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...d there was no blessedness for her save in death, the stiffer of ills, the drug that is infallible. As is said: Dark is that last stage of sorrow... ..., and these like- wise were ordered forth, and closed on the Chief, but he darted from their toils and wheeled about them, spearing them one by one ti... ...minating him; and he diminished, and lashed his tail uneasily, half madly, darting as do captured beasts from the fetters that constrain them. Then we... ...bli Bagarag gave thanks to the Prophet, and praised the hawk, but the hawk darted out of the cabin, and he followed it on deck, and, lo! the vessel wa... ...move his eyes from the contemplation of her sweetness of feature. The hawk darted at him fiercely, and pecked at him to draw his attention from her, a... ...nd it shot up the wall, darkening it—then drawing back and lessening, then darting forth like a beast of darkness irritable for prey. I was troubled, ... ...vision of these glories, but it mastered him with the strength of a potent drug, so that the very name of his betrothed was forgotten by him, and he k... ...rincess and fair mistress, from the confectioner’s; and with it the sleepy drug from the seller of medicaments—accursed flea!’ Now, she laughed, and s... ...tion. The dish of pomegranate grain was brought to them by slaves, and the drug to induce sleep, yet neither could say aught concerning it, they were ...

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...’er Horncliff Hill a plump of spears, Beneath a pennon gay; A horseman, darting from the crowd, Like lightning from a summer cloud, Spurs on his me... ...monk, for gold, did swear, He would to Whitby’s shrine repair, And, by his drugs, my rival fair A saint in heaven should be. But ill the dastard ke... ... eye did part, As on the battle-day; Such glance did falcon never dart, When stooping on his prey. “Oh! well, Lord Lion, hast thou said...

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...who that had seen him there, upon a winter night, alone, surrounded by his drugs and instruments and books; the shadow of his shaded lamp a monstrous ... ...y’s had tried its hand at several things. It had once made a feeble little dart at the toy business; for, in another lantern, there was a heap of minu... ...arlour in the Lodge, and waiting to see you.” He pressed her hand, and was darting off, but she detained him. “Mr. Redlaw is much altered, and has tol...

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...e Gordon saw in what direction, horrible to him, the chase was driving him. He doubled, darting to the right and left; but high as the fever ran in hi... ...ure, from the ponderous and stable mountains down to the lightest leaf and the smallest darting fly in the shadow of the groves, began to stir before ... ...leap. He re- membered the look now. The little fellow, although he was as straight as a dart, had the eyes that go usually with a crooked back; he was... ...test regimen, I ex- hibit the most powerful tonics; both in vain.’ ‘Don’t you think you drug him too much?’ asked ma- dame, with an irrepressible shud... ... too much?’ asked ma- dame, with an irrepressible shudder. ‘Drug?’ cried the Doctor; ‘I drug? Anastasie, you are mad!’ Time went on, and the boy’s hea...

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...haps unconsciously, on the foot of Sir Kenneth. The knight started as if a dart had suddenly struck his person; for, when the mind is wound up to a hi... ...o the darkness of her sanctuary—or as an influential planet, which, having darted in some auspicious minute one favourable ray, wrapped itself again i... ...as that of cooking, to bring this unknown physi- cian to practise with his drugs on a health so valuable to Christendom?” “My lord,” replied the Scot,... ...es he declared to be most sovereign, or most baleful, to the effect of his drugs. It was three hours after midnight ere El Hakim withdrew from the roy... ...purse, would save the whole caravan of camels which they require to convey drugs and physic stuff; I marvel there is any other in use.” 198 The Talis... ... why a draught of cold water should have cured thee when the most precious drugs failed,” said the Hakim, “thou mayest reason on the other mysteries a... ...o my place. Kyrie Eleison! I am he through whom the rays of heavenly grace dart like 208 The Talisman those of the sun through a burning-glass, conce... ...an a minute he will sleep like a dormouse.” At the same moment the Monarch darted another impa- tient glance to the spot, and all retreated in haste, ... ...sed in the air, and who instantly, on the appearance of the royal retinue, darted off with the speed of the same bird when it shoots down the wind and...

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...eir basket under an aged walnut with a riven trunk out of which bumblebees darted. The sun had grown hot, and be- hind them was the noonday murmur of ... ...numerous were the glass doors swinging open on saloons, on restaurants, on drug-stores gush- ing from every soda-water tap, on fruit and confectionery... ...s she stepped from the gang- plank she stopped short, her dark-ringed eyes darting malice. “Hullo, Charity Royall!” she called out; and then, looking ... ...y from the mountain. Pres- ently the clouds lowered again, and a few white darts struck her in the face: it was the first snow falling over Hamblin. T...

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...r arrows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing likewise that the number of m... ..., and so astonishing! it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky. I was curious to ... ...ve invented imaginary cures; these have their several names, and so have the drugs that are proper for them; and with these our female Yahoos are al... ...ed, and Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 254 paddling out of the reach of their darts (being a calm day), I made a shift to suck the wound, and dress it ...

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...essed, not only of such as were the produce of the country, but of foreign drugs. He gave these persons to understand, that his name was Elshender the... ...conglomerated vapours, and, as a strong lurid beam of the sinking luminary darted full on his solitary and uncouth figure, he might well have seemed t... ...said the Recluse. “Wad he pity me were I gaeing up the Castle hill at Jed- dart? [The place of execution at that ancient burgh, where many of Westburn...

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...sant chat before a man retires, are worth all the possets and apothecary’s drugs. See, sir,’ and here he opened a door and ushered Otto into a little ... ...in reserve for the despatch of ill-assured admirers. She met Otto with the dart of tender gaiety. ‘You have come to me at last, Prince Cruel,’ she sa...

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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...

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...e were torn asunder—our heads met, and the whole universe burst into fiery darts and stars! On the earth we should have smashed one another a dozen ti... ...verywhere one looked spread the tumbled rocks in peaks and crests, and the darting scrub and those bulging cacti that swelled and swelled, a flat nega... ...e round about us. All about us on the sunlit slopes frothed and swayed the darting shrubs, the swelling cactus, the creeping lichens, and wherever the... ...o yourself! About us the dream-like jungle, with the silent bayonet leaves darting overhead, and the silent, vivid, sun-splashed lichens under our han... ...I snatched and caught it, and wrenched it away, but not before another had darted ineffectually at me. I shouted with triumph as I felt the hold of th... ...ustrates the unthinking way in which one ac- quires habits of feeling. T o drug the worker one does not want and toss him aside is surely far better t...

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...ought in having an apoth- ecary at hand to sustain an artificial life with drugs. In short, de Marsay brought a selection from the thousand-and-one jo... ... father?” “His father’s name was Chardon.” “And what was this Chardon?” “A druggist.” “My dear friend, I felt quite sure that all Paris could not be l... ...to be feared. Some day, instead of living with Florine at the expense of a druggist who gives himself the airs of a lord, I shall be in a house of my ... ...el; I appear in state in the Rue de Bondy, in the new apartments which our druggist has taken for Florine; we hold the house-warming this evening.” Et... ...the newcomer. “But who is going to be there?” “Oh, Florine and Matifat the druggist,” said Lousteau, “and du Bruel, the author who gave Florine the pa... ...ied vanity, nor the en- ergy which he discovers when stung by the poisoned darts of sarcasm; but, on the other hand, the man that is roused to fightin...

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...part putres- cent; even the clean sea and the bright fish about it poi- soned, the most stubborn boulder burrowed in by worms, the lightest dust venom... ... I had the same impression; he seemed always drowsy, yet always to hearken and start; and, whether from remorse or fear, there is no doubt he seeks a ... ...more likely key. The poor buzzards sat alone in their houses by an open case; they drank; their brain was fired; they stumbled towards the nearest hou...

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... rapid fall and extinction, and then tracked the course of the sparks that darted from it, one ris- ing and gleaming high in air till it shone like a ... ... won’t be a nun. I’ll be married! You shall be my husband,” and she made a dart at the nearest youth, who happened to be Ebbo. “Ay, ay, you shall have... ...n the name of the elder house of Adlerstein.” He held himself upright as a dart, but was infinitely an- noyed by the little mocking bow and smile that... ... they kept me three days a pris- oner in a ‘pothecary’s shop stinking with drugs. Why, I have cured myself with one pitcher of water of a raging fever...

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... small one which was used for game,— my master being very fond of hunting, darted at them sev- eral times without success; at length was more fortunat... ... I fasten the spits together; get on the stool; take aim; am just going to dart at my prey—unfortunately the dragon did not sleep; the pantry door ope... ...eyes, though small and rather too far in my head, sparkling with vivacity, darted that innate fire which inflamed my blood; unfortunately for me, I kn... ...nders, profiting by her weakness, de- stroyed her property among furnaces, drugs and minerals, diminishing those charms and accomplishments which migh... ...s to digest, bills to write fair, re- ceipts to transcribe, herbs to pick, drugs to pound, or distil- lations to attend; and in the midst of all this,... ...g, was sel- dom mistaken. Madam de Warrens made me taste the most nauseous drugs; in vain I ran, or endeavored to defend my- self; spite of resistance... ... making Swiss tea; she had taken him into her service for his knowledge of drugs, finding it convenient to have a herbalist among her domestics. Passi... ... strangling. Her large black eyes, like those of the beauties of the East, darted fiery shafts into my heart, and although the surprise at first stupe... ...thing from which I expected a cure, still plunged deeper into my heart the dart, which I at length broke in rather than draw out. I was quite determin...

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...bacconist’s, and lived in the Fens—never heard what became of him.” “Drink—drugs,” said Mr. Pepper with sinister concise- ness. “He left a commentary.... ...s, oranges, and giant pomegranates, while a troop of naked natives whirled darts into the air. Between the stitches she looked to one side and read a ... ...that young woman… . I don’t really like young women… .” Hewet was too much drugged by hours in the open air to make any reply. In fact every one of th... ...exposed to pain, and Helen’s fantastical or gloomy words were like so many darts goading her to cry out against the hardness of life. Best of all were... ... suavity and flu- ency of his speech for the abruptness of hers. While she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South Ameri...

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...that was not close to them, and not rather that their dreadful stare could dart cramp, or rickets, or a wry mouth at any boy who hap- pened to be in t... ...t have driven a profitable trade in charms as well as in his small list of drugs; but money on this condition was no temptation to him: he had never k... ...a given space. It was near the treddles of the loom. In an instant Dunstan darted to that spot, swept away the sand with his whip, and, inserting the ... ...as a small boy without shoes or stockings? That was the first thought that darted across Silas’s blank wonderment. Wa s it a dream? He rose to his fee... ...ad held the ring and placed it on her mother’s finger. Her imagination had darted backward in conjectures, and forward in previsions, of what this rev...

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...he old physicians and chemists had strange ideas of the virtues of plants, drugs, and minerals, and equally strange fancies as to the way of getting t... ...deer brought in by the red hunter, and the blood streaming from the arrow dart! Ah! and the fight too! and the scalping! and, perhaps, a woman might ...

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...we’ll creep through cracks where you’ve always thought was solid land; we’ll dart through the woods and leave twenty five miles of river off to one si... ...ad of the bend away above and beyond us a couple of miles. Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across th... ...t is about what you were expecting to do. One of the great Vicksburg packets darted out into a sugar plantation one night, at such a time, and had to ... ...gain, when he noticed Ealer and exclaimed— “Who is at the wheel, sir?” “X.” “Dart for the pilot house, quicker than lightning!” The next moment both m... ... traveled thirty five miles to accomplish the same thing. In 1722 the river darted through that neck, deserted its old bed, and thus short ened itse... ..., he would not take it. He said his wife had been killed by that treacherous drug, and he would die be fore he would take it. He suspected that the d...

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...here he was nap- ping, he ordered him to clear away another boat, and then darted into the cabin to tell the captain the news. Springing on deck agai... ... forth; the larger sort racing over the chests and planks; winged monsters darting to and fro in the air; and the small fry buzz- ing in heaps almost ... ...n heaps almost in a state of fusion. On the first alarm, all who were able darted on deck; while some of the sick who were too feeble, lay perfectly q... ... their holes peering at you like old grandfathers in a doorway. Often they darted in upon us at meal-times, and nibbled our food. The first time they ... ...d to and fro in deep thought, every now and then looking to wind- ward, or darting into the cabin and quickly returning. With all our light sails wooi... ...ly in pitiful little rolls. Then they had no “grog”; as a substitute, they drugged the poor fellows with a thin, sour wine—the juice of a few grapes, ... ...ghast. There was now a mighty commotion. Powders and pills were voted mere drugs in the market, and the holders of vials were pronounced lucky dogs. J... ...ft I knew not. The doctor maintained, however, that one who was capable of drugging an innocent traveller with “ Arva Tee” was capable of anything. Bu...