...en his horse to the iron bars of the perron, when M. de Saint-Remy came running, out of breath, supporting his capacious body with one hand, whilst wi... ...charac- ter. A brow white and void of wrinkles, beneath his long hair, now more white than black; an eye piercing and mild, under the lids of a young ... ...me.” 90 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 “Where, sire?” “At the little park-gate.” The lieutenant bowed, understanding that the king had told him all he had... ...uch a suite can only be attached to royalty.” “Vive monsieur le surintendant!” cried, or rather vocifer- ated, from a window on the ground-floor, a vo... ....! — Hurrah for Gen- eral Monk!’” And his voice mingled with the voices of the hundreds of spectators, over which it sounded for a mo- ment. Then, the... ...as to inclose his treasure, for the present, under locks so solid that no wrist could break them, and so complicated that no master-key could open the...

...cal sympathy,” and the curios- ity then expressed concerning the Author of Waverley and the subjects of his Novels, exposed the poor woman to en- quir... ...ace, and by such a being, and the superior skill 41 which he displayed in mechanics, and in other arts, gave suspicion to the surrounding neighbours.... ...with the affecting serenity which sincere piety, like oil sprinkled on the waves, can throw over the most acute feelings, she said, “My bairn, when th... ...in their belief when, through a narrow loophole, a female hand was seen to wave a handkerchief, as if by way of signal to them. Hobbie was almost out ... ...adition averred to have been taken from the English at the battle of Sark, waved over the chair in which Ellieslaw presided, as if to inflame the cour... ...oo hardly of Sir Frederick for this,—it is an excess of passion.” Isabella waved her hand impatiently. “Forgive me, my child—I go—Heaven bless thee. A... ...ere placed some ordinary tools of field-labour, mingled with those used by mechanics. Where the bed should have been, there was a wooden frame, strewe...

...republican jacket known by the name of “la carmagnole.” Others, well-to-do mechanics, no doubt, were clothed from head to foot in one color. Those who... ...h a rapidity of which he fully understood the importance, the comman- dant waved his right hand to enforce silence on the soldiers, who were standing ... ...’t get picked off; and bring me news of what you find—quick!” So saying he waved his hand towards the suspected heights along the road. The four men, ... ...e who bring a certain conventional poesy into battle. His well-gloved hand waved above his head a sword which gleamed in the sunlight. His whole perso... ...ve of contempt, a sen- timent which appeared in the gesture with which she waved her hand towards the rider. “Listen, Francine,” she said. “Do you rem... ...nd the quiver in her face had so penetrating an influence over him that he wavered; but the softening was momentary. “Are you ill, mademoiselle?” he s...

...hile we were in the ship. We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry ... ...ople are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the coun tenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is ... ...rprise; for the sun shone clear, and the reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my hand. His majesty, who is a most mag ... ... dashed to pieces, or at least overset by the first violent blast, or rising wave. A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate deat... ...wed along the sea; for I now and then felt a sort of tugging, which made the waves rise near the tops of my windows, leaving me almost in the dark. Th... ...y handker chief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or ship were near, th... ...below, and fell into schemes of putting all arts, sciences, lan guages, and mechanics, upon a new foot. To this end, they procured a royal patent for... ...eon, axes, gibbets, whipping posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bul lies, drunkard... .... But I shall not trouble the reader with a particular description of my own mechanics; let Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 251 it suffice to say, that ...

...well papers the room, you see; but I know ‘em all. I’m scholar enough!’ He waved the light over the whole, as if to typify the light of his scholarly ... ... If this is not pathetic, if this is not woman’s devotion—!’ The good lady waved her gloves in a sense of the impossibility of saying more, and tied t... ...nt of the family, employed both her hands in giving her hair an additional wave while sitting in the easiest chair, and occasionally threw in a direct... ...at the back of the truck. The moment he was landed, his late driver with a wave of the carrot, said ‘Supper, Eddard!’ and he, the hind hoofs, the truc... ...rious. Oh, dear me! That’s the general panoramic view.’ Having so held and waved the candle as that all these het- erogeneous objects seemed to come f... ...nt of 216 Our Mutual Friend adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great st...

...ture below. T o the travellers there seemed to be no wind; but these pines waved majestically at their topmost boughs, send- ing forth a dull, plainti... ... ruin of a pine or a hemlock that had been stripped of its bark, and which waved in melancholy gran- deur its naked limbs to the blast, a skeleton of ... ...h was brought from the city, the remainder having been manufactured by the mechanics of T empleton. There was a sideboard of ma- hogany, inlaid with i... ...nding to talk about surgery,” interrupted Mr. Jones, with a contemp- tuous wave of the hand: “it is a science that can only be learned by practice. Y ... ...s good and profitable, John, to freshen the understanding, and support the wavering, by the observance of our holy festivals; but all form is but sten... ...w breathed freely upon the valley, made an impression on the waters. Mimic waves began to curl over the margin of the frozen field, which exhibited an...

... yet less directly religious than the Sherwood class of books; and on that wave of opinion, my little craft floated out into the great sea of the publ... ...ound table again—her figure will occupy the chair like Banquo’s ghost, and wave me off with a knitting needle.’ ‘Ah! that stain of ink was a worse blo... ...f fiction, that Emily and Lilias had never been allowed to read any of the Waverley Novels, excepting Guy Mannering, which their brother Henry had ins... ...r was quite alarmed. One day Mr. Mohun chanced to refer to some passage in Waverley, and on finding that his daughters did not under- stand him, he ex... ...said Claude, ‘they cannot help it; do not you know that Eleanor thinks the Waverley Novels a sort of slow poison? They know no more of them than their... ...s? I am sure it is wasting time not to improve such a genius as he has for mechanics and natural history. Now, Claude, I wish you would answer.’ ‘I wa...

...y considerable in the eyes of a vain populace) waited with alacrity upon a wave of his hand. And rather more than a year later, during his unexpected ... ...and the great herds fed with all their horned heads one way, in one single waver- ing line as far as eye could reach across the broad potreros. A spre... ...black-eyed señoritas rolling solemnly in the shaded alley white hands were waved towards her with animation in a flutter of greetings. Dona Emilia was... ...prings by the enthusi- asm of the señoras and the señoritas standing up to wave their lace handkerchiefs, as lighter after lighter packed full of troo... ...ones of her even voice, and watched the agitated life of her throat, as if waves of emotion had run from her heart to pass out into the air in her rea... ...are lots of Italians settled here on the railway lands, dismissed navvies, mechanics, and so on, all along the trunk line. There are whole villages of...

... twenty feet high in the trunk, for trunk it is, and the great broad frond waves over it in a way that would make that child Pena 115 Yo n g e clap h... ...ses, and star-light nights, and the great many-voiced ocean, the winds and waves chiming all night with a solemn sound, lapping against my ear as I li... ...lat by the excessive violence of the wind, which cut off the head of every wave as it strove to raise itself, and carried it in clouds of spray and gr... ...f waters. When anything could be seen be- yond the first or second line of waves, the sky and sea ap- peared to meet in one cataract of rain and spray... ...ing to the clamps to hinder himself from being washed off, as six or seven waves broke over him be- fore the boat could come near enough for another s... ...en who yet, perhaps, have had a less complete education. I know nothing of mechanics, and can’t teach common things; I am not apt to teach anything, I...

...the man. But now that the depths had been stirred, David’s father took the wave of anguish that passed over his son’s features for a child’s trick, an... ...s too evidently got up by some interested persons or by enthusiastic stage mechanics, a sus- picious combination. Eve, moreover, like most of her sex,... .... My last sun has risen,” said Lucien; with a sort of rhetorical effect he waved his hand towards the sky. “How so; what have you done that you must d... ... outside came the sound of the measured tramp of the warder, monotonous as waves on the beach. “You are a prisoner! you are watched and guarded!” said...

...th a Cupid for steersman! Consider their welts, a handbreadth thick, which waver round them by way of hem; the long flood of silver buttons, or rather... ...er; who, in these days, so numerously patrol as night-constables about the Mechanics’ Institute of Science, and cackle, like true Old-Roman geese and ... ...er may imagine. So much we can see; darkly, as through the foliage of some wavering thicket: a youth of no common endow- 79 Thomas Carlyle ment, who ... ..., save by what you have prospered in, by what you have done. Between vague wavering Capability and fixed indubitable Performance, what a difference! A... ...Nothing but innuendoes, figurative crotchets: a typical Shadow, fit- fully wavering, prophetico-satiric; no clear logical Pic- ture. “How paint to the... ...such virtue could come out of it; what is to be looked for when Life again waves leafy and bloomy, and your Hero- Divinity shall have nothing apelike,...

...rm raw levies; the Whigamores of the western shires, and the ploughmen and mechanics of the Low-country. For the West Highlands, he knew no interest w... ... this gloom Pollute the face of nature, and to hear The ceaseless sound of wave, and seabird’s scream, I’d wish me in the hut that poorest peasant E’e... ... have gone close up to Argyle’s person before speaking, had not the latter waved his hand, as a signal to him to stop short. Captain Dalgetty did so a... ...id the jailor usually appear?” “Never till the sun was beneath the western wave,” said MacEagh. “Then, my friend, we shall have three hours good,” sai... ...ke and predatory clan, who inhabited the western banks of Loch-Lomond. See Waverly, Note XV .] The troops advanced with the nimble alacrity of mountai... ...d sires, I know not one who would have retired while the banner of Diarmid waved in the wind, in the face of its most inveterate foes!” A loud shout n...

... unwarily pledged himself. It was not Pythias’ own will, but the winds and waves, so he still declared, when the decree was brought and the instrument... ...and wolves from the woods and mountains came next in order, and after them waved for the last time the national ensigns of the many tribes of Gaul. On... ...ikewise found room in the two uppermost tiers of porticoes, where sailors, mechanics, and persons in the ser- vice of the Coliseum had their post. Alt... ...demned by the Emperor Claudius to become his own execu- tioner. Seeing him waver, his wife, who was resolved to be with him in death as in life, took ... ...tandard bearer struck to the ground, and seizing his banner from his hand, waved it over his head, and threw himself among the thickest of the foe. Hi... ... Behold how gay the wood to-day, The little church how fair, What banners wave, what tap’stry brave Covers its carvings rare! A goodly train—the par...

...nd plump, some of them had beards, and in no case was their hair curled or waved or arranged in what the French call “the devil-may- care” style. On t... ...r, he tried to excuse his mistake by saying that in England the science of mechanics had reached such a pitch that wooden legs were manufactured which... ...tarched dickey: and soon the scheme be- gan to work. The surly Chief Clerk wavered for a while; then ended by inviting Chichikov to tea. Nor could any... ...takers and the rascals. In short, no ex-pupil of Alexander Petrovitch ever wavered from the right road, but, familiar with life and with men, armed wi... ...on resounded to the report of the explosion there followed upon the same a wave of per- fume, skilfully wafted abroad with a flourish of the eau- de-C... ...side, was almost taking leave of his senses. “Look at it!” he cried with a wave of his hand. “See to what wretchedness the peasant has become reduced!...

... little hunch- backed bridges, marked by the rise and drop again, with the wave, of foreshortened clicking pedestrians. The Ve- netian footfall and th... ...exploits. He had thus discovered in himself a sharp eye for the mystery of mechanics, and had in- vented an improvement in the cotton-spinning process... ...r young woman’s mind: when she felt again in her face, as from a recurrent wave, the cold breath of her last suitor’s surprise, she could only muffle ... ...the past; but at times, as she listened to the murmur of the Mediterranean waves, her glance took a backward flight. It rested upon two figures which,... ...tches plucked in destitution from the common tree and then too el- egantly waved about. One day he brought his small daugh- ter with him, and she rejo... ...mething altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue. Her consciousness was so mixed that she scarcely knew whe...

...ich the breezes caught from their lips and scattered far over the desolate waves, they prosecuted their voyage, and sailed into the harbor of Salem in... ...ear Porto de la Plata. She had now lain as much as fifty years beneath the waves. This old ship had been laden with immense wealth; and, hitherto, nob... ...ill sailed in the sea than by seeking for a ship that had lain beneath the waves full half a century. They broke out in open mutiny; but were finally ... ...the reef of rocks. It flaunted to and fro with the swell and reflux of the waves, and looked as bright and beautiful as if its leaves were gold. “We w... ... class in arithmetic. These boys are to be the merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics of a future period. Hitherto they have traded only in marbles and... ...ants at the humble wooden tenements, where dwelt the petty shopkeepers and mechanics. Pray Heaven that no family in Boston turned one of these poor ex... ...erenced the King of England even more than if the ocean had not rolled its waves between him and them; for, at the distance of three thousand miles, t...

...e exploits. He had thus discovered in himself a sharp eye for the mystery of mechanics, and had invented an improvement in the cotton spinning proces... ...our young woman’s mind: when she felt again in her face, as from a recurrent wave, the cold breath of her last suitor’s surprise, she could only muffle... ...f the past; but at times, as she listened to the murmur of the Mediterranean waves, her glance took a backward flight. It rested upon two figures which,... ... switches plucked in destitution from the common tree and then too elegantly waved about. One day he brought his small daughter with him, and she rejo... ...something altogether contemporary would suddenly give it wings that it could wave in the blue. Her consciousness was so mixed that she scarcely knew w... ..., covering her face with her hands. It had come over her like a high surging wave that Mrs. Touchett was right. Madame Merle had married her. Before s...

..., as if there were a want of adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great st... ...’ said Eugene, giving Lizzie his hand be- fore lightly waving it, as if he waved the whole subject away. ‘I hope it may not be often that so much is m... ... Podsnap saw him, put one of Sophronia’ s wandering locks to his lips, and waved a kiss from it towards Miss Podsnap. ‘What is this about husbands and... ...’s childhood had been, in consequence, a stormy one; but the winds and the waves had gone down in the grave, and Fledgeby flourished alone. He lived i... ...ight,’ assented Fledgeby. ‘No one,’ repeated the old man with a grave slow wave of his head. ‘All scout it as a fable. Were I to say “This little fanc... ...lemnly . ‘No, Ma, I will not. Nothing shall induce me.’ Mrs Wilfer, having waved her gloves, became loftily pa- thetic. ‘But it was to be expected;’ t...

... children to read charming fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspape... ...mbarrassed by the heartiness of the cheering group. From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the sleeve of the brakeman who hel... ...y place, and it’s a lot of these cranky, wage-hogging, half- baked skilled mechanics that start trouble—reading a lot of this anarchist literature and... ...ey. Jackson Elder cried, “Hey, folks! How’s tricks up North?” Mrs. McGanum waved to them from her porch. “They’re glad to see us. We mean something he... ...sant crunching. Sweet winds blew from the sunny lake beside her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore. She leaped a tiny creek bowered in pu... ... disappeared in his blackened leather glove. From the turn in the road she waved at him. She walked on more soberly now, and she was lonely. But the w... ... he’s a religious writer. Sure. You’d like him fine.” When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their p...

...l atlas, and a box of instruments and models for ap- plying mathematics to mechanics. We might give evening lectures, and interest the young farmers.’... ...ll, to be sketched before he is stuffed—’ A clearer view of the company, a wave of the hand from the Earl, and the young gentleman was gone. Next he o... ...tuating clue, not without whiteness, and heaving often upwards, but frail, wavering, ravelled, and tangled, so that scarcely could he find one line th... ...he garden sloping to the wa- ter, and very nautical—the vane, a union-jack waved by a brilliant little sailor on the top of a mast, and the arbour, ha... ...ed distrust of his guardianship. The sunset gleam was fading on the sleepy waves that made but a feint of breaking, along the shining expanse of moist... ... see you sitting down—’ Isabel’s lips were compressed, and the foam of her waves laughed scornfully under her pencil. ‘They must get accustomed to the...