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... to keep them on,” he said with emphasis, and she noticed that he wore big blue spectacles with sidelights, and had a bush side-whisker over his coat-... ... which startled Mrs. Hall. It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his e... ... saw now, with a brown gloved hand, and regarding her with his inscrutable blue glasses. “Leave the hat,” he said, speaking very distinctly through th... ...ed his clothes out of the room. She glanced at his white- swathed head and blue goggles again as she was going out of the door; but his napkin was sti... ...oom and looked up, and there, grey and dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in front o... ... went to the south window, threw it up, and leaning out stared down on the network of windows, beaded gas- lamps and shops, with its black interstices... ...id. Light fasci- nated me.” “Ah!” “Optical density! The whole subject is a network of riddles—a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. A...

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...ncentrated by two globe-shaped bottles of water, showed the elder the fine network made by the threads on her pillow, and the younger the most delicat... ...r, one Saturday morning, she caught sight of a narrow strip of cloud- less blue between the black lines of houses, and said to her mother: “Mamma, we ... ... wide valley with its combes sheltering scattered villages, its horizon of blue hills, its church towers, its meadows and fields, whence a murmur came... ...sympathetic pressure, their hearts beat with the same hopes; and under the blue sky and the slanting, rosy beams of sunset, their eyes sparkled with f... ...onds of affection between two persons who truly love. In the middle of the blue drawing-room, in front of the win- dow opening to the balcony, a littl... ...wo gentlemen, he beckoned to a housekeeper, who followed him. Dressed in a blue cloth jacket with short tails, and blue-and- white striped trousers, h...

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... presented itself was “beastly.” And this afternoon, lured by the delusive blueness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had co... ... spring buds were wilted, the sunlight metallic and the shadows mixed with blue-black ink. T o the moralist I know he might have served as a figure of... ...-side in which they had wandered, and see Port Burdock spread out below, a network of interlacing street lamps and shifting 17 H G Wells tram lights ... ...reen, the duck-pond, a waiting waggon, the church tower, a sleepy cat, the blue heavens, with the sizzle of the frying audible behind one! The keen sm... ... everything, even when it was not really bright and hopeful. She had large blue expressive eyes and a round face, and she always spoke of her husband ... ..., so that these rather brilliant landscapes were hidden and only the plain blue enamel showed, and she anticipated the long-con- templated purchase of...

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...vely colours there you see, All colours that were ever seen, And mossy network too is there, As if by hand of lady fair The work had woven bee... ...nd every wind that blows; And there beside the thorn she sits When the blue day light’s in the skies, And when the whirlwind’s on the hill, Or... ... Does this poor woman go? And why sits she beside the thorn When the blue day light’s in the sky, Or when the whirlwind’s on the hill, Or fr... ...! O misery!” And there she sits, until the moon Through half the clear blue sky will go, And when the little breezes make The waters of the po... ... Or hang on tiptoe at the lifted latch; The gloomy lantern, and the dim blue match, The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill, And ear sti... ... He says he is three score and ten, But others say he’s eighty. A long blue livery coat has he, That’s fair behind, and fair before; Yet, meet...

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... She trailed through life in that red dressing-gown, with its row of dirty blue bows down the front, stained, and hooked on awry; a torn flounce at th... ...im gently to walk up the jetty. “I have been buzzing over this town like a bluebottle fly, looking for you high and low. I have heard a lot. I will te... ...ng, but with very few companions only. As they hauled their craft into the network of dark and silent creeks, they could hear the cheering of the crew... ...inct, on the monotonous background of sombre green tints. The clear gap of blue above his head was crossed by the quick flight of white rice-birds who... ... such a deep voice—those vic- torious men; they looked with just such hard blue eyes at their enemies. And she made that voice speak softly to her, th... ...olved in the air. Before his eyes there was now only a space of undulating blue—one big, empty sky growing dark at times… . Where was the sunshine? … ... ...and west—in every place where there was trade: the great family lay like a network over the islands. They lent money to princes, influ- enced the coun... ...f the mate- rial world. The sun was sinking. Under the sky was stretched a network of white threads, a network fine and close- meshed, where here and ... ...dows of the evenings. He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great inden...

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...w as a lane and absolutely riotous with life. The walls of the houses were blue; the shops of the Chinamen yawned like cavernous lairs; heaps of nonde... ...d, upon the level expanse, profound and glistening like the gaze of a dark-blue eye, an oblique band of stippled purple lengthened itself indefinitely... ...like full-blown blossoms on the rim of a vase; and the quiet sheet of dark-blue water, crossed by a bar of purple, made a background for the spinning ... ...el- evated above the line of the sea horizon glided rap- idly on the paler blue of the sky. In an open space near the little bridge each turn-out trot... ...ching the bar of Batu Beru. “No, Tuan. By-and-by see.” The old Malay, in a blue dungaree suit, planted on his bony dark feet under the bridge awning, ... ...as if unrolled endlessly in the round opening of the port, sent a wavering network of light and shade into the place. Sterne, holding the door open wi...

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...ought the smallest and cleverest, a white dog with a feathery coat and one blue and one brown eye. It seemed to have been ill-treated by the gypsies, ... ...astle; but one day she found a young sheep-dog, a brindled puppy with good blue eyes, ly- ing with a broken leg in the snow of the park. Y ves de Corn... ...nclosure did not a magnolia open its hard white flowers against the watery blue of April? And was there not, a little way down the line, a fence foame... ...she sat in her usual place, with knitting cast aside and eyes fixed on the blue sky mottled with round clouds, a knock at the door announced the entra... ...signation. T o-day , however, it seemed harder than usual to turn from the blue sky and the blossoming magnolia to Mrs. Sampson’s unsuggestive face, a... ...etext for coming back to see. Granice suddenly felt himself enveloped in a network of espionage. As the door closed he threw himself into an armchair ...

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...lls vague room that is the background of so many good por- traits, a great blue-coated figure with a soft voice and rather tired eyes, explaining very... ...over every cat he saw upon the road, I talked to de T essin about this big blue-coated figure of Joffre, which is not so much a figure as a great gene... ...d-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying white puffs, ... ...ard of soil to find gravel. One travelled through a choking dust under the blue sky, and above the steady incessant dusty succession of lorry, lorry, ... ...le piece of woodland in the eye of God and the aeroplane. I went about the network of rail- ways and paths under the trees that a modern battery re- q... ... Here and there were huge holes through which one could look down upon the blue trickles of water in the stony river bed far below. The driver of our ...

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...ng through every crevice of the exquisite open fretwork, was the intensely blue sky of early autumn. The lower longer panes of the window were closed,... ...her appointments. Christina scarcely knew how she conveyed herself and her blue kirtle across the bemired stones to the next and still darker portal, ... ...not know. Let me see,” said Ermentrude, rising; but at the window her pale blue eyes gazed vacantly as if she did not know what she was looking at or ... ...bonds, and dashed down with redoubled voice, roaring rather than babbling. Blue and pink hepaticas—or, as Christina called them, liver-krauts—had push... ... old Ursel—the sheet of snow had dwindled to a mere wreath—the ford looked blue in the sunshine—the cascade tinkled merrily down its rock—mountain pri... ...is it with him now, Ebbo?” “Swarming down another slender bit of the stone network. 147 Yo n g e It must be easy now to one who could keep head and h...

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...after farther consideration, being relegated to a small table covered with blue and white beadwork, which held a Bible and prayer-book, and an illus- ... ...he younger sister re-entered the room. Evelina’s cheeks were pink, and her blue eyes glittered; but it seemed to Ann Eliza that the coquettish tilt of... ...omehow regarded as magnifying its significance. The following Sunday broke blue and warm. The Bunner sisters were habitual church-goers, but for once ... ...ghs, a cat dozed on the edge of an old well, and from tree to tree ran the network of clothes-line that denoted Mrs. Hochmuller’s calling. Beyond the ... ...e fear of the law, some half-formed vi- sion of Evelina in the clutch of a blue-coated “officer,” kept Ann Eliza from invoking the aid of the police. ... ... that Evelina could see from her bed, gentle clouds floated over it in the blue, and now and then the cry of a flower- seller sounded from the street....

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...s were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sicknes... ...ut. While this was going on, someone removing my tappa cloak slipped on a blue frock in its place, and another, actuated by the same desire to make a... ...APPENED AT HYTYHOO LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS after leaving Nukuheva, the blue, looming island of St. Christina greeted us from afar. Drawing near t... ...ty—a white man, in the South Sea girdle, and tattooed in the face. A broad blue band stretched across his face from ear to ear, and on his forehead wa... ...ss his face from ear to ear, and on his forehead was the taper figure of a blue shark, nothing but fins from head to tail. Some of us gazed upon this ... ... of the husk of the cocoa-nut, and woven into an exceedingly light sort of network, forming its elastic body. Spread upon this was a single, fine mat,...

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...ology to be able to enter into such feelings as ours. Grauben was a lovely blue-eyed blonde, rather given to gravity and seriousness; but that did not... ... ingenuous face, seemed to me very intelligent; they were of a dreamy sea- blue. Long hair, which would have been called red even in England, fell in ... ...g cold with unspeakable terror. The fireball, half of it white, half azure blue, and the size of a ten-inch shell, moved slowly about the raft, but re... ...f mysteri- ous light nimbly leaps aside; it approaches Hans, who fixes his blue eye upon it steadily; it threatens the head of my uncle, who falls upo... ...thujas, representatives of the conifers. were linked together by a tangled network of long climbing plants. A soft carpet of moss and hepaticas luxuri... ...s spun into endless ribbons and bands, so that we seemed confined within a network of shifting lines. I supposed we were running at the rate of thirty... ...the blood-stained ground. 199 Jules Verne CHAPTER XLIV SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN When I opened my eyes again I felt myself grasped by the...

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...m.” Madame Michu looked appealingly to heaven. A beautiful fair woman with blue eyes, composed and thoughtful in ex- pression and made like an antique... ...stooned upon his breeches. The shirt was adorned with a cameo in white and blue. The coat, cinnamon-colored, was a treasure to carica- turists by reas... ...s, and of insolent, half-jovial cruelty. These ferreting and perspicacious blue eyes, glassy and glacial, might be taken for the model of that famous ... ...y held in place by the weight of his hob-nailed shoes. Above his jacket of blue cloth he wore a cloak of some coarse woollen stuff woven in black and ... ...nd men under arms. At the same time a formidable conspiracy was throwing a network over the whole of France, including among its mem- bers montagnards... ...and lily-white as though nature had made her for a wager. The lines of her blue veins could be seen through the delicate close texture of her skin. He...

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...k pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls, yellow, blue, and black pearls, the curious productions of the divers molluscs of e... ...he back; the Japanese scombrus, a beautiful mackerel of these seas, with a blue body and silvery head; the brilliant azurors, whose name alone defies ... ...me alone defies description; some banded spares, with var- iegated fins of blue and yellow; the woodcocks of the 71 Jules Verne seas, some specimens ... ...ts, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yel- low, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist! Why coul... ...s formed a brilliant garden of flow- ers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea- stars studding the sandy bottom. It was a real grief t... ...ilst verdure was spread at our feet, it did not abandon our heads. A light network of marine plants, of that inex- haustible family of seaweeds of whi... ...t truly be said that between his assailants and himself he had stretched a network of electricity which none could pass with impunity. Meanwhile, the ...

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...full and fresh face, a low but white and smooth forehead and little bright blue eyes, out of which he looked in a very queer way from under his brows ... ...ith- out raising his voice; but his eyes, not large but saucily bright and blue, were rivetted on Avdotya; at first she turned away from them, then sh... ...ound-bellied coffee 97 Turgenev pot beside a cut glass sugar bowl and two blue China cups. The guitar was lying there, too, and blue-grey smoke rose ... ...tted her brows, her delicate, high, rounded eyebrows, between which a dark blue mark, probably burnt in with 100 Knock, Knock, Knock and other storie... ...yevitch wondered. “From the smoke,” he reassured himself. “There is such a blue smoke here.” And again someone was lulling him and even whispering in ... ...t and sinewy, with yellowish grey whiskers, an unshaven chin and a perfect network of wrinkles on his cheeks and forehead. His wife looked older than ...

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...n them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by blue grains of mist. Mr. Denham had come in as Mr. Fortescue, the eminent n... ...and revealed a square mass of red-and-gold books, and then a long skirt in blue-and-white paint lus- trous behind glass, and then a mahogany writing-t... ...nd then went on, as if these spaces had all been calculated. “That lady in blue is my great-grandmother, by Millington. Here is my uncle’s walking-sti... ... through her fingers, while her background was made up equally of lustrous blue-and-white paint, and crimson books with gilt lines on them. The vitali... ...ne, but any 14 Night and Day hint of sharpness was dispelled by the large blue eyes, at once sagacious and innocent, which seemed to regard the world... ...w, and Mary felt, at last, that she was the center ganglion of a very fine network of nerves which fell over England, and one of these days, when she ...

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...ignon when I saw it for the first time. It was covered like a melon with a network of tracery. Over it stood an equestrian portrait of Henri III., und... ...slender, and almost delicate-looking, but muscular. He had the bril- liant blue eyes of the d’Esgrignons, the finely-moulded aqui- line nose, the perf... ...on of a commander of the Order of St. Louis blazing upon his breast; and a blue coat with wide skirts, and fleur-de-lys on the flaps, which were turne... ...ny ordinary mortal, with an umbrella in his hand; he did not even wear the Blue Ribbon, without which no knight of the order could have appeared in pu... ...sometimes find a hold in the damp niches, and weave a crown of beauti- ful bluebell flowers about the carved stone. At this moment the blue buds were ... ...y chin. Her eyes never left his; but thoughts by myriads flitted under the blue surface, like gleams of stormy light between two 77 Balzac clouds. He...

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... on a short, slight, pretty fig ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a si... ...il he had the full T ellson flavour A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 48 and blue mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly p... ... Attorney General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was... ... motive too. He was a true Briton, and hoped there were many like him. The blue flies buzzed again, and Mr. Attorney General called Mr. Jarvis Lorry. ... ...to tears, “I may not repay him by doing him harm to day.” Buzzing from the blue flies. “Miss Manette, if the prisoner does not perfectly under stand ... ...t, on one knee behind them, with his agitated hand always gliding over the network of fine nerves about his mouth and nose; Defarge standing between t...

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...long look at the stalwart workman in paper cap, leather breeches, and dark-blue wor- sted stockings. Adam, unconscious of the admiration he was exciti... ...tter care of the tall mansion which lifted its parapets and sent its faint blue summer smoke among them. Doubtless there was a large sweep of park and... ... the fields through which he and Dinah had already passed; and I think his blue linen handker- chief was very wet with tears long before he had made u... ...a buff neckerchief, and below this you see a sort of short bedgown made of blue-checkered linen, tied round the waist and descending to the hips, from... ...was only eighteen, making his escape in the morning twilight with a little blue bundle over his shoulder, and his “men- suration book” in his pocket, ... ...y is in my ears, mingling with the twittering of a bird out- side the wire network window—the window overlooking the garden, and shaded by tall Guelde... ...y claim to a fifth letter), the old man with the close leather cap and the network of wrinkles on his sun-browned face. Was there any man in Loamshire...

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...errace. It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic network of boughs, it has some how enclosed a hint of spiritual beauty, an... ...ir of pantaloons—all of which improvements I am sorry for. Squash Blossom, Blue Eye, Plantain, and Buttercup have had the scarlet fever, but came easi... ...n, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again. But as I do not know when I shall re v... ...and other such un seasonable merriment among the victims, before the high blue mountains of Crete began to show themselves among the far off clouds. ... ...ards the prostrate form of Antaeus. With every step, he looked less like a blue moun 40 TanglewoodTales tain, and more like an immensely large man. ... ...argin of the sand, the treacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europ...