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... EVER HAD I SEEN A YEAR GOING OUT, or going on, under quieter circumstances. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine had but another day to live, and truly it... ...side the Lighter, the regu- larly-turning windlass aboard the Lighter, the methodical figures at work, all slowly and regularly heaving up and down wi... ...med as much a part of the nature of the place as the tide itself. The tide was on the flow, and had been for some two hours and a half; there was a sl... ...t-guardsman (kit and all), who was coming to his spell of duty there, and had we not just now parted company? So it was; but the journey seemed to gli... ... de- struction of their frail chimney. Cast up among the stones and boulders of the beach, were great spars of the lost vessel, and masses of iron twi... ... forefinger pointed out an- other passage in the evidence, from which it appeared that the lime-juice had been bad too. Not to mention that the vinega... ...- tering its nutritious qualities for putrefaction and vermin; of peas becoming hardened in liquor; of hammocks drinking themselves off the face of th... ...nt George and the Dragon. Down by the Docks, they consume the slimiest of shell-fish, which seem to have been scraped off the copper bottoms of ships.... ... the melancholy in which the Dol- phin was steeped. This young woman had but shut the door on retiring again when I bethought me of adding to my order...

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...on to the whole, arose by degrees this final thought, That, at some calmer sea- son, when the theological dust had well fallen, and both the matter it... ...f part of the journey (perhaps from Greenock to Swansea or Bristol) was by sea: John, just turned of three years, could in after-times remember nothin... ... March, 1815, the family had to shift, almost to fly, towards home and the sea-coast; and for a day or two were under apprehension of being de- 26 Th... ...e Life of John Sterling beautifully among trees, hills and water, with the sea at the distance of a quarter of a mile. “And here, among pleasant, good... ...g every-whither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logi- cal int... ...ntains, cov- ered in their lower parts with cottages, vines and patches of vegetables. When you pass through, or over the central ridge, and get towar...

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...ould the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a fever in the Red Sea, and I had to keep guard over the brothers at Weymouth till she was rep... ...out them to feel aggrieved at the sight of hash, nice as it was with fresh vegetables, and they were not disposed to good temper when they sat down to... ...sing the bay?” Neither girl seemed to have eyes for the lovely blue of the sea in the spring sunshine, nor the striking forms of ruddy peaks of rock t... ...the boat; but such a gale was blowing that it was impossible to put out to sea or make any search round the coast. Words could hardly describe the dis... ...e in London or his wife at home, or for the discovery of anything from the sea, or search- ing in his son’s lodgings, where nothing was found that did... ...e was carrying them, not towards the quay and marble rocks, but farther to sea. The waves grew rougher and had crests of foam, and discomfort began. O...

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...omised instant events. It was, never- theless, a heaving picture, like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre, which rouses antici... ...ng visits to a droopy plant in the golden summer drought on a gorgeous mid-sea island, and had taken her on board to refresh her with voyages, al- way... ...etty agitations of a blood uninflamed, as lightly as she swam the troubled sea-waters her body gloried to cleave. She woke in the morning peaceful and... ...ernment cruiser observe the intrusion of a white-sailed yacht in protected sea-waters, where licenced trawlers are at the haul. Talk over the table co... ... for his county. He didn’t often beat Hampshire! They had a good garden of vegetables, and grass-land enough for two cows. They made their own bread, ... ... miles to a pond to sail bits of wood on it, though there had never been a sea-faring man in her husband’s family or her own. She agreed with the lady...

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...deed an “extensive Volume,” of boundless, almost formless contents, a very Sea of Thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will; yet wherein the tough-... ...gh- est pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients. Directly on the first perusal, almost on t... ...myself over with the dead fleeces of sheep, the 41 Thomas Carlyle bark of vegetables, the entrails of worms, the hides of oxen or seals, the felt of ... ...ean in his exterior and environ- ment, we seem to look into a whole inward Sea of Light and Love;—though, alas, the grim coppery clouds soon roll toge... ...mong beech-rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmosphere and Universe; and how “the brave old Linden,” stre... ...d? Say rather, heart swelling in presence of the Queen of Hearts; like the Sea swelling when once near its Moon! With the Wanderer it was even so: as ...

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...Hengist and dumpy Horsa, quitting ledger and coronet, might recur to their sea bowlegs and red-stubble chins, might take to their tarpau- lins again; ... ...ale on the voluptuous indolence of a man drawn along by Nereids over sunny sea- waves to behold the birth of the Foam-Goddess? ‘ According to Carling,... ...n and the earth of the works of man, speaking a grander tongue than barren sea or wood or wilderness. Just a moment; it goes; as, when a well-attuned ... ...said of little Nesta once, that she had a nature pure and sparkling as mid-sea foam. Happy he who wins her! But she was one of the young women who are... ... ‘I like to be sure of my cutlet.’ ‘I like to be sure of a tastiness in my vegetables.’ ‘And good sauces!’ ‘ And pretty pastry. I said, Cordon bleu. T... ...n the great wave surgent at her eyes. Victor was like a swimmer in morning sea amid the excla- mations encircling him. He led through the straight pas...

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...th her opposite neighbour. There was a richly carved mantel- piece, with a sea-coal fire burning in it, for though it was May, the sea winds blew cold... ...ge press of dark oak, guarded on each side by the twisted weap- ons of the sea unicorn, and in the middle of the room stood a large, solid-looking tab... ...ed up, sucking his thumb, and hugging to his breast the soft fragment of a sea-bird’s downy breast. If he stirred, his mother’s foot was on the rocker... ...a young man who, with the indifference of those days to service by land or sea, had been at one time a gentleman pensioner of Queen Mary; at another h... ...cony, watching for him, and shrieking with joy at the first glimpse of the sea-bird’s feather in his cap. The spotless home-spun cloth and the trenche... ...s own way, all being alike horrified at the gross English diet and lack of vegetables. Many tried experiments in the way of growing salads in little g...

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...ignation. “What happened to the worthy captain?” “He died.” “Fell into the sea?” “No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to ... ... take quite six weeks to unload the cargo, and we cannot get you ready for sea until three months after that; only be back again in three months, for ... ...the twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang up. This village, constructed in a singular and... ...tired; but per- haps he whom you await is inconstant, or if he is not, the sea is so to him.” “Fernand,” cried Mercedes, “I believed you were good-hea... ...and moistened with tears, “wait, wait, Fernand; you said just now that the sea was treacherous, and he has been gone four months, and during these fou... ...a handsome sum might be obtained for the ground then devoted to fruits and vegetables, by building along the line of the proposed street, and so makin... ... “Yes; I will mention one to you. He had a remarkably fine garden, full of vegetables, flowers, and fruit. From amongst these vegetables he selected t... ...tion of rabbits, cats, and guinea-pigs, fully as fine as his collection of vegetables, flowers, and fruit. Well, the Abbe Adelmonte took a rabbit, and...

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...ght spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. 15 Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2. IN WHICH... ...n the same tone. ‘With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables.’ ‘ And pickles, perhaps,’ suggested Miss T ox. ‘With such excep... ...ent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea. Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save ro... ...tself, partaking of the general infection, seemed almost to become a snug, sea- going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room, in the event of... ...lf to a second glass of the old Madeira, with increased relish. ‘As to the Sea,’ he pursued, ‘that’s well enough in fic- tion, Wally, but it won’t do ... ... rubbed his hands with an air of stealthy en- joyment, as he talked of the sea, though; and looked on the seafaring objects about him with inexpressib... ...peci- men shooting out broad claws, like a green lobster; several creeping vegetables, possessed of sticky and adhesive leaves; and one uncomfortable ... ...tor, dinner began. There was some nice soup; also roast meat, boiled meat, vegetables, pie, and cheese. Every young gentleman had a massive silver for... ...he thickest of the fray, a black cook in a black caboose up to his eyes in vegetables and blinded with smoke. The Captain immediately drew Walter into...

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... that opened before them, of the spectacle of the world, the splendours of sea and mountain they might travel and see, the joys of skill they might ac... ...be splendid to be a diver and go down into the dark green mysteries of the sea. He led stormers against well-nigh impregnable forts, and died on the r... ... the perpetual refreshment of the strong soft winds that blow from off the sea as our Mother England does. It was good for the Three Ps to walk throug... ...st to Foxbourne, that eastern- most suburb of Brayling and Hampsted-on-the-Sea. Foxbourne seemed a very jolly little place to Mr. Polly that afternoon... ...o delicate talent for such a use. He was impressed by the charm of selling vegetables by auction in one of those open shops near London Bridge, but ad... ... our race, like a lump of soil among things of paper. He put his basket of vegetables very deliberately on the new violet tablecloth, removed his hat ... ... to cribs. I should keep my money anyhow.” Fate never winced. “Run away to sea,” whispered Mr. Polly, but he knew he wasn’t man enough. “Cut my bloomi... ...as particularly charmed by the ducklings. They were piping about among the vegetables in the com- pany of their foster mother, and as he and the plump...

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...ght spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. 15 Charles Dickens CHAPTER 2. IN WHICH... ...n the same tone. ‘With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables.’ ‘ And pickles, perhaps,’ suggested Miss T ox. ‘With such excep... ...ent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea. Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save ro... ...tself, partaking of the general infection, seemed almost to become a snug, sea- going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room, in the event of... ...lf to a second glass of the old Madeira, with increased relish. ‘As to the Sea,’ he pursued, ‘that’s well enough in fic- tion, Wally, but it won’t do ... ... rubbed his hands with an air of stealthy en- joyment, as he talked of the sea, though; and looked on the seafaring objects about him with inexpressib... ...peci- men shooting out broad claws, like a green lobster; several creeping vegetables, possessed of sticky and adhesive leaves; and one uncomfortable ... ...tor, dinner began. There was some nice soup; also roast meat, boiled meat, vegetables, pie, and cheese. Every young gentleman had a massive silver for... ...he thickest of the fray, a black cook in a black caboose up to his eyes in vegetables and blinded with smoke. The Captain immediately drew Walter into...

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...night the tracks made by day, and also by boats which cross the arm of the sea that makes the port of Croisic. This fascinating little town is therefo... ... carriage in Guerande, that of a lady or some invalid going to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulo... ...ful mall which surrounds the town from gate to gate on the side toward the sea. Sometimes the image of this town arises in the temple of memory; she e... ...walls are all espaliered, and the space within is divided into squares for vegetables, bordered with cordons of fruit-trees, which the man-of-all-work... ...ed to Guerande in 1813, as quietly and simply as if he had merely passed a sea- son at Nantes. During his stay in Dublin the old Breton, despite his f... ... Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings through a turbulent sea in open boats, had weighed upon his head, and he looked a hun- dred; th... ...greatest happiness was to cultivate the garden and produce fine fruits and vegetables. He had so little work to do that without this occupation he wou...

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.... “Are you quite sure I think of anything?” “You think of somebody, and that amounts to the same thing, or rather even more.” “Do you think so, Montal... ...ill reply, then, to it alone. Others have perhaps been able to forget, but I have not, and the proof is, that I remember that one day of riot, that on... ...acuteness and perseverance. Planchet reigned with as much majesty in his dining-room as in his shop. He set before his master a frugal, but perfectly ... ...ais, in- stead of joining the ten scamps there; melancholy, how- ever, did not visit him more than once a day, and it was about five visits that he re... ...r, nor those at the tables, took any part in the play or the quarrel. D’Artagnan recognized his ten men in these cold, indiffer- ent spectators. The q... .... The thing which puzzles me is taking 164 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 with me a crew of stupid fishermen, which crew will annoy me immensely, whilst i... ...ed vin de Foigny, and a good repast, do you persist in that?” “I persist, — anteco, as they say at Port Royal.” “Then please to recollect that the gre...

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... three or four masonry steps, made a haven of refuge around this turbulent sea. Most of them were rented to traders, as we rent the arches of a via d... ...randished a bamboo pole. He was a market gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for Umballa city, and well Kim knew the breed. ‘Such... ...to kill the Sahibs’ wives and children. Then came the Sahibs from over the sea and called them to most strict account.’ ‘Some such rumour, I believe, ... ...ng two or three hundred precocious youths, most of whom had never seen the sea. He suffered the usual penalties for break ing out of bounds when ther... ...Oudh or the Deccan; Mission stations a week from the nearest railway line; sea ports a thousand miles south, facing the brazen Indian surf; and cinch... ...ists were invited to a big Haj dinner. They came back by way of Karachi by sea, when Kim took his first experience of sea sickness sitting on the fore... ... the house spun to her clamour. She caused fowls to be slain; she sent for vegetables, and the so ber, slow thinking gardener, nigh as old as she, sw...

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...ge garden stretched beneath us, blooming with fruit and wine and succulent vegetables, and beyond it flowed the shining river. The air was still, the ... ...hurch overhung me in very much the same way as the black hull of a ship at sea would overhang a solitary swimmer. It seemed co- lossal, stupendous, a ... ...ld gray arch, the place presents its bright, expressive little face to the sea. I had a charm- 85 Henry James ing walk about the harbor, and along th... ...- 85 Henry James ing walk about the harbor, and along the stone piers and sea-walls that shut it in. This indeed, to take things in their order, was ... ...th, when in 1628 the vessels and regiments of Richelieu closed about it on sea and land. This terrible functionary was the soul of the resistance; he ... ... at different points, overhang it and look infi- nitely weather-washed and sea-silvered. The most strik- ing of these, the Tour de la Lanterne, is a b... ..., greasy napkin, of which the texture is wonderfully rendered, lie the raw vegetables she is preparing for domestic consumption. Beside the barrel is ...

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...d up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist. In the c... ...rom Sulaco for a change of air and write a few pages of the “Mirror of the Sea.” But gener- ally, as I’ve said before, my sojourn on the Conti- nent o... ...rt with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. The clumsy deep-sea galle- ons of the conquerors that, needing a brisk gale to move at all,... ...urning draperies of cloud. On one side of this broad curve in the straight sea- board of the Republic of Costaguana, the last spur of the coast range ... ...p rocks and stony levels cut about by vertical ravines. It lies far out to sea like a rough head of stone stretched from a green-clad coast at the end... ...ple disposing their goods for the day’s market, piles of fruit, bundles of vegetables orna- mented with flowers, on low benches under enor- mous mat u...

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...uld put upon the coach either one or two baskets containing the fruits and vegetables of the season, chickens, eggs, butter, and game. The steward alw... ...imply became a naval officer. Sultan Mahmoud ordered him to capture Ali by sea; and he did get hold of him, assisted by those beggarly English—who put... ...uxury of country life. Milk, eggs, poultry, game, fruits, flowers, forage, vegetables, wood, the steward and his wife used in profusion, buying absolu... ... pillar of salt; for, at this revelation, his throat felt saltier than the sea. “And you, who talked to him about his wife’s lovers and his skin disea... ... till dinner. The dinner was that of his master,— one dish of meat, one of vegetables, and a salad. The dessert consisted of a piece of Gruyere cheese... ...ever taken except in such households. Item: the said gibbets inclosed in a sea of jelly. Item: a tongue of beef with tomatoes, which rendered us all t...

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...er and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in high water: thence to the sea the width... ...a. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlantic, or Sea of Vir ginia. Chapter 2 The River and Its Explorers LA S ALLE HIMSE... ... the “point” below, bounding the river glimpse and turning it into a sort of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a fi... ...tterly invisible marks—for we seemed to be in the midst of a wide and gloomy sea—he would meet and fasten her there. Out of the murmur of half audible... ...w you will feel, too! You find yourself away out in the midst of a vague dim sea that is shoreless, that fades out and loses itself in the murky dista... ...ople along here in Missis sippi and Louisiana will send up the river to buy vegetables rather than raise them, and they will come aboard at the landi... ...they “don’t know anything but cotton;” believes they don’t know how to raise vegetables and fruit— “at least the most of them.” Says “a nigger will go...

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... for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of fait... ...ation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, es- tablished herself there as a single woman wit... ...s -nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea. Where are the birds? asked Miss Betsey. The ? My mother had been t... ...bt that my poor dear mother thought him so too. We went to an hotel by the sea, where two gentlemen were smoking cigars in a room by themselves. Each ... ...eeable man he is! cried Peggotty, holding up her hands. Then there s the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fish- ermen; and the beach; and Am to... ... must have turned red all over with modesty. He brought me some chops, and vegetables, and took the covers off in such a bouncing man- ner that I was ... ...had a great opportunity of insinuating the grey pony among carts, baskets, vegetables, and huckster s goods. The hair-breadth turns and twists we made... ...in the roof, I don t know and consisted of a roast fowl, a steak, and some vegetables, to all of which I did ample justice, and which were all excelle... ...air of hot roast fowls from the pastry-cook s; a dish of stewed beef, with vegetables from the pastry-cook s; two little corner things, as a raised pi...

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... of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and open sea of that continent of mine. I still remember with infinite gratitude the... ...durance. Never was a man less horticulturally-minded. The clamour of these vegetables he had launched into the world for his service and assistance, w... ...s—Oh, God! one wants a gale out of Heaven, one wants a great wind from the sea! 3 3 3 3 3 While I lived at Penge two little things happened to me, tri... ...London. It became tangible instead of being a frame almost as universal as sea and sky. 84 The New Machiavelli At Cambridge my ideas ceased to live i... ...ad made them wealthy, had cut their chil- dren off from the general social sea in which their own awk- ward meeting had occurred, without necessarily ... ...nd sunlight accumu- lators. Altiora thought trees hopelessly irregular and sea cliffs a great mistake… . I got things clearer as time went on. Though...