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... and the business of the sick-room, had to go on, though the glass was 116 degrees in the shade. At the end of the third month, Riley was sinking fast... ...lmonds that crowded the verandah. Till he went Home, T ods ranked some few degrees before the Viceroy in popular esti- mation. But for the little life... ...s not so difficult as might be imagined. He was made to see, gently and by degrees, that it was obviously im- possible to court-martial the whole Regi... .... The women sat up nursing the women, and the men turned to and tended the bachelors who were down, and we wrestled with those ty- phoid cases for fif...

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...s sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, presided at his table; and they became, by degrees, an old bachelor and an ancient maiden lady, the gen- tlest and kin... ...rotracted accuracy with which the worthy Sir Everard rehearsed the various degrees of propinquity between the house of W averley-Honour and the dought... ...he poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various degrees of merit; but much of it must evaporate in translation, or be lost ... ...peculiarly English. The character of Colonel T albot dawned upon Edward by degrees; for the delay of the Highlanders in the fruitless siege of Edinbur... ...die’s mare,’ said Evan, ‘if your ladyships please; he wanted to use her by degrees to live without meat, and just as he had put her on a straw a day, ...

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... 62 Mosses from an Old Manse For my own part I freely confess that, in my bachelorship, I was precisely such an over curious simpleton as I now ad v... ... what they deem to be broken hearts—and among them many lovelorn maids and bachelors, and men of disappointed ambition in arts or politics, and the po... ...n a few idle men of fortune, tavern and grog shop loungers, lazzaroni, old bachelors, decaying 96 Mosses from an Old Manse maidens, and people of cro... ...ess for the result. The worthy magistrate who had been conversant with all degrees and qualities of mankind, could not but per 113 Hawthorne ceive e...

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...elded to the doctor than given a willing consent to the match; however, by degrees, she be- came more and more satisfied, and at last seemed perfectly... ...r for one dreadful sight to break my heart all at once than to break it by degrees?—O Billy! can anything pay me for the loss of this embrace?’—But I ... ...t no very great misfortune was the occasion of it. Miss Matthews began, by degrees, to recover her spirits. She answered, with a reserved air, “I am m... ...ging with a friend at St Edmundsbury, the air and gaiety of which place by degrees recovered her; and she returned in about a twelve-month to town, as... ...they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and per- ceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief. “The truth of ...

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...be gan to shine from the upper windows, as the neighbours went to bed. By degrees, these dwindled away and dis appeared or were replaced, here and t... ...LD MAN’S disorder was past, and he began to mend. By very slow and feeble degrees his consciousness came back; but the mind was weak ened and its fu... ... asleep again, now that he had once opened his eyes, Daniel Quilp began by degrees to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door; ... ...he roof of an old house in an old ghostly inn), and recounted by very slow degrees what had yesterday taken place between him and Quilp. Nor was it wi... ...outh, and after taking such a scientific pull at the stone bottle that, by degrees almost imper ceptible to the sight, his head went further and furt...

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...the cheerful and delicate features of her young face gradually vanished by degrees as their acquaintance ripened. When winter had killed the climbers ... ...leman’s face brightened, and seemed to renew its youth. His countenance by degrees lost the sad- ness that lent sternness to his features, and little ... ...he barbarous philoprogenitiveness of the husband. Granville, by insensible degrees, overdone with work, bereft of conjugal consolations, and weary of ...

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...father’s care! There was at first no joy in this. 16 Barchester Towers By degrees, however, her heart became anxious for an- other object, and, befor... ...iefest excuses both for themselves and their wives and daugh- ters. But by degrees policy prevailed over passion. The 79 Anthony Trollope archdeacon ... ... she was hardly successful. Her temper had been tried fear- fully. By slow degrees, the guests went. ‘Send back the carriage quick, ’ said Ethelbert, ... ...ing to Mr Harding the preferment which he had so long adorned. And then by degrees Mr Slope had introduced the subject of the pretty school which he h... ... falsehood respecting the property which John Bold had left behind him. By degrees the visitors went, and as the doctor went with them, and as the doc... ... not nice. They then branched off on the relative merits of other clerical bachelors in the vicinity, and both deter- mined without any feeling of jea... ...had been in company with a very pretty woman; and as is the case with most bachelors, and some married men, regarded the prospect of his month’s visit...

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...40 lips began to form some words, though no sound proceeded from them. By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to... ... counterpane, like a Harlequin at home. At fast, he slept heavily, but, by degrees, began to roll and surge in bed, until he rose above the surface, w... ...ll enlarged upon his man like a spectre, as long as they could bear it. By degrees, as they could bear no more, they dropped off one by one, and light... ...wn below, and their bent figures were strained, as if by a weight. By slow degrees the weight broke away the earth upon it, and came to the surface. Y... ... he kept himself in his place, as a physician, whose business was with all degrees of mankind, bond and free, rich and poor, bad and good, he used his...

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...e and meagre for human nature to love, or to endure it long. These stately degrees of society, that have so strong a hold upon us in England, are not ... ...man, sitting there with that age long regard directed towards him. But, by degrees, a sense of wonder had its will, and grew, slowly at first, in Redc...

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... gentleman expects his hot roll, but rest content with the society of idle bachelors and roving married men; and they are now remarkable rather for ho... ...ere much longer intervals than at first between his terms of suffering. By degrees, he ceased to suffer at all; though his exhaus- tion was occasional... ...es having been all performed, they were ushered into the house; and so, by degrees, they got at last into a small room with books in it, where Mr Pinc... ...nd nobody heeds him. Mr Jinkins thanks them from his heart. It is, by many degrees, the proudest day in his humble career. When he looks around him on... ...trange, even to himself, to find how, by quick though almost imperceptible degrees, he lost his delicacy and self-respect, and gradually came to do th... ...remarks in whispers, the very water in the teapot might have fallen twenty degrees in temperature beneath their chilling coldness. ‘Have you been to m... ...ow of rotting human heads. There are snug chambers in those Inns where the bachelors live, and, for the desolate fellows they pretend to be, it is qui...

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... for that, Seth; I’ll think about that when I’m a-goin’ to settle i’ life; bachelors doesn’t want such heavy earnin’s. Happen I shall do the coortin’ ... ...said Mr. Poyser, “for it isn’t to be counted on as Adam and Seth ‘ull keep bachelors for the next ten year to please their mother. That ‘ud be unreaso... ...ng with you so when I was reading with you. My grandfather is always a few degrees colder at breakfast than at any other hour in the day. I think his ... ...n, which he and Seth will carry on, and will perhaps be able to enlarge by degrees. So he has agreed at last, and I have arranged that he shall dine ... ...elor like you know about it?” “Oh, that is one of the matters in which old bachelors are wiser than married men, because they have time for more gen- ... ...er.” “Nay, but her feelings may grow different. A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire dosna flare up the soon- est. I’d have thee go and se... ...they think so much o’ themselves a’ready. An’ that’s how it is there’s old bachelors.” “Come, Craig,” said Mr. Poyser jocosely, “you mun get mar- ried...

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...wn was thus preparing by four, the sun was not up till six; and it was half-past five before we could distinguish our expected islands from the clouds... ...dds too commonly what is either a mark of celibate man at large, or an inheritance from mediaeval saints—I mean slovenly habits and an unclean person.... ...d though on a brief voyage, yet for a new province of creation. That wide field of ocean, called loosely the South Seas, extends from tropic to tropic... ... for the repository of the Grail. In such a scene, and at such an hour, the impression received was not so much of foreign travel—rather of past ages;... ...my ear. One nut I had been willing to accept; a second, I rejected utterly. A cocoa-nut does not come slinging along on a windless evening, making an ...

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...had never yet left the house since the blow first fell, to go out again by degrees as she had done before. About this time the two Miss Steeles, latel... ...xpectation of any thing better from them. Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become ... ...ational, though languid, gaze. Anxiety and hope now oppressed her in equal degrees, and left her no moment of tranquillity till the arrival of Mr. Har... ... a man on earth who could have done it?—Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what... ... the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest. Elinor remembered what Rob- ert had told her in Ha...

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... there is no question about them. But in some sup- posed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pro- nounced, to draw the exact line of demarkation...

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...g the rest of her inquiry for the present, she really did advance, by slow degrees, towards the heart of that great region which is governed by the te... ... she might receive her brother there, on Saturdays. This would wean him by degrees, Mr Dombey said; possibly with a recollection of his not having bee... ...Dombey said; possibly with a recollection of his not having been weaned by degrees on a former occasion. Mr Dombey finished the interview by expressin... ...own room may be said to have struck like damp, or cold air -there were two degrees of de- scent. Mr Carker in his own office was the first step; Mr Mo... ...to the deepest of water, and could find no bottom to his penetra- tion. By degrees it became perfectly plain to the Captain that there was some mistak... ... the name of the Royal Hotel, and that it should be called the Three Jolly Bachelors, in honour of ourselves and Carker.’ With this, the Major slapped...

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...think of it by pitching Great Will’s voice high, and Hamlet’s very low. By degrees I got some unconscious knowledge of the characters of Shakespeare. ... ...down to be trampled on, as she deserved for her unpardonable treachery. By degrees my grandfather got used to me, and commenced 83 George Meredith sa... ...lorious break- fast, for which land and sea had prepared us in about equal degrees: I confess, my feelings when I jumped out of the cabin were almost ... ...ical factions struggled on. A princess drew them as the moon the tides. By degrees they subsided and united, each reserving its view; a point at which... ... the goose-step, with pretty accurate shoul- ders, and feet of distracting degrees of extension, enough to craze a rhythmical drill-sergeant. I exulte... ...now that he regarded tobacco as just one of the consolations of exiles and bachelors. ‘Peterborough, my good friend, you are a hero!’ cried my father....

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...54 V anity Fair unbounded confidence, and frantic adoration with which, by degrees, this big warrior got to regard the little Rebecca, were feelings w... ...nt and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees, after her calamity, and after many struggles to keep up—as a man w...

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...of their worshipful order. In this society, duly organized, and conferring degrees, Hardy, from his influence as a white, was a sort of honorary Grand... ...n, and the cause of morality; for what business had the ecclesiastical old bachelors with such a set of trim little native handmaidens? These damsels ... ...ng Ghost, twitching all over, rolled on his side, and breathed audibly. By degrees, he became sufficiently re- covered to speak. After trying to get s... ...erent our hard northern latitudes! Alas! the lot of a “poor devil,” twenty degrees north of the tropic of Cancer, is indeed pitiable. 220 Omoo At las...

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...ot that when she herself was in England her social value sank two or three degrees in the scale. “She has her pick of places; she’s not in want of a s...

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...as kneeling, and take that, and still hold my dress in the same manner. By degrees the poor tired girl fell asleep, and then I contrived to raise her ... ...self, with my eyes closed, among the scenes of the day. At length, by slow degrees, they became indistinct and mingled. I began to lose the iden tity... ...I think she might,” said Mrs. Blinder, getting her heavy breath by painful degrees. “She’s as handy as it’s possible to be. Bless you, sir, the way sh... ...d there, and everywhere, from the moment of her coming into the church. By degrees, though very slowly, I at last overcame my strange emotion. After a... ...rs. All the young clerks are madly in love, and according to their various degrees, pine for bliss with the beloved object, at Margate, Ramsgate, or G...