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...t, platform, scaffold Champaign, open country Chariot (Fr c/iarette), cart Cheer, countenance; entertainment Chierte, dearness Chrism, anointing oil C... ...d, dashed, staggered; hvrSig Hurtle, dash Incontinent, forthwith Ind, dark blue Infellowship, join in fellowship In like, alike Intermit, interpose Ja... ...n, impetuosity Rear, raise Rechate, note of recall Recomforted, comforted, cheered Recounter, rencontre, encounter Recover, rescue Rede, advise; sb, c...

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...ey hair was the only warm spot in the dinginess of that room cooled by the cheerless table- cloth. We knew him already by sight as the owner of a litt... ...mination and left the seamanship Examiner with the little precious slip of blue paper in their hands. “That day I wouldn’t have called the Queen my co... ...saying, “Y ou will do!” Before I realised what he meant he was pushing the blue slip across the table. I jumped up as if my chair had caught fire. “Th... ...e. I took off my hat at last, but the dog hanging out his tongue with that cheerfully imbecile expression some dogs know so well how to put on when it... ...ge. I examined her appearance quietly. Her hair was nearly black, her eyes blue, deeply shaded by long dark eyelashes. She had a little colour now. Sh... ...t to town? He really could not remember. Was she a girl with dark hair and blue eyes? I asked further. He really couldn’t tell what colour her eyes we... ...icious day, with the horror of the Infinite veiled by the splendid tent of blue; a day innocently bright like a child with a washed face, fresh like a... ...s, leavened by a slight sprinkling of genuine pickpockets amused itself by cheering in the most pen- etrating, abominable cold drizzle that I remember... ...ss but monosyllables, and the jolly Charley actu- ally snubbed the various cheery openings of his “little chum”— as he used to call her at times,—but ...

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...ng it made an opaque ring of earth floating in an emptiness of transparent blue. The hills, purple and arid, stood out heavily on the sky: their summi... ...rs in their laps, sat un- der the wide-spreading boughs of a big tree. The blue smoke of wood fires spread in a thin mist above the high-pitched roofs... ... and black from the shore, glided along the silver plain and over into the blue of the sea. “Thrice Matara, standing by my side, called aloud her name... ...couple of reels of cotton, a packet of needles, a bit of silk ribbon, dark blue; a cabinet photograph, at which Hollis stole a glance before laying it... ... Believe him!” Karain bent his head: Hollis threw lightly over it the dark-blue ribbon and stepped back. “Forget, and be at peace!” I cried. Karain se... ...ed into a canoe, and as soon as he was clear of the side we gave him three cheers. They sounded faint and orderly after the wild tumult of his loyal s... ...he boat, lifted up both his arms, then pointed to the infallible charm. We cheered again; and the Malays in the boats stared—very much 48 Tales of Un... ...ght. His new credulity knew of no doubt. The ill luck was broken. He spoke cheer- ily to his wife. She was also hopeful. Three priests came to that ch... ...lier approved. “When one is sick,” he said, “any little extra like that is cheering.” They waited. Rank grass began to sprout over the courtyard. The ...

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...self, ‘In the Christmas season of the year, I should like to see that man!’ And he had swung the gate of his little garden in coming out to meet me, n... ...that had nothing to say about its owner, than in all the would-be celestial pairs of bellows that have ever blown con- ceit at me. We climbed towards ... ...tep from the clergyman’s dwelling-house, we crossed to the latter; the white surplice was hanging up near the door ready to be put on at any time, for... ... the scene of death he had been required so closely to familiarise himself with for the soothing of the living, that he had casually said, without the... ... the Saracen’s Head (with an ignominious rash of posting bills disfiguring his swarthy countenance), and had strolled up the empty yard of his ancient... ...e banquet at the meanest and shab- biest of evening parties, that I begin to think I must have The Uncommercial Traveller 53 ‘brought down’ to supper... ...turns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for some- thing out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass... ...t streams of time and water carried me down fast, and I came, on an exquis- itely clear day, to the Lausanne shore of the Lake of Geneva, where I stoo... ...vey, I jostle the clergyman in his canoni- cals, who is entering too from a dark lane behind a pew of state with curtains, where nobody sits. The pew ...

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...with him again, for my necessities will have it so, and also the hope that cheers me with the thought that I may find another hundred crowns like thos... ...ious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he who dist... ...ad in this dreary solitude.” “I will go and return quickly,” said Sancho; “cheer up that little heart of yours, master mine, for at the present moment... ... Quixote. “Take care thou art not deceiving me, or seeking by false joy to cheer my real sadness.” “What could I get by deceiving your worship,” retur... ...ol yourself, your worship; be yourself again; gather up Rocinante’s reins; cheer up, rouse your- self and show that gallant spirit that knights-errant... ...id the duchess. “Two of them,” said Sancho, “are green, two blood-red, two blue, and one a mixture of all colours.” “An odd sort of goat, that,” said ... ...ferent colour from ordinary lips they are wonderful, for they are mottled, blue, green, and purple—let my lord the governor par- 283 Cervantes – Orms... ...f what the damsel said. He had nothing on but a rich petticoat and a short blue damask cloak with fine gold lace, and his head was uncovered and adorn...

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... much to the charm of beauty in the sex. On the present occasion, her full blue eye reflected the feeling of sublimity that the scene excited, and her... ...,—“more, Magnet! say, rather, what less? Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, ... ...with propriety; though, on the whole, I fear you have seen more green than blue water.” “It is not surprising that we should get some of the phrases w... ...e of the young man in the stern. As a last resource, her spirited but soft blue eyes sought refuge in the water. Just at this moment a dull, heavy sou... ...its motion by the increased force of the current. At that moment Cap would cheerfully have re- nounced every claim to glory that could possibly be acq... ...cern cast a shade over his honest face, that struck the whole party. “What cheer, Master Pathfinder?” demanded Cap, permit- ting a voice that was usua... ...at least preventing their foes from getting the boat, that they would have cheerfully encountered even greater risks to secure their object. So all-im... ... influence of fear, yet her heart often beat quicker than common, her fine blue eye lighted with an exhibition of a resolution that was wasted in the ... ... there is no gratitude that you can ask of the daughter which she will not cheerfully repay for her father’s life.” “Ay, that is the way with all your...

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...- rior to his apparent fate, and to their relative ability. And it is most cheering to the friends of freedom, today, that evidence of this equality i... ...some day. “Never mind, honey—better day comin’,” was even then a solace, a cheering consolation to me in my troubles. Nor were all the kind words I re... ...n, most strongly impressed with the idea of being a freeman some day. This cheering assurance was an inborn dream of my human nature a con- stant mena... ..., will gash the flesh, and make the blood start. Cowskins are painted red, blue and green, and are the favorite slave whip. I think this whip worse th... ...tenance. She was, naturally, of an excellent disposition, kind, gentle and cheer- ful. The supercilious contempt for the rights and feelings of the sl... ... the Lord for it, in faith, AND HE WILL GIVE IT TO YOU.” Thus assured, and cheered on, under the inspiration of 111 Frederick Douglas hope, I worked ... ...ivers. In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky, her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, he... ...ic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Is...

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...d, in his own idea, desecrate the word by doing so. His home is across the blue waters, in the little northern island, which perhaps he may visit no m... ... at San Jose, Mrs. Arkwright had lost all that appearance of joy which had cheered up her sweet face during the last few months. Terror at that terrib... ...y, you do not know.” “I do know that it is very bad, my girl, but you must cheer up. We shall be laughing at all this in a month’s time.” On the follo... ...as he, with a huge shaggy beard, and shaggy uncombed hair, but with bright blue eyes, which gave to his face a remarkable look of sweetness. He was an...

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... Scot who was then sick apparently unto death, and whom you did so much to cheer and keep in good behaviour. You may remember that he was full of ambi... ...ow shone more fairly on the pool; and over its brown, welling surface, the blue of heaven and the golden green of the spring foliage danced in fleetin... ...troops marching in the hot dust; and he was recognised and somewhat feebly cheered as he rode by. But from that time forth and for a long while he was... ... there he paused, oppressed with guilt. ‘For God’s sake, what?’ asked Otto cheerfully. ‘For God’s sake let us have cheaper corn, say I. Good-night!’ A... ...Gotthold, with pursed lips, silently nodded. ‘Well, come, you are not very cheering as to my conduct as the Prince; have I even done my duty as a husb... ... are plentifully bilious; he has a satur- nine eye; his cheek is of a dark blue where he has been shaven. Essentially he is to be numbered among the m... ...mounted on every side; the Flag Tower climbed, stage after stage, into the blue; and high over all, among the building daws, the yellow flag wavered i... ...nd, beyond that, upon the palace roof, and the yellow banner flying in the blue. I pray you to be seated, sir,’ said Otto. Sir John complied without a... ... cat-like attitude, high-shouldered, stooping, and submiss. The formidable blue jowl of the man, and the dull bilious eye, set perhaps a higher value ...

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... the women glit- tered in the sunshire, and their well-made sabots clicked cheerfully on the hard, clean roads. Touraine is a land of old chateaux,—a ... ...Loire, it presents a bright, clean face to the sun, and has that aspect of cheerful leisure which belongs to all white towns that reflect, them- selve... ... win- dows are all aglow with color. They have been repainted with red and blue, relieved with gold figures; and each of them looks more like the roya... ...ay of removing the im- pression. You may treat yourself at Blois to a very cheer- ful afterpiece. There is a charming industry practised there, and pr... ...p, the pinnacles and gables, the enormous chimneys, soared into the bright blue air. The place was empty and silent; shadows of gargoyles, of extraord... ...- less soil, all of it, I believe, but lately much amended by the magic of cheerful French industry and thrift. The light had already begun to fade, a... ...n, in honor of the occa- sion, a new blouse of extraordinary stiffness and blue- ness. We hired the trap of an energetic woman who put it “to” with he... ...dow, on my right, at the distant Cevennes, covered with tones of amber and blue, and, all around, at vineyards red with the touch of October. The grap... ... without visible movement, filling a small natural basin with the stillest blue water. The contrast between the stillness of this basin and the agitat...

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... by it bases her assumption of supe- riority on feelings scorned; she is a blue-stocking of senti- ment; and she is rather less of a bore, love to som... ...1825, pretty Madame de la Baudraye was first seen walking on the Mall in a blue velvet dress, with her mother in black velvet, there was quite an exci... ... stockings, and a white waistcoat till 1824. After his marriage he adopted blue trousers and boots with heels, which made Sancerre declare that he had... ...nd a black stock that accentuated his cold stingy face, lighted up by gray-blue eyes as keen and passionless as a cat’s. Being very gentle, as men are... ...ation or the improvement of convict pris- ons, he would take up his little blue cap and vanish without a sound, in the certainty of being able to get ... ... Madame de la Baudraye, who made them a set speech of thanks for coming to cheer the mo- notony of her days. Dinah walked her guests round and round t... ... army. In spite of the splendor of the affair, the Spaniards were not very cheerful; their la- dies hardly danced at all, and most of the company sat ... ... of the evening, Etienne was in the most delightful spirits, inexhaustibly cheerful; but while thus giving vent to his intoxication, he now and then f...

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...a little tanned, but with a face that glimmered and gleamed with quick and cheerful expressions; a slender form, not very large, with a quick grace in... ...Providence, Septimius?” asked Rose, a feeling of solemnity coming over her cheerful and 11 Hawthorne buoyant nature. Then she burst out a laughing. “... ...ng a little from its su perfluity, could not but confess an enjoyment and cheerful ness in this flood of morning light that came aslant the hill si... ...f the sky, with heaven’s blessing on it, and bade the afflicted be of good cheer, and believe in immortality. Septimius remembered the young man’s inj... ...st have arrived either of defeat or victory, from messengers or fliers, to cheer or sadden the old men, the women, and the children, who alone perhaps... ...the anemone; violets are plentiful in spring, and make the whole hill side blue. But this hill top, with its soil strewn over a heap of pebble stones,... ... he had grown up familiarly. He had on the Revolutionary dress of buff and blue, with decorations that to the initiated eye denoted him an officer, an... ...oo, gradually, being now a rich purple, now a crimson, now a violet, now a blue; going through all these prismatic colors without losing any of its br...

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...all right, I suppose?—Ellie said I might come,” he ex- plained in a shrill cheerful voice; “and I’m to have my same green room with the parrot-panels,... ...dden tears, brimming over Ellie’s lovely eyes, and threatening to make the blue circles below them run into the adjoining carmine, filled Susy with co... ...w back as though the leap of her tell-tale heart might have penetrated the blue flannel shoulder against which she leaned. “Really, dearest—!” she mur... ...ed were of two kinds: visions of flee- ing landscapes, looming up from the blue sea to vanish into it again, and visions of study absorbed from the vo... ...authoritative way. W atching the arrogant lines of her profile against the blue sea, he remembered, with a thrill that was sweet to his vanity, how tw... ... Susy remembered what she had seen through the circle of Nick’s kiss: that blue illimitable distance which was at once the landscape at their feet and... ...suppose you’re out of a job this evening by any chance, and would come and cheer up a lone bachelor, eh? No? Y ou are? 154 The Glimpses of the Moon W... ...’s reached, I wonder? I saw her and V anderlyn and Bockheimer all lunching cheerfully together to-day at Larue’s.” The blood rushed to Susy’s forehead... ...o. That evening after the children had gone to bed Susy sat up late in the cheerless sitting-room. She was not thinking of Strefford but of Nick. He w...

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...d lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or otherwise posting her book. Mrs Vene... ...Why then I—might lose it.’ 41 Charles Dickens ‘Well!’ observed R. Wilfer, cheerfully, ‘money and goods are certainly the best of references.’ ‘Do you... ...ower and there presented him to Mrs Boffin:—a stout lady of a rubicund and cheerful aspect, dressed (to Mr W egg’ s con- sternation) in a low evening-... ... mellering to the organ.’ Mr Wegg did not say what organ, but spoke with a cheerful generality . So, the pie was brought down, and the worthy Mr Boffi... ...ok- case of Law Practice and Law Reports, and at a window, and at an empty blue bag, and at a stick of sealing-wax, and a pen, and a box of wafers, an... ...hbours is welcome to see you for nothing.’ ‘But it don’t answer,’ said the cheerfial Mrs Boffin. ‘When we worked like the neighbours, we suited one an... ...our house in the light of her home equally with this. In short, we want to cheer your daughter, and to give her the opportunity of sharing such pleasu... ...his shy childish manner, he was looking furtively at Mrs Boffin out of his blue eyes, and reaching his fat dimpled hand up to the lips of the old woma... ...n tucked in and lips pouting, re- clined in Betty’s lap, concentrating his blue eyes on the visi- tors and shading them from observation with a dimple...

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... valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ?Pipe a song about a Lamb!? So I piped with merry cheer. ?Piper, pipe that song again;? So I piped: he wept to hear....

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...laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a Lamb! So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again; So I piped: he wept to hear. Dr... ... wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer:! So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Pi... ...ark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bells cheerful sound; While our sports shall be seen On the echoing Green. Old... ...eir innocent faces clean, Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green: Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as...

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...nd with a feign’d resignation, Life beams not for us with one ray that can cheer; Love and hope upon earth bring no more consolation, In the grave... ...owers, Fair didst thou shine upon my earlier hours! I hail’d with smiles the cheering rays of Morn, My breast by no tumultuous Passion torn— Now hatef... ...tter days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The sil... ... and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest wh... ...er days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The s...

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...ar night the damosel rode with him to his castle, and there they had great cheer, and at supper the knight sat Sir Beaumains afore the damosel. Fie, f... ... sideboard, and set himself afore him, and so all that night they had good cheer and merry rest. CHAPTER VI How Beaumains fought and slew two knights ... ...there all night. So the damosel then granted him, and there they had merry cheer. But always the damosel spake many foul words unto Beaumains, whereof... ...o unto the knight’s bed, and lie down by his side, and make him no strange cheer, but good cheer, and take him in thine arms and kiss him, and look th... ...ke wise he served the Red Knight, and after in the same wise he served the Blue Knight and won him in plain battle. Then, said the lady, he hath overc... ...ight and other two more, and won the Green Knight, the Red Knight, and the Blue Knight. Then is he one of these four that I have afore rehearsed. He i... ... him to King Arthur, and three score knights with him. Also there came the Blue Knight, brother to them, with an hundred knights, and yielded them unt... ...ght’s name was Pertolepe, and the Red Knight’s name was Perimones, and the Blue Knight’s name was Sir Persant of Inde. These three brethren told King ... ...urn to red, and that is red it will turn in likeness to green, and that is blue it will turn to likeness of white, and that is white it will turn in l...

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...ome- times, he saw the man upon the bed, by a red light; some- times, by a blue; sometimes, he scarcely saw him in the dark- ness of the storm; someti... ...f fair wind and weather; further, in a general way requesting to know what cheer? and scrambling up on his two wooden legs to salute, hat in hand, 41... ...his thin white hair flowed free, as if she had once more launched him into blue water again. ‘Y ou are a charm- ing old pensioner,’ said Bella, ‘and I... ...rangement. By all means!’ Assuming, with a shiver of resignation, a deadly cheerfulness. But, here the Irrepressible skirmished into the conflict, dra... ...o their starting-place from London, for Greenwich. At first they were very cheerful and talked much; but after a while, Bella fancied that her husband... ... the most endearing creature that could possibly be. ‘ And you have such a cheerful spirit!’ he said, fondly. ‘You are like a bright light in the hous... ...ich the tones of red and yellow were flickering out, in favour of the calm blue of a summer night. He was still by the river- side. T urning suddenly ... ... meaning, young man, which is Greek to me.— You must have another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear.’ Having addressed the last remark to her fa... ...lient, Miss 90 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 4 Wren proceeded to snip at some blue fragments that lay be- fore her, among fragments of all colours, and t...

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...e- times for months together, had been since morning plain and near in the blue sky. And now, when it was dark below, though they seemed solemnly to r... ... this way in the winter or can have any possible business this way?’ ‘Holy blue! No; never heard of it.’ ‘So it is, I believe. And as they know the si... ...mense white heaps and masses, to be a region of cloud floating between the blue sky above and the earth far below. Some dark specks in the snow, like ... ..., but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright ... ...ouse-front of window, a prospect of beautiful church-domes rising into the blue sky sheer out of the water which reflected them, and a hushed murmur o... ...nalties attached to it, and soberly worked on for the work’s sake. Clennam cheering him with a hearty co-operation, was a moral support to him, beside... ... might carry conviction even to the perversest mind (Derisive laughter and cheering from the Bar- nacle fry), that within the short compass of the las... ...rt compass of the last financial half-year, this much-maligned Department (Cheers) had writ- ten and received fifteen thousand letters (Loud cheers), ... ...nd letters (Loud cheers), had written twenty-four thousand minutes (Louder cheers), and thirty-two thousand five hundred and seventeen memoranda (V eh...

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...to ‘Master Arthur’ that the young lady looked well and happy, or some such cheerful intelligence. I dare say he wanted to be forgotten, but I shouldn’... ...e. I dare say he wanted to be forgotten, but I shouldn’t think he was much cheered by the news. What would you say?” Renouard, his legs stretched out ... ...adland and appeared suddenly to those below, a white speck elevated in the blue, with a diminutive but statuesque effect. Felicia Moorsom remained nea... ...with this perfect society intonation, and by the puzzled profundity of his blue eyes fluttered the wax-flower of refined womanhood. She continued. “Fo... ... voice, mean- ing to pass on; but there was such a look of entreaty in the blue gleam of his sunken eyes that after an imperceptible hesitation she la... ...desk, so that Cloete feels sorry for him. But altogether Cloete feels more cheerful because he has shaken the ghost a bit into that Stafford. That ver... ...host a bit into that Stafford. That very after- noon he buys him a suit of blue clothes, and tells him that he will have to turn to and work for his l... ...deadly miserable that at last poor Mrs. Harry tries to comfort him, and so cheers herself up at the same time by talking about how her Harry is a prud... ...hrowing up your cap, man. I feel as if I wanted to stand in the street and cheer. Your brother is safe, the ship is lost, and we are made men. “Are yo...