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...here was to his view, it would appear that he was nearly drummed out of the club, the American Institute of Physics, Other folks were moved to accus... ... International Conference of The Electro-chemical Society, Inc. 30 East 42 Street, New York, NY 10017; Editor Robert A. Bakish, 1968; Library of C...

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...s, a television documentary relates a story on an American locality whose streets are dubbed with the names of victimized children from a terrifyin... ...incredible mystifications. The members of the Allan Kardec spiritualist club use as an evidence of the spiritualist possibilities, the medium-wise...

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...t elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had sent away his carriage, and no cab was to be seen in the street; but the night was fine, and the pavement dry....

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...tanding. Each had sent away his carriage, and no cab was to be seen in the street; but the night was fine, and the pavement dry. “We will walk as far ... ...,” said Eugene de Rastignac to Bianchon. “You can get a hackney cab at the club; there is always one to be found there till daybreak. Come with me as ... ...an old word meaning straw—was in the thirteenth century the most important street in Paris. There stood the Schools of the University, where the voice... ... Gerson were heard in the world of learning. It is now one of the dirtiest streets of the Twelfth Arrondissement, the poorest quarter of Paris, that i... ...spital, which sends most beggars to the poorhouse, most rag-pickers to the street corners, most de- crepit old folks to bask against the walls on whic... ... the sun shines, most delinquents to the police courts. Half-way down this street, which is always damp, and where the gutter carries to the Seine the...

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...and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, Lo... ... abundant mud of that thoroughfare, and greatly enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in sma... ... opinion as to what he would recommend to be done with himself. Long before I reached Wapping, I gave myself up as hav- ing lost my way, and, abandoni... ... that ‘when they had sung an hymn,’ Some one (not in a beautiful garment) went up into the Mount of Olives. It made my heart ache to think of this mis... ...y, while these things were, there was a certain elderly gentleman who lived in a court of the Temple, and was a great judge and lover of port wine. Ev... ...y terrible to Chips; but even all this was not the worst. He knew besides, what the rats were doing, wherever they were. So, sometimes he would cry al... ...ill to-morrow, and to-mor- row, and to-morrow, remain untroubled by this superabun- dant generating of Talk. In a minor degree it is a delicious trium... ... become tiresome, trace them beyond the Black Country; when the coats and waistcoats become insupportable, refer them to their source in the Upper Toa... ...coats become insupportable, refer them to their source in the Upper Toady Regions. Gentlemen’s clubs were once maintained for purposes of savage party...

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...s convenient and trustwor- thy as those of Switzerland to-day; the touring clubs and hotel associations that have tariffed that country and France so ... ...o disposed, bath-room cars, library cars; a train as comfortable as a good club. There will be no distinctions of class in such a train, because in a ... ...rdines did this with him and that; and my first wanderings along the brown streets of Pompeii, an experience I had antici- pated with a strange intens... ...tent low-grade man who on earth sits in the den of the sweater, tramps the streets under the banner of the unemployed, or trembles—in another man’s ca... ...ay concern, my Carte d’Identite (useful on minor occasions) of the Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, ... ...en, for example, of girls and women and men, seen in shops and offices and streets, on quays, at windows and by the wayside, people riding hither and ... ...therwise bare. The lower story is occu- pied by the equivalent of a London club, kitchens and other offices, dining-room, writing-room, smoking and as... ...ousehold has been reduced far be- low terrestrial conditions by hotels and clubs, and all sorts of co-operative expedients. People who do not live in ... ... quarters of Lucerne. From a number of beautifully printed placards at the street corners, adorned with caricatures of considerable pungency, we disco...

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...that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a sourc... ...n, of Saint James’s Square. Thus. Twemlow had first known Veneering at his club, where Veneering then knew 9 Charles Dickens nobody but the man who m... ...uperstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce! Am I to rush out into the street, collar the first man of a wealthy appearance that I meet, shake 22... ... get among the gaslights, sitting watching the people as they go along the streets. At last, up comes father and takes us home. And home seems such a ... ...cu- lating on its being suicide, I dare say those impudent wretches at the clubs and places made jokes about the miserable creature’ s having preferre... ... fragments of straw and paper got up revolving storms there, when the main street was at peace; and the water-cart, as if it were drunk or short-sight... ... Wegg?’ ‘I should judge, sir, that you might be glancing your eye down the street.’ ‘No, Wegg. I was a listening.’ ‘Was you, indeed?’ said Mr Wegg, du... ...oly. ‘No Adorable to bear me company here!’ thinks he. ‘No Adorable at the club! A waste, a waste, a waste, my T wemlow!’ And so drops asleep, and has...

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...iend and former shipmate a little older than himself outside the Fenchurch Street Railway Station. He craved for sympathy but his friend had just “got... ...y voice which made me start: “Not here. Try the passage on the other side. Street side. This is the Dock side. Y ou’ve lost your way … “ He spoke in s... ...irst. I left the shipping office quietly and for a time strolled along the street as easy as 19 Joseph Conrad if I had a week before me to fit myself... ...r to keep on sitting there I can tell you, while we rolled up and down the streets, pulling up here and there, the parcels accumulating round me and t... ...hot glare of a gin palace a good way off made the intervening piece of the street pitch black. Some human shapes appearing mysteriously, as if they ha... ... to the feelings of little Fyne when he came home from the office, via his club, just half an hour before dinner, I have no information. But I venture... ...f the head as if rammed down between the square shoulders by a blow from a club, moved vaguely in a circumscribed space limited by the two harness-cas...

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...owhide, the cowardly brute had dealt her a blow on the head with a hickory club, which cut a horrible gash, and left her face literally covered with b... ...y Rich—one of the hands belonging to the sloop—to my new home in Alliciana street, near Gardiner’s ship-yard, on Fell’s Point. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Auld,... ...ck buildings; with troops of hostile boys ready to pounce upon me at every street corner; with new and strange objects glaring upon me at every step, ... ...tation was a more de- sirable place of residence than my home on Alliciana street, in Baltimore. My country eyes and ears were confused and bewildered... ...lton. I have seen poor Mary contending for the offal, with the pigs in the street. So much was the poor girl pinched, kicked, cut and pecked to pieces... ... poor girl pinched, kicked, cut and pecked to pieces, that the boys in the street knew her only by the name of “pecked,” a name derived from the scars... ... from his head one ear; for keeping or car- 277 Frederick Douglas rying a club, thirty-nine lashes; for having any article for sale, without a ticket... ...y have their “Conciliation Hall,” on the banks of the Liffey, their reform clubs, and their newspapers; they pass resolutions, send forth addresses, a...

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...nery, and particularly resentful of midnight aesthetics, suggested a night club near at hand, which was said to be jolly. The Prince warmly supported ... ..., had merely accelerated their pace. At Genoa he wandered about in the hot streets, bought a cheap suit-case and some underclothes, and then went down... ... times during his hours in the train and his aimless trampings through the streets of Genoa. In that squirrel-wheel of a world of his and Susy’s you h... ...ss the means to make her choice regardless of cost. Once alone, and in the street again, the evil fumes would evaporate, and daylight re-enter Susy’s ... ...When Coral Hicks, a fortnight earlier, had picked him up in the broil- ing streets of Genoa, and carried him off to the Ibis, he had thought only of a... ...was sweet to his vanity, how twice—under the dome of the Scalzi and in the streets of Genoa—he had seen those same lines soften at his approach, turn ...

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... of physical impressions; impressions of sound and sight, railway station, streets, a trotting horse, reflections in mirrors and so on, rendered as if... ...s shouted from afar, ‘Begone!’ Low-born wretches, that keep watch over the streets of stone campongs, asked us who we were. We lied, we cringed, we sm... ...ood re- signed and sullen under the falling gloom. The whole length of the street, deep as a well and nar- row like a corridor, was full of a sombre a... ...eman, helmeted and dark, stretching out a rigid arm at the crossing of the streets. “Yes; I see it,” said Jackson, slowly. “It is there; it pants, it ... ... dead, and the child was being brought up by his sisters. He regretted the streets, the pavements, the cafes, his friends of many years; all the thing... ...much earlier than usual, straight from the City and without calling at his club. He considered himself well connected, well edu- cated and intelligent...

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...heir steps. They reached the town and made their way along a broad country street, dusky with the shade of magnificent elms. Rowland felt his companio... ...pressive convention in all history was visible to men’s eyes, in the Roman streets, erect in a gilded coach drawn by four black horses. Roderick’s fir... ...sky, dilapidated old house, in that long, tortuous, and preeminently Roman street 66 Roderick Hudson which leads from the Corso to the Bridge of St. ... ...s either loung- ing in Rowland’s more luxurious rooms or strolling through streets and churches and gardens. Rowland had found a convenient corner in ... ... pedestals before him. He had an indefatigable fancy; things he saw in the streets, in the country, things he heard and read, effects he saw just miss... .... He should be a very handsome fellow, and he should lift up the murderous club with the beautiful movement of the fighters in the Greek friezes who a...

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...this: he made a tube of reed sharp at one end, and catch- ing a dog in the street, or wherever it might be, he with his foot held one of its legs fast... ...p of him; on which the dog in a rage, barking and howling, would run three streets without stop- ping. It so happened, however, that one of the dogs h... ...n there is the sneering and the tattle and spite of backbiters; and in the streets here they swarm as thick as bees.” “Look here, Teresa,” said Sancho... ...monds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than once seen... ...ch, uncle—enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in the streets -and yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a folly ... ... honour goes dragged in the dirt, knocked about, up and down, sweeping the streets, as they say. And yet, on the faith of an honest man, I never spoke...

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...on. Excepting that part of Sancerre which occupies the little plateau, the streets are more or less steep, and the town is surrounded by slopes known ... ...hatel in Switzerland. The town still bears much of its ancient aspect; the streets are narrow and paved with pebbles carted up from the Loire. Some ol... ...ne of the founders, and to let the house for fifteen years to the literary club. By the time it had existed a year the members were playing domi- noes... ...ed rather high at /bouillotte/. Suddenly, at the cor- ner of a narrow high-street, two strangers, or rather, two de- mons, rushed upon me and flung a ... ... gave him to understand that this significant sign would be obeyed. In the street two horses were waiting; we each mounted one. My Spaniard took my br... ...your soles are worn through!—Yes, my boy, you turn your socks under like a street urchin to hide the holes, so that the legs cover the heels! In short...

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...the day of her flight; but when the porter pulled the cord I beheld in the street before me Monsieur Lepitre’s hackney-coach, and I heard his pursy vo... ...into the coach,—a difficult process, for he was as fat as Louis XVIII. and club-footed,—well, can you believe it, my mother arrived in a post-chaise! ... ...onstrous. Among all the passionate and unfortunate young men who haunt the streets of Paris, I doubt if there is one who would not stay virtuous ten y...

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...efend their bodies save the stones. Eldof, Earl of Gloucester, got a great club in his right hand, which he found lying at his feet, though little he ... ...i zens. He found the city but the shadow of its former splendour, for the streets were emptied of people, and houses and churches were alike fallen o... ...ad him within the church. Two of these archbishops brought him through the streets of the city, one walking on either side of his person. Each bishop ... ...he press was so great that the queen might hardly make her way through the streets of the city. Four dames preceded their lady, bearing four white dov... ...his adversary, and all amarvelled leapt lightly on his feet. He raised the club above his shoulder, albeit so heavy that no two peasants of the countr...

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...ncidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily. There were a number of ski... ...ccurred in the small hours of Whit Monday, the day devoted in Iping to the Club festivities. Mrs. Bunting, it seems, woke up sud- denly in the stillne... ...Janny,” said Hall. “Your nerves is all upset.” They sent Millie across the street through the golden five o’clock sunshine to rouse up Mr. Sandy Wadge... ... him. It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the... ...ll! People down the village heard shouts and shrieks, and look- ing up the street saw the “Coach and Horses” violently fir- ing out its humanity. They... ...r from behind. These in- creased suddenly. Forthwith everyone all down the street, the sweetstuff seller, cocoanut shy proprietor and his assistant, t... ...th a pungent flavour of oil and with equally pungent music. Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid in badges of pi... ...y, and the human contents of the tap rushed out at once pell-mell into the street. They saw someone whisk round the corner towards the road, and Mr. H... ... Invisible Man his foot on the axe, and struck again. Then he stood, poker clubbed, listening intent for the slightest movement. He heard the dining-r...

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...shore in his smart togs, and talked big in bars and consulates, and sat in club verandahs, turned me sick and sober. He tried to get up when I came in... ...he priest was praying upon Johnny’s grave. Papa was pretty full, and got a club, and lit out straight for the place, and there was Galoshes on his 20... ...ve, and every time Galoshes tried to kneel down Papa went for him with the club. There never were such larks in Falesa. The end of it was that Captain... ...giants, and then span off and van- ished; they hove up over your head like clubs, and flew away 59 Island Nights’ Entertainments into the night like ... ... servant, and had Keawe shown out of the house. Now, when Keawe was in the street, with the bottle under his arm, he began to think. “If all is true a... ...That looks like the truth,” said Keawe. “Now I will try another part.” The streets in that part of the city were as clean as a ship’s decks, and thoug... ...n his way back to the port-side, he saw a shop where a man sold shells and clubs from the wild islands, old heathen deities, old coined money, picture... ...tle.” So it befell at last that he was recommended to a Haole in Beritania Street. When he came to the door, about the hour of the evening meal, there... ...ome to buy the bottle,” said he. At the word, the young Haole of Beritania Street reeled against the wall. “The bottle!” he gasped. “To buy the bottle...

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...sks. ‘No, sir,’ replied the Verger, ‘but expected. There’s his own solitary shadow betwixt his two windows – the one looking this way, and the one loo... ...re, that all its changes lie behind it, and that there are no more to come. A queer moral to derive from antiquity, yet older than any traceable antiq... ...hat they may the sooner get beyond the confines of its oppressive 20 The Mystery of Edwin Drood respectability. This is a feat not difficult of achie... ...ere was a paper-knife – O, thank you, I am sure!’ and disappears with her prize. ‘One other thing you must do, Eddy, to oblige me,’ says Rosebud. ‘The... ...o listen to it; let us get away!’ Her hurry is over as soon as they have passed out of the Close. They go arm-in-arm now, gravely and deliberately eno... ...s being more elegant, and more strictly collegiate, ‘the term,’ would expire to-morrow. A noticeable relaxation of discipline had for some few days pe...

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...w how it is that, when I come to town, the appearance of the people in the street strike me with such force. They seem so awfully expressive.” “And no... ...e plantation boys for granted.” “W ell, and we here take the people in the streets for granted. And that’s sanity.” The visitor said nothing to this f... ... to himself in the good old days, when he trod the glorious flags of Fleet Street, he neither had access to, nor yet would have cared for the swells. ... ...w.” Renouard muttered something about an appointment and went out into the street. His inborn sanity could not defend him from a misty creeping jealou... ...armchair. “How can you be so certain that your man isn’t down there in the street?” he asked. “It’s nei- ther more nor less probable than every single... ...conomist and a sentimentalist, facile to tears, and a member of the Cobden Club. In order to see as little of him as possible Renouard began coming ea... ... silence, adminis- tered unexpectedly a question which, like the blow of a club on the head, deprived Renouard of the power of speech and 30 even tho...

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...es stood in the dim village doorways, stopped the steep and narrow village streets, and had been carrying all day along the roads and lanes. Grapes, s... ... menial! Why, a policeman,’ said Miss Fanny, ‘if a beggar had a fit in the street, could but go plunging about with tumblers, as this very Amy did in ... ... terrace outside the win- dow, a group of monks and peasants in the little street below, misery and magnificence wrestling with each other upon every ... ...k Two would do; and so they would be driven madly through narrow unsavoury streets, and jerked out at the town gate. Among the day’s unrealities would... ...spies, who were all the ill-looking popula- tion left to be ruined, in the streets below. Through such scenes, the family procession moved on to V eni... ...e have tea or coffee? ‘No, thank you,’ said Mr Merdle. ‘I looked in at the Club, and got a bottle of wine.’ At this period of his visit, Mr Merdle too... ...seclusion, that his only time for walking up and down was when the evening Club were assembled at their songs and toasts and sentiments, and when the ...

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...he sea hath a bottomless appetite,—she would swallow the wealth of Lombard Street in a morning, as easily as I would a poached egg and a cup of clary.... ...ers!” as V arney and Lambourne, each in his rank, rode proudly through the streets of Woodstock. 99 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER VIII. Host. I will hear ... ...ed me a volley of stones as soon as ever I ventured to show my face in the street of the village. At length my master suddenly disappeared, pretending... ... chemists or apothecaries as he should point out, in walking through Fleet Street, and permit him to make some necessary purchases. T ressilian agreed... ... Dock yonder at Deptford, to look out such a hull; as they may purchase by clubbing their broken fortunes; and as soon as all is over, we will lay our... ...a singular manner. Upon the battlements were placed gigantic warders, with clubs, battle-axes, and other implements of ancient warfare, designed to re... ...emendous warder was appropriately armed 309 Sir Walter Scott with a heavy club spiked with steel. In fine, he represented excellently one of those gi... ... at the in- stant Flibbertigibbet’s whisper reached his ears. He flung his club upon the ground, and caught up Dickie Sludge, raising him to such a di... ...rvel our old porter 312 Kenilworth took not measure of such ware with his club, instead of giv- ing them passage; but his brain is addled with gettin...

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...name, your own dear name.” “My picture!—But he has left my picture in Bond-street.” “Has he so!—Then I know nothing of Mr. Elton. No, my dear little m... ...dear little modest Harriet, depend upon it the picture will not be in Bond-street till just before he mounts his horse to- morrow. It is his companion... ...London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had... ...e, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregu- lar, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, contain- ing the blessed abod... ... And not all that could be urged to detain her succeeded. She regained the street—happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her w... ...he highest purpose for which it was ever wanted was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place. He wa... ... as Randalls by candlelight. We never see any 204 Emma thing of it on our club-nights.” The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, “Men ne... ...rts together. I think, Miss W oodhouse, you and I must establish a musical club, and have regular weekly meetings at your house, or ours. Will not it ... ... believed it! And to propose that she and I should unite to form a musical club! One would fancy we were bo- som friends! And Mrs. Weston!—Astonished ...

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...d nothing to the importance of the county; dull, all but death-like single streets. Each possesses two pumps, three hotels, ten shops, fifteen beer-ho... ...relations. It is true that he still called himself a Tory, belonged to the club of which his father had been one of the most honoured members, and in ... ... saying that the village of Greshamsbury consisted of one long, straggling street, a mile in length, which in the centre turned sharp round, so that o... ...in length, which in the centre turned sharp round, so that one half of the street lay directly at right angles to the other. In this angle stood Gresh... ...village, and each gate was guarded by the effigies of two huge pagans with clubs, such being the crest borne by the family; from each entrance a broad... ...brupt rise in the ground. At the entrance there were four savages and four clubs, two to each por- tal, and what with the massive iron gates, surmount... ...ted by a stone wall, on which stood the family arms supported by two other club-bearers, the stone-built lodges, the Doric, ivy-covered columns which ... ...k was very large; it lay on the outside of the angle formed by the village street, and stretched away on two sides without apparent limit or boundarie... ...t! go not out into the fashionable world to-day; above all, go not to that club of thine in Pall Mall; but, oh! especially go not there, as is thy won...

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...m a-back, and slew much people. And then the commons of Carlion arose with clubs and staves and slew many knights; but all the kings held them togethe... ...ant was; and so he was, for he saw him sit under a tree of holly, and many clubs of iron and gisarms about him. So this knight dressed him to the gian... ...him to the giant, putting his shield afore him, and the giant took an iron club in his hand, and at the first stroke he clave Sir Marhaus’ shield in t... ...lt thou die of my hand. Then the glutton anon started up, and took a great club in his hand, and smote at the king that his coronal fell to the earth.... ...ts and his entrails fell down to the ground. Then the giant threw away his club, and caught the king in his arms that he crushed his ribs. Then the th... ...me in under such form, that wheresomever thou meet my lord, by stigh or by street, thou must yield thee to him as prisoner. Madam, said Sir Gareth, wh...

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... houses and enclosed parks; the multitude of gentlemen’s servants and golf clubs and such like excrescences of the com- fort of prosperous people was ... ...common interests. There is no oc- troi or anything of that sort across the street. The shops and inns on the Bocking side of the main street are indis... ...oken spring. This Bocking-Braintree main road is, it happens, an old Stane Street, along which Roman legions marched to clean 46 What Is Coming? up t... ... there will be insurrection and revolution. There will be bloodshed in the streets and the chasing of rulers. There will be, if we do seriously attemp... ... find two or even three railway stations at opposite ends of the town; the streets are blocked by the vans and trolleys of the several companies tedio... ...e wearing the clothes of 1914. In 1913 every girl and woman one saw in the streets of London had an air of doing her best to keep in the fashion. Now ...

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...erally true that, of this entire distance from Westport House to Sackville-street, Dublin, not one furlong had been performed 25 Thomas de Quincey un... ...chreiber’s Spartan discipline? Did the little blind kittens of Gracechurch-street, who were ordered by their penthesiléan mamma, on the very day of th... ...y father always retained a town-house in Manchester (somewhere in Fountain-street), and, though a plain, unpretending man, was literary to the extent ... ...nd few, out of consideration for the invalid, and rose again in the gloomy streets of Manchester. Gloomy they were at that time—mud below, smoke above... ...stified in calling upon a body of porters to kick those gentlemen into the street, being people who had abused the indulgences of hospitality, much mo... ... the capture of Athens. Nearly two thousand peasants, generally armed with clubs, had scaled the walls and forced the gates. The prison- ers taken wer...

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...upon him two great giants, well armed, all save the heads, with two horrible clubs in their hands. Sir Launcelot put his shield afore him, and put the... ... Mark Twain 10 stone scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were mere crooked alleys, and unpaved; troops of dogs and nude ch... ...uld be foreman of a factory, that is about all; and could drag a seine down street any day and catch a hundred better men than myself. What a jump I ... ... remark that at the end of a week there was plenty of evidence that lash and club and fist had done their work well; the king’s body was a sight to se... ...ing place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. The populace was an ever flocking a... ...n sauntered off. At the first second hand clothing shop I came to, up a back street, I got a rough rig suitable for a common seaman who might be going... ...there was no sign of life about them. It was Sunday; yet at Canter bury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sigh...

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...old you so!—Foolhardy man, to suppose, be- cause we have constables in the streets of big cities, we have dismissed the highwayman to limbo. And here ... ..., like waves against a sea-wall, learned dictionary words giving a hand to street- 20 Beauchamp’s Career slang, and accents falling on them haphazard... ... to the 42 Beauchamp’s Career Accademia, and mused on the golden Venetian streets of Carpaccio: she must have an open gondola to decorate in his mann... ...hen they fix the rents and leases. You have them pointed out to you in the street, with their figures attached to them like titles. Mr. Tomkins, the t... ...rds us, I would venture to say, the advantages without the seductions of a Club. I rank it next— at a far remove, but next-the church.’ Lord Palmet br... ...ions of the letter of Commander Beauchamp’s correspondent were read at the Club, under the verandah, and the question put, whether a man who held thos... ...eflected. ‘ And now,’ said he to Palmet, ‘we might be crossing over to the Club if I hadn’t to go about that stupid business to Holdesbury to-morrow m... ... for the pride of it as well as the pleasure. She landed her father at the Club steps, and then bore away Eastward to sight a cutter race, the breeze ... ...our, it is. I have often told you how I love it. I have landed papa at the Club. Are you aware that we meet you at Steynham the day after to-morrow?’ ...

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... the three in the gate over Newgate—on the second story looking up Newgate Street towards Cheapside and Paul’s Church. And we had leave to walk on the... ...playing: the winter’s day was already growing gray: as he passed under the street-arch into the Cathedral yard, and made his way into the ancient sole... ...s they lay on the field, and Jack had brained one of these gentry with the club-end of his musket, who had eased Esmond of his hat and periwig, his pu... ...a sober fit upon him, be and his friend were making their way down Germain Street, and Dick all of a sud- den left his companion’s arm, and ran after ... ... taken. “She was of this very town,” Holt said, and took Esmond to see the street where her father lived, and where, as he be- lieved, she was born. “... ...day at St. James’s or at the Queen’s birthday; how many coaches filled the street at Mr. Harley’s levee; how many bottles he had had the honor to drin...

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...aist. The massiveness of it surprised you. On my word it reminded one of a club. Her face was big, comely, of an unruffled expression. She had a good ... ...o my- self, and ran into the shade of a leprous wall. From that short side-street I could see the broad main thoroughfare ruinous and gay, running awa... ...e wind that inconveniences and humiliates you by blowing off your hat in a street full of people. He had no quarrel with me. Neither would a boulder, ...

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...flam’d with scornefull wrath and high disdaine, And lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All arm’d with ragged snubbes and knottie graine, Him thou... ...age stay, And shooting in the earth, casts vp a mount of clay. His boystrous club, so buried in the ground, He could not rearen vp againe so light, Bu... ... But that the knight him at auantage found, And whiles he stroue his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth, with blade all burning bright He smote... ...hich is through rage more strong then both were erst; With which his hideous club aloft he dites, And at his foe with furious rigour smites, That stro... ...l the way the ioyous people sings, And with their garments strowes the paued street: Whence mounting vp, they find purueyance meet Of all, that royall...

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...in’ t’ move t’ morrah—sure,” he said pompously to a group in the com- pany street. “We’re goin’ ‘way up the river, cut across, an’ come around in behi... ... CHAPTER V THERE WERE MOMENTS of waiting. The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spri... ...” he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as if he had been struck by a club in the stomach. He sat down and gazed ruefully. In his eyes there was ... ...some 70 The Red Badge of Courage feller had lammed yeh on th’ head with a club. It stopped a- bleedin’ long time ago. Th’ most about it is that in th...

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...her developed among the Zaporozhians. The hungry student running about the streets of Kief forced every one to be on his guard. Dealers sitting in the... ...low- roofed houses, buried in cherry orchards, peeping allur- ingly at the street. Sometimes he betook himself to the more aristocratic streets, in th... ...through timidity, when she recognised in him the one who had fallen in the street, laughter again overpowered her. Moreover, there was nothing terribl... ...ught him firmly by the foot; and the servants, assembling, beat him in the street, until his swift legs rescued him. After that it became very dangero... ... Having admired to his heart’s content, Bulba passed on through the narrow street, crowded with mechanics exercising their trades, and with people of ... ...to the whole Cossack community. He was bound to the pillar of shame, and a club was laid beside him, with which each passer-by was bound to deal him a... ... this dishonourable act they bound him to a post in the bazaar, and laid a club beside him, in order that every one who passed should, according to th... ...re was not one Zaporozhetz out of them all to be found who would raise the club against him, remembering his former ser- 100 Gogol vices. Such was th... ...eet. In the street all was still bright. Some petty shops, those permanent clubs of servants and all sorts of folk, were open. Others were shut, but, ...

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...es like a herd of black goats coming down from the mountains. The deserted streets lengthened; the palm-trees that topped the walls here and there wer... ...riving from the coun- try , rolled their wheels over the flagstones in the streets. Drom- edaries, baggage-laden, came down the ramps. Money-changers ... ...the people mounted the walls to see them go away. They defiled through the street of Khamon, and the Cirta gate, pell-mell, archers with hoplites, cap... ...d bronze helmets, all swung together with a single motion. They filled the street thickly enough to have made the walls crack, and the long mass of ar... ...pendius was small. One evening when they were passing together through the streets in the camp they perceived some men covered with white cloaks; amon... ...ooked at him with distrust, or yawned as they leaned on their brass-nailed clubs. The heed- less Gauls sneered as they shook their lofty heads of hair... ...n their bodies as possible. Some might be seen carrying an axe, a lance, a club, and two swords all at once; others bristled with darts like porcupine... ...all her limbs, like a victim at the altar’ s foot awaiting the blow of the club. Her temples were ringing, she could see fiery circles revolving, and ... ...e antelopes’ horns, bills fas- tened to the ends of ropes, iron triangles, clubs and bodkins. The Ethiopians from the Bambotus had little poisoned dar...

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...on- trasts. Ferragus Chief of the Devorants CHAPTER I MADAME JULES CERTAIN STREETS in Paris are as degraded as a man covered with infamy; also, there ... ... Paris are as degraded as a man covered with infamy; also, there are noble streets, streets simply re- spectable, young streets on the morality of whi... ...orality of which the public has not yet formed an opinion; also cut-throat streets, streets older than the age of the oldest dowagers, estimable stree... ...ets, streets older than the age of the oldest dowagers, estimable streets, streets always clean, streets always dirty, working, laboring, and mercanti... ...eets always clean, streets always dirty, working, laboring, and mercantile streets. In short, the streets of Paris have ev- ery human quality, and imp... ...a Parisian in wishing to burn his wife after the manner of the Romans. The clubs of Paris took up the subject, and talked for a while of the burials o...

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.... What had he to do, indeed? He did not care for cards; he did not go to a club. Spending the time with jovial gentlemen of Oblonsky’s type—she knew n... ... see her at eleven o’clock before going out. “I know you are dining at the club; papa put down your name. But what are you go- ing to do in the mornin... ...on the subject. He took part in the conversation that was continued in the street, as they all three walked to the buildings of the old university. Th... ...law , and finding Kitty in good spirits and quite well, Levin drove to the club. Chapter 7 Levin reached the club just at the right time. Members and ... ...bers and visitors were driving up as he arrived. Levin had not been at the club for a very long while—not since he lived in Moscow, when he was leavin... ...en he was leaving the university and going into society. He remembered the club, the external details of its arrangement, but he had completely forgot... ...nd unimpeachable good form. But as soon as the carriage drove out into the street, and he felt it jolting over the uneven road, heard the angry shout ... ...e to get away as soon as possible, went out on tiptoe and ran out into the street as though from a plague- stricken house. For a long while he chatted... ...er. She walked up and down in his study (the room where the noise from the street was least heard), and thought over every detail of their yesterday’s...

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...ition of some bygone decade will startle you into laughter as you walk the streets in bitterness of soul over the treason of one who was your friend i... ... demands the critical attention of an expert flaneur; while the man in the street who raises a laugh as soon as he comes in sight is bound to be one o... ...hat the 21 Balzac successful man blushes to meet. As he rolls through the streets of Paris in his carriage, it is not pleasant to see his boyhood’s c... ...l that Schmucke knew of the theatre was the under- ground passage from the street door to the orchestra. Some- times, however, during an interval, the... ...fetime. With its north aspect, the house looks gloomy enough seen from the street, but the back looks towards the south over the courtyard, with a rat... ...eeper’s shrewdness, and the studied carelessness of a member of the Jockey Club, was that form of disgust which set a pistol in the hands of a young W... ...on the sale of the pictures. La Cibot was right. The doctor and lawyer had clubbed together to buy a new suit of clothes in which Fraisier could decen...

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...at, where he mechanically thrust it. As he rushed out of the door into the street, he ran up against three young men who were passing arm-in-arm. “Bru... ...ee friendly exclamations quickly followed the in- sults, as the light of a street lamp, flickering in the wind, fell upon the astonished faces of the ... ...dark abysses of this strange landscape. Sometimes the feeble lights of the street lamps sent up yellow gleams through the fog, and in each street diml... ... understand this blithe simplicity in the midst of Paris, and saw that the street was a blind alley and but little frequented. I remem- bered that Jea... ... at Aix, returned from the promenade and met together in the salons of the Club. Raphael remained alone by a window for a long time. His back was turn... ...real nature too well. “His complaint is contagious.” “The president of the Club ought to forbid him to enter 206 The Magic Skin the salon.” “It is co... ...ove, their destined end. “Y our life is in danger, sir; do not come to the Club again!” she said, stepping back a pace or two from Raphael, as if her ... ...or a coward, and even diverted perhaps by the little drama, he went to the Club that very evening. He stood leaning against the marble chimney-piece, ... ...rself to the public good, and I beg that you will not show yourself in the Club again.” “This sort of joke has been perpetrated before, sir, in garri-...

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...s were: first, that on meeting Alexey Alexandrovitch the day before in the street he had noticed that he was cold and reserved with him, and putting t... ...together with Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev and Pestsov, who had reached the street door at the same moment. These were the two leading representatives ... ...t at the door. It was the gambler Myaskin, whom he knew, com- ing from the club. He walked gloomily, frowning and coughing. “Poor, unlucky fellow!” th... ... to get frozen. He closed the pane, washed, dressed, and went out into the street. Chapter 15 The streets were still empty. Levin went to the house of... ...corner of the house, if need be. He spent the remainder of the time in the street, incessantly looking at his watch and gazing about him. And what he ...

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...ersity friend, now professor of natural science, whom Levin had met in the street and insisted on taking home with 10 Anna Karenina – Part Five him, ... ...s. More than twenty carriages had already been drawn up in ranks along the street by the police. A police of- ficer, regardless of the frost, stood at... ...torture to her. On the day when in the drawing room of the house in Arbaty Street she had gone up to him in her brown dress, and given herself to him ... ...ked fixedly at Kitty. The doctor brought by Levin, and found by him at the club, was not the one who had been attending Nikolay Levin, as the patient ...

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...sburg, especially at sunset, in clear frosty weather, of course. The whole street suddenly glitters, bathed in brilliant light. All the houses seem su... ...ner’ s, I suddenly stood stock-still and began staring at that side of the street, as though I had a presentiment that something extra-ordinary was ju... ...happen to me ; and at that very instant I saw, on the opposite side of the street, the old man with his dog. I remember quite well that I felt an unpl... ...him to do there?” I wondered, standing still on the oppo- site side of the street and gazing fixedly at him. A sort of irritable vexation, the result ... ... never in my life met such a repulsive dog. When they both walked down the street, the master in front and the dog at his heels, its nose touched the ... ... into a fine dress-coat, or something like it, and take him to the English club and call him the great landowner, count Barabanov; he’ll pass for a co...

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... medical questions as the turning of gas light would act on a dim, oil lit street, showing new connections and hitherto hidden facts of structure whic... ...em at Houndsley on a drizzling afternoon, to get down at the Red Lion in a street shaded with coal dust, and dine in a room furnished with a dirt enam... ...o see it before dark. The friend’s stable had to be reached through a back street where you might as easily have been poisoned without expense of drug... ...might as easily have been poisoned without expense of drugs as in any grim street of that unsanitary period. Fred was not fortified against disgust by ... ...hreat in it too, for he reversed the stick so as to make the gold handle a club in case of closer fighting, and looked hard at Solomon’s bald head. “Th... ...by the name of Dollop’s— was the resort of a great Benefit Middlemarch 355 Club, which had some months before put to the vote whether its long standin... ...know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant’s club on your neatly carved argument for a social benefit which they do not f... ...nor after. Why, I’ve seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into t... ... All I say is, it’s a mercy they didn’t take this Doctor Lydgate on to our club. There’s many a mother’s child might ha’ rued it.” The heads of this d...

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...ld with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, i... ...age or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another. Passing beyond these more inti- mate groups, there is in ... ...formative influence on the active dispositions of its members. A clique, a club, a gang, a Fagin’s household of thieves, the prisoners in a jail, prov... ...nts into which he enters. One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a 27 John Dewey third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the ... ... he would if he were weak. But only by employing ball and racket, ball and club, sail and tiller, in definite ways does he become expert in any one of... ...ut household pursuits, the maintenance of health, the sights seen upon the streets, embody scientific achievements and stimulate interest in the conne...