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...and were sitting next to the fireplace. Brand looked out of the window and saw a cadre of gardeners bundled up protecting them from a chilled wind. ... ...e contrary. Before he expired he divulged the time and place of the Russian, Chinese, and American meeting. Anna handed him a note. Brand looked at... ... open. I know that it’s no consolation, but your husband deserves a medal, he was a great American.” “And is that what they’ll say when you turn up ... ... into an office with military mementos, plagues, and medals hanging on the walls, plus an American flag standing behind his desk. The General offe... ... The remaining Generals each selected a bottle from the tray, while Zlatamir and the two Americans waited courteously until they were finished, and ... ...ieve that everyone is safe. He would never go public with an attempt on his life.” “You Americans are stupid and arrogant, and above all careless.”...

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... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...n waiting patiently in the Square, that the newly elected Pope was an unknown American Cardinal; the mostly Italian crowd stared at each other in di... ...n it was later discovered that Pope Francis was not only a recently appointed American Cardinal, but that he was of Jewish decent who had been adopte... ...ng the biggest and most colorful Koi fish Antonio had ever seen. A host of gardeners, dressed in ancient kimonos, diligently, trimmed and shaped ...

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...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. I recommend linking ... ...re is 10% and in Ireland – 3%. In each 5-year period only 25% of low paid Americans are in a poor family at some point (the figure is 10% in the UK)... ...fits through the Employment Bureau. This is much like the very successful American and British schemes of “Welfare to Work”. We will link the siz... ..., insists the OECD. "The Economist" quotes these figures (in 1998): "In American households with less than half the median household income, only ... ...hand, have well-paid partners, or affluent parents ... Only 33% of those Americans who earn less than two-thirds of the median wage live in familie... ...ety of professions: carpenters and tailors, electricians and farm hands, gardeners and teachers. A computerized centre was set up. Each unemployed ...

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...were manual, and semi-skilled jobs, the jobs two generations of Europeans and Americans have shunned. President Obamas New Deal, is big Government,... ...eem demeaning, because they go against the conventional belief system of the American dream. These changes mean we own less, recycle more, travel mo... ...ack locally. To do this, these industries have to be protected, because no American or European Industry can compete in price, or quality with th... ...t, boosted Government revenues, and started a mini-boom in Liqueur Stores, as Americans started to legally drink away depression blues. A lot has ... ...llout of the economic crisis, may decide Charity does begin at home. When American Food Banks cannot supply enough hungry families and queues ar... ...nd reconsidering were they can find new markets, to a new generation of home gardeners. 75 The Benefits of Thrift Are you battling ...

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...urses aids in the homes for the aged. There were jobs as housekeepers and gardeners. There were jobs making up the rooms in hotels and working in fa... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...esearch are somehow against the will of God. Also, the quick profits that American companies usually seek is not a factor in the minds of the Orienta... ...aying them pensions. ” —“I‟ve seen the statistics on European and American workers between the ages of 50 and 70. At 50 about 90% of men wer...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ... light. Near the fountain men were planting young columnar cypress. Other gardeners were spading paths be- cause the King was re-landscaping. Someone... ...d manor house, he was enthusiastic about living in the country...when the gardeners’ pet fawn ate out of his hand, he turned to me: “I find the cit... ...y bed I have loneliness as mate. I patronize no one. One of the château gardeners, a Venetian, who has been very friendly with me, has presented m... ...ach me in the gardens; we pass the time of day. I get along best with the gardeners because there are new plants and flowers to examine and sketch. ... ...hildren, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Which the most important? We Americans expropri- ate, accomplish, destroy. The rough rock becomes polish... ...the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West A...

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...rrounding lawns made Snakelex cringe; neat and trimmed spelt enthusiastic gardeners. A mixture of native and European trees towered the once stately... ...ee if it was on. “Good morning sisters and brothers!” John Carter’s strong American accent shook the foundation, rocked the pews and set a new trend ... ...n Carter went on and on and on about his hometown and how charismatic the American churches had become. He gave a run down on Christian activities, ... ... a buzz of new gossip, lent itself as a venue for Christian ridicule. The American couple became the flavour of Morris’s bad taste in humour. He amu...

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... great livery-stableman’s most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want ... ...ort himself who trained the servants, taught the chef new dishes, told the gardeners what hot-house flow- ers to grow for the dinner-table and the dra... ...nch fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the ... ...n Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ou... ...he words “To meet the Countess Olenska,” in accordance with the hospitable American fash- ion, which treats strangers as if they were royalties, or at... ... Medora’s many peculiarities to flout the unalterable rules that regulated American mourning, and when she stepped from the steamer her family were sc...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh... ...ring heads of men blocked the doorway in an instant—mozos from the stable, gardeners, nonde- script helpers living on the crumbs of the munifi- cent h... .... A triple row of old orange trees surrounded the whole. Barefooted, brown gardeners, in snowy white shirts and wide calzoneras, dotted the grounds, s... ...me time the house had been full of murmurs, of agitation. Suddenly the two gardeners, busy with rose trees at the side of the garden arch, fell upon t...

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... good news. Nothing had been heard. It only appeared that one of the young gardeners at Carrara had taken Captain Henderson’s boat without leave, to f... ... he ran down to recover it, but it was gone, and he had concluded that the gardeners had put it into the boathouse. It now appeared that they had not ... ...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am... ...th the resolute fortitude and unselfishness generally shown by English and Americans in the like circumstances. The sea was not in a dangerous state, ...

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...h due allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted of a shabby surtout coat, American-green in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a black wai... ... cost him nothing to oblige me. It concerns a claim I wish to press on the American government. I should be glad to obtain information about Monsieur ... ... cost of the estate, but the manure of the stables was used by the count’s gardeners. All these little stealings had some osten- sible excuse. Madame ... ... excuse. Madame Moreau had taken into her service a daughter of one of the gardeners, who was first her maid and afterwards her cook. The poultry-game... ...ed orders of the count were executed. All the household, together with the gardeners and the con- cierge and his wife, were going and coming in a conf...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...od for you; you keep to that. There’s no better motto in the world for the American man of business.’ He shook my hand when he said it, and I haven’t ... ...meat or potatoes, as it is with us. The only way to do so that neither the American farmer nor the European peasant suffers, is to keep wheat at an av... ...reat place had been given over to contractors, architects, decorators, and gardeners, and Laura and her husband had lived, while in Chicago, at a hote... ...n the first months of their occupancy of the new establishment. One of the gardeners discovered the fact that Jadwin affected gardenias in the lapel o... ...till; a blue haze shrouded the distant masses of leafless trees, where the gardeners were burning the heaps of leaves. Under her the thoroughbred move... ...idly in the rear. Throughout all her ride she had seen no one but the park gardeners and the single grey-coated, mounted policeman whom she met each t...

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...letter told Marie that he had been ap- pointed Captain in the navy of some American republic, and exhorted him to hope for better days. Alas! since th... ...y, against a background of shrubbery. Another building serves to lodge the gardeners and masks the entrance to the orchards and kitchen-gardens. The e... ...e—those splendid trees for which your new civil list has so well cared. My gardeners have orders to culti- vate new sweet-scented flowers to any exten... ...e shade of our green dividing wall. My servants—cook, coachman, groom, and gardeners, in 174 Letters of Two Brides addition to my maid—are all very r... ...ly that it will be their own fault if there is a change for the worse. The gardeners are allowed to sell the surplus of our fruits and vegetables. The...

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...have congratulated you on the friend’s capture. A gold- finch of the South American breed is a rare bird.’ Theodora drew up her head, and impetuously ... ...R 4 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4 They read botanic treatises And works of gardeners through there, And methods of transplanting trees To look as if t... ..., adorned with sparkling jets d’eau of fantastic forms, gorgeous masses of American plants, the flaming or the snowy azalea, and the noble rhododendro... ...fice of poetry to gild nature by breathing a soul into her. It is what the Americans are trying to do for their new world, still turning to England as...

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... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...made her a happy husband would be invited down to enjoy the three footmen, gardeners, and carriages at 143 Thackeray Molloyville, yet no English gent... ...esenting Lady Gammon and Jemima in a fantastical park, surrounded by three gardeners, three carriages, three footmen, and the covered cyar. He would h...

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...nd nipped violets in nooks, in copses, in cosy corners, tended by rosy old gardeners in mufflers, who were always touch- ing their hats and bobbing ob... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ...n the mornin’ and pick roses outside the window with one’s toes.” “And the gardeners, weren’t they surprised?” Mrs. Thornbury enquired. “There were no... ...ardeners, weren’t they surprised?” Mrs. Thornbury enquired. “There were no gardeners,” Mrs. Flushing chuckled. “No- body but me and an old woman witho... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...s park far into the country for the purpose, as he averred, of getting his gardeners out of his pockets; and so, when the Chalet was finished, none bu... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...e heart by Modeste’s words. “Good-bye, wife,” said the Breton, kissing the American. “Take care of the mother; I go to save the daughter.” He made his... ... these fluctuations were carefully remarked and commented on by the gentle American, and the excellent Madame Latournelle, and they formed the topic o...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ...ve to get up a little too early in the morning, to compete with the market gardeners round Boston.” It struck me as rather odd, that one of the first ... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s...

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...en ers; and of the crowning banquet before his departure, when the market gardeners rose as one man, clinked their glasses all together (as the custo... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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...ss ferrule, and a gardener and sub gardener with meek faces, to whom (the gardeners, not the stick) Captain Boldwig gave his orders with all due gran... ... been asleep half an hour when little Captain Boldwig, followed by the two gardeners, came strid ing along as fast as his size and importance would l... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...