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...ng I can do therefore is, I think to give my impressions in my own inexact language, without any attempt to wear a garment of knowledge to which I hav... ...ge creatures, strange knowledge …” “As for strange knowledge—“ said I, and language failed me. “Look here, Bedford,” said Cavor, “you came on this exp... ... latter class belongs Tsi-puff, the first lunar professor of ter- restrial languages. With regard to these latter, it is a curious little thing to not... ... sideways towards me, keeping a full face to the Presence. I seated myself Turkish fashion, and Phi-oo and T si-puff also knelt down above me. There c...

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... will not be for long. Thou’lt yet be graced with learning like thy father, and make thy tongue master of as many languages as his, good my prince.” “... ...ng of a chronicler who witnessed it: ‘Space being made, presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of baw... ... worser friend than Miles Hendon and yet not tire thy legs with seeking. Rest thy small jaw, my child; I talk the language of these base kennel-rats l... ...rd their sover- eign; and the King, by holding up his glad countenance to such as stood afar off, and most tender language to those that stood nigh hi...

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...n play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To ... ...e Nan- tucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own spec... ...th some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation’s census—a mighty pageant cre... ... small indignity. I meant not to incense thee. Let it go. Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn— living, breathing pictures painted by the s... ... any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, fr... ...bove the rest of the com- pany, to whom he vivaciously cries—he seems some Turkish Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower.... ... centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harris’s V oyages, speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honour of Jonah, in which Mosque was a miraculous l... ...midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations. The hatch, removed fro... ...les of the slightly projecting head beyond. Before it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged waters, went the glistening white shadow from his broad, mil...

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... understanding each other. He imagined I would talk to him in some foreign language. I was told that his last words on getting into the sledge to 24 ... ...t last. My uncle, lounging in the corner of a small couch, smoked his long Turkish chibouk in silence. “This is an extremely nice writing-table you ha... ...n reduced to eat dog. I have fed on the emblematical animal, which, in the language of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on... ...t. Gothard Tunnel; and I could listen my fill to the sounds of the English language, as far as it is used at a breakfast-table by men who do not belie... ...dren. It was true, he said, that they had tried to strip him as naked as a Turkish saint in the decline of his days; and because he had defended himse... ...r in his room at night walking up and down and praying aloud in the French language.” It must have been somewhat over a year afterward that I saw Mr. ... ...could chatter disconnectedly in Polish and the sinister Ralph rage in that language. As to the Crummles family and the family of the learned Squeers i...

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... understanding each other. He imagined I would talk to him in some foreign language. I was told that his last words on getting into the sledge to come... ...t last. My uncle, lounging in the corner of a small couch, smoked his long Turkish chibouk in silence. “This is an extremely nice writing-table you ha... ...reduced to eat dog. I have fed on the emblem- atical animal, which, in the language of the volatile Gauls, is called la vache enragee; I have lived on... ...t. Gothard Tunnel; and I could listen my fill to the sounds of the English language, as far as it is used at a breakfast-table by men who do not belie... ...was true he said that they had tried their best to strip him as naked as a Turkish saint in the decline of his days; and because he had defended himse... ...r in his room at night walking up and down and praying aloud in the French language.” 64 Some Reminiscences It must have been somewhat over a year af... ...could chatter disconnectedly in Polish and the sinister Ralph rage in that language. As to the Crummles family and the family of the learned Squeers i...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ... her this key, and tell her in the Deske 1093 That’s couer’d o’re with Turkish Tapistrie, 1094 There is a purse of Duckets, let her send it: ...

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...campaigns, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled before Belgrade by a terrible wound... ...gh T elemaque, Racine, and Le Grand Cyrus were the whole li- brary in that language; and there was not another within thirty miles. On two days in the... ...that you would be the only person who could be of use—you who know foreign languages and all their ways. If you could go abroad, and arrange it for me... ...farther, such as that lusus naturae, Miss Elizabeth Carter, who knew seven languages, or the Bishop of Oxford’s niece, Catherine T albot, who even pai...

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...d, could I, the first time, the first moment I beheld her, adopt caressing language, and a familiar tone, as readily as after ten years’ intimacy had ... ...from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure the min... ...It was time to seek a lodging: as I already knew enough of the Piedmontese language to make myself understood, this was a work of no great difficulty;... ...fue pas’. As the Piedmontese are not in general very perfect in the French language, they found fault with the orthography, saying, that in the word f... ... when read, can hardly be understood. It is not only painful to me to give language to my ideas but even to receive them. I have studied mankind, and ... ...rman, Latin, or French, he had been obliged to have recourse to his Greek, Turkish Lingua Franca, which did not procure him much in the coun- try he w...

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...e count. “The women of the harem couldn’t speak a word of French, and that language is indispensable for talking. Ali gave me five legitimate wives an... ... queer chap! Y ou call him, here, Chaureff; but the name is pronounced, in Turkish, Cosserew. You must have read in the newspapers how old Ali drubbed... ...the next time there’ll be no old woman, and we can make it all up with the language of love.’ Instead of which, fate willed that that old woman should... ... death! to death! down with the murderer!’” “So those Dalmatians spoke our language, did they?” said the count. “I observe you relate the scene as if ... ...yesterday.” 62 A Start in Life Schinner was nonplussed. “Riot has but one language,” said the astute statesman Mistigris. “Well,” continued Schinner,... ...c alii,’” whispered Mistigris. 69 Balzac “—you seem to know little of the language of the courts. I ask your future protection, Excellency,” added Sc...

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...ne’s own feeling, and ex- press it beautifully, fitly, or energetically in language, which constituted so great a part of her mother’s exist- ence. Sh... ...ome very beautiful quotations. But through his manner and his confusion of language there had emerged some passion of feeling which, as he spoke, form... ...st. These states of mind transmit themselves very often without the use of language, and it was evident to Katharine that this young man had fixed his... ... the inn in which Byron had slept was called the “Nag’s Head” and not the “Turkish Knight,” or that the Christian name of Keats’s uncle had been John ... ... mind, and came to the conclusion that it would be a good thing to learn a language—say Italian or German. She then went to a drawer, which she had to... ...d, cooing note, which prolonged words and cut them short until the English language seemed no longer fit for com- mon purposes. In a moment of nervous...

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...tory shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipp’d with a waxen ... ...ing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gen tler ...

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...Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . ... ... mouth 378 Speake freely of our Acts, or else our graue 379 Like Turkish mute, shall haue a tonguelesse mouth, 380 Not worshipt with a ... ... Kathe. Alice, tu as este en Angleterre, & tu bien parlas 1322 le Language. 1323 Alice. En peu Madame. 1324 Kath. Ie te pr... ...pay’d for: none of the French 1559 vpbrayded or abused in disdainefull Language; for when 1560 Leuitie and Crueltie play for a Kingdome, the g...

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...led, not Revolutionaries, but revolted subjects, or, in more parliamentary language, they had no dealings with Liberals or Constitutionnels. Such Roy-... ...eneral consent. The d’Esgrignons not only lacked the very rudiments of the language of latter-day politics, to wit, money, the great mod- ern relief, ... ...s, de Marsay was one of those savage humorists who delight in mischief, as Turkish women in the bath. So when he had carried off the prize, and bets w... ...ould never have brooked the appearance of an insult was abusing himself in language which no man is likely to hear except from himself. He left du Cro... ... their joint-stock partnership; is not that what you call it in your legal language? Frenchwomen are so incred- ibly jealous in the conduct of their m...

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... were beginning that cough which indi- cated, in the universal instinctive language, that they desired to go home and go to bed. 84 Main Street While... ...ke the rest of us. And I don’t know where he’d ever learn so dog-gone many languages anyway! He kind of lets people assume he went to Harvard or Berli... ...quy in the pidgin-German of the farmers who have forgotten the Old Country language without learning the new: “Hello, Barney, wass willst du?” “Morgen... ... a se- rial—it was an awfully exciting story—it seems that this girl was a Turkish dancer (only she was really the daugh- ter of an American lady and ... ... get drunk?’ That’s just what she called him—pup. `I’ll have no such nasty language in my house,’ I says, `and you pretending and pulling the wool ove... ... of innocent boys and girls, a woman that drinks, smokes, curses, uses bad language, and does such dreadful things as I wouldn’t lay tongue to but you...

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..., spending two years there, and learning his mother tongue over again. The Turkish Government persecuted him, and he was certainly exposed to great da... ...d Zoya in German. When she was taken un- awares she always used her native language. Elena drew her- self up. Shubin looked at her with a playful smil... ...kes you think so?’ ‘Why as far as I could hear, they talked to him in some language I did not know, but Slavonic … You are always saying, Elena Nikola... ... him the words for lily-of-the-valley, clover, oak, lime, and so on in his language… ‘Bulgaria’s in it!’ thought poor Andrei Petrovitch. Suddenly a sh...

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...ours a day, and to whom in compensation he taught all the mysteries of the Turkish busi- ness. He was a great man on ‘Change, too; and our young chaps... ...” I saw at once that she was a fashionable girl, from her using the French language in this way. “Isn’t she a fine girl?” said Brough, whispering to m... ...y work or my regularity; and that I was not minded to receive any insolent language from him or any man. He said it was always so: that he had never c... ...men!” when I appeared; another called me a muff (which means, in the slang language, a very silly fellow); a third wondered that I took to my prayer-b...

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...ed of the power of participation. Three persons only could understand this language of the poor paralytic; these were Villefort, Valentine, and the ol... ... look all the varied feelings which were passing in his mind. To this dumb language, which was so unintelli- gible to others, she answered by throwing... ...ief, that she arrested the departure of the notary . “Sir,” said she, “the language which I speak with my grandfather may be easily learnt, and I can ... ...baroness sharply, “I tell you I will not hear cash named; it is a style of language I never heard in the house of my parents or in that of my first hu... ...w, sir, I do not speak French?” “I know you do not like to converse in our language,” replied the envoy. “But you may use it,” replied Lord Wilmore; “... ...the palace; these were hours of recreation for me, as I never saw any- * A Turkish pasha in command of the troops of a province. —Ed. 175 Alexandre D... ...t had been supposed some of the papers might be in the Arabian, Romaic, or Turkish language, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance. One o... ... from which he took it black and empty. Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted...

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...nd the terrier jumped down, thinking rats were about. ‘If you have any bad language to use, use it. You have not. I continue. You are an idiot, becaus... ...af- ter three hours’ biting self-restraint in Maisie’s presence. There was Language, and Torpenhow withdrew to consult the Nilghai, who had come it to... ...ake, I shall never get that odd threepence out of the world.’ This was not language befitting the man who had preached of the sanctity of work. It jar... ... You’ve heard me grunt lately?’ ‘Even so; but grunts mean anything in your language, from bad ‘baccy to wicked dealers. And I don’t think I’ve been mu... ...lway-routes, transport, water-supply, the capacities of generals,—these in language that would have horrified a trusting public,—rangint, as- serting,... ... Dick’s interests. To this latter end she smiled upon scowling and furtive Turkish officers of fellaheen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents...

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...y’s the pitch of his voice rose, the volubility of his utterance and the fervour of his language redoubled. I call it prayer, for it was addressed to ... ...of her, slept only to dream of her loveliness, and would gladly forswear my country, my language, and my friends, to live for ever by her side. And th... ...olden coin hover on her breaths; I saw her eyes darken and brighter, and still speak no language but that of an unfathomable kindness; I saw the fault... ... oldest comrades! It was on his advice, I may add, that I invested my little fortune in Turkish bonds; when we have added these spoils of the mediaeva... ...my superior duty to proceed to Paris. My scientific training, my undoubted com- mand of language, mark me out for the service of my coun- try. Modesty... ...rt Louis Stevenson ‘The quality, my dear Casimir, was – ‘ And the Doctor, in default of language, kissed his finger-tips. ‘I would not take your word ...

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...n an earlier occasion by a certain Russian saint, who used almost the same language. “I shall laugh my bitter laugh”* was the inscription placed on Go... ...- pal subjects which constitute the basis of human virtue to be the French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-pl... ... in some seminaries the regimen places piano-playing first, and the French language sec- ond, and then the above department of housewifery; while in o... ... the knitting of “surprises” heads the 37 Gogol list, and then the French language, and then the playing of pianos—so diverse are the systems in forc... ... then shook his head as be- fore. Next, the visitors were shown some “real Turkish” daggers, of which one bore the inadvertent inscription, “Saveli Si... ...ost to view Chichikov was still laughing in his britchka. And, indeed, the language of the Russian popu- lace is always forcible in its phraseology. C... ... gold, and the sleeves of their blouses embroidered after the fashion of a Turkish shawl. “You see here the species of kvass for which our house has l...