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...it off the ‘improper’ excel- lently well when he said that such-and-such a British peer did not dare to cross his legs when he sat alone before his ow... ...the ordinary level,” added Blondet. “Well, Godefroid sojourned in the four capitals of Italy,” continued Bixiou. “He lived in England and Germany, he ...

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...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...upplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the British; for wherever there is a sound of ... ... “newly-formed place” in Australia, where the AL- BATROSS was lying, and a British ship, which he knew to be a man-of-war “because the officers were n... ...e contrast, it is necessary that I should give some description of the two capitals, or the two camps, and the ways and means of the regular and irreg...

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...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ... and more than they had omitted. It was a strangely embarrassing thing for British journal- ism. Never was there a more obvious or uninteresting affai... ...ations were in progress for the acquisition of this precious secret by the British Gov- ernment were in danger of falling through. The London Daily Re... ...’s limitless. It’s the last confusion. They’re bombard- 155 H G Wells ing capitals, smashing up dockyards and factories, mines and fleets.” “Did they... ... pestilence had done nothing to damage these, and it was only to the great capitals and ganglionic centres, as it were, of this State, that positive d...

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...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...en by couples: and, in this point, beyond comparison with any one of these capitals, that whilst they are connected by slight ties with the circumjace... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...on of moment to any future tourist is, what may be the present value, at a British insurance office, of any given life risked upon a tour in Greece? M... ...s captivity, and reserved from slaughter only by the prospect of ransom; a British nobleman’s son from death or the consequences of Italian barbarity;... ... life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but that will not repel his travelling instincts. A su...

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...she’s going too.” “Miss Jemima!” exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. “Are you in your senses? Replace the Dixonary in the closet, and ... ... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...over with bills, setting forth the particulars of the furniture in staring capitals. They have hung a shred of carpet out of an upstairs window—a half... ...said, they found themselves in one of the gayest and most brilliant little capitals in Europe, and where all the V anity Fair booths were laid out wit... ...and he preferred the quiet little Belgian city to either of the more noisy capitals. Her aunt was dead. Mrs. Crawley ordered the most intense mourning...

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...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...aming pour along, and rush into the Thames. Thou, too, great Father of the British floods! With joyful pride survey’st our lofty woods; Where towering... ... Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign. No more my sons shall dye with British blood Red Iber’s sands, or Ister’s foaming flood: Safe on my shore ... ...f bright, transparent beryl were the walls, The friezes gold, and gold the capitals: As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows, And ever-living... ...ough my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster’d posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers’ load, On wings of winds came...

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...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes... ... the great things to be seen there. When I told him of that chamber in the British Museum wherein are preserved household memorials of a race that cea... ...tever, between the social fea tures of the United States and those of the British Pos sessions in Canada. For this reason, I shall confine my self ... ... negroes, ’ ‘cash for negroes, ’ is the heading of advertisements in great capitals down the long columns of the crowded journals. Woodcuts of a runaw...

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...rguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure s... ...nd that is why these stories of our sea-captains, printed, so to speak, in capitals, and full of bracing moral influence, are more valuable to England... ...red, two things must be attended to that require no proof: FIRST, that the British constitution is the best that ever was since the creation of the wo...

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...Charles Dickens punction. On every picture ‘Ex voto’ was painted in yellow capitals in the sky. Though votive offerings were not unknown in Pagan Temp... ...e on, nothing daunted, proceeded to entertain him with an ordinance of the British Government, regulating the state he should preserve, and the furnit... ...uld gaze upon the favourite comic scene of the travelling English, where a British nobleman (Lord John), with a very loose stomach: dressed in a blue ... ...ladder and this man, something like (I should think) a charge of the heavy British cavalry at W aterloo. The man was never brought down, how ever, no...

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...y father led me before the cathe- dral monuments, talking in a low tone of British victories, and commending the heroes to my undivided attention. I u... ... father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se- lected hero sh... ... that child’s father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman,’ Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. ‘Before that child your h’s must ... ... the House of Commons; and my father, though he complained of the decay of British eloquence, and mourned for the days of Chatham, and William Pitt (o... ...id, ‘Richie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is a good one, but if you have got the winning tongue, the woo... ...ichmond dozen put together,’ and they servilely joined their fragmen- tary capitals in agreement. She went so far as to retain Peterborough to teach h...

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...netrating and none too flattering portraits of church dignitaries upon the capitals, and when he strolled, with his hands behind his back, along the c... ... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout...

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...the Rowdy Journal, that potentate would denounce him and his ship in large capitals before he was a day older; and would probably assault the memory o... ...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a... ...KES A PURCHASE. SOME ACCOUNT OF EDEN, AS IT APPEARED ON PAPER. ALSO OF THE BRITISH LION. ALSO OF THE KIND OF SYMPATHY PROFESSED AND ENTERTAINED BY THE... ...owever slantin’dicularly—at the subject in hand, I would say, sir, may the British Lion have his talons eradi- cated by the noble bill of the American... ...ominy), regularly printed in a public journal, with all the indignation in capitals, and all the sarcasm in italics. Mrs Hominy had looked on foreign ... ...e table, ‘is, at this present moment—’ ‘Oh! I understand all about paid-up capitals, you know,’ said Jonas. ‘You do?’ cried Tigg, stopping short. ‘I s...

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...thin five arches, supported and connected by slender clustered shafts with capitals of richly carved foliage, were full of solemn richness when contra... ... the peace-maker, to reject the Saint of the Saxons, more civilly than the British bishops did. She must have managed most beautifully, so as to sat- ...

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...s, no longer 21 Balzac dare look boldly in the face of this plague of our capitals. Measures, of course, must change with the times, and such as bear... ... ask him for two sous? He would listen to you solemnly, and tell you, with British precision that would make a slap in the face seem genial, that he p... ...erify a handwriting in pencil, and, above all, a sentence written in Roman capitals, that is to say, with mathematical lines, since capital letters ar... ...s foun- dations of a thousand years old. Carriages run on the level of the capitals of the solid columns under these towers, and formerly their appear... ...hat of this underground world which, from the beginnings of countries with capitals, has dwelt in cellars and slums, in the third limbo of society eve...

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...lem.” 149 Joseph Conrad “But, hang it all!” exclaimed Lingard—”Abdulla is British!” “Abdulla wasn’t there at all—did not go on shore that day. Yet Al... ...re him, he would describe to the surprised Almayer the wonders of European capitals; while Almayer, in exchange, bored him by expounding, with gusto, ...

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... any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet c... ...h and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British 85 Little Dorrit – Book Two subject to be ingenious at his peril: ... ...spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded... ...es Dickens of Mr Dorrit almost constituted a run on the Torlonia Bank. The British Consul hadn’t had such a marriage in the whole of his Consularity. ... ...ompany too; and soon, with their coach load of luxuries from the two great capitals of Europe, they were (like the Goths reversed) beating at the gate...

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... by others, ascertained, in the order of their occur- rence. In the use of capitals Shelley’s practice has been fol- lowed, while an attempt has been ... ... _350 The Spirit that lifts the slave before his lord Stalks through the capitals of armed kings, And spreads his ensign in the wilderness: Exults i... ...f ocean to the Islamite.— Now shall the blazon of the cross be veiled, And British skill directing Othman might, Thunder-strike rebel victory. Oh, kee...

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...supervi- sion small debts grew into large, interests were accumulated upon capitals, movable bonds became heritable, and law charges were heaped upon ... ...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te...

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... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...with free- stone, and supported by small circular columns of the same, the capitals and arches Saxon. It has an east window, and on each side in the w... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

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... White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solo... .... . . . SECTION I. ' This association shall be styled . . . . SET IN SMALL CAPITALS- 45. A. M. and P.M. (ante and post meridiem), and B. c. and A.... ...oes, etc.: The Beginnings of the Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Cru... ...on, Table of Contents, Index, etc., of a specific work, should be set with capitals, without quotation marks : Preface, p. iii; "The Introduction c... ...ut: New Testament times, Old English spelling. Where such words are set in capitals (e. g., in head- lines), or where one of the components contain... ...ap.," and "p." in references to particular passages. Use Roman numer- als (capitals) for Volume, Book, Part, and Division; Roman numerals (lower-ca... ...238. A font, or complete assortment of a given size, of type includes large capitals ("caps "), small capitals ("small caps "), and lower-case lette...