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...- sessed a castle all jagged at the corners, and shaped and pointed like a Spanish doublet, situated upon a bank from which it was reflected in the Lo... ...unchback left T ours and went to live in the town of Bruges, where certain merchants had sent for him to arrange the machinery for making hauberks. Du... ...our, they will die.” “Let us go and fetch it,” said the dyer. Then the two merchants went in great haste to the house of the hunchback, to get the swo...

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...cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, merchants, crit- ics. They were all very curious to hear him. His fame as a... ...pon every road- side, and in numbers almost sufficient to rival the native Spanish moss of the country as a drapery of the forest. Turn then to that h... ...it from clime to clime, and the winds wafted it from nation to nation; and merchants bought and sold it, by wholesale and retail, with precisely the s... ...- nishes. In short, we have been too long subject to the policy of British merchants. It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and inst...

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...res not only in Holland, but in Norway and Sweden and Denmark? It’s mostly merchants who buy them, and rich tradesmen. You can’t imagine what the wint... ... so fair that you could not see them. He reminded you of those jolly , fat merchants that Rubens painted. When I told him that I meant to live in Pari... ...een dying, but the houses had the homely state- liness of their time. Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them cal... ... in a raucous voice, and some list- lessly read. They are French. Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the ...

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...I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After about t... ... and understanding men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold ... ...by the emperor’s officers. The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed pro portionably after t... ...he purse, and, opening it, poured all the gold into his palm. There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coi... ... Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent: for...

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...escoings, father-in-law and mother-in-law of the doc- tor, were commission merchants in the wool-trade, and did a double business by selling for the p... ... moreover, a Parisian quality which charmed the retired clerks and elderly merchants of her circle,—she could take and give a jest. If she did not mar... ...being able to hold it. Max, taken prisoner by the English, was sent to the Spanish hulks at the island of Cabrera, the most horrible of all stations f... ... a chapel altar, holding his head between his hands. After half an hour of Spanish re- flections, he spied the squirrel, which Goddet could not re- fr...

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...ts of the sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteent... ...treets that Rejkiavik possesses was parallel with the beach. Here live the merchants and traders, in wooden cabins made of red planks set horizon- tal... ... gentlemen carried in their belts to give the coup de grace. Its origin is Spanish. It was never either yours, or mine, or the hunter’s, nor did it be...

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...great Mr. Brough, of the house of Brough and Hoff, Crutched Friars, Turkey Merchants. It was a new house, but did a tre- mendous business in the fig a... ... shilling)—the young stockbrokers used to tell us of im- mense bargains in Spanish, Greek, and Columbians, that Brough made. Hoff had nothing to do wi...

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...laced it on his head, so that the shadow gave the sinister expression of a Spanish brave to eyes and features which naturally boded nothing pleasant. ... ...of better stuff than Holland linen, lest my ribs should be acquainted with Spanish steel. Who carried their letters?—I. Who amused the old knight and ... ...a huge chandelier of the same precious metal. The floor was covered with a Spanish foot-cloth, or carpet, on which flowers and fruits were represented... ...ar and he were closely engaged in a dispute upon the preference due to the Spanish nether-stock over the black Gascoigne hose, and mine host had just ... ...my lord’s ear, when my honourable lord is down in these parts, and wants a Spanish ruff or the like—thou canst say in his ear, There is mine old frien... ...e sent us here for an unwonted sight, Janet?” said the lady. “One of those merchants of vanity, called pedlars,” answered Janet, demurely, “who utters...

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... centuries after the discovery of the adjacent islands by the agent of the Spanish Viceroy. Notwithstanding this, I shall 29 Melville follow the exam... ..., as they liked, but that he for one preserved his go-ashore traps for the Spanish main, where the tie of a sailor’s neckerchief might make some diffe... ...lu, the metropolis of the Sandwich Islands!—A community of dis- interested merchants, and devoted self-exiled heralds of the Cross, located on the ver... ...his back, and who always reminded me of 244 Typee a man with a blister of Spanish flies, stuck between his shoul- ders. Another whom I frequently met... ...ore they left the house, he made T oby promise that he would give him five Spanish dollars if he succeeded in getting any part of his wages advanced f...

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...ance at the close of the last century. But at this time a book, “Scenes of Spanish Life”, translated by Lieutenant Crawford from the German of Dr. Hub... ...originality that, though greatly struck by his first acquaintance with the Spanish poet, none of his pecu- liarities crept into the composition of “Th... ...h were there, With everything belonging to them fair!— We will have books, Spanish, Italian, Greek; And ask one week to make another week As like his ... ...and Americans. The munificence and energy of many of the Greek princes and merchants, directed to the renova- tion of their country with a spirit and ... ... volume 4 pages 40-41] from a proof copy of Hellas in his possession.] The Spanish Peninsula is already free. France is tranquil in the enjoyment of a... ...ate of great political excite- ment at the beginning of the year 1821. The Spanish Revolu- tion had been a signal to Italy; secrete societies were for... ... _70 To what in me were wanting.—My Lord Weston, Look that those merchants draw not without loss Their bullion from the Tower; and, on the p...

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...rtainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen. Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human n... ...ked by the remembrance of some story. We saw Tilbury Fort and remembered the Spanish Armada, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich—places which I had hea...

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...tha Thresher showed him the bed, showed him flow- ers I had planted, and a Spanish chestnut tree just peeping. ‘Ha!’ said he, beaming at every fresh s... ...ue which coloured my recollection of him. Wearing a black velvet cap and a Spanish furred cloak, he led us over the villa. In Sarkeld he resided at th... ...is over.’ He abruptly closed the door. His dress belonged to the part of a Spanish nobleman, personated by him in a Play called The Hidalgo Enraged, h... ...s of teaching— sound enough for the producing of gentlemen, and perhaps of merchants; but gentlemen rather bare of graces, and mer- chants not too sci... ... through the intermixture by marriage of our aristocracy, squirearchy, and merchants. ‘Here it is not so,’ he said; ‘and no democratic rageings will m... ... after it. With your guitar under the windows, of moon- light nights! your Spanish fopperies and trickeries! your French phrases and toeings! I was to...

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... than those of the better sort: they would have made good husbandmen, good merchants, and good artisans: their natural vigour was cut out to that prop... ...a neighbour, as for the longest voyage. I have learned to travel after the Spanish fashion, and to make but one stage of a great many miles; and in ex... ...bed, 338 Essays: Book III and a Frenchman, if without curtains or fire. A Spanish stom- ach cannot hold out to eat as we can, nor ours to drink like ... ... most grievous and ordinary evils are those that fancy loads us with; this Spanish saying pleases me in several aspects: “Defenda me Dios de ...

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...n the train, had, for his use on other occasions, one of the most handsome Spanish jennets ever bred at Andalusia, which merchants used at that time t... ...ns, one of the most handsome Spanish jennets ever bred at Andalusia, which merchants used at that time to import, with great trouble and risk, for the... ..., at the wearer’s pleasure, either drawn over the face and bosom after the Spanish fashion, or disposed as a sort of drapery round the shoulders. When... ...tle compunction as if my bones had been of iron—But that I wore a shirt of Spanish mail under my plate- coat, I had been fairly sped.” “But you mainta... ... did his arrow bound back from the knight’s armour of proof. “Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!” said Locksley, “had En- glish smith forged it, these a... ...ards of Lincoln green to make doublets to thy men, and a hundred staves of Spanish yew to make bows, and a hundred silken bowstrings, tough, round, 3...

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... Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; ... ... of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman. V entures had failed; merchants had broken; funds had risen when he calculated they would fall. W... ... wild with excitement, and prophesying the tri- umph of their Emperor. The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of a... ...little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous winter: t... ... of above five hundred scudi was invited to the balls which this prince of merchants gave during the winter, Becky had the honour of a card, and appea... ...e col- 684 V anity Fair lected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting themselves with butterbrod...

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...hile the doors were closed and secured in the same man- ner; so that these merchants and artificers could bar them- selves into their houses as into a... ...e general effect of his lines, which recalled those by which the genius of Spanish painters de- lights to represent the great monastic meditators, and...

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...nkind, Open she was, and unconfined, Like some free port of trade: Merchants unloaded here their freight, And agents from each foreign state... ...lled.—P . 181 ‘Cropp’d our ears:’ said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish ship on one Jenkins, the captain of an English one. He cut off his ...

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...have been taken by strangers for some whitewashed fort on a floating isle. Merchants on ‘change seem the passengers that buzz on her decks, while, fro... ...iers in full regimentals; slaves, black, mu- latto, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives...

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...ld- established stall of choice fruit at the corner: where perambu- lating merchants, of both sexes, offered for sale at any time between the hours of... ..., a beautiful little curly secondhand key-bugle, a chess- board and men, a Spanish Grammar, a set of sketching mate- rials, and a pair of boxing-glove... ...m in his counting-house; it leers over the shoulders of rich men among the merchants; it goes beckoning and bab- bling among the crowd; it always anti... ...use for vast resources, and to exhibit it in magnificent contrast to other merchants’ Houses, of which it requires a steady head to contemplate the po... ...every post of trust or distinction he had held, as a man re- spected among merchants; that he was dying, according to some; that he was going melancho... ...oom; and on the capital, french-polished, extending, tele- scopic range of Spanish mahogany dining-tables with turned legs, the pulpit of the Auctione... ...ther on the staircase under heavy burdens, or up- heaving perfect rocks of Spanish mahogany , best rose-wood, or plate-glass, into the gigs and chaise...

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...g back and resting her elbow on it negligently, fanned herself with a rich Spanish fan of black and gold. The attendant gondola, having skimmed forwar... ...my love, she may find people who can match her.’ A significant turn of the Spanish fan towards Fanny’s bo- som, indicated with great expression where ... ...it.’ In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, us- ing her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister’s waist with the other, as i... ...f hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded three f...