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...er than I, but I think I have read that they did so, once upon a time, and that ‘when they had sung an hymn,’ Some one (not in a beautiful garment) we... ... of St. Luke’s Hospital in the Old-street-road, London. The Forty Thieves might be played here, and every thief ride his real horse, and the dis- guis... ...ed!’ ‘Half speed!’ ‘Port!’ ‘Port!’ ‘Steady!’ ‘Steady!’ ‘Go on!’ ‘Go on!’ A stout wooden wedge driven in at my right temple and out at my left, a float... ...in, to attach a few pounds of wood to one’s under lip, to stick fish-bones in one’s ears and a brass cur- tain-ring in one’s nose, and to rub one’s bo... ...gs in an open cupboard, also on the floor. In a corner of the room was a crazy old French bed-stead, with a man lying on his back upon it in a ragged ... ...g often tested this theory of mine, Bullfinch resigned himself to the worst, when, laying aside any remaining veil of disguise, I held up before him i...

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...was dead almost before it was perceived that he was ill; there was no more oil in the lamp. I learned this sad news after seeing the King to bed; his ... ...usual gravity, laughed and joked very much with Madame la Duchesse, eating olives with her in sport, and 75 Saint-Simon thereby causing her to drink ... ...them. The second frost ruined every- thing. There were no walnut-trees, no olive-trees, no apple- trees, no vines left, none worth speaking of, at lea... ... the resolution, suspecting him not to be a gentleman, upon seeing him eat olives with a fork! When in gaol he confessed who he was. He was not new at...

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...hem to Apollo of his suppliant’s badge, which was a bough of a consecrated olive tree, with white wool tied about it. Having thus performed his devoti... ...h it, and ate it all up together. Hence, also, they carry in procession an olive branch bound about with wool (such as they then made use of in their ... ...sione bring figs, and Eiresione bring loaves; Bring us honey in pints, and oil to rub on our bodies, And a strong flagon of wine, for all to go mellow... ...ster of the family, and twelve for his wife, with a suitable proportion of oil and wine. And this he thought sufficient to keep their bodies in good h... ...to put noth- ing into the ground with them, except, if they pleased, a few olive leaves, and the scarlet cloth that they were wrapped in. He would not... ...small quantity of victuals, such as bread, water, a pail of milk, and some oil; that so that body which had been consecrated and devoted to the most s... ...cian traded; and that Plato defrayed the charges of his travels by selling oil in Egypt. Solon’s softness and profuseness, his popu- lar rather than p... ...fers of large gifts and privileges, requested but one branch of the sacred olive, and, on that being granted, returned. The Athenians, now the Cylonia... ...not to set it within five feet of his neighbor’s field; but if a fig or an olive, not within nine; for their roots spread farther, nor can they be pla...

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...ives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, who purrs and knows stories; and the skitamarigg, who will play ... ...tone. Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim stor- age-tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinkin... ...ll when they had some- thing to talk about—lemons or cotton voile or floor-oil. With that skip-jack Dave Dyer, the druggist, she conducted a long mock... ...ributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel’s-food cake. There was, even in 93 Sinclai... ...onforming Gopher Prairie circles, a cer- tain option as to collations. The olives need not be stuffed. Doughnuts were in some houses well thought of a... ...s—the railroad-yards with a freight-train switch- ing, the wheat-elevator, oil-tanks, a slaughter-house with blood-marks on the snow, the creamery wit... ...nd prairie. There were small stuffy corn-fields and brick-yards and greasy oil-wells. “I went to a denominational college and learned that since dicta... ...plintered packing-boxes, shreds of excelsior, crumpled straw-board, broken olive-bottles, rot- ten fruit, and utterly disintegrated vegetables: orange...

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..., wood, or earth; my meat be boiled or roasted; let them give me butter or oil, of nuts or olives, hot or cold, ’tis all one to me; and so indifferent... ...; my meat be boiled or roasted; let them give me butter or oil, of nuts or olives, hot or cold, ’tis all one to me; and so indifferent, that growing o...

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...ruffles; they inspected my lunch-bas- ket, and finding nothing better than Olivet cheese or dried fruits, they plagued me with questions: “Is that all... ...rehemont, also those about Amboise and Vouvray, were not bearing. Wal- nut oil is in great demand in T ouraine. Jacques might get at least forty sous ... ...or that glorious soul. She is passing through her struggle on the Mount of Olives; her tears bathe the white roses of her crown as they fall, one by o...

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...id not even feel. She passed the night thus. The lamp went out for want of oil, but she paid no heed to the darkness, and dawn came, but she knew not ... ....” “l separated the fat from the meat served to me, melted it, and so made oil — here is my lamp.” So saying, the abbe exhibited a sort of torch very ... ...s, chirped with a monoto- nous and dull note; the leaves of the myrtle and olive trees waved and rustled in the wind. At every step that Edmond took h... ...rge enough to insert the arm was opened. Dantes went and cut the strongest olive-tree he could find, stripped off its branches, inserted it in the hol... ...ite to the main intrance reserved for the reception of guests. A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their wither... ...nd everything served him for a mark — the trunk of some old and moss-grown olive-tree, that grew on the Sabine mountains; the fox, as he quitted his e... ...d. Our expedition lasted nearly six weeks; we had been to Lucca to take in oil, to Leghorn for En- glish cottons, and we ran our cargo without opposit... ... through the rule, so climbing over the garden- hedge, I crept amongst the olive and wild fig trees, and fearing that Caderousse might have some guest...

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...other coun- tries; let him remember the enclosures of France, the vine and olive terraces of Tuscany, or the narrowly-watched fields of Lombardy; the ...

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... every hand rose the strange aromas of the East—sandalwood, punk, incense, oil, and the smell of mysterious cookery. “Chinatown!” exclaimed Travis. “I... ...—sandwiches of what Condy called “devilish” ham, hard-boiled eggs, stuffed olives, and a bottle of claret. Condy took off his coat and made a great sh... ...had a lunch tasted so delicious. What if the wine was warm and the stuffed olives oily? What if the pepper for the hard-boiled eggs had sifted all ove... ...claret, then “devilish” ham sandwiches in oiled paper, a bottle of stuffed olives, a great bag of salted almonds, two little tumblers, a paper-covered... ...hought of a lunch—you said it was shoes—and you remembered I loved stuffed olives, too; and a book to read. What is it—’The Seven Seas.’ No, I never W...

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...sles of Riaran, the Precinct of Seville, the Little Market of Segovia, the Olivera of Valencia, the Rondilla of Granada, the Strand of San Lucar, the ... ...r called “Palmerin of England,” seeing which the licentiate said, “Let the Olive be made firewood of at once and burned until no ashes even are left; ... ... this year you may sow pulse and not barley; the next there will be a full oil crop, and the three following not a drop will be got.’” “That science i... ...f that discord shall be heard Where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks Of olive-bordered Betis; to the rocks Or in deep caverns shall my plaint be to... ... a sorry-looking individual, lost his temper, and raising the lamp full of oil, smote Don Quixote such a blow with it on the head that he gave him a b... ...st, and call the alcaide of this fortress, and get him to give me a little oil, wine, salt, and rosemary to make the salutiferous balsam, for indeed I... ...oever you are, do us the favour and kindness to give us a little rosemary, oil, salt, and wine, for it is wanted to cure one of the best knights- erra... ...s other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances with the wat... ...ngues say she is with child by him, but he denies it stoutly. There are no olives this year, and there is not a drop of vinegar to be had in the whole...

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...on star, Conjur’d and charm’d and kindled well By pure oil’s soft and guileless spell, Hid now no more Within ... ... And loud therein the voice of utter wail! Within one cup pour vinegar and oil, And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war. So in the twofold issue of ... ...soul. For lo! I see a herald from the shore Draw hither, shadowed with the olive wreath— And thirsty dust, twin brother of the clay, Speaks plain of t...

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...“up to something,” and connecting him with the anointing of the coils with oil that had rotted the varnish in one place, he issued an edict, shouted a... ... that drive vividly, the swift, easy motion, the vivid contrast of gas and oil and electric light, the crowds of people in the streets, the place in R... ...ressed waiter’s glances at my rough clothes, bothered by the stones of the olives, but as the champagne warmed my blood, my confidence revived. At fir... ...hat was probably some fragment of the drowned man. In a moment the copious olive-green ribbons had poured again over this writhing group. At that all ... ...and his landlady pointed out that she really could not supply so much lamp oil at the price. He walked to and fro from the College with little slips o... ...pulse the three men left the trail, and rode to a little eminence set with olive-dun trees, and there halted, the two others, as became them, a little...

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...e name of Actius * and Embasius, and quickly spread above it logs of dried olive wood. Meantime the herds men of Aeson’s son had driven before them f... ...ark cloak of double fold with its clasps and the knotted crook of mountain olive which he carried. Then straightway they looked and chose close by a s... ...and there stands a token for men of later days to see, the trunk of a wild olive tree, such as ships are built of; and it flourishes with its green le... ...of their city, and to build their city round the trunk of the ancient wild olive; but they, instead of the god fearing Aeolid Idmon, at this day honou... ...was gushing with milk, one with wine, while the third flowed with fragrant oil; and the fourth ran with water, which grew warm at the setting of the P... ...wn steep this charm in water, strip, and anoint thy body therewith as with oil; and in it there will be boundless prowess and mighty strength, and tho... ...; and, as they lamented, their tears were borne on the water like drops of oil. (ll. 627 658) Thence they entered the deep stream of Rhodanus which f... ...us, lord of honey, who discovered the works of bees and the fatness of the olive, the fruit of labour. She it was that first re ceived in her bosom t...

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...lished bath, refresh’d from toil, Their joints they supple with dissolving oil, In due repast indulge the genial hour, And first to Pallas the libatio... ...osed the shining shield: His right beneath, the cover’d pole-axe held; (An olive’s cloudy grain the handle made, Distinct with studs, and brazen was t... ...row the shore, With dust dishonour’d, and deform’d with gore. As the young olive, in some sylvan scene, Crown’d by fresh fountains with eternal green,... ...godlike hero came, The bravest far that ever bore the name; Like some fair olive, by my careful hand He grew, he flourish’d and adorn’d the land To T ... ... then they bathe with pious toil, Embalm the wounds, anoint the limbs with oil, High on a bed of state extended aid, And decent cover’d with a linen s... ...e piled victims round the body spread; Then jars of honey, and of fragrant oil, Suspends around, low-bending o’er the pile. Four sprightly coursers, w... ...n call the handmaids, with assistant toil To wash the body and anoint with oil, Apart from Priam: lest the unhappy sire, Provoked to passion, once mor...

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...tache ran with the curve of the upper lip, and lost its line upon a smooth olive cheek. The upper lip was firmly sup- ported by the under, and the chi... ...Carlo Ammiani stood horror-stricken. The blood had left his handsome young olive-hued face, and his eyes were on the signorina, large with amazement, ... ...help me to pull Irma through to-night. She is vinegar—we will mix her with oil. It is only for to-night, to save that poor Rocco’s opera.’ ‘Irma!’ sai... ...he hound whom I have used to feed With sops of vinegar and sops of oil?’ Michiella’s further communications to the audience make it known that... ...a person, or one so subjugatingly gra- cious. Her speech and manner poured oil on the uncivil Austrian nobleman. What perchance had stricken Lena? He ... ...t the entry of the Austrians into the reconquered city was like a river of oil permeating a lake of vinegar, but it presents the fact in every sense. ... ...practice. Never! Thrust a spike in the palm of your hands drink scald- ing oil, rather than do that.” “The Prince Radocky is now safe,” Wilfrid said. ...

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...one, I painted my great picture, “Heidel- berg Castle Illuminated”—my first really important work in oils—and had it hung up in the midst of a wildern... ... month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, d... ...e ever seen; and, as a general thing, the men in them were as handsome as the clothes. They were not large men, but they had fine forms, fine features...

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...he instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frank incense, and the spices. 30 And some of the sons of the... ...oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel. Chapter 1... ...he vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite: 28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhana... ...were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash: 29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sha...

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...tain Guy was resolved upon retrieving the past and filling the vessel with oil in the shortest space possible. With this intention, we were now shapin... ...in less than three weeks I’ll engage to have five hundred barrels of sperm oil under hatches: enough to give every mother’s son of ye a handful of do... ... less, the natives are hired to dive after them. A great deal of cocoa-nut oil is also obtained in various places. Some of the uninhabited islands are... ...o or three men, provided with the necessary apparatus for try- ing out the oil, will, in the course of a week or two, obtain enough to load one of the... ... week or two, obtain enough to load one of the large sea-canoes. Cocoa-nut oil is now manufactured in different parts of the South Seas, and forms no ... ...Shoes or stockings, however, he had none. There were a couple of delicate, olive-cheeked little girls— twins—with mild eyes and beautiful hair, who ra... ...raid together; and Arfretee, by way of rewarding my industry, with her own olive hands ornamented the crown with a band of flame- coloured ribbon; the... ...and most distant respect—but in vain; she wouldn’t even turn up her pretty olive nose. Ah! it’s quite plain, thought I; she knows very well what grace...

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... is their vermillion dye. V . Ah me! what lovely tints are there! Of olive green and scarlet bright, In spikes, in branches, and in stars, G...

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...hey say, is that in dyeing the purple they made use of honey, and of white oil in the white tincture, both which after the like space of time preserve... ... hundred furlongs in length, that more used precious oint- ment than plain oil when they went to bathe, and that they carried about servants everywher... ... of a fat, oily liquor, which after the top was taken off, ran pure, clear oil, without any difference either of taste or smell, having exactly the sa... ...y the same smoothness and brightness, and that, too, in a country where no olives grew. The water, indeed, of the river Oxus, is said to be the smooth... ...in the event, but very painful, and attended with many diffi- culties; for oil, they said, was bestowed on mankind by God as a refreshment of their la... ...ilan, a dish of asparagus was put before him, on which his host instead of oil had poured sweet ointment. Caesar partook of it without any disgust, an... ...hibited in the theater; giving the actors crowns, not of gold, but of wild olive, such as used to be given at the Olympic games; and instead of the ma... ...ime came for him to set out for the war, he took a garland from the sacred olive, and, in obedience to some oracle, he filled a vessel with the water ...