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...l clear me: I know nothing about the knife being there, or the money being gone. Search me and my dwelling; you will find nothing but three pound five... ...hat which you have all seen me under, so that the thief must have come and gone while I was not in the body, but out of the body. But, I say again, se... ...k of keen reproach on him, and said, “William, for nine years that we have gone in and out together, have you ever known me tell a lie? But God will c... ... of the strong silken rope by which Nancy would have drawn him safe to the green banks where it was easy to step firmly, he had let himself be dragged... ...itton—he’s buying for Lord Cromleck—a fellow with a cast in his eye, and a green waist- coat. But I mean to stick to Wildfire: I shan’t get a better a... ...n all through the rest of the year, with red faces among the abundant dark-green boughs—faces prepared for a longer service than usual by an odorous b... ...ften the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the precious- ness of the fruit...

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...nd river; only there was a difference in the weeds and fishes, and the water itself was green instead of brown; but when the tide went out, in the bot... ...the Merry Men. I have heard it said that they run fifty feet high; but that must be the green water only, for the spray runs twice as high as that. Wh... ...or that which came with them. I would have liked better, under God’s pleasure, they had gone down into the sea, and the Merry Men were dancing on them... ...ir than ever I could win to un- derstand. He made the vales and the pastures, the bonny green yaird, the halesome, canty land – And now they shout and... ... been near it,’ said she. ‘What for would I go near it, Charlie lad? The poor souls are gone to their account long syne; and I would just have wished ... ... word or a look, following slowly after my impatient strides. The spring seemed to have gone out of his body, and he scrambled heavily up and down the... ...or behind him. Markheim stood and gazed at him with all his eyes. Per- haps there was a film upon his sight, but the outlines of the new comer seemed ... ...ady sunken in pearly greyness, and a great, pale moon came swinging skyward through the filmy poplars. The Doctor sang, the Doctor whistled, the Docto...

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... other way—at the foot of yonder dark precipice there, where the waves are green, and the white surge lifts and falls, and that little thread of water... ...on living—as the doctors, some of them, think. As a matter of fact, I have gone to one or two public men about it. But, so far, nothing has been done.... ...nto his skin above and below. And this strange bed was placed in a case of green- ish coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framewo... ...s, though a maximum and minimum thermometer was recognisable. The slightly greenish tint of the glass-like substance which surrounded him on every han... ...but the greenish transparent sub- stance that had filled it was altogether gone. A man in a deep violet robe, one of those who had been on the balcony... ...ward shouting in his ear and shaking his arm. And then suddenly Howard was gone and he stood alone. He perceived that the cries of “The Sleeper” grew ... ... for nearly two hundred feet of its length, and a sheet of the same glassy film that had enclosed Graham at his awak- ening had been drawn across the ... ...rose and passed overhead, rising to clear the mass of the Council House, a filmy translucent shape with the solitary aeronaut peering down through its... ...ies of air-sickness, were craning their black necks and staring to see the filmy city that was rising out of the haze, the rich and splendid city to w...

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... the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. Marquette ha... ...ion, Louis XIV . and Louis XV . had rotted and died, the French monarchy had gone down in the red tempest of the revolution, and Napoleon was a name t... .... We was always on the look out for it. But by and by, towards dawn, she was gone. When the day come we couldn’t see her any where, and we warn’t sor... ...rt of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly ... ...d and weather beaten look of an old traveler. Before the second day was half gone I experienced a joy which filled me with the purest gratitude; for I... ...Milliken’s Bend 1 2 37 Bailey’s 1 3 48 Lake Providence 1 5 47 Greenville 1 10 55 Napoleon 1 16 22 White River 1 16 56 Austr... ...at I was about; I started too early to bring the boat around, but detected a green gleam of joy in Brown’s eye, and corrected my mistake; I started ar...

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...arded the gift, she forgot to thank him for it. Many holidays had come and gone since that day, and Dick had grown into a lanky hobbledehoy more than ... ..., shading her eyes and looking out across the sailless sea. ‘I know it has gone out to the Marazion Bell-buoy,’ said Dick, with a chuckle. ‘Fire low a... ...oke separated her from Dick, and she was quite certain that the pistol had gone off in his face. Then she heard him sputter, and dropped on her knees ... ...rawing.’ He had just finished a Sunday visit to Maisie,—al- ways under the green eyes of the red-haired impres- sionist girl, whom he learned to hate ... .... There’s a waterfall in it three hundred feet high, just like a sliver of green jade laced with silver; and millions of wild bees live up in the rock... ...hat do you think of a big, red, dead city built of red sandstone, with raw green aloes growing between the stones, lying out neglected on honey-colour... ...ith white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to de- scribe the gray film in the studio. ‘We all want a little patching and repairing from time ... ...gued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blind- ness, all t... ...t it. It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pain...

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... earth goes by, with the labour and the ecstasy of man, disappears, and is gone into brilliance that hovers over- head, the radiant cold which waits t... ...thing down on the blue water, whilst the earth on the near side gave off a green-silver smoke of olive trees, coming up and around the earth-coloured ... ...ks partaking of the sky, tawny grass and scrub, browny- 24 D. H. Lawrence green spires of cypresses, and then the mist of grey-green olives fuming do... ...rail in the bluish sky, a frail moon had put forth, like a thin, scalloped film of ice floated out on the slow current of the coming night. And a bell... ...hat were very blue, reminding me of the eyes of the old woman. The day was gone, the twilight was gone, and the snow was invisible as I came down to t... ...ering body, wholly naked in the water of the lake. My little old woman was gone. She, all day-sunshine, would have none of the moon. Always she must l... ...ty of the darkness. But the fire is cold, as in the eyes of a cat, it is a green fire. It is fluid, electric. At its maximum it is the white ecstasy o... ...houses themselves. We were always level with the mountain-snow opposite. A film of pure blue was on the hills to the right and the left. There had bee...

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... V GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! T ... ...dlers be, infer. 29 XL THE thought beneath so slight a film Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the... ...es will wake them When April woods are red.” XI PIGMY seraphs gone astray, Velvet people from Vevay, Belles from some lost summer day, Be... ... Unbraiding in the sun,— When, stooping to secure it, It wrinkled, and was gone. Several of nature’s people I know, and they know me; I feel for them ... ... XXVI THERE came a wind like a bugle; It quivered through the grass, And a green chill upon the heat So ominous did pass We barred the windows and the... ...A troubadour upon the elm Betrays the solitude. New children play upon the green, New weary sleep below; And still the pensive spring returns, And sti... ... LX The grass so little has to do,— A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all ... ...89 The sweets of Pillage can be known 304 The thought beneath so slight a film 29 The treason of an accent 313 The way I read a letter’s this: 158...

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...he idea of Amelia’s departure; and, but for fear of her sister, would have gone off in downright hysterics, like the heiress (who paid double) of St. ... ...hs that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the m... ...the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lin- coln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some “des... ...y went, Joseph very red and blushing, Rebecca very modest, and holding her green eyes downwards. She was dressed in white, with bare shoulders as whit... ...I shan’t have time to do it here,” said Rebecca. ‘I’ll do it when—when I’m gone.” And she dropped her voice, and looked so sad and piteous, that every... ... turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him. The dawn is up—the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wan- derers... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y...

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...ter. In that clear space Almayer worked at his table not far from a little green painted door, by which always stood a Malay in a red sash and turban,... ...gularity of a machine. The string worked a punkah on the other side of the green door, where the so-called private office was, and where old Hudig—the... ...this sunny and smiling sea; others got discouraged; and for many years the green and peaceful-looking islands guarding the entrances to the promised l... ...nd he was no fool now. Circumstances had been against him; the fortune was gone, but hope remained. He shivered in the night air, and suddenly became ... ... the Pantai was lost in complete darkness, for the fire at the Rajah’s had gone out altogether; but up the Sambir reach his eye could follow the long ... ...ed— 35 Joseph Conrad “W as that Abdulla here?” “Y es,” said Almayer—”just gone.” “And what did he want, father?” “He wanted to buy you for Reshid,” a... ...ve no fear, O master of my life, the sea is ever true.” Over their heads a film of dark, thread-like clouds, looking like immense cobwebs drifting und...

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... intent on the advancing waters; ‘I see nothing afloat.’ The red light was gone, the shudder was gone, and his gaze, which had come back to the boat f... ...eering; forty, wavy-haired, dark, tending to corpulence, sly , mysterious, filmy—a kind of suf- ficiently well-looking veiled-prophet, not prophesying... ...outh. ‘Now, Mortimer,’ says Lady Tippins, rapping the sticks of her closed green fan upon the knuckles of her left hand— which is particularly rich in... ...palling Lady Tippins declares that if Another had survived, he should have gone down at the head of her list of lovers—and also when the mature young ... ... Sea, ain’t more beyond restoring to life. If Lazarus was only half as far gone, that was the greatest of all the miracles.’ ‘Halloa!’ cried Mortimer,... ...en Stomach and not Mind. If so, rum stomach. But to be sure there were rum everythings. Pity there was not a word of truth in that superstition about ... ...indoo, African, and British—the ‘human warious’, the French gentleman, the green glass-eyed cats, the dogs, the ducks, and all the rest of the collect... ...wn into a seat big enough for three of him, all covered with upholstery in green and white! And with two bay horses tossing their heads and stepping h... ...ing at the brazier, with her face leaning on her hand. There was a kind of film or flicker on her face, which at first he took to be the fitful fireli...

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... his arm— so long as it is not painted that abominable popular Swiss apple green—I would make it no occasion for quarrel! We have tramped and botanise... ...at other world! We should scarcely note the change. Not a cloud would have gone from the sky. It might be the remote town below would take a different... ...ed observation, might almost see as much, and the train, perhaps, would be gone out of the picture, and the embanked straightness of the Ticino in the... ...should have hints from the stone cabin in the nape of the pass—it would be gone or wonderfully changed— from the very goats upon the rocks, from the l... ...ognised and advertised throughout America; and tea, ex- cept for a kind of green tea best used with discretion in punch, tans the entrails and turns h... ...ue nightmare of sitting at a common table with an un- avoidable dustman in green and gold called Boffin,* fading out of my mind. Then I should start u... ...last triumph of realisation, but the swimming moment of opacity before the film gives way. To come to individual emotional cases, is to return to the ...

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...overing near, with miserable moan, The drooping mother wail’d her children gone. The mother last, as round the nest she flew, Seized by the beating wi... ...e, famed for silver doves; For flocks Erythræ, Glissa for the vine; Platea green, and Nysa the divine; And they whom Thebe’s well-built walls inclose,... ...oods, Where Ægilipa’s rugged sides are seen, Crocylia rocky, and Zacynthus green. These in twelve galleys with vermilion prores, Beneath his conduct s... ...tona, famous for her fleecy breed, And grassy Pteleon deck’d with cheerful greens, The bowers of Ceres, and the sylvan scenes. Sweet Pyrrhasus, with b... ... he march’d the brazen buckler rung. Now paused the battle (godlike Hector gone), 127 Where daring Glaucus and great Tydeus’ son Between both armies m... ...y car, and labours out his breath. Thus Asius’ steeds (their mighty master gone) Remain the prize of Nestor’s youthful son. Stabb’d at the sight, Deip... ...l mists. “But to nobler sights Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed.” “Paradise Lost,” xi. 411. 1...

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...is wife’s chin. For ten years he was always seen in the same little bottle-green coat with large white-metal buttons, and a black stock that accentuat... ...town, Had lovers at her feet. 33 Balzac For her three Toreadors had gone to death Or victory, the prize to be a kiss— One kiss from those r... ...rns as yellow as a quince when she is yellow at all—we have seen some turn green. When we have reached that point, we try to justify our nor- mal cond... ...d!” said Gravier, changing countenance. “ And Mon- sieur de la Baudraye is gone to La Charite!” “But why do you meddle in such matters?” said Bianchon... ... moment when one of the men- at-arms had spent two-thirds of his watch and gone into his box for shelter from the fog. Then, feeling sure that the cha... ...at once perceived—bronze kid boots, gray silk stockings, a muslin dress, a green silk scarf with shaded fringe at the ends, and a pretty black lace bo... ...lzac the cure. Madame Piedefer had no great difficulty now in removing the film from her daughter’s eyes. She sent for Monsieur de Clagny, who complet...

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... me by that long ribbon of water flowing in the sunshine between the grass-green banks, by the lines of the poplars adorning with their mobile laces t... ...e of rotten planks, the abutments swathed with flowers, and the hand-rails green with perennials and velvet mosses drooping to the river but not falli... ...out losing the charms of it. Below the house are the stables, coach-house, green-houses, and kitchen, the various openings to which form an arcade. Th... ...he watch-dog, a servant came to meet us, saying that Monsieur le comte had gone to Azay in the morning but would soon return, and that Ma- dame la com... ...est regret to save that of the child.” “Jacques is better, my dear; he has gone to sleep,” said a golden voice. Madame de Mortsauf suddenly appeared a... ... His cough is purely nervous; I have stilled it with a lozenge, and he has gone to sleep.” “Poor woman!” said her husband, taking her hand in his and ... ...ve her the viaticum. A few moments later her breathing became difficult; a film overspread her eyes, but soon they cleared again; she gave me a last l...

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...esh sand, led into a large court-yard paved with smooth square stones of a greenish color. On the left were the linen-rooms, kitchens, and servants’ h... ...treet door; so that a visitor entering the latter could see through to the greenery which draped the lower end of the garden. The front building, whic... ... cov- ered with stains, his waistcoat was unbuttoned, his cravat awry, his greenish coat ripped at the seams,—completing an array of signs, great and ... ...he soul was retreating from it; the structure remained, but the spirit was gone. Some- times the eyes were glassy, and seemed as if they had turned th... ... they had turned their gaze and were looking inward. When the children had gone to bed, and the silence and solitude oppressed her, Pepita would say, ... ...three short absences made by his wife. About half-past nine, when Jean had gone to bed, Marguerite returned to the parlor after helping her sister Fel... ...rlor, Balthazar’s eyes would fasten on the spot where his wife had died, a film of tears rolled like hot grains of sand across the arid pupils of his ...

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...ement 4 A Woman of Thirty without so much as ruffling the trimming of her green rep dress. No lover would have been so careful. The stranger could on... ...ich Napoleon’s Mameluke held by the bridle; the animal in its trappings of green velvet and gold stood almost under the arcade, some ten paces behind ... ...ristyle. And suddenly there appeared a short, somewhat stout fig- ure in a green uniform, white trousers, and riding boots; a man wearing on his head ... ...r from the Foreign Office had dragged him from Montpellier, whither he had gone on account of consumptive tendencies. He glanced at the Comte d’Aiglem... ...er aunt. Mme. de Listomere, with the gracious tact characteristic of a by- gone age, had respected her niece’s mood. When Mme. d’Aiglemont became cons... ...f the downfall of the Empire and the capitulation of Paris. He himself had gone over to the Bourbons, and all France was welcoming them back with tran... ...vitality had brought a light into her eyes, which sparkled through a moist film with that liquid brightness which gives such irresistible charm to the... ... insolent blaze, the colors were scarcely visible, and the smoke was but a film fluttering like a thin scarf in the noonday torrent of light and heat....

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...g. He looked again, straining his keen blue eyes, that had a touch of the Viking in them, through the shadowy pine trees as through a doorway, at the greengrassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, ...

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...iking in them, through the shadowy pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log brid... ...imeval, as when the Saxons came, so long ago. Ah, how he had loved it! The green garden path, the tufts of flowers, purple and white columbines, and g... ...urnt again into that old cot- tage, that was haunted already by so much by-gone, physical desire. You could not be in the dark room for an hour with- ... ... hour with- out the influences coming over you. The hot blood-desire of by-gone yeomen, there in this old den where they had lusted and bred for so ma... ...gs to be done, the house to be put into final repair after the workmen had gone, cushions and curtains to sew, the paths to make, the water to fetch a... ...ston of the gun sprang back, there was a sharp explosion, and a very faint film of smoke in the air. Then the other two guns fired, and there was a lu... ...n that shivers on the edge of the wild, gloomy country be- yond. There the green and creamy coloured tram-car seems to pause and purr with curious sat...

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...ok for the key that she knew she had already put into her pocket. A narrow greenish mirror with a gilt eagle over it hung on the 4 Summer passage wal... ...e of Eagle Range,” enjoyed the acquaintance of W ashington Irving and Fitz-Greene Halleck, and been cut off in his flower by a fever contracted in Ita... ...rth Dormer, and a distant Hatchard relative at Springfield. “If you’d only gone to school!” she sighed. She followed Charity to the door, and there, i... ... and she leaned against the window, indifferently. She was impatient to be gone to the library, to hunt for the book on North Dormer. “See here,” he s... ... line of vision a blackberry branch laid its frail white flowers and blue- green leaves against the sky. Just beyond, a tuft of sweet-fern uncurled be... ... to the storm the house looked singularly desolate. The paint was al- most gone from the clap-boards, the window-panes were bro- ken and patched with ... ...ornaments were in place, and the corners of one ceiling re- tained a light film of plaster tracery. Harney had found an old bench at the back door and...

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...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling water, like the voices of the sea and the wind, were as an outer memory to a contemplat...

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... an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smo... ...te to help it to swing open presently, he noticed, lying to rest under the green hedge by the towing-path astern of the Lock, a Bargeman. The water ro... ...that blood, guiltily shed, does. Turning back towards his Lock (he had not gone out of view of it), the Rogue pondered as deeply as it was within the ... ...lying with his right hand clenched in his sleep and his teeth set, until a film came over his own sight, and he slept too. He awoke to find that it wa... ...e, so little! And now I have found that—oh, my goodness! there’s the other gone next! Oh no, it isn’t, here it is!’ With that, always sobbing and sear... ... ‘Oh, how good of you! Oh, my gracious! there was something else, and it’s gone out of my head! Oh no, it isn’t, I remember what it was. My grandmamma... ...he parental roof-tree. Be- hold Bella and Pa aboard an early steamboat for Greenwich. Were they expected at Greenwich? Probably. At least, Mr John Rok...

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...t black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undi... ...eak House – Dickens Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among th... ...nwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of an cient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the ... ...mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere b... ... in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice topped, that makes a background for the falling rain. T... ...r, and the partridges and pheasants. The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, ... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing...