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...fs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer....

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...e wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoul- ders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes... ...’s at the library; the rest of the time he spent either at the store or in driving about the country on business connected with the insurance companie... ... first, to have it known to North Dormer and the neighborhood that she was driving Miss Hatchard’s cousin about the country in the buggy he had hired ... ...face. Another woman, the unkempt creature that Charity had once noticed in driving by, stood leaning against the window-frame and stared at them; and ... ...ancholy summer boarding-houses on Creston Lake, and had discovered, within driving distance, a number of houses wor- thy of his pencil; and he said th... ... Harney’s bicycle-bell in the lane. He had bicycled to Hamblin, instead of driving there with his cousin and her friends, so that he might be able to ...

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...ighteous and reasonable that the remainder of the work, the reaping of the triumph, the driving out of the conquered enemy, and the pacification of t... ... tell me, my friend, to what end such economy serveth? to what end such great haste and driving to extremities? peradventure some one followeth us wi...

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...y’s now almost full-blown consciousness. At my game, with renewed zest, of driving portents home, I have by this time all the choice of those that are... ...rowd, did well enough for a stop-gap. It perhaps did as well as her simply driving with him to the door of his lodging, which had had to figure as the... ...xample by her.” “She’s really doing it for you,” Densher continued. “She’s driving me out for you.” “In that case,” said Kate with her soft tranquilli... ...ciousness or care, and that her face, under her veil, richly rosy with the driving wind, was—and the veil too—as splashed as if the rain were her tear... ...s. This, and the ferment set up within him, were together a reason for not driving; to say nothing of the absence of cabs in the dusky festal desert. ... ... her less. It’s small wonder therefore that she insists, on a dull day, in driving him about. I don’t pretend to know,” she wound up, “what may hap- p...

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...ay a word of this woman, he marries her to-morrow morning. You speak of my driving men. Why can’t I drive Ormont? Because I’m too fond of him. There y... ... want a war to teach the country the value of courage. You catch what I am driving at? They accuse my brother of immorality because he makes no preten... ...peedily, 71 George Meredith so completely: they have but to dip. Husbands driving wives to taste their power execrate the creature for her fall deep ... ...avelled through the year, just visited England and were off again, we were driving on our own road. Vienna in April and May—what do you say? You like ... ...of the estates. It was open war, and herself to head the cavalry. Weyburn, driving up a lane in the gig she had sent to meet the coach, beheld a thick... ...nts influential friends, have witchery. Those who have seen her riding and driving beside her lord, speak of Andalusian grace, Oriental lustre, fit qu... ...- ing, she will remember her dignity—unless he’s a villain. Runnings away! drivings together! inns oh! the story over London! I do believe she has a t... ...was locked in safety. Aminta and her friend, little Miss Collett, were out driving, by the secretary’s report. The earl considered it a wholesome feat...

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...handsomely to me was worth her weight in gold as overawing lodgers without driving them away, for lodgers would be far more sparing of their bells wit... ... I had been looking out of window and had watched them and the heavy sleet driving down the street together looking for bills. I did not quite take to... ... with Jemmy in the dusk between the lights are not to be calculated, Jemmy driving on the coach-box which is the Major’s brass-bound writing desk on t... ...f awake by the flashing light of the fire and have heard that precious pet driving and the Major blowing up be- hind to have the change of horses read...

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...nd’s heart? The face of what I was, the face of what he made me! These are driving him to the place where I lie. In death, therefore, I am avenged. Fl... ...n River Anthology Blind Jack I HAD fiddled all day at the county fair. But driving home “Butch” Weldy and Jack McGuire, Who were roaring full, made me... ...; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable and bitter, Driving the jury to hang the madman, Barry Holden, Was made as one dead by ... ...orld with their eyes. But still they’d pass my work and say: “What are you driving at, my friend? Sometimes the face looks like Apollo’s At others it ... ...lerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in the moonlight of middle June, And then I found Davis. We we... ...oot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east and swept them as leaves, Driving some up the slopes. . . . All was changed. Here were flying lights,...

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...th its broken and pointed trunk a few feet above the surface of the water, driving before the winds, or follow- ing in the course of the currents. At ...

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...or speed in your life?” (The servant had just mounted the carriage and was driving off.) “Such true blood! Three hours and and a half indeed coming on... ...on a curricle too; but I chanced to meet him on Magdalen Bridge, as he was driving into Oxford, last term: ‘Ah! Thorpe,’ said he, ‘do you happen to wa... ...g two open carriages at the door, in the first only a servant, her brother driving Miss Thorpe in the second, before John Thorpe came running upstairs... ...not you?” “Yes. “Well, I saw him at that moment turn up the Lansdown Road, driving a smart-looking girl.” 63 Jane Austen “Did you indeed?” “Did upon ... ...w could you deceive me so, Mr. Thorpe? How could you say that you saw them driving up the Lansdown Road? I would not have had it happen so for the wor... ...rather, get out now, and walk back to them. How could you say you saw them driving out in a phaeton?” Thorpe defended himself very stoutly, declared h... ...ike a fool. No, if you do not go, d— me if I do. I only go for the sake of driving you.” “That is a compliment which gives me no pleasure.” But her wo... ... think of it. These schemes are not at all the thing. Y oung men and women driving about the country in open carriages! Now and then it is very well; ... ...ong at leisure, however, for such considerations. A sud- den scud of rain, driving full in her face, made it impossible for her to observe anything fu...

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...nd you will give a cry of pain when you see a hawk swooping down upon her, driving its steel claws into her breast, and bearing her away with murderou...

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...onderful tales are current of his readiness and skill. One in particular, of how one of his horses fell at a ticklish passage of the road, and how Fos... ...d dance, and drink, I pre- sume; and he played the pipes with vigour and success. All the Scotch in Sacramento became infatuated with him, and spent t... ...xperiments, I pronounce authorita- tively that man cannot live by tins alone. Fresh meat must be had on an occasion. It is true that the great 22 ... ...me, in the deep gap where the Toll House stands and the road runs through into Lake County, it had already topped the slope, and was pour- ing over an...

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...; and everybody knows that a wool-factor takes a very high rank, sometimes driving a double-bodied 26 Brother Jacob gig. Letty’s notions got higher e... ...to Cattelton, was pretty sure he had seen David in a gig, with a stout man driving by his side. He could “swear it was David,” though he could “give n...

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...a and glanced quickly and questioningly at his companion’s profile. “Blind driving force,” said Sir Richmond, musing. “Isn’t that after all what we re... ...ntal desire. Jung speaks of it at times almost as if it were the universal driving force.” “No,” said Sir Richmond, in love with his new idea. “Not de... ...desire. Desire would have a definite direction, and that is just what this driving force hasn’t. It’s rage.” “Y ours the car in distress what sent thi... ...nt voices singing….There is your desire, doctor, the desire you say is the driving force of life. But reality mocks it. Boats bump and lead to coarse ... ... owner myself, sit and watch and suspect me, too stupid to grasp what I am driving at and too incompetent to get out a scheme of their own. They want ... ...ntelligence is better than her character.” “I don’t quite see what you are driving at.” “The intelligence of all intelligent women is better than thei... ...as overworked. But the real trouble was a loneliness that robbed me of all driving force. Nobody seemed thinking and feeling with me…. I have never re...

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...ear, oh, dear! It’s in ribbons!” Her lifted face, fresh and flushed in the driving rain, woke in him a memory of having seen it at a distant time and ... ...ry year, since the far-off day of her marriage; the day when, osten- sibly driving through its gates at her husband’s side, she had actually been carr... ...he house through the eyes of an old friend who, the next morning, would be driving up to it for the first time; and in so doing she seemed to be openi... ... doesn’t more or less modify one’s surest sureness!” “That’s just what I’m driving at. I want to know what has modified yours.” She made a slight gest... ...? Who else?” She rose to her feet. “What on earth, my dear boy, can you be driving at?” “I’m trying to find out whether you think he knows anything de... ...e and Owen had shot through the day before shivered deso- lately against a driving sky. Darrow walked on and on, indifferent to the direction he was t... ...like this— you mustn’t! I feel—you make me feel too horribly: as if I were driving you away...” The words had rushed up from the depths of her bewilde... ...The words had rushed up from the depths of her bewildered pity. “No one is driving me away: I had to go,” she heard the girl reply. There was another ... ...gainst the uncurtained windows, and she thought of Owen, who would soon be driving through it to the station, alone with his bitter thoughts. She had ...

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...y advanced, much encumbered with sheepish shyness, presented a great rough driving-glove, and shortly and bluntly replied to the soft tones which kind... ...tell her then she can’t be driven.” Fred could not bear to hear of Carey’s driving, a thing which he had not yet been permitted to attempt, and he has... ...fectly welcome to the use of Dumple, and sent Willy into the house for the driving whip. Thus authorized, Beatrice did not fear even her father, who w... ...she was quite wise enough to let Fred alone, to give full attention to his driving all the way to Allonfield. Dumple 128 Henrietta’s Wish knew perfec... ... let her work fall, and looked up in dismay. “You don’t mean that Fred was driving?” said her mother. “Yes, I do! Why my boys can drive long before th... ...id Uncle Roger; “but then, you know, any of my boys would think nothing of driving Dumple,—even Dick I have trusted,—and they came up— you should have... ...d they came up— you should have seen them—as confidently as if he had been driving four-in-hand every day of his life. Upon my word your daughter has ... ...s for Frederick, and called at Philip Carey’s for some medicines; and then driving up to the station watched eagerly for the train. Soon it was there,... ...ves, instead of the results. Now my skating that day was just as bad as my driving, except, to be sure, that I put nobody in danger but myself; it was...

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...ume; the sturdy police, with bandeliers and brown surtouts, keeping order, driving off the faithful from the railings of the Esplanade through which t... ...d carved casements—hooked noses issued from the low antique doors—Jew boys driving don- keys, Hebrew mothers nursing children, dusky, tawdry, ragged y... ...d it. Now and then a little troop of savage scowl- ing horsemen—a shepherd driving his black sheep, his gun over his shoulder—a troop of camels—or of ... ... over his head, digging his shovel spurs into the lean animal he rode, and driving three others before— swaying backwards and forwards on his horse, n... ...The streets are busy with a motley population of Jews and Armenians, slave-driving-looking Europeans, large- breeched Greeks, and well-shaven buxom me... ...great ones of the town come and take their pleasure. We saw many barouches driving about with fat Pashas lolling on the cushions; stately-looking colo...

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...e meant? Then, Lady Mary replied, “Why, all night long, the carriages were driving round and round the terrace, underneath my win- 18 Some Christmas ... ...ushing from its home—where was that, they wondered!—whistling and howling, driving the clouds before it, bending the trees, rumbling in the chimneys, ...

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...ack?” “No, but I’ve been to Victoria. I’ve left my luggage there—I’ve been driving about.” “I hope you’ve enjoyed it.” “Very much. I’ve been to see Mr... ...appreciated its pace, for she had consented to his getting in with her and driving, this time in ear- nest, to Victoria. She had only come to tell him...

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... to hear it. Did you mean your own importance? (A motor car, GERALD BARLOW driving, OLIVER TURTON with him has pulled up.) JOB ARTHUR (glancing at the... ...oddo—ay— (The cries die down—the motor car slowly comes into sight, OLIVER driving, GERALD and ANABEL behind. The men stand in a mass in the way.) OLI...

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...elded slightly at my pressure. Working laboriously, I finally succeeded in driving out this knot, and on passing my finger through the hole I found th...

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...rian family, shall soon make those heads but two; by overturning Philip, and driving him out of Spain. Some of these predictions are already fulfilled...