...e sev- enty mile to-day, and Prince Eugene once rode a matter of fifty-two leagues (a hundred and fifty miles), sir, upon that horse, between sunrise ... ...nd upon it, Love, like Death, plays havoc among the pauperum tabernas, and sports with rich and poor, wicked and virtuous, alike. I have often fancied... ... a very violent affection for Mrs. Cat; in the second place, that he was a professional lady-killer, and therefore likely 31 Thackeray at some period... ...ar- nessed by dragons, and careering through air at the rate of a thousand leagues a minute. No such thing; the vehicle that was sent to aid her was o... ...lls became due, and debtors pressed for time, then she brought Hayes’s own professional merits into play. The man was as deaf and cold as a rock; neve... ... 164 Catherine: A Story graphical Dictionary. And as he believes that the professional gentlemen who are employed to invest such heroes with the rewa...

...recedes the colon is an independent clause: “I like the three most popular sports: baseball, basketball, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports ... ...ght beige sport coat. Fidgeting nervously through the inner pockets of his sports coat, he stands in line. He is looking for the tickets for my grandm... ...OUGH Katarzyna Mlochowska 26 Best of Four A GREAT EMPHASIS was placed on sports in our town while I was in high school. Being on a sport’s team m... ...ugh some people play just for fun while others play in highly competitive leagues and tournaments, there is a similar problem among players of any le... ... not repeated. Reading: Often writing instructors require students to read professionally written essays as part of a writing course. In college we “r... ...ge writing situations. Serious subject matter, delivered to an audience of professionals, whom one may not know, requires a respectful level of formal...

...ty vanity, was lowering to his na- ture. He sank more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids... ...asses to like him as well as his dog?” It is one of the misfortunes of the professional Don Juan 43 Familiar Studies of Men & Books that his honour f... ... with a choice only of different species of error and miscon- duct.” To be professional Don Juan, to accept the provoca- tion of any lively lass upon ... ...l live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.” When he had enough of that kind of life, he... ...berate robberies against those of his blood, and trudges hundreds of weary leagues to put them into execu- tion, is surely a little on the wrong side ...

...retch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching bre... ...s in a character; so that a fair pan of a book outstripping thou- sands of leagues when unrolled may he compassed in one comic sitting. For verily, sa... ...ge by results; we’ll leave severity to the historian, who is bound to be a professional moralist and put pleas of human nature out of the scales. The ... ... any trial. They were hand in hand with the little fellow as physician and professional nurse. CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST EFFORT AFTER FREEDOM CROSSJAY’S ... ...nd Crossjay were audible to him; Crossjay spurning the consolations of the professional sad man. V ernon spun across the fields, timing himself by his... ...general said of his ammunition and transport, there’s the army!—but it was leagues in the rear. Like the footman who went to sleep after smelling fire... ...ighest:—at that which in my blindness I took for the highest. You know the sportsman’s instinct, Laetitia; he is not tempted by the stationary object.... ... the more men of that class, the greater our influence. He excels in manly sports, because he won’t be excelled in anything, but as men don’t comprehe... ...un likewise and they grow as deferential as my footman, as harmless as the sportsman whose gun has burst. Ah! my fair Middleton, am I pretending to te...

...ly beaten by Napoleon, who acts on his own responsibility in defi- ance of professional precedents or orders from Paris. Even when the Austrians win a... ...his guest to protect him against the license of the troops, and actu- ally sports a pair of gold earrings which he would other- wise have hidden caref... ... You came here be- cause your Austrian employers calculated that I was six leagues away. I am always to be found where my enemies don’t ex- pect me. Y...