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...chen of a big house and had to do all the hard work. She had to cook, clean, sweep, wash and bring water all by herself. She had to work from early mo...

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... too, an advocate in wig and gown, hand upon mouth, full of pregnant nods, sweeps to and fro in the arcade listening to an agent; and at certain regul... ...e moving; on one of the multi- tude of roofs, you watch clambering chimney-sweeps. The wind takes a run and scatters the smoke; bells are heard, far a...

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...here in the dark; Robert Louis Stevenson 26 But right for a gate of the reef he silently headed the bark, And wielding the single paddle with passion...

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...y taken by the Captain of snatching from my eyes the glass I had raised to sweep the horizon, the mortal wound of the man, due to an unaccountable sho...

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...and after a rain. The cruel wind of the Breath of Fury began to rise and sweep the walkway free. From the ground below, dragons cried a confused b... ...hed in silent frustration. Both their heads began to move in lazy, bored sweeps, fanning their flames over the mindless attackers. Demons were eas...

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...f gossip. Once the phone call to Kristain became public knowledge, it would sweep through the place like a bad case of Montezuma’s revenge. A wave... ...s if they had their way. Instead they were left to the mercy of his whiskers sweeping across the tender flesh of my thighs. The things he did to me... ... above me, his face blocking out the starry sky. I reached up, caressing the sweep of his jaw. Donnie bent his head, kissing the palm of my hand. ... ... Ravell? Then does this answer your question?” I pulled him to me, my lips sweeping the worried from his face. Gasping for breath, he pulled back.... ...anted to laugh but somehow it wasn’t in me. The rush of Vampires and Slayers sweeping past me told me something had changed in the world. Turning t...

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...re was something in the manner of Jane’s scrubbing the front door- step or sweeping out the rooms, a certain viciousness, that persuaded me that the s... ...te blossoms, the green leaves behind them, the whole greenhouse, seemed to sweep sideways, and then in a curve upward. * * * At half-past four... ...servatory resounded with a series of thundering blows. The stars seemed to sweep aside as the telescope— which had been unclamped—swung round and away... ...hosphorescent light, the match flared for a moment, and he saw a vast wing sweeping towards him, a gleam of grey-brown fur, and then he was struck in ... ...dow. It was a dim grey night; an almost unbroken sheet of watery cloud was sweeping across the moon, and the hedge and trees in front of the house wer... ...t all the multitudinous sensations that come 114 The Country of the Blind sweeping from it to make up the background of conscious- ness had gone, lea... ...uiver. The echoes rang up and down the spiral staircase, and a shadow came sweep- ing up after me, and one fled before me into the darkness overhead. ... ...ting whither to take it. As I stood undecided, an invisible hand seemed to sweep out the two candles on the table. With a cry of terror, I dashed at t... ...ined on this side of me and then on that. It was like a ragged storm-cloud sweeping out the stars. Now and then one returned for a minute, and was los...

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...CLARENCE, with drum and colors .] WARWICK: And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along, Of force enough to bid his brother battle; With whom an upr...

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...d that a few days or weeks might bring the world crashing down in ruins, and sweep away all 36 V — CONTINUITY that made life tolerable and material e...

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...of forest, the dark masses of pine throwing out the lighter, more delicate sweeps of beech, and pale purple distance beyond—not another building withi...

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... boughs of the rock rooted oak and ash tossing and swaying in the blast, and sweeping the flashing spray with their leaves. The instant the door broke... ...e one on the friar’s crown: but in the careless moment of triumph a splendid sweep of the friar’s staff struck Robin’s out of his hand into the middle...

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...gain even though mud be thrown at us. I yield the path to a small chimney- sweeper as readily as to a lady; and forbear from an inter- change of court... ...ern State of Michigan to Portland, on the Atlantic, in the State of Maine, sweeping the whole length of Canada in its route. It was originally made by... ...e projected in Downing Street, all would no doubt be included, and a clean sweep would be made without difficulty. But the project as made in the colo... ...ral Price held the command opposed to him, and men said that Fremont would sweep General Price and his army down the valley of the Mississippi into th... ... to march on in ad- vance from year to year. “And it’s he that is bound to sweep slavery from off the face of this continent. He’s the man, and he’s a... ...ttered so that the eye passes through them, and ever and again a long lawn sweeps back into the country and up the steep side of a hill, making the tr... ...e triumph which was still ex- pected for General Fremont, and to assist in sweeping slavery out into the Gulf of Mexico. The patriotism of the West ha... ...ving grass, with the land rolling on before us in a suc- cession of gentle sweeps, never rising so as to impede the view, or apparently changing in it... ...ills were nicely painted and swept”—I can also answer for the painting and sweeping at Lowell—”trees set out in the yards and along the streets, habit...

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... had never met, each had heard of the other, and the recognition was mutual. A sweeping introduction and a mug of punch were forced upon him before he... ... good natured banter, and stirring Prince’s blood strangely with an occasional sweep of her deep, dark eyes. For Prince was a man, and healthy, and ha... ...s. “Almost enough to save,” he remarked regretfully as he allowed the water to sweep them away. The sun climbed to the top of the sky. The man worked ... ...descended into the great valley which he could not see. And in all that mighty sweep of earth he saw no sign of man nor of the handiwork of man — save... ...nfamiliarity puzzled him. Slowly he followed it with his eyes, winding in wide sweeps among the bleak, bare hills, bleaker and barer and lower lying t... ...ly was it timed that it landed squarely on Sandel’s face in the full, downward sweep of the duck, and Sandel lifted in the air and curled backward, st... ...ad a mitten made of ray fish skin. The first time he tried it on Mauki, with one sweep of the hand it fetched the skin off his back from neck to armpit.... .... “It is well,” he said. And nothing more. Day after day he came to his work — sweep ing, scrubbing, cleaning. He emptied the ashes from the stoves, ... ...nd the strike. And, resplendent and glorious, he saw the great, red Revolution sweeping across his land. The guns were there before him. Every hated f...

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...sted by night and day, he planted his artillery in such a manner that it would sweep every street leading to the palace. Nor were these precautions il... ...ile inside were placed the sharp-shooters and the artillery, so disposed as to sweep the streets. The army thus singularly protected was separated int... ... with twenty-five Spaniards, and set on the prows a cannon, so as to command a sweep of the lake. A few feeble efforts were made to harass the Spaniar... ...erica to plant a colony, that induced Drake to prey upon Spanish commerce, and sweep around from coast of continent to shore of island, to battle with...

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... was inevitable. They proposed the elimination of a number of control requirements and drafted a sweeping new, simplified National Level document (NAC... ...shment. The car WIS stolen wbiIe he flU lDside. So, watch it. (e) When technical security teams "sweep" our premises. one of their cbora is to examine...

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...were telling a fairy tale: a young, romantic girl meets her daring knight and sweeps her off her feet and takes her away to a land of excitement and... ... 293 J.Cross/Artemis president. He yearned to feel the hot Santa Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific... ...monitors all large sums of monies going and coming from foreign countries. We sweep these transfers every twenty- four hours. We picked up a transfe...

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...ndations, and, worst of all, through the babies in their cradles, till the Sweeper Guards spent half their time tossing out useless little corpses. Th... ...out!” she called across the brown breadth of it. “Nurses, guards, fanners, sweepers—out! Never mind the babies. They’re better dead.—Out, before the L... ...eed of the Cyclonic! The eye detects no joint in her skin plating save the sweep- ing hair-crack of the bow-rudder—Magniac’s rudder that as- sured us ... ...hip-lash. Cant the whole forward—a touch on the wheel will suffice—and she sweeps at your good direction up or down. Open the complete circle and she ... ...isfy. “What under the stars are you doing here, you sky-scrap- ing chimney-sweep?” he shouts as we two drift side by side. “Do you know this is a Mail... ...elf into a globe of pale flame that waits shivering with eagerness till we sweep by. It leaps monstrously across the blackness, alights on the precise... ... to the c. p. George shuts off, the colloids are opened, and the fresh air sweeps her out. There is no hurry. The old contracts (they will be revised ...

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...master, bound to launch subma- rine for submarine and cast gun for gun, to sweep all her youth into her army, to subdue her trade, her literature, her... ...ently in the Times. The king has been asked to give his countenance to the sweeping away of all those re- strictions first set up by George the Third,... ...ur. They can hit it on every side. Consider, moreover, that there are long sweeps of coast north, south, and west of the Rock, from which torpe- does ...

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...oy with shrieks were crumbling down in fire. Then from Thermodon, from broad sweeping streams, 5 Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy Came, clothed ... ...arted wife Nurseth for her lost love undying grief. Then in swift revolution sweeping round Into the Ocean’s deep stream sank the sun, And daylight di... ...on them. As when from mountains high A shouting river with wide echoing din Sweeps down its fathomless whirlpools through the gloom, When God with tu... ... with corpses heaped, even all Bounded ‘twixt Simois and Xanthus, where They sweep from Ida down to Hellespont. But when long lengthened out the confl... ...As they wailed Unceasingly, the Dawn queen lovely eyed Changed them to birds sweeping through air around The barrow of the mighty dead. And these Qui... ...at of Zeus, Of whom are all things, even all comprised Within the encircling sweep of Ocean’s stream, Earth and the palace dome of burning stars. Befo... ...strew down upon the ground The flying leaves, when through the forest glades Sweep the wild gusts, as waneth autumn tide, And the old year is dying; s... ...lers, onward driven By a great wind, heave up far out at sea, And strandward sweep with terrible rush, and aye Headland and beach with shattered spray... ...rn In harvest field, what time the rushing wings Of the cloud gathering West sweep over it; So upon Hellespont’s strand the folk were stirred. And to ...

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...ll the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long an... ...he tower top and lean upon broken stone, A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all, Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That ... ... the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by. Frenzies bewilder, reveries perturb the mind; Monstrous familiar ... ...ound eye, Everything else withered and mummy dead. What great tomb haunter sweeps the distant sky (Something may linger there though all else die;) An... ...omplete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron... ... song sang Niamh, and over my finger tips Came now the sliding of tears and sweeping of mist cold hair, And now the warmth of sighs, and after the quiv... ... bow strings, Hearing Hell loud with a murmur, as shouting and mocking we sweep. We will tear out the flaming stones, and batter the gateway of brass ...

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... the word; and a little carelessness in letting her ship a heavy sea, might sweep the decks, or knock the masts out of her. Friday, Nov. 7th. To... ... by the alcalde to be open evil livers, they were whipped, and kept at work sweeping the square of the presidio, and carrying mud and bricks for the... ...ace. The Catalina, being a small vessel, of less than half our size, put out sweeps and got a boat ahead, and pulled out to sea, during the night, so ... ...have brought in diseases before unknown to the islanders, and which are now sweeping off the native population of the Sandwich Islands, at the rate... ...w, or heard of, from that day to this, and never wished to. Then followed a sweeping assertion, not much to the credit of the sex, if true, though h... ... various curves and angles against the sky overhead, and sometimes, in one sweep of an instant, described an are of more than forty five degrees, b... ...a sudden jerk which made it necessary to hold on with both hands, and then sweeping off, in another long, irregular curve. I was not positively si... ...s, which, in the Alert, under canvas, with head tides, variable winds, and sweeping currents to deal with, took us full two days. Among the pa...

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...ine, and his artillery placed upon the heights behind, from which it could sweep the whole extensive plain of Breitenfeld. The Swedish and Saxon army ... ...een smaller field pieces were ranged on an eminence, from which they could sweep the greater part of the plain. The infantry, divided into no more tha...

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... His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. They embrace the colours of sunset, the peace of s...

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...wnward into the valleys will I hurl my speech. And let the stream of my love sweep into unfrequented channels! How should a stream not finally find it...

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...soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha.... ...enemy was already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep over the squadron. Rostov raised his saber, ready to strike, but at t... ... at an early hour when she met no one but bricklayers going to work or men sweeping the street, and everybody within the houses was still asleep, Nata...

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...ally correct and to hopefully give some pride to speaking a dialect of poverty. It might be just fine if one‘s ultimate vocational goal was to sweep ...