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...is custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bou...

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...the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; ... ...vercome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird,... ...ten years before. He remembered the years he had spent there trundling the heavy cars of ore in and out of the tunnel under the direction of his fathe... ...ery in- stant he seemed to feel the generous solid weight of the crude fat metal in his palms. The glint of it was constantly in his eyes; the jangle ... ...- 33 Frank Norris denly flashed in Maria’s palm. There it was, the virgin metal, the pure, unalloyed ore, his dream, his consuming desire. His finger... ... face in it, delighted at the smell of it and the feel of the smooth, cool metal on her cheeks. She even put the smaller gold pieces in her mouth, and... ...day was to be a fete day at the kindergar- ten, the Christmas and New Year festivals combined. All that afternoon the little two-story building on Pac...

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... tapestry, used for a curtain and fastened to a stick, hung be- fore it in heavy folds. Nothing in the room was picturesque, nothing brilliant; everyt... ...overed and applied the simplest methods of ex- tracting ore and of working metals. In fact he studied no science without advancing it. In youth he lea... ...em. The clock struck twelve. Suddenly the outer door was opened violently. Heavy but hurried steps, the steps of a terrified old man, were heard in th... ... active mental alienation or the stupid stare of drunkenness. His slow and heavy movements betrayed the glacial weight of age, and communicated an icy... ...and those of the small. Everywhere do they go; they are worn with pride at festivals, carried in despair to usurers, borne off in triumph amid blood a... ...hose raiment is less glorious than that of the flowers of the field. These festivals, splendid in light, bathed in music which the hand of man creates... ... filaments of heat or light conducted and pro- jected by the affinities of metal or vitrified flint. You obtain none but dead substances, from which y... ...ostles would have told you whence come those vast trains of gas and melted metals, at- tached to cores which revolve and solidify as they dart through...

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...by which the wall of each facade was sup- ported. From time immemorial the heavy shutters had been rolled along these grooves, held there by enormous ... ...ells, anything in short which the destruction of buildings afforded of old metals, persons in- terested in the relics of the old town noticed signs of... ...articles of the poorest households, —for old iron, brass, and lead, or any metal under any shape it might lurk in. The Auvergnat would give, for insta... ...d bells and rusty bars, chains and scales, his twisted leaden gutters, and metal rubbish of all kinds. We must do him the justice to say that he knew ... ...mparison with that of the Sauviats, who never ate meat except on the great festivals of the Church. Before paying out the money absolutely needed for ... ...her pure warm blood. Her chin and the lower part of her face were a little heavy, in the acceptation given by painters to that term,—a heaviness which... ...ite cravat. His strong and vigorous shoulders, which began life by bearing heavy burdens, were now rather bent; and be- neath this torso, unduly devel...

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...’s infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember eves and holy ales; And lords and ladies in their liv... ...reets: Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears, But to relieve them of their heavy load; And these our ships, you happily may think Are like the Troja... ...familiar To me and to my aid the blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; And I can speak of the disturbances That nature works, an... ... coffin, sir. CERIMON: Whate’er it be, ’Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight: If the sea’s stomach be o’ercharged with ... ...be ordered By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play His daughter’s woe and heavy well a day In her unholy service. Patience, then, And think you now...

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... see Danton enter;—the black brows clouded, the colossus-fig- ure tramping heavy; grim energy looking from all features of the rugged man! Strong is t... ...nt, also on an Autumn Sunday, this very Bell (they say it is the identical metal) of St. Germain l’Auxerrois was set a-pealing—with effect. (9th to 13... ...rs could not bring their load along, they cut them also loose, tumbled the heavy- packed vehicle into the ditch; and, with the smallest retar- dation,... ...e fulfilment thereof? Hunger and nakedness, and nightmare oppression lying heavy on Twenty-five million 105 Thomas Carlyle hearts; this, not the woun... ...nd cord? The Statue of Liberty! She too is of plaster, hoping to become of metal; stands where a Tyrant Louis Quinze once stood. ‘Three thousand birds... ... The five odd days we 164 The French Revolution - V olume Three will make Festivals, and name the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Fest... ...dance the Carmagnole all night about the bonfire. All highways jingle with metallic Priest-tackle, beaten broad; sent to the Convention, to the povert...

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...value, which were then unique. But Francois I., who loved the dis- play of festivals, distinguished himself on this occasion. The wedding festivities ... ...wall three feet thick or through the double doors draped on each side with heavy curtains. Seated at the upper end of a long table covered with blue v... ...our day, shows at the base of these panels and close to the floor a rather heavy foot-board, which can be lifted, and beneath which still remain the i... ...low that he stooped almost double on enter- ing it. Beside this door was a heavy iron grating, opening upon a sort of corridor, which gave a little li... ...,’ 255 Balzac replied Lorenzo. ‘This morning Bernard Palissy told me that metals were the result of compression, and that fire, which divides all, al... ...death each into its own element, water to water, fire to 263 Balzac fire, metal to metal, just as the elements of my coal, when burned, return to the... ...ute our world—for this phenomenon of life is the same everywhere. Yes, for metals as for human beings, for plants as for men, life begins in an imperc...

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...r, where good account was taken of it. So tremendous had the force of the sea been when it broke the ship, that it had beaten one great ingot of gold,... ...loured and yellow, looking passively upward from the pillow; the haggard mouth a little dropped, the hand outside the coverlet, so dull and indifferen... ...no one complained; all who could speak, said that as much was done for them as could be done there, that the attendance was kind and pa- tient, that t... ... were comfortable things to see in conjunction with the toll- keeper; also his brisk wakefulness was excellent company when he rattled the change of h... ...ling-house very lonely, but isolating suites of rooms and calling them chambers, but you cannot make the true kind of loneliness. In dwelling- houses,... ...dfather before him.’ Says Chips, ‘I like the copper, and I like the nails, and I don’t mind the pot, but I don’t like the rat.’ Says the Devil, fierce... ... so forgot- ten, except by the few people who ever look down into them from their smoky windows. As I stand peeping in through the iron gates and rail...

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...k, had found immediate employ- ment with the firm of Brezac, collectors of metals and other relics from all chateaux in the provinces. About twenty-se... ...d scarcely more than sixteen. Her eyes, of porcelain blue, overweighted by heavy eyelids which fell nearly straight from the arch of the eyebrows, had... ...birth and marriage, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded by great domestic sweepings and a universal clearin... ... black gauze scarf, her hair smoothly bound about her head and raised in a heavy braided mass, with long curls a l’Anglaise falling on either side of ... ... wooden footstool under his feet; the man with a bilious temperament has a metal mat; the lymphatic being who dreads draughts constructs a fortifica- ... ...blong face and bilious skin, grizzled hair always cut close, low forehead, heavy eyebrows meeting together, a crooked nose and pinched lips; tall, the... ...s softer.” The usurers all applauded these doctrines with a shake of their metallic heads. An onlooker would have fancied he heard the creaking of ill...

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...- crease. Often pacing the deck with Almayer, when the faint night breeze, heavy with aromatic exhalations of the islands, shoved the brig gently alon... ...nd surprised at anybody being on the river at this late hour during such a heavy freshet. Now he could hear the paddles distinctly, and even a rapidly... ...he paddles distinctly, and even a rapidly exchanged word in low tones, the heavy breathing of men fighting with the current, and hugging the bank on w... ...ing connected with some vague talis- manic properties of the little bit of metal, and the still more hazy but terrible notion of some bad Djinns and h... ...several men, the occasional light tinkling of some ornaments, the clink of metal scabbards, or of brass siri-vessels passed from hand to hand, was aud... ...s peeped out the silver hilt of the kriss that saw the light only on great festivals or during official receptions. Over the left shoulder and across ...

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...f the ap- prentices retired and came back holding an instrument whose hard metal pipe is now superseded by a leather tube; and they all grinned with m... ...unners, of which the pulley so often sud- denly gives way and releases the heavy panes it ought to hold up. The watcher was then rewarded for his long... ...e, given high relief to a superabundance of life, and the antiquity of the heavy window with its clumsy shape and black sill. Like those day-blowing f... ... morning seemed to be hidden by a cloud. During these little incidents the heavy inside shutters that protected the slight windows of the shop of the ... ...ar clothed his slightly bent figure in greenish cloth, finished with white metal buttons, tawny from wear. His gray hair was so accu- rately combed an... ...eight hundred francs a year as the reward of his labors. On certain family festivals he received as a gratuity some little gift, to which Madame Guill...

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...hich gave great satisfaction, and by singing the Eiresione at the New Moon festivals, he earned a subsistence, visiting the houses of the rich, with w... ...ps, the Amphiktyonic convocations, the mu- tual frequentation of religious festivals, the Oriental and Egyptian veins of religion, &c., familiar to th... ...orward, yet listening to advice, and sub- ject to command; that of Ajax is heavy and self-confiding; of Hector, active and vigilant: the courage of Ag... ...ove By mystic dreams, for dreams descend from Jove. 13 If broken vows this heavy curse have laid, Let altars smoke, and hecatombs be paid. 59 Pope So... ...is hate; Nor mix’d in combat, nor in council join’d; But wasting cares lay heavy on his mind: In his black thoughts revenge and slaughter roll, And sc... ...onderous hammer loads his better hand, His left with tongs turns the vex’d metal round, And thick, strong strokes, the doubling vaults rebound. Then f... ...angling clusters show, And curl’d on silver props, in order glow: A darker metal mix’d intrench’d the place; 356 The Iliad of Homer And pales of glit... ...ld, But stopp’d, and rested, by the third repell’d. Five plates of various metal, various mould, Composed the shield; of brass each outward fold, Of t... ...is therefore on its voyage. This must have been one of the most celebrated festivals, since, even according to the interpretation of antiquity, Homer ...

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..., which was attempted after this manner:—They seeing the good lady sad and heavy (as one that well knew, by her other handling, that her death was not... ...orbidden ground, without other impediment than the passive resistance of a heavy oak door moving on rusty hinges.” They stood now in an avenue oversha... ... overgrown with ivy and creeping shrubs, and twisted stalks of chimneys of heavy stone-work. “And yet,” continued Lambourne, “it is fairly done on the... ... the ante-chamber was sup- plied by a huge chandelier of the same precious metal. The floor was covered with a Spanish foot-cloth, or carpet, on which... ..., that as soon as I should commence the grand work of the transmutation of metals, the explosion should transmute the vault and all in it into a heap ... ...s fitting.” “Patience and Varney,” said Mumblazen, “is worse heraldry than metal upon metal. He is more false than a siren, more rapacious than a grif... ...her civil or military, seemed always to be his proper sphere; and while in festivals and revels, although he well understood how to trick them up and ...

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...ill be understood, and will not risk staking your gold pieces against base metal. Here, again, secrets neatly betrayed, and talk, light or deep, play ... ...the beginning of a cold, I wrote her a line to put off one of those secret festivals which are buried under the roofs of Paris like pearls in the sea.... ...canopy of a delicious dream, which will last perhaps after Sleep, with his heavy finger, has opened the ivory gates of the temple of dreams. “The lady...

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...ed and polished till it shone as bright as mahogany. It was very large and heavy, and had. a back that rose high above Grandfather’s white head. This ... ...“Yes, you may take her,” said he, in his rough way, “and you’ll find her a heavy burden enough!” On the wedding day, we may suppose that honest John H... ... chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible! Would not this be a heavy toil? But if the task were, not to write off the English Bible, but t... ...en the gold and silver at the bottom, had there been any of those precious metals there. Nothing, how ever, could they see, nothing more valuable tha... ...d entered the Province House, it must often have been present at balls and festivals; though I cannot give you a description of any particular one. Bu... ...oved gorgeous attire, a splendid mansion, mag nificent furniture, stately festivals, and all that was glittering and pompous in external things. His ...

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...nction between a sled, or sledge, and a sleigh, the sleigh being shod with metal. Sleighs are also subdivided into two -horse and one-horse sleighs. O... ... period, Richard had completed his design. He had availed himself, in this heavy undertaking, of the experience of a certain wandering eastern mechani... ... be flat, and with four faces. To this arrangement, Marmaduke objected the heavy snows that lay for months, frequently covering the earth to a depth o... ... mountains were beautifully undulating. Near to this, in a corner, stood a heavy, old-fashioned, brass-faced clock, incased in a high box, of the dark... ...the understanding, and support the wavering, by the observance of our holy festivals; but all form is but stench in the nostrils of the Holy One, unle... ...iron rods, that bore on their ends the letters N. S. E. and W, in the same metal. The whole was surmounted by an imitation of one of the finny tribe, ... ...n these hills: and I do believe that I have seen specimens of the precious metals that have been found here. It would occasion me no surprise to learn...

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...e morass, was this man’s remorse when, on leaving Westport, I gave him the heavy golden perquisite, which my mother (unaware of the tricks he had prac... ...ws travel in those days, when scientific journals were few, and roads were heavy—that ten years later than this period I knew a case, namely, the case... ... serves a skeleton for bed-room and sitting-room; neither is his ex- pense heavy, as regards wax-lights, fire, or “bif-steck.” But 72 Memorials, and ... ...rnivals, together with another at- traction of great cities, the pomps and festivals of the Pagan worship, broke the monotony of domestic life, which,... ...e Christian was sternly excluded by his very profession of faith. From the festivals of the Pagan religion his exclusion was even more absolute; again... ...ers of the Mine (as I am accustomed to call them), or those who dig up the metal of truth, are seldom fitted to be also laborers of the Mint—that is, ... ... are seldom fitted to be also laborers of the Mint—that is, to work up the metal for current use. Besides which, it must not be forgotten that Mr. Ric... ...ions of its qualities, being familiar, make it more convenient to use that metal; but sub- stitute lead, iron, coal, or anything whatsoever—the argu- ...

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... by Antipater, when just upon concluding an agreement: “Y ou may impose as heavy and ruinous taxes upon us as you please, but to command us to do sham... ...aigne myself agitated with surprises; I always find myself in my place, as heavy and unwieldy bodies do; if I am not at home, I am always near at hand... ...nce. I have a pensive way that withdraws me into myself, and, with that, a heavy and child- ish ignorance of many very ordinary things, by which two q... ...city that assigned the public money for the pomp of their public plays and festivals: he would that their greatness should be seen in numbers of ships... ...s, quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen, et a nullo posuit natura metallo;” [“And, worse than the iron ages, for whose crimes there is no sim... ... the iron ages, for whose crimes there is no similitude in any of Nature’s metals.”—Juvenal, xiii. 28.] but not to my own. I am, in particular, too mu... ... it to their own will, the more they irritate the liberty of this generous metal; it evades their en- deavour and sprinkles itself into so many separa...

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...hich gave great satisfaction, and by singing the Eiresione at the New Moon festivals, he earned a subsistence, visiting the houses of the rich, with w... ...hips, the Amphiktyonic convocations, the mutual frequentation of religious festivals, the Oriental and Egyptian veins of religion, &c., familiar to th... ...bound, And dash’d the flowing goblet to the ground. Drowsy they rose, with heavy fumes oppress’d, Reel’d from the palace, and retired to rest. Then th... ...His ponderous hammer and his anvil sound, And the strong tongs to turn the metal round. Nor was Minerva absent from the rite, She view’d her honours, ... ...e speeding blow Full on his neck, and cut the nerves in two. Down sunk the heavy beast; the females round Maids, wives, and matrons, mix a shrilling s... ...trained by charms, Absent he lay in her desiring arms, In slumber wore the heavy night away, On rocks and shores consumed the tedious day; There sate ... ...of night, or orb of day, The walls were massy brass: the cornice high Blue metals crown’d in colours of the sky, Rich plates of gold the folding doors... ...per in the ford The keen edged pole axe, or the shining sword, The red hot metal hisses in the lake, Thus in his eye ball hiss’d the plunging stake. H...

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...e court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windo... ...erybody else quickly van ishes too. A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks; the little mad old woman... ...ses on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain all day; and the heavy drops fall—drip, drip, drip—upon the broad flagged pavement, called f... ...w, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the skaters and sliders had brushed the snow away. There was a ... ... that he thought it much the same as doing it. If he had had those bits of metal or thin paper to which mankind attached so much importance to put in ... ...nful Judy, strides out of the parlour, clashing imaginary sabres and other metallic ap purtenances as he goes. “You’re a damned rogue,” says the old ... ...mensely received in turf circles. 781 Bleak House – Dickens At feasts and festivals also, in firmaments she has often graced, and among constellation...

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...nowhere else. There alone could lovers see each other and communicate. The festivals 5 Balzac of the Church were the theatre of former times; the sou... ...as situated. When his escort of servants had entered the courtyard and the heavy gates were closed, a deep silence fell on the narrow street, where ot... ...e most misers, his passion for gold, the assimilation, as it were, of that metal with his own substance, became closer and closer, and age intensified... ...empty bag, and when her brother gave it back to her she disappeared with a heavy sigh. Cornelius then took a feather broom and gently smoothed the flo...