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...ickens monotony. ‘Pardon me!’ ‘I mean, my dear, it is the same thing as to space. As to space. If you have no space in which to put two youthful fello... ...otheosis. Pushing the gate, which stood ajar, Wegg looked into an enclosed space where certain tall dark mounds rose high against the sky, and where t... ...lly Fellowship Porters was a bar to soften the human breast. The available space in it was not much larger than a hackney-coach; but no one could have... ...er than a hackney-coach; but no one could have wished the bar bigger, that space was so girt in by corpulent little casks, and by cordial-bottles radi... ...as a monstrous imagination which he would on the spot have flourished into space. This perhaps in some sort arose from Mr Podsnap’s blushing young per... ... needn’t repeat ‘em,’ says Wegg, press- ing his hand. ‘But think how those stars steady me in the cause of the right against some that shall be namele... ...duett: “Deserted, as you will remember Mr V enus, by the waning moon, When stars, it will occur to you before I mention it, proclaim night’ s cheerles... ...er face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, ‘What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!’ the Secretary said ‘Yes,’ but seemed to p... ...!’ the Secretary said ‘Yes,’ but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of wind...

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...ught about himself, and the whole earth Of man the wonderful, and of the stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he th... ...anto One” 28 ‘T was, as the watchmen say, a cloudy night; No moon, no stars, the wind was low or loud By gusts, and many a sparkling hearth w... ...pleasantly, And if you had it o’er again— ‘t would pass— So thank your stars that matters are no worse, And read your Bible, sir, and mind you... ...y strove, although of no great use: There was no light in heaven but a few stars, The boats put off o’ercrowded with their crews; She gave a h... ...ost of them had little clothes but rags. They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; They did their... ... upon their passion could intrude, And all the stars that crowded the blue space Saw nothing happier than her glowing face. Alas! the love of wo... ... went down, the smoke rose up, as from A half unquench’d volcano, o’er a space Which well beseem’d the ‘Devil’s drawing room,’ As some have ... ...uch hazards rude. They ‘re right; our days are too brief for affording Space to dispute what no one ever could Decide, and every body one day ... ...eeming it a little hard he should In twelve hours’ time, and very little space, Have been obliged to slay a freeborn native In self defence: t...

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...wanderings. He had come to the place appointed for him—the silence and the space. After this, time stopped, and he, sitting at the mouth of the shrine... ... creature? The charcoal-burners looked round cautiously, and thanked their stars they had not; but they had no doubt that so brave a man as Buldeo wou... ... come they down, my broad-shouldered Jats—eight or nine together under the stars, bearing the dead man upon a bed. They are old men with gray beards, ... ...ves running water. I had fed that day, but there was yet a little unfilled space within me. Still, it was for sport and not for food that I rose at th... ...The underfed dogs snapped and growled in the passages, glaring at the cold stars, and snuffing into the bitter wind, night after night. When they stop... ...him to go north, and north they went under T uktuqdjung the Reindeer—those stars that we call the Great Bear. 109 Rudyard Kipling No European could h... ...ety black, changing to bands of Indian red on the horizon, where the great stars burned like street-lamps. From time to time a greenish wave of the No...

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...n deep soiled Phthia, the nurse of men; seeing there lieth between us long space of shadowy mountains and sounding sea; but thee, thou shameless one, ... ...these they laid upon the earth each close to each, and there was but small space between. And Hector sent two heralds to the city will all speed, to b... ...in to Ilios; and Hector son of Priam and goodly Odysseus first meted out a space, and then they took the lots, and shook them in a bronze bound helmet... ...greaved Achaians. Then took they their stand near together in the measured space, brandishing their spears in wrath each against other. First Alexandr... ... of men that walk upon the earth.” So said he, and Tydeides shrank a short space backwards, to avoid the wrath of Apollo the Far darter. Then Apollo s... ...ttle, and their watchfires burned in multitude. Even as when in heaven the stars about the bright moon shine clear to see, when the air is windless, a... ...dlands and glades, and from heaven breaketh open the infinite air, and all stars are seen, and the shepherd’s heart is glad; even in like multitude be... ... us be going, for truly the night is waning, and near is the dawn, and the stars have gone on ward, and the night has advanced more than two watches,... ...orth at harvest time, and plain seen his rays shine forth amid the host of stars in the darkness of night, the star whose name men call Orion’s Dog. B...

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... hogshead of ale was abroach under an oak, and a fire was blazing in an open space before the trees to roast the fat deer which the foresters brought.... ...and the beech are its colonnade and its canopy: the sun and the moon and the stars are its everlasting lamps: the grass, and the daisy, and the primro... ... eyes of Marian, as she passed him, encountered his, and the images of those stars of beauty continued involuntarily twinkling in his senso rium to t... ...ringing up the rear, much marvelling at the strange com pany into which his stars had thrown him. Their path had expanded sufficiently to allow the k...

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...ses of white foam, which the tempest seemed to snatch at and whirl away into space. Here and there a fishing boat, with a rag of sail, running madly f... ...ty as the air.” And as he spoke he took the knife and drove it savagely into space. Then he went on, “But It is here, and I’ll find It. It is in the h... ...e quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack luster eyes. I thought I would find out if his apathy w... ...silence of the night when sleep is not, ‘It was my hand that sent her to the stars. It was the hand of him that loved her best, the hand that of all s... ...we ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door. He can, when once he find his way, come out from ... ...ng effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enl... ...owing on us, and we saw a whole mass of phosphorescence, which twinkled like stars. We all instinctively drew back. The whole place was becoming aliv... ...ust work tomorrow!” He said the latter words through his shut teeth. For a space of perhaps a couple of minutes there was si lence, and I could fan... ...one,” she said, with such spiritual inten sity that her eyes were like pole stars, “it is I who wish it. And it is not for myself. You can ask Dr. V...

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...ing party. First, however, his preparations for that function occu- pied a space of over two hours, and necessitated an at- tention to his toilet of a... ...nirs. This portion of the box could be taken out, and below it were both a space for manuscripts and a secret money- box—the latter made to draw out f... ...g from line to line as though he regretted that there was so little vacant space left on the sheet. “And do you happen to know any one to whom a few r... ...nly fields and steppes. Every- where in the ascendant is the desolation of space. But suddenly the ciphers on a verst stone leap to the eye! Morning i... ...had been such that a fly could be heard buzz- ing on the wing, and for the space of a whole year not a single pupil sneezed or coughed in class, and s... ...ny and the glass door opening out into the garden—a door through which the stars could be seen glittering amid the slumbering tops of the trees—Chichi... ...pring night which, laying its elbows upon the tree-tops, and spangled with stars, and vocal with the nightingales which were pouring forth warbled dit...

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...hood came up to the great outer court of the castle, where there was ample space for sports and military exercises, shooting with the long and cross b... ... before them, as the trees seemed to retreat, so as to unfold a wide level space, further enclosed by brilliant tap- estry hangings, their scarlet, bl... ...eaknesses, only worthy of an old Ab- bot, but he went his own way, and the space within the walls of his castle at Nanci was lovely with bright spring... ...in- dows, to which Eleanor climbed up, but she could see noth- ing but the stars. ‘Ah! yonder is the Plough, just as when we looked out at it at Dunba... ...stle, and Sir Patrick could not sound him till the morning; but for a long space after the two sisters had laid their heads on the pillow Jean was tos...

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...sti- tutes the zenith of human fortune. Louis XIV absorbed all the smaller stars of his court in his own vast radiance; but his father, a sun pluribus... ...eth and ready for anything. On one of those immense staircases, upon whose space modern civi- lization would build a whole house. Ascended and descend... ...was D’Artagnan thinking, that he strayed thus from his path, gazing at the stars of heaven, and sometimes sighing, sometimes smiling? He was thinking ... ...ture amours, addressing himself to the beautiful night, and smiling at the stars, re- scinded the Rue Cherish-Midi, or Chase-Midi, as it was then call... ...erior of the court, the duke and the young woman followed the wall for the space of about twenty- five steps. This space passed, Mme. Bonacieux pushed... ... slept—a vast void from which glittered a few luminous points, the funeral stars of that hell! But for D’Artagnan all aspects were clothed happily, al... ...h this thought is the dream. By its influence, time has no longer measure, space has no longer distance. We depart from one place, and arrive at anoth... ...or my faith.” The look of Felton revealed to Milady the full extent of the space she had opened for herself by this single word. The young officer, ho... ... the sleep from which I could not rouse myself. I had vague perceptions of space traversed, of the rolling of a carriage, of a horrible dream in which...

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...f running, was seized with fright at being left alone in this vast unknown space, cried after her and made a rush, soon ending in sobbing breath. At l... ...ken quite as long as the G.F .S. class, and before Constance had cleared a space on the table for Dolores’s letter, there was a summons to say that Gi... ... to me only last Sunday.’ ‘Do you think it had just risen?’ ‘Of course the stars rise when the sun sets.’ Gillian could hardly move for laughing. ‘My ... ...r Dolores, you to be daughter to a scientific man! Don’t you know that the stars are in the sky, going on all the time, only we can’t see them till th... ...the passages and from among the people waiting or gazing, into the clearer space in the street, her father holding her hand as if she had been a littl...

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...r, has just seen your daughter for the first time in his life, and for the space of five minutes, Monsieur le Baron,” Hortense calmly re- plied. “Yest... ...e old friends now fallen from the political firmament, like ex- tinguished stars, and then, as he grew old, was captured by 88 Cousin Betty Jenny Cad... ...tty, innocent face, a dazzling white skin, teeth like a puppy’s, eyes like stars, a beautiful forehead—and tiny feet, I never saw the like, they are n... ... yet keep up a good appear- ance, as beseemed a pleader of note. The great stars of the law-courts were rapidly disappearing; and Victorin Hulot, gift... ...p of true luxury—the luxury of the fine gentlemen of the day, the shooting stars of the Paris firmament. As she examined the flower-stands, filled wit... ...Marneffe, Crevel’s woman? I tell you what, my dear sir, you may bless your stars instead of cursing them. She is a good-for-nothing baggage, is that l...

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...ing this matter, which, if it were allowed to take in Esmond’s journal the space it occupied in his time, would weary his kinsmen and women of a hundr... ...manner. He had come in his chair from the palace hard by, and wore his two stars of the Garter and the Thistle. “Look, my Lord Duke,” says Mistress Be...

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...annot possibly be here done. 11 Charles Darwin I much regret that want of space prevents my hav- ing the satisfaction of acknowledging the generous a... ...e; in the eleventh and twelfth, their geographical distribution throughout space; in the thirteenth, their classification or mu- tual affinities, both... ...ething quite plastic, which they can model almost as they please. If I had space I could quote numerous passages to this effect from highly competent ... ...n the Origin of Species distant hill-tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multi... ..., ei- ther by the males alone, or by the males and females; but I have not space here to enter on this subject. Thus it is, as I believe, that when th... ...s. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations. The existence of groups would have been of simple ...

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... Of all things; and then, The rest of immortals, The action of men. The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in... ...m, Where many a splendour finds its tomb, Many spent fames and fallen mights— The one or two immortal lights Rise slowly up into the sky To shine ther... ...In joy, and when I will, I sleep. Yet that severe, that earnest air, I saw, I felt it once—but where? “I knew not yet the gauge of time, Nor... ...necessity? 21 Selected Poems “Or in mid-heaven, perhaps, your golden cars, Where earthly voice climbs never, wing their flight, And in wild hunt, t... ...on star-shot ray, Hemm’d by two banks of cloud, peers pale and weak, Now, as the barrier closes, dies away— Even so do past and future intertwine, Blo... ... a guilty man Who wrestles with his dream; as some pale shape Gliding half hidden through the dusky stems, Would thrust a hand before the lifted bowl,... ...’d from chamber, church, and tent; And Christ was by to save. “Now he is dead! Far hence he lies In the lorn Syrian town; And on his grave, with shi... ... the City of God. Shakespeare Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loft... ...ut, while we wait, allow our tears! Allow them! We admire with awe The exulting thunder of your race; You give the universe your law, You ...

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...revented some mis takes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and differen... ...t on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other’s masquerade. Every generation laughs at... ... limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him. He was at first bare and out of doors; but though... .... The ice in the pond was not yet dis solved, though there were some open spaces, and it was all dark colored and saturated with water. There were so... ...emains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I h... ...r behind or above the fleeting spoken lan guage as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. There are the stars, and they who can may read ... ...at poets can read them. They have only been read as the multitude read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically. Most men have learned to... ...ay sixty rods off by the scent of his pipe. There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. The thick wood is... ...pted to reply to such This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of ...

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...s a bit more furniture, just to take the edge off the sense of illimitable space, eternity, and a future state, and the like, that is brought home to ... ...about the room, smokes cigarettes, occupies divers chairs for divers brief spaces, and casts his huge arms to the four winds like the sails of a mill.... ...s is broken by the outline of many tumultu- ous tree-clumps; and the broad spaces of moorland are balanced by a network of deep hedgerows that might r... ...mn and strange. Once, through a broken gorge, we had a glimpse of a little space of mackerel sky, moon-litten, on the other side of the hill; the brok... ...ack, and incredibly bright in the midst of a faint grey sky set with faint stars: a very inartistic moon, that would have damned a picture. At the mos... ...has a flavour of its own, though, which I may try and catch, if I find the space, in the proposed ar- ticle. ‘Will o’ the Mill’ I sent, red hot, to St... ...y, to my growing wonder. ‘The moon by night thee shall not smite.’ And the stars are all doing as well as can be expected. The air of Arcady is very b... ...ad of sticking to your muttons, and comparing with the mysterious light of stars the plain, friendly, per- spicuous, human day? But this is to be a be... ...e press; it was so written. ‘Twinkled’ is just the error; to the child the stars appear to be there; any word that suggests illusion is a horror. 231...

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...on that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. “His conversation was at times almost supramortal in its elo- quence... ...oud already mentioned, was seen slowly to emerge into an open area of blue space, a queer, heterogeneous, but apparently solid substance, so oddly sha... ...iterranean sea, dot- ted with shining islands as the heaven is dotted with stars, spread itself out to the eastward as far as my vision extended, unti... ...es of the mighty cataract. Overhead, the sky was of a jetty black, and the stars were brilliantly visible. “The pigeons about this time seeming to und... ...tmosphere proper for all the purposes of respiration. But in so confined a space it would, in a short time, necessarily become foul, and unfit for use... ...ear the limb.* “Cassini frequently observed Saturn, Jupiter, and the fixed stars, when approaching the moon to occultation, to have their circular fig... ...ave but to divide the distance by the magnifying or, more strictly, by the space-penetrating power of the glass. Mr. L. makes his lens have a power of... ...ly, in proportion to the increase of size in the lens, and consequently of space-penetrating power, is the diminu- tion of light from the object, by d... ...eet. Legrand immedi- ately took the scythe, and cleared with it a circular space, three or four yards in diameter, just beneath the insect, and, havin...

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...o leave the wakes. As she crossed the open ground in front of the Moon and Stars she heard men shouting, and smelled the beer, and hurried a little, t... ...n?” he asked. “No,” said the mother. “He’s helping to wait at the Moon and Stars. I seed him through that black tin stuff wi’ holes in, on the window,... ...pleased with himself, because of his day’s helping to wait in the Moon and Stars. He chattered on. Mrs. Morel, very tired, and sick of his babble, wen... ...e from the Bottoms, they mounted gaily into the morn- ing. At the Moon and Stars they had their first drink, then on to the Old Spot. Then a long five... ...cross a corner of the meadow to the cricket-ground. The meadows seemed one space of ripe, evening light, whispering with the dis- tant mill-race. She ... ...the glistening sky, leaving a soft flower-blue overhead, while the western space went red, as if all the fire had swum down there, leaving the bell ca... ... Then they went to bed. Their mother sat sewing below. Having such a great space in front of the house gave the children a feeling of night, of vastne... ...p- post, which stood at the end of the field path. If the little, luminous space were deserted, the two boys felt genuine desolation. They stood with ... ...ith anxiety. The ash tree moaned outside in a cold, raw wind. And all that space of night from London home! Mrs. Morel suffered. The slight click of t...

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...ontains about 27,000 people, and for that popu- lation covers a very large space of ground. The streets are broad and well built, the main streets not... ...de; and men, rushing out from the crowded cities, will find here food, and space, and wealth. For myself, I never remain long in such a spot without f... ...in the upper province. But Kingstown was found to be inconvenient, lacking space and accommodation for those who had to follow the government, and the... ... required, seeing that they would be left nearly empty for every alternate space of four years. Indeed, it needs but little argument to prove that the... ..., forming three sides of a quadrangle; but they are not joined, the vacant spaces at the corner being of considerable extent. The fourth side of the q... ...ashing and crushing of those who had rebelled against the authority of the stars and stripes. When we were at Dixon they were getting up the De- ment ...

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...g bit of color, considering the owner’s reputation. On the one side of the space stood the kitchen, on the other the woodshed, and in a ramshackle pen... ...m and lobby; it was exactly the same length as the passage below, less the space taken up by the old-fashioned wooden staircase; and 10 Two Poets was... ...shioned low chair, and a work-table by the window; there was about as much space as there is in a ship’s cabin, and the door always stood open for the... ...ing else to say. As his eyes wandered over the gray painted joists and the spaces of plaster between, he saw, not without qualms, that the little chan... ...nd Fingals and cloudy shapes, and warriors who got out of their tombs with stars above their heads. Nowadays this po- etical frippery has been replace... ...people are begin- ning to prefer small pictures because they have not wall space enough for large ones. Well, the shirts and the books will not last, ...