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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ... given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, add... ...at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week cer- tainly are a slick pair of actors.” Babbitt, though ordi- narily his voice was the surest and most epi... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...head. He worked his revolver out of the pocket in his sleeve, and casually murdered her. At that moment in Zenith, two men sat in a laboratory. For th... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...ent hotel with a private garden), but if one was a Bad Man, that is, if he murdered or committed burglary or used cocaine or had mistresses or sold no... ...clair Lewis father reported, she had pinned up twenty-one photo- graphs of actors. But the signed portrait of the most grace- ful of the movie heroes ...

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...rder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors. As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances... ... which showed that two, at least, were destined to bear the persons of fe- males, of a rank that it was not usual to meet so far in the wilds of the c... ...ey stood, heightened as it was by the calm though steady resolution of the actors in the scene. The sisters shud- dered and clung closer to each other... ... any new victim, these diligent workers of vengeance soon approached their male prisoners, pronouncing the name “La Longue Carabine,” with a fiercenes... ...enimore Cooper Gamut cheerfully assented, and together they sought the fe- males. Cora received her new and somewhat extraordinary protector courteous... ...like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered. Let us search for the marks she left; for, to Indian eyes, I some... ... man broke out of his ambush, and sprang forward to join the two principal actors in the scene. The merriment of Hawkeye was not easily appeased. With...

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...ttention to his sisters’ refined conversation that he formed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on t... ..., all in the newspaper, of my father’s friends and old companions shot and murdered by the Austrians. He read it in the evening, after we had a quiet ... ...f a momentary shame to them, rather a sign of promise than not) the gentle male need not be deeply fascinated. Lady Charlotte was not a fascinating pe... ...atres. Braintop rattled them out, their plot and fun and the merits of the actors, with delightful volubility, as one whose happy subject had been fin... ... of life. “If this is to be, can I avert it?” Mr. Pole began to nod at the actors, heavily. He said to Emilia, “If there is any fun going on, give me ... ...d the ladies, when alarm and suspicion had subsided. Fear of some wretched male baseness on the part of their brother was happily diverted by a letter... ...; but throttling is the custom between them, and we are used to see men of murdered halves. These men have what they fought for: they are unaware of a... ...eathed exclamations, as she swept along the esplanade. “I’ll be killed and murdered if I tell a word.” Meeting Captain Gambier, she fell into a great ... ...d struck, Wilfrid stole from the room. CHAPTER LV THERE IS A MAN among our actors here who may not be known to you. It had become the habit of Sir Pur...

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...it more than they disliked it, called their female foes Amazons, and their male by a less complimentary title, and so waited for the patriotic epidemi... ...le of faith with the Austrian military that noth- ing save terror of their males kept sweet Italian women from the expression of their preference for ... ...ly turning toward Royalty. Great excuses are to be made for this, the last male descen- dant, whose father in his youth had been an Imperial page, and... ... it, so that you hang over an abysm until T welve is sounded, audience and actors gazed with equal expecta- tion at the path winding round from the ca... ...nt, and unclosed it to explain that she wept for her brother, who had been murdered, stabbed in Bologna. “Was it Count Ammiani who did this?” she aske... ...this man on account of his relation- ship to your lover, and though he has murdered the brother of the lady whom I esteem. What on earth is the meanin... ...he knife or the pistol. But your day will come, and I can wait for it. You murdered my brother Paul: you have tried to murder my brother Karl. I wish ...

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...e at the gates of France. Sometime before Henri III.’s death, a court lady murdered a nobleman who made offensive remarks about her. One of the king’s... ...erings of the countess, and so enabled her to cast a furtive glance at the actors in this mys- terious scene. She did not recognize Bertrand, who was ... ... wife cannot belong to the house of Herouville except 27 Balzac through a male child.” The other pointed to a dying count- ess and her fortune claime... ...e sleeping duke were all once more assembled. Same place, same scene, same actors! but this was funereal grief in place of the joys of mother- hood; t... ... or the novenas of the Church; what care I how ’tis done, provided my line male continues?” “I know,” said Beauvouloir, “a whole chapter of sorcerers ... ...hey are none other than yourself, monseigneur. I know you. To-day you want male lineage at any price; to-morrow you will seek to have it on your own c...

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... by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voi... ... her head and shoulders. ‘Oh! Charlotte, what a mercy we have not all been murdered in our beds!’ ‘ Ah! mercy indeed, ma’am,’ was the reply. I only ho... ...r boy from the free school, sir,’ replied Mr. Bumble, ‘who has been nearly murdered—all but murdered, sir, —by young Twist.’ ‘By Jove!’ exclaimed the ... ...I think you said, Noah?’ added Mr. Bumble. ‘No! he’s out, or he would have murdered him,’ replied Noah. ‘He said he wanted to.’ ‘Ah! Said he wanted to... ...ired, in a red gown, green boots, and yellow curl papers, to the other fe male. ‘Nancy, my dear,’ said the Jew in a soothing manner, ‘what do you s... ... holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers on, which makes a vast difference. The a... ... spectator gradually became aware of the presence of a nu merous company, male and female, crowded round a long table: at the upper end of which, sat...

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...have never witnessed before. And the effect of the groups of multitudinous actors in this busy cheerful drama is heightened, as it were, by the decora... ...cheons of superb knights, who lived there, and prayed, and quarrelled, and murdered the Turks; and were the most gallant pirates of the inland seas; a... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...s, com- manded by that Halil Pasha whose two children the two last Sultans murdered. The crimson flag, with the star and cres- cent, floated at the st... ...has been done there:some massacre has been committed, some victim has been murdered, some idol has been worshipped with bloody and dreadful rites. Not... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl... ...it. Then one of his companions got up and showed us his black cattle. The male slaves were chiefly lads, and the women young, well formed, and abomin...

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...o add, by way of new reading, that he meant a Pantomime, and that we are all actors in The Pantomime of Life. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION We ha... ...ed their positions. All eyes were fixed upon the man of paragraphs. ‘A baker murdered his son by boiling him in a copper, ’ said Mr. Bolton. ‘Good hea... ...hat must have been his feelings! In the agony of the minute he rushed at his male parent as he was about to plunge a knife into the side of his female...

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...ught to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and a... ...t-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors’ lives. Mlle. Michonneau, that elderly young lady, screened her weak... ...ear enough. Her father, Taillefer, is an old scoundrel; it is said that he murdered one of his friends at the time of the Revolution. He is one of you... ...self unmasked his batteries, for he took Poiret and the Michonneau for the male and female of the same species. “If his Excellency himself, his Excell... ...Poiret, his heart swelling with the cour- age that love gives to the ovine male, “respect the weaker sex.” “Spies are of no sex!” said the painter. “A... ...ud is capable of anything; she must have done frightful things, robbed and murdered people in her time. She ought to be put in jail for life instead o... ...d them! … Kill them! … Restaud and the Alsatian, kill them both! They have murdered me between them! … Death or my daughters! … Ah! it is too late, I ...

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...his eyes at pity’s claims; And now, with mingled grief and ire, He saw the murdered maid expire. ‘God, in my need, be my relief, As I wreak this on yo... ... to the Castle of Benechra, or Bannochar, and was next day dragged out and murdered by the victorious Macgregors in cold blood. Buchanan of Auchmar, h... ... perpetrated by the Macfarlanes. Again, it is reported that the Macgregors murdered a number of youths, whom report of the intended battle had brought... ...; and many other examples might be mentioned. The Ben-Shie implies the fe- male fairy whose lamentations were often supposed to pre- cede the death of... ...he Daoine Shi’, or Men of Peace, of the Highlanders, though not absolutely malevolent, are believed to be a peevish, repining race of beings, who, pos... ...unds, etc. “It has been already observed that fair- ies, if not positively malevolent, are capricious, and easily of- fended. They are, like other pro... ... as we are describing. This sporting, in which kings did not disdain to be actors, was prohibited in Scotland upon the Reformation, by a statute of th...

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... Caria, whence it is a family usage amongst the people called Ioxids, both male and female, never to burn either shrubs or asparagus-thorn, but to res... ...paid them upon the following occasion. Androgeus having been treacherously murdered in the confines of Attica, not only Minos, his fa- ther, put the A... ... wicked and cruel man, there appeared in his own house a strange vision, a male figure that rose out of a hearth, and stayed there for many days. Ther... ...which they still call the Tarpeian Rock, from which they used to cast down malefactors. The Sabines being possessed of the hill, Romulus, in great fur... ...- times they set upon them by day, as they were at work in the fields, and murdered them. As, also, Thucydides, in his his- tory of the Peloponnesian ... ...lleague T atius; nor the senate the like accusation, of having treasonably murdered Romulus. Yet Romulus had the advantage to be thought divinely born... ...c- tion so closely resembling that of Thrasybulus, in the cour- age of the actors, the danger, the encounters, and equally crowned with success, was c... ...t of fear; and just as in tragedies it not uncommonly is the case with the actors, the person who represents a messenger or servant is much taken noti... ...ion, Lysander miscarried in his drama through the timid- ity of one of his actors, or assistants, who just as he came to the point lost heart and drew...

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...its action that it may be doubted whether they are not in fact its leading actors. When the clever journalist reached a group of rocks where the main ... ...s now in her burrow, and she won’t come out, for she’s a female,—this is a male; Mouche saw him coming just as you went away. As true as you live, as ... ...his rapid summary will have the merit of introducing some of the principal actors in this drama, and of exhibiting their individual interests; we shal... ...upers; the social question was defined to the eye; hunger had convoked the actors in the scene. The sun threw into relief the hard and hollow features... ...he ground beneath the general’s windows cry- ing out: “Monsieur, they have murdered him!” The cry was so terrible it awoke the count; he rang vio- len... ...aised the poor dying woman, who expired, saying to the general: “They have murdered him!” “Joseph!” cried the count to his valet, “go for the doctor; ... ...home at half-past one; and the return of the horse proves that Michaud was murdered between eleven o’clock and midnight. At a quarter past ten Groison...

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...e so happy, especially a feminine creature.” “They are always happier than male creatures,” said I. “You must correct that opinion, Mr. Coverdale,” re... ...ating them from other relations, had kept so long upon my mental stage, as actors in a drama. In itself, perhaps, it was no very remark 123 Hawthorn... ...voices and much laughter proceeding from the interior of the wood. Voices, male and feminine; laughter, not only of fresh young throats, but the bass ... ...ionate shriek, with which Zenobia had spoken those words, “Tell him he has murdered me! Tell him that I’ll haunt him!”—and I knew what murderer he mea...

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...o; and letting off thirty “ohs,” and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him ther... ...ot even dismount; and so from the back of his horse he began to utter such maledictions and objurgations against those who were blanketing Sancho as i... ... he is, Sancho Panza, we will suspect as we suspect already, that you have murdered and robbed him, for here you are mounted on his horse; in fact, yo... ...ear of being heard or seen, then I broke silence and lifted up my voice in maledictions upon Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if I could thus avenge the ... ...e uncertainty whether those Frenchmen may have restored him to liberty, or murdered him to hide the robbery. All this will make me continue my journey... ...tailor of the corner.’ And though I have sometimes endeavoured to convince actors that they are mis- taken in this notion they have adopted, and that ... ... plays have become a salable commodity, they say, and with truth, that the actors will not buy them unless they are after this fashion; and so the poe... ...h his fame; and yet, in consequence of his desire to suit the taste of the actors, they have not all, as some of them have, come as near perfection as...

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...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ..., and fresh news began to arrive from the war, brought by men who had been actors in the scene. Wagons and long country carts laden with wounded came ... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow... ... from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret. 211 Thackeray But the greatest day of all was that on w...

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...attached to the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne, the well-known Gothard, one of the actors and witnesses in the Simeuse affair. Poupart, though a most devoted ... ... and such was her horror for all who were connected, near or far, with the actors in the judicial drama so fatal to her family, that she strictly enjo... ...ake the money dance, and will laugh at his mother’s prejudices against the actors in the famous Simeuse melodrama.” “It would be easier for you to mak... ...t duels, and had killed two or three men in his life; in fact, he had half murdered them, for his coolness and self-possession were unparalleled. No y... ...e than Bixiou’s, I would have chosen it. As it was, I have profited by the malevo- lent curiosity which induces that amiable lepidopter to in- sinuate... ...him to the spirit of party; shall you silence him every time he makes some malevolent insinuation about Monsieur de Sallenauve, and denies his honor a... ...s, recalled so little the week-day Desroches, dining in cafes with all the male and female viveurs of renown, that one of them, Malaga, a circus-rider...

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...ssaries sent out from the capital, had risen upon their English chiefs and murdered them to a man. The decree of confiscation which appeared immediate... ... earnest. It is scream- ingly funny, the blood flows all the time, and the actors believe themselves to be influencing the fate of the universe. Of co... ...time for extending a modest man’s business. He enveloped in a swift mental maledic- tion the whole country, with all its inhabitants, par- tisans of R... ...he O. S. N. wharf had he not (the posadero of Rincon is ready to swear it) murdered a pedlar in the woods and stolen his pack to begin life on. And do... ... when his compadre had been carried off, had buried his wife and children, murdered by the soldiers. “Si, señor,” he muttered, hoarsely, “I and two or... ...as clear. It would be of no use to him—alone. He could do nothing with it. Malediction! The doctor would never come out. He was probably under arrest ... ...ic manner—proofs visible, sensible, and incon- trovertible of the doctor’s malevolent disposition. And Nostromo was of the people. So he only grunted ...

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...? Be hanged if they ain’t! I like the old fox, and I don’t like to see him murdered and exterminated, but die the death of a gentleman, at the hands o... ...s?’ Why, great heaven! we only ask to know where she is. She may have been murdered. She’s hidden from her family. Let him confess, and let him go.” M... ...urs, was the reply. Robert had an impulse to rush by the stolid little fe- male liar, but Percy’s recent lesson to him acted as a restraint; though, h... ...ll take the point of view of science, be the stage carpenters, and let the actors move on and off. By this, we shall learn to take a cer- tain pride i...

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...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ...the chief Malope himself fell into the hands of some Spanish soldiers, who murdered him. Mendana punished them with death; but his own health was fast... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec... ...s streaming down his face and back all the time. A great point is that the actors should not be recognised. Mr. Brooke was likewise dropped at Florida... ...e interpreted, though probably no ac- count will ever be obtained from the actors in the scene. 666 Life of John Coleridge Patteson The wounds were, ...

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...leman at the Home Office, who means to reform the police and put an end to malefactors; or the new Minister at the Board of Works, who is to make Lond... ... with various ladies, with the Pountneys and Gun- ners, and other obedient male followers, had been to church. None of the Ministers had of course bee... ...k that his son ought to enjoy any special privilege of primogeniture or of male inheritance. And if it could be so managed that the daughter should be... ...Oh; that’s the evil! You know I think instead of killing an evil, you have murdered an excellent institution.’ This at any rate was very imprudent on ... ...e curtain has fallen, and the lights are being put out, and the poor weary actors may go home to bed.’ ‘But on such an amendment surely any majority w... ...man is kept who does not yet know whether he is or is not to be one of the actors in the play just about to be performed. The Duke had never before be...