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...o follow them, instead of having everything made to please them. It is the sugar-plum system, and so I told Mr. Ben, but he says you must catch wild h... ...stem, and so I told Mr. Ben, but he says you must catch wild heathens with sugar; and as I am afraid your poor child is not much better, you had bette... ...in a tent, was meant to be a brilliantly merry one. The cake had a hunt in sugar all round it, and the appropriate motto, “Hip, hip, hurrah!” and peop...

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...danced with ye. She seemed to take to ye, and the man she has the smallest sugar-melting for is sacred if he’s not sweet to me. If he retracts!’ ‘Hypo... ...r all the apart- ments; the prevalent, notion of bread, butter, tea, milk, sugar, as matter for the exercise of a native inventive genius—these were r... ...orge Meredith ture aired her handkerchief; she was bent on softening those sugarloaves, the hard business-men applying to her for facts. Facts were tr... ... to her?— The theme, one may, in their language, ‘fear,’ was relished as a sugared acid. It was renewed in the late Autumn of the year, when Antonia p... ...men can prove spitfires. They’ve bags of venom under their tongues, barley-sugar though they look— and that’s her colour. But I broke with her for goo... ...ough it feels itself at present rather like a Christmas bon-bon—a piece of sugar in the wrap of a rhymed motto. He is kind to Arthur, you say?’ ‘Like ...

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...ow revived by a cordial, a few drops of which he had given him on a bit of sugar, a new and pre- 54 The Hated Son cious substance which the apothecar...

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...ow-tailed jacket with silver lace and wings, orna- mented with about 3,000 sugar-loaf buttons, rhubarb-coloured leather inexpressibles (tights), and r...

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...harles Dickens 11 the gate flew open, and out came a gentleman, on a moist sugar coloured charger, intended to represent a herald, but bearing a muc...

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...e—always was, always will be! Do you think”—Anthony sucked his grog to the sugar-dregs, till the spoon settled on his nose—”do you think I should hold... ...sappointment that made the walls ring and the glasses leap. “A little more sugar, Stephen?” said Mrs. Boulby, moving 140 Rhoda Fleming in lightly fro... ... “It ended, my boy, it ended like my glass here—hot and strong stuff, with sugar at the bottom. And I don’t see this, so glad as I saw that, my word o... ...s had ceased to explode; “I’m for none of them games. Honesty!—there’s the sugar o’ my grog.” “Ay, but you like to be cock-sure of the stuff you drink...

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...is,— ’Tis too much proved—that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself. KING CLAUDIUS : [Aside] O, ’tis ...

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...across the Park as she was practising, yet the youthful hall-porter in the sugar-loaf buttons was instructed to deny her, and always declared that his... ...ay be imagined, and could hardly refrain from bursting into tears when the sugar- 65 Thackeray loaf page asked whether master was coming home early, ...

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...heir friends. But them Bidevor poachers, they’ve no hem to their garments. Sugar? My man he’ve digged a badger for yeou, my dearrs. ’Tis in the linhay... ...derate Bloomer did to Spraggon’s account of the Puffin’ton Hounds? We must sugar Mr. King’s milk for him,” said Stalky, all lighted from within by a d... ...Qui—quis —oh, it’s Quis multa gracilis, o’ course.” “Bring it along. We’ve sugared the milk here,” said Stalky, after a few minutes’ zealous toil. “Ne...

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...o, ye shall know what the crumple of paper sounds like.” Mrs. Chump gave a sugary suck with her tongue. Emilia returned the money to her. “Ye’re foolu... ...s, their weakness, the wanton lives they led, their trick of lying for any sugar-plum, and how they laughed at their dupes. Secondly, as to the conduc... ...puss! such an eel as y’ are!” Mrs. Chump cried out. “What are ye doin’ but sugarin’ the same dose, miss! Be qu’t! It’s a traitor that makes what’s nas... ... quickly gave way, and admitted a craving for dainty morsels. “One lump of sugar!” she subse- quently sighed. But neither sugar nor meat approached he... ...ttestation favours the critical dictum, that a novel is to give us copious sugar and no cane. I, myself, as a reader, consider concomitant cane an adu... ...as a reader, consider concomitant cane an adulteration of the qualities of sugar. My Philosopher’s error is to deem the sugar, born of the cane, insep...

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... is it?” 169 Balzac “Half-past eleven,” said V autrin, dropping a lump of sugar into his coffee. The escaped convict cast a glance at Eugene, a cold ... ...spoiled them. To-day they are as eager for pleasure as they used to be for sugar- plums. When they were little girls I indulged them in every whim. Th...

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...y the Devil, who was playing his very self with him. John Podgers, in a high sugar loaf hat and short cloak, filled the opposite seat, and surveyed th...

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...e was totally unmoral and lov- able; I would have liked to give him bread, sugar, carrots. But life is a stern thing and the sense of duty the only sa...

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... telling all the tales. Mother, prithee prove to him that I am not made of sugar like the Clares, but that I love a fresh wind and the open moorlands....

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...ith a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar. Thence it was but a step to the burning question of the day; and in ...

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...e was to- tally unmoral and lovable; I would have liked to give him bread, sugar, carrots. But life is a stern thing and the sense of duty the only sa...

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...to have a miscellaneous stock of coffee, tobacco, pipes, prepa- rations of sugar, ornaments in gold and silver, jewellery, charms, pistols, and a host...

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...ook- writing hypnotists, newspaper-writing hypnotists, are at us all. This sugar you are eating, they tell us, is ink, and forthwith we reject it with...

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...ten a man lets another pay the small attentions—bring a cup of tea, or the sugar to sweeten it—demanded by the woman he loves, fearful of betraying hi...

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...is nose, in sign of caution. “The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a lin... ...he hands that gave them.” “Was it war, when the tired Indian rested at the sugartree to taste his corn! who filled the bushes with creeping enemies! w... ...avor. A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar hogs- heads! and then your twopenny marquisates. The thistle is the o...