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...r dis- likes; but she was capable of expressing esteem or con- tempt for a species. She had her own ways, I suppose, of manifesting her approval, but ... ...s. Church, in a tone which suggested that this might be a very superficial species of culture. “She has made what we call de fortes etudes— such as I ... ...lf in the smallest degree in accordance with these indices, you discover a species of Methodist—of what do you call it?—of Quakeress. On the other han...

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...xecution of. FEDERATION, spread of, of Champ-de-Mars, deputies to, hu- man species at, ceremonies of, a new, 1792. FERAUD, in National Convention, mas...

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...her a sort of intermediary creature between the indi- viduals of the human species and those of the canine species; he was classed in her heart next, ... ...t, for being somewhere else than where they are, which distinguishes their species,—and also that of all beings devoid of sensitiveness, and those who... ...worthy of the Council of T en, and were, 48 The Vicar of Tours in fact, a species of police, armed with the unerring gift of spying bestowed by passi...

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...ve legislatures acting in the same capac- ity , is nothing but the highest species of legislation known to the country; and no other mode of alter- in... ...o frequently inflicted by the many on the few. This is, perhaps, the worst species of tyranny . He who suffers under the arbitrary power of a single d...

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...cies that are incorporated with our organic construction, and which form a species of hereditary mesmerism; a vegetable clairvoyance that enables us t... ...e. The simplest things became the first apparent, and others followed by a species of magnetic induction, which I cannot now stop to explain. When thi... ...o discharge her duty to the dead. She ate, therefore, though it was with a species of holy rever- ence. Her strength was renewed, and she was enabled ... ...ce 58 Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief in the contingencies of this species of trade, since it enables the dealer to offer his uncalled-for war... ...in a most fragrant and convenient drawer, among various other beings of my species, though not of my family, alas! the inmates of the house assembled ... ...ght of a very powerful lamp. I declare that, knowing his aver- sion to our species, I felt a glow in all my system at the liberties he was taking. “Wh... ...more Cooper no analogy, as one might say, between them and the rest of the species. Miss Julia,” continuing aloud, “my nature is all plain- dealing, a... ...nd!” The reader may imagine how proud I felt! This was eleva- tion for the species, and gave a dignity to my position, with which I am infinitely sati...

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...oximity. And two really very large and almost com- plete specimens of some species of Ammonites unknown to me, from the hills to the east of the Adige... ...ng different, he must now be evolving onward into something sur-human. The species in the fu- ture will be different from the species of the past. So ... ...ignorant of the elementary biological proposi- tion that modification of a species means really a secular change in its average, they jumped to a conc... ... jumped years ago at a very memo- rable British Association meeting—that a species is modi- fied by the sudden appearance of eccentric individuals her... ...ng in history, the departing thing. It depends not upon the advance of the species but upon the uncritical hero-worship of the crowd. You may see the ... ...matic form of a general increase of goodwill and skill and common sense. A species rises not by thrusting up peaks but by the brimming up as a flood d... ...developed to think about the indi- vidual; it thinks reluctantly about the species. It takes refuge from that sort of thing if it possibly can. And so...

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...wn, leaps in cascades the length and breadth of sunny France? You know the species; let us now take a look at the indi- vidual. There lives in Paris a... ... scoundrel and a blackguard; and under pain of being thought a turn-key,—a species of being far below a galley-slave,—you will give me satisfaction fo...

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...ere. A glass door gave entrance from this portico into an ante- chamber, a species of gallery paved in red tiles and wainscoted, which served as a hos... ...ies” there produced were discussed and disapproved. Mademoiselle Cormon, a species of firm, as one might say, under whose name was comprised an imposi... ...cess. Then be- gan the forte of the gossip. Du Bousquier was depicted as a species of celibate Pere Gigogne, a monster, who for the last fifteen years... ..., who was returning to Alencon to settle there. From two to five o’clock a species of labial teleg- raphy went on throughout the town; and all the inh... ... dining-room, and boudoir, cruel appre- hensions took possession of her. A species of demon showed her with a sneer her old-fashioned luxury. The hand... ...usquier had sent for secretly to Paris. The loss of the old carriole was a species of calamity in the eyes of the com- munity. The harness-maker of th... ...nt of many a love and the pleasure of an old age is now on exhibition in a species of private museum. If the dead could know what happens after them, ... ...ruth, contain a far higher moral. Does it not show the necessity for a new species of education? Does it not invoke, from the enlight- ened solicitude...

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... the inn belonged to the spe- cies to be found in all provincial towns—the species wherein, for two roubles a day, travellers may obtain a room swarmi... ... as at all hazards he resolved to escape from britchkas, organs, and every species of dog, however marvellously barrel-ribbed and tucked up of paw. “A... ...hort as the Moldavian pumpkins (known as gorlianki) whereof balallaiki—the species of light, two- stringed instrument which constitutes the pride and ... ...exclaimed the fellow, and added thereto an uncomplimentary expression of a species not ordinarily employed in polite society. We may guess that it was... ...ch you and I have never encountered; but even to Chichikov this particular species was new. In the old man’s face there was nothing very special—it wa... ... linen, tanned and undressed sheepskins, dried fish, and every conceivable species of produce. Nev- ertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, wh... ...arm, olive- coloured vodka apiece—vodka of the tint to be seen only in the species of Siberian stone whereof seals are cut—the company applied themsel... ...ustered around him in a 169 Gogol shining bevy that was redolent of every species of per- fume—of roses, of spring violets, and of mignonette; so muc... ...be diffi- cult precisely to assign a name, seeing that, though it was of a species peculiar to itself, it most nearly resembled a large, rickety water...

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...sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven sent, and bearing a celes tial stamp in all her ... ...a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of dis union or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companion ... ...ames are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species. The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine dedicated lamp... ... first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; Frankenstein 34 many h... ...on. I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species. I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhor... ...ards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me for... ...ble as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same Frankenstein 109 defects. This being you must ... ... exas perated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species. Even if they were to leave Europe and in habit the deserts of t... ... would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I right, fo...

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...admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an 10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea organisation formed to inha... ...fell into the sea. 32 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE THIS UNEXPECTED FALL so stunned me that I have no clear re... ...small and lively, and a huge mouth bris- tling with teeth; with many other species. Our imagination was kept at its height, interjections fol- lowed q... ... of fish brought up by the nets. I remarked, among others, some germons, a species of mackerel as large as a tunny, with bluish sides, and striped wit... ...off, he per- ceived several trees, from twenty-five to thirty feet high, a species of palm-tree. At last, at five o’clock in the evening, loaded with ... ...ction proved to me that these birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that, if the island was not inhabited, at least hu... ...t could hardly walk. This bird belonged to the most beautiful of the eight species that are found in Papua and in the neighbouring islands. It was the... ...zen of these interesting marsupians. These animals were small. They were a species of those “kangaroo rabbits” that live ha- bitually in the hollows o... ...ts fins, I recognised the terrible melanopteron of the Indian Seas, of the species of shark so properly called. It was more than twenty-five feet long...

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...d to its being regarded as the most dan- gerous to attack of all the known species of the whale tribe.” —Frederick Debell Bennett’ s Whaling Voyage Ro... ... encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little ... ...r above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. Now the various species of whales need some sort of popu- lar comprehensive classification,... ...y. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the vari- ous species, or—in this place at least—to much of any de- 135 Herman Melville ... ...Right Whale. There is a deal of obscurity con- cerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptised. What then is the whale, which I incl... ...tudinously baptised. What then is the whale, which I include in the second species of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists... ...the Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic species denominated Whalebone Whales, that is, 139 Herman Melville whales ... ...as boldly and fearlessly low- ered for him, as for any other whale of that species. But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not re-... ...nal prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. ...

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... the spectacle before him. On each side of the door was a face framed in a species of loophole. At first he took these two faces for grotesque masks c... ...clamation, the old man covered his knee with the skirt of his dalmatian, a species of robe made of black velvet, open in front, with large sleeves and... ...g with himself since his passion for gold had turned to his own injury, —a species of uncompleted suicide which kept him at once in the miseries of li...

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...d polished, though without increasing its usual brightness. All this was a species of domestic pre- monition concerning the result of the elections wh... ...hen this was done, each row presented a front of ten chairs, all of divers species. A line of chairs was also placed along the wall, under the windows... ...nce among the upper bourgeoisie of Arcis. The poor fellow belonged to that species of bore which de- sires to explain everything, even the simplest th... ...ended his phrases, a silvery note. When God desired, in order to place all species of mankind in this his terrestrial paradise, to create within it a ... ...es, ended in a point in front, and was laced up behind like a corset. This species of corset defined the back, the hips, and the bust perfectly. The s... ... seem to the cautious old man a poor security for the future? However, the species of governmental mission with which Monsieur de T railles appeared i... ...o take up an active life which might dis- tract your mind. Evidently, this species of temple which you propose, in the fervor of your recollections, t... ... that. This Catholic lives with a woman whom he brought back from Italy,—a species of Goddess of Liberty, who serves him as model and house- keeper.” ... ...n, and above the level of its petty passions and its petty interests. This species of success appears to meet the views of the mysterious paternal int...

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...ove, il- limitable space.” We had now passed the town, and had reached the species of desert which separates Croisic from the village of Batz. Imagine...

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... with their mantle and supporters, gave the ap- pearance of a tomb to this species of edifice, which formed a pendant to the bed, another erection rai... ...avity, due to the abso- lute repose of both body and mind; but though that species of calmness softened but slightly the harsh expression of the count... ...ch assumed the intensity that women put into their guilty affections. By a species of occult communion, the secret of which is in the hearts of mother... ...d his utmost confidence. The baron was a man after the duke’s own heart,—a species of butcher, built for strength, tall, virile in face, cold and hars...

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...eel that, as Greville Fane’s characters had the fine plumage of the former species, human beings must be of the latter. It would have been droll if it...

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...sense; they see plainly that Judge Douglas is playing cuttle-fish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by... ...d hold them alike in a new Territory. That is perfectly logical if the two species of property are alike and are equally founded in right. But if you ... ...ng in Galesburgh, last week, undertakes to establish that I am guilty of a species of double dealing with the public; that I make speeches of a certai... ...h him, has squatted his Squatter Sovereignty out. But he will keep up this species of humbuggery about Squatter Sov- ereignty. He has at last invented...

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...lled Cairngorm, rushes over sheets of rock and beds of gravel, inspiring a species of awe from the few and faithless fords which it presents, and the ... ...again the hair; but a kind, weel-meaning man.” I wanted to get rid of this species of chat, and finding myself near the entrance of a footpath which m... ...erials or the workmanship; nay, per- haps she was a little profuse in this species of display. But she wore them as subordinate matters, to which the ... ...lls given by Mary of Este, when her unhappy husband occupied Holyrood in a species of honourable banishment; [The Duke of York afterwards James II., f... ...he exploits in which he had been successful. In weal or woe, through every species of fatigue, difficulty, and danger, Elspat was his faithful com- pa... ...ified by respect and some- times even by fear, for the cateran was not the species of man who submits to female government; but over his son she had e... ... of, the restraints imposed by discipline upon regular troops. They were a species of militia, who had no concep- tion of a camp as their only home. I... ... probability, her mortal relics would never meet the eyes of mortals. This species of instinctive feeling seemed to him of a tenor with the whole cour... ... are not known here. Or, if they should be so far admitted as furnishing a species of proof that no malice was intended in this sort of combat, from w...

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...g girl who has never left her mother’s side made up for it, and gave her a species of ideality. Notwithstanding the graceful lines of her figure, she ... ...ime.” Monsieur Molineux was a grotesque little man, living on his rents,—a species of being that exists nowhere but in Paris, like a certain lichen wh... ...passers-by,—was doubtless invented to endow the Saint-Denis quarter with a species of Palais-Royal. The place, unhealthy and buried on all four sides ... ... produced by a follicular organ,” resumed the great 91 Balzac chemist,—”a species of pocket, or sack, open at both ex- tremities. By one end it is fa... ...y a dead matter expelled from that pouch, or crypt, which is filled with a species of pulp.” “Then hair is what you might call threads of sweat!” crie... ...a humped- back, excessive ugliness, claret stains upon the cheek, Roguin’s species of deformity, and other monstrosities the result of causes beyond t... ... which had given Cesar some uneasiness, and which was now converted into a species of box, where it was possible to seat an old woman. The vestibule, ... ...ts of light, the gaiety, the music, the excitement of dancing brought on a species of intoxication which puts out of sight these gradations in the cre... ...Cesar fell into a sort of slumber, from which no one tried to rouse him,—a species of catalepsy, in which the body lived and suffered while the functi...