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... her mounted on a chair, her small person decked out with a pro- fusion of necklaces, jewels, bracelets, chains, and rings; and her fingers, as well a... ...ke serge robes, her ruffs looked like mufflers, her coifs like hoods, even neck- laces seemed rosaries, and her scrupulous neatness enhanced the pure ... ... plume, precipitated himself, as far as he could reach, towards Berenger’s neck, calling him fair cousin and dear baron. The lad stood taken by surpri... ...ms, and hair sparkling with jewels; their gossamer ruffs surrounding their necks like fairy wings; their light laugh mingling with the music, as they ... ... from one to another of the many scattered settlements of Huguenots in the northern part of France, who, being left pastorless, welcomed visits from t... ...Islands, and thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the northern and eastern coasts of France; and often indulged in descents on th... ...lace every year. Delegated pastors there gathered from every quarter. From Northern France came men used to live in constant hazard of their lives; fr... ...hat it was—a mon- astery converted into a fortress—stood on the nearer, or northern bank, and on the belfry tower waved a flag with the arms of Quinet... ...ording the river above them, so as to attack not only the fortress on this northern side, but the bridge tower on the southern bank of the river. Spur...

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...e, or what is left of it, is to educate and mould public opinion, at least Northern public opinion, not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted... ...d to- gether in a lot, to be driven over, every man with a rope around his neck, that halter being held by Judge Douglas. That is the question. If Rep... ...guments in favor of kingcraft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people not that they wanted to do it, but because the people w... ... free their slaves, go north, and become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go south and become most cruel slave-masters. “When Southern ... ...he basis upon which our fathers placed it—can have any tendency to set the Northern and the Southern States at war with one another, or that it can ha... ...the United States; and, fourth, that the emancipation of the slaves of the Northern States was a gross outrage of the rights of property, inasmuch as ... ...the United States; and, fourth, that the emancipation of the slaves of the Northern States was a gross outrage on the rights of property, in as much a...

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...nd a black cravat tied in sailor fashion care- lessly and loosely about my neck. My knowledge of ships and sailor’s talk came much to my assistance, f... ...old me that New York was then full of Southerners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to b... ..., black and white, in their persons and property; such a one as will cause Northern industry, Northern capi- tal, and Northern civilization to flow in...

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...nage for a person whose two brothers—her only ones—had given up life for the Northern cause. It reminded her, however, on the other hand, that he too ... ...to carry on the plantation himself, but he had a millstone of debt round his neck, and he longed for some work which would transport him to the haunts... ...g his cousin’s German books was to give him an idea of the natural energy of Northerners. He had noticed it often before; he had already told himself ... ...nt with it. It was only after much experience he made the discovery that few Northerners were, in their secret soul, so energetic as he. Many other pe... ... with it which would have made it as impossible for him to take a roomful of Northern fanatics into his confidence as to read aloud his mother’s or his... ...ow petticoat, and a large crimson sash fastened at the side; while round her neck, and falling low upon her flat young chest, she had a double chain of... ...only answer this sudden gleam with a stare, and wonder afresh what trick his Northern kinswoman was destined to play him. Impressed too? He should thi... ...r), destiny would use him rightly in hanging a person like Adeline round his neck. That would be the way poetic justice ought to work, for him—and the... ...nhappy or not. The up shot of this was that Olive threw herself on Verena’s neck with a movement which was half indignation, half rapture; she exclai...

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...s, 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... ...re 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 vir... ...s ordered for his majesty’s prosperous escape from the disease of a broken neck; and the state-coach was dedicated for ever as a votive offering to th... ...horses’ heads, and deprecate our wrath by the precipitation of their crane-neck quarterings. T reason they 93 feel to be their crime; each individual... ...ssments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- urbs, we begin to enter upon our natural pace of ten miles an... ... in the mere simplicity of her fervent nature, she threw her arms round my neck, and, poor woman, kissed me. 112 THE THE THE THE THE VISION OF SUDDEN... ...eeting. But what was Cyclops doing here? Had the medical men recom- mended northern air, or how? I collected, from such expla- nations as he volunteer...

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...ar. Little lamb, Here I am; Come and lick My white neck; Let me pull 11 William Blake Your soft wool; Let m... ...e lion old Bowed his mane of gold, And her breast did lick And upon her neck, From his eyes of flame, Ruby tears there came; While the lioness ... ...ter with thy virgin feet. IV. The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar: Thel enter d in & saw the secrets of the land unknown; She sa...

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...drawing of the trio, in nankeen frocks, and long white trowsers, with bare necks and arms, the latter twined together, and with the free hands, Griffi... ... her in her white embroidered cambric frock, red sash and shoes, and coral necklace, almost an heirloom, for it had been brought from Sicily in Nelson... ... father. How parents and doctors in these days would have shuddered at her neck and arms, bare, not only in the evening, but by day! When she was a li... ...rother as he was plodding wearily upstairs in the dark, clinging round his neck sobbing, ‘Dear, dear Clarry! I can’t bear it! I don’t care. You’re my ... ...ould point to our boundary wall, a little below the top of the hill on the northern side. He informed us that the place we had passed was Hillside—For... ...id grassy descent. Later constitutions, how- ever, must have eschewed that northern front door, and later nerves that narrow verge, and on the eastern... ...sooner did she see them than out she flew, and was clinging round Martyn’s neck, her hat falling back as she kissed him on both cheeks, with an eagern... ...and that she hoped that Anne would grow up stronger than her sister in the northern breezes. Poor little Anne! Of all the family, to her the change wa...

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...using the Emperor’s advances, for Napoleon made her a present of a diamond necklace, and always re- membered her, asking now and again, “And is the be... ..., la Chevre!—Good morning, little kid,” and he took his daughter round the neck, kissed her, and made her sit on his knee, resting her head on his sho... ... cast by the lofty build- ings of the Louvre, darkened on that side by the northern blast. Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of... ...tretch your arms while you spout about the ideal, and beauty, and all your northern madness?— Beauty is not to compare with solid pudding—and what am ... ...t the entrance, proclaims luxury. The Baron, in his blue cloth coat, white neckcloth, nan- keen trousers, patent leather boots, and stiffly starched s... ...cried Crevel. “Has Josepha thrown him over, packed him off, turned him out neck and crop? Bravo, Josepha, you have avenged me! I will send you a pair ... ...rovide for.” The generous-hearted woman threw her arms round her husband’s neck in her joy. “How happy I shall be, beginning again to show you how tru...

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...ocroy.” After which he in- quired if Lieutenant Comminges were not the command- ing officer at the outpost. The soldier replied by pointing out to him... ...he drank, but not as other men drink. One seemed, as he raised the wine to his lips, to hear him say, `Come, juice of the grape, and chase away my sor... ... 135 Dumas “But does he not approach the walls while playing?” “Y our eminence doesn’t know those walls; they are sixty feet high and I doubt if Mons... ...our highness?” asked La Ramee. “’Tis your fault, you simpleton,” answered the duke. “With your idle nonsense yesterday about escaping, you worried me ... ...ar- riage, where, as she took her seat, she gave him her hand to kiss; then, by one of those wild caprices which made her so adorable and at the same ... ...amely, in the direction toward Scotland. A few hundred yards beyond the town D’Artagnan drew rein. “Halt!” he cried, “this time we shall be pursued. W...

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...mmend him to for the procuring such an appetite. Chapter 4 The reader’s neck brought into danger by a description; his escape; and the great condes... ...high a hill as Mr. Allworthy and how to get thee down without breaking thy neck, I do not well know. However, let us e’en venture to slide down togeth... ...ards her. I saw two farmers’ daughters at church, the other day, with bare necks. I protest they shocked me. If wenches will hang out lures for fellow... ...fully in The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 101 her neck, that few could believe it to be her own. If envy could find any part ... ...so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. Her neck was long and finely turned: and here, if I was not afraid of offending... ...dertook; though perhaps her brother was a little obliged to that agreeable northern aspect which had so delighted her, that he heard no comment on his... ..., with vast splendor. In France, a knave is dressed like a fop; and in the northern countries, like a sloven. But human nature is everywhere the same,...

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...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ..., in which there was but one four, and by steady play completely broke the neck of the bowling. Eton won the match easily, Patteson making a brilliant... ...sired them to send you a copy with my love. Your cross I have now round my neck, and I shall always wear it; it will hang there with a locket containi... ...up to the house. I just waited to see Mrs. Selwyn throw her arms round her neck, and then walked straight off, feeling that the furious rain and wind ... ...bout in a hot sun, with a Melanesian kit, as we call them, slung round the neck, with clothes and books, is really fatiguing. Yester- day and to-day a... ...s por- tions of New Zealand. Finally, retaining only the north part of the northern island, to take the Melanesian Bishopric. ‘I urged this plan upon ... ... island of Eangitoto with its double peak and the easternmost point of the northern shore of the harbour, lies a very sheltered bay, with its sea-fron... ... for putting things in daily and immediate use; and the hall, which is the northern part of the side of the quadrangle, is a really hand- some room, w... ...kpat, who had many broth- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeare...

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.... But that was two years ago.” The little girl wound her arms about Susy’s neck and leaned against her caress- ingly. “Are you going to be soon, then?... ...bably thought of, least often, was a great dull English country-house in a northern county, where a life as monotonous and self-contained as his own w... ...aimed, suddenly noticing a pearl and coral trinket hanging from Clarissa’s neck. “Who’s been giving my daughter jewellery, I’d like to know!” “Oh, Str... ..., you know,” Clarissa lucidly explained, her arms tight about her father’s neck, her beaming eyes on Strefford. Nelson V anderlyn’s own eyes took on t... ...g her hands. She looked at him, laughed back, and flung her arms about his neck. “For helping me to be so happy elsewhere—you and Susy, you two blesse... ... could have chosen she would have crawled away into a dingy inn in a rainy northern town, where she had never been and no one knew her. Failing that u... ...old Ursula, on her way to Scot- land—and she and Susy fell on each other’s necks. It ap- peared that Ursula, detained till the next evening by a dress...

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...dsome to feminine eyes, resembling one another in build, and mostly of the Northern colour, or betwixt the tints, with an heredi- tary nose and mouth ... .... The marquis was clad in a white silken suit, and a dash of red round the neck set off his black beard; but when he lifted his broad straw hat, a bal... ...lute shining like a globe of salt. Roland flung his arm round his friend’s neck, and said, ‘Forgive me.’ ‘You do what you think right,’ said Beauchamp... ...indler cursed of Christ! that palpable Satan whose name is Capital! by the neck, and have him disgorging within three gasps of his life. He is the vil... ...t shaving, sir, to come down to your summons without an extra touch to the neck-band.’ Beauchamp beheld a middle-sized round man, with loose lips and ... ..., whose eyes twinkled watery, like pebbles under the shore-wash, and whose neck-band needed an extra touch from fingers other than his own. 112 Beauc... ...ere the sun should be has a suggestiveness richer than sunlight. I’m quite northern enough to understand it; but with me it must be either peace or st... ...e, and could direct them loftily and sovereignty. ‘No: Everard Romfrey’s a Northerner from the feet up,’ said Beauchamp. Cecilia compliantly offered h... ...t.’ His quick ear caught a sound of hoofs cantering down the avenue on the Northern front of the house. He consulted his watch. ‘T en minutes to eight...

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...of the wounds made her swoon. There were terrible wounds upon the face and neck, which seemed to be almost bared of skin. The lady, who had been bred ... ...port- ers were not wanting to tell her that the Queen called her the great northern hag, or that her rugged unwilling curtsey was said to look as if s... ...tburn tramped down stairs. It may be feared that in the ignorance in which northern val- leys were left she was very little more enlightened in her id... ...fering from fever, and in consequence the aggravation of the wounds on her neck and cheek. She used to moan now and then “Don’t take me away!” or cowe... ...ourney; she was exceedingly weak, and as fast as one wound in her face and neck healed another began to break out, so that often she could hardly eat,... ...n her pillows, half dozing but quite content, except that the wound on her neck felt stiff and dry; and by and by when the chanting ceased, the kind n... ...der that she was often chosen to chant out the sacred story, and her sweet northern voice was much valued in the singing in the church. She was quite ... ...e Earl and the Duchess plunged into a discussion of the latest news of the northern counties and of the Court. The elder daughters were languidly ente... ...r side, the fresh spring breezes bringing back the sense of being really a northern maid, and she threw back her veil whenever she was alone with the ...

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...very short, and almost invis- ible eyebrows; he had a round ruff round his neck, and a black, scholarly gown, belted round his waist with a girdle, in... ...ode on the palfrey sent for her use, with the little stranger slung to her neck for security’s sake. Her boy rode “a cock-horse” before his fa- ther, ... ...d that Humfrey and Cis were walking up the ladder, hand in hand with their necks bared, to follow him! There was no need to bid her hold her tongue. S... ...aughter as by the sudden parting with her first-born to the dangers of the northern seas. She could bet- ter enter into her husband’s fears of the tem... ...that much more both of gold and honour was to be acquired than in the cold northern seas, where nothing was to be seen for the fog at most times, and ... ...’Tis strange,” she said, musing, “that maiden hath the bearing of head and neck that I have never seen save in my own mother, the saints rest her soul... ...itor. That evening, however, Richard called his wife. It was late, but the northern sunset was only just over, and Susan could wan- der out with him o... ...d faith.” “T ush, woman, what of that? Thou mayst say the same of half our Northern youth! They think it grand to dabble with seminary priests in hidi... ... with a pair of pale cheeks, which must be speed- ily coloured anew in our northern breezes.” “Ah, how sweet to be here at home,” cried Cicely, turnin...

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...sturdy limbs. His plain, rudimentary face stared fixedly at the hills, his neck was stiffened, as if in resistance to the fact of the nails and the cr... ... becomes smaller and whiter and the air is colder, the full glamour of the northern hills, which are so marvellously luminous and gleaming with flower... ...ng above in the light, as if it perched on the house- roofs. Its thin grey neck was held up stiffly, beyond was a vision of dark foliage, and the high... ...s looked like a mirage before me. And there above me I saw the thin, stiff neck of old San T ommaso, grey and pale in the sun. Yet I could not get up ... ...thing which is nothing. So the Italian, through centuries, has avoided our Northern purposive in- dustry, because it has seemed to him a form of nothi... ...sance? The Italians said, ‘We are one in the Father: we will go back.’ The Northern races said, ‘We are one in Christ: we will go on.’ What is the con... ... one with God, have I not achieved the Infinite? After the Renaissance the Northern races continued forward to put into practice this religious belief... ...red; her dark head was against the baby’s wool jacket, she was kissing his neck, avidly, under the creeper leaves. The pink geraniums still frilled jo... ...llus will never serve us as a Godhead, because we do not believe in it: no Northern race does. Therefore, either we set ourselves to serve our childre...

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...n by Armenians, having his long hair combed down on his shoulders, and his neck, hands, and feet bare. In this guise, he was conducted into a remote c... ..., sent to Dunnottar Castle on the coast of the Mearns, and there broke his neck in an attempt to escape from a subterranean habitation, called the Whi... ...ks with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck, and his nether person arrayed in gray breeches, dark-blue stockings, ... ... was then put into the velvet bag aforesaid, and hung as a charm round the neck of the infant, where his mother resolved it should remain until the pe... ...ther gown, and ye wadna have been the waur 73 Sir Walter Scott o’ a clean neckcloth yoursell—But ye delight in surprising and hurrying one—I am sure ... ...ted with the old haunted castle in which you played the astrologer in your northern tour some twenty years since, I have heard you too often describe ... ...ell pronounce to us if the wines of Gascony lose their flavour in our more northern realm.” Mannering, agreeably flattered by this allusion to the fam... ...with an audience on those affairs of weight which have brought him to your northern capital.” The monarch opened Mac-Morlan’s letter, and, running it ... ..., from having sharpened his wits in controversy with the ge- niuses of the northern metropolis.” “Of a surety,” said the Dominie, with great complacen...

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... birth certificate into a leather amulet case which she strung round Kim’s neck. ‘ And some day,’ she said, confusedly remembering O’Hara’s prophecies... ...caravans put up on their return from Central Asia. Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponies and kneeling camels; loading and unl... ...d Kings, who had no business to confederate, had been informed by a kindly Northern Power that there was a leakage of news from their territories into... ... most scandalously betrayed the five confeder ated Kings, the sympathetic Northern Power, a Hindu banker in Peshawur, a firm of gun makers in Belgium... ...ht; the electrics sizzling over the goods yard where they handle the heavy Northern grain traffic. ‘This is the work of devils!’ said the lama, recoil... ...long and talk Punjabi,’ said the young soldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. ‘That is all that makes a Sikh.’ But he did not say this ... ...carried his own and a few score thousand other folk’s fate slung round his neck. Mahbub Ali’s directions left him little 35 Rudyard Kipling doubt of ... ...wn streak glided from the purple rustling stems to the bank, stretched its neck to the water, drank, and 42 Kim lay still a big cobra with fixed, li... ...e when He is about to give an order?’ ‘He rubs the skin at the back of his neck–thus. Then falls one finger on the table and He makes a small sniffing...

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...udges of homicide; that their children should wear an ornament about their necks called the bulla (because it was like a bubble), and the praetexta, a... ... answered he, “the offender would have to give the plaintiff a bull with a neck so long as that he might drink from the top of Taygetus of the Eurotas... ...dog that bit a man to deliver him up with a log about his 152 V olume One neck, four and a half feet long; a happy device for men’s security. The law... ... party made a resistance, and, throwing their gowns round their opponents’ necks, at last, after much struggling on both sides, made their way with th... ...her within the Isthmus, and to build a wall from sea to sea in that narrow neck of land; so that the Athenians were enraged to see themselves betrayed... ...oung children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the far- thest parts of Europe;... ...ture, they were conjectured to be some of the German races dwelling by the northern sea; be- sides that, the Germans call plunderers Cimbri. There are... ...s, Tigranocerta, Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making t...

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...to the most deserving, and gave them the golden bosses to hang about their necks, which the Romans called bullae. There being a custom in Spain, that ... ...mer, being further supplied and increased by the melting of the ice in the northern regions, blew a delightful fresh gale, cooling and refreshing the ... ...- geously, though his blows were not mortal, but receiving a stroke in the neck he fell and ceased to resist. Eumenes, trans- ported with passion and ... ..., he tied them to the roof with great halters, fastening which about their necks, with a pul- ley he gently raised them, till standing upon the ground... ...him in at the mouth, so that the point of the sword came out behind at his neck; and Crassianus being thus slain, the fight became doubtful, and conti... .... As soon as he saw the commodious situation of the place, it being a long neck of land, stretching like an isthmus between large lagoons and shallow ... ..., known indifferently as the Caspian and as the Hyrcanian sea, is the most northern. Here the barbarians, unexpectedly meeting with those who led Buce...