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... housemaid is turning hysterical, when she and all the rest, roused by the intelligence that the Bride is going away, hurry upstairs to witness her de... ...ing a sign in the affirmative, Mr Toots read as follows, from the Shipping Intelligence: ‘“Southampton. The barque Defiance, Henry James, Com- mander,... ...r Dombey!) as they have been represented to me to exist in this I fear too artificial world, I never shall attempt to interpose between you, at such a... ...ivate coronation ceremony on her, with a peach-coloured velvet bonnet; the artificial roses in which nodded to uncommon advantage, as the palsy trifle... ...the carriage was closed, and the wind shut out, the palsy played among the artificial roses again like an almshouse-full of superannu- ated zephyrs; a... ...le to sit up, in curls and a laced cap and nightgown, and to have a little artificial bloom dropped into the hollow caverns of her cheeks. It was a tr... ...er! I really don’t know what is the matter. The world is coming to such an artificial and ungrateful state, that I be- gin to think there’s no Heart—o... ...hich the world in general turned, she resolved, rather than be ignorant of intelligence which so strongly interested her, to cul- tivate her old acqua... ... he hailed one day with unusual delight the an- nouncement in the Shipping Intelligence of the arrival of the Cautious Clara, Captain John Bunsby, fro...

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...ter have described (Philo- sophical Transactions, 1836, p. 65) a singular “artificial sub- stance resembling shell.” It is deposited in fine, transpar... ..., it is well know that the condors, like other carrion-vultures, soon gain intelligence of it, and congregate in an in- explicable manner In most case... ...a corps had become offensive from not having been buried, in thi case, the intelligence could hardly have been acquired b sight. On the other hand, be... ... it as a cause or a consequence, the more civilized al- ways have the most artificial governments. For in- stance, the inhabitants of Otaheite, who, w... ...llota was im- mediately under our feet. The prospect was one of remarkable artificial luxuriance. The valley is very broad and quite flat, and is thus... ... little pools of water, which stand at different heights, and appear as if artificially excavated. Small streams of water, flowing under- ground, comp... ...xan and the capital. The land, as in Chile, owes its fertility entirely to artificial irri- gation; and it is really wonderful to observe how extraord... ...ion of their countenances which at once banishes the idea of a savage; and intelligence which shows that they are advancing in civilization. The commo...

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...s and he had long wished for the release of death. The only part of him that is human is his brain; and this has been incorporated completely into an artificial body. The body had been especially designed to cope with all environments; including the vacuum of space, but with the vital flaw of no propulsion system. The long held dream that Man could eventually conquer d...

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...Mankind had been incorporating humans with artificial limbs and internal organs for generations. The more that Man depended on technology, the physically weaker the human race had become. Many humans were regularly being born with disabilities like missing limbs, blin...

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...speciality. What Francesco Petrarca did for one kind of love—the romantic, artificial, hot-house love of the times of chivalry—Turgenev did for the na... ... the sordid or petty pursuits of those around them, created for themselves artificial life, artificial pursuits and interests. The isolation in which ... ... of the most ardent are still compelled—partially at least—to run into the artificial channels described in T urgenev’s novel. 12 Rudin Hence the per... ...emained aloof, in a corner by the fireplace. 39 Turgenev Rudin spoke with intelligence, with fire and with judgment; he showed much learning, wide re... ...lutely mistaken position of those people who refuse to admit the practical intelligence of women.’ Darya Mihailovna smiled affably. ‘You are very good... ...called Kurbyev.’ ‘Oh, I never heard of him. But, really, Dmitri, with your intelligence, how was it you did not suspect that to be a busi- ness man wa...

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... II; look at poor Bute at the parsonage—is any one of them equal to you in intelligence or breeding? Equal to you—they are not even equal to poor dear... ...wley’s illness in after days—stories which made the lady blush through her artificial carnations. During the illness she was never out of temper; alwa... ...y was reading the French novel, and had given that old lady the astounding intelligence that Sir Pitt was on his knees, proposing to Miss Sharp. And i... ...ng herself at the newly crackling parlour fire, heard from Miss Briggs the intelligence of the clandestine marriage, she declared it was quite provide... ...wley’s two friends made such an apparatus of mystery before they broke the intelligence to her, that they worked her up to the necessary degree of dou... ...’s coming with me to Queen’s Crawley.” “Have you not heard the astonishing intelligence regarding her surreptitious union?” Briggs asked. “What’s that... ... it); and Mrs. Amelia, a natural and unaf- fected person, had none of that artificial shamefacedness which her husband mistook for delicacy on his own...

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...waved the light over the whole, as if to typify the light of his scholarly intelligence, and then put it down on the table and stood behind it looking... ...e over the little counter, and holds it down towards the legs, natural and artificial, of Mr Wegg. ‘T o be sure!’ he says, then. ‘How do you do?’ ‘Weg... ...er drooping lid up, and look more uniform. But pe- rennial youth is in her artificial flowers, and her list of lovers is full. ‘Mortimer, you wretch,’... ...proached my respected father by candlelight, as a theme requiring a little artificial brilliancy; but we will take him by twilight, enlivened with a g... ... ‘They burn sherry very well here,’ said Mr Inspector, as a piece of local intelligence. ‘Perhaps you gentlemen might like a bottle?’ The answer being... ...ry gradually, he is in an appropriate state for the receipt of star- tling intelligence; looking equally like the Monument on Fish Street Hill, and Ki... ...bly well though) with the air of firemen in charge of an engine, expecting intelligence of some tremen- dous conflagration. Mrs V eneering faintly rem... ...rldly-minded orphan, and also a Noah’s ark, and also a yellow bird with an artificial voice in him, and also a military doll so well dressed that if h... ...es, woolly dogs with mechanical barks in them not very dissimilar from the artificial voice pervad- ing the bowels of the yellow bird, tin armies, Moo...

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...rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches. When the invader was triumphant he found but littl... ...PSTEAD HORROR ANOTHER CHILD INJURED THE “BLOOFER LADY” We have just received intelligence that another child, missed last night, was only discovered l...

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...” said Joe; “and what’s worse, she’s got Tickler with her.” At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, an... ... They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. As I looked round at them, ... ..., “ – which is a nearer case – if you had taught her, from the dawn of her intelligence, with your ut- most energy and might, that there was such a th... ..., before I knew that the world held Estella, and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first distortions from Miss Havisham’s wasti... ...ently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of intelligence that was at all alarming. Still, I knew that there was cause f... ...tations at, is this. The late Compeyson having been beforehand with him in intelligence of his return, and being so determined to bring him to book, I...