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...y that while Mrs. C. was sipping her eternal tea or washing up her endless blue china, you might often hear Miss Morgiana employed at the little red-s... ... then of the bill which was to become due on the 16th; and then of a light-blue velvet waistcoat with gold sprigs, in which he looked very killing, an... ...ecollect,— “‘Tink-a-tink, tink-a-tink, By the light of the star, On the blue river’s brink, I heard a guitar. “‘I heard a guitar, On the blue wa... ... for many of whom he in his capacity of tailor made those splendid red and blue coats which characterise our military. As for the royal button, had no... ...St. Helena to make a coat for Napoleon, so great was his ardour. He wore a blue-black wig, and his whiskers were of the same hue. He was brief and ste... ...In spite of these objections, however, and with amazing per- severance and cheerfulness, Mrs. Walker pursued the method of study pointed out to her by... ...ing, and to trample on a woman in distress. Morgiana,” he added, in a loud cheerful voice, “cheer up; I’ll give you a re- lease for your husband: I wi... ...n get me any more of that pale sherry, my love, do. I require something to cheer me in solitude, and have found my chest very much relieved by that wi... ... nished in the reign of George III., his beloved master, and not much more cheerful now than a family vault. They are awfully funereal, those ornament...

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... a white bearded man leaning partly out of it, on his elbows. He was clad in a blue uniform, and I remember noting how trim and quiet he was. His quie... ... with no more than a shade of accent to it. There was mild protest in his pale blue eyes, and withal a timid frankness and manliness that quite won me... ...any dry clothes I may put on?” I asked the cook. “Yes, sir,” he answered, with cheerful alacrity. “I’ll run down an’ tyke a look over my kit, if you’v... ... brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorte... ... your traps aft into the mate’s berth.” Chapter III 19 “Ay, ay, sir,” was the cheery response, as Johansen started forward. In the meantime the erstw... ...eded very slowly and cautiously, an inch at a time. Outlined against the clear blue of the sky, he had the appearance of an enormous spider crawling a... ...glory of what I never dreamed the world possessed. Above, the sky is stainless blue — blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the color... ...I s’y?” “Never mind, Tommy,” I said, placing a soothing hand on his shoulder. “Cheer up. It’ll all come right in the end. You’ve long years before you... ...nd staysail. “Oh, he’ll heave to in a little while and pick them up,” answered cheerfully. “He’s bent upon giving them a lesson, that’s all.” Louis lo...

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..., nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the ... ...out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his ... ... fronted us; all the brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one, or someth... ...-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows; but that, as it prove... ...ught perhaps Dr. Livesey—” I began. “Perfectly right,” he interrupted very cheerily, “perfectly right—a gentleman and a magistrate. And, now I come to... ...inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea-officer, in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his face and a capital i... ...ain and pale, but intelligent and smil- ing. Indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a merr... ...nd not be mucked, lad. Here’s this poor old innocent bird o’ mine swearing blue fire, and none the wiser, you may lay to that. She would swear the sam... ...his: I think it handsome. And if you think as I do, you’ll give a good sea-cheer for the gentleman that does it.” The cheer followed—that was a matter...

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...along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash; And thinly drawn with famishin... ...ut this time Town used to swing so gay When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim, — In the old tim... ... and hints for young recruits. And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers. Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal. Only a solemn ...

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...Pacific, this knowledge grew more clear and melancholy. Emigration, from a word of the most cheerful import, came to sound most dismally in my ear. Th... ...ust not be supposed that these people exhibited depression. The scene, on the contrary, was cheer- ful. Not a tear was shed on board the vessel. All w... ... on the deck. I have spoken of our con- certs. We were indeed a musical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile with the fiddle, the accordion,... ... the compan- ion, I was saluted by something in Strathspey time. A white- faced Orpheus was cheerily playing to an audience of white- faced women. It ... ...orld indeed. The wind was fair; the sun mounted into a cloudless heaven; through great dark blue seas the ship cut a swath of curded foam. The horizon... ...den, and gave less heat than summer sunshine; and the shadows under the hedge were somewhat blue and misty. It was only in autumn that you could have ... ...mbiguous cloud-land over the horizon. The sky was an opal-grey, touched here and there with blue, and with certain faint russets that looked as if the... ...having a studious enough eye to the complete effect; for I thought these melting greens and blues so beautiful that afternoon, that I would have given... ... before he retired, worn almost through in some places, but in others making a good show of blues and oranges, none the less harmonious for being some...

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... for nine-and-twenty years in all, when I stood looking along those bright blue South American Wa- ters. Looking after the shepherd, I may say. W atch... ... his two dogs, seemed to move away from the ship’s side, far away over the blue water, and go right down into the sky. “It’s rising out of the water, ... ... ten started off himself and brought down the Diplomatic coat, which was a blue cloth one, gold-laced, and with a crown on the button. “Now, Mr. Kitte... ...xpedition, of which some part of the mainland is the object. Thirdly—don’t cheer, men!—that we will give chace, and, if we can get at them, rid the wo... ... dark lantern for him, and he took it from me when he em- barked. They had blue lights and such like with them, but kept 20 The Perils of Certain Eng... ...volunteered to load the spare arms. “For, I understand it well,” says she, cheerfully, without a shake in her voice. “I am a soldier’s daughter and a ... ...we believed from the sound that they were all there, we gave three English cheers. The poor little children joined, and were so fully convinced of our... ...d everything made orderly for the night. Such a starlight night, with such blue in the sky, and such black in the places of heavy shade on the banks o... ...a noble friend he was to me there.” Though she spoke these kind words in a cheering manner, she spoke them compassionately. I said nothing. It will ap...

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...e. He was a homely, freckled, sandy haired young fellow, with an intelligent blue eye that had frankness and comradeship in it and a covert twinkle of... ...and he, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a Negro. He had blue eyes and flaxen curls like his white comrade, but even the father of... ...reature in one of Thomas ‘a Becket’s snowy, long baby gowns, with its bright blue bows and dainty flum mery of ruffles. “Dah—now you’s fixed.” She pr... ... twistings and kickings in the effort to get its breath, while the lips turn blue and the mouth stands wide and rigid, offering for inspection one wee... ...h. By the time she reached Dawson’s Landing, she was her old self again; her blues were gone, she was in high feather. She would get along, surely; th... ... a question which he had put to Wilson a hundred times before. It was always cheerily and good natured put, and always inflicted a little pang, for it... ... His face lit up with pride and pleasure at that thought, and he said with a cheery com placency, “I like that—it’s the true old blood—hey, Pem brok... ... moping back again, with many sighs and heavy with trouble. He sorely wanted cheerful com pany. Rowena! His heart gave a bound at the thought, but th... ...rtled and impressive hush behind him instead of the customary ex plosion of cheers and party cries. The strange remark flew far and wide over the tow...

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............................................. 84 TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE ......................................................................... ...hall fill a narrower ring. Tired souls, that flag upon the wing, I seek to cheer: Brave wines to strengthen hope I bring, Life’s cantineer! Some song ... ...istian with the pack – You shall not wander back For I am Hopeful – I Will cheer you on. Come – where the great have trod, The great shall lead – Come... ...with elbows on knees I can number the hours as they pass. Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin, And my pipe is just happily lit, Believe me, m... ...eir bells in Grandam Grundy’s eyes. Singers should sing with such a goodly cheer That the bare listening should make strong like wine, At this unruly ... ... ease Where, placed by the Turanian, Marseilles, the many-masted, sees The blue Mediterranean. Now songful in the hour of sport, Now riotous for wages... ...en seat You lounge with your uplifted feet Under the May’s whole Heaven of blue; Or whether on the sofa you, No grown up person being by, Do some soft... ..., Till you shall come to Nelly’s hand. How shall I your Nelly know? By her blue eyes and her black brow, By her fierce and slender look, And by her go... ...s sailor? THE FAR-FARERS The broad sun, The bright day: White sails On the blue bay: The far-farers Draw away. Light the fires And close the door. To ...

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...gh spring, the hedges were full of stitchwort and campion and the woods of blue hyacinths and purple orchid; and everywhere there was a great noise of... ...ich may perhaps account for this intermission. Then on the fourth day came blue sky and brilliant sunshine and such an outburst of wasps as the world ... ...e wasp that visited the British Museum about mid- day, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of the innu- merable pigeons that feed in the courtyar... ...igth gettin’ bigger and bigger, and the waptheth—. She ‘athen’t even got a Blue Bag, Thir— if anything thould happen, Thir!” “But the hens,” said Mr. ... ...es and miles away, a steeple and a hanger grew insensibly out of the vague blue to mark more and more distinctly the quiet corner where Cheasing Eyebr... ...ucational theory required … They had the walls and woodwork painted with a cheer- ful vigour; for the most part a slightly warmed white pre- vailed, b... ...qui- line nose—a little figure that trailed after it most inexplica- bly—a cheer. A cheer it was that began away there and grew and spread. A little s... ...art the whole mass of humanity within the build- ing and without. How they cheered! Hooray! Hooray! No one in all those myriads cheered like the man f... ...e the man from prison. The tears poured down his face, and he only stopped cheering at last because the thing had choked him. Y ou must have been in p...

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...hat separated it from the third division; and to the north, seen faint and blue through the haze and shimmer of the noon sun, a long file of telegraph... ...stubble was of a dirty yellow; the ground, parched, cracked, and dry, of a cheer- less brown. By the roadside the dust lay thick and grey, and, on eit... ...able parallels of the wire fence. And that was all; that and the burnt-out blue of the sky and the steady shimmer of the heat. The silence was infinit... ...teristic of Derrick’s ranch. T o the east the reach seemed infinite, flat, cheerless, heat- ridden, unrolling like a gigantic scroll toward the faint ... ...aking three-cornered her round, white forehead; her wonderful eyes, violet blue, heavy lidded, with their as- tonishing upward slant toward the temple... ... it? Steep oneself in the heat of the desert, the glory of the sunset, the blue haze of the mesa and the canyon.” “As you have done, for instance?” Va... ...a frock coat that was rather dirty, slippers, and an old yacht- ing cap of blue cloth, with a broken leather vizor. He was smoking a cheap cigar, very... ...ard the house itself, he could not but feel that the sight of his home was cheering. The ranch house was set in a great grove of eucalyptus, oak, and ... ...o the dining-room. “I see that dog has turned up,” he announced with brisk cheerfulness. “That Irish setter I was asking about.” Hilma, a swift, pink ...

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...dour of full flavoured Cubas. Mr. Bob Sawyer, who was habited in a coarse, blue coat, which, without being either a greatcoat or a surtout, partook of... ...tard. ‘Have you come far this morning, gentlemen?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. ‘Blue Lion at Muggleton,’ briefly responded Mr. Allen. ‘You should have join... ...d a very unpleasant interruption to the hilarity of the party, had not the cheerfulness of Mr. Pickwick, and the good humour of the host, been exerted... ...ich they called a reel. All this time, Mr. Winkle, with his face and hands blue with the cold, had been forcing a gimlet into the sole of his feet, an... ...black gaiters trip ping pleasantly through the snow, and his eyes beaming cheer fulness and gladness through his spectacles. And when he was knocked... ... the street door mat; and a kitchen candle, with a very long snuff, burned cheerfully on the ledge of the staircase window. Mr. Bob Sawyer had him se... ...wore a black velvet waist coat, with thunder and lightning buttons; and a blue striped shirt, with a white false collar. ‘You’re late, Jack?’ said Mr... ...u was to come to him at six o’clock to our ‘ouse, ‘cos he wants to see you—Blue Boar, Leaden’all Markit. Shall I say you’re comin’?’ ‘Y ou may wenture... ...couple of human hearts skewered together with an ar row, cooking before a cheerful fire, while a male and female cannibal in modern attire, the gentl...

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... across the veldt. 4 Babbitt The whistles rolled out in greeting a chorus cheerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for... ...so much. From the bedroom beside the sleeping-porch, his wife’s detestably cheerful “Time to get up, Georgie boy,” and 6 Babbitt the itchy sound, the... ...ut of a stiff brush. He grunted; he dragged his thick legs, in faded baby- blue pajamas, from under the khaki blanket; he sat on the edge of the cot, ... ...g.” “That’s so. Oh, Georgie, why couldn’t you wear the brown coat with the blue trousers we were wondering what we’d do with them?” “Good Lord! Did yo... ...ouses in Zenith. The walls were gray, the woodwork white, the rug a serene blue; and very much like ma- hogany was the furniture—the bureau with its g... ...aranteed not to crack. It was a mas- terpiece among bedrooms, right out of Cheerful Modern Houses for Medium Incomes. Only it had nothing to do with t... ... He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints for the blueprints came. “That’ll do now!” Babbitt flung in mech... ...the big, big S more flattered than when they are bidden to partake of good cheer at the dis- tinguished and hospitable residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charl... ...at. Along the Third Street side were a Western Union Telegraph Office, the Blue Delft Candy Shop, Shotwell’s Stationery Shop, and the Babbitt-Thomp- s...

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... and mind, than the voice of a woman, pouring clear accordant notes to the blue night sky, that grows light blue to the moon? There was no flourish in... ...k a step. The moon was now a silver ball on the edge of the circle of grey blue above the ring of firs, and by the light falling on the strange little... ...loitered behind; but when he joined them in the house subsequently, he was cheerful, and had a look of triumph about him which made his sisters say, “... ...e variations of Polar caprice; so that she should move about with ease, be cheerful, friendly, and, at a signal, affectionate;, still not failing to r... ...ostril to the invading smoke. She looked at the scene fronting her under a blue sky with slow flocks of clouds: “How I like this!” she exclaimed. “I a... ... he met me near our door the very next morning, and offered me a ring with blue stones, and he proposed to marry me also, and take me to Italy, if I w... ...Barrett. He devoted his remarks mainly to Cornelia, and 44 Sandra Belloni cheerfully received her frozen monosyllables in exchange. The ladies talked... ...ith mournfulness of those firm thin lips fronting misfortune: those sunken blue eyes under its shadow. They walked up to Mr. Pole, who was standing wi... ... the honours of a great man of the neighbourhood, he determined to take it cheerfully. “Come; no laughing!” he said, directing a glance at the maids w...

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...“Hollo!” he shouted, “what is the matter now? Dainty Deborah in the dumps? Cheer up, my lass! I’ll war- rant that doughty Diggory is discreet enough t... ...r.” 7 Yo n g e “We sat apart with mother,” said Rose, “and heard the loud cheers and songs till we were half frightened at the noise.” “I can’t recol... ...one by Rose and Deborah. Rose was her mother’s great comfort, nursing her, cheering her, taking care of the little ones, teaching them, working for th... ...he village loved Rose Woodley, for everyone had in some way been helped or cheered by her. Her mother was only some- times afraid she worked too hard,... ...o hard, and would try her strength too much; but she was always bright and cheerful, and when the day’s work was done no one was more gay and lively a... ...dy Woodley hast- ily directed her daughters and servant. “Deborah, set the blue chamber in order; Rose, take the key of the oak press, Eleanor will he... ...as less restrained even than usual. She was a pretty creature, with bright blue eyes, and an arch expression, all the droller under her prim round cap... ...Lea; but happily they had not seen enough of her to know her in the coarse blue stuff petticoat that she now wore. One of them asked who she was, and ... ..., the sea sounding with a low constant ripple, spread out in the grey hazy blue distance, and here and there the crests of the nearer waves swelling u...

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...o see so many dip their meat in one man’s blood; and all the madness is, he cheers them up too. I wonder men dare trust themselves with men: Methink... ... TIMON: You gods, reward them! Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows Have their ingratitude in them hereditary: The... ...; It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury, That I may strike at Athens. I’ll cheer up My discontented troops, and lay for hearts. ’Tis honor with most... ...trouble you. Second Lord : My noble lord,— TIMON: Ah, my good friend, what cheer? Second Lord : My most honorable lord, I am e’en sick of shame, th... ...ring in all together. Second Lord : All covered dishes! First Lord : Royal cheer, I warrant you. Third Lord: Doubt not that, if money and the seaso... ...thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff’d, Engenders the black toad and adder blue, The gilded newt and eyeless venom’d worm, With all the abhorred bir...

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...er day, and the story brought back at once the little crib, or the watered blue moreen canopy of the big four- poster to which I was sometimes lifted ... ...e had such curly tight-rolled hair with a tinge of auburn, such merry bold blue eyes, such glowing dimpled cheeks, such a joyous smile all over his fa... ...’ He was a very pretty little fellow, with a delicately rosy face, wistful blue eyes, and soft, light, wavy hair, and per- haps Gooch was jealous of h... ...s own secret regrets. Did not even Selina Clarkson, whose red cheeks, dark blue eyes, and jetty profusion of shining curls, were our notion of perfect... ...ur private opinion was that she excelled all other damsels with her bright blue eyes and pretty curling hair, which had the same chestnut shine as Gri... ...d Clarence. ‘Not a bit too old for a fresh beginning,’ said Mr. Castleford cheerily. ‘God helping you, you will be a brave and good man yet, my boy—’ ... ... see together. That walk enabled him to say something which came nearer to cheering Clarence than anything that had passed since that sad return, and ... ...an excellent scholarship at Brazenose, and came home radiant with triumph, cheering us all up, and making a generous use of his success. He was no let... ...leford, with his good-natured Irish wife and merry family, lived a life as cheerful as it was beneficent, Mr. Frith dwelt entirely alone, in rooms ove...

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...d gray That waved and wept on Loch Achray, And mingled with the pine-trees blue On the bold cliffs of Benvenue. Fresh vigor with the hope returned, Wi... ... the rocks that yelled again. IX. Close on the hounds the Hunter came, T o cheer them on the vanished game; But, stumbling in the rugged dell, The gal... ...danced, The wanderer’s eye could barely view The summer heaven’s delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream. ... ...gain appearing, T all rocks and tufted knolls their face Could on the dark-blue mirror trace; And farther as the Hunter strayed, Still broader sweep i... ...worth to spy, You need but gaze on Ellen’s eye; Not Katrine in her mirror blue Gives back the shaggy banks more true, Than every free-born glance con... ...ake And our broad nets have swept the mere, T o furnish forth your evening cheer.’— ‘Now, by the rood, my lovely maid, Y our courtesy has erred,’ he s... ...e. 27 Sir Walter Scott For me’—she stooped, and, looking round, Plucked a blue harebell from the ground,— ‘For me, whose memory scarce conveys An ima... ...an forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the half-cut swath his scythe; The herds wi... ...font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow! The hand of the reaper T akes the ears...

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...d, but he dared not. At nine o’clock, he in general’s uniform; his wife in blue satin and diamonds; his daughters in blue crape and white roses; his n... ...in white mus- lin; his son, George Augustus Frederick Grimsby Gorgon, in a blue velvet jacket, sugar-loaf buttons, and nankeens, 12 The Bedord-Row Co... ... The Bedord-Row Conspiracy entered the north door of the ballroom, to much cheer- ing, and the sound of “God save the King!” At that very same moment,... ...liam Pitt Scully, Esquire, M.P., and his staff. Mr. Scully had a brand-new blue coat and brass buttons, buff waistcoat, white kerseymere tights, pumps... ...). “Is it that tipsy man in the green coat, or that vulgar creature in the blue one?” “Law, my Lady,” said the Mayoress, “have you forgot- ten him? Wh... ...my Lady,” said the Mayoress, “have you forgot- ten him? Why, that’s him in blue and buff.” “And a monthous fine man, too,” said Cornet Fitch. “I wish ... ...— whack! Springer clapped his hands; and the fiddlers adroitly obeying the cheerful signal, began playing “Sir Roger de Coverley” louder than ever. I ... ...he uproar which arose: the an- guish of the Gorgonites—the shrieks, jeers, cheers, ironic cries of “Swipes!” etc., which proceeded from the less gente... ... 26 The Bedord-Row Conspiracy dogged and sheepish—very different from that cheery voice which he had used when he first gave the order. Poor Lucy, in ...

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...rt distance below “a torrent of yellow mud rushed furiously athwart the calm blue current of the Mississippi, boiling and surging and sweeping in its ... ... cracked his heels together three times, before he lit again (that made them cheer), and he begun to shout like this— “Whoo oop! bow your neck and spr... ... He jumped up and cracked his heels together three times before he lit (they cheered him again), and as he come down he shouted out: ‘Whoo oop! bow yo... ...h warm up to it, somehow, and so they didn’t finish it, and there warn’t any cheers, but it sort of dropped flat, and nobody said anything for a minut... ...heir heads. And every time the lightning come, there was that bar’l with the blue lights winking around it. We was always on the look out for it. But ... ... board!” “No,” says Big Bob, “less get out the paint pot and paint him a sky blue all over from head to heel, and then heave him over!” “Good, that ‘s... ... way.—Blast it, boy, some raftsmen would rawhide you till you were black and blue!” I didn’t wait to kiss good bye, but went overboard and broke for s... ...cular, his face was bearded and whiskered all over; he had a red woman and a blue woman tattooed on his right Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 3... ...xcept when the river is brim full and over the banks.” “This new lesson is a cheerful prospect.” “Cheerful enough. And mind what I’ve just told you; w...

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...Look at her how she leads the hounds!’ And waving his dusty beaver hat, He cheered across the chase-filled water, And clapt his arm about his daughter... ...ared, By garden wall and paled estate, Where clambering gazers whooped and cheered. Here winding under elm and oak, And slanting up the sunny hill: Sp... ...beautiful and perfect flower. THE DEATH OF WINTER When April with her wild blue eye Comes dancing over the grass, And all the crimson buds so shy Peep... ..., the little harebell leans On the spire-grass that it queens, With bonnet blue; T rusting love instils Love and subject reverence true; Learn what lo... ...s streaming train. Now, whirring like an eagle’s wing Preparing for a wide blue flight; Now, flapping like a sail that tacks And chides the wet bewild... ...witches All the shivering agues sit Warming hands and chafing feet, By the blue marsh-hovering oils: O the fools for all their moans! Not a forest mad... ...hrinking from the fervid hand! Dark the tide of hair back-flowing From the blue-veined temples bland! Lovely, too, divine Apollo In the speed of his p... ...REDBREAST Merrily ‘mid the faded leaves, O Robin of the bright red breast! Cheerily over the Autumn eaves, Thy note is heard, bonny bird; Sent to chee... ...oat glows on thy breast, In Autumn’s reddest livery drest. A merry song, a cheery song! In the boughs above, on the sward below, Chirping and singing ...