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...ou have not read her,” said Richard. “She is incomparably the greatest fe- male writer we possess.” “She is the greatest,” he continued, “and for this... ...n’s feet she went on turning the pages and reading biographies of bankers, writers, clergymen, sailors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, edi... ...it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...she could not widen her point of view to believe that there could be great writers in existence at the present day, or if there were, that any one she... ...alise, the nature of the gulf which separates the needs and desires of the male from the needs and desires of the female… . At first they had been ver... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...ered by a most intelli- gent master. I remarked in it, an instance of the collateral harm that obstinate vanity and folly can do. ‘This was the Hall w... ... waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of ... ...es meet in ‘um middle, FOUR gents goes round ‘um ladies, Four gents passes out under ‘um ladies’ arms, swing—and Lemonade till ‘a moosic can’t play no... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange... ...iet grove of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end... ... with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean battles, now doing duty as Mexican victories. The change was neatly ef- fected by so...

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...and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a s... ...d incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; ... ...o a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it was in itself acco... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward... ...compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me. One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their sub- ject, though it may seem but an...

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...souls in three departments of France is enough to revive the enthusiasm of writers as to the Furia Francese, which nowadays is more apt to expend itse... ...onor as a journalist, I have launched above a hundred articles against the writers you speak of; but I confess that in attacking them it was to attemp... ...h a tragedy. It was told me—and how delight- fully!—by one of our greatest writers, the finest literary mu- sician of our day, Charles Nodier.” “Well,... ... public knowl- edge in the matter of literature,” said Bianchon. “Like the Russians, beaten by Charles XII., who at least learned the art of war, the ... ... of view. “That book, my dear, is of both sexes.—We agreed that books were male or female, dark or fair. In Adolphe women see nothing but Ellenore; yo...

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...er, a kind of mysterious nim- bus as the principal or one of the principal writers in the Times, which gave an interesting chiaroscuro to his char- ac... ...ng, and a power of serious eloquence, far beyond that of any of these four writers; and to which indeed there is nothing at all comparable in any of t... ... German Literature, very slight at this time, limited itself altogether to writers on Church mat- ters,—Evidences, Counter-Evidences, Theologies and R... ...er-in-law; wed- ded Mrs. Sterling’s younger sister,—a gentle excellent fe- male soul; by whom the relation was, in many ways, strengthened and beautif... ...t kinds; and three or four hundred English ladies, and not so many foreign male spectators; so that the place looked empty. The Cardinals in scarlet, ... ...hung the whole way with a deep canvas pocket full of this mortal shot. One Russian Grand Duke goes with a troop of young- sters in a wagon, all dresse... .... ’—The favorite device on the walls at Naples is a vermilion Picture of a Male and Female Soul respec- tively up to the waist (the waist of a soul) i...

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... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...ility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one might look at the chains of a slave. You imagine... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter...

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...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th...

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.... That’s the case with every man up here who is at work. I don’t suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and ... ...know the Waddy? who is almost as big a dowd. The Waddy also abominates the male Bent, for which, if her other sins do not weigh too heavily, she will ... ...g the Waddy,’ returned Mrs. Hauksbee loftily. ‘The Waddy will take the fe- male Bent apart, after having borrowed yes! ev- erything that she can, from... ...’s one of the little drawbacks of caste, which some of your recent English writers find an impeccable system.” The wood-carver was glad to be recalled... ...tiop business and by the importance we have bestowed on lawyers, pleaders, writers, and the like, who have, up to now, been in abject submission to th...

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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...ts bonds, and hung upon her neck; for which instance of its waywardness no male observer would have had the heart to blame it. Her attire was that of ... ...etter homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. The colonel led the way into a room at the back of the house ...

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... of light music.” “I did not hear it,” declared the new-comer, in very bad Russian, and exchanging greetings with every one, he stood awkwardly in the... ... did like it very much really.” Lemm stopped. “It’s no matter,” he said in Russian, and then added in his 21 own language, “but he cannot understand ... ... Christopher Fedoritch,” Lisa said again. “It’s no matter,” he repeated in Russian, “you’re a good girl . . . but here is some one coming to see you. ... ...and not only of them alone, of Rousseau too, and Helvetius, and many other writers of the same kind—but they were in his head only. The retired abbe a... ...l, it’s for you to straighten yourself! What’s the good of being a man, a male animal? And however that may be, is it possible, is it permissible, to...

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... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ...re. You know—if you want freedom. Just an idea of mine. You know how those Russian students do? In Russia. Just a formal marriage. Mere formality. Lib... ... manded all her time and energy. She had heard of women journalists, women writers, and so forth; but she was not even admitted to the presence of the... ...st part these were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men in employment, a very large proportion of girls and wome...

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...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ounted on his fingers eight residual natives. Or take the valley of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Ha... ...remarkably chaste visitors from Europe. Take the Hawaiian account of Cook: I have no doubt it is entirely fair. Take Krusenstern’s candid, almost inno... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...e bell agoing in the small belfry; and the faithful, who were not very numerous, gathered to prayers. I was once present: it was the Lord’s day, and s...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten days to one small iron ... ...ccordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with gen... ...as entertainment in the man’s demeanour. You might call him a half-educated Irish Tigg. Our Russian made a remarkable contrast to this impos- sible fe... ... a great chorus of grateful voices have arisen to spread abroad its fame. Half the fa- mous writers of modern France have had their word to say about ...

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...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...ly into her own bed chamber. In another part of the building, there was a male pa tient in bed; very much flushed and heated. ‘Well,’ said he, start... ... The first was dressed like a very shabby English baker; the second like a Russian peasant: for he wore a loose purple camlet robe, with a fur collar,... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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... Hartmann, as it yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the ... ...w, as then, the female habiliment was distinguished from the corresponding male one by its greater length; and through all antiquity we find long clot... ...ion. Neck- laces were, from the earliest times, a favorite ornament of the male sex in the East; and expressed the dignity of the wearer, as we see in... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...ia not merely by the bond of a common church, but also by blood, since the Russian people is the supreme branch of the Sclavonic race. This is the fir...

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... betray Boleslaus, king of Poland, either by killing him, or by giving the Russians opportunity to do him some notable mischief. This worthy went ably... ... his master’s absence, he betrayed Vislicza, a great and rich city, to the Russians, which was entirely sacked and burned, and not only all the inhabi... ...hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you as they do condemned malefactors in execu- tions of justice, an office as necessary as dishonour... ...edge: “Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit.” [“By malev... ...r eyes, a conscious blush covers her face.”—Catullus, lxv. 19.] I say that males and females are cast in the same mould, and that, education and usage... ...im on a par with Marius and Sylla, excepting that he was more close. Other writers have not acquitted his intention in the government of affairs from ...

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...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the...

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.... While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp’s eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one ... ...ained the day in love-affairs, I suspect you’d run a good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, ... ...d. ‘Pretty nigh, William.’ ‘That’s our curse, Greg. Money settled on their male issue, and money in hand; by the Lord! we’ve always had the look of a ... ..., ‘S’il nest pas tant sort peu impertinent?’ The advance of some German or Russian nobleman spared me further efforts. We were on shore, listening to ... ...tingly. The situation was exactly of a sort for one of his German phantasy-writers to image the forest jeering at him as he flew, blind, deaf, and unr... ... close of the aristocratic season there, he renewed an acquaintance with a Russian lady, Count- ess Kornikoff, and he and I parted. She disliked the M...

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...white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted be- neath ... ...inner, the sense of being women together coming out most strongly when the male sex was, as if by some religious rite, se- cluded from the female. Kat... ...ht of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the figures of great writers and illumined their pages was no false radiance in her case. She ca... ... his, and to be certain that he spared her female judgment no ounce of his male muscularity. He seemed to argue as fiercely with her as if she were hi... ...ce’!” she echoed, in a tone of derision. “I confess I don’t understand the Russians.” “Shake hands! Shake hands!” boomed Uncle Aubrey from across the ... ...air in the course of her conversation; she was dressed more or less like a Russian peasant girl. She sat down again in a chair which looked as if it h... ...nham’s unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight q...

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...have not lost the sense of the value for me, at the time, of the admirable Russian’s testimony to my not needing, all superstitiously, to try and perf... ... Stevenson, has preferred to leave the task unattempted. There are in fact writers as to whom we make out that their refuge from this is to assume it ... ...n short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especially the male; make it an interest contributive only to the greater one. See, at all... ...s for three months at Neufchatel with a French bonne who had eloped with a Russian nobleman staying at the same 48 The Portrait of a Lady hotel—even ... ...own by return of post: she’s tremendously fond of distinguished people and writers. She writes herself, you know; but I haven’t read everything she ha... ...d stopped at the hotel by chance), after their bonne had gone off with the Russian prince and when Mr. Archer’s whereabouts remained for some days a m... ...ained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cos- metic and who had a bonne a... ... deplorable degree the quality known and esteemed in the appearance of fe- males as style; and that if she is dressed with great fresh- ness she wears...