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...and so on until the ingot, going from hand to hand, was transferred to the end of a dark entry; nor did it return to its place for half an hour. Meanw... ...ster and man then descended, the street-door was double-locked, and at the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross. The ... ...ed that his departure from Lon- don would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and af- forde... ...at his departure from Lon- don would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and af- forded an ... ... The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steamers is ... ... to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north- west, and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little, the l... ...or they are sold on all the American trains. And as for partners, if madam plays—” “Certainly, sir,” Aouda quickly replied; “I understand whist. It is... ...an?” cried the colonel; “it’s you who are going to play a spade!” “And who plays it,” replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing down the ten of spades. “W...

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...perstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story — that is to say, thirty or forty years ... ...t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my good ness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what’s coming? He ‘... ...and white and make no sign — a poor little sufferer, whose griefs were at an end. He so worked upon his feelings with the pathos of these dreams, tha... ...water, which over flowed when he winked, and ran down and trickled from the end of his nose. And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows... ...on on the Mount, be cause he could find no verses that were shorter. At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no mo... ...ugh” Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that — though where the West ern boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possi bly be c... ...he warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, bristling with feat...

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...hat is being made about negroes? What does it amount to? And where will it end?” These questions imply that those who ask them consider the slavery qu... ...was initi- ated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation... ...s ini- tiated with the avowed object and confident promise of put- ting an end to slavery agitation. On the fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas... ...w Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance of 1787,... ..., that barrier. Come down again to our State of Illinois. The great North- west T erritory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin... ... better remain in Chicago, with such a chance for copartnership. If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas, to Leavenworth or Atchison. Both of the... ...setts, and I beg of you to express my hearty thanks to the donors. It dis- plays a perfection of workmanship which I really wish I had time to acknowl...

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...ngeness was fifteen miles away; it lay like a raft on the sea, and farther westward were the hills by Hastings under the setting sun. Sometimes they h... ..., sir—per- fectly justified. Indeed, I am indebted to you. The thing shall end. And now, sir, I have already brought you farther than I should have do... ...ust the mood for reckless adventure—with a chance of something good at the end of it. I had quite settled in my mind that I was to have half at least ... ...ed, was unpaid for, insured, and altogether devoid of associations. In the end I decided to keep on with him, and see the business through. Certainly ... ...And in the sky a faint new crescent, blue and vague as a distant Alp, sank westward over the sun. The next day I returned to Cavor. “I am coming,” I s... ...at the world was a globe. The land below us was in twilight and vague, but westward the vast gray stretches of the Atlantic shone like molten silver u... ...nisation, in its structure, and more particularly in the fact that it dis- plays, in addition to the two forms, the male and the female form, that alm...

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...867, 1883; Smoke: or, Life at Baden, from French version, 1868, by W . F . West, 1872, 1883; Liza: or, a Nest of Nobles, from the Russian, by W. R. S.... ...operty. He had made a moderate fortune, but had taken to drink towards the end of his life and had left nothing after his death. Y oung Paklin, he was... ...ul cloth coat with a gorgeous beaver col- lar, although it was already the end of April. He impressed Nejdanov and Paklin, and even Mashurina and Ostr... ...ome neighbour separating her from Kolia. Soon after this dinner came to an end. The company went out on the terrace to drink coffee. Sipiagin and Koll... ...eclared that without the utmost caution it was dangerous. He turned to the West with hope, then became doubtful; he turned to the East, first sighed, ... ...ce at Sipiagin made him realise that he had been playing with him as a cat plays with a mouse. “I must say, your excellency,” the unfortunate Paklin s... ...archus, rings his praises. ‘Here is something,’ he declares, ‘quite unlike Western art! ‘ Then he raves about our insignificant painters too! ‘At one ...

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...e last post-house), I had seen the long valley of Aigues, at the far- ther end of which the mail road turns to follow a straight line into the little ... ...es Aigues owes it), seems to me none the less beau- tiful for that. At the end of each ha-ha the walls of the park, built of rough-hewn stone, begin. ... ...dral, the choir being formed of the main building of the house seen at the end of it. When the setting sun casts its orange tones mingled with amber u... ...gentleman goes to see the sources of the Avonne he sells him the otter; he plays the trick so well that Mon- sieur le comte has been here three times ... ... which Mam Tonsard reproached her father is a rather costly beverage which plays a great part in the life of the peasantry, and is made by all grocers... ...ves and not them- selves to the law. Whoever has travelled in the south or west of France, or in Alsace, in any other way than from inn to inn to see ... ...!” “The general!” cried Madame Vermut, “he won’t interfere with things; he plays his part.” “What part, my dear?” asked Madame Soudry. “Oh! the patern...

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...e or verse, plodding or soaring, philosophy’s elect handmaiden. To such an end let us bend our aim to work, knowing that every form of labour, even th... ... are when they’re well treated. The fine old warrior standing at the upper end of the long saloon, tall, straight, grey-haired, martial in his aspect ... ...I heard what they say of Irish girls over there? She marries, and it’s the end of her sparkling. She must choose at home for a perfect harmonious part... ...he hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the showery night, gives distantly a tower to view, and a... ...melt icicles in Greenland. He walked unthinkingly, right ahead, to the red West, as he discovered when pausing to consult his watch. Time was left to ... ...n been at home she would have despatched him to The Crossways at once. The West wind blew, and gave her a view of the Downs beyond the Weald from her ... ...ople must be at some harlequinade.’ ‘But it is very shocking. And he?’ ‘He plays last and loose, warm and cold. I’m ready to settle twenty times a nob... ...eding: ‘She’s the Arabian Nights in person, that’s sure; and Shakespeare’s Plays, tragic and comic; and the Book of Celtic History; and Erin incarnate... ... to the amorous idler: and when, in addition, being the guilty person, she plays the injured, her show of temper on the taking face pitches him into p...

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...s—the man! To which initial fact (among others) we shall come again in the end. II II II II II BUT ENOUGH OF THESE REVELATIONS. The central figure of ... ...the morning sunlight was like amber fire. At the cross-roads at the top of West Hill, where the cattle trough stands, he turned towards Kingston and s... ...ff at once and pretend something was wrong with his treadle ? Yet even the end of getting off was an uncertainty. That last occasion on Putney Heath! ... ... might ride at one’s ease (overlooking a jolt or so), and far away, at the end of it all,—the sea. What mattered a fly or so in the dawn of these deli... ... a romancer, and saying instead that he was a playwright and acted his own plays. He was not only the sole performer, but the entire audience, and the... ...st in the throat of the town cobbles and the stony streets branching east, west, north, and south, at a stone cross under the shadow of the cathedral ... ...saw that they were already out of Bognor—for the Vicuna stands at the very westernmost extremity of the sea front—and riding on a fair wide road. 73 ...

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...-three years of age; and the honest fellow obeying, carried her off to the West Indies, to preside over the ladies of the —th regi- ment, into which h... ...e and living, and the pur- suits of pleasure, especially, went on as if no end were to be 23 Thackeray expected to them, and no enemy in front. When ... ... brilliant sunset, and one of the brightest and most beautiful days at the end of May. CHAPTER XXIX Brussels MR. JOS HAD HIRED A PAIR OF HORSES for hi... ... which sent that unfortunate Dobbin shrieking out of the box again. At the end of the act, George was out of the box in a mo- ment, and he was even go... ...e could have said it was a crack cavalry corps. “Come home lately from the West Indies, I believe. Not seen much service in the late war. Quartered he... ...e, we owe that beau- tiful poem Lead us to some sunny isle, Y onder in the western deep; Where the skies for ever smile, And the blacks for ever weep,... ...ither through his own experience or through some acquaintance with whom he plays at billiards or shares the joint, something about the gen- teel world... ...mpers and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain. The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great ...

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...wledge of it, and of him, to England, and through England to the dis- tant West:” a work on Professor Teufelsdrockh “were un- doubtedly welcome to the... ... three; another came to view in the Schlafgemach (bedroom) at the opposite end; to say nothing of the kitchen, which offered two, as it were, duplicat... ...-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to the low... ...c and historic, when he reaches the Middle Ages in Europe, and down to the end of the Seventeenth Century; the true era of extravagance in Costume. It... ...porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, have I, looking at the distant western Mountains, consumed, not without relish, my evening meal. Those hue... ...ritual things): Any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I... ...py he for whom a kind heav- enly Sun brightens it into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismatic diffractions; yet ever, as basis an... ...thy serene soli- tude; stately, massive, all of granite; glittering in the west- ern sunbeams, like a palace of El Dorado, overlaid with precious meta... ...r mind thereof’! Gaze thou in the face of thy Brother, in those eyes where plays the lambent fire of Kindness, or in those where rages the lurid confl...

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...xperience of some sort.’ ‘Not really,’ said Ursula. ‘More likely to be the end of ex- perience.’ Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this. ‘Of course,... ... said coldly. ‘Yes,’ wavered Ursula; and the conversation was really at an end. The sisters found themselves confronted by a void, a terrifying chasm,... ...men, their arms folded over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at the end of their block, stared after the Brangwen sisters with that long, unwea... ...ning of the catkins. A heavy, copper-coloured beam of light came in at the west window, gilding the outlines of the children’s heads with red gold, an... ...on and ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the carved negroes looked almost like ... .... ‘Why should love be a bond? No, I’m not having any.’ ‘If you are walking westward,’ he said, ‘you forfeit the north- ern and eastward and southern d... ... not interest me. I could play Dona Juanita a million times better than he plays Juan. He bores me, you know. His maleness bores me. Nothing is so bor...

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...hose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chem... ...us, the employment agencies of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Trail- ing at the end of the line Carol was indignant at the prodding curiosity of the others... ...s about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which... ...nce, and fishing in Ontario. She went home, and that was the beginning and end of her Bohemian life. The second cousin of Carol’s sister’s husband liv... ...es a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays “Marching through Georgia” till every head in the car begins to ache.... ...were Dr. Will Kennicott and his bride, Carol. They had been married at the end of a year of conversa- 24 Main Street tional courtship, and they were ... ...alked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washi... ...d to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be Annie Oakley, the Wild Western Wampire, and I bought oh! a vociferous skirt which revealed my perf... ...rking el- bow was a grunt embodied. She persisted: “Do you get to see many plays, Mr. Wutherspoon?” He shone at her like a dim blue March moon, and si...

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...gth, that he could strike it with ease through the panel of a door, or the end of a barrel. His laugh is said to have been quite horrible; and his scr... ...judge of public opinion, I got off my subject by hastening the story to an end, as fast as it was possible; and, by huddling into one volume, a tale w... ...’s but daft nonsense after a’—I dinna believe a word o’t frae beginning to end.” “Your father believed it unco stievely, though,” said the old man, to... ...yle’s landing, but that I cannot speak to sae preceesely—it was far in the west.—O, bairns, he’s never permitted but in an ill time, sae mind ilka ane... ...thought of penning their cattle be- neath the tower when the Red Reiver of Westburnflat was deemed to be on his death-bed?—My draughts, my skill, 44 ... ...find Renaults and Bedamars enow.” “How call you talk so wildly, Lucy? Your plays and ro- mances have positively turned your brain. You know, that, ind... ...? It’s born with me— lies in my very blude and bane. Why, man, the lads of Westburnflat, for ten lang descents, have been reivers and lifters. They ha...

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...lders that served to prove how huge a beast he had killed; and to the same end Theseus carried about him this club; overcome in- 10 V olume One deed ... ... east side the inscription is,— Peloponnesus there, Ionia here, and on the west side,— Peloponnesus here, Ionia there. He also instituted the games, i... ...r fortunate in their events, which yet were never represented in the Greek plays. For he is said to have carried off Anaxo, a T roezenian, and, having... ... filled all Attica with war and blood, 27 Plutarch’s Lives and was in the end the occasion of his banishment and death, as will presently be related.... ...rithous was desirous to make a trial and proof. of it himself, and to this end seized a herd of oxen which belonged to Theseus, and was driving them a... ... Those heroes that in fair Asopia rest, All buried with their faces to the west, Go and appease with offerings of the best; and that Solon, sailing by... ...ian; for the Megarians turn the corpse to the east, the Athe- nians to the west. But Hereas the Megarian denies this, and affirms that they likewise t... ... by the most intimate friends, when playing on the flute. Besides, one who plays on the harp may speak or sing at the same time; but the use of the fl... ...” said he, “must we give up fight- ing with this geometrical Briareus, who plays pitch and toss with our ships, and, with the multitude of darts which...

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...he six-and- thirty hours of recreation that are happily to be found at the end of every week. There was Mr. Balls, the great grocer of South Audley St... ...op in Bond Street, stand, as is very well known, the Windsor Chambers. The West 8 Men’s Wives Diddlesex Association (W estern Branch), the British an... ...senting a packet of the soap to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and the West Diddlesex Western Branch on the base- ment)—lives a gentleman by the n... ...e gas is lighted, and the washballs are illuminated, and the lambent flame plays fitfully over numberless bottles of vari-coloured per- 10 Men’s Wive... .... Eglantine!” And with this mamma, who was in her attitude, holding up the end of her boa as a visionary tambourine, and Mr. Walker, who was looking a... ... quite still, now he would double, and now he would run, and then came the end. He knew, by his sure in- stinct of fear, that the Captain had, in aski... ...ter the ceremony, came tripping back to her parents, as young people do in plays, and said, “Forgive me, dear Pa and Ma, I’m mar- ried, and here is my... ...im. Buckle knew this, but respected him; never called him up to read Greek plays; passed over all his blunders, which were many; let him go out of hal... ...ner, beginning, “Doctor, ye racklackt Sandy M’Lellan, who joined us in the West Indies. Wal, sir,” etc. These and little Cutler made up the party. Now...

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...s. If he owned one half of the general dog, it would be so; if he owned one end of the dog and another person owned the other end, it would be so, ju... ...og, there ain’t any man that can tell whose half it was; but if he owned one end of the dog, maybe he could kill his end of it and—” “No, he couldn’t ... ...d—” “No, he couldn’t either; he couldn’t and not be responsible if the other end died, which it would. In my opinion that man ain’t in his right mind... ... trifle of money when he arrived, and he bought a small house on the extreme western verge of the town. Between it and Judge Driscoll’s house there wa... ...as at work over a set of tangled account books in his workroom, which looked westward over a stretch of vacant lots, when a conversation outside distu... ...be thereby moved to deeds of gentleness and humanity himself. CHAPTER 3 Roxy Plays a Shrewd T rick Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life... ..., the best dressed, the most distinguished looking pair of young fellows the West had ever seen. One was a little fairer than the other, but otherwise...

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...—the ladies were scaling society by the help of the Arts. To this laudable end sacrifices were now made to Euterpe to assist them. As mere daughters o... ...ether, and promise to com- bine them at the piano when breakfast was at an end, though it was Sunday morning, were exasperating to the exquisite lover... ...er has, you never heard. You feel yourself from top to toe, when my father plays. I feel as if I breathed music like air. One day came news from Italy... ...st; and I was obliged to keep it, though I would much rather not. Near the end of the park he left me.” 36 Sandra Belloni At this point Wilfrid rouse... ...ts and went into the grounds together, for no particular purpose. Near the West copse they beheld Mr. Pole with Wilfrid and Emilia talking to a strang... ...lia ran up to them crying: “This is Mr. Purcell Barrett, the gentleman who plays the organ at church. I met him in the woods be- fore I knew you. I pl... ...ope you don’t think I keep a man! No; no; not in the country. Wouldn’t do. Plays the deuce, you know. My opinion is, Mrs. Mallow’s as clever as any ma... ...ure silver: silver on the grass, on the leafage, on the waters. And in the West, facing it, was an arch of twilight and tremulous rose; as if a spirit... ...And this,” wrote Adela, “taught me that he was well pleased to abandon the West for the East. Lady C. favoured him with a look such as I could not hav...

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...ever failed to interest him. It was one of those cross streets peculiar to Western cities, situated in the heart of the residence quarter, but occupie... ...of ice, and china pigs and cows knee deep in layers of white beans. At one end of the street McTeague could see the huge power-house of the cable line... ... operation he had ever per- formed. He bungled it considerably, but in the end he succeeded passably well. He extracted the loose tooth with his bayon... ...ld complain to the landlady, he would. He’d move out of the place.” In the end he had given Maria seven empty whiskey flasks, an iron grate, and ten c... ...Does she play the piano?” 51 Frank Norris “Oh, you ought to hear her. She plays fine. Selina’s very accomplished. She paints, too.” “I can play on th... ... Francisco, a blue line of hills, rugged with roofs and spires. Far to the westward opened the Golden Gate, a bleak cutting in the sand-hills, through... ...his train as far as it goes.” The freight worked slowly southward, through western Nevada, the country becoming hourly more and more desolate and aban...

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...un. I know the signs, my dear. I saw them begin in Gridley. And I saw them end. Fitz Jarndyce, my love,” speaking low again, “I saw them beginning in ... ...n he had thought me when I found some favour in his eyes, at the journey’s end. CHAPTER XXXVI Chesney Wold CHARLEY AND I DID NOT SET OFF alone up... ...?” “I shall never try. The dark road I have trodden for so many years will end where it will. I follow it alone to the end, whatever the end be. It ma... ... have no art, no disguise. If he takes me by the hand and leads me through Westminster Hall in an airy procession after fortune, I must go. If he says... ... of disorders. “This,” said Mr. Skimpole, “is my Beauty daughter, Arethusa—plays and sings odds and ends like her father. This is my Sentiment daughte... ... sings odds and ends like her father. This is my Sentiment daughter, Laura—plays a little but don’t sing. This is my Comedy daughter, Kitty—sings a li... ... many feet, many voices; with the blazing shop lights lighting him on, the west wind blowing him on, and the crowd pressing him on, he is pitilessly u... ...how any turn for any musical instrument?” Mr. Bagnet suddenly interposes, “Plays the fife. Beauti ful.” “Would you believe it, governor,” says Mr. Bu... ...ip at night in an Irish harbour within a few hours of her arrival from the West Indies, as I have myself heard both from officers and men on board, an...

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...a monied man. It was known to some few that he occupied rooms in a flat at Westminster,—but to very few exactly where the rooms were situate. Among al... ..., Ferdinand Lopez travelled into the city by the Metropolitan railway from Westminster Bridge. It was his custom to go thither when he did go,—not dai... ...as a promissory note for 750 pounds, which, if signed by him, would at the end of the specified period make him liable for that sum were it not otherw... ...ome that evening to the wife of his bosom and his little family at Ponders End, he by no means made himself agreeable to them. For that sum of 750 pou... ...n feels that more strongly than I do, Mr Wharton.’ ‘There had better be an end of it.’ ‘Even though I should be happy enough to obtain her favour?’ ‘I... ...his chamber till the usual hour. Lopez, as he returned from Lincoln’s Inn, westward to his club, was, on the whole, contented with the interview. He h... ...hould read all the more.’ ‘Very likely. But what you have read, in the old plays, for instance, must have taught you that when a man is cut about a wo...