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...rrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron steamships began their stag... ...and glowing among the dark trees in the garden of the villa under the warm blue night sky of Italy; how he caught and kept them in cages, dissected th... ...lowers above its portico still stood out at the angle of the ways, and the blue view to Harrow Hill and Harrow spire, a view of hills and trees and sh... ...en, surveyed a pass- ing tram-car, laden with warm light, against the deep blues of evening, dripping and trailing long skirts of shining re- flection... ...ergy dominating every other source of power, but for some years yet a vast network of difficulties in detail and application kept the new discovery fr... ...ined to be plump, with a ‘rather blobby’ face, and full, rather projecting blue eyes. He be- longed until the financial debacle of 1956 to the class o... ...uses of refreshment and entertainment whose pinnacles streamed up into the blue obscurity of the night. The south side of the square was in dark contr...

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...o men who gather salt in the salt-marshes) con- trasts vigorously with the blues and browns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved j... ...di- ment, now wreathed with vegetation,—a bouquet, rose, brown, yellow, or blue, according to the season. The door, of oak, nail-studded, gives entran... ...ried for each rafter; the space between them is filled with planks painted blue, on which twine garlands of golden flowers. T wo old buffers face each... ...rs, all of silver; also many pewter plates and many pitch- ers of gray and blue pottery, bearing arabesque designs and the arms of the du Guaisnics, c... ...of the Bocage; hands which had pulled an oar in the Marais to surprise the Blues, or in the offing to signal Georges; the hands of a gue- rilla, a can... ...ht withering of the wrists, where the transparent tissue suffered the blue network of swollen veins to be visible, and three deep lines made a bracele...

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...le being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon’s burning sky, Genius and death contended. None may know The swee... ...t, ice and rock; broad vales between Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps, Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread _65 An... ...rned her eyes, It hung before her in the skies. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. The sky was blue as the summer sea, _25 The depths wer... ...e that drinks the fountain dew In the pleasant air of noon, Grows pale and blue with altered hue— In the gaze of the nightly moon; For the planet of f... ...alls, Amphitrite’s destined halls, Which her hoary sire now paves With his blue and beaming waves. Lo! the sun upsprings behind, ... ...the broken stalks Were bent and tangled across the walks; And the leafless network of parasite bowers Massed into ruin; and all sweet flowers. Between... ... _60 Through the dim beams Which amid the streams Weave a network of coloured light; And under the caves, Where the shadowy waves ...

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...te linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by the central figure of thi... ...d as infinity. And it was fine, full of a promise of glorious days, a deep blue sky with dazzling piles of white cloud here and there, as though celes... ...h of anything else upon wheels. The shadows of the trees lay very long and blue across the road, the morning sunlight was like amber fire. At the cros... ...away south over the old bramble- bearing, fern-beset ruin, at the waves of blue upland that 33 H G Wells rose, one behind another, across the Weald, ... ...ral resemblance of their hero, a brown- haired young fellow commonly, with blue eyes and a fair moustache, graceful rather than strong, sharp and reso... ...eit the age of miracles was past. But to look for a clue in this intricate network of cobbled streets, to examine every muddy interstice! There was a ...

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...uickly sup- pressed; a thought came to darken that pure brow, and her long blue eyes resumed their sad expression. She gave a sigh and again laid her ... ...rd, that enormous hand was covered with hair so thick, it presented such a network of veins and pro- jecting muscles, that it gave the idea of a branc... ... a sharer in all her frolics. When she saw that beloved mother turning her blue eyes towards her with an appearance of anger, a religious terror took ... ...nsparent and satiny as that of a little girl, showed a delicate tracery of blue veins; its whiteness was that of porcelain. His eyes, which were light... ...lue veins; its whiteness was that of porcelain. His eyes, which were light blue and ineffa- bly gentle, implored the protection of men and women; that... ... the solitude of a narrow space, seeing naught but the thick green and the blue of the sky above the tree-tops, or she could hover above a glorious pr...

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...man’s face, clean-shaven, pale, with disordered brown hair and weary, pale-blue eyes. He was clad in purple pyjamas, and the hand that now ran its fin... ... wind was sarcastic. To come here from London was to come from atmospheric blue-greys to ashen-greys, from smoke and soft smut to grime and black grim... ...e. It was a day under 18 The Soul of a Bishop an east wind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-necked world with whitish ... ...nding preoccupation. He would have liked to discuss with some one else the network of perplexities in which he was entangling himself, and more partic... ... saw him come in, looking well—flushed indeed—but queer in expression; his blue eyes 76 The Soul of a Bishop were wide open and unusually vague and b... ...t possess.” He paused. “I did,” he said. “I did,” she responded with round blue eyes of wonder. “At the utmost the Church of England is a tabernacle o...

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...teep as to terrify. At a vast distance below he saw through tree-stems and blue haze a twisted strand of bright whiteness, the river that joins the Rh... ...y, it seemed possible at any moment, the mass would fall headlong into the blue deeps below. This impending avalanche was not in my path along the Bis... ...tring of battleships, was far away to the west of us, and the endless grey-blue flats of the Thames to the north. The sun was low behind a bank of clo... ... lous image to use, I can’t justify it, but it was as if I was having cold blue light squirted through every pore of my being. There was an astonishme... ...es threatened him gauntly, the rocks had a sinis- ter lustre, and in every blue shadow about him the night and death lurked and waited. There was no h... ... active intervention. The two men left their carriage and plunged into the network of unlovely dark streets in which the Jews and traders harboured… ....

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...r of eyes were of honest grey, while the others were large and hazel, with blue whites. Kate’s little hand was so slight, that Sylvia’s strong fingers... ... by rare and much prized chances; and though the paper was smooth, and the blue and red lovely, it was not half so nice to draw and paint as with Sylv... ...s.” “In the river! Did your cousin allow that?” “Oh yes; we had on our old blue checks; and Mary never minds anything when Armyn is there to take care... ...xpostulation of “Mais, Miladi!” from Josephine, before the pretty delicate blue and white muslin, worked white jacket, and white ribboned and feathere... ...her feelings when she saw the young lady , whom she had brought delicately blue and white, like a speedwell flower, nearly as black as a sweep. Lord d... ...ry balls, all loose, one within the other, carved in different patterns of network, and there were shells spotted and pink-mouthed, card-cases, red sh...

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...d walk bordered by geraniums and ole- anders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots. Access into the graveled walk is af... ..., the inevitable white china tea-service, covered with a half-effaced gilt network. The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow heig... ...bbed glass decanters, metal discs with a satin sheen on them, and piles of blue-edged earthenware plates of T ouraine ware cover the sticky surfaces o... ... meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a nota... ...ene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. In his figure, manner, and his whole bearing it was ... ... the vermicelli-maker’s shirt front. He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean whi...

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...ugh childhood but through life, was a fair little fellow, with bright deep-blue eyes, inheriting much of his nature from her and her family , but not ... ...y. The most striking feature was his eyes, which were of a very dark clear blue, full of an unusually deep earnest, and so to speak, inward, yet far a... ...n or near the tropics, so that I shall have little more shivering limbs or blue hands, though I may feel in the long run the effect of a migratory swa... ...lly something peculiar in the delicacy of the colours here— faint pink and blue, and such an idea of distance is given by the great transparency of th... ...the beauty of the deep clefts in the coral reef, lined with coral, purple, blue, scarlet, green, and white! the little blue fishes, the bright blue st... ... each animal. It gives trouble when one wants to break it up, it is such a network of roots; but once out of the ground and the soil clear, and it wil... ...outh European. Many of the women are tattooed from head to foot, a regular network of a bluish inlaid pattern. It is not so common with the men, rathe...

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...ar she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which were light blue, and her lips, always fixed in a smile, did not contradict that idea. ... ...se pale men, rather stout, with somewhat dim and hazy eyes either green or blue, are the worst species of humanity in Provence; and Charles- Marie-The... ...f enor- mous resistance at certain given moments. His eyes, of a pale cold blue, expressed in their ordinary condition a species of deceptive sadness,... ...r of the potato, was greater to him that thirty Raffaelles; the man in the blue cloak seemed to him a sister of charity. These were Thuillier’s expres... .... It was impossible to know if he were thirty-eight or sixty; if his faded blue trousers, which fitted him well, were of a coming or a past fashion. H... ...s, by a general enrolment of lacqueys and lady’s-maids, established a vast network in pri- vate families. Nothing is fixed and absolute in our manner ...

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...om the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-sleeves and without a collar; his breeches were also o... ...ue cloth with half-sleeves and without a collar; his breeches were also of blue cloth, and his cap of the same colour, and he wore yellow buskins and ... ... kiss it, but that you may observe the contexture of the sinews, the close network of the muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you m...

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...must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the be... ...y were inclined to think Mr. Ambrose awful; but the quickest witted cried “Bluebeard!” as he passed. In case they should proceed to tease his wife, Mr... ... they decided that he was grotesque merely, and four instead of one cried “Bluebeard!” in chorus. Although Mrs. Ambrose stood quite still, much longer... ... river is an opulent purple, some- times mud-coloured, sometimes sparkling blue like the sea. It is always worth while to look down and see what is ha... ...ose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- den hags; the red, yellow, and blue flowers, whose heads were pressed together, would not blaze. Moreover,... ...d blue eyes now shallow and watery, the bloom of the cheeks congealed to a network of dry red canals. 253 Virginia Woolf Helen turned to her. “Did yo...

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...pring day glorious in amber light, dazzling white clouds and the intensest blue, casting a powder of wonderful green hither and thither among the tree... ...minutes’ time he found himself watching the swal- lows curving through the blue over the vicarage garden. “Did ever man have such a bother with himsel... ...petual rustling, a 9 H G Wells going and coming in the budding trees. The network of the beeches was full of golden sunlight, and all the lower branc... ...he corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse a... ... about to make and waving the white froth of blackthorn, “ And look at the blue between them.” “It’s perfectly splendid. Of all the fine weather the b... ...y speaking, became scandalous. The sun was already a golden ball above the blue hills in the west—it turned our two young people into little figures o...

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...r! See the white spume rush into darkness under that great cliff. And this blue vault, with the blinding sun pouring from the dome of it. It is your w... ...ep. But here? And who were those people, the distant crowd beyond the deep blue pil- lars? Boscastle? He poured out and partially drank another glass ... ... he had wrapped about himself, and saved himself by catching at one of the blue pillars. 19 H G Wells The passage ran down a cool vista of blue and p... ...the top of a banner passed, and once some brightly coloured object, a pale blue cap or garment thrown up into the air perhaps, flashed athwart the spa... ...aired anaemic lad with fea- tures of the Chinese type, clad in coarse pale blue canvas, appeared together with a complicated machine, which he pushed ... ...anced up to see whence he came, and beheld through the glassy roof and the network of cables and girders, dim rhyth- mically passing forms like the va...

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... hairy neck, and a head sunk between his shoulders. He was dressed in dark-blue serge, and had peculiarly thick, coarse, black hair. I heard the unsee... ...r to see any details; it seemed to me then simply a low-lying patch of dim blue in the uncertain blue- grey sea. An almost vertical streak of smoke we... ...ay by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey-haired man in dirty-blue flannels, who had apparently just come aboard. “That way, Mister Blast... ...e Mont- gomery and his white-haired companion, in jacket and trou- sers of blue serge. As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fr... ...vited. Our little establishment here contains a secret or so, is a kind of Blue-Beard’s chamber, in fact. Noth- ing very dreadful, really, to a sane m... ...t difficulty. Then looking hard, I distin- guished through the interlacing network the head and body of the brute I had seen drinking. He moved his he... ...Moreau beat along the beach beneath. Slowly we pushed in among the fretted network of branches and leaves. The quarry was silent. “Back to the House o...

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... cause one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple pa... ...ed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist. The sun was fierce, ... ... use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, ev- erywhere; a stamped-in network of paths spreading over the empty land, through long grass, through... ...voice. He was of middle size and of ordinary build. His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps 25 Joseph Conrad remarkably cold, and he certainly coul... ...tion. Their headman, a young, broad-chested black, severely draped in dark-blue fringed cloths, with fierce nostrils and his hair all done up artfully... ...e- cessor, was the helmsman. He sported a pair of brass ear- rings, wore a blue cloth wrapper from the waist to the ankles, and thought all the world ...

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...tretched her neck out of the window, twisted it, and raised her cold, pale-blue little eyes, with their short lashes set in lids that were always rath... ...h the bobtails, the pockets of which stuck out at the hips,— the jacket of blue cloth which is classic in Brittany; there, too, were the waistcoat of ... ..., the large rolling collar, the earrings, the stout shoes, the trousers of blue-gray drilling unevenly colored by the various lengths of the warp,—in ... ... Her night-gown came only to her knees and showed the flaccid muscles, the blue veins, the impoverished flesh of the legs. The cold, to which she paid... ...ris are alert. Sometimes the receiver of a missing letter is amazed at the network of scrawled di- rections which covers both back and front of the mi... ...fine to them, the weather beautiful! But on the really fine days, when the blue of the heavens brightened all Paris, and the Pari- sians walked about ...

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...ht with a breadth of shoulder suggesting great power. Under the folds of a blue turban, whose fringed ends hung gracefully over the left shoulder, was... ...angi’s house away in the clearing was best. Bulangi was a safe man. In the network of crooked chan- nels no white man could find his way. White men we... ...nder punctuated by the nearer sharp crashes, and in the continuous play of blue lightning the woods and the river showed fitfully, with all the elusiv... ... of smoke into the cool air, and spreading the thinnest veil of mysterious blue haze over the sunlit solitude of the settlement. Almayer, just out of ... ... reach a slight puff of smoke appeared like a black stain on the brilliant blue of the cloudless sky. Babalatchi stood perplexed, the painter in his h... ... hear you may tell me. Come here before the sun sets and I will give you a blue handkerchief with red spots. Now go, and forget not to return.” He gav...

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...the atmosphere glowed above the grass and the pebbles; no cloud dimmed the blue of the sky, the purity of which in all parts, even close to the horizo... ...ation of its coarsely developed flesh, the semblance of a soul. His cap of blue cloth, with a small peak, and sides fluted like a melon, out- lined a ... ...e name (for sole likeness), these four roots had ceaselessly woven a human network of which each thread was delicate or strong, fine or coarse, as the... ...aid the doctor, going up the steps of a high portico adorned with vases of blue and white pot- tery in which geraniums were growing. Cut in two, like ... ...ve it he kept his hair cropped short, like that of the sol- dier-king. His blue eyes seemed to say that “Love had passed that way,” so mournful were t... ...n called him a Christian igno- rant of his Christianity. Dressed always in blue cloth, his rather rigid demeanor and his clothes bespoke the old habit...