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...ding up her hands. Then there s the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fish- ermen; and the beach; and Am to play with Peggotty meant her nephe... ...When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me) and smelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailors walk- ing about, a... ...ne thing I particularly noticed in this delightful house, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when I took out my pocket-handkerchief t... ...ct a scheme of telling fortunes with the dirty cards, and was printing off fishy impressions of his thumb on all the cards he turned. Mr. Peggotty was... ...ur father was a gentle- man and your mother is a lady; and my father was a fisherman and my mother was a fisherman s daughter, and my uncle Dan is a f... ...has spoken, is made and entered into with her cousin; Christian name, Ham; surname, Peggotty; occupation, boat-builder; also of this town. She lives w... ...er; also of this town. She lives with a relative; Christian name, unknown; surname, Peggotty; occupation, sea- faring; also of this town. She is the p...

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...tered con- dition of the German Learned, which permits and induces them to fish in all manner of waters, with all manner of nets, it seems probable en... ...g but a little carpentry and masonry between them;—crammed in, like salted fish in their bar- rel;—or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher... ...ses us like some mad banquet, wherein all courses had been confounded, and fish and flesh, soup and solid, oyster-sauce, lettuces, Rhine-wine and Fren... ...sume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished up from the weltering deep, and down from the simmering air, here on... ... also I was free to do. Nay from the chaos of that Library, I succeeded in fishing up more books perhaps than had been known to the very keepers there... ...owers, must be fictitious. Was her real name Flora, then? But what was her surname, or had she none? Of what station in Life was she; of what parentag...

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... of him, ostensibly as page, but really as hostage. In spite of his Norman surname, little John of Dunster was, at twelve years old, a sturdy thorough... ...’s budget. Moreover, if ink be wanting, he bade me tell you that there’s a fish in these seas, with many arms, and very like the foul fiend, that carr... ...d Richard, who had often been down to the beach to see the unlading of the fishermen’s boats, and to share little John of Dunster’s unfailing marvel, ... ...ully justified Sir Robert’s comparison, lying at the bottom of a boat. The fish- erman intended it for his own dinner, when all his choicer fish shoul...

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... experience of a gull, as related by a natu ralist. The scene is a Scotch fishing village where the gulls were kindly treated. This particular gull v... ...of animals, here and in Europe. She was an embarrassing secretary, for she fished my cor respondence out of the waste basket and answered the let te... ...ons: its name and William’s begin with the same letter; it is the biggest fish that swims, and William is the most conspicuous figure in English his ... ...t used to roam the earth in the Old Silurian times, and lay eggs and catch fish and climb trees and live on fossils; for it was of a mixed breed, whic... ...he knew all ranks, and won them all, and made them her friends. An English fisherman’s wife said, “When a body was in trouble she didn’t send her help... ... is also honorable ground and worshipful, since it was there that William, surnamed Tell (which in terpreted means “The foolish talker”—that is to sa... ...er in a street before when quite so many professional ladies, with English surnames, preferred Madam to Mrs. on their door plates. And the poor old pl...

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... is a rare favour!” (She had an odd foreign way of addressing men by their surnames.) “Thanks. I wish it might happen oftener,” said the visitor in hi... ... his scien- tific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave- fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them. Wh... ...rimonial hopes; and finally, about midnight, he assisted in putting a gold-fish in one visitor’s bed, dressed up a burglar in the bath-room of a nervo... ...t the bay furrowed with the coming and going of sailboats, yacht-launches, fishing-craft and the trailing black coal-barges hauled by noisy tugs. The ...

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...an is so clumsy—he knocks over the bowl, and flap-flap-flap go the gasping fishes, pizzicato!—but the sea—’ Helena’s speech was often difficult to ren... ...ot sign the abbreviated name his wife used to- wards him. He scribbled his surname, as he would have done to a stranger. As he watched the amiable, st...

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... for him by hypothecating his share. To hold the gridiron and know how the fish are fried, I have chosen to be nominally proprietor of one half, which... ...words about him. In the first place he was named simply Ferdinand, without surname. This anonymous condition seemed to him an im- mense advantage at t... ...his own rights are in question, yet giving fresh chickweed to his bird and fish-bones to his cat, interrupting the signing of a lease to whistle to a ... ...articles that were sold at retail in the markets. Madame Madou, formerly a fish-woman, but thrown, some ten years since, into the dried-fruit trade by... ... and Mademoiselle Matifat themselves.” “The Matifats,” said Cesarine, “are fishing for invitations for Monsieur and Madame Colleville, and Monsieur an... ...alled the banker. This call brought a regular Leonarde, tricked out like a fish-woman. “Tell the clerks that I can’t see any one,—not even Nucingen, K...

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...g about him sug- gested an Oriental extraction; but the young man gave his surname as Pandalevsky and spoke of Odessa as his birth- place, though he w... ...ting there,—and she showed me off to him, “see, my good friend, what queer fish we have here!” But I am not a prize horse, to be trotted out on show, ...

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...r from babyhood, that that lady’s own name of Adelaide was, as well as the surname conjoined with it, borne, to her knowledge, in Paris, by an extraor... ...ld hang together with a charm, presenting his hostess—a strange iridescent fish for the glazed expo- sure of an aquarium—as afloat in her native mediu...

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...l monsters have fixed their cold, dull eyes, and in which myriads of small fish have slept, seeking a refuge from the pursuit of their enemies.” Meanw... ...from Japan. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enor- mous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced ... ..., in breaking a horse that no one can ride. For example, you see these two fish; one brought fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagu... ...to see them both on the same table?” 43 Alexandre Dumas “What are the two fish?” asked Danglars. “M. Chateau-Renaud, who has lived in Russia, will te... ...upitor impossibilium; and that is what is amusing you at this moment. This fish, which seems so exquisite to you, is very likely no better than perch ... ...of the indictment was ended. “Accused,” said the president, “your name and surname?” An- drea arose. “Excuse me, Mr. President,” he said, in a clear v...

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...d her shoulders. “There is no need for you to know it. I think you know my surname. What more do you want? And why do you always keep on asking how I ... ...ny good,” he began again. “Not your man, Ivan, he has no more sense than a fish, but another one, Kirill, the butler.” (Kirill was known to be a confi... ...ho had formerly been dismissed from a club for dirtiness.) A nasty, greasy fish soup was prepared, various pates chauds and fricasses and, most import... ...o to dinner,” Golushkin ex- claimed. They partook of various kinds of salt fish to give them an appetite and sat down to the table. Directly after the... ...ich certain of the great Russian bureaucrats are celebrated for. After the fish, Valentina Mihailovna, who had been lavish- ing all her charms on Solo... ...a peasant?” “Why?” Nejdanov began. He certainly did look like some sort of fishmonger in that garb, was conscious of it himself, and was annoyed and e...

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...ybreak. 7 Melville CHAPTER II. Showing that Many Men have Many Minds “ODD FISH!” “Poor fellow!” “Who can he be?” “Casper Hauser.” “Bless my soul!” “U... ...g his umbrella under his arm, and diving down his hand into his pocket, he fished forth a purse, and, accidentally, along with it, his business card, ... ...t of her large, metal- lic eyes, which her enemies called cold as a cuttle-fish’s, but which by her were esteemed gazelle-like; for Goneril was not wi... ...ch- ing thirst?” The miser, a lean old man, whose flesh seemed salted cod- fish, dry as combustibles; head, like one whittled by an idiot out of a kno... ... replied: “Colonel John Moredock,” repeating the words abstractedly; “that surname recalls reminiscences. Pray,” with enlivened air, “was he any- way ... ... biography of an Indian-hater par excellence, any more than one of a sword-fish, or other deep-sea denizen; or, which is still less imaginable, one of...

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...ve times the year its course has born,” The wandering maid replied, “Since fishers on St. Bridget’s morn Drew nets on Campsie side. “St. Bridget sent ... ... was on St. Bridget’s morn, and twelve harvests before this time, that the fishermen of Campsie drew in their nets neither grilse nor salmon, but an i... ... pointing to the wind, and what hope could he have in an ordinary Highland fishing- boat to escape from them? If he made the latter choice, his chance... ...’s head, and carried the same to the Laird of M’Grigor, who, and the haill surname of M’Grigors, purposely conveined upon the Sunday yrafter, at the K... ...e of being have animals resembling those of another ele- ment, as there be fishes at sea resembling Monks of late or- der in all their hoods and dress...

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...el. I had to preside, too, over the entertainment, consisting of a dish of fish, a roast fowl, a sweetbread, veg etables, pudding, and Madeira; and i... ...een Caroline, several shells, a good many tea trays, two stuffed and dried fish in glass cases, and either a curious egg or a curious pumpkin (but I d... ...iss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex cuse me—lady’s name, Christian and surname both?” I gave them. “Married woman, I believe?” said Mr. Guppy. “Ma... ...servants’ hall to regale on cold meat pie and ale. This groom is the pilot fish before the nobler shark. Next evening, down come Sir Leicester and my ... ...ringing voice and the other keeping it in in such a cold blooded, gasping, fish like manner that I thought I never had seen two people so unmatched. “... ...r source of life half frozen and half thawed, twinkle gaspingly like fiery fish out of wa ter—as they are. The world, which has been rumbling over th...

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...a half faint. Facing us, the youth in knickerbockers remained as mute as a fish, and, till he jumped out with the latchkey, sat more still than I woul... ...called him Anarchisto de Barcelona, as if it were his Chris- tian name and surname. But the people in town had been reading in their papers about the ... ...ssion was not that of a man who “imagines” with facility. He did, however, fish out of the chaos of surmises the notion that his prospective mother-in... ...dea he might have gone back to Sorrento to his piano and his books and his fishing. He was great friends with all the boatmen, and fished a good deal ... ...her guard) the Waterbury fifty-franc thing he used to take with him on his fishing expe- ditions. Perceiving the nature of this booty, the well- dress...

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...ith a public rebuke, and would certainly have mulcted him both of soup and fish; as it was, that polite though partial gentleman only shook his head, ... ...fore sending away the first course, reserved for me a portion of the stock-fish of which it consisted. Dinner being over, the boys rushed out for thei... ... two English baptismal names, Frances and Evans, in addition to her French surname, also whence she derived her good ac- cent. I had forgotten both po...

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...n who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. But his role was altered, and he was now playing the bridegroom ... ...s of an impa- tient horse, the trick of a calculating boy, the senses of a fish, the fungus at the root of a garden flower, and the slime upon a sea-w... ...ords of the land. But out of a belated regard for her father she wrote the surname of some one else. Some day, when the rewards of literature permit t...

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...e places— a little village perched on a cliff of a promontory, and a small fishing hamlet within the bay, but these had become merged in one, since fa... ...so called each other Bill and Jack. She advised him to call himself by his surname, not to mention his father’s title if he could help it, and, above ... ...f any one called Maura but one of the Whites,’ said Gillian. ‘What was her surname?’ This V aletta could not tell, and at the moment Mrs. Mount came u... ...hero, but Master George was gone off in attendance on his brother, who was fishing, and there was nothing to relieve the polite circle of the drawing-... ...to Kalliope to go back with her, for when once Aunt Jane get into the very fishy hamlet of Tideshole, which lay beyond the quarries, there was no know... ...mself from being ignomini- 176 Charlotte M. Young ously stopped by an old fishwoman! He had, as Aunt Jane said, regularly dipped Gill back into child... ...rve, though your theory holds together, still it has rather an ancient and fish-like smell.’ ‘I only ask you to investigate, and make him do so. Liste...

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...rtual hint to Waymarsh to help him to enjoy the telling. He waited for his fish, he drank of his wine, he wiped his long moustache, he leaned back in ... ...y way of doing something—to say “Merci, Francois!” out quite loud when his fish was brought. Everything was there that he wanted, everything that coul... ...“and his name’s rather funny. It’s John Little Bilham, and he says his two surnames are, on account of his be- ing small, inevitably used together.” “... ...ch other, in their deep immersion, with the round impersonal eye of silent fish. It was practically produced between them that Waymarsh was giving him... ...here deep down; Maria Gostrey had caught glimpses of it; but how was he to fish it up, even if he desired, for Mrs. Pocock? This was then the spirit i...

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... Clydesdale, and shire of Lanark, with the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, fishings in the Clyde, woods, mosses, moors, and pasturages,” etc., etc. Th... ...that these were sometimes on the point of failing. At times his success in fishing and the chase was able to add something to her subsistence; but he ... ... preceded his proposed departure, Hamish walked down to the river with his fishing-rod, to practise in the Awe, for the last time, a sport in which he... ...o Skooroora. The lakes were broader and larger, and abounded not only with fish, but with the enchanted and amphibious animal which gives oil to the l... ...obin Oig’s father, Lachlan M’Combich (or son of my friend, his actual clan surname being M’Gregor), had been so called by the celebrated Rob Roy, beca...