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...und in the bedrooms of convalescents and in dentists’ parlours and railway trains than in gentlemen’s studies. I would rather have it dipped in and di... ...e; the house quivered; one heard the metallic rattle of the tender. As the train passed, there was a glare of light above the cutting and a driving 1... ... in the throat of the tunnel, which, with the last, seemed to swallow down train, smoke, and sound in one abrupt gulp. “This country was all fresh and... ...place. Nearer at hand was the broad stretch of railway, and half-invisible trains shunted—a steady puffing and rumbling, with every run a ringing conc... ...se a notice-board, bearing, still dimly visible, the words, “BEWARE OF THE TRAINS,” half hidden by splashes of coaly mud. “Fine effects,” said Horrock... ...ommunity from the outer world. And this is the story of that man. He was a mountaineer from the country near Quito, a man who had been down to the sea... ...with a dim fancy that he was ill in bed; then realised his position with a mountaineer’s intelligence, and worked himself loose and, after a rest or s...

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...tory of my earlier years. The tale was quickly told, but it awakened various trains of reflection. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thi... ...nd of self control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me. For a long time I was their only care. My mothe... ...eroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of... ...rning with greater ardour to my former studies. It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to... ...lved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of ... ...ys at Windsor, rambling in its beautiful forest. This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of s...

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... stale heat of the long day in town, the dusty promiscuity of the suburban train were now but the requisite foil to an 26 The Touchstone evening of s... ...olled-up evening papers which he had thrust into his pocket on leaving the train. As he smoothed them out his own countenance seemed to undergo the sa... ...orately, that he was laughing at the recol- lection of an old woman in the train, an old woman with a lot of bundles, who couldn’t find her ticket… . ... ... earlier than usual and turned in at the first book-shop on his way to the train. The show-window was stacked with conspicuously lettered volumes. “Ma... ... palm-leaf fans of a perspiring crowd, he waited a long half- hour for his train to start. He had thrust a volume in either pocket and in the train he... ...sh the letters to be published?” Glennard felt the sudden dizziness of the mountaineer on a narrow ledge, and with it the sense that he was lost if he...

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...t yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that cl... ...pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasiti- cal satellites. Still, marquise, it has been so with oth... ...ow.” “But still” — “We are forbidden to give you any explanation.” Dantes, trained in discipline, knew that nothing would be more absurd than to ques-... ...ing in Dauphine is quite the reverse of that in Provence or Languedoc. The mountaineers are Bonapartists, sire.” “Then,” murmured Louis, “he was well ... ...ome solace in these ideas. All his sorrows, all his sufferings, with their train of gloomy spectres, fled from his cell when the angel of death seemed... ...lived. The nasturtiums and other plants, which his father had delighted to train before his window, had all disappeared from the upper part of the hou... ...d from his heavy covering, preceded the traveller with the rapid step of a mountaineer, which a horse can scarcely keep up with. In ten minutes Luigi ... ...fference between the servility of a man of the cities and the pride of the mountaineer, ‘if you refuse wages, you will, perhaps, accept a gift.’ — ‘Ah...

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...ur Hostess. Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers! And call a train of laughing Hours; And bid them dance, and bid them sing; And Tho... ... upon thy forehead clear 30 The freedom of a Mountaineer. A face with gladness overspread! Sweet looks, by human kin... ...in And mock the Form which he did feign, While he was dancing with the train Of Leaves among the bushes. ...

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...estruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel.” “Yes—certainly—perhaps,” replied the C... ...ing a phos- phorescent track, like those volumes of steam that the express trains leave behind. All at once from the dark line of the horizon whither ... ...se from behind the eastern horizon. The sea flamed under its glance like a train of gunpowder. The clouds scattered in the heights were coloured with ... ...endours of the night in the tropics. My remembrances went to France in the train of those zodia- cal stars that would shine in some hours’ time. The m... ...of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this energetic man could have reflected during the last mo- ments... ...Captain Nemo. “And our arms?” asked I; “our guns?” “Guns! What for? Do not mountaineers attack the bear with a dagger in their hand, and is not steel ...

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...owever, some- thing had caused me to forget; and when next I saw the young mountaineer, I forgot that I had forgotten it. Consequently, at first I was... ...nst our comfort, namely, by teaching our horses all imaginable tricks, and training them up in the way along which they should not go, so that when th... ... knavery in one hour recoiled upon himself. The horses whom he had himself trained to vice and restive- ness, in the hope that thus his own services a... ...ilitia, or what, under the old form of expression, you might regard as the trained bands of our literature—the fund from which ultimately, or in the l... ..., hard- mouthed horses at Westport, that were often vicious, and sometimes trained to vice. Here, though spirited, the horses were pretty generally ge... ... of a continental “noble,” fitted to assign a certain rank or place in the train and equipage of a gentleman, but not to entitle their most eminent pr...

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...eau of the piano, found And culled a pair of fans; wherewith equipped, Our mountaineer back to the level slipped; And being landed, with considerate e... ...s by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) IV. As starts the absent dreamer when a train, Suddenly disengulphed below his feet, Roars forth into the sunlight,... ...who having wandered all night long 45 As starts the absent dreamer when a train, 93 As swallows turning backward 12 As when the hunt by holt and fi...

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...sunlight; others dashed _170 Athwart the night with trains of bickering fire, Like sphered worlds to death and ruin driven; Som... ...r this favoured clime: _425 There man was long the train-bearer of slaves, The mimic of surrounding misery, The jackal of ambi... ...55 His human wants, beheld with wondering awe Their fleeting visitant. The mountaineer, Encountering on some dizzy precipice That spectral form, deeme... ...ng the waveless deep, When, gathering fast, around, above, and under, Long trains of tremulous mist began to creep, Until their complicating lines did... ...wilt thou at poor Cythna’s pride repine, If she should lead a happy female train T o meet thee over the rejoicing plain, When myriads at thy call shal... ... _2195 And their own will, to swell the glory of thy train. 51.2. 51.2. 51.2. 51.2. 51.2. ‘O Spirit vast and deep as Night and H...

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...e bustling, managing housewives, who prefer doing everything themselves to training others, and she was appalled at the idea of the probable desolatio... ...ionally, if the lady pre- ferred it. The Reformed of imperfect theological training, and as such Joseph Heatherthwayte must be classed, were apt to 2... ...e was sent that the Queen of Scots was to be lodged at Sheffield, and long trains of waggons and sumpter horses and mules began to arrive, bringing he... ...ride of Dunbar. I like not such dealings, and so long as this lady and her train are near us, I would by no means have him whispering here and there t... ...nge decayed and plots thickened. Though resident in the new lodge with her train, it was greatly diminished by the dismissal from time to time of pers... ...en, sloping up into a little hill. Up bounded the boy and girl, like young mountaineers, through gorse and fern, and presently had gained a sufficient...

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...r, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew lapp’d like bulls, whose throats had hanging at ‘em Wallet... ... STEPHANO, and TRINCULO .] PROSPERO: Sir, I invite your highness and your train To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest For this one night; w...

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...wo years between the Grand Monarch with all his troops and marshals on the one hand, and a few thousand Protes- tant mountaineers upon the other. A hu... ... dainty pride; her cheek fell into strange and interesting lines. It was a face capable of strong emotion, and, with training, it offered the promise ... ...f ants, there was no water in the room, the very dawn had neglected to call me in the morning. I might have missed a train, had there been any in the ... ...t gardens, and looked upon in the clear air by many rocky peaks. The road along the Mimente is yet new, nor have the mountaineers recovered their surp...

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... longer a peasant working out an idea, conveying a dogma. He is an artist, trained and con- scious, probably working in Vienna. He is consciously try-... ...when she sat on the throne. There she perched with great satisfaction, her train splen- didly displayed down the steps. She was as proud as a child, a... ...an Italian, dark-blooded. He is fair, keen as steel, with the blood of the mountaineer in him. He is like my old spinning woman. It is curious how, wi... ...Why did you come on foot all down the valley when you could have taken the train? Was it worth it?’ ‘I think so,’ he said. Yet he was sick with fatigu... ...wn again from the mountains, beginning his journey home again: steamer and train and steamer and train and T ube, till he was back in the machine. It ... ... the north- ern world to the southern. But he, Emil, was going to take the train back, through the tunnel, in the evening, to resume his circular walk...

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...he had, and of three assistants—originally jobbing carpenters— whom he had trained. Now, from the work-shed to the patent office is clearly only one s... ... was glad to be of any service to him, and he turned away. Immediately the train of thought that our conversation had suggested must have resumed its ... ...een spikes. “Imagine it there!” said Cavor, who was assuming the airs of a trainer, and he pointed to a spot about four feet from my toes. This leap I... ...my ledge, and could release me. “Confound it!” I said, “any one could be a mountaineer on the moon;” and so set myself in earnest to the climbing. For... ...he colour out of tlie metal. And from that discovery I also started upon a train of thought that carried me wide and far. I forgot that I had just bee... ...ough space than if we had made a journey of common occurrence in a railway train. And then he becomes increasingly unfair to me. Unfair, indeed, to an...

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... With visible motion her diurnal round; Behind me did they stretch in solemn train 490 Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watch’d Till all was tranq... ... me at least It was a goodly prospect; for, through youth, Though I had been trained up to stand unpropped, 230 And independent musings pleased me so ... ...t I could shape The image of a place which—soothed and lulled As I had been, trained up in paradise Among sweet garlands and delightful sounds, 380 Ac... ...acked or fathered. Princes then At matins froze, and couched at curfew time, Trained up through piety and zeal to prize Book Third Residence at Cambr... ...n the third summer brought its liberty A fellow student and myself, he too A mountaineer, together sallied forth, 340 And, staff in hand on foot pursu... ...mpets, came in full blown state Of the world’s greatness, winding round with train Of courtiers, banners, and a length of guards; Or captive led in ab...

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...rliest and very limited import of that name, were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers. So were the men of Macedon; and neither one tribe nor the oth... ...ment as many fugitives as he could, by degrees he succeeded in forming and training a very formidable troop of freebooters. Partly from the energy of ... ...g of laurel which he bore in his mouth, could not be determined. The whole train, pursuers and pursued, continued their flight towards Pompey’s hall. ... ...he inheritance of the Julian estates and family honors, he would have been trained to mount, as from a stepping-stone, to the inheritance of the Julia... ...ched, constructed entirely out of flexile shrubs, box- myrtle, and others, trained and trimmed in regular forms; besides endless other applications of... ...e of genial hu- man nature, that would else have emerged through so long a train of princes. There is a remarkable story told of Agrippina, that, upon...

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...n in the Ludovisi gardens a wonderfully beau- tiful girl, strolling in the train of this conspicuous couple. He looked for her now, and in a moment sh... ... widow, with a surprising variety of bonnets and a dozen men always in her train. Giacosa dates from this period. He calls himself a Roman, but I have... ...must strike while the iron ‘s hot! Farewell!” And he departed by the first train. Rowland went alone by the next. CHAPTER VII. Saint Cecilia’s R owlan... ...ard, preceded by her poodle, and almost filling the narrow parlor with the train of her dress. She was colored here and there by the flicking fireligh... ...ing so he noticed Roderick. The young sculptor was standing planted on the train of a lady’s dress, gazing across at Christina’s movements with undisg... ...en he called Sam Singleton, whose peregrinations had made him an excellent mountaineer, and whose zeal and sympathy were now unbounded, and the two st...

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..., Who to Madrid on purpose made a journey. But Donna Inez, to divert the train Of one of the most circulating scandals That had for centurie... ... New characters; the episodes are three: A panoramic view of hell ‘s in training, After the style of Virgil and of Homer, So that my name of ... ...gh led, And arm’d from boot to turban, one and all, Some twenty of his train came, rank on rank; He gave the word, — ‘Arrest or slay the Frank... ... a decorous file, And then his Highness’ eunuchs, black and white; The train might reach a quarter of a mile: His majesty was always so poli... ...gs are apt to push on; Something about the Baltic’s navigation, Hides, train oil, tallow, and the rights of Thetis, Which Britons deem their ‘... ...ntic continents or islands, The calentures of music which o’ercome All mountaineers with dreams that they are nigh lands, No more to be beheld...

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...s generous, but it was certainly a principle in which the young prince was trained, and which may be too probably denominated peculiar to his family, ... ...ent, with a laudable sense of the honour of the profession to which he has trained me. As we have no near relations, the tie betwixt us is of even 24... ...im. Thou knowest thy father’s strict and excellent domestic discipline has trained me to bear the invocation of a blessing before we break the daily b... ... the, scoundrels have had me stop to have my head cut off?’ Imagine such a train at your own heels, Darsie, and ask yourself whether you would not exe... ... it would be best,’ answered Rachel; ‘but what can I say? Even in the best-trained temper there may remain some leaven of the old Adam; and I know not... ...t—an established authority—a born Briton on the throne—the very High- land mountaineers, upon whom alone the trust of the exiled family reposed, assem...

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...therner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of hi... ...cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil i... ...ll know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of... ...uimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil. The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, a... ... his rate as doctors that of a baby’s pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or the down 527 Herman Melville train will reach such or such a spot... ...those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though, at...