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...atical certainty!” He seemed to brace himself up and lean backward against the air as he stared at me. “How about this here tide that’s rushin’ out th... ... of the pilot house, and was staring intently into the fog as though by sheer force of will he could penetrate it. His face was anxious, as was the f... ...iling and bubbling on the galley fire, I was in haste to get out into the fresh air. Further, there was the need of seeing the captain about what arran... ...about convulsively. The chin, with the damp black beard, pointed higher in the air as the back muscles stiffened and the Chapter II 13 chest swelled ... ...cowered away from the blow and ran out the galley door. What else was I to do? Force, nothing but force, obtained on this brute ship. Moral suasion w... ...im really angry; nor do I wish ever to see him in a genuine rage, when all the force of him is called into play. While on the question of vagaries, I ... ...and gathering strength against the day when they would fight their way into the ranks of the benedicts. Everything now went smoothly. I seemed to know ...

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... its farthest limit, when it failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of... ...e English fleet. Joined to that of Holland it was very superior to the sea forces of France. Tourville, our admiral, so famous for his valour and skil... ...going on. She spoke to her son of the indignity of this marriage with that force in which she was never wanting, and drew from him a promise that he w... ...ll sides. One day early after dinner I saw M. de Chartres, with a very sad air, come out of his apartment and enter the closet of the King. He found h... ...e nearly all the dishes that were before him, and that she refused with an air of rudeness which did not, however, check his polite- ness. It was furt... ...usion. The King allowed him to speak to the end, and then assumed a severe air. “It is true,” said he, “that I am enamoured of her, that I feel it, th... ...urt positively struggled for him; and not one of them, even of the highest ranks, would have dared to fall out with him. Thus protected, he was rather... ...ll emulation; the luxury, the emptiness, the ig- norance, the confusion of ranks; the inquisition in the place of the police: he saw all the signs of ... ...aid against it; for nothing gave the King greater pleasure than to mix all ranks together in a caldron of confusion. He hated and feared the nobility,...

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...ately pays the steward for extra rations, the difference in price becomes almost nomi- nal. Air comparatively fit to breathe, food comparatively varie... ...ith horror. I had myself suffered, even in my decent-sec- ond-cabin berth, from the lack of air; and as the night prom- ised to be fine and quiet, I d... ...even bells, there was no one to be seen but the watch. That chimerical terror of good night-air, which makes men close their windows, list their doors... ...a treat to see him manage this: the various jesters with- ered under his gaze, and you were forced to recognise in him a certain steely force, and a g... ...p him off the streaming decks, O’Reilly and I supported him between us. It was only by main force that we did so, and neither an easy nor an agreeable... ...th word: ‘I had no call to come.’ But there he was; and by the doctor’s orders and the kind force of his two ship- mates disappeared down the companio... ... in a bed; and if the worst befell, you would instantly and mysteriously disappear from the ranks of mankind. I have usually found such stories corres...

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...other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, and when her sight cleared, saw, indeed, a mural tablet of a footless ... ... she added, looking out of the window, “it would be desertion.” George was forced to soothe himself with linking Friars Pardon to the telegraph system... ... on either side of my neck. I was told to pick him up and throw him in the air. He fell with a howl, and held up one leg. 37 Kipling “Part o’ the tri... ...him up. He discovered, too, that it was a good thing to lie in the wave of air under the punkah. Maybe Stanley had taught him all about this in barrac... ...s, and thence the obedient gas whirls through the spirals of blades with a force that would whip the teeth out of a power saw. Behind, is its own pres... ... doubt, from above: “The old secret, my son!” The immense egotism of youth forced me on my own path, but (cry of the human always!) had I known—if I h... ...rniture man sniggered here, and Lord Lundie rolled an Eye of Doom on their ranks. “By the way, if you have trouble with these persons—they seem to hav...

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...e of his devotion to the royal cause. One of his particular graces was the air and manner (imitated, no doubt, from Mole) with which he took snuff fro... ...way was it contrary to the ethics of a gentleman? When so many persons are forced to pay annuities to others, what more natural than to pay one to his... ...sarine! much I care about your Cesarine!” she said with 13 Balzac a saucy air, half serious, half indifferent. This charming Suzanne, whose present c... ...g- ing with handkerchiefs, clasp-knives, fruits, or a handful of nuts, and forced him to put on a regulation coat. Rene would then stuff his fill with... ...eparted, after allowing the old bachelor to kiss her, which he did with an air that seemed to say, “It is a right which costs me dear; but it is bette... ...us, it was at any rate the form and aspect of it; if he had not the actual force of a great heart, the glow of such a heart was in his glance. Althoug... ...or some ci-devant noble who, to regain his lost posi- tion, would join the ranks of the royalists. This hope kept Mademoiselle Cormon in heart during ... ...y, the Emperor’s religion, had filtered down from the throne to the lowest ranks of the army and the benches of the lyceums. Athanase sat still, with ...

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...all, when it was no small piece of service for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook, while Marius led the arm... ... remained still in many parts of Italy, they in a short time mustered up a force against Octavius sufficient to give him battle again, and Marius, als... ...st left no room for debate. Thus Marius being sent for by Cinna, and their forces being divided into three parts, under Cinna, Marius, and Sertorius, ... ...y, the natives fell upon them and slew a great number. This new misfortune forced him to sail back again into Spain, whence he was also repulsed, and,... ...e temperate, and the transitions from one to another so moderate, that the air is almost always serene and pleasant. The rough northerly and easterly ... ...and brought them to make use of the Roman armor, taught them to keep their ranks, and ob- serve signals and watchwords; and out of a confused num- ber... ...ode through it back- ward and forward, and raised a cloud of dust into the air: there with the wind the whole of it was carried away and blown into th... ...ir lungs, and all but choked them, whilst they strove to draw in the rough air mingled with dust and powdered earth. Nor were they able, with all they... ... flying, and encouraging others that still kept 23 Plutarch’s Lives their ranks, he renewed the fight, and attacked the enemy in their pursuit so eff...

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...verlasting monument of vengeance, and became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatever of his dr... ...kill in astronomy, as far as it may be useful to that sort of life. And an air of piety to the gods should shine through the poem, which so visibly ap... ...ughs, the groves are fresh and fair, The sun’s mild lustre warms the vital air; If Sylvia smiles, new glories gild the shore, And vanquish’d Nature se... ...e! No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, listening in mid air, suspend their wings; No more the birds shall imitate her lays, Or, hus... ...cious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies! ... ... 70 One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and tes... ...itic else proceeds without remorse, Seizes your fame, and puts his laws in force. I know there are, to whose presumptuous thoughts, 13 ‘Stagyrite: Ar... ...orm and grace. A prudent chief not always must display His powers in equal ranks, and fair array, But with the occasion and the place comply, Conceal ... ...me, T o whom old fables gave a lasting name, 130 In ranks adorn’d the temple’s outward face; The wall, in lustre and effect lik...

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...she remarked. “Idiot!” She raged inwardly while she walked along with that air of self-contained serenity that is proper to a young lady of nearly two... ... the blond, no-hatted man in gray flannels appeared. There was a cer- tain air of forced fortuity in his manner. He saluted awk- wardly. “Hello, Vee!”... ...ond, no-hatted man in gray flannels appeared. There was a cer- tain air of forced fortuity in his manner. He saluted awk- wardly. “Hello, Vee!” he sai... ...rs old. She had black hair, fine eyebrows, and a clear complexion; and the forces that had modelled her features had loved and lingered at their work ... ... dear!” said Ann Veronica’s aunt. “Y ou see,” said Ann V eronica, with the air of one who shares a difficulty, “I’ve promised to go. I didn’t realize—... ...re hurts. If I did not love you so much I believe I could win you by sheer force of character, for people tell me I am naturally of the dominating typ... ...xt door, in which specimens and models and directions stood in disciplined ranks, under the direc- tion of the demonstrator Capes. There was a couple ... ...sic took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still ranks of the audience to the little busy orches- tra with its quivering vio...

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...e for the peculiar method I have this time adopted. That method assumes an air of haphazard, but it is not so careless as it seems. I believe it to be... ...rfect and static States, a balance of happi- ness won for ever against the forces of unrest and disorder that inhere in things. One beheld a healthy a... ...e insistent examina- tion of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be, to the pro- ject... ...e sufficient isolation for a polity to maintain itself intact from outward force; the Republic of Plato stood armed ready for defensive war, and the N... ...one from the sky. It might be the remote town below would take a different air, and my companion the botanist, with his educated observation, might al... ...nture, a man with one of those faces that have gained interest rather than force or nobility from their commerce with life. He is some- thing refined,... ... go from among his fellow men. There will be no drumming of him out of the ranks, no tearing off of epau- lettes, no smiting in the face. The thing mu...

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...g none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the wav... ... town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might ha... ...ould endure a lamplighter. As the day declined into the afternoon, and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to ... ...f an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the forehead, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him. They were ... ..., and otherwise evil adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in prepa ... ...would show the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty’s forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and... ...ee Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Jury man, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, p...

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... distinguished) could place upon sale little miracles of dexterity and taste. Some had a more engaging appearance; fine features were found to do as w... ...with a profusion of hair in which the sun found threads of gold. As soon as she came in the courtyard (and she was a rather frequent visitor) it seeme... ...ctim, and too often on myself. It was so now. Our rations were scarce served out, and I had just withdrawn into a corner of the yard, when I per- ceiv... ...ould I not mortally wound him, no defence would be left 18 St. Ives me; what was yet more appalling, I thus ran the risk of bringing my own face agai... ...ay, not a little. We learned you were under orders for the Peninsula, to fight the English; then that you had been commissioned for a piece of bravery... ...voice. But there was no room for choice. I had been so ill-advised, when I first joined the regiment, as to take ground on my nobility. I had been oft... ...rock. I had no eyes to see with; and I doubt if there was anything to see but darkness. I must occasionally have caught a gasp of breath, but it was q... ...re I was now standing there was occasionally visible, as the fog lightened, a lamp in one of the barrack windows, which gave me a measure of the heigh...

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...hat makes everyone collect “specimens” of the war. Everywhere the souvenir forces itself upon the attention. The homecom- ing permissionaire brings wi... ...s and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying w... ...Italian plain than Italy is near any practicable fighting ground for large forces; particularly is this the case in the region of the Adige valley and... ...ge, and so with an effort thrust my legs over to dangle in the crystalline air. “That,” proceeded General Bompiani, pointing with a giddy flourish of ... ...ncible 5th Group of the Alpini. It was the old problem of the irresistible force in conflict with the immov- able object. And the outcome has been the... ...d, chest-tightening atmosphere, with wisps of clouds floating in the clear air below and club- huts close at hand…. Among these mountains avalanches a... ...d com- mon soldier, the infantryman who has stood and marched and moved in ranks and ranks, the “serried lines of men,” who are the main substance of ... ... a suc- cessful offensive. Every man we draw from munition mak- ing to the ranks brings our western condition nearer to the military condition of Russ...

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...t not forbidding. There was nothing about it of a grim derelict. It had an air of expectant life. One after an- other I made out the familiar faces wa... ...sman and or- dered curtly: “Shift the helm back again. Don’t you feel the air from aft? You are like a dummy standing there.” The Malay revolved the ... ...ght and speaking into the gloom of the cabin. “I thought there was a light air, and—but it’s gone now. Not a breath anywhere under the heavens.” He wi... ...otionless as if made of wood and built into the ship’s frame. Thus, with a forced and tense watchfulness, Haji Wasub, serang of the brig Lightning, ke... ...like a pistol-shot. Carter stepped back. “Do you mean you would keep me by force?” he asked, startled. “Force,” repeated Lingard. “It rests with you. ... ...reatness of significance, as if it had been the embodiment of some natural force, of a force forever masterful and undying. “And even now my life is u... ...st moment did not move. With an authoritative gesture Daman had parted the ranks of Belarab’s young followers with the red skullcaps and was seen adva... ...tonished silence all the scattered groups in the courtyard. But the broken ranks had closed behind him. The Illanun chiefs, for all their truculent as...

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...y of her admirers. Her wit is at once, like steam in an engine, the motive force and the warning whistle of her headlong course; and it vanishes like ... ..., when its truths appear humiliating: when the facts are not immedi- ately forced on them, they take up the pride of incredulity. They live in a hazy ... ...in the harmlessness of wounds to a woman’s virtue, if she ‘keeps them from air.’ In The Way of the World, it appears less prepared in the smartness, a... ...manners. Where Congreve excels all his English rivals is in his liter- ary force, and a succinctness of style peculiar to him. He had correct judgemen... ...e whole scene in reading it. Celimene is behind Millamant in vividness. An air of be- witching whimsicality hovers over the graces of this Comic heroi... ...d to have killed it too wrathfully! Translating Moliere is like humming an air one has heard performed by an accom- plished violinist of the pure tone... ...e of their best friends. They are blind to their interests in swelling the ranks of the sentimentalists. Let them look with their clearest vision abro... ... she is cast out and over- thrown, she can stretch a finger at gaps in our ranks. She can say that she commanded an army and seduced men, whom we thou...

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...ir houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air laden with the fragrance of their splendid gardens. Here these bold spe... ...nflexible line of the fortifications, and the enlargement of the docks has forced upon them. The result is, weariness of heart in Havre, cheerfulness ... ...vre, cheerfulness and joy at Ingouville. The law of social development has forced up the suburb of Graville like a mushroom. It is to-day more extensi... ...ll shed- ding its last gleams; there was not a cloud in the sky; the balmy air caressed the earth, the flowers gave forth their fra- grance, the steps... ...ertheless, remorse had set its fangs too sharply in Bettina’s heart not to force her to warn her sister. In the midst of her own confessions she had p... ...st she wrote the following letter to this Dorat of the sacristy, who still ranks as a star of the modern Pleia- des. To Monsieur de Canalis,—Many a ti... ...n imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived for the next few days. The air was full of tongues of fire. The trees were like a plum- age. She was n... ...d I am only a poor soldier. For fif- teen years I served my country in the ranks; I have had the wind of many a bullet in my face; I have crossed Sibe...

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...e as sensitive, as impetuous, and as generous as his, should put its whole force into the attempt to alleviate for others the evils of those systems f... ..._65 Check their unearthly speed; they stop and fold Their wings of braided air: The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car Gazed on the slumbering maid.... ...ITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught... ..., that my strain _45 May modulate with murmurs of the air, And motions of the forests and the sea, And voice of living beings, an... ...ept it on, _320 With fierce gusts and precipitating force, Through the white ridges of the chafed sea. The waves arose. Higher ... ...l, our hosts encompassed _1785 Their shattered ranks, and in a craggy vale, Where even their fierce despair might nought a... ...gate availed to drive With quickening impulse, as each bolt did rive Their ranks with bloodier chasm:—into the plain _2385 Disgorged at le... ...white, Sate one waving a sword;—the hosts recede And fly, as through their ranks with awful might, Sweeps in the shadow of eve that Phantom swift and ... ... me, and the wind that flows Through night, bore accents to mine ear whose force Might create smiles in death—the T artar horse _2510 Pause...

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...uty of a youth who was wandering about the passages and greenroom with the air of a man in search of a woman kept at home by unexpected circum- stance... ...gain in the world of Paris,” said the Comte Sixte du Chatelet. “He has the air of a prince,” the mask went on, “and it is not the actress he lived wit... ...ondet, as sharp as a needle, could detect more than one secret in Lucien’s air and manner; while stroking him down, he contrived to tighten the curb. ... ... mistress. She can always command you; you will never command her. You may force your way in and ask her to do you a service—” “Oh, she is more genero... ...derstood. The priest knocked, received no answer, heard a slight gasp, and forced the door open with a thrust of his shoulder; char- ity, no doubt len... ...ove? One had led to the other. Was there some trans- position of the vital force in her involving her in inevitable suffering? Everything is doubtful ... ... for you learned in the con- vent what you never could have learned in the ranks of in- famy in which you were living.—You owe me nothing,” said he, o... ...Vidocq. Both branches of the police chose their men chiefly from among the ranks of well-known agents, who have matricu- lated in the business, and ar... ...nsideration of an atheistic age. And, indeed, the corruption of the higher ranks is infi- nitely more hideous, in spite of the dazzling display and sp...

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... of iron twisted by the fury of the sea into the strangest forms. The timber was already bleached and iron rusted, and even these objects did no viole... ...ke sea-shells; but most other golden treasure would be found. As it was brought up, it went aboard the Tug-steamer, where good account was taken of it... ...-work: in which, also, several loose sovereigns that the ingot had swept in be- fore it, had been found, as firmly embedded as though the iron had bee... ...ther, and contemplating a world of fits. For everybody else in the room had fits, ex- cept the wards-woman; an elderly, able-bodied pauperess, with a ... ...to eat and drink carefully supervised as to quality, and sold at an appointed price; re- spectable female attendants ready for the commonest women in ... ...blished for us in the Theatre. The sand- wich—as substantial as was consistent with portability, and as cheap as possible—we hailed as one of our grea... ... But, this is a reason for, and not against, its being made as acceptable as possible to well-disposed men of de- cent behaviour. Such men are assured... .... Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the newspapers, any page of the records of the Victoria Cross...

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...e sort electrical, which are produced by ter- rible explosions of the will forced out, or held under, by some mysterious mechanism. Thus during a peri... ...mer in the middle of the next room, a yard-stick in his hand measuring the air, and so ill wrapped up in his green cotton dressing-gown with chocolate... ... turned about to say to his wife, “Well, what do you want, Constance?” his air and man- ner, like those of a man absorbed in calculations, were so pro... ... If occasionally he com- plained, the head clerk would smile with a jovial air, and say ,— “Ah, my boy! all is not rose at ‘The Queen of Roses.’ Larks... ...r nothing to steal. T owards the end of the first month this girl, who was forced to keep house of a Sunday, opened a conver- sation with Cesar. Ursul... ...name any sort of cosmetic the “Paste of Sultans” thus di- vining the magic force of such words in a land where every man hoped to be a sultan as much ... ...e advantage at the time when Napoleon conscripted all families to fill the ranks. He was, however, born somewhere, as the result of some cruel and vol... ... of transition whereby a merchant might rise, with- out ridicule, into the ranks of the nobility, is in point of fact made up of traders who are tradi...

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