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...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...oving, almost before he moves, a shift of air, let’s say. “Watch me play jacks with Libus, old soldiers at their fun. I could cheat you...if you ga...

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...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...oving, almost before he moves, a shift of air, let’s say. “Watch me play jacks with Libus, old soldiers at their fun. I could cheat you...if you ga... ...oy. I remembered songs in the evening. I heard her laugh- ter as we played jacks. I smelled her barley bread... I smelled roasting lamb.... Father wa... ...is favorite mare, both of us a little to the front of the Medici pennants, flags, and jousting gear. As we approached the Duke’s stables at a canter,... ... On the blue frozen Thames skaters zip past people, booths, flags. A giant ox roasts on a giant spit. Arm in arm, Shakespeare and E... ...ove London Bridge it became a market, hobbled with ragged booths, stalls, flags and streamers, peopled with courtiers, beggars, soldiers, priests, m... ...FROM THE PAST 530 Evening We were to enroll. Ann was to enroll at Jacksonville Academy. I was to enroll at Illinois College. That year I ca...

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...related" Alex pointed to a woman who seemed to be doing a version of jumping jacks. "Senator, how do you intend to fund your campaign?" "The old ... ...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre...

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... ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sa... ... him in the street in front of the White House. If it had happened in Andrew Jackson’s term: he would have been shot down like a dog in the street.... ... victories and battles and conquest. Europeans marched happily to war waving flags and cheering; every nation convinced that their side would win ea... ...y with 51 cards. America has 51 States. Americans are all trades. They are jacks of all trades. Gambling was an integral part of American culture...

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... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...e stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war horse; who didst th... ...— Oh, do pile on the beef — lays like a log! Oh! my lads, do spring — slap jacks and quohogs for supper, you know, my lads — baked clams and muffins — ... ...the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colors were flying from her rigging, on every side. Sideways la...

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...in a coach, he told Lucy, with some more Americans and En- glish, and with flags with stars and stripes or else Union Jacks all over it; and whenever ... ...ericans and En- glish, and with flags with stars and stripes or else Union Jacks all over it; and whenever they came to a French sentry, or afterwards...

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...overcome. Lord: That’s the least fear; for, by the semblance Of their white flags display’d, they bring us peace, And come to us as favorers, not as ... ...e flesh for holidays, fish for fasting days, and moreo’er puddings and flap jacks, and thou shalt be welcome. PERICLES: I thank you, sir. Second Fis...

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...emains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and Joinville’s band begin... ...up the huge mountain, from the tower nestled at the foot of it to the thin flagstaff at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edi... ...Grand Cairo mids, and along the vast rock-galleries, and up to the topmost flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are ma... ...re a city in itself;—merchantmen loading and crews cheering, under all the flags of the world flaunting in the sunshine; a half-score of busy black st... ... black sides and flaunt- ing colours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the ... ...e fleet of country ships, and stars and stripes, and tricolours, and Union Jacks; and many active steamers, of the French and English companies, shoot...

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...mberless wicked people into beasts, birds, millstones, clocks, pumps, boot jacks, umbrellas, or other absurd shapes; and, in a word, was one of the mo... ...r the most part; they went about the country wav- ing their old swords and flags, and calling ‘God save the Queen!’ and King Padella happening to be a...

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... sold old second-hand ordinary bicycles, were stretching a string of union-jacks and royal ensigns (which had originally celebrated the first Vic- tor... ...urting briskly for the church corner and the hill road. He saw the village flags and festivities be- yond, and a face or so turned towards him. He baw... ...e whole tumultuous rush has passed and the Iping street with its gauds and flags is deserted save for the still raging unseen, and littered with cocoa...

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...with banners and streamers; some with cloth-of- gold and arras embroidered with coats-of-arms; others with silken flags that had numberless little sil... ... Christ’s Hospital. The tables are laid with cheese in wooden bowls, beer in wooden piggins, poured from leathern jacks, and bread brought in large ba... ...er commences, and the visitors walk between the tables. At its close the ‘trade-boys’ take up the baskets, bowls, jacks, piggins, and candlesticks, an...

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...ndly Society came pealing from the top of the hill, then appeared two tall flags, crowned with guelder roses and peonies, then the great blue drum, th... ...n, cheerful faces and mirthful sounds everywhere. These were hushed as the flags were lowered to pass under the low-roofed gateway of the churchyard, ... ...ke It?’’ ‘I like it very much,’ answered Phyllis, ‘only I cannot think why Jacks did not go to the poor stag, and try to cure it, when he saw its tear... ...t, when he saw its tears running into the water.’ To save the character of Jacks, Claude gravely suggested the difficulty of catching the stag, and th...

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...rom Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. Flags of Danger to Fatherland wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—... ...there is to be business. ’ And Megaera women perambulate the streets, with flags, with lamentable alleleu. (Meillan, Memoires, p. 195; Buzot, pp. 69, ... ...e’s New Calendar getting ready? On all house- tops flicker little tricolor Flags, their flagstaff a Pike and Liberty-Cap. On all house-walls, for no P... ...king. Strong are ye, Tyrants of the Sea; yet we also, are we weak? Lo! all flags, streamers, jacks, every rag of tricolor that will yet run on rope, f... ...e, Tyrants of the Sea; yet we also, are we weak? Lo! all flags, streamers, jacks, every rag of tricolor that will yet run on rope, fly rustling aloft:...

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...ld fairs were just common nuisances haunted by gypsies, van showmen, Cheap Jacks and London roughs, the churches were inca- pable of a quarter of the ... ... “stark fact.” We hung nude pictures in our rooms much as if they had been flags, to the earnest concern of our bedders, and I disinterred my long-kep... ...h windows, through which the tea drinking had come out upon the moss-edged flagstones even as Mrs. Seddon had planned. The party was almost entirely f... ...ire jostle one another, pass the big embassies in the W est End with their flags and scutcheons, follow the broad avenue that leads to Buckingham Pala... ...f things, Isabel—or things have made a mess of us. I don’t know which. Our flags are in the mud, anyhow. It’s too late to save those other things! The...

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...m- mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old gramm... ...e stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst th... ... hump—Oh, do pile on the beef—lays like a log! Oh! my lads, do spring—slap-jacks and quahogs for sup- per, you know, my lads—baked clams and muffins—o... ...the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colours were flying from her rigging, on every side. Sideways ...

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... Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His tit... ...untry quarters At Halifax;’ but now he served the Tartars. The rest were jacks and Gills and Wills and Bills; But when I ‘ve added that the el...

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...ry little of the surname of a Negro. The only improvement on the “Bills,” “Jacks,” “Jims,” and “Neds” of the south, observable here is, that “Wil- lia... ...rs in here.” I also remember attending a revival meeting in the Rev. Henry Jackson’s meeting-house, at New Bedford, and going up the broad aisle to fi... ...street corner; “SEND BACK THE MONEY!” in large capitals, adorned the broad flags of the pavement; “SEND BACK THE MONEY!” was the chorus of the popular...

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...wo boats’ crews were massacred, and the boats lost. The ships came to Port Jackson, in Australia, to build fresh boats, left it in February 1788, and ... ...o feet long. T o steady these and hold on by were double shrouds of supple-jacks. The rungs of the ladder were at unequal dis- tances, 42 upon the 50 ... ...ery good ladder of bamboos and 462 Life of John Coleridge Patteson supple-jacks, quite as easily as one goes up the rigging of a ship, and my ten day... ...ss the Church of England’s mind; which is not the language of Pearson, and Jackson, and Waterland, and Hooker, no, nor of Bull, and Andrewes, and T ay... ...row the mind; but even Church history is not very attractive to me. I like Jackson and Hooker, and some of the moderns, of whom I read a good many; an... ...n for what they had done. There was no interpreter. They knew noth- ing of flags of truce; and when they saw a boat approaching, full of white men, ar...

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...in such a position that she could not help seeing an ar- rangement of four flags, a mile and a half behind, which read: “Heave to, or take the consequ... ...es, swabs, squeegees; all cabin and pantry lamps; galley-fittings en bloc; flags and flag-locker; clocks, chronom- eters; the forward compass and the ... ...otis had been unusually complete, and two-and-twenty men, armed with screw-jacks, differential blocks, tackle, vices, and a forge or so, can look Kism... ...coal ready for supply, the deserted huts for the sailors, and the flagless flagstaff. Next day there was no Haliotis—only a little proa rocking in the... ...r hundred dancers went round and round till the draped 149 The Day’s Work flags on the pillars flapped and bellied to the whirl of it. About midnight... ...s liable to jounce ye a little. Fifteen an’ a half out, after the grade at Jackson’s crossin’. You’ll know it by a farmhouse an’ a windmill an’ five m... ...own even as Comanche had done at the Newtons. He whirled down the grade to Jackson’s cross- ing, saw the windmill west of the maples, felt the badly l...

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... natural light of day would have struck her to dust. “He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!” said Estella with dis- dain, before our first game was ou... ...termined to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture-cards, Jacks, which ought to be called knaves. I wished Joe had been rather more g... ...ts were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last nigh... ...r, the boy went there to play. What did you play at, boy?” “We played with flags,” I said. (I beg to observe that I think of myself with amazement, wh... ...f myself with amazement, when I recall the lies I told on this occasion.) “Flags!” echoed my sister. “Yes,” said I. “Estella waved a blue flag, and I ... ...g- ing my head; “but I wish you hadn’ t taught me to call Knaves at cards, Jacks; and I wish my boots weren’t so thick nor my hands so coarse.” And th... ...em sham), and a gothic door, almost too small to get in at. “That’s a real flagstaff, you see,” said Wemmick, “and on Sundays I run up a real flag. Th...

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...yrand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty-three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar... ...er still more questionably: Cha- teau-Vieux, far from marching, ‘waves red flags out of two carriages,’ in a passionate manner, along the streets; and... ... and with the boast that it is Seventy thousand: most strange to see; with flags flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclamation, and d’Artois Commission of... ....) Scenes too are in this Jacobin Amphitheatre,—had History time for them. Flags of the ‘Three free Peoples of the Universe, ’ trinal brotherly flags ... ...must belong to Paris, and be suspended from the dome there, along with the Flags of the Three Free Peoples! Such a goose is man; and cackles over plus... ...e, Tyrants of the Sea; yet we also, are we weak? Lo! all flags, streamers, jacks, every rag of tricolor that will yet run on rope, fly rustling aloft:...

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...overnment, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship Ann M’Kim of Baltimore. It would probably never h... ... but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson; and I know no one of all my accidental acquaintances to whom I... ...kin, and one or two stanchions above the deck. We saw our handsome sailor, Jackson, on the forecastle, with the Sandwich Islanders, working away t... ...e had had our own way during the day, yet we were, after all, but ’foremast Jacks; and having been ordered to be on the beach by sundown, did not ven... ...rig’s easily, I found my hands full, with this, especially as there were no jacks to the ship; every- thing being for neatness, and nothing left fo... ..., men appointed to each, cartridges served out, matches lighted, and all the flags ready to be run up. I took my place at the starboard after gun, an... ...e surrounding hills and over the bay, and instantly the ship was dressed in flags and pennants from stem to stern. Twenty three guns followed in regu... ...t sun down, another salute of the same number of guns was fired, and all the flags run down. This we thought was pretty well—a gun every fifteen secon... ...e on so grand a scale,—where I have seen a man plough a furrow by little red flags on sticks, to keep his range by, until nearly out of sight, and whe...

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...ows with a tolling bell; Such happy arts attention can command, When fancy flags, and sense is at a stand. 230 Improve we these.... ... rhyme; the Muses, on their racks, Scream like the winding of ten thousand jacks; 160 Some, free from rhyme or reason, rule or check, Bre...

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...!” “Yes, but Harry used to write his name all over his—see— and draw Union Jacks on it.” “If he did, the date is not there. Do you think the ink is go... ...en she looked much surprised to find her- self lying on Mrs. Elwood’s damp flags—a circumstance ex- tremely distressing to Mrs. Elwood, who wanted to ...