...es postilion on one of the bishop’s fat mules at Faro. The blue and yellow domestic went down the steps into the boat. Then came the bishop’s turn; bu... ...board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets and cypresses, domes and castles; great guns were firing off, and the blood-red flag of th... ...ght, measuring from the middle nail of the gilt cres- cent surmounting the dome to the ring in the centre stone; the circle of the dome is one hundred... ...yond any I have ever seen—the most superb combination of city and gardens, domes and shipping, hills and water, with the healthiest breeze blowing ove... ...s of the shipping of the seventeenth century. The vast groves and towers, domes and quays, tall minarets and spired spread- ing mosques of the three ... ...t oozing arched den, with a light faintly streaming from an orifice in the domed ceiling. Y ells of frantic laughter and song came booming and clangi... ...ro succeeding Lights of the Universe, or their favourites. The only row of domes which looked particularly regular or stately, were the kitchens. As y... ... the smoke of hundreds of furnaces, which escapes through apertures in the domes above. These, too, give the chief light in the rooms, which streams d... ... distance:and from here, per- haps, is the best view of its light swelling domes and beautiful proportions. The Porte itself, too, forms an excellent ...

..., many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct with many a tower ... .... The secret strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome _140 Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee! And what were thou, a... ...asting walls T wo mighty cities shone, and ever Through the red mist their domes did quiver. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. On two dread mountains, from whose crest, ... .... 10. 10. 10. 10. 10. And columns framed of marble white, And giant fanes, dome over dome Piled, and triumphant gates, all bright With workmanship, wh... ...the Lady’s heart beat fast, As half in joy, and half aghast, On those high domes her look she cast. _70 12. 12. 12. 12. ... ...arth grow red; T wo flames that each with quivering tongue Licked its high domes, and overhead Among those mighty towers and fanes ... ...5. 15. 15. 15. The flames were fiercely vomited From every tower and every dome, And dreary light did widely shed O’er that vast flood’s suspended foa... ... might the stoutest heart appal To hear the fire roar and hiss Through the domes of those mighty palaces. 18. 18. 18. 18. 18. The eddy whirled her rou... ...e bright, _105 Column, tower, and dome, and spire, Shine like obelisks of fire, Pointing with inconstant moti...

...ordinary patterns, and then amidst the cloudy darkness of the unfathomable dome above them there ap- peared and increased a radiant triangle in which ... ...It was only when he was back in his own palace that the full weight of his domes- tic responsibilities in the discussion of the course he had to take,... ...sturbed was still more in the mind of the bishop. At dinner he had all his domesticities about him. It was the family time, from eight until ten, at w... ...got. The households of the more prosperous clergy are much sought after by domestics of a serious and excel- lent type; an unfrocked clergyman’s house... ...not more in excess of the little private income available. 5 5 5 5 5 These domestic details, irrelevant as they may seem in a spiri- tual history, nee... ...rchway approached by a long flight of steps. Between the towers appeared a dome. It was as if the Mosque of Saint Sophia had produced this offspring i... ...emarkable features and merits of the great project upon him. The preaching dome was only the heart of it. There were to be a library, “‘efecto’ies,” c... ...en amidst the architectural de- tails, and pouring out its sounds into the dome, and then 167 H G Wells she glanced in passing at possible “p’ocessio... ...Wells she glanced in passing at possible “p’ocessions” round the preaching dome. This preaching dome was not a mere shut- in drum for spiritual reverb...

...y at the Castle’s base and dash up it and drench it as with a luminous spray, while the adjacent groves are in deep shadow. Behind the Castle swells a... ...hing else. The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps—so to speak—a billowy chaos of massy moun... ...ut I lived down the desire, a nd gained in my self-respect through the triumph. I had a finer and a grander sight, however, where I was. This was the ... ... if Dor’e had furnished the working-plans for it. But every now and then, through the stern gateways around us we caught a view of some neighboring ma... ...ery soon, and I was on my legs all right in an instant. The rope is an immense help in places of this kind.” Now they arrived at the base of a great k... ...s; the charming spot was walled in on all sides by gigantic precipices clothed with pines; and over the pines, out of the softened distances, rose the... ... lanes and alleys flowing with foulness; you never see such wretched little sties of houses; you never see an in- verted tin turnip on top of a church... ...ts. There was a liberal allowance of pretty waterfalls, too, on the Te^te Noir route. About half an hour before we reached the village of Argentie‘re ... ...d itself in a strong V-shaped gate- way of the mountains, and we recognized Mont Blanc, the “monarch of the Alps.” With every step, after that, this s...

... as we drew up at one green town after another, with the townsfolk troop- ing in their Sunday’s best to see the strangers, with the sun sparkling on t... ...are occu- pied by ordinary visitors to the Hotel; and a very pleas- 9 ant way this is, by which you have a little country cot-... ... to make it handsomer. Then the climate, with the sea- breeze every afternoon in the hottest summer weather, had gradually cured the sciatica; and his... ... gray sea vapour, like a cloudy sky – a dull sight for the artist, and a painful experience for the invalid. But to sit aloft one’s self in the pure a... ...the song of birds, the lowing of cattle, the bleating of sheep, clouds even, and the variations of the weather, were here also want- ing; and as, day ...

...y the narrow ledge became a battle-ground of thrusting, slanting, parrying domes. The wind rose with the rain, and the harried wretches exposed to thi... .... From her seat she had a diagonal view of the long house-front and of the domed chapel terminating one of the wings. Beyond a gate in the court-yard ... ...n spreading over them looked like the last traces of a dim embroidery. The dome of the chapel, with its gilded cross, rose above one wing, and the oth... ...antelle placed great reliance on her judgment and experience, and in every domestic crisis the irreducible Adelaide was immedi- ately summoned to Givr... ...that she should. But we shall bring her round in time.” Under the dripping dome she raised her face to his. “Don’t you remember what you said the day ... ...quaintance with many of its members, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the domestic habits, financial difficulties and private complications of vari- ... ...nd as every human event translated itself for her into terms of social and domestic detail, Anna had perforce to travel the same round again. She felt...

...piled on Shinar’s plain. The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement. Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wi... ...umstances of their flock. Robin Hood, it is well known, had his celebrated domestic chaplain Friar T uck. And that same curtal friar was probably matc... ...eat families in the Highlands were supposed to have a tutelar, or rather a domes- tic, spirit, attached to them, who took an interest in their prosper... ...officer of Engineers, so often quoted, has given us a distinct list of the domestic officers who, independent of Luichttach, or gardes de corps, belon...

...lived alone in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated. A single domestic sufficed to serve him. He break- fasted and dined at the club, at ... ...ntrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue ... ...The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt an... .... But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. Find- ing myself ou... ...s just what I wanted! Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving ... ...doubt—but, then, it was none the less true that he was going away, this so domestic person hitherto! By eight o’clock Passepartout had packed the mode... ...Englishmen who are wont to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics. 28 Around the World in 80 Days Chapter VIII IN WHICH PASSEPARTO... ... had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated. The Indian had begun already, by often irritating him, and fe... ...table for circus shows, are much sought, especially as but few of them are domesti- cated. When therefore Mr. Fogg proposed to the Indian to hire Kiou...

...r forty years’ service, retired with the rank of major, maintaining in his domestic establishment a comparative splendor, he be came a man of the firs... ...rom the great door which opened into the porch emerged two or three female domestics, and one male. The latter was bareheaded, but evidently more dres... ...nvarying color of her whole face. She presided over the female part of the domestic arrangements, in the capacity of housekeeper; was a spinster, and ... ...ollowed her father, who paused a moment to whisper a message to one of his domestics, into a large hall, that was dimly lighted by two candies, placed... ...ing this operation Richard kept up a desultory dialogue with the different domestics, occasionally throwing out a re- mark to the Judge concerning the... ...rance of the lady who was to supplant her in the admin- istration of their domestic economy. The housekeeper felt a little appalled, when, after cloak... ...ld over which she was to preside, but also the air and manner in which the domestic arrangements were con- ducted. Although there was much incongruity... ... gouge, and loaded with mouldings. On the tops of the columns was reared a dome or cupola, resembling in shape an inverted tea-cup without its bottom,... ...ell, by moon- light; how the tin of the cupola glistens! I warrant you the dome of the other St. Paul’s never shines so in the smoke of London.” 106 ...

...Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol. The river road led ... ... dropped her pose and smiled down she discovered Kennicott apoplectic with domestic pride—and gray Guy Pollock staring beseechingly. For a second she ... ...ock rattled, “They’re ungrateful, all that class of people. I do think the domestic problem is sim- ply becoming awful. I don’t know what the country’... ... the conference on husbands. The young matrons discussed the intimacies of domes- ticity with a frankness and a minuteness which dismayed Carol. Juani... ... their dances. And I certainly don’t see any need of a farm-bureau or this domestic science demonstration you talk about. In my day the boys learned t... ...y hearty. He looked absently at Carol. He was a medical machine now, not a domestic machine. “What is it, Carrie?” he droned. “No hurry. Just wanted t... ...alls, but to chuckle at babies. The sunset was merely a flush of rose on a dome of silver, with oak twigs and thin poplar branches against it, but a s... ...tle on repentantly. Somewhat too late she remembered that she had given up domesticity and repentance. “Let’s play charades!” said Raymie Wutherspoon.... ...ta Haydock was able to crow, “There, smarty, I told you you’d run into the Domestic Problem!” But Oscarina adopted Carol as a daughter, and with her a...

...as the opinion that the room was haunted very strongly prevailed among the domes- tics, and was also known in the neighbourhood and to many of my frie...

...hite edifice that unfolds its repeated colonnades and uplifts its isolated dome at the end of a long vista of saloons and tobacco- shops. He slowly cl... ...enry James ily, or would she wish still to borrow plastic relief from that domestic background? That her family was so impos- sible was to a certain e... ... picnickers. Toward the last, as they drew near Washing- ton and the white dome of the Capitol hung aloft before them, looking as simple as a suspende... ...? Why she has been engaged since she was sixteen.” Count Otto gazed at the dome of the Capitol. “To a gentleman from Utica? “Yes, a native of her plac...

...d back volumes of Punch, from which I derived concep- tions of foreign and domestic politics it has taken years of adult reflection to correct. And at... ...re vio- lent crimes, and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my fathe... ...ather is always “A.,” and I am always “D.” It is manifest she followed the domestic events in the life of the Princess of Wales, who is now Queen Moth... ...ll. They never, so far as I know, dined out, and when at last after bitter domestic conflicts they began to go to dances, they went with the quavering... ... Motioned rather than an- nounced by a tall Scotch servant woman, the only domestic I ever remember seeing there, we made our way up a narrow staircas... ...s Street and furnished it with severe economy, they discovered that Scotch domestic who is destined to be the guardian and tyrant of their declining y... ... the pigeons and going into the little doors beneath the sunlit arches and domes of Saint Mark’s. Then perhaps 174 The New Machiavelli we would strol... ...ng him simply and uncritically for simple ends, when marriage was a purely domestic relationship, leaving thought and the vivid things of life almost ... ...times being ostentatiously “kind”; I would see him glance furtively at his domestic servants upon his staircase, or stiffen his upper lip against the ...

... head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some weeks. Lord Coo... ...he firmest of us (she was very firm) to be always guarded. There was great domestic trouble and amazement, you may sup pose; I leave you to imagine, ... ...ding his communica tion with his hat, “it falls a little hard upon me. My domes Bleak House – Volume Two 100 tic happiness is very great—at least,... ...ss of London there is some rest. Its steeples and towers and its one great dome grow more ethereal; its smoky house tops lose their grossness in the p... ...here that he finds happiness. No, it must be sought within the confines of domestic bliss. It is natural, under these circumstances, that he, in his t...

... though without increasing its usual brightness. All this was a species of domestic pre- monition concerning the result of the elections which were ab... ...ined, the old no- tary felt less regret in seeing that his daughter’s only domes- tic happiness lay in the autocracy which usually satisfies all women... ...m Briancon to the Isere, in the Cevennes on the Lozere side, in the Puy-de-Dome, Bretagne, and the Vosges. In the Vosges, more especially about the to... ...romising in the clientele he really pre- ferred, Desroches had his days of domesticity when he was husband and father, especially on Sundays. He appea... ...fe Gondreville, Malin, Comte de The Gondreville Mystery A Start in Life Domestic Peace Gothard The Gondreville Mystery Goujet, Abbe 336 The Deput... ...ortense A Man of Business Hulot, Victorin Cousin Betty Keller, Francois Domestic Peace Cesar Birotteau Eugenie Grandet The Government Clerks Kel... ...Birotteau Eugenie Grandet The Government Clerks Keller, Madame Francois Domestic Peace The Thirteen La Bastie la Briere, Madame Ernest de Modeste... ...ina de Sarrasine Lanty, Filippo de Sarrasine La Roche-Hugon, Martial de Domestic Peace The Peasantry A Daughter of Eve 337 Balzac The Middle Cl...

...he welcome said, Suppose the convent banquet made: All through the holy dome, Through cloister, aisle, and gallery, Wherever vestal maid might pry,... ...ge romantic tome, In the hall-window of his home, Imprinted at the antique dome Of Caxton, or De Worde, Therefore he spoke—but spoke in vain, For M... ...ott XVI. “When last this ruthful .month was come, And in Linlithgow’s holy dome The King, as wont, was praying; While, for his royal father’s soul,... ...f it be the king’s decree That I must find no sanctuary In that inviolable dome Where even a homicide might come And safely rest his head, Though a... ...d, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night; On Christmas Eve... ...to her face, And clips her with a close embrace: Gladly as he, we seek the dome, And as reluctant turn us home. How just that, at this time of glee...

...PTER I FROM MONTE MOTTERONE you survey the Lombard plain. It is a towering dome of green among a hundred pinnacles of grey and rust-red crags. At dawn... ...ed by wild water-courses, and browsed by Alpine herds; and again the green dome was distant. They came to the highest chalet, where a hearty wiry youn... ...ested that the heat killed him. He adorned the statement with all kinds of domestic and subterranean im- agery, and laughed faintly, saying that after... ...y. The cupboard was open, and had evidently been ransacked. He rang up the domestics, and would have charged them all with having done violence to the... ...ly; and he himself stood ready for the summons: but the contemplation of a domestic judicial execution, which the Guidascarpi seemed to have done upon... ... that her maid would not be seen. Presently there was a view of the violet domes of a city. ‘Is it Bergamo?—is it Brescia?’ she longed to ask, thinkin... ...sat in the hall 252 Vittoria like a supplicant, disregarded by the German domestics, who beheld a travel-stained humble-faced young Italian woman, an... ...lf came downstairs, with profuse apologies for the absence of all her male domestics, and many delicate dimples about her mouth in uttering them. Her ... ...sh on his forehead, Count Paul drew sword. The window was barred; six male domestics of the household held high lights in the chamber; the priest knel...

...guous in the background. He was mod- est and proud, and never spoke of his domestic matters. He was evidently poor; yet he must have had some slen- de... ... a tender flora 20 The Madonna of the Future of its own, down to the full domes and slender towers of Florence and over to the blue sweep of the wide...

...Cousins; but as these either repeat the same adventures or else are purely domestic, they have been little brought forward, except where any gap occur... ... Life of John Coleridge Patteson sions Arthur and I talk incessantly about domestic matters, and indulge our fancies in conjecturing what you are all ... ...es no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all the works of God. And love is the animating principle of... ...of an ordinary 278 Life of John Coleridge Patteson clergyman. Much of the domestic and cooking department I may manage, of course, to superintend. I ... ...rdinarily developed religion, which enters into every detail of social and domestic life, and is mixed up with the daily life of every person in the a... ...reat difficulty must be met in Mota of teaching the Christian’s social and domestic life to people disposed to give up much of their old practices. Th... ... whole life will contradict that profession, unless their whole social and domestic life be changed, and a new character infused into them. It would b... ...ll these long letters and more, which were either in the same tone, or too domestic to be published, prove the leisure caused by having an unusually s... ...Pritt is general overlooker (which does not mean doing nothing himself) of domestic work: kitchen, garden, farm, dairy, &c. You know that we have no s...

...d, he could see no harm in whatever. Conversing with her in the privacy of domestic life would never be the flowing business that it is for other men.... ... hand. The distant view of the city of Wilsonople was fair with glittering domes, which, in the succeeding near view, proved to have been soap-bubbles...