Full Text Search Details
...r ladyship must cut your hair. JULIA: No, girl, I ll knit it up in silken strings With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots. To be fantastic may beco... ...isit by night your lady s chamber-window With some sweet concert; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump: the night s dead silence Will well beco... ...tty youth? JULIA: He plays false, father. Host: How? out of tune on the strings? JULIA: Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very heart-str...

Full Text Search Details
... lunar observation. This, I believe, consists in obtaining with the proper instruments the angular dis- tance between the moon and some one of the sta... ...al courtesies, I have known a French band play “Yankee Doodle” with such a string of variations that no one but a “pretty ‘cute” Yankee could tell wha... ...ght, on the crown; with a yard or two of red ribbon flying about like kite-strings. Milliners of Paris, what would ye say to them! Though made by the... ...es of his wife and children, and divers odds and ends of European articles—strings of beads, ribbons, Dutch look- ing-glasses, knives, coarse prints, ... ...ssed volumes of plates; gilded candelabra; sets of globes and mathematical instruments; the finest por- celain; richly-mounted sabres and fowling-piec...

Full Text Search Details
...together in the country. “There, miss,” said he, “you touch me on a tender string. My health is not good (my digestion being much impaired), and if I ... ...e velvet reticule. Such mean little boys, when they were not dancing, with string, and marbles, and cramp bones in their pockets, and the most untidy... ... to possess is developed in these specimens in the singular form of guitar strings. Their limbs appear to have struck roots into their breasts and bod... ...ng down the street here when I happened to stop and look in at the musical instruments in the shop window—a friend of mine is in want of a second hand... ...ld girl! Tell ‘em!” “Why, then, miss,” the old girl proceeded, untying the strings of her bonnet for more air, “you could as soon move Dover Castle as... ...n.” As he gave me that slowly devouring look of his, while twisting up the strings of his bag before he has tened with it after Mr. Kenge, the benign...

Full Text Search Details
...hem! They failed because midway they lost the vi- sion to select the right instruments put in our way by heaven. That vision belongs solely to such as... ...s are crowned with perfect success, unless there is an imperfection of the instruments; for the cause is blessed by 57 George Meredith all superior a... ... his settled creed that hu- man beings alone failed the patriotic cause as instruments, while circumstances constantly befriended it—was shocked by pr... ... now, as I believe, in Genoa. All the plan for the rising is accurate; the instruments are ready, and we are paralyzed. I have been to three houses to... ...ft the torch and plant the standard of Italy, had swept her as through the strings of a harp. Laura, and the horrible little bronze butterfly, and the... ... grown, probably never would grow, to be so plastic off the stage. She was stringing her hand to strike a blow as men strike, and women when they do t... ...ret; then they look behind them carefully enough. The situation was one of stringent torment to a professional and natural spy. Luigi lost count of mi... ...he marriage. Do as you once did. Be bold in time. The arrow-head is on the string-cut the string!’ ‘ As I once did?’ replies Orso with frown terrific,... ... of our civil authorities passes my understanding— it’s a miracle! We have stringent orders not to take any initia- tive, or I would stop the Fraulein...

Full Text Search Details
... bushes of wild juniper, and so forth, Presently there came into view also strings of country villas which, with their carved supports and grey roofs ... ...ly did he halt before a certain “Peter Saveliev Neuvazhai Korito.” “What a string of titles!” involuntarily he ejaculated. To the Christian name of an... ...vshinnikov is such a wag that he sat down beside her, and began paying her strings of compliments in French. However, I did not neglect the damsels al... ...umpkins (known as gorlianki) whereof balallaiki—the species of light, two- stringed instrument which constitutes the pride and the joy of the gay youn... ...ed not much thought, and in the fashioning of whose frames she has used no instruments so delicate as a file or a gimlet and so forth—are not uncommon... ...ly, the time during which one sits in a room where, except for a litter of string, waste paper, and so forth, everything else has been packed. But to ...

Full Text Search Details
...ent, and no one made sugar-cake like hers. She always wore at her girdle a string of little yellow shells, which she desired to have buried with her. ... ... galled and chafed me terribly to feel myself taken once more into leading-strings. I, who had for three years governed my house as a happy honoured w... ... do good to the poor; and the sense of being bridled, and put into leading-strings, poisoned the pleasure I had at first felt in my return to my own f... ...baumont! That was the way she kept them when she had got them, letting the string break, so that they rolled about the floor anyhow!’ She had heard al... ...s shouting that they would cut him to pieces to show what fate awaited the instruments of tyranny. They did actually beat against the wainscot of his ... ...the Court about a cardinal’s hat, and had run away from his mother’s apron string at St. Germain to his sister’s at Paris. On recalling it, all was a ...

Full Text Search Details
...believe—eh—that it IS all you want. Therefore, as you are a sort of a slip-string gentleman, and—aye —hum—a kind of idle apprentice, and something coc... ... Hadaway, who was tuptowing away with a dozen of wretched boys, and a fine string of stories he had ready to regale my ears withal. My father had lect... ...f about the same duration was sufficient to distrib- ute it on the various strings of packhorses which waited for that purpose, and which instantly di... ..., will tell you where to stow; but I will be up with you before that.’ The string of loaded horses then struck forward at their former pace, while Nan... ...on, Darsie permitted Cristal Nixon to place over his face, and secure by a string, one of those silk masks which ladies frequently wore to preserve th... ... THIRLAGE, mortgaging of property. THREAP , aver. THUMBIKINS, thumbscrews, instruments of torture. TIMOTHEUS, a famous musician. TIPPENY, twopenny ale...

Full Text Search Details
... of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies. One winter picture of the edge of Plover Lake had the a... ...ng for itself. We don’t want old Dawson’s money—not if it’s a gift, with a string. We’ll take it away from him, because it belongs to us. You got to g... ... into a clean nightgown, and washed his arm. Kennicott came to lay out his instruments. She realized that, with no hospi- tal facilities, yet with no ... ...e upright piano. She picked it up. Since she had last touched it the dried strings had snapped, and upon it lay a gold and crimson cigar-band. V She l... ...lightful worry—over the hole in her one good silk petticoat, the loss of a string of beads from her chiffon and brown velvet frock, the catsup stain o... ...able stage under its red mar- quee, the great tent over all, shadowy above strings of incandescent bulbs at night and by day casting an amber radiance...

Full Text Search Details
... known. It s a boy. My aunt said never a word, but took her bonnet by the strings, in the manner of a sling, aimed a blow at Mr. Chillip s head with ... ...etends to be reading a book), or as Miss Murdstone, sitting near my mother stringing steel beads. The very sight of these two has such an influence ov... ...g Charles the First s head again, in one or two places. There s plenty of string, said Mr. Dick, and when it flies high, it takes the facts a long ... ...There is the truth for your comfort, however you like it. And you and your instruments may make the most of it. Allow me to inquire, Miss Trotwood, ... ... to call, in a choice of words in which I am not experienced, my brother s instruments? It was clear enough, as I have told you, years before you ev... ..., and bore it (such was my boyish thought) into the skies. As he wound the string in and it came lower and lower down out of the beautiful light, unti... ...cages of old wire. But he was greatest of all, perhaps, in the articles of string and straw; with which we were all persuaded he could do anything tha... ... combs, brushes, bits of flannel, little pairs of curling-irons, and other instruments, which she tumbled in a heap upon the chair. 398 David Copperf... ...r regions, and have it over. She then selected two or three of the little instruments, and a little bottle, and asked (to my surprise) if the table w...

Full Text Search Details
...nd.’ ‘Yes, while it’s not too late,’ said Beauchamp. She observed a sudden stringing of his features. He called to the chief boatman, made his command... ...leases of the grinning freights amused him for awhile. He compared them to strings of bananas, and presently put the vision of the whole business asid... ...s a gain. You do actually accomplish a resonant imi- tation of the various instruments; they sing out as your two hands command them—trumpet, flute, d... ...dexterous trickery and imi- tation sounds. Then for the difference of real instruments from clever shams! Oh, ay, one will set your organ going; that ... ...the mighty metropolitan as are the fife and bugle boys practising on their instruments round melancholy outskirts of garrison towns with the regimenta... ... should be hasty in settling it. ‘I’m peculiar,’ he resumed. ‘A rose and a string of pearls: a woman who goes beyond that’s in danger of petrifying he... ...adly agape in silence to the busts, the books, and the range of scientific instruments, and directed a gaze under his eyebrows at Beauchamp. ‘Does you... ... feature and the gift of speech! Renee’s gift of speech counted unnumbered strings which she played on with a grace that clothed the skill, and was he... ...reat admirer of the sex does not look such a donkey if he is led in silken strings by a beautiful creature. And mark—stop! mark this, Dr. Shrapnel: I ...

Full Text Search Details
... atten- tion as if he had been a human being. He then took forth a case of instruments, and, by the judicious and skilful appli- cation of pincers, wi... ... these wandering enthusiasts, “dance, or we will scourge thee with our bow-strings till thou spin as never top did under schoolboy’s lash.” Thus shout... ...the desert, in as many different directions as a chaplet of beads when the string is broken. Sir Kenneth had no time to note what ensued; for, at the ... ...removed them? No. Such mediciner might have tormented the patient with his instruments, or perhaps soothed him with his balsams and cordials, but dark... ...ly flung off, at least,” said Blondel, again sweeping his fingers over the strings, as one who would rather have played than listened to criticism. “B... ...yonder hampered measure.” Blondel looked down, and busied himself with the strings of his harp, to hide an involuntary smile which crept over his feat... ... and their muster was accompanied by an astonishing clamour of their noisy instruments of martial music, by which, in all ages, the warfare of the Ara...

Full Text Search Details
...ARE you going to do? He sits in his office in San Francisco and pulls the strings and we’ve got to dance.” “But—well—but,” hazarded Broderson, “but t... ...d the name, “Cyrus Blakelee Ruggles.” Inside, a man in a frock coat, shoe- string necktie, and Stetson hat, sat writing at a roller-top desk. Over thi... ...uashes stowed under the seats; Ruggles in frock coat, Stetson hat and shoe-string necktie, writing abstractedly upon his blotting pad; Dyke, the engin... ...- like, rumbling voice, he was calling to his foreman and a boy at work in stringing the poles together. At sight of Presley and Vanamee he hailed the... ...Well, along comes a through freight—mixed train from Missouri points and a string of empties from New Orleans,—and when it had passed, what do you sup... ...nfamiliar drug in the air. On the table before her was a satchel, surgical instruments, rolls of bandages, and a blue, oblong paper box full of cot- t...

Full Text Search Details
... corn-mill or hemp-mill of Economic Society. For me too had such a leading-string been provided; only that it proved a neck-halter, and had nigh throt... ...till more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing together bead-rolls of what thou namest Facts? The Man is the spi... .... Silent are they, but expressive in their silence: the past witnesses and instruments of Woe and Joy, of Passions, Virtues, Crimes, and all the fatho... ... and aeons. Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp-strings, like the Song of beatified Souls? And again, do not we squeak and ...

Full Text Search Details
...When the man moved leg or hand, Garin bared his teeth in silence. A broken string hung from his collar, and the other half of, it lay, all warm, in th... ...flats and Ungava petrol-tanks punted down leisurely out of the north, like strings of unfrightened wild duck. It does not pay to “fly” minerals and oi... ... He had traced through cold and heat, across the deeps of the oceans, with instruments of his own invention, over the inhospitable heart of the polar ...

Full Text Search Details
...rs. Bullfrog’s, and also a green silk calash dangling down her back by the strings. In my terror and turmoil of mind I could imagine nothing less than... ...as still ringing in our ears we heard an exulting strain, as if a thousand instruments of music, with height and depth and sweetness in their tones, a... ...r while standing on the threshold, and had forthwith put on a laced cap, a string of beads, her finest kerchief, and her stiffest damask petticoat in ...

Full Text Search Details
...ay forward Will was full of new hopes and longings. Something kept tugging at his heart-strings; the running water carried his desires along with it a... ...turally curious, being in a strange 108 Robert Louis Stevenson place and surrounded by string people; but at the shadow of a question, he shrank back... ...d, the colour of the light, and last, although not least, the arsenal of meteorological instruments in a louvre-boarded hutch upon the lawn. Ever sinc...

Full Text Search Details
...pulpits; instead of preachers, however, small boys oc- cupy them, dangling string, dropping pebbles, or launch- ing wads of paper for a cruise. With t... ... droop, dropping all her clothes in a bunch as though they depended on one string, and stretch- ing her limbs to the utmost end of her berth, she mere... ...d and had to play the same bar twice over; but an invisible line seemed to string the notes together, from which rose a shape, a building. She was so ... ...-tables at the street corner, where an old cripple was twanging his guitar strings, while a poor girl cried her passionate song in the gutter. The two... ...he midst of the universal silence. “Come in,” she said mechanically, for a string in her brain seemed to be pulled by a persistent knocking at the doo... ...pect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating again and again a note struck upo...

Full Text Search Details
...ll hours, with her open windows (she had fresh air on the brain), sharpening instruments (it was Miss Birdseye’s mild belief that she dissected), in a... ...er 8 49 blood! To kill each other, with all sorts of expensive and perfected instruments, that is the most brilliant thing they have been able to inve... ...e was filled with carpet baggers, to hear flushed women, with loosened bonnet strings, forcing thin voices Chapter 25 185 into ineffectual shrillness.... ...adn’t taken up anything; he had simply laughed and chaffed, and un rolled a string of queer fancies about the delightful way women would fix things wh... ...arkable in its way too), whom you have invented and set on its feet, pulling strings, behind it, to make it move and speak, while you try to conceal a... ...jury and blasphemy, to desert a work, an interest, with which her very heart strings were interlaced, to give the lie to her whole young past, to her ...

Full Text Search Details
... ing wrapped him warm in shawl and comforter, and tremblingly tied his hat-strings under his chin, assured him, with convulsive caresses, that it woul... ...f my father for awhile; the shouts of the people, the braying of the brass instruments, the ladies cheering sweetly, the gentlemen giving short, heart... ...as cheered, of course. Mightily relieved, I beheld the band resuming their instruments, for the cheering resembled a senseless beating on brass shield... ...d his cigar peacefully. He had laid a gui- tar on his knees, and flipped a string, or chafed over all the strings, and plucked and thrummed them as hi... ... talk with the squire.’ ‘Make good your ground in the castle,’ said he. ‘I string a guitar outside. You toss me a key from the walls. If there is room... ... conversation. A man’s review of the course of his life grows for a moment stringently serious when he beholds the stream first broadening perchance u... ... The windows were lighted brilliantly. As the hall- door opened, a band of stringed and wood instruments com- menced an overture. Mrs. Waddy came to m... ...lighted brilliantly. As the hall- door opened, a band of stringed and wood instruments com- menced an overture. Mrs. Waddy came to me in the hall; 40...

Full Text Search Details
...igzag paths to the foot of the mountain. There they would be loaded into a string of two-wheeled carts, resembling roomy coffers with a door at the ba... ...pe padlocked each door in succession, and at the signal of his whistle the string of carts would move off, closely surrounded by the clank of spur and... ...stiff, deferential inclination with a sweep of the hat below the knee. The string of padlocked carts lengthened, the size of the escort grew bigger as... ...nt of wood with a coni- cal grass roof, came the resonant twanging of harp strings, the sharp ping of guitars, with the grave drumming throb of an Ind... ...tered the type all over the Plaza, has been kept from interfering with the instruments on the other side of the courtyard. As I sat talking with Nostr... ...her a good eye, nor a steady hand, nor judgment are any use… .” He swore a string of oaths in Spanish and Italian under his breath. “Nothing but sheer... ...he street he kept up. a great pace with his smart hobbling walk, a case of instruments under his arm. He was known for being loco. Nobody interfered w...