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...t night. Before further could be said the fair object of the dialogue came darting on a trip of little runs, both hands out, all her face one tender s... ...a mark for the talk- ers, and behave as if nothing were in the air-full of darts! Oh, that general whisper!—it makes a coup de massue—a gale to sink t... ...or a man to say he could go on eating for a solid hour. These were notions darting through a half nourished gentle- man nipped in the frame by a sever... ...le mouse of a thought scampered out of one of the chambers of his head and darted along the passages, fetching a sweat to his brows. Well, what- soeve... ...ned ‘I hope I may not have to say so to-night.’ Diana felt the edge of the dart. ‘And meditating railways, you scored our poor land of herds and flock... ... with a blind look at his watch, which he left dangling. He had to talk to drug his thoughts. ‘And mind you,’ said he, when he had rejoined Dacier and... ...the deepest. The simplest were her food. Thus does Na- ture restore us, by drugging the brain and making her crea- ture confidingly animal for its new...

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...l to gather than the cowslip, fragrant as the breath of a cow. And Aurelia darted about, piling the golden heap in her basket with untiring enjoyment;... ...o was flying about, her hat off, her one long curl streaming behind as she darted hither and thither, evading Eugene who was pursuing her. As she paus... ...et. “But Love puts on the yoke, my dear, But Love puts on the yoke; The dart of Love calls forth the tear, As though the heart were broke. The v... ...this myself. Even could I bear the light, the attempt to fix my eyes sends darts shooting through my brain, which would take away my very power of com... ...Lady might be coming to send her to prison. Hark, some one was coming! She darted out, down the steps, along the path like a wild bird from a cage. CH... ...ng on board. “Oh! that is she!” cried Loveday in great agitation. “They’ve drugged her. No harm done. She don’t know it. But it is she!” Sir Amyas, wi... ...trance. A doctor came, and quite confirmed Mr. Wayland’s opinion, that the drug would not prove deleterious, provided the sleep was not disturbed, and...

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...n the work-shop, and quickly slipping into the cupboard, trans- ferred the drug to his pocket. But that had happened ten years ago; and V enn, poor fe... ...with a series of verbal alternatives, trap-doors of evasion from the first dart of ridicule or suspicion. He passed the greater part of the day in the... ...s becoming an ex- pert in physiognomies: his eagerness no longer made rash darts and awkward recoils. He knew now the face he needed, as clearly as if... ...to cover the head when they are engaged in the study of the paintings.” He darted suddenly toward the steps and bent over Wyant’s hat. “Permit me—cove...

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...of eagle wings, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her rally, and her dart, In the forest’s cavern heart, T ells of her victorious aim. Then is p... ...wonders chuckling went. Straight for the roebuck’s neck the bowman spent A dart that laughed at distance and at speed. XIX. Right loud the bugle’s hal... ...nks of me ever with an eager thirst. So can I not of her till circumstance Drugs cravings. Here we see how men advance A doubtful foot, but circle if... ...ere that stroke from a woman or some pettish infant. Aye flies blunted the dart of the man that’s emasculate, noughtworth! Otherwise hits, forth flyin...

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...y, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known. He sold a drug, pretending that it was an antidote to all poisons, and obtained a g... ...med to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him, “How can you preten... ...g an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Bi...

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...chief executioner to hold forth, and it was the function of the acolyte to dart at sleeping infants, yawning infants, restless infants, whimpering inf... ...as butter. ‘Put him along then,’ says Brewer; ‘House of Com- mons.’ Driver darts up, Brewer leaps in, they cheer him as he departs, and Mr Podsnap say... ...n I held the clue. I think he must have got from Riderhood in a paper, the drug, or whatever it was, that after- wards stupefied me, but I am far from... ... to bear, made that not at all adven- turous. But I am not clear about the drug. Thinking out the circumstances on which I found my suspicion, they ar... ... have no right to think ill of me, sir.’ The sharp little way in which she darted a look at him, half sensitively injured, and half pettishly, would h... ...is disturbed recollec- tion of that night when he was striving against the drugged drink, there was but a dim image of Eugene’s person; but he remembe... ...nds, so far.’ At this moment her brother sauntered into view close by. She darted to him, and caught him by the hand. Bradley fol- lowed, and laid his... ...s? You notice where he is now, and how engaged?’ ‘Yes. But Mr Lammle—’ She darts a look at him which he cannot comprehend, and shows him another portr...

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...ul conspiratorial frown, that would not have dis- graced Guido Fawkes, was darted back from the, plastic fea- tures of Master Ripton. Richard gave his... ...ronet be- hind them. The wind was low. Dense masses of smoke hung amid the darting snakes of fire, and a red malign light was on the neighbouring leaf... ...lied to catch a last impression of the young stranger’s lowering face, and darted through. Farmer Blaize laughed and chuckled. “She an’t so fond of he... ...e height, and roam through the Inane. Poetry, love, and such-like, are the drugs earth has to offer to high natures, as she offers to low ones debauch... ...onsultation, for Sir Austin had told him how it stood with the young man, “drugs are not much in cases of this sort. Change! That’s what’s wanted, and... ... tions from the window, they beheld a cab of many boxes, into which Ripton darted and was followed by one in groom’s dress. It was Saturday, the day w... ...t seeking to be too wise,” said the voice. “And getting intoxicated on its drug of comfort!” “Human nature is weak.” “ And Miss Random is an establish... ...ll make men of taste swallow that remarkable composer. Eyes, lips, hearts; darts and smarts and sighs; beauty, duty; bosom, blossom; false one, farewe... ...w strong and fierce the temptation is! how subtle the sleepless desire! it drugs his reason, his honour. For he loves her; she is still the first and ...

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...y fingers. “That’s not it,” cried my uncle, “there’s no sense in it.” Then darting out like a shot, bowling down stairs like an avalanche, he rushed i... ...” he cried. “You had first writ- ten out your sentence the wrong way.” And darting upon the paper, with eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion, ... ...tiny. I went up again to my room, and rolling my portmanteaus downstairs I darted after him. At that moment my uncle was solemnly investing Grauben wi... ...ed their last farewell. Then the horses, roused by the driver’s whistling, darted off at a gallop on the road to Altona. 39 Jules Verne CHAPTER VIII ... ... dextrine, alco- holic ether, liquid acetate of lead, vinegar, and ammonia drugs which afforded me no comfort. Finally, all the articles need- ful to ... ...d see a hawk balancing himself on his wings under the grey cloud, and then darting away south with rapid flight. I felt melancholy under this savage a...

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... hill-front beyond the pine cluster, and ever and again one of these would dart up into the sky with incredible swiftness and soar off upon some dista... ...em with its great compound eyes, but at an ineffectual shot from Cossar it darted off again. Down in a corner of the field, away to the right, several... ...to build a fire! A great column of smoke, shot with blood- red tongues and darting flashes, rushed up into the sky. It was like some huge giant sudden... ...e should do, turning keys in locks and then unlocking them again, mak- ing darts at door and window and bedroom—when the floor clerk came to him. “The... ...by it, that he must fight against Caterham’s voice as one fights against a drug. Facts had altered and were altering beneath that spell. What was the ...

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...ers all; ‘Back, Lartius! Back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!’ ‘Back darted Spurius Lartius, Herminius darted back; 24 A Book of Golden Deeds ... ...n mind, Thrice thirty thousand foes before And the broad flood behind.’ A dart had put out one eye, he was wounded in the thigh, and his work was don... ...ch of these creatures carried a tower containing thirty-two men armed with darts and javelins, and an Indian driver on his neck; and they had 1000 foo... ...ough with ebbing strength and failing num- bers. His hand was pierced by a dart; but a young boy at his side instantly withdrew it, and, launching it ... ...g their pipes sleepily, under their white turbans, cross-legged, among the drugs in their shop windows—these being small open spaces beneath the beaut...

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...; all which I prepar’d to do. This moment my former Notions of Deliverance darted into my Thoughts, for now I found I was like to have a little Ship a... ...ple terribly frighted, especially the Women. The Man that had the Lance or Dart did not fly from them, but the rest did; however as the two Creatures r... ... some Gold, some Silver. I smil’d to my self at the Sight of this Money, 0 Drug! Said I aloud, what art thou good for, Thou art not worth to me, no no... ...was not so much surpris’d with the Lightning as I was with a Thought which darted into my Mind as swift as the Lightning it self: O my Powder! My very... ...iolence as it does in that Place, would give me the Head ach presently, by darting so directly on my Head, without a Cap or Hat on, so that I could no... ... when perhaps there might be twenty or thirty of them together, with their Darts, or their Bows and Arrows, with which they could shoot as true to a M...

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...logs of timber lashed together lying off certain wharves, his shining eyes darted a hungry look. After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rud- der-l... ... freshness on him, appearing with his wife, instantly deserts his wife and darts at Twemlow with: ‘How do you do? So glad to know you. Charming house ... ... bestowed upon him by a gentleman of convivial habits con- nected with the drug-markets, as the beginning of a social chorus, his leading part in the ... ... he sedately signed himself, ‘Yours truly, R. Wilfer.’ He was clerk in the drug-house of Chicksey , V eneering, and Stobbles. Chicksey and Stobbles, h... ...holding her to his breast with a passionate cry, he took up his bundle and darted out at the door, with an arm across his eyes. The white face of the ... ...ffin of his hand by flourishing it 189 Charles Dickens in the air. He now darted it at his patron, who took it, and felt his mind relieved of a great... ...chief executioner to hold forth, and it was the function of the acolyte to dart at sleeping infants, yawning infants, restless infants, whimpering inf... ...n I held the clue. I think he must have got from Riderhood in a paper, the drug, or whatever it was, that after- wards stupefied me, but I am far from... ... to bear, made that not at all adven- turous. But I am not clear about the drug. Thinking out the circumstances on which I found my suspicion, they ar...

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...hat she carried lifted up, somewhat in the Rossetti fashion, seemed almost drugged, as if a strange mass of thoughts coiled in the darkness within her... ...d of Hermione. The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly and as if drugged to this new speaker. ‘No,’ she replied, in a low inhuman tone, that... ...e looked at him along her narrow, pallid cheeks. Her eyes were strange and drugged, heavy under their heavy, drooping lids. Her thin bosom shrugged co... ...he table, she seemed a power, a presence. She listened and attended with a drugged attention. The party was gay and extravagant in appearance, every- ... ...—!’ shrilled the labourer’s wife in disgust. ‘I’ll cover them up.’ And she darted here and there, throwing a duster, an apron, a towel, a table-cloth ... .... Then it sat considering for a moment, erect and kingly. And then, like a dart, it had shot out of the room, through the open window-doors, and into ... ...if you’d seen the intent look on the faces of these boys, and the way they darted in the filth when a coin was flung—really, no vulture or jackal coul... ...e launch, which stood still big above them, her myriad lamps making lovely darts, and sinuous running tongues of ugly red and green and yellow light o... ...ne hatred. Her whole nature seemed sharpened and inten- sified into a pure dart of hate. She could not imagine what it was. It merely took hold of her...

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...ntry, it had enjoyed a fierce and brilliant life. Now it was moribund. The drug store, the two bar-rooms, the hotel at the corner of the old Plaza, an... ...den hats, went to and fro, invariably in couples, coming in and out of the drug store, the grocery store, and haberdasher’s, or lingering in front of ... ...or the fraction of one instant in the bar of light, then, at sight of him, dart back again. There was a sound of hurried footsteps. Annixter, with rec... ...ter-glow. A little after half-past seven, the first carry-all, bearing the druggist of Bonneville and his women-folk, arrived in front of the new barn... ....” “Rot, rot, I know better. Champagne straight and a dash of brandy.” The druggist’s wife and sister retired to the feed room, where a bureau with a ... ...began, report following report, spurts of pale blue smoke jetting like the darts of short spears between the two men, expanding to a haze and drifting... ...nd, her eyes wide, her bosom swelling; then, all at once, turned and fled, dart- ing across the plank that served for a foot bridge over the creek, ga... ... furious haste, Presley, Annixter, Billy the stable-man, and Dyke himself, dart- ing hither and thither about the yellow mare, buckling, strapping, ci... ... ears flattened; started up again, ran to the side, turned back once more, darted away with incredible swiftness, and were lost to view only to be rep...

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...sock in one of them. From Rood-lane to T ower-street, and thereabouts, there was often a subtle flavour of wine: sometimes, of tea. One church near Mi... ...les rejected; and the ways of the town confused him, and he crept aside and lay down in a doorway. He had scarcely got a wink of sleep, when up comes ... ...ood as a party. But one of the worst night sights I know in London, is to be found in the children who prowl about this place; who sleep in the basket... ...ge being left behind at the last Ho- tel, I made the tour of the little town to buy another. In the The Uncommercial Traveller 261 small sunny shops—... ...tient of debate, plunges out of doors, fires in the air, and returns calm and silent to the Palaver. Let the honourable and civilised member similarly... ...gh together) to force me out of bed and berth. ‘All’s well!’ Comforting to know, though surely all might be better. Put aside the rolling and the rush... ... hard by Temple Bar. Unexpectedly, from among them emerged a genuine po- lice-constable, before whom the dreadful brood dispersed in various direction... ...ers and the money-chang- ers; here shall begin the shipping interest and the nautical- instrument shops; here shall follow a scarcely perceptible flav...

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... and brightly gilt, was represented a sheaf of conven- tional thunderbolts darting down the middle be- tween the two capitals T. L. Lingard examined h... ...ad encircled the weather rail with his arm, felt the vessel under his feet dart forward smoothly, and the deck become less slanting—the speed of the b... ...tty leading to the village which was erected as usual over the water. They darted into one of the miserable huts built of rotten mats and bits of deca... ... view with a sudden crash, appearing unscathed and motionless under hooked darts of flame, like some legendary country of immortals, withstanding the ... ...Travers laughed a faint, bright laugh, that seemed to escape, to glide, to dart between her white teeth. D’Alcacer, concealing his amazement, was look... ...f horror steadied her, seemed to calm her agitation as some kinds of fatal drugs do before they kill. She laid a steady hand on Jorgenson’s sleeve and...

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... but said nothing. He took with him a bag in which were many instruments and drugs, “the ghastly para phernalia of our beneficial trade,” as he once ... .... Yes.” She had made the effort with success. It astonished me how long the drug took to act. This, in fact, marked the extent of her weakness. The ... ...leave her, and I am alone, save for the sleeping servants, whom some one has drugged. Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low h... ... and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I found on the table. The maid... ...ulty in waking three of the women. The fourth was only a young girl, and the drug had evidently affected her more strongly so I lifted her on the sofa... ... departed, for the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed t...

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... we may mention to the reader that it was founded on the acquaintance with drugs and simples which Elspat, accomplished in all things belonging to the... ...m, notwith- standing the unusual strength of the potion with which she had drugged his cup. If there remained a hope of mortal man accomplishing the j... ...sleep, which probably car- ried off the greater part of the effects of the drug, for about sunrising she heard him arise, and call to her for his bonn... ...n us.” 148 Chronicles of the Canongate With the speed of an eagle, Hamish darted up the accliv- ity, and stood by the minister of Glenorquhy, who was... ...s so steep and narrow that there was but just room for the meridian sun to dart a few scattered rays upon the gloomy and precarious stream which stole...

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...and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him.] VENTIDIUS: Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now Pleased fortune does of Marcus Cr... ... The gods withhold me! Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts, Though enemy, lost aim, and could not? MARK ANTONY: ... ...show Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall Be brooch d with me; if knife, drugs,serpents, have Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe: Your wife Octavi...

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...lators, and commercial travellers, who have raised a fortune from foisting drugged goods on an idiot population.’ He loathed them for the curse they w... ...umed the attack. ‘M. Nevil vows he is a better brother to me than you, who dart away on an impulse and leave us threading all Venice till we do not kn... ...e bold to say it to your face; but most indubitably it threatened powerful drugs for weak stomachs, and it blew cold on votes, which are sensitive pla... ...es,’ he turned to her. 127 George Meredith ‘The Dr. Dulcamara of a single drug?’ ‘Now you have a name for me! T ory arguments always come to epithets... ... own; you make out the Lord to be your own, and use your reli- gion like a drug. So it appears to me. That Sunday tyranny of yours has to be defended.... ... that I won.’ ‘You wear your trophy,’ said Renee, and her horse reared and darted ahead. The gentleman on each side of her struck into a trot. Beaucha... ... he mentioned the execrable letter. Mr. Romfrey complacently interjected: ‘Drug-vomit!’ and after an interval: ‘Gallows!’ ‘That man has done Nevil Bea... ...hough she had no vivid imaginative gift, did not wound her with a poisoned dart.— ‘She knew him first: she was his first love.’ The Alps, and the sens...