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...bdue all the nations that compasse the Mediterranean Sea, to the gulfe of Mare-Maggiore [the Black Sea], and to that end they traversed all Spaine, ... ... as farre with their slings as with any other shot. Saxis globosis funda, mare apertum incessentes. . . coronas modici circuli magno ex intervallo lo... ...hat he must goe meet them on foot, and present them with a goblet full of mares-milke (a drinke counted very delicious amongst them) which whilst th... ...ng to escape, had no doubt saved himselfe by the swiftnesse of an Arabian mare on which he was mounted that day, if http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/... ... Bishop hath left written, that in the other end of the world there is an island called of our predecessours Dioscorida, very commodious and fertile... ...s for them. Cymon caused a stately honourable tombe to be erected for the Mares, wherewith he had three times gained the prize at running in the Olim...

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...ed his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps. “This is some island of last year’s indigo-crop,” he went on. “We shall find no men here;... ...levels of shining seas; but the Deluge had swept it away, leaving this one island under heaven for Findlayson and his companion, sole survivors of the... ... Man with the drinking-bottle, flinging his staff to the ground, while the island rang to the baying of hounds. “Give her the Justice of the Gods.” “Y... ...ng a little with the cold. “God knows!” said Findlayson. The river and the island lay in full daylight now, and there was never mark of hoof or pug on... ...could not find the horses anywhere till we let Tedda Gabler, the bobtailed mare who throws up the dirt with her big hooves exactly as a tedder throws ... ... plain an’ straight.” “The gentleman talks quite earnest,” said T uck, the mare, to Nip, her brother. There’s no doubt thinkin’ broadens the horizons ... ...s ‘em their chance to ruin colts an’ kill folks. An’, Tuck, waal, you’re a mare anyways—but when a horse comes along an’ covers up all his talk o’ kil... ...eel undersized and unhappy all the same,” said Kittiwynk, a mouse-coloured mare with a red brow-band and the cleanest pair of legs that ever an aged p... ...the station; and native horse-dealers running about on thin- eared Biluchi mares, looking for a chance to sell a few first- class polo-ponies. Then th...

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...little red as he answered, ‘Oh, I shall have two, ’ he said; ‘that is, the mare I have had these two years, and the horse my father gave me this morni... ...the horse my father gave me this morning. ’ ‘What! only those two? and the mare is nothing more than a pony. ’ ‘She is fifteen hands, ’ said Frank, of... ...n the best thing you have, and I’ll bring, not the black horse, but my old mare; and then do you try to keep near me. If I don’t leave you at the back... ... I don’t leave you at the back of God-speed before long, I’ll give you the mare and the horse too. ’ The Honourable John was not known in Barsetshire ... ... Romer had not yet ceased to wonder at new worlds, as he skimmed among the islands of that south- ern ocean, before the edict had gone forth for his r... ...ve stood at any price in getting her for you. By Jove! if you were on that mare, I’d back you, for style and appearance, against anything in Hyde Park...

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...‘Of course you know Harold Smith is going to give us a lecture about these islanders. ’ Mr Sowerby said to him, as they sat round the fire over their ... ...uld not do much to facilitate the business. ‘They are the most magnificent islands under the sun, ’ said Harold Smith to the bishop. ‘Are they, indeed... ...ted to Christianize them, as the bishop so properly wishes to do with your islanders. ’ ‘Supplehouse, you are not fair, ’ said Mr Sowerby, ‘neither to... ...e crammed to overflowing with Sarawak, Labuan, New Guinea, and the Salomon Islands. As is the case with all men labouring under temporary specialities... ...ng her title. Miss Dunstable swore that she would wed none but a South Sea Islander; and to Mark was offered the income and duties of Bishop of Spices... ...ear-old filly, and that magnificent Rattlebones colt, out of a Mouse- trap mare; but he had other things that lay heavy on his mind, and after bestowi... ...dred and thirty. Do you ever remember to have seen a perfect horse?’ ‘Your mare Mrs Gamp was as nearly perfect as possible. ’ ‘Even Mrs Gamp had her f... ...ses to look at, somehow or other he never has one fit to go. That chestnut mare is a picture, now that nobody wants her; but she wasn’t able to carry ... ...hat he had unwittingly touched pitch, gone to Gatherum Castle, ridden fast mares across the country to Cobbold’s Ashes, and fallen very imprudently am...

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...ST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 9...

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...N—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAP... ...y, Nov. 4th. At day break saw land upon our larboard quarter. There were two islands, of different size but of the same shape; rather high, beginnin... ... and in a few hours we sank them in the northeast. These were the Falkland Islands. We had run between them and the main land of Patagonia. At suns... ...t head, said that he saw land on the starboard bow. This must have been the island of Staten Land; and we were now in the region of Cape Horn, with a... ...reathing of whales. It was on the night that we passed between the Falkland Islands and Staten Land. We had the watch from twelve to four, and coming... ...new and rich farming region, the Napa Valley, the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, the river gold workings, and the Geysers, and old Mr. John ... ...ar as to stop at Vallejo to breakfast. The United States Navy Yard, at Mare Island, near Vallejo, is large and well placed, with deep fresh wate...

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...s fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five hundred acres of land thirty years a... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...ad a note book that fairly bristled with the names of towns, “points,” bars, islands, bends, reaches, etc.; but the informa tion was to be found only... ...f my ears hear aright, I have not only to get the names of all the towns and islands and bends, and so on, by heart, but I must even get up a warm per... ...n like a pot, so the historian told me—Uncle Mumford. He said she had a gray mare aboard, and a preacher. To me, this sufficiently accounted for the d... ... will always notice that they are people who have never traveled with a gray mare and a preacher. I went down the river once in such company. We groun... ...if it were yesterday. The men lost their heads with terror. They painted the mare blue, in sight of town, and threw the preacher overboard, or we shou... ...it all, as if it were yesterday.” That this combination—of preacher and gray mare— should breed calamity, seems strange, and at first glance un belie... ... a case where a captain was warned by numerous friends against taking a gray mare and a preacher with him, but persisted in his purpose in spite of al...

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... equally singular view of England. Not only did it appear to them to be an island, and a very small island, but it was a shrinking island in which peo... ...adopted, indeed, a condescending tone towards that poor 88 The Voyage Out island, which was now advancing chilly crocuses and nipped violets in nooks... ... touch- ing their hats and bobbing obsequiously. She went on to deride the islanders themselves. Rumours of London all in a ferment over a General Ele... ...show my hero under all circumstances. Lady Theo Bingham Bingley, whose bay mare he had the good fortune to stop, is the daughter of a very fine old To... ...and crim- son. The river had widened again, and they were passing a little island set like a dark wedge in the middle of the stream. Two great white b... ...th red lights on them stood there on stilt-like legs, and the beach of the island was unmarked, save by the skeleton print of birds’ feet. The branche...

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... He has a white Pony to come and fetch him, and a groom in livery on a bay mare. I wish my Papa would let me have a Pony, and I am Y our dutiful Son, ... ... the whole county, but he found means to attend it. Y ou might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenever t... ...m. “How she sings,—how she paints,” thought he. “How she rode that kicking mare at Queen’s Crawley!” And he would say to her in confidential moments, ... ...owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity Fair – V olume One Islands in some way or other. He died last year, and Miss Pinkerton has fin... ... had helped to beat Montcalm in Canada, and to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical reputation on the oft-t...

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...s at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for some debts... ...s the year and day came round. This journey was performed upon an old grey mare, con cerning whom John had an indistinct set of ideas hovering about ... ...take care of it; and mind you don’t make too much haste back, but give the mare a long rest.—Do you mind?’ ‘A y, I mind,’ returned Joe. ‘She’ll need i... ...een so much money, in a heap. A shilling of it is in case of accidents—the mare casting a shoe, or the like of that. The other sixpence is to spend in... ...ortune to bestride. John stood staring after him, or rather after the grey mare (for he had no eyes for her rider), until man and beast had been out o... ...lowly re entering the house, fell into a gentle doze. The unfortunate grey mare, who was the agony of Joe’s life, floundered along at her own will and... ...s being more consistent (so she argued) with a benighted Mussulman or wild Islander than with a stanch Protestant. Arguing from this imperfect state o... ...e open sky—no one will repine for him. But forty thousand men of this our island in the wave (ex clusive of women and children) rivet their eyes and... ...ht of (I ran away on the same day, father), he made a voyage to one of the islands, where a school friend of his had settled; and, finding him, wasn’t...

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...ch hangs at my saddle- bow weighs but as a feather.” “We hear much of that island sovereign,” said the Saracen. “Art thou one of his subjects?” “One o... ...onoured in the service; but not born his subject, although a native of the island in which he reigns.” “How mean you? “ said the Eastern soldier; “hav... ...mean you? “ said the Eastern soldier; “have you then two kings in one poor island?” “As thou sayest,” said the Scot, for such was Sir Kenneth by birth... ... even so; and yet, although the inhabitants of the two extremities of that island are engaged in frequent war, the country can, as thou seest, furnish... ...s and Swedes; but it is only that which di- vided the two nations whom one island bred, and who seemed more animated against each other for the very r... ...in case he be restive, fetch thou Dick Hunter’s horn, that he drenches his mare withal.” A circle was instantly formed around the prostrate and exhaus... ...n once, and active, than the ambling pace at which the animal (which was a mare) proceeded. “The conditions of that horse,” observed the sententious p... ... of God. Time lays his touch so lightly on these generous steeds, that the mare on which thou now sittest has seen five times five years pass over her...

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...for his own, the Marquis told him to put his boots on, and a saddle on the mare, and ride hither and thither to such and such people. WHEN THE YOUNG M... ...onia, Grand Duke of Cappadocia, Sovereign Prince of Turkey and the Sausage Islands, having assumed our rightful throne and title, long time falsely bo...

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... the cavalry; and the same year he married the beauti- ful daughter of the Marechal de Larges. This marriage, which was purely political in its incept... ... the camp of Guinsheim, upon the old Rhine, in the army com- manded by the Marechal Duc de Lorges. In 1691 I was studying my philosophy and beginning ... ...Monsieur (Duc d’Orleans, brother of the King); M. le Prince (de Conde) and Marechal d’Humieres; all four, the one under the other, commanded in the Ki... ...e confidence of the King, and the esteem of the army. The Prince de Conde, Marechal d’Humieres, and the Mar- quis de Boufflers each led an attack. The... ... always dangled about the Court, where they had many powerful friends. The Marechale de Rochefort was lady of honour. She was 20 Saint-Simon of the h... ...hese were more than swallowed up by a fatal loss in another direction. The island of Sardinia, which was then under the Spanish Crown, was lost throug... ...ossession of by the troops of the Arch- duke. In the month of October, the island of Minorca also fell into the hands of the Archduke. Port Mahon made... ...manent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek his bread,...

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...g Mark and of Sir Marhaus they let ordain that they should fight within an island nigh Sir Marhaus’ ships; and so was Sir Tristram put into a vessel b... ...ardy himself for their right. CHAPTER VI How Sir Tristram arrived into the Island for to furnish the battle with Sir Marhaus. S o to shorten this tale... ...arhaus. S o to shorten this tale, when Sir Tristram was arrived within the island he looked to the farther side, and there he saw at an anchor six shi... ...nd upon thy life, said Sir Tristram to Gouvernail, come thou not nigh this island till that thou see me overcome or slain, or else that I win yonder k... ...ad of you, for ye are he that slew Marhaus the knight, hand for hand in an island, for the truage of Cornwall; also ye overcame Sir Palamides the good... ...r Lamorak, on thy part or on mine, bear thou it an thou wilt, for though a mare’s son hath failed me, now a queen’s son shall not fail thee; and there...

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...ng a pair of slippers to the little feet. “We might as well be in a desert island,” continued Vera, “shut up from everything with an old frump.” “T ak... ...’t have us be- cause she is a governess. We might as well be upon a desert island at once.” Agatha could not help laughing and repeating - “I am out o... ...y this afternoon, between the pony carriage and 26 Modern Broods Shanks’s mare. I want to ask about some lessons, and we could see about the hire of ... ... were over, Thekla expressed her hopes that they had been cast on a desert island and would bring home Man Friday. 82 Modern Broods The Goyle ladies ...

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...g him headlong like a sack of sand. But he eased off the bit, gripping the mare’s flanks with his knees, and the buck- skin, having long since known h... ... tissue paper from the “Phrygian Bonnets” and “Liberty Caps.” The buckskin mare in the stall, dozing on three legs, changed position with a long sigh.... ... all sound of the flowing of the creek, and also the noise of the buckskin mare’s hoofs descend- ing from the trail upon the gravel about the creek, s... ...table-man, and Dyke himself, dart- ing hither and thither about the yellow mare, buckling, strapping, cinching, their lips pale, their fingers trembli... ...vision house that rose with its surrounding trees out of the wheat like an island. He reached it, the blood squelching in his shoes. But the sight of ... .... We’ve as good as got him now.” Their horses, including even the buckskin mare that Dyke had ridden, were still at the station. The party swung thems... ...he mother and child, alone, shivering in a little strip of damp ground, an island drifting aimlessly in empty space. Hilda’s fingers touched a leaf fr...

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...ent for such a consequence as they from thence derived coming to visit the island, they took notice of such grounds as were best husbanded, and such c... ...pon the enemy, with inten- tion to strike home but not to ward a blow. The Island of Gozzo being taken some years ago by the Turks, a Sicilian, who ha... ...operly, and with greater advantage, to be turned upon themselves. The late Mareschal de Montluc having lost his son, who died in the island of Madeira... ...selves. The late Mareschal de Montluc having lost his son, who died in the island of Madeira, in truth a very worthy gentle- man and of great expectat... ... put on mourning at their death. Cimon gave an honourable sepulture to the mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the O... ...nto the paddock an old horse, as he was not to be governed when he smelt a mare: the facility presently sated him as towards his own, but towards stra... ...: the facility presently sated him as towards his own, but towards strange mares, and the first that passed by the pale of his pasture, he would again... ...: “Tanti mihi non sit opaci Omnis arena Tagi, quodque in mare volvitur aurum.” [“I would not buy rich Tagus sands so dear, nor all t...

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...cks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to Agamemnon to bear, that over many islands and all Argos he should be lord. Thereon he leaned and spake his sa... ... their backs. These were reared in Peraia by Apollo of the silver bow, two mares carrying onward the terror of battle. But of 39 The Iliad of Homer w... ... Demokoon, Priam’s bastard son that had come to him from tending his fleet mares in Abydos. Him Odysseus, being wroth for his comrade’s sake, smote wi... ...n his glory, and nimbly his limbs bear him to the haunts and pasturages of mares; even so Priam’s son Paris, glit tering in his armour like the shini... ... themselves with his flesh. So they fought like unto burning fire. But the mares of Neleus all sweating bare Nestor out of the battle, and also carrie... ...ysians, fierce fighters hand to hand, and the proud Hippemolgoi that drink mare’s milk, and the Abioi, the most righteous of men. T o T roy no more at... ...when a smoke issueth from a city and riseth up into the upper air, from an island afar off that foes beleaguer, while the others from their city fight...

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...d Souls The tour began with a view of the stables, where the party saw two mares (the one a grey, and the other a roan) and a colt; which latter anima... ... later.” “But I do not mean to buy the colt, damn him!” “Then buy the roan mare.” “No, nor the roan mare.” “Then you shall have both the mare and the ... ...s interlocutor, but continued to decline either the grey horse or the roan mare. “Then buy a few dogs,” said Nozdrev. “I can sell you a couple of hide... ...e declared that Napoleon was Antichrist, and would one day escape from his island prison to exercise universal sway on earth. Nay, some good folk had ... ...till there lay sheets of water left by the floods of winter, and where the island-like patches of forest showed leafless boughs; while at another time...

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...were called Britons. And the country he came to see? That was our very own island, England, only it was not called so then. And the place where Julius... ...k. One of their emperors, named Claudius, sent his soldiers to conquer the island, and then came to see it himself, and called himself Brittanicus in ... ... then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Ar... ... There were generally about seven kings, each with a different part of the island and as they were often at war with one another, they used to steal o... ...mined to punish the cruel, treacherous king and people, and take the whole island for his own. He did punish the people, kill- ing, burning, and plund... ...uld not bear the sight of her, and said they had sent him a great Flanders mare by way of queen. So he made Cranmer find some fool- ish excuse for bre...

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...here came A centaur full of fury, shouting, “Where Where is the caitiff?” On Maremma’s marsh Swarm not the serpent tribe, as on his haunch They swarm’... ...na, in the sultry time ‘Twixt July and September, with the isle Sardinia and Maremma’s pestilent fen, Had heap’d their maladies all in one foss Togeth... .... Thy seed] Thy ancestry. v. 15. Not him] Capanaeus. Canto XIV. v. 18. On Marenna’s marsh.] An extensive tract near the sea shore in Tuscany. v. 24... ...ed as a remarkably sluggish stream, in the Paradise, Canto XIII. 21. v. 47. Maremma’s pestilent fen.] See Note to Canto XXV. v. 18. v. 58. In Aegina... ... a will, leaving Simon his heir; for which service he was renumerated with a mare of extraordinary value, here called “the lady of the herd.” v. 39. ... ...e horn which Orlando won from the giant Jatmund, and which as Turpin and the Islandic bards report, was endued with magical power, and might be heard ... ... The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 126 v. 82. Capraia and Gorgona.] Small islands near the mouth of the Arno. v. 94. There very weeping suffers no...

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...oe and the boat, a fur trader’s boat. The ferry here took us past the Indian island. As we left the shore, I observed a short, shabby, washerwoman loo... ...In 1837 there were three hundred and sixty two souls left of this tribe. The island seemed deserted to day, yet I observed some new houses among the w... ... Penobscot, having a more or less constant view of the river, and the Indian islands in it, for they retain all the islands as far up as Nickatow, at ... ...Oldtown. Learning that there were several wigwams here, on one of the Indian islands, we left our horse and wagon, and walked through the forest half ... ... with pleasant meadows and graceful elms. We paddled ourselves across to the island side in a canoe, which we found on the shore. Near where we landed... ...e did not remember the driver. He said that he had taken care of that little mare for a short time, a year or two before, at the Mount Kineo House, an...

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...eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequa... ... like a peal of beals! When we compare the Farmer’s Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie, with the clever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century ea... ...lever and inhumane pro- duction of half a century earlier, The Auld Man ’s Mare ’s Dead, we see in a nutshell the spirit of the change introduced by B... ...in the light of a kill-joy. I take it, when missionaries land in South Sea Islands and lay strange em- *Champollion-Figeac, 383, 384-386. *Works, ii. ... ... Familiar Studies of Men & Books bargo on the simplest things in life, the islanders will not be much more puzzled and irritated than Charles of Orlea...