...ls, unhappily, by no firm line of demarcation; in that 26 Sartor Resartus labyrinthic combination, each Part overlaps, and indents, and indeed runs q... ...t of a purpose may have still lurked in him: Life has become wholly a dark labyrinth; wherein, through long years, our Friend, flying from spectres, h... ... Hofrath; and not rather deceptively inlock both Editor and Hofrath in the labyrinthic tortuosities and covered-ways of said cita- del (having enticed... ...e—to be shot!” Gladly, therefore, do we emerge from those soul-con- fusing labyrinths of speculative Radicalism, into some- 177 Thomas Carlyle what c... ... lappets and irregular wings, of all cloths and of all colors; through the labyrinthic intricacies of which their bodies are intro- duced by some unkn...

...ishwomen. Blowsy black cooks puffing over fires and the strangest pots and pans on the terraces, children pad- dling about in long striped robes, inte... ...ate houses: you pass under archways and passages numberless; a steep dirty labyrinth of stone-vaulted stables and sheds occupies the ground-floor of t... ...herbet-men begin to yell out the excellence of their wares; all the frying-pans in the little dirty cookshops begin to friz, and the pots to send fort... ...went off of their own will to their stables, through the dark inextricable labyrinths of streets, arch- ways, and alleys, which we had threaded after ...

.... The Rue Perrin-Gasselin is one of the narrow thorough- fares in a square labyrinth enclosed by the quay, the Rue Saint-Denis, the Rue de la Ferronne... ... for the purpose of negotiating a lease. As he sauntered through the dusky labyrinth of the great market, thinking how to achieve a rapid success, he ... ...vants, “Show monsieur the way to Mon- sieur Adolphe.” As Cesar traversed a labyrinth of staircases, under the guid- ance of a man in livery, towards a... ...igor. T o dislodge the illegitimate creditor it is necessary to thread the labyrinth of proceedings in bankruptcy, search among past events, ransack a...

...her foot on the threshold. But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a mo ment before she disappeared. The boy ran aroun... ...ved from side to side, in his efforts, he edged nearer and nearer toward the pansy; finally his bare foot rested upon it, his pliant toes closed upon ... ...revices branched from it on either hand — for McDougal’s cave was but a vast labyrinth of crooked aisles that ran into each other and out again and le... ...o down, and down, and still down, into the earth, and it was just the same — labyrinth under labyrinth, and no end to any of them. No man “knew” the c... ...eople, who shouted, “Turn out! turn out! they’re found! they’re found!” Tin pans and horns were added to the din, the population massed itself and mo...

...g the fishermen, and not infrequently Selenites are lost for ever in their labyrinths. In their remoter recesses, I am told, strange creatures lurk, s...

...eck in so many folds that the little head which protruded from that muslin labyrinth certainly did justify Captain Merle’s comparison. The stranger al... ...ine care- fully avoided the main-road and guided the two women through the labyrinth of by-ways which intersect Brittany. Mademoiselle de Verneuil the... ...he town furtively by the Porte Saint-Leonard, and made her way through the labyrinth of paths to the cottage of Galope-Chopine, led by the dream of at...

...ling, Venice lies, _95 A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite’s destined halls, Which her hoary sire now p... ...has made divine: Green strength, azure hope, and eternity: But let not the pansy among them be; Y e were injured, and that means memory. ... ...e universe to-day— These are the slaves of dim to-morrow, Darkening Life’s labyrinthine way. FRA FRA FRA FRA FRAGMENT GMENT GMENT GMENT GMENT: ‘ : ‘ :... ...es for a bridal bed— Roses for a matron’s head— Violets for a maiden dead— Pansies let my flowers be: _2...

...my?” “That was I,” said Alan. “But I deserted to the right side at Preston Pans — and that’s some comfort.” I could scarcely share this view: holding ... ...eared to me, although I dare say it was slowly enough in truth), through a labyrinth of dreary glens and hollows and into the heart of that dismal mou... ...te air. It was the air made in mockery of General Cope’s defeat at Preston Pans: “Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye waukin’ yet? And are your drums a-beatin’ ... ...clan and cured my brother’s leg when it was broken in the brush at Preston Pans, was a gentleman of the same name precisely as yourself. He was brothe...

... on account of the shifting channels. Blondet took a short cut through the labyrinths of the park to reach the gate of Conches. This gate demands a fe...

... was near; resistance was useless. In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark narrow courts, and was forced along them at a pace which ... ...at it infected him. They left the house stealthily, and hurrying through a labyrinth of streets, arrived at length before a public house, which Noah r...

...h-speaking companion who was good-natured enough to give him a clue to the labyrinth; and when he had paid for the Canary (in the coin his friend sele... ...y dear child?” The girl shone on her. “About the higher life—the freer ex- pansion of the individual—the law of fidelity to one’s self,” she glibly re...

.... But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pesti... ...pon the plain; these will serve thee, after the fashion of the clue in the labyrinth of Theseus, as marks and signs for finding me on thy return.” “So... ... her advice as to how to repair it, and escape safely from the intri- cate labyrinth in which his imprudence had involved him. Camilla was struck with... ...for the favour shown to him and for having been rescued from the intricate labyrinth in which he had been brought so near the destruction of his good ... ...our friends in order to make thee think as thou dost, and lead thee into a labyrinth of fancies from which thou wilt find no escape though thou hadst ...

...al story adds, that the Minotaur destroyed them, or that, wandering in the labyrinth, and finding no possible means of getting out, they miserably end... ...hat the Cretans will by no means allow the truth of this, but say that the labyrinth was only an ordinary prison, having no other bad quality but that... ...reward to the victors, these youths, who in the mean time were kept in the labyrinth; and that the first that overcame in those games was one of the g... ...cted by her how to use it so as to conduct him through the windings of the labyrinth, he escaped out of it and slew the Minotaur, and sailed back, tak... ... before any notice of his coming, and, in a battle before the gates of the labyrinth, put Deucalion and all his guards to the sword. The government by... ... the Springs and thick shades of that place; which might be two satyrs, or Pans, except that they went about Italy playing the same sorts of tricks, b... ...otally eclipsed. The Romans, according to their cus- tom, clattering brass pans and lifting up firebrands and torches into the air, invoked the return... ...nto the public treasury, that they never paid any taxes, until Hirtius and Pansa were consuls, which was in the first war between Antony and Caesar. T...

...one into them, and he has not. He can’t be expected to know much of such a labyrinth.” Bleak House – Volume Two 210 As his look wandered over the pa... ...e that I was not in a dream. We rattled with great rapidity through such a labyrinth of streets that I Bleak House – Volume Two 285 soon lost all id...

...n, issuing forth, conducted her changed and ragged little friend through a labyrinth of narrow streets and lanes and alleys, which emerged, after a lo... ...the carriage stopped, and stared at her mistress in amazement. There was a labyrinth of scaffolding raised all round the house, from the basement to t... ...rawled in chalk, ‘this room in panel. Green and gold.’ The staircase was a labyrinth of posts and planks like the out- side of the house, and a whole ...

...t, as Lousteau walked off with Lucien. At the back of the stage, through a labyrinth of scenery and corridors, the pair climbed several flights of sta...

... walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. But the great, dark, illimitable kingdom of death, there...

...London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, 185 To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from... ...e, Keeping such fresh remembrance of the day, When, having thridded the long labyrinth 140 The Prelude of 1850 Of the suburban villages, I first 545 E...

... tually than any gloom, conceals the very brightest stars,— rather than in labyrinths of darkness the thickest. What crimi- 74 Thomas de Quincey nal ... ...distinguishes the peculiar steps of the child Aladdin. Through this mighty labyrinth of sounds, which Archimedes, aided by his arenarius, could not su... ...pressed a change in the dominion simply as to the mode and form of its ex- pansion, now remains as a false, base, abject confession of absolute contra... ...d be presented with the spectacle of one con- tinuous city, stretching its labyrinthine pomp to the shores of the Adriatic.” This is so far from being...

.... But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pesti... ...pon the plain; these will serve thee, after the fashion of the clue in the labyrinth of Theseus, as marks and signs for finding me on thy return.” 19... ... her advice as to how to repair it, and escape safely from the intri- cate labyrinth in which his imprudence had involved him. Camilla was struck with... ...for the favour shown to him and for having been rescued from the intricate labyrinth in which he had been brought so near the destruction of his good ... ...our friends in order to make thee think as thou dost, and lead thee into a labyrinth of fancies from which thou wilt find no escape though thou hadst ... ...e wine skins secured his affections; and lastly, the produce of the frying-pans, if, indeed, such imposing cauldrons may be called frying-pans; and un...