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... southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape— “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of ... ...nt, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of some- what pungent suffering: these sensations fo... ...ery fault. John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the she... ...man loudly urged haste; my trunk was hoisted up; I was taken from Bessie’s neck, to which I clung with kisses. “Be sure and take good care of her,” cr... ...oosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs. Not a tear rose to Burns’ eye... ...ver; I felt as if I could not let her go; I lay with my face hidden on her neck. Presently she said, in the sweetest tone - “How comfortable I am! Tha... ...owed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a po- lar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon. ...

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...one elbow crooked about the rail- ing, and made a shift to wash his face and neck and hands; a cold, an insufficient, and, if the train is moving rapi... ...the sands. The waves come in slowly, vast and green, curve their translucent necks, and burst with a surprising uproar, that runs, waxing and waning, ... ...rwood into the sunlight. Had any one observed the result of my experiment my neck was literally not worth a pinch of snuff; after a few minutes of pas... ...corner of the bed. The Commissary fairly bounded from his seat; his face and neck flushed past purple, almost into blue; and he screamed to lay the de... ...f his voice and his broad lowland dialect; Kinghorn, where Alexander “brak’s neckbane” and left Scotland to the English wars; Kirkcaldy, where the wit... ...ed in my ears; and our way had lain through- out over a moorish country very northern to behold. Latish at night, though it was still broad day in our... ...are long at an end; and away up there, which was at that time far beyond the northernmost extreme of railways, hard upon the shore of that ill-omened ... ...ll single, and all brushing against him as they passed. In the end, out of a northern window, he would see day beginning to whiten over the Firth, giv...

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...the edge of the precipice. This was so favourite a feat with the ‘hell and neck boys’ of the higher classes, that at one time sentinels were posted to... ...we have mounted thus high, or else to fall down at the imminent risk of my neck. So that I reconcile myself to my destiny; and while you, are looking ... ...- duced on my infant organs, when I heard on all sides your slow and broad northern pronunciation, which was to me the tone of a foreign land. I am se... ...iles but if you know not the land better than the sand, you may break your neck before you get there; for it is no road for a moping boy in a dark nig... ...ed at the collar with a black ribbon, which showed his strong and muscular neck rising from it like that of an ancient Hercules. His head was small, w... ...truth of ear, vigour and deci- sion of step, and the agility proper to the northern perform- ers. My own spirits rose with the mirth around me, and wi... ...on the En- glish frontier, a jealousy lest the superior acuteness of their northern neighbours might overreach their own simplicity, turned to his cle... ...er matters? All the world knows that I have been living at large, in these northern counties, for some months, not to say years, and might have been a... ... his dishonoured grave. His skull is yet standing over the Rikargate, [The northern gate of Carlisle was long garnished with the heads of the Scottish...

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...oth the Knight of Berwick and the Canon of Durham 31 Yo n g e on the wide northern moors; but Sir Patrick, on starting in the morning of the day when... ... for doing their duty. If we let the lady go, hawk and man must have their necks wrung, after forest laws.’ ‘And I tell thee,’ cried Davie, ‘that this... ...co ugsome bird, and these bloodthirsty grasping loons would have wrung her neck.’ ‘She took her knife to me,’ growled the wounded man, who had risen t... ...eg wi’ only the Master to see till her,’ muttered he, caressing the mare’s neck. ‘Weel, aweel, sir’— and he held out his hand for the despised spray. ... ...the Latin of Lydgate, the Monk of Bury, and sent them, wrapped in a silken neckerchief, by the hands of one of his servants to the convent. ‘Was that ... ...n the Duke of Gloucester there was such another, mounting— mounting to his neck. The face of Henry himself grew dim and ghastly white, like that of a ... ...s. You had better take what we offer, far better than aught your barbarous northern lords could give, and then your sister will be free, without ranso...

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...f thirty, perhaps, with a pointed flaxen beard, and a clasp of gold at the neck of his violet robe. “Yes,” said Graham. “You have been asleep some tim... ... very short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin. Very thick black and slightly slop- ing eyebrows that almost... ... body of Graham, one at each shoulder blade, one at the elbows, one at the neck and so forth, so that at last there were, perhaps, two score of them u... ...” said a voice on the other side,” he must have this. “Arms were about his neck detaining him in the doorway, and a black subtly-folding mantle hung f... ... about to fire again. Then it seemed to Graham that the half of this man’s neck had vanished. A drop of moisture fell on Graham’s 75 H G Wells cheek.... ...ded out of the sky and became a coastline—sunlit and pleasant—the coast of northern France. It rose, it took colour, became defi- nite and detailed, a... ...hid the three further stages. He curved about and rose to see them and the northern quarters. First came the square masses of Shooter’s Hill into sigh... ...se last strongholds of Ostrog’s usurpation. And then, from far away on the northern border of the city, full of glorious import to him, came a sound, ...

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...ame out from the long rows in which they stood, and fell upon the people’s necks, and kissed them tenderly, and went away with them down avenues of li... ...daughter’s head is on my sister’s bosom, and her arm is around my mother’s neck, and at her feet there is the baby of old time, and I can bear the par... ... on a Sunday, with that bright mixture of blue coat, buff waistcoat, black neck kerchief, and gold epaulette, that is associated in the minds of all E... ...and without any absurd attempt to disguise so plain a necessity, round the neck or waist of that fisherwoman. And we have had no doubt whatever, stand... ... the clubs in London. As you walk timidly in their neighbourhood, the very neckcloths and hats of your elderly compatriots cry to you from the stones ... ...n stone columns, which give it the ap pearance of a sort of vineyard from Northern Italy. Here, on the raised pavement, lie innumerable calves, all b...

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... skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepare... ...n thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from o thy neck. 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the bless- ing wherewith his fathe... ...his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw t... ...and ar- rayed him in vestures of ne linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; 43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and th... ...nd bring down my father hither. 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 Moreover he kissed all ... ...l in the time of evil and in the time of a iction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give... ...ach among Joel 1031 the heathen: 20 But I will remove far o from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his...

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...ing loud denounce approaching fate. They cuff, they tear; their cheeks and neck they rend, And from their plumes huge drops of blood descend; Then sai... ...the victim laid, Strong Thrasymed discharged the speeding blow Full on his neck, and cut the nerves in two. Down sunk the heavy beast; the females rou... ... closed in sleep his ever watchful eyes. There view’d the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion’s more refulgent beam. To which, around the ... ...e cape doubled, adverse winds prevail’d. Strong was the tide, which by the northern blast Impell’d, our vessels on Cythera cast, Nine days our fleet t... ... with the fumes of wine Droop’d his huge head, and snoring lay supine. His neck obliquely o’er his shoulders hung, Press’d with the weight of sleep th... ...es! ask no mortal guide. Rear but the mast, the spacious sail display, The northern winds shall wing thee on thy way. Soon shalt thou reach old Ocean’... ...om a towery height: Staggering I reel’d, and as I reel’d I fell, Lux’d the neck joint—my soul descends to hell. But lend me aid, I now conjure thee le... ...ide; Sacred the south, by which the gods descend; But mortals enter at the northern end. Thither they bent, and haul’d their ship to land (The crooked... ...hrough the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails, Aloof from Crete, before the northern gales: But when remote her chalky cliffs we lost, And far from ken...

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...nters, and who carried magicians’ wands, and wore, each of them, about his neck, what he told the ignorant people was a Serpent’s egg in a golden case... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ...lous of their encroachments, Rowena would put her beautiful arms round his neck, and softly say, ‘Dear King, they are my people! Be favourable to them... ...ecause he did not tumble off some scaffolds that were there, and break his neck, it was reported that he had been shown over the building by an an ge... ... part of his own do minions, while he carried fire and slaughter into the northern part; torturing, plundering, killing, and inflicting every possibl... ... to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refuge; num bers of the foreign soldiers,... ...mbled down all over the field. The Count himself seized the King round the neck, but the King tumbled him out of his saddle in return for the complim... ...guished citizens, bare legged, and in their shirts, with ropes about their necks; and let those six men bring with them the keys of the castle and the... ..., and a treaty with Scotland was taken into consid eration. Meanwhile the northern counties paid the Covenant ers to leave the coals alone, and keep...

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...e his panta loons. He had shoes on — and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate... ...new? Would she cry, and wish that she had a right to put her arms around his neck and comfort him? Or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow w... ...se of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. Mary took him in hand, and when she was done with him he was a man ... ... it seemed to almost part company with the body, and the slender thread of a neck was exposed to view; scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoot... ... at last, with her little white apron to her face. Tom clasped her about her neck and pleaded: “Now, Becky, it’s all done — all over but the kiss. Don... ...tend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom’s head, and trilled out her imit...

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... is drained; sweat and hyssop are the ingredients. We are clearing from Carruthers’ Road to the pig fence, twenty-eight powerful natives with Catholic... ...of the Stevensons with great pleasure and profit and some advance; one chapter and a part drafted. The whole promises well Chapter I. Domes- tic Anna... ...randfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish Family, A Family of Engineers, North- ern Lights, T... ...r, Seumanu and Faatulia, Fanny, Belle, Lloyd, Austin, and Henry Simele, his last appearance. Henry was in a kilt of gray shawl, with a blue jacket, wh... ...p this sheet with nothing to say. The weird figure of Faauma is in the room washing my windows, in a black lavalava (kilt) with a red handkerchief han... ...now very dandy: I announced two years ago that I should change. Slovenly youth, all right—not slovenly age. So really now I am pretty spruce; always a... ...e it ain’t bad myself. ’Tis a third writing, but it wants a fourth. By next mail, I believe I might send you 3 chapters. That is to say Family Annals,... ...vate and confidential—one to yourself; and come on with criticisms!But I’ll have to see. The total plan of the book is this— i. Domestic Annals. ii. ... ... be done European style with a vengeance!We were the only whites present, except Wurmbrand, and still I had no suspicion of the truth. They began to t...

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... her mounted on a chair, her small person decked out with a pro- fusion of necklaces, jewels, bracelets, chains, and rings; and her fingers, as well a... ...ke serge robes, her ruffs looked like mufflers, her coifs like hoods, even neck- laces seemed rosaries, and her scrupulous neatness enhanced the pure ... ... plume, precipitated himself, as far as he could reach, towards Berenger’s neck, calling him fair cousin and dear baron. The lad stood taken by surpri... ...ms, and hair sparkling with jewels; their gossamer ruffs surrounding their necks like fairy wings; their light laugh mingling with the music, as they ... ... from one to another of the many scattered settlements of Huguenots in the northern part of France, who, being left pastorless, welcomed visits from t... ...Islands, and thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the northern and eastern coasts of France; and often indulged in descents on th... ...lace every year. Delegated pastors there gathered from every quarter. From Northern France came men used to live in constant hazard of their lives; fr... ...hat it was—a mon- astery converted into a fortress—stood on the nearer, or northern bank, and on the belfry tower waved a flag with the arms of Quinet... ...ording the river above them, so as to attack not only the fortress on this northern side, but the bridge tower on the southern bank of the river. Spur...

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...e, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted... ...d to- gether in a lot, to be driven over, every man with a rope around his neck, that halter being held by Judge Douglas. That is the question. If Rep... ...guments in favor of kingcraft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people not that they wanted to do it, but because the people w... ... free their slaves, go north, and become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go south and become most cruel slave-masters. “When Southern ... ...he basis upon which our fathers placed it—can have any tendency to set the Northern and the Southern States at war with one another, or that it can ha... ...the United States; and, fourth, that the emancipation of the slaves of the Northern States was a gross outrage of the rights of property, inasmuch as ... ...the United States; and, fourth, that the emancipation of the slaves of the Northern States was a gross outrage on the rights of property, in as much a...

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...nd a black cravat tied in sailor fashion care- lessly and loosely about my neck. My knowledge of ships and sailor’s talk came much to my assistance, f... ...old me that New York was then full of Southerners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to b... ..., black and white, in their persons and property; such a one as will cause Northern industry, Northern capi- tal, and Northern civilization to flow in...

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...nage for a person whose two brothers—her only ones—had given up life for the Northern cause. It reminded her, however, on the other hand, that he too ... ...to carry on the plantation himself, but he had a millstone of debt round his neck, and he longed for some work which would transport him to the haunts... ...g his cousin’s German books was to give him an idea of the natural energy of Northerners. He had noticed it often before; he had already told himself ... ...nt with it. It was only after much experience he made the discovery that few Northerners were, in their secret soul, so energetic as he. Many other pe... ... with it which would have made it as impossible for him to take a roomful of Northern fanatics into his confidence as to read aloud his mother’s or his... ...ow petticoat, and a large crimson sash fastened at the side; while round her neck, and falling low upon her flat young chest, she had a double chain of... ...only answer this sudden gleam with a stare, and wonder afresh what trick his Northern kinswoman was destined to play him. Impressed too? He should thi... ...r), destiny would use him rightly in hanging a person like Adeline round his neck. That would be the way poetic justice ought to work, for him—and the... ...nhappy or not. The up shot of this was that Olive threw herself on Verena’s neck with a movement which was half indignation, half rapture; she exclai...

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...s, a whisper of visions still higher, of a triple crown, and feet upon the necks of kings, sometimes stole into his heart. M. Michelet is anxious to k... ...re from English pens. Grafton, a chronicler but little read, being a stiff-necked John Bull, thought fit to say, that no wonder Joanna should be a vir... ...s ordered for his majesty’s prosperous escape from the disease of a broken neck; and the state-coach was dedicated for ever as a votive offering to th... ...horses’ heads, and deprecate our wrath by the precipitation of their crane-neck quarterings. T reason they 93 feel to be their crime; each individual... ...ssments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- urbs, we begin to enter upon our natural pace of ten miles an... ... in the mere simplicity of her fervent nature, she threw her arms round my neck, and, poor woman, kissed me. 112 THE THE THE THE THE VISION OF SUDDEN... ...eeting. But what was Cyclops doing here? Had the medical men recom- mended northern air, or how? I collected, from such expla- nations as he volunteer...

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...ar. Little lamb, Here I am; Come and lick My white neck; Let me pull 11 William Blake Your soft wool; Let m... ...e lion old Bowed his mane of gold, And her breast did lick And upon her neck, From his eyes of flame, Ruby tears there came; While the lioness ... ...ter with thy virgin feet. IV. The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar: Thel enter d in & saw the secrets of the land unknown; She sa...

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...drawing of the trio, in nankeen frocks, and long white trowsers, with bare necks and arms, the latter twined together, and with the free hands, Griffi... ... her in her white embroidered cambric frock, red sash and shoes, and coral necklace, almost an heirloom, for it had been brought from Sicily in Nelson... ... father. How parents and doctors in these days would have shuddered at her neck and arms, bare, not only in the evening, but by day! When she was a li... ...rother as he was plodding wearily upstairs in the dark, clinging round his neck sobbing, ‘Dear, dear Clarry! I can’t bear it! I don’t care. You’re my ... ...ould point to our boundary wall, a little below the top of the hill on the northern side. He informed us that the place we had passed was Hillside—For... ...id grassy descent. Later constitutions, how- ever, must have eschewed that northern front door, and later nerves that narrow verge, and on the eastern... ...sooner did she see them than out she flew, and was clinging round Martyn’s neck, her hat falling back as she kissed him on both cheeks, with an eagern... ...and that she hoped that Anne would grow up stronger than her sister in the northern breezes. Poor little Anne! Of all the family, to her the change wa...

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...using the Emperor’s advances, for Napoleon made her a present of a diamond necklace, and always re- membered her, asking now and again, “And is the be... ..., la Chevre!—Good morning, little kid,” and he took his daughter round the neck, kissed her, and made her sit on his knee, resting her head on his sho... ... cast by the lofty build- ings of the Louvre, darkened on that side by the northern blast. Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of... ...tretch your arms while you spout about the ideal, and beauty, and all your northern madness?— Beauty is not to compare with solid pudding—and what am ... ...t the entrance, proclaims luxury. The Baron, in his blue cloth coat, white neckcloth, nan- keen trousers, patent leather boots, and stiffly starched s... ...cried Crevel. “Has Josepha thrown him over, packed him off, turned him out neck and crop? Bravo, Josepha, you have avenged me! I will send you a pair ... ...rovide for.” The generous-hearted woman threw her arms round her husband’s neck in her joy. “How happy I shall be, beginning again to show you how tru...

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...ocroy.” After which he in- quired if Lieutenant Comminges were not the command- ing officer at the outpost. The soldier replied by pointing out to him... ...he drank, but not as other men drink. One seemed, as he raised the wine to his lips, to hear him say, `Come, juice of the grape, and chase away my sor... ... 135 Dumas “But does he not approach the walls while playing?” “Y our eminence doesn’t know those walls; they are sixty feet high and I doubt if Mons... ...our highness?” asked La Ramee. “’Tis your fault, you simpleton,” answered the duke. “With your idle nonsense yesterday about escaping, you worried me ... ...ar- riage, where, as she took her seat, she gave him her hand to kiss; then, by one of those wild caprices which made her so adorable and at the same ... ...amely, in the direction toward Scotland. A few hundred yards beyond the town D’Artagnan drew rein. “Halt!” he cried, “this time we shall be pursued. W...