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...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fel...

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...I SIT DOWN to write here amidst the shadows of vine- leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishmen... ... it, and natu- rally enough he arrested my attention. The sun had set, the sky was a vivid tranquillity of green and yellow, and against that he came ... ...re groundless, so far as the actual mak- ing was concerned. On the 14th of October, 1899, this in- credible substance was made! Oddly enough, it was m... ...whole face of the world had changed. The tranquil sunset had vanished, the sky was dark with scur- rying clouds, everything was flattened and swaying ... ...ather—in which I fell and fell and fell for evermore into the abyss of the sky. I astonished Cavor at breakfast. I told him shortly, “I’m not coming w... ... whither. It chanced to be a glorious morn- ing: a warm wind and deep blue sky, the first green of spring abroad, and multitudes of birds singing. I l...

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...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begi...

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...ilanese Sculptor. CHAPTER I PROLOGUE IN THE YEAR 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standin... ...She cast but one glance into the space beyond, which was lighted through a sky- light; but what she saw produced so strong an effect upon her that she... ... at last, Ginevra found herself in the mayor’s court- yard, under the open sky, a sigh escaped her breast. “Can a lifetime of devotion and love suffic... ...d about the country, finding everywhere their love,—in the flowers, in the sky, in the glow- ing tints of the setting sun; they read it in even the ca... ... round the waist, and, together, in deep silence, they gazed upward at the sky, which the dawn was slowly brightening. Clouds of a grayish hue were mo...

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...gs seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all. But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I’l... ...les above my head; So here upon my back I’ll lie And look my fill into the sky. And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky... ... The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And—sure enough!—I see the top! The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I ‘most could touch it with my hand! And r... ...h my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky. I screamed, and—lo!—Infinity Came down and settled over me; Forced bac... ...d to my ears The gossiping of friendly spheres, The creaking of the tented sky, The ticking of Eternity. I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and... ... O ws O ws Old ld ld ld ld I cannot but remember When the year grows old— October—November— How she disliked the cold! She used to watch the swallow... ...le Were beautiful to her! I cannot but remember When the year grows old— October—November— How she disliked the cold! 25 Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

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...rking up as far as Y armouth Roads, and then we got into a gale—the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightning, sleet, snow, ... ...was nothing but an immensity of great foaming waves rushing at us, under a sky low enough to touch with the hand and dirty like a smoked ceiling. In t... ...ze of a man’s hand—no, not for so much as ten seconds. There was for us no sky, there were for us no stars, no sun, no uni- verse—nothing but angry cl... ...of that poor devil of a mulatto. It eased before morning, and next day the sky cleared, and as the sea went down the leak took up. When it came to ben... ...om being burnt. “And she crawled on, do or die, in the serene weather. The sky was a miracle of purity, a miracle of azure. The sea was polished, was ... ...rd, light and slow: a pestiferous cloud de- filing the splendor of sea and sky. “All this time of course we saw no fire. The cargo smol- dered at the ...

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.......................................................... 88 AN ODE, WRITTEN OCTOBER, 1819, BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED THEIR LIB- ERTY............. ... beds all living things around, And mingling with the still night and mute sky Its awful hush is felt inaudibly. Thus solemnized and softened, death i... ...e Editor’s Note. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The cold earth slept below, Above the cold sky shone; And all around, with a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fie... ...ad Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie Where the bitter breath of the naked sky Might visit thee at will. 22 V olume Two NO NO NO NO NOTE ON TE ON TE ... ...nd wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon’s burning sky, Genius and death contended. None may know The sweetness of the joy whi... ...shadowed o’er, _10 But to the west was open to the sky. There now the sun had sunk, but lines of gold Hung on the ashen clouds... ... THE EUGANEAN THE EUGANEAN THE EUGANEAN HILLS. HILLS. HILLS. HILLS. HILLS. October, 1818. Composed at Este, October, 1818. Published with “Rosalind an... ...N ODE, AN ODE, WRIT WRIT WRIT WRIT WRITTEN OCT TEN OCT TEN OCT TEN OCT TEN OCTOBER, 1819, BEFORE OBER, 1819, BEFORE OBER, 1819, BEFORE OBER, 1819, BEF... ...ANE. O JANE. O JANE. O JANE. O JANE. Published by Medwin, “The Athenaeum”, October 20, 1832; “Frazer’s Magazine”, January 1833. There is a copy amongs...

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...tary Cross for gallantry while tak- ing part in some heavy fighting on 1st October. He was killed on 4th November 1918, while endeavouring to get his... ...ees Carelessly slept. But many there stood still To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge, Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world. ... ...harp on their souls hung the imminent line of grass, Fearfully flashed the sky’s mysterious glass. Hour after hour they ponder the warm field — And th... ...Over an open stretch of herb and heather Exposed. And instantly the whole sky burned With fury against them; and soft sudden cups Opened in thousands...

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...cu- lated with a better brain, sat idle and gazed at circling stars in the sky and mused upon the coin and crystal in his hand. Whenever there was a c... ...m that scalded him and the elec- tricity that flashed and banged about the sky at him, was an amazing and perhaps a culminating exercise of his intell... ... among the dark trees in the garden of the villa under the warm blue night sky of Italy; how he caught and kept them in cages, dissected them, first s... ...lanes were manu- factured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded indust... ...e- atomic time. Under this tremendous dawn of power and free- dom, under a sky ablaze with promise, in the very presence of science standing like some... ...esh texture of soil. Barnet, who came within forty miles of Paris early in October, is concerned chiefly with his account of the social confusion of t...

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...serenely pure, that you saw them in magnificent airy perspective; the blue sky around and over them, and other more distant orbs sparkling above, till... ...ins rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre and the coast of Galicia. The sky above was cloudless and shining; the vast dark ocean smiled peacefully ... ...f their breth- ren in yonder tall bankrupt galleries. The air of this pure sky has little effect upon the edifices,—the edges of the stone look as sha... ...ite houses with their balconies and galleries shining round about, and the sky above so blue that the best cobalt in all the paint-box looks muddy and... ...his cruel error. The most provoking part of the matter, too, was, that the sky was deliciously clear and cloudless, the air balmy, the sea so insultin... ...ch inter- vals of peace and good-humour were restored to us. On the 3rd of October our cable rushed with a huge rattle into the blue sea before Jaffa,... ...IV: FROM JAFFA TO ALEXANDRIA [From the Providor’s Log-book.] BILL OF FARE, OCTOBER 12TH. Mulligatawny Soup. Salt Fish and Egg Sauce. Roast Haunch of...

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...ired him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular. On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had bro... ...m this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service.” Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his l... ... consulted a pocket almanac, and added, “As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on ... ... things have come to pass.” At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated t... ...ndred horse-power, was due at eleven o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez. The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay ... ...es which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old ... ... two hours later the pilot came on board. A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came dist... ...e behind, the graceful outlines of the moun- tains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose ... ... his chances?” While the worthy Frenchman was absorbed in the state of the sky and the depression of the temperature, Aouda was experiencing fears fro...

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...ys’ travelling (railroads were not then in exist- ence) I arrived, one wet October afternoon, in the town of X——. I had always understood that Edward ... ... as an introduction. I now proceed. 13 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER II A FINE OCTOBER MORNING succeeded to the foggy evening that had witnessed my first ... ...ng between the woods, caught on its surface the somewhat cold gleam of the October sun and sky; at frequent intervals along the banks of the river, ta... ...oods, caught on its surface the somewhat cold gleam of the October sun and sky; at frequent intervals along the banks of the river, tall, cylindrical ... ...ch tower, and hundreds of stars shone keenly bright in all quarters of the sky. Unconsciously I steered my course towards the country; I had got into ... ...it dimmed the earth, but did not obscure the clear icy blue of the January sky. There was a great stillness near and far; the time of the day favoured... ...ve, receding, diminutive; but freshly coloured, green, dewy, with a spring sky, piled with glittering yet showery clouds; for my childhood was not all... ...f all pensionnats shut, not to be reopened till the beginning or middle of October. The last day of August was at hand, and what was my position? Had ... ... never met her before—and threw a prize into my lap. In the second week of October, 18—, I got the appoint- ment of English professor to all the class...

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...er have a confidence in their creed that is one with their apprehension of sky or air or gravitation. It is a primary mental structure, and they not o... ... was a day under 18 The Soul of a Bishop an east wind, when a steely-blue sky full of colourless light filled a stiff-necked world with whitish high ... ...is intelligence, the realization of a world extravagantly out of hand. The sky, the wind, the telegraph poles, had been jab- bing in the harsh lesson ... ...bt seemed to dissolve and vanish and leave him safe and calm under a clear sky; he knew those words were a promise, and very speedily he fell asleep a... ...d a nice little soothing change if the Day of Judgment was com- ing in the sky and the earth was opening and the sea was giving up its dead. He’d send... ... THIRD THIRD VISION VISION VISION VISION VISION 1 1 1 1 1 ONE AFTERNOON in October, four months and more after that previous conversation, the card of... ...ophet at all was under consideration. 6 6 6 6 6 Then very suddenly on this October afternoon the situation had come to a crisis. He had gone to Lady S...

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..., year VII., a republican pe- riod which in the present day corresponds to October 20, 1799, two young men, leaving Bonn in the early morning, had rea... .... “What silence! and what a beautiful night!” said Wilhelm, looking at the sky through the window, as the landlord was fastening the door. The lapping... ...and the soldiers, the murmur of the various collo- quies, the sight of the sky, the coolness of the air, the aspect of Andernach and the shimmering of...

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... gray in your hair. And I but a shell of myself. And what did we talk of?— sky and water, Anything, ‘most, to hide our thoughts. And then your gift of... ...Lee Masters Oscar Hummel I STAGGERED on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o’clock, I w... ... was so hungry I had a vision: I saw a giant pair of scissors Dip from the sky, like the beam of a dredge, And cut the house in two like a curtain. Bu... ... Anthology Dillard Sissman THE buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the... ...he question Of what the drama means. Zilpha Marsh AT four o’clock in late October I sat alone in the country school-house Back from the road ,mid str... ...freedom And lust of life it symbolized. Now morn with snowy fingers up the sky Flung like an orange at a festival 129 Edgar Lee Masters The ruddy sun... ...93 At first you will know not what they mean, 114 At four o’clock in late October 117 B Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the ch 118 Bett...

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...ing forehead down by our straps, and it looked as if the sheds were in the sky, then I saw nothing but sky, then came another vast swerve, and we were... ...mething that says very urgently, ‘Don’t,’ to the man who looks up into the sky. It is very interesting to note how at a place like Eastchurch or Brook... ... of mind when one thinks without ideas, when one’s mind is like a starless sky, serene and empty. 12 12 12 12 12 Some hours later Benham found that th... ...t to have asked some one who knew. 11 11 11 11 11 One glowing afternoon in October, as these two young men came over Magdalen Bridge after a long disp... ...rs and speakers beneath the tall column that lifts our Nelson to the windy sky! For a time Benham was in love with the idea of London. He got maps of ... ...reaches below the Tower there carried the flags of every country under the sky… . As he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, C... ...ee happy walks about the Chexington woods; that year the golden weather of October had flowed over into November, and except for a carpet of green and... ...greeable for him to think it probable. The paper was dated 1910. It was in October, 1914, that White, who was still working upon the laborious uncerta... ...ll trample cities; it will devour nations….” White read this on the 9th of October, 1914. One crumpled evening paper at his feet proclaimed in startle...

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...ave shocked you—that you should suddenly be able to reach up and touch the sky?” “H’m!” said Sir Richmond. “Have I been touching the sky!” “You are tr... ...gh keep their state, this shining mirror of the water, brown and green and sky blue, this fringe of reeds and scented rushes and forget-me-not and lil... ...rk eyes beneath a black smoke of hair, now in a slim form seen against the sky. Often I cared nothing for the woman I made love to. I cared for the th... ... and brighter among the western trees, and presently had gone, leaving the sky to an increasing multitude of stars. The Maidenhead river wearing its d... ...dea. “The spirit of the Gothic cathedrals,” he said, “is the spirit of the sky-scrapers. It is architecture in a mood of flaming ambition. The Free- m... ...artineau received a fresh appeal for aid from Sir Richmond. It was late in October and Sir Richmond was already seriously ill. But he was still going ...

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...ould only, however, be for a short time, and though it was near the end of October, the blue expanse of sea was calm as only the Mediterranean can be,... ...ly; although the heat was becoming terrible, as the sun rose higher in the sky, and very little air could be obtained through the window, so that poor... ..., on the huge waves; rushes of water coming over them, whether from sea or sky there was no knowing, for all seemed blended together in one mass of da... ... that would not hear me from the shore; I only marked the glorious sun and sky T oo bright, too blue for my captivity, And felt that all which Freedom... ...finding himself be- tween the glittering, sparkling expanse of sea and the sky , where the sun had just leapt up in a blaze of gold. The white summits... ...s a European lake, but it was quite large enough to be a desert of sea and sky to the little crew of an open boat, even though they were favoured by t...

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... track of an old conventionalism was visible on what was freshest from the sky. But when we left the pavements, and our muffled hoof tramps beat upon ... ... was a look of gloom, as the twi light fell silently and sadly out of the sky, its gray or sable flakes intermingling themselves with the fast descen... ...d to her adrift on the great ocean of the night. A little parallelogram of sky was all that she had hitherto known of nature, so that she felt the awf... ...ich looks like a scarlet bud in May, and like a plate of vegetable gold in October. Zenobia, who showed no conscience in such matters, had also rifled... ...n a richer picturesqueness in the visible scene of earth and 51 Hawthorne sky. There was, at such moments, a novelty, an unwonted aspect, on the face... ...te the surprise of the Community, when, like an allegorical figure of rich October, I should make my appearance, with shoulders bent beneath the burde... ...The sunburnt and arid aspect of our woods and pastures, beneath the August sky, did but imperfectly symbolize the lack of dew and moisture, that, sinc...

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...good people of Mudfog amazingly. At length, about the middle of the month of October, Mr. Tulrumble and family went up to London; the middle of Oc to... ...fter that, Ned Twigger was securely locked up in the small cav ern with the sky light, hard at work at the armour. With every additional piece he cou... ...d to relate how the men who played the wind instruments, looking up into the sky (we mean the fog) with musical fervour, walked through pools of water... ... such as I had never observed before. This is the more extraordinary, as the sky was perfectly cloudless, and the atmosphere peculiarly fine. At half ... ...ECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING In October last, we did ourselves the immortal credit of recording, at an en...

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...vious night had cleared the air, and Paris shone in morning beauty under a sky that was all broad wet washes of white and blue; but Darrow again notic... ..., to the mysterious fusion of darkly-piled city and low-lying bitu- minous sky; and the transparency of the French air, which left the green gardens a... ...d out on the vast light-spangled mass of the city, and then up at the dark sky, in which the morning planet stood. VI AT THE T HEATRE F RANCAIS, the n... ...e unopened letter into the middle of the fire. BOOK II IX THE LIGHT OF THE OCTOBER AFTERNOON lay on an old high- roofed house which enclosed in its lo... ...enue of grass, cut through a wood, dwindled to a blue-green blur against a sky banked with still white slopes of cloud. In the court, half-way between... ...ough grey gauze, and the beech alleys tapered away to a blue haze blent of sky and forest. It was one of those elusive days when the familiar forms of...

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...is blue, pinnacled apparition, almost transparent against the light of the sky, a mere emana- tion, the astral body of an island risen to greet me fro... ...defiance, the winged words so inspiring in the free immensity of water and sky, seemed to fall wearily into the little grave. What was the use of aski... ... one in the ship could tell why, how, at what hour—after twenty years last October… . Did I ever hear! … I assured him sympathetically that I had neve...