... centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This com- modious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lov... ...Yes, but when the six months were over, she had a plum-cake as big as that ottoman,” said Madame de Cintre. “That quite set her up again.” “What a che... ...tain that, smart and active as you are, you would have got the pick of the titles. At this point I was ordered to sit down, but I think I made an impr... ...ded, “It’s a relief.” She was sitting on a low chair, and Newman was on an ottoman, near her. He leaned a little and took her hand, which for an insta...

...ing at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outst...

... his own diocesan. But it hap- pened that the present dean had even higher titles to consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince o... ...f aristocratic assumption, by making the king address people without their titles. The Duke of Wellington, for instance, or Lord Liverpool, figures us... ... classes takes the very opposite course. No- where is a man so sure of his titles or official distinctions as amongst them; for, it is upon giving to ... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...mong the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; t... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w...

...bly—and there the combined unknowns do malignant things with their legs to ottomans, and take as much as pos- sible out of the splendid furniture. And... ...orthy 332 Our Mutual Friend soul, taking her comfortable place on a large ottoman in the centre of the room, and drawing her arm through Bella’ s; ‘a... ...se you look so white.’ ‘Do I? I have had a busy evening.’ She was on a low ottoman before the fire, with a little shining jewel of a table, and her bo... ...n Harmon’s, if it had been his happy privilege to take his place upon that ottoman, and draw his arm about that waist, and say , ‘I hope the time has ... ...in her wilful inconsistent way . Left alone, she threw herself back on her ottoman, and said, ‘I didn’t know the lovely woman was such a Dragon!’ Then... ... Wren with an unspeakable enjoy- ment in the utterance of those honourable titles and in the recollection of the pepper. ‘He held me to certain months...

...and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each... ...es, as writing-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, gr... ..., he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans and chairs and tables as if he were his own Police officer, saying...

... which were so extremely successful, that one stout gentleman rolled upon an ottoman in a paroxysm of delight, protesting, with many gasps, that if so... ...oid them. THE YOUNG LADIES’ YOUNG GENTLEMAN This young gentleman has several titles. Some young la dies consider him ‘a nice young man,’ others ‘a fi...

...awn up, leaving only the necessary lines for description of prop- erty and titles in blank. Your Excellency should take with you part of the purchase ... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic... ...rdin, do not hesitate to attribute this unheard- of preservation, when all titles, privileges, and charters were lost, to the protection of Sainte-Gen... ...ng widow is marquise in her own right, and has the privilege of giving her titles to her husband.” Though the clerks were still a good deal undecided ...

...ches his University Professorship, and the Psyche clothes herself in civic Titles, without al- tering her now fixed nature,—would be comparatively an ... ...m it any little com- fort they can. We subjoin another passage, concerning Titles:— “Remark, not without surprise,” says Teufelsdrockh, “how all high ... ... more and more indubitable, may it not be apprehended that such Fight- ing titles will cease to be palatable, and new and higher need to be devised? “... ...‘A Dressing-room splendidly furnished; violet-colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full- length Mirrors are placed, one on each ...

...les of Venice and of Geneva, like those of Poland in former times, bore no titles. T o be named Quirini, Doria, Brignole, Morosini, Sauli, Mocenigo, F... ... all things become corrupt. At the present day some of these families have titles. And even at a time when the nobles of the aristocratic re- publics ... ...netian conqueror. He returns to restore his palazzo with the spoils of the Ottoman Empire. He can quit the women of the East for the doubly masked int...

...ulder to shoulder, without a gap; grenadiers on the line. Weyburn read the titles on their scarlet-and-blue facings. They were approved English classi... ...ociety; for she confessed herself a fly to a title. Where is the shame, if titles are created to attract? Elsewhere than in that upper circle, we may ... ... pretend to a part in her brother’s title. Not that she had veneration for titles. She considered them a tinsel, and the devotee on his knee-caps to t... ...ll had an engagement at the house of Lady Staines for the next day to meet titles and celebrities, and it pre- cluded her comprehension of the project... ... Mr. Morsfield—purer blood than many of 151 George Meredith their highest titles—is always polite, always deferential; he helps me to feel I am not q... ... has as many lives for her look of an eye or lift of a finger as a throned Ottoman T urk on his divan.’ Aminta wished to dream. She gave her aunt a se... ...rger view. Her lord’s view appeared similar to that of her aunt’s ‘throned Ottoman T urk on his divan.’ Matthew Weyburn believed in the bettering of t...

...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,... ...gin continent, plenty of land, freedom from cen- tralization, freedom from titles and social vulgarities, com- mon schools, a real democratic spirit i...

...ing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finished articles of furniture; an... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ... it, blazing in the sunshine, and carved all over with names of Allah, and titles of old pirates and generals who reposed there. The guardian of the m...

...f experience that separates us from 1914, recalls two pamphlets whose very titles are eloquent of this feeling—“The War that will End War,” and “The P... ...rds at Westminster, and the adornment of elderly colonial politicians with titles and decorations at Buckingham Palace. I think Great Britain and her ... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes... .... Many of the monarchs concerned may find themselves still left with their titles, palaces, and personal es- tates, and merely deprived of their last ...

..., introductions, summaries, pro- spectuses, arguments, notices, epigraphs, titles, false-titles, current titles, scholia, marginal remarks, frontispie... ...nd placed him on the door the granary, after the 84 Balzac fashion of the Ottoman Porte, where my good Panurge was within an ace of being spitted. At...

...ksliding once more, and must repent in ashes, as those who are for jewels, titles, es- sences, banquets, for wallowing in slimy spawn of lucre, have e... ...ly inverse decision upon their case, when he becomes ac- quainted with the titles and station of these imputedly pec- cant, refreshes them), they hold... ...f Our Conquerors territorial and titled families. But certain of the minor titles headed City Firms, she had heard; certain of the families were avowe... .... They beg for the privilege of pulling the forelock to the bearers of the titles of the men who took their lands from them and turn them to the uses ... ...ct- ing his aged mistress. Now Jarniman had shocked Skepsey with his blunt titles for a couple of the foremost maladies assailing the poor lady’s deca... ...rand piano, the ebony inlaid music-stands, the firegrates and plaques, the ottomans, the tone of neutral colour that, as in sound, muted splendour. He...

...wards from him; the Gerefen, or Graffen, of all kinds were his judges, the titles of both being proofs of their holding commissions from, and being th... ...e Christian nations on the 228 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest skirts of the Ottoman empire might be made our allies, and attack the Turk in his rear. I... ...ade to each of the captives, if they would become Moslems, of entering the Ottoman service as Spahis; but with one voice they had refused, and had the...

...nd only its ideals of fearlessness and gener- osity remained. Of all these titles The Aristocratic Life seemed at first most like a clue to White. Ben... ...open and there was a long buff and crimson-striped shape, by day indeed an ottoman, but by night—. Could an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of ... ...ld an ottoman crouch and stir in the flicker of a passing candle? Could an ottoman come after you noiselessly, and so close that you could not even tu...

...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th... ...reat thing in days When homicide and harlotry made great; If stars and titles could entail long praise, His glory might half equal his estat...

...he asked rather sharply. I said it was not the custom in England to confer titles on men distinguished by peaceful services, however good and great, u... ...a little now, I think, if you don’t know that this is the great reason why titles will always last in the land!” I am afraid she believed what she sai... ... proceeds Sir Leicester, glancing at the circumjacent cousins on sofas and ottomans, “even in many—in fact, in most—of those places in which the gover...

... Wren with an unspeakable enjoy- ment in the utterance of those honourable titles and in the recollection of the pepper. ‘He held me to certain months... ...strust, that twisted his visage then? Mrs Boffin seated Bella on the large ottoman, and seated herself beside her, and John her husband seated himself...