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... be forgotten’; and already, in 1675, the birth of my direct ascendant was registered in Glasgow. So that I have been pursuing ances- tors too far dow... ...o have re- joiced in the long journeys, and to have combined them with the practice of field sports. ‘A tall, stout man coming ashore with his gun ove... ...e was still but thirty-three years old, prospering in his af- fairs, newly advanced in the world, and encumbered at the time with a family of children... ...the man and the boy met with common ambi- tions, and a common bent, to the practice of that which had not so long before acquired the name of civil en... ...ed or observed. She diligently read and marked her Bible; she was a tender nurse; she had a sense of humour under strong control; she talked and found... ...f her son and her stepdaughter, and numbered the heads in their increasing nursery, must have breathed fer- vent thanks to her Creator. Y et this was ... ...ing confined, there was sent ashore a bottle of sherry and a few rusks – a practice which I have always observed in this service,’ he writes. They dwe... ...eans of two Lewis bats which were lifted from course to course as the work advanced. In the same manner a rope furnished with a travelling pulley was ... ...ane erected on it having been lifted from course to course as the building advanced, was now about thirty- six feet above the rock. From observations ...

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...an image of a grieving Regan flashed through her mind. The door opened and a nurse came in. She picked up the chart hanging at the foot of the bed, ch... ...ra M. Hodges 27 them, and any they touched, remained young looking even into advanced years. In a sudden panic, she asked Peter about their son - woul... ... flat-topped rock. “With that.” She moved toward it. The dwarf scowled as he advanced on her. “You will climb upon that? No. I will aid you into the s... ... 52 The Emerald Dagger “We’ll talk later,” Ben said, walking away. Margeaux advanced on the girl, throwing a reproachful look at Ben as she passed. “... ..., but anger underlined each word. Kelsey knew the question would come. She’d practiced her glib answer over and over, but now the words stuck in her t... ...son could not see his smile. “Simple exercises will sharpen her control. All practice sessions will not require a user of the Power to oversee.” “She’... ...s and saw him, his beard sweat-pocked following their hour of grueling sword practice. “You’ve got to keep up your strength, or you will be no good to... ...Zara’s voice blasted into Kelsey’s head. “Do you declare blood debt?” As she registered the words, the sun vanished and a curtain of blackness dropped... ...she saw the trees through a gray blur. The forest was on fire. Then her ears registered the sound of screaming and the trum- peting of enraged dragons...

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... the mood and full realm of his mind. He yearned to embrace his cello and to practice the notes of a Gabriele symphony that he was composing. Chapter ... ...tments. Sang Huin used his photograph cards like magic tricks to get them to practice tenses and syntax. He liked seeing their tiny house and thinking... ...ge erect and tilted in the forefront of his mind that it almost seemed to be registered in his perceptions as reality and not a part of his dreams. I... ...m the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. For over 1500 years Ancient Egypt practiced polytheism with each town having its own god. Usually such gods... ...lly debated the merit of giving her child mendacities as she told him German nursery rhymes and lightly washed his small body. She supposed that the s... ...t her embraces became more like frozen fruit. On weekends they often went to nurseries to buy shrubs and trees for the landscape of her home as well a... ...left with Hispanic Betty if the two of them were still planning to go to the nursery. She didn't want to see them dragged through flowers, trees, and... ... these labyrinths of logic, and then running in them, would lead her to some advanced destination. And so she posited that man, being such a dodger of... ...of making the call she could not think how mere mortals could guide the more advanced creature, or perfected mutant, that she was. Assessing that it s...

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...ster, not quite six weeks old. “Now, Margaret, will you take her up to the nursery?” said the mother, while the impatient speech was repeated, “Mamma,... ...te-looking, with bright blue eyes, and thickly-curling light hair. “Acting nurse?” he said, smiling. “What an odd little face it is! I didn’t think li... ...rty road, the ground growing more decidedly into hills and valleys as they advanced, till they found themselves before a small, but very steep hillock... ...have followed. Richard told her that she might come in, and, as she slowly advanced, she thought she had never seen anything so inef- fably mournful a... ... Margaret. “Suppose you send her up, Flora—you must want to go and draw or practice, and she may do her arithmetic here, or read to me.” It was the se... ... older nor wiser. It was a fatal thing for him that there was that country practice ready for him to step into, and even of that he does not make as g... ...or him, he might have been any- thing, but that early marriage and country practice were the ruin of him.” CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER... ...o ask what Mr. Wilmot thought, and he said—” Harry broke off as his father advanced, and gave her the letter itself to read. Mr. Wilmot answered that ... ...t to the little ones ten times a day, she kissed it night and morning, and registered her vow al- ways to sleep with it under her “pilow,” in a letter...

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... woman’s voice, and the stern, pock marked face of Matrona Philimonovna, the nurse, was thrust in at the doorway. “Well, what is it, Matrona?” queried... ...ptly ran up to the top to do this new trick. “Don’t break you neck! it needs practice!” Nikolay Shtcherbatsky shouted after him. Levin went to the ste... ...f everything that presented itself. The stupid sale of the forest, the fraud practiced upon Oblonsky and concluded in his house, exasperated him. “Wel... ...on where Christianity was concerned. What exaggeration could there be in the practice of a doctrine wherein one was bidden to turn the other cheek whe... ...ce of talking to the celebrated Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev, and to show his advanced views of things told him all the scandal of the district, compla... ...ays in direct contradiction to their convictions. Sviazhsky was an extremely advanced man. He despised the nobility, and believed the mass of the nobi... ...d not look at her). “In short, I don’t wish it. . . .” Alexey Alexandrovitch advanced and would have taken her hand. Her first impulse was to jerk back... ... their stand on the act,” was being said in another group; “the wife must be registered as noble.” “Oh, damn your acts! I speak from my heart. We’re a... ...l had not accepted the opinion of the younger professors. The young ones had registered a separate resolution. This, in the judgment of some people, w...

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...t valuable memoranda, which Mr. Marsh quotes, and died in 1672, when he is registered as:— “Ricardus Morley Senex sepultus fuit, August 1672.” (Senex ... ...ch greater antiquity.* But besides these differences, the supposition here advanced has this farther ground to rest upon, viz. that neither the name o... ...e of the tenure of the lands in the manor, it would have been reported and registered in the book. But it certainly is not to be found there. May it n... ... as the beginning of the awakening of the country to church doc- trine and practice. He and his brother were known as con- tributors to the T racts fo... ...in the desire of most of the authorities to discourage their doctrines and practice. When, therefore, the curate of Hursley came to Farnham to be admi... ...r hold your peace in respect of alleging impediments. One feels that one’s advanced age has not rendered one fitted to set about such works; but reall... ... around him burst.” It was a baby sister of his who drew herself up in her nurse’s arms with a pretty gesture, like a pheasant’s neck in a sort of rep... ... the arrangements had grown antiquated and by no means accordant with more advanced medical practice. A subscrip- tion was raised, and with the warm c... ... had grown antiquated and by no means accordant with more advanced medical practice. A subscrip- tion was raised, and with the warm co-operation of Wa...

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...ences; except it be in cases of overt scandal, blasphemy, or intermixture of practice against the state; much less to nourish seditions; to authorize ... ...Wives are young men’s mistresses; com panions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will. But yet h... ...ore or less subject to envy: First, persons of eminent virtue, when they are advanced, are less envied. For their fortune seemeth , but due unto them;... ...ep rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that are advanced by degrees, are less envied than those that are advanced suddenl... ...re still buzzing upon any thing that is raw; misanthropi, that make it their practice, to bring men to the bough, and yet never a tree for the purpose... ... and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order. It was gravely said by some of the prel a... ... be observed, for the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered, than obser vation. Let diaries, therefore, be brought in us... ...t of words, are not so forcible, as custom. Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupa...

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...r less to disobey a command. Thereupon he turned farmer, a trade he was to practice on a large scale; and we find him married to a Miss Schirr, a woma... ... the Jenkin finances is not easy to follow. The family, I am told, did not practice frugality, only lamented that it should be needful; and Mrs. Jenki... ...d a higher mark of skill to be attained; he would chip and file, as he had practiced scales, impatient of his own imperfection, but resolute to learn.... ...e again distinguished himself during an epi- demic of cholera. He was then advanced to the Permanent Secretaryship of Her Majesty’s Office of Works an... ...e was never forgetful of his first visit to the Austins and the vow he had registered on his return. There was thus 53 Robert Louis Stevenson an arti... ...man a fellow gardener; on his travels, he would go out of his way to visit nurseries and gather hints; and to the end of his life, after other occupat... ...dis would do very well for Protestants in some parts. Then I made a little nursery of Borecole and Enfield market cabbage, grubbing 56 Memoir of Flee... ...the golden bride and bridegroom to their own society and that of the hired nurse. It was a great thing for Fleeming to make, even thus late, the acqua...

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... whether the condition of a poor man or of a gentleman were best fitted to nurse and stimulate his faculties. But for the actual Shakspeare, since wha... ...hat is, in 1582. Now the baptism of Shakspeare’s eldest child, Susanna, is registered on the 26th of May in the year following. Suppose, therefore, th... ...ces done to the players by the poet’s family, or in consideration of money advanced by his father-in-law, or on account of Shakspeare’s personal accom... ...ted to the exposure of the lifeless and unnatural result from the opposite practice in the foreign stages of France and Italy. And we may truly say, t... ... it is that he had not discovered this reason from the very first. As life advanced, it happened unavoidably that real business ad- vanced; the carele... ...ced about October, 1713. In the summer of the following year he was so far advanced as to begin making arrangements with Lintot for the printing; and ... ...ault, “trailing after it a line of golden associations;” 2dly, because the practice in- volves a dishonesty. On occasion of No. 1, we must profess our... ...o him by the Ser- geant. Meantime the reason for resisting the example and practice of Hazlitt lies in this—that essentially it is at war with sinceri...

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...ioners, is an old lady, who resided in our parish long before our name was registered in the list of baptisms. Our parish is a suburban one, and the o... ...uggins was the least qualified can- didate of the two, still it was an old practice, and he saw no reason why an old practice should be departed from.... ... been reading the Bible to him, for she closed the book as we entered, and advanced to meet us. ‘I was telling William, ’ she said, ‘that we must mana... ... fellow in the pumps managed so artfully that every time the old gentleman advanced to salute the lady in the cloth boots, he trod with his whole weig... ...ot out the silent evidence of animosity and bitter- ness, which now stands registered against them in Doc- tors’ Commons! CHAPTER IX—LONDON RECREATION... ...vered to be in a languishing condition: Thomson’s great room, or Johnson’s nursery-ground, is forthwith engaged, and the aforesaid young ladies, from ... ...ife all the way, or the gentlemen who volunteered to row have been ‘out of practice,’ and performed very alarming evolutions, putting their oars down ... ...s always a little box, about two feet six inches high, into which, by long practice, he can just manage to get, by doubling himself up like a boot-jac... ...r, to favour the latter position, in- asmuch as we do not find that he was advanced to any other public post on his return, than the post at the corne...

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...ioners, is an old lady, who resided in our parish long before our name was registered in the list of baptisms. Our parish is a suburban one, and the o... ...uggins was the least qualified can- didate of the two, still it was an old practice, and he saw no reason why an old practice should be departed from.... ... been reading the Bible to him, for she closed the book as we entered, and advanced to meet us. ‘I was telling William, ’ she said, ‘that we must mana... ... fellow in the pumps managed so artfully that every time the old gentleman advanced to salute the lady in the cloth boots, he trod with his whole weig... ...ot out the silent evidence of animosity and bitter- ness, which now stands registered against them in Doc- tors’ Commons! CHAPTER IX—LONDON RECREATION... ...vered to be in a languishing condition: Thomson’s great room, or Johnson’s nursery-ground, is forthwith engaged, and the aforesaid young ladies, from ... ...ife all the way, or the gentlemen who volunteered to row have been ‘out of practice,’ and performed very alarming evolutions, putting their oars down ... ...s always a little box, about two feet six inches high, into which, by long practice, he can just manage to get, by doubling himself up like a boot-jac... ...r, to favour the latter position, in- asmuch as we do not find that he was advanced to any other public post on his return, than the post at the corne...

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...se 62 * Modern houses 63 * Return of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Con... ... world's largest and most powerful economic area, technologically the most advanced continental culture. As continent states collide, many fundamental... ...uild permanent houses of timber. Only after the Second World War, building practices began to change. There were not many worries in life then. We gat... ...on the other hand, cooled down quickly in the evening. Changes in building practices were also affected by the demise of forests. By the early 1980s, ... ...tures, the timber industry has been able to present itself as a modern and advanced utilizer of forests and to divert attention from reality. Self-suf... ...he light? I don’t use my husband’s surname because our marriage isn’t registered yet. How long have you been married? 15 years. Have you... ...ngs for us. We didn't have time to get to know each other at all. We never registered our marriage with the authorities, so divorce was easy. We did h... ...ns were confined to the families' reciprocal visits. Marriages were seldom registered: they were based on the girl's and boy's mutual attraction, love... ...rned. When you stop being a monk, you only meditate five teachings. A more advanced monk lives in the temple. He is old and knows to meditate all 127 ...

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...he list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a grudge against his country. Ours, I am sure, was the loss; and man... ...herited her mother’ s bent for the graces; she needs but a small amount of practice. ‘T ake my assurance of that; and you know who has critical eyes. ... ...t of Britons was to be chronicled. Cap- tain Abrane, a tower in the crowd, registered bets whenever he could. Curricles, gigs, carts, pony-traps, boys... ...urried out cheery or bolt-busi- ness words to their men; and the champions advanced to the scratch. T odds first, by the courtesy of Ines, whose decor... ...in the saving of souls, if he could persuade himself that such good labour advanced: and at the fall of light, the pas- time task of bootmaking—a desi... ...through the grimy region, plucked at Gower with an envy to resemble him in practice. His phi- losophy, too, reproached him for being outshone. Apart f... ...Fleetwood said something to Gower; he swung round, be- held the ladies and advanced to them, saluting. ‘My dear Lady Arpington! quite so, you arrive o... ...ythan; to the effect, that the birth of a son to the Earl of Fleetwood was registered on the day of the date, with a copy of the document forwarded. L... ...th the Examples of Our Younger Man XXXII. In Which We See Carinthia Put in Practice One of Her Old Father’s Lessons XXXIII. A Frightful Debate XXXIV. ...

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...sible. Such, nevertheless, by necessity or foolish choice, is her rule and practice; whereby that paradox, ‘Happy the people whose annals are vacant,’... ...idered all that Habit does in this life of ours; how all Knowledge and all Practice hang wondrous over infinite abysses of the Unknown, Impracticable;... ...ings but death.’ When a Parlement refuses registering, the remedy, by long practice, has become familiar to the simplest: a Bed of Justice. One comple... ... more controversy than cash. Taxes on the Privileged Classes cannot be got registered; are intolerable to our supporters themselves: taxes on the Un- ... ...ux Lamoignon, and Peers and retinue, to hold Royal Session and have Edicts registered. What a change, since Louis XIV. entered here, in boots; and, wh... ...his royal lips once more to say, in brief That he must have his Loan-Edict registered.—Momen- tary deep pause!—See! Monseigneur d’Orleans rises; with ... ...old two men with lion-look, with alert attitude, side foremost, right foot advanced; flourishing and thrusting, stoccado and passado, in tierce and qu... ...shall take effect. National Guard has got its orders; a First Division, as Advanced Guard, has even marched, and probably arrived. His Majesty’s Maiso... ...m, as in heavenly light-radiance: to such phasis of the busi- ness have we advanced since then! The numbers massacred are, in Historical fantasy, ‘bet...

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...agination, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice. After about two years, an odd circumstance presented it- self, wh... ...my boat about the island again; but when I began to think of putting it in practice, I had such terror upon my spirits at the remembrance of the dange... ...thing contrary to the nature of such things, and espe- cially to the usual practice of all creatures in fear; but I was so 134 Robinson Crusoe embarr... ...es; and I was loath to lose the advantage of them, and to have them all to nurse up over again. For this purpose, after long consideration, I could th... ... beckoned with my hand to him to come back; and, in the meantime, I slowly advanced towards the two that fol- lowed; then rushing at once upon the for... ...wo after; and the third ran for it. At the noise of the fire I immediately advanced with my whole army, which was now eight men, viz. myself, generali... ...not willing to intermeddle with a thing so remote: that it was true he had registered my will, and put in his claim; and could he have given any accou...

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...ause the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley. In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory ... ...oney to this place. It’s freedom, sir, it’s free- dom! I have had to-day’s practice at home and abroad, on a march, and aboard ship, and I’ll tell you... ... secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted away. In... ...fter a time), that memorial must be entered in that Department, sent to be registered in this De- partment, sent back to be signed by that Department,... ...escending author- ity, John Baptist, not at all steady on his legs as yet, advanced and put his hand in his patron’s. Monsieur Lagnier laughed; and ha... ...ntly stood, within the door she had closed, unnoticed. The figure of a man advanced in life, whose smooth grey eyebrows seemed to move to the ticking ... ...put the small room in order for his repose. Being weary then, owing to the advanced hour and his emotions, he came out of his chair to bless her and w... ...piano, open, with pens and ink beside it, as if the night’s names had been registered when he was absent. Taking it in his hand, he read these entries... ...s was the result of his day’s anxiety, and this was the decision he put in practice when the day closed in. His first disappointment, on arriving at t...

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...‘Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these.’ My dear old nurse, and you know there is nothing a man can say nearer his 15 The Lette... ...R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 heart except his mother or his wife – my dear old nurse, God will make good to you all the good that you have done, and merci... ...ee days; I was up at an Angora goat-ranche in the Santa Lucia Moun- tains, nursed by an old frontiers-man, a mighty hunter of bears, and I scarcely sl... ... Reales; deux reaux; two bits; twenty-five cents; about a shilling; but in practice it is worth from ninepence to threepence: thus two glasses of beer... ...s this was. And so now re- cover the sheets of the Emigrant, and post them registered to me. And now please give me all your venom against it; say you... ...ful acts on his part would surprise me; I know he would be more pitiful in practice than most of the whiners; but the spirit of that practice would st... ...rs that he has learned the selective criterion. He has learned that in the practice of his art; and he will never learn it well, but when disengaged f... ...– of which you did not see – I think – as I did – the glorious apotheosis: advanced on a Tuesday to three francs, on the Thursday to six, and on Frida...

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...ause the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley. In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory ... ...oney to this place. It’s freedom, sir, it’s free- dom! I have had to-day’s practice at home and abroad, on a march, and aboard ship, and I’ll tell you... ... her place of abode than he did—went upon a visit to a poor friend and old nurse in the country, and died there. He remained shut up in his room for a... ...; it being almost a part of the entrance footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college. ‘By rights,’ remarked the... ... secre- taries minuted upon them, commissioners gabbled about them, clerks registered, entered, checked, and ticked them off, and they melted away. In... ...fter a time), that memorial must be entered in that Department, sent to be registered in this De- partment, sent back to be signed by that Department,... ...escending author- ity, John Baptist, not at all steady on his legs as yet, advanced and put his hand in his patron’s. Monsieur Lagnier laughed; and ha... ...ntly stood, within the door she had closed, unnoticed. The figure of a man advanced in life, whose smooth grey eyebrows seemed to move to the ticking ... ...put the small room in order for his repose. Being weary then, owing to the advanced hour and his emotions, he came out of his chair to bless her and w...

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...ue, in English, if you don’t mind?” “I would like that very much, I need the practice. But, there’s not much more to tell, Holy Father. I entered t... ...ian’s mouth dropped open in unison. The shock of hearing Alex’s pronouncement registered on their faces like someone who had just witnessed a train ... ...d left the room. Alex walked down the hospital corridor until he came to the nurse's station, which was barricaded behind a wire-meshed, glass wind... ...s window. Alex knocked on the window until he got the attention of one of the nurses. She slid the window back revealing a small 44 J.Cross/Artemi... ... see Doctor Raymond. Could you please call him for me?" Alex asked. The duty nurse nodded and picked up a phone and spoke into it. "He'll be here in... ... the finest chemists in the world to refine their products. They use the most advanced technology to produce the purist product. The purer the produ... ... The meeting with Cordona was at the Colombian Embassy. Cardona was a duly registered Lobbyist for the Colombian Department of Agriculture. Brand ... ...got?" "We have confirmation of the two billion dollar transfer to an account registered to the terrorist, Ben Ahmad Soule. The numbered account was...

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...But you are such a perfect horsewoman.” “Excuse me; I have had very little practice, and I should be easily thrown.” “Then that is a reason for more p... ...after putting down his hat and throwing himself into a chair, had begun to nurse his leg and examine the sole of his boot with much bitter- ness. “I m... ...eroglyphs write detestable verses? Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact? Suppose we turn from ... ...king the acquain- tance of the Vincy family; for though Mr. Peacock, whose practice he had paid something to enter on, had not been their doctor (Mrs.... ... mind on that particular ride. So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour’s practice of “Ar hyd y nos,” “Y e banks and braes,” and other favorite airs ... ...I’m sure it’s my wish you should be spared. And there’s none more ready to nurse you than your own sister and your own nieces, if you’d only say the w... ...reat surprise at her possession of such ac- complishment. But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents... ...elebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he ... ...ke the categories of more celebrated men, would not be acceptable in these advanced times. He divided them into “busi- 229 George Eliot ness, politic...

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...But you are such a perfect horsewoman.” “Excuse me; I have had very little practice, and I should be easily thrown.” “Then that is a reason for more p... ...thea, jumped off his horse at once, and, having delivered it to his groom, advanced towards her with something white on his arm, at which the two sett... ...after putting down his hat and throwing himself into a chair, had begun to nurse his leg and examine the sole of his boot with much bitterness. “I mea... ...eroglyphs write detestable verses? Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact? Suppose we turn from ... ...making the acquaintance of the Vincy family; for though Mr. Peacock, whose practice he had paid something to enter on, had not been their doctor (Mrs.... ...r mind on that particular ride. So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour’s practice of “Ar hyd y nos,” “Ye banks and braes,” and other favorite airs f... ...I’m sure it’s my wish you should be spared. And there’s none more ready to nurse you than your own sister and your own nieces, if you’d only say the w... ...reat surprise at her possession of such ac complishment. But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents... ...elebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he ...

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...nd astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!) to have the most advanced views attainable on the subject, urge them on no account to compro... ...convincingly in Les Hannetons, an avowedly illicit union is often found in practice to be as tyrannical and as hard to escape from as the worst legal ... ...t that unions for the purpose of establishing a family will continue to be registered and regulated by the State. Such registration is marriage, and w... ...ich the theory of the inviolable better-for- worse marriage breaks down in practice. South Carolina has indeed passed what is called a freak law decla... ... revolu- tionary. And their wives went through the routine of the kitchen, nursery, and drawing-room just as they went through the routine of the offi... ...e all, by her continuous at- tempts to excite precocious sentimentality, a practice as ob- jectionable, and possibly as mischievous, as the worst tric... ...jectionable, and possibly as mischievous, as the worst tricks of the worst nursemaids. LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES In most healthy families there is a re... ...resence of mind to ask the lady whether she insisted on having a doctor, a nurse, a dentist, and even a priest and solicitor all to herself as well. B...

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.... I fling away all these things as the Toys of Boyhood. Life is the Soul’s Nursery. I am a Man, and pine for the Illimitable! Mark you me! Has the Mor... ...trine vulgarly promulgated,” said the admirable chaplain, “for its general practice might chance to do harm. Thou, my son, the Refined, the Gentle, th... ... and with a reverence quite distinct from his former nonchalant manner, he advanced towards the new-comer. He was an old man—an old man evidently, too... ...une, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, ... ...ioner, with a stamp of his foot—”Now strike!” The man (who knew his trade) advanced at once, and poised himself to deliver his blow: and making his fl... ...’s over,” Lord Bagnigge replied with 54 Thackeray a yawn; and the bet was registered with shouts of applause. But it seemed as if the Fates had deter... ... tone. “To correct a wife with a cane is a venial, I may say a justifiable practice; but to fling a bottle at her is ruin both to the liquor and to he... ...umer- ous friends in Cologne), he proceeded with his devotions, as was the practice of the young nobles of the age. But though exceedingly intent upon... ...ever known to 292 Thackeray break. It was not for some years after he had registered this vow, that he was enabled to keep it. Had Ivanhoe been prese...

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... the custody of one by whom it is duly valued; for, when Dick, in his more advanced state of proficiency, became dubious of the propriety of so daring... ...original master. Still the first rude emanations of his ge- nius, like the nursery rhymes of Pope, could these be recov- ered, will be dear to the com... ...ck Tinto mended his pace to get out of hearing, so little had either early practice or recent philoso- phy reconciled him to the character of a sign-p... ...ter- cession. It was particularly remarkable that, contrary to his uniform practice, he made no special communication to Lady Ashton upon the subject ... ...l as true, Master,” replied his compan- ion; “but, by your leave, you have nursed in your bosom one great goodly snake that has swallowed all the rest... ...us mel- ancholy, not unmingled with horror. Although the night was not far advanced, there was no sign of living inhabitant about this forlorn abode, ... ...d above the height on which Wolf ’s Crag is situated, and which now, as it advanced, spread itself in darker and denser folds both over land and sea, ... ... so deeply on the eve of his father’s funeral. But they had been heard and registered in the book of fate. Caleb was present at this extraordinary sce... ...f Lammermoor “That he should,” re-echoed Craigengelt; “for when you are in practice, Bucklaw, I would bet a magnum you are through him before the thir...

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...ack to the college and re- opened it under the old rules, with the habits, practices, and customs which gave this school a character with which I have... ...ient religious Order, ac- commodated all the school. Contrary to the usual practice in educational institutions, we were allowed to talk at our meals,... ...ons to write. The imposi- tion, a punishment which varies according to the practice of different schools, consisted at Vendome of a certain number of ... ...l- lies vied with each other in snatching off the rags which the infirmary nurse had tied on. Hence, in winter, many of us, with half-dead feet and fi... ...Nor was this all. No gloves. If by good hap a boy’s parents, the infirmary nurse, or the headmaster gave gloves to a par- ticularly delicate lad, the ... ...tcome of the individual, the products of genius or of handicraft, have not advanced much. The pleasures of Lucullus were as good as those of Samuel Be... ... for a serf), a small estate called Villenoix, which he con- trived to get registered with a baronial title, and took its name. He died unmarried, but...

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...nk that I will do it for money. What is it you want?” “Y ou are one of the nurses or attendants at the Hospital; I saw you leave to-night and last nig... ...Wilkie Collins The lady lifts her veil, and shows a face no older than the nurse’s. A face far more refined and capable than hers, but wild and worn w... ...of prayers. Prayers are to be put up to the Good Father of All, and not to nurses and such. And there! I am only to hold my place for half a year long... ...oroughfare customs of the place. He has been christened in the chapel, and registered by some surname in the book. He was received last Monday evening... ...in the house—I can’t talk about it now.” The door opened as Mrs. Goldstraw advanced towards it; and Mr. Jarvis appeared. “Send for Mr. Bintrey,” said ... ...influence of fear. He also observed—though this was not much—that he never advanced within the distance of her at which he first placed himself: as th... ... and I have done. Third proof! Certificate of Doctor Ganz, still living in practice at Neuchatel, dated July, 1838. The doctor certifies (you shall re...

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... That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov’d 275 To blend his murmurs with my Nurse’s song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his for... ...ing and the morning, what my dreams And what my waking thoughts supplied, to nurse 380 That spirit of religious love in which I walked with Nature. Bu... ... of one Remembering the importance of his theme But feeling it no longer. We advanced Slowly, and ere we to the wood were come 480 Discourse had cease... ...s as if it never could be full. That portion of my story I shall leave There registered. Whatever else there be Of power or pleasure, sown or fostered... ...et as this last itself, for such it is. Through those delightful pathways we advanced 620 Two days, and still in presence of the lake, 102 The Prelud... ... Of written characters, with chalk inscribed Upon the smooth flat stones. The nurse is here, The bachelor that loves to sun himself, 225 The military i... ...first, a traveller from our pastoral hills, Southward two hundred miles I had advanced, And for the first time in my life did hear The voice of woman ut... ... them—and far, far more To shake the authority of canons drawn From ordinary practice. I could see 620 How Babel like the employment was of those Who,...

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...zen now living. His own teaching at Tuskegee is unique. He lectures to his advanced students on the art of right living, not out of text-books, but st... ...t 18 UP FROM SLAVERY was no sham sorrow, but real. Some of the slaves had nursed “Mars’ Billy”; others had played with him when he was a child. “Mars... ...e of the slaves would even beg for the privilege of sitting up at night to nurse their wounded masters. This tenderness and sympathy on the part of th... ...ey mix- ture. Drinking, gambling, quarrels, fights, and shockingly immoral practices were frequent. All who lived in the little town were in one way o... ...us formed a society for the purpose of utilizing this time in debate or in practice in public speaking. Few persons ever derived more happiness or ben... ...each case the teach- ers had found them so well prepared that they entered advanced classes. This fact, it seems, led to my being called back to Hampt... ...h smallpox. Every one in the community was so frightened that no one would nurse the boy. Miss Davidson closed her school and remained by the bedside ... ...ject, the more strongly I am convinced that the most harmful effect of the practice to which the people in certain sections of the South have 104 UP ... ...man from the time he arrived in the city the other night from the West and registered at the Iroquois. He had hardly removed the stains of travel when...