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...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...fterwards) — pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he... .... I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink in the neck. I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this ... ...im — “Queequeg!” — but his only answer was a snore. I then rolled over, my neck feeling as if it were in a horse collar; and suddenly felt a slight sc... ... staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. A sort of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes, two of them, one for Qu... ...a before the house was paved with clam shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books bound i... ... a Chapter 22 Merry Christmas 109 short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wi... ...OK I. (Folio), Chapter IV . (Hump Back). — This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. He has been frequently captured there, and towed i...

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... the other was loaded for birds only . Here are two hurts; one through the neck, and the other directly through the heart. It is by no means certain, ... ...es, who ever saw such a ragged hole from a smooth-bore as this through the neck? And you will own yourself, Judge, that the buck fell at the last shot... ...ung them in long hairs of gray mingled with their natural hue; his scraggy neck was bare, and burnt to the same tint with his face; though a small par... ...h a right, Natty, to the honor of this death; and surely if the hit in the neck be mine it is enough; for the shot in the heart was unnecessary—what w... ... hauteur; “for my part, I have known animals travel days with shots in the neck, and I’m none of them who’ll rob a man of his rightful dues.” “Y ou ar... ... the placid lake, covered with wild fowl already journeying from the great northern waters to seek a warmer sun, but lingering to play in the limpid s...

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...n abrupt accent, probably habitual to him; he spoke also with a gut- tural northern tone, which sounded harsh in my ears, accus- tomed to the silvery ... ...irid, but I watched in vain for a glimpse of soul. I am no Oriental; white necks, carmine lips and cheeks, clusters of bright curls, do not suffice fo... ...path. I know well enough, lad, you are not one of those who will run their neck into a noose without seeing how they are to get it out again, and you’... ... little collar and manchettes of lace, trim Parisian brodequins showed her neck, wrists, and feet, to complete advantage; but how grave was her face a... ...h a colourless olive complexion, clear as to the face and sallow about the neck, formed in her that assemblage of points whose union many persons rega... ... some niche, where she could put in her little firm foot and stand upon my neck—mistress of my nature, Do not mistake me, reader, it was no amorous in... ...t was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despo- tisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard m...

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...l curls, and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. 15 Love in these labyringhts his slaves detains, And mighty hearts a... ...w brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade, Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall. Has... ... her father for love of her father s enemy. 31 This just behind Belinda s neck he spread, As o er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to th... ...etrayed. Oh, had I rather unadmired remained In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn... ...in two sable ringlets taught to break, Once gave new beauties to the snowy neck; The sister lock now sits uncouth, alone, And in its fellow s fate for... ...e, his ancient personage to deck, Her great-great-grandsire wore about his neck, *Hairpin in the shape of a dagger. 51 In three seal rings; which aft...

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...tle skins of the kids she put about his hands, and covered the bare of his neck. 17 And she gave him the savoury meat, and delivered him bread that sh... ... the time shall come, when thou shalt shake o and loose his yoke from thy neck. 41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob, for the blessing wherewith his ... ...n to meet his brother, and em- braced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept. 5 And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women an... ...and: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck. 43 And he made him go up into his second chariot, the crier proclaimi... ...hall blow. 18 The noise of his thunder shall strike the earth, so doth the northern storm, and the whirl- wind: 19 And as the birds lighting upon the ... ...hields and helmets. 6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with thee. 7 Prepare ... ...ael shall dwell securely? 15 And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon hor... ...rn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and will make thee go up from the northern parts: and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. 3 And I w... ... Joel and hath spared his people. 20 And I will remove far o from you the northern enemy: and I will drive him into a land unpassable, and desert, wi...

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...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...is extreme of endurance. And perhaps, after all, it is better that the lad should break his neck than that you should break his spirit. And since I am... ...r like an angel, but if you have a hole in your trousers, it is like a millstone round your neck. The Devonian lost heart at so many refusals. He had ... ...rest rudiment of a tail. Tails, it seemed, were out of season just then. But they had their necks for all that; and by their necks alone they do as mu... ...ld boyhood near Senlis, there was captured an old stag, having a collar of bronze about his neck, and these words engraved on the collar: ‘Caesar mihi... ... of what she made easily a few years ago. The tide of prosperity came and went, as with our northern pit- men, and left nobody the richer. The women b... ...y forgiven our country-women; and I think they take a special pleasure in the legend of the northern quarter of the town, called L ’Anglade, because t... ...still except the jingle of the sleigh bells, and you shall fancy yourself in some untrodden northern territory—Lapland, Labrador, or Alaska. Or, possi...

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...ut that. “Always rottin’ about war now,” said Bert. “They’ll get it in the neck in real earnest one of these days, if they ain’t precious careful.” 4... ...soldiers. They joined hands to seat him, and his arms were put about their necks. “Vorwarts!” Some one ran before him with the portfolio, and he was b... ...We’re off to America, and you haven’t realised. You’ve just caught us by a neck. You’re on the blessed old flagship with the Prince. You won’t miss an... ...d slowly, slowly the Vaterland sank down towards the clouds. He craned his neck, but he could not see if the rest of the fleet was following them; the... ... drachenflieger were swooping down to make their attack. Bert, craning his neck through the cabin port-hole, saw,the whole of that incident, that firs... ...re gigantic German, and the two went spinning to destruction together. The northern squadron of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert, except ...

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...ong us with a decency of shame or sympathy. Others were the most offensive personages in the world, gaped at us as if we had been baboons, sought to e... ...treet with ladder and lamp, and looked on moodily. As I was so standing a hand was laid upon my shoulder, and I turned about. It was Major Chevenix, d... ... retrace her steps in the direction of the cottage; where- upon, becoming quite desperate, I broke off a piece of plas- ter, took a happy aim, and hit... ...and so much as was visible of the garden alleys; it seemed there was none to observe us. She caught me by the sleeve and ran. It was no time for compl... ...yself with a Waverley Novel, when what should I come upon but the identical narrative of my green-coated gentleman upon the moors! In a moment the sce... ...rable field in which I might discourse at large and still communicate no information about myself. There was no one with less air of reticence; I plun... ...he door. The specimen of Perfidious Albion whom I had just been studying gave me the stron- ger zest for my fellow-countrymen. I could have embraced t... ...he business of approaching ran- dom fishermen with my hat in the one hand and a knife in the other, appeared so desperate, that I saw nothing for it b...

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...ng was ordered for his majesty’s happy escape from the disease of a broken neck; and the state-coach was dedicated thenceforward as a votive offering ... ...horses’ heads, and deprecate our wrath by the precipitation of their crane-neck quarterings. T reason they feel to be their crime; each individual car... ...ssments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- urbs, we soon begin to enter upon our natural pace of ten mil... ...e simplicity of her fervent nature, the poor woman threw her arms round my neck, as she thought of her son, and gave to me the kiss which secretly was... ... meeting. But what was Cyclops doing here? Had the medical men recommended northern air, or how? I collected, from such explanations as he volunteered... ...ss a whisper of visions still higher, of a triple crown, and feet upon the necks of kings, sometimes stole into his heart. M. Michelet is anxious to k... ...e from English pens. Grafton, a chronicler, but little read, being a stiff-necked John Bull, thought fit to say that no wonder Joanna should be a virg...

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... of five in kneebreeches, and red legs, who had a rusty milk-can round his neck by way of drum, and was very carefully avoided by Chad’s small terrier... ...nen cap with a black band round it; her broad chest is covered with a buff neckerchief, and below this you see a sort of short bedgown made of blue-ch... ...ed an’ leaving the rest to lie on the stones. Nay, nay, I’ll never slip my neck out o’ the yoke, and leave the load to be drawn by the weak uns. Fathe... ...by the complex wrappings of pure white cambric and lace about her head and neck. She is as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres; and he... ...crown of her cap, and falls in sharp contrast on the white folds about her neck. It must take a long time to dress that old lady in the morning! But i... ...I’m not so sure about it. Bartle Massey says—and he knows the South—as the northern men are a finer breed than the southern, harder-headed and stronge...

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...ked mine by tying round them little scarfs of black silk, torn from an old neck-handkerchief. Putting them in mourning this way, the doctor said, was ... ...the vilest work. Is there a heavy job at tarring to be done, he is pitched neck and shoul- ders into a tar-barrel, and set to work at it. Moreover, h... ...deal of prying and punching, the bung was forced in; and then the cooper’s neck-handkerchief, attached to the end of the hoop, was drawn in and out—th... ...m we supposed a boatswain’s mate, from the silver whistle hanging from his neck, came below, driving before him a couple of blubbering boys, and follo... ...seldom met with. One present essayed a sol- emn aspect; but having a short neck and full face, only made out to look stupid. It was this individual wh... ...u please, clothing, may be entirely dispensed with. How different our hard northern latitudes! Alas! the lot of a “poor devil,” twenty degrees north o...

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... as hard as he could tear, with his nail keg bent down nearly to his horse’s neck and his long spear pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business,... ...ves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wore the iron collar on their necks; and the rest were slaves in fact, but without the name; they imagi... ... head, with a rag of steel web hitched onto it to hang over the back of your neck — and there you are, snug as a candle in a candle mould. This is no ... ... down to his upper lip and protected his nose; and all the rest of him, from neck to heel, was flexible chain mail, trousers and all. But pretty much ... ...ft foot, and I gripped it with my hand; lastly they hung my shield around my neck, and I was all complete and ready to up anchor and get to sea. Every... ...k to get up muscle for my trip, and had climbed the ridge which bordered the northern extremity of the valley, when I came upon an arti ficial openi... ...ed. It was nightfall now, and I withdrew my pickets. The one who had had the northern outlook reported a camp in sight, but visible with the glass onl...

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...h fine dignity. Even beneath the opera cloak it was easy to infer that her neck and shoulders were beautiful. Her almost extreme slenderness was, howe... ...e so- prano and her confidante returned. The basso, a black- bearded, bull necked man, sombre, mysterious, parted the chorus to right and left, and ad... ...Page, who upon the pillows beside her still slept, her stocking around her neck as a guarantee against draughts. “Page, Page! Wake up, girlie. It’s la... ...s was its influence felt. Out, far out, far away in the snow and shadow of Northern Wis- consin forests, axes and saws bit the bark of century-old tre... ...u wear your hair that new way, Laura,” she remarked, “farther down on your neck? I see every one doing it now.” The house was very still. Outside the ... ...dried, and the pinch of famine made itself felt among the vine dressers of Northern Italy, the coal miners of Western Prussia. Or another channel fill... ...hed the newcomer from man to man. The Pit traders clutched him, pulled his necktie loose, knocked off his hat, vociferating all the while at top voice... ...nterested her with his de- scription of his life in the cathedral towns of northern Italy. But at the end of that time dinner was announced. “Has Mr. ... ...opposite the fireplace, worked in the tap- estry of the best period of the northern French school, Halcyone, her arms already blossoming into wings, h...

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... of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and sleeves; and she had emerald-green stockings. Her look of confiden... ...s the people about him. Gudrun lighted on him at once. There was something northern about him that 11 magnetised her. In his clear northern flesh and... ...ver her rather beautiful ears, which were not quite clean. Neither was her neck per- fectly clean. Even in that he seemed to belong to her, rather tha... ...gh, he thought to him- self, he was always well washed, at any rate at the neck and ears. He smiled faintly, thinking these things. Yet he was tense, ... ...ss at one go. They hate him for it. He takes them all by the scruff of the neck, and fairly flings them along. He’ll have to die soon, when he’s made ... ...the heated cafe, her loose, simple jumper was strung on a string round her neck. But it was made of rich peach-coloured crepe-de-chine, that hung heav... ...he girls quickly dressed and sat down to the fragrant tea. They sat on the northern side of the grove, in the yellow sunshine facing the slope of the ... ...e splinters of light, his face was keen and ruddy, his body seemed full of northern energy. Gerald re- ally loved Birkin, though he never quite believ... ...ou mean, physically?’ asked Gerald, his eyes glistening. ‘Yes. Y ou have a northern kind of beauty, like light refracted from snow—and a beautiful, pl...

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...g the rabbits on the turf, threw himself down on it, with one arm upon the neck of the panting dog, whose great gasps, like a sobbing of laughter, hea... ...understood than his flock; and her lady spoke little but langue d’oui, the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanis... ...e found me weeping, because my Edward had tied the scarf I gave him on the neck of one of those very dogs, and the fatherly counsel he gave me. Ah, Le... ...s Bessee sprang from Ri- chard, and nestled on his breast, clinging to his neck. “My babe—my Bessee!” he exclaimed, gathering her close to him. “Livin... ...e miserable object, holding back the eager Leonillo with one arm round his neck, “who art thou, thou ghost of former times?” “Knowst me not, Richard?”... ...llo, I have no comforter or friend!” and he flung his arms round the dog’s neck. CHAPTER X—THE COMBA CHAPTER X—THE COMBA CHAPTER X—THE COMBA CHAPTER X...

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...t was but a sterile glen, sur- rounded with rude crags, and traversed by a northern tor- rent. This was not the worst. The fires had been quenched upo... ... Scot- land to the King’s allegiance. This plan was chiefly adopted by the northern nobility, who had resisted with great obstinacy the adoption of th... ... overhung by fragments of huge rock. Elsewhere, the hill, which formed the northern side of this beautiful sheet of water, arose in steep, but less pr... ...n brandy, Bourdeaux, or usquebaugh, shall prejudice my cleaving him to the neck-bone.” “You shall be heartily welcome,” said the Captain, “pro- viding... ...off the base yoke which fanati- cism had endeavoured to wreath round their necks, had not a moment to lose. “The Covenanters,” he said, “after having ... ...on on horseback, would form a body far more than sufficient to overawe the northern Cov- enanters, who had already experienced their valour in the wel... ...Highlands upon which the wrath of Argyle could wreak itself. “But I have a neck though,” said Dalgetty, bluntly; “and what if he chooses to avenge him... ...n attempt of rather an extraordinary kind was made to civilize the extreme northern part of the Hebridean Archi- pelago. That monarch granted the prop... ...e and strong opposition of colours. An antique silver chain hung round her neck, and supported the wrest, or key, with which she turned her instrument...

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...thing that brings regret, Or breaks their hopes, or hearts, or heads, or necks: Thus drownings are much talk’d of by the divers, And swimmers,... ...arls, Link’d hand in hand, and dancing; each too having Down her white neck long floating auburn curls (The least of which would set ten poe... ... single dragon? Or if, too classic for his vulgar brain, He fear’d his neck to venture such a nag on, And he must needs mount nearer to the mo... ...A chain o’er all she did; that is, a chain Was thrown as ‘t were about the neck of you,— And rapture’s self will seem almost a pain With aught... ... As though they were quite conscious of her station— They trod as upon necks; and to complete Her state (it is the custom of her nation), ... ...ear debates whose thunder roused (not rouses) The world to gaze upon those northern lights Which flash’d as far as where the musk bull browses; ...

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...opes, and stretched tight, with their ends closely applied to his chin and neck and hands. She did not understand. Then she saw from under one of the ... ...vety ear, like the ear of a big cat. He had seized the water-bottle by its neck and brought it down with a shivering crash upon the head of the strang... ...e down on the back of my head. I made for the lagoon, and went in up to my neck. He stopped at the water, for he hated getting his feet wet, and began... ...water after worms, and rubbed along on that. Half my time I spent up to my neck in the lagoon, and the rest up the palm-trees. One of them was scarcel... ...own age. But he only snapped his beak at me. Great ugly bird, all legs and neck! “I shouldn’t like to say how long that went on altogether. I’d have k... ... standards. The east and south would trust me as they would trust no other northern man. And I knew I had only to put it to her and she would have let... ...f fire and metals and with organised feats of engineering that stagger our northern minds—unused as we are to such feats as that of the Saübas of Rio ...

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...a mass of black hair, in appearance like the furry coat of a dog. His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with gray, which woul... ...h appeasing and apologetic servil ity. “Don’t you think you’ve stretched that neck of yours just about enough? It’s unhealthy, you know. The mate’s g... ... young fellow’s hands clench at the insult, and the blood crawl scarlet up his neck. “But let that go,” Wolf Larsen continued. “You may have very good... ... about it! Where’s the pot? Lost overboard? Serve you bloody well right if yer neck was broke!” I managed to struggle to my feet. The great tea pot wa... ...to see, so closed were his eyes, he was haled from his bunk by the nape of the neck and set to his duty. He sniffled and wept, but Wolf Larsen was piti... ...r than make them, and I had no doubt of my power to bring the schooner to some northern port of Japan. In fact, I had crammed navigation from text boo...

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...s at home; whereas, despite the leath ern wallets of news slung about the necks of some, and the broad sheets in the hands of all, they were Editors,... ...e recognised by the child at once, who, with much joy, put them around her neck, and sought me eagerly to say she understood the string was from her h... ...es in the main street of a large town, and dashes on haphazard, pell mell, neck or nothing, down the middle of the road. There — with mechanics work ... ...tched creature stands beneath the gibbet on the ground; the rope about his neck; and when the sign is given, a weight at its other end comes running d... ...ip’s steward, with a thick gold ring upon his little finger, and round his neck a gleaming golden watch—guard. How glad he is to see us! What will we ... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene...