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...uts there is plenty of room, and cheap. Indeed so cheap—dirt cheap— is the soil, that our elms thrust out their roots in it, and hang their great boug... ...!— merely—I say I was merely digging-round my chimney.” “Ah, loosening the soil, to make it grow. Your chimney, sir, you regard as too small, I suppos...

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...e Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 99 is, in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of...

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...d news for me, for I had hope of France, Even as I have of fertile England’s soil. A day will come when York shall claim his own; And therefore I will... ... And sends the poor well pleased from my gate. CADE: Here’s the lord of the soil come to seize me for a stray, for entering his fee simple without le...

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...ie, the tent was left far behind, and we were flying over the smooth sandy soil at racing speed. In another we had passed the wretched dog, and I had ... ...was in the open, I saw Pornic, my poor old Pornic, lying dead on the sandy soil. How they had killed him I cannot guess. Gunga Dass explained that ho...

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...e strong city of Athens, the people of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove’s daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established ... ...lain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping fore most of the Achæans upon the soil of Troy. Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were... ...th his head and shoulders buried deep in the dust—for he had fallen on sandy soil till his horses kicked him and laid him flat on the ground, as Antil... ... of the spoils—but Jove does not give all men their heart’s desire. The same soil shall be reddened here at T roy by the blood of us both, for I too s... ... brought him down. Nine roods did he cover in his fall, and his hair was all soiled in the dust, while his armour rang rattling round him. But Minerva...

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...orset your son, that with a fearful soul Leads discontented steps in foreign soil, This fair alliance quickly shall call home To high promotions and g...

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...f the clustering aphis which is so destructive to plants growing in a damp soil. And yet it was not because the damp had been excluded from the garden... ... the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate. Now I have ... ...Monte Cristo the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her h...

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...r frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children?s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a trouble...

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... be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood; Nor more shall tren... ...lter Blunt, new lighted from his horse. Stain’d with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours; And he hath brought us sm...

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...f the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress, the walls of which were about one hundred and twenty cubits high, having numerous angles and ornamental towers that stood out like jewels in thi...

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... the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fort...

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...metal, and in this Venetian plain you need but to scrape through a yard of soil to find gravel. One travelled through a choking dust under the blue sk... ...rian shells began to come over. They do not use shrapnel because the rocky soil of Italy makes that unneces- sary. They fire a sort of shell that goes... ...cation for a claim that the decisive battle of the war was fought upon the soil of Italy. There is still more justification for saying that it might h... ...elds are destroyed. They are wildernesses of shell craters; the old worked soil is buried and great slabs of crude earth have been flung up over it. N... ...ench army rely in this sani- tary task of shoving the German Thing off the soil of Bel- gium and France back into its own land. A man who is fre- quen... ...nto action before six months are out. We ought to get the war on to German soil before the T anks have grown to more than three or four times their pr... ...yer and more heavily armed and equipped. It will swim over and through the soil at a pace of ten or twelve miles an hour. In front of it will be corn,... ...ith a swaying motion, devouring the ground beneath it. Behind it masses of soil and rock, lumps of turf, splintered wood, bits of houses, occasional s... ...ll leave a wake, six or seven times as wide as a high road, from which all soil, all cultivation, all sem- blance to cultivated or cultivatable land w...

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...nd slumbering. And so when the hind came to the well, for heat she went to soil, and there she lay a great while; and the dog came after, and umbecast... ... the huntress, that knew by the dog that she had, that the hind was at the soil in that well; and there she came stiffly and found the hind, and she p... ...unting, and God knoweth I saw ye not; but as here was a barren hind at the soil in this well, and I weened to have done well, but my hand swerved. Ala...

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... with our council we have done. For that our kingdom’s earth should not be soil’d Richard II, Act I, scene iii 14 With that dear blood which it hath ... ...uld not stay. HENRY BOLINGBROKE : Then, England’s ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu; My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet! Where’er I wander,... ...oy’d, I will go root away The noisome weeds, which without profit suck The soil’s fertility from wholesome flowers. Servant: Why should we in the com... ...On equal terms to give him chastisement? Either I must, or have mine honor soil’d With the attainder of his slanderous lips. There is my gage, the man...

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...hey had never disputed about it nor analyzed it. Such a nature is a virgin soil, conscience has not been tampered with, feeling is deep and strong; re...

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...and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stratum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet coming to view,—may it not be good to protest against such a Life,... ...ain a name. Mountainous Auvergne re- elects her Romme: hardy tiller of the soil, once Mathemati- cal Professor; who, unconscious, carries in petto a r... ...uit- ism, that the whole race of Bourbons should be marched forth from the soil of France; this Prince Egalite to bring up the rear. Motions which mig... ...count of the faith that is in him. Persons Suspect had as well depart this soil of Liberty! And yet departure too is bad: all Emigrants are declared T... ...et Aristocrats, Federal- ists, Monsieurs vanish, and all men tremble: ‘The Soil of Liberty shall be purged, ’—with a vengeance! Neither hitherto has t... ...tte and her little Son,—wherewith Hu- man Speech had better not further be soiled. She has an- swered Hebert; a Juryman begs to observe that she has n... ...d of Patriotism, smiting Cimmeria back to its own borders, from the sacred soil. In fact the Government is what we can call Revolutionary; and some me... ...hymns,’ forces Austria be- hind the Sambre again; has hopes of purging the soil of Liberty. With hard wrestling, with artillerying and ca-ira- ing, it... ...er Fleurus in the Netherlands, where General Jourdan, having now swept the soil of Liberty, and ad- vanced thus far, is just about to fight, and sweep...

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...nd firm by honor: We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, When we have soil’d them, nor the remainder viands We do not throw in unrespective sie... ...y to myself The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; But I would have the soil of her fair rape Wiped off, in honorable keeping her. What treason w... ...e merits well to have her, that doth seek her, Not making any scruple of her soilure, With such a hell of pain and world of charge, And you as well to... ...ather think this not Cressid. ULYSSES: What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers? TROILUS: Nothing at all, unless that this were she. TH...

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...tten. The sentiments are natu- ral, the imagery is apt and redolent of the soil, the music of the verse appeals to the dullest ear. It has no smell of... ... raw young squire, ‘reeking,’ Beau Beamish writes of him, ‘one half of the soil, and t’ other half of the town,’ had involved Chloe in his familiar re...

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...ntle Lady Arbella faded away and died. They dug a grave for her in the new soil, where the roots of the pine trees impeded their spades; and when her ... ...ish would not have been so pitiless as to deny them graves in their native soil. The dead were happy; for they were not exiles! While they thus stood ... ...w lie buried around that ancient fortress. When the plough passes over the soil, it turns up here and there a mouldering bone. Up to this period, none... ...aceful thoughts and gentle spirit. “His life blood streamed to baptize the soil which he had added to the do minion of Britain. His dying breath was ...

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... cried Alice. ‘I have learnt to breathe freer since I have been on English soil,’ said Esclairmonde, smiling; ‘but where I may rest at last, Heaven on... ...is lineage of a good house in Gloucestershire.’ ‘More shame that he should soil his hands with trade!’ said the Queen. ‘See what you say when he has c... ...r work! The fel- lows, whence came they?’ Favoured by the fog and the soft soil of the meadows, a considerable body of the enemy were stealing on the ... ...her meet the King thus, for it is my fitting garb. Only I would remove the soil of the journey, and then take my sister by the hand.’ For this there w... ...thumberland; and James, flinging himself from his horse, kissed his native soil, and gave thanks aloud to God, ere he stood up and received the homage...

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...in and sew a little, but hated both; and her clumsy, listless fingers only soiled and wasted Christina’s needles, silk, and lute strings, and such dam... ... wretched rye and buck- wheat, subject to severe toll from the lord of the soil. Perched on a hollow rock above the slope was a rude little church, ov... ...more graceful than when, in the city, it was trodden by horse and man, and soiled with smoke. Christina dreaded indeed that the roads should be open, ... ... she had been answered with contempt that my young lord would not have her soil her delicate hands, when one of the maids who had been sent to fetch b... ...st and corn glebe. Likewise, her dower shall be upon Wildschloss—where the soil is of the richest pasture, and there are no less than three mills, whe... ... their fathers? Work, beyond the regulated days when they scratched up the soil of his old enclosure, was abhorrent to them. As to his offered coin, t... ...he main body of the waggons, which were waiting on the bit of bare shingly soil that lay between the new and old channels. A wild melee was all that C...

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... cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, Mocking the air with colors idly spread, And find no check? Let us,...