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...s it was to regard the whole world, except married clergymen with enormous families, as “neurotic.” “Of course,” said Hickle, “it isn’t absolutely nec... ...ms …. Silent after the first babble was over. And after a little while the lizards came out and ran about again, as though nothing unusual was going o... ...rst about the beach, and then that ceased. Each time that happened all the lizards scuttled in and hid for a space. That was all the mischief done, ex...

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...silence and utter seclusion. The grape hyacinths flower in the cracks, the lizards run, this strange place hangs suspended and forgot- ten, forgotten ... ...t was—in the village. They were a whole colony of Italians, thirty or more families. They had all come at different times. Giuseppino had been longest... ... ‘Why should we have a Government? Here, in this village, there are thirty families of Italians. There is no government for them, no Italian Governmen...

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...Several intermarriages had, in the course of centuries, united the crowned families of Grunewald and Maritime Bohemia; and the last Prince of Grunewal... ...of truth. In private life a girl of this description embroils the peace of families, walks at- tended by a troop of scowling swains, and passes, once ... ... shadow; now aloft on the bare ridge among the rocks and birches, with the lizards and the snakes; and anon in the deep grove among sunless pillars. N...

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...she must be reserved for some great purpose if she survived so much. Great families with all their train used to move from one castle or manor to anot... ..., sir, and my father, and it was the desire of the good King that thus the families might be reconciled; but the contract went no farther, as the holy... ...ch their domestic apparatus and stock-in-trade were packed, with the dried lizard, who passed for a crocodile, sitting on the settle as if he were one...

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...d to the Catholic faith a young person, the daughter of one of the citizen families, who were the first upholders of Calvinism, and who, thanks to the... ... pretence of organiz- ing it on a better footing. In the eyes of the great families of Greece and Rome, Socrates and Jesus were criminals; to those an... ...young lady loved him, and he would be con- nected with several respectable families. In short, he was in full sail on the blue waters of hope. Madame ... ...ousand francs a year, and a house, and a wife connected with all the first families of the better middle class—a wife, in short, out of the Rue des Lo... ...ase, smoking a cigar after breakfast, his face beaming as he basked like a lizard in the sunshine, could not summon up courage enough to make herself ...

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... race of Monte Beni, beyond a doubt, was one of the oldest in Italy, where families appear to survive at least, if not to flourish, on their half-deca... ...ion sprang a vigorous progeny that took its place unquestioned among human families. In that age, how- ever, and long afterwards, it showed the ineffa... ...ound. Emerging from his hiding-place, he saw no living thing, save a brown lizard (it was of the tarantula species) rustling away through the sunshine... ...h blood; yet connected, through her father, with one of those few princely families of Southern Italy, which still retain great wealth and influence. ...

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...ll famous for military genius.” My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.” The Baron look... ...ion that rose in my mind—and, as usual, Bruno asked it for me. “What are its lizard bandages?’ “Well, this is one of them,” said the Professor. “When ... ...hich a goodly stream of worshipers, consisting mainly of fishermen and their families, was flowing. The service would have been pronounced by any mode... ...such dream suggestions in this book—one, my Lady’s remark, ‘it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does’, at p. 88; the other, Eric Lind...

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...ghteen, after an absence of nine years, to the bosom of one of the noblest families in the kingdom. I was tired by the journey as well as by all the e... ...t of man is for family life. A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure... ...itterness, “a man who would take for wife a daughter of one of our noblest families without a dowry and bestow one on her. If such a husband could be ... ...to hear the Mass for recovery from childbirth, as is the custom in the old families of Provence. I was supported on either side by the two grand- fath... ...in order to preserve the name and titles of the de Lenoncourt and de Givry families from extinction, is to confer these, to- gether with the armorial ... ...d. Being a poet, he has spent more time weaving day-dreams, and bask- ing, lizard-like, in the sun, than scribing in his dingy garret. Now, practical ...

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...s of seemingly unfinished houses. Then a sort of boulevard where bourgeois families were taking the Sunday afternoon walk: stout papas, stout, pallid ... ...footing. He did not stop there, but continued his race like some fran- tic lizard running up the great wall-front, working away from the noise below, ... ...nt of the massed men below. He passed the ledge of the first floor, like a lizard he wriggled up and passed the ledge or coping of the second floor, a... ...e life. Of course I see few English people in Venice—only the old Venetian families, as a rule.” “Ah, yes. That must be very interesting. They are ver... ...sts.” “That is so. That is so. Venice is a strange back-water. And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great ... ...spised the flower of the north—even Tancred! And so the lingering Venetian families! And you, in your palazzo on the Grand Canal: you are a northern b...

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..., which connoisseurs find inescutcheoned in the shields of many of the old families. Here it is, such as you may see it still at Guerande: Gules, a ha... ...ve with a charming Irish woman, daughter of one of the noblest and poorest families of that unhappy kingdom. Fanny O’Brien was then twenty- one years ... ...the highest nobility coming from their prov- inces, as I might do,—leaving families without fortune, but obtaining in Paris, by the power of their wil... ...uets and Pen-Hoels, and to put an end forever to the projects of the three families. “We can very well put five in the carriage,” replied Made- moisel... ...e Chevalier du Halga rubbed his hands. The two old maids were as lively as lizards. The viscountess lost one hundred sous by accumulated mouches, whic... ...atrix? In the midst of the embarrassment and stupefaction of the assembled families, Sabine de Grandlieu entered the room and gave him a letter, expla...

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...iled and said— ‘ Ah! you have not been used to wholesome exercise in large families. I dare say it seems formidable; but, my dear, you are looking qui... ...ed and monumental, and with the true Sphynx head, surrounded with beetles, lizards, and other mystic creatures (very chocolate-coloured). And beside h... ...rwood! What is it?’ ‘At the two partisans who never stand up for their own families,’ said Uncle Regie. ‘But it’s true!’ cried Gillian. ‘What! that I ... ...nsidering that there are many children who have to be adopted into uncles’ families, to add to their distress and terror, by raising this prejudice. J...

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...vocation; for although I have not the honour to belong to any of the great families who form 25 Sir W alter Scott in Scotland, as in France, the nobl... ...ere horse-pond. Besides, did I not once find thee gazing with respect at a lizard, in the attitude of one who looks upon a crocodile? Now this is, dou... ...t, zealous for the Protestant succession—the rather that many of the great families around are suspected to be of a different way of thinking, and sha... ... you. You will destroy the salmon which makes the livelihood of fifty poor families, and then wipe your mouth, and go to make a speech at meeting. But... ... their cause. But then, as he had clients and connexions of business among families of opposite political tenets, he was particularly cau- tious to us... ...e, something of that fancy which creates what it sees. Certainly, as other families have peculiarities by which they are distinguished, this of Redgau... ... his hand on his portly stomach. ‘I am not Tom T urnpenny, to creep like a lizard through keyholes.’ So saying, he kept moving on through the reveller...

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...’ —he waved across the Channel—’on both sides the water. ’T was all in the families, same as fiddling. The Aurettes used mostly to run the stuff acros... ...-bound convoy, We slip past the Scillies like poor honest men. ‘T wix’ the Lizard and Dover, We hand our stuff over, Though I may not inform how we do...

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...kinny fingers, which felt cold, damp, and un- certain, like the touch of a lizard. Violet was conscious of being scanned from head to foot— nay, looke... ...hur down with nothing to do.’ ‘I doubt, indeed! I have seen a good deal of families living 57 Yonge close together.’ ‘Nothing shall make me quarrel w... ...some awful stones about whipping blacks to death, and declared West Indian families were very apt to be haunted; but that it was a subject never to be... ...n bounds; but the cook was civilly superior—’It was always so in the first families, such as she was accustomed to, but if Mrs. Martindale liked to ha... ...am, if you choose, it must be so; but it was not what I was used to in the families such as I have lived in.’ But Violet was firm, whereupon the cook ... ...in Fitzhugh’s trout.’ A loud reply, in a higher key. ‘Don’t tell me of the families where you have lived—the trout!’ Here John’s hand was laid upon hi... ...of ancient armour, a stuffed bee-eater, and the bottled remains of a green lizard that had been a pet at Constantinople—and having been instructed in ...

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...t was a sore point because I was an outsider and not one of the old school families, the Shoesmiths, the Naylors, the Marklows, the Tophams, the Pevis... ...e accent on the City, do we?” said Shoesmith, who had a feeling for county families, and Naylor supported him by a murmur of approval. “We ought to ca... ...y up; these others go down to propagate their tradition, as the fathers of families, as mediocre profes- sional men, as assistant masters in schools. ... ...ement; occasionally she would dart a word, usually a very apt word, like a lizard’s tongue into the discussion. I remember chiefly that a chance illus... ... essential Con- servatives. Interwoven now with the native wealthy are the families of the great international usurers, and a vast miscel- laneous mas... ...l playmates, but that is not an uncom- mon misadventure in an age of small families; I never came to know any woman at all intimately until I was marr...

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...ify the whole blessed coast of England, from Land’s End round again to the Lizard. Luck comes to a man very often when he’s not looking.” 12 When the... ...control. Its last struggle was with the tacit alliance of the great Jewish families. But these families were linked only by a feeble sentiment, at any...

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...n, who can be all in the words they utter. Nevertheless he came out of his lizard-like look with the down-dropped eyelids quick at a resumption of the... ...ess was to catch young gentlemen of family, and to turn them against their families, plainly. That was thinking the best of him. No doubt he had his o... ... ‘That’s not wanted for modern Toryism,’ said Nevil. ‘One may venerate old families when they show the blood of the founder, and are not dead wood. I ... ...ognize that now we have bare life; at best for the bulk of men the Saurian lizard’s broad back soaking and roasting in primeval slime; or say, in the ... ...ow that if Nevil broke with his uncle, the treaty of union between the two families, which her father submitted to entertain out of consideration for ... ...ou have your cook in town, I see. Here’s a breakfast to feed twenty hungry families in Spitalfields. Where does the mass of meat go? One excess feeds ... ...red that its ministers might also be useful to the troubled women of noble families. He offered, if she pleased, to call in the rector to sit with her...

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...the words of Pasquier: “That young lady, allied to several great and noble families of Paris, pro- posed to herself no other marriage than with her ho... ...ou that he is a man brought up in my house, related to several respectable families, and a person who, having led an honourable life, is my particular... ... we see in the plague, the smallpox, and sore eyes, that run through whole families and cities:— “Dum spectant oculi laesos, laeduntur et ipsi; ... ...them, and fed them for their tables; as also, they did grasshoppers, mice, lizards, and bats; and in a time of scarcity of such delicacies, a toad was... ...take upon me to direct what other men should do in the government of their families, there are plenty that meddle enough with that, but only give an a... ... and I believe there are a thousand men would have invited them into their families, with very advantageous con- ditions, or have relieved them where ...

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...ive policemen, and shrill yells of women gathering up their baskets, their families, and their husbands. ‘It is the train–only the te rain. It will no... ...ce. They met a troop of long haired, strong scented Sansis with baskets of lizards and other unclean food on their backs, their lean dogs sniffing at ...

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...ially when it lay in the direction of their own neighbourhood. The Judges’ families often accompanied them, especially at the summer assize, and thus ... ...e words, ideas, and the whole structure indeed, of language pervades whole families, and even the different families, (e.g., the Indo-Germanic and Sem... ...ich I read and write by day, and sleep by night. Last night we killed five lizards; they get on the roof and drop down and bite pretty severely, so se... ...position among the best English society. ‘I am very intimate with some few families, drop in and set the young ladies down to play Beethoven and Mende... ...es. ‘Indeed, no adequate provision is made here for married clergymen with families; £300 a year is starvation at present prices. Men can’t live on it... ... nearly cleared the place of the small rats which used to abound here; but lizards abound in this hut, because it is not continually smoke-dried. ‘Las... ... men in Fiji are known to have been stolen from Nukapu; and probably their families believed them to have been killed, and believed themselves to be p...