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... a taloned foot and dismembered a wolf from throat to tail. Like an open-sea barge, she surged forward, pushing the wolves like flotsam before her. Th...

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...o one was stirring at that hour on a Sunday morning, and there are neither barges nor anglers on the Bievre. There was not a creature in sight, not a ...

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... first formed in England, and for two hundred years was constantly used by barges. The irrigation of the mead- ows was also much benefited, broad ditc...

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...bling so. The servant moved to block her, fearing, she supposed, she might barge into the house just to get a glimpse of her idol. Though she long... ...rboats were like nuggets of smoky topaz on the wide necklace of the river. Barges strung out before laboring tugs heading up toward Hartford or dow... ... sail appeared on a tiny craft wending like a butterfly among the lumbering barges. Ronan saw it, too, and pointed eagerly toward it. A bit of a sm... ...tead, fueled by her eagerness to be rid of her unwanted house guest, Morgan barged into the library, knocking as she entered. “Daniel, that woman...

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...rt nodded and lobbed his cup into the garbage bin. Stiffened when he saw Otto barge past, only twenty feet away. “I’m going to place my bets for th... ...tch stalls. Should have guessed Otto was unstable. He controlled his urge to barge into the barn and paused outside the door. Heard nothing but the... ...he second door on the right and whined softly. Kurt turned the knob, and Blue barged past and ran to the bed. His pink tongue slopped over Julie’s ... ...d out Archer's number and rushed from the room, ignoring their protests. He barged into the motel office. A wide-eyed clerk was taking pictures thr...

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... ‘one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked, would come up on the other with a new suit of clothes on... ...ame things, on the following evening at the same hour. About this time the barges that came up the river began to bring vague rumours to Scotland-yard... ...rees, however, the reports grew stronger, and more frequent, and at last a barge, laden with numer- ous chaldrons of the best Wallsend, brought up the... ...an off, and leave a dry gully in its place. What was to become of the coal-barges—of the trade of Scotland-yard—of the very existence of its populatio... ...dignation, why he would be rather astonished; that was all. They did wait; barge after barge arrived, and still no tidings of the assassination of the... ...udded with boats of all sorts, kinds, and descriptions; places in the coal-barges at the different wharfs are let to crowds of spectators, beer and to...

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... ‘one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked, would come up on the other with a new suit of clothes on... ...ame things, on the following evening at the same hour. About this time the barges that came up the river began to bring vague rumours to Scotland-yard... ...rees, however, the reports grew stronger, and more frequent, and at last a barge, laden with numer- ous chaldrons of the best Wallsend, brought up the... ...an off, and leave a dry gully in its place. What was to become of the coal-barges—of the trade of Scotland-yard—of the very existence of its populatio... ...dignation, why he would be rather astonished; that was all. They did wait; barge after barge arrived, and still no tidings of the assassination of the... ...udded with boats of all sorts, kinds, and descriptions; places in the coal-barges at the different wharfs are let to crowds of spectators, beer and to... ...est sound on the opposite bank, even the rippling of the water against the barges that were moored there, was distinctly audible to his ear. The strea...

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...t. And let there be prepared a chariot-bier To take me to the river, and a barge Be ready on the river, clothed in black. I go in state to court, to m... ...adow through the field, that shone Full-summer, to that stream whereon the barge, Palled all its length in blackest samite, lay. There sat the lifelon... ...erneath his eyes, and right across Where these had fallen, slowly past the barge. Whereon the lily maid of Astolat Lay smiling, like a star in blackes... ...he wild Queen, who saw not, burst away To weep and wail in secret; and the barge, On to the palace-doorway sliding, paused. There two stood armed, and... ...a cove, and watched The high reed wave, and lifted up his eyes And saw the barge that brought her moving down, Far-off, a blot upon the stream, and sa... ...nds, when I was leaning out Above the river—that unhappy child Past in her barge: but rosier luck will go With these rich jewels, seeing that they ca... ...e long glories of the winter moon. Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them; and descen... ...e world. 209 Idylls of the King Then murmured Arthur, ‘Place me in the barge. ’ So to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth the... ... men, strange faces, other minds. ’ And slowly answered Arthur from the barge: ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils hims...

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... to get at the tackle. Up sail they did, an’ away they went, deep as a Rye barge, away into the off-shore mists, an’ the Widow Whitgift she sat down a...

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...d received strict orders from my sister to call for him at the Three Jolly Bargemen, that evening, on my way from school, and bring him home at my per... ... on my way from school, and bring him home at my peril. To the Three Jolly Barge- men, therefore, I directed my steps. There was a bar at the Jolly Ba... ...se necessary to consider about it, but because it was the way at the Jolly Bargemen to seem to consider deeply about everything that was discussed ove... ...een all on my side, for Mr. Wopsle parted from us at the door of the Jolly Bargemen, and Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse ... ...in the county. Joe caught up his hat again, and ran with them to the Jolly Bargemen to restore them to their owner. While he was gone, I sat down on m... ... that the man was gone, but that he, Joe, had left word at the Three Jolly Bargemen concerning the notes. Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of ... ... but would slouch in as if by mere accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or went away at night, he would slouch out, lik... ...her expressive nor or- namental. A pot of beer had appeared from the Jolly Barge- men, and they were sharing it by turns in a peaceable manner. The lu... ...village. The way by which we ap- proached it, took us past the Three Jolly Bargemen, which we were surprised to find – it being eleven o’clock – in a ...

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... down stream will not do, for they were going up stream. Difficulties with barges in tow have nothing to do with the accident, for they had no barge. ...

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...ce, eight of these kings came to meet him at Chester, and rowed him in his barge along the river Dee. It was the grandest day a king of England enjoye... ... said they wanted to speak to the king. In the morning he came down to his barge, and meant to have spo- ken to them; but his people, seeing such a ho...

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...ar from one of these theatres, which are all built of wood, lies the royal barge, close to the river. It has two splen- did cabins, beautifully orname...

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...e window dropped. The head of a man emerged. It was the head of one of the bargefaced men of the British Isles, broad, and battered flattish, with sen... ...! my lord, no.’ ‘Help the lady down. Out with you, Ines!’ The light-legged barge-faced man touched ground capering. He was greeted ‘Kit’ by the pair o... ...ate: his party said he was no danc- ing-master. He stepped out, grave as a barge emerging from a lock, though alive to the hurrahs of supporters and p... ...y; for Kit’s quips and cuts and high capers, and the Sunday gravity of the barge face while the legs were at their impish trickery, double motion to t...

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... with difficulty his Menadic host. Such a host—marched not in silence! The bargeman pauses on the River; all wagoners 160 The French Revolution and c... ...: all Citizens are ordered to be within doors. On the River float sentinal barges, lest we escape by water: the Barriers hermetically closed. Frightfu... ...isitioned, to do the touch-holes, the hard-solder and filework. Five great Barges swing at anchor on the Seine Stream, loud with boring; the great pre...

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...ttle state- room, or cabin, in the middle of the long-boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-she...

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...In Carrington Street they stopped to hang over the parapet and look at the barges on the canal below. “It’s just like Venice,” he said, seeing the sun...

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...aye separating: and now the great lady sailed along the sward like a royal barge in festival trim. She looked friendly, but friendly to everybody, whi...

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...talk to me? I was the lonely new guy who was made to feel as if I was diseased, totally stupid, unloved and on an unfriendly planet. I couldn’t just barge in and demand to be someone’s mate.’ ‘I wanted to, but I felt too shy and inadequate. You’re smart and a loner and recently you’ve been sort of hanging out with those up-themselves wealthy wankers. I thought you and Ra...

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...wn row. The row arose at a boat-race. The Town boat (manned by eight stout Bargees, with the redoubted Rullock for stroke) had bumped the Brazenose li... ...izar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. V avasour of Brazenose was engaged with a pow- erful butcher, ... ... Margaux or Lafitte?” “He never can be going to match himself against that barge- man!” Rafael exclaimed, as an enormous boatman—no other than Rullock... ...to this Goliath; “don’t you see he’s but a boy?” “Down he goes again!” the bargeman cried, not heeding the interruption. “Down he goes again: I likes ... ...he ground, was an instant’s work. At the next he stood before the enormous bargeman. * * * After the coroner’s inquest, Mendoza gave ten thous... ...ter the coroner’s inquest, Mendoza gave ten thousand pounds to each of the bargeman’s ten children, and it was thus his first acquaintance was formed ... ...ainst the tide, and Kuno, the coxswain, was looking carefully to steer the barge between some dangerous rocks and quicksands which are frequently met ...

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... the river, always a bright and animated sight with its swarms of sailors, barges, and wherries. Harry laughed at recognizing in the parlor the well-r... ...o their privilege, being brought from the Tower with state processions and barges, and accompanied by lieuten- 159 Thackeray ants and axe-men, the co... ...al- ace, and that busy shining scene of the Thames swarming with boats and barges, filled his heart with pleasure and cheerful- ness—as well such a be...

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...to New York Harbour. One goes to this place by tugs from the United States barge office in Battery Park, and in order to see the thing properly one ne...

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...hand tells Matthew: “Sometimes it just takes a strong hand” 309. Shut out, Matthew listens as Dennis describes “the ultimate development” 310. Matt barges into the house and destroys the sound equipment 311. With Ellen left behind, Morris visits Steward, not knowing why 312. At Scott’s Bluff, Morris struggles to regain the old ideal 313. Morris returns to the family h...

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...e Tiber’s flow, Hangs all in sight, and down the sacred stream The sliding barges vanish like a dream, The seaman’s shrilling pipe not enters here, No...

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...mained of the departed Break-Neck glories. Sometimes, indeed, a laden coal barge would bump itself into 9 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins the plac...

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...ulk. They would wait—he explained this from the quay to the skipper in the barge—and they would continue to wait till the man-of-war came along, exact... ...bles, by saying what he thought of the morals and manners of the crew. The barge returned to the Haliotis in silence, and the skipper climbed aboard, ... ... green seas. I near died o’ cauld an’ hunger, for the Grotkau towed like a barge, an’ Bell howkit her along through or over. It was vara thick up-Chan... ...eyond the dreams of avarice. Here, where the hoot of the Haverstraw brick- barge-tug answers the howl of the locomotive on either shore, you shall fin... ...ake to his office, at an average speed of seventeen knots an hour,—and the barges can look out for themselves,—Wilton Sargent, American. 221 The Day’...

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... same—namely, tinklermen, petermen, hebbermen, trawlermen; of the fleet of barges that lay at the Savoy steps; and of the long lines of slim wherries ...

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...seems, kept a weir or stop upon the river, made to raise the water for the barges which go up and down the river, and he terrified them with dismal st...

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... little State room or Cabin in the middle of the Long Boat, like that of a Barge, with a Place to stand behind it to steer an hale home the Main sheet...

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...irtues watching, ease her sleep, Trouble best wind that drives salvation’s barge, The Christians fled, whither they took no keep, Some strayed wild am... ... of her love ashamed, the way did take, To the wide ocean whither skiff or barge From us doth seld or never voyage make, And there to frolic with her ... ...ad spread his morning ray Since first the dame launched forth her wondrous barge And never yet took port in creek or bay, But fairly forward bore the ... ...foot to tread, But he, since first the enchanted isle he left, Safe in his barge the roaring waves still cleft. LIV By the same way returned the well-...

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...d barbel, and wine both white and red.** Some- times he went by water in a barge, playing chess or tables with a friend in the pavilion, or watching o...