was as innocent as gay; but, unfortunately for us both, as gay a... ... complaints against the fickleness 112 Guy Mannering and caprice of these Indian nabobs, who never knew what they would be at for ten days together. ...