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...ing, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner....

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...ock above, he stopped at Joe Frenna’s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner. Onc... ...n his operating chair at the bay win- dow, reading the paper, drinking his beer, and smoking his huge porcelain pipe while his food digested; crop-ful... ...s food digested; crop-full, stupid, and warm. By and by, gorged with steam beer, and overcome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effe... ...ney stacks of the in- tervening houses, the glass roof of some huge public baths glittered like crystal in the afternoon sun. Under- neath him the bra... ...lence, trilling and chittering continually, splashing about in its morning bath, keeping up an incessant noise and movement that would have been madde... ...ess I could.” “I can swim a little. Sometimes we all go out to the Crystal Baths.” “The Crystal Baths, huh? Can you swim across the tank?” “Oh, I can ... ...tement ran through the street on the occasion of “The Polk Street Open Air Festival,” organized to celebrate the introduc- tion there of electric ligh... ...,” organized to celebrate the introduc- tion there of electric lights. The festival lasted three days and was quite an affair. The street was garlande... ...39 Frank Norris “Ah, you think you’re smart, don’t you?” The result of the festival was the organizing of a body known as the “Polk Street Improvement...

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...tly on her forehead and eyes. Sud- denly, like a traveller relaxed after a bath, Minna forgot these keen emotions, already dissipated by that caressin... ...ped against a pile of other books as on a desk. At his left stood a jug of beer and a glass, at his right burned a smoky lamp fed by some species of f... ...ieur Wilfrid, in pretending to be a Spirit of Wisdom?” He drank a glass of beer and so did not see the singular look which Wilfrid cast upon Minna. “J... ..., ‘Do not leave us! we adore thee! stay!’ Flowers, bursting from the seed, bathed her in their fragrance which uttered, ‘Stay!’ The giant Enakim came ... ...and those of the small. Everywhere do they go; they are worn with pride at festivals, carried in despair to usurers, borne off in triumph amid blood a... ...hose raiment is less glorious than that of the flowers of the field. These festivals, splendid in light, bathed in music which the hand of man creates... ...than that of the flowers of the field. These festivals, splendid in light, bathed in music which the hand of man creates, aye, all the triumphs of tha... ...ealth, the music of Joy, or a vast concourse of people at- tend his mental festival? No, he finds his glory in some dim retreat where, perchance, a pa...

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...e chapter devoted to “Legends of Frankfort,” I find the following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer was a great mask-ball, at the coro... ...ecognizable. Proud and yet modest he advanced to the Em- press; bowed on one knee before her seat, and begged for the favor of a waltz with the Queen ... ... human, he better take in his sign, that’s all. Now I’m going to tell you a perfectly true fact about some bluejays.” CHAPTER IV: Student Life The Lab... ...to the “corps” boys. The “Kneip” seems to be a specialty of theirs, too. Kneips are held, now and then, to celebrate great occasions, like the electio... ... the election of a beer king, for instance. The solemnity is simple; the five corps assemble at night, and at a signal they all fall loading themselve... ...ile this picture was thought to be Bindi Altoviti’s portrait; now somebody will again have it to be the self-portrait of Raphael.” 73 A Tramp Abroad ... ... existence. A good many of these people are there for a real purpose, however; they are racked with rheumatism, and they are there to stew it out in t... ...mp stone houses, is the home of rheumatism. If that is so, Providence must have foreseen that it would be so, and therefore filled the land with the h...

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...d W ardle, after a substantial lunch, with the agree able items of strong beer and cherry brandy, had been done ample justice to, ‘what say you to an... ... forcibly dragging every man’s glass away, long before he had finished his beer, and audibly stating, despite the winks and interruptions of Mr. Bob S... ...rcumstances, owns to having been in the constant habit of drinking ale and beer; says he is not certain whether he did not twice a week, for twenty ye... ...a alleybi!’ CHAPTER XXXV IN WHICH Mr. PICKWICK THINKS HE HAD BETTER GO TO BATH; AND GOES ACCORDINGLY ‘BUT SURELY, MY DEAR SIR,’ said little Perke... ...,’ said that gentleman, ‘if you leave me to suggest our destination, I say Bath. I think none of us have ever been there.’ Nobody had; and as the prop... ...nder his arms, looked at his boots and ruminated. ‘I wonder whereabouts in Bath this coach puts up,’ said Mr. Pickwick, mildly addressing Mr. Winkle. ... ...le of her own country, and the king proclaims the fact, and a great public festival besides; for now, of course, Prince Bladud will come back and marr...

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...riod and of a good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work was consc... ...s of tutorship for the holi- days, from Mr. Dugdale and the Marchioness of Bath. The question where his university life was to be spent began to come ... ...arts, sham railway- trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of every name, strength, and colour, pipes, cigars, toys, gam- bling, ... ...isfied with less than any people I ever saw (barring two things, smoke and beer, in which they are insatiable). I went out to see it all, but it rathe... ...s and pumpkin (very good indeed), jam pudding, bread, and plenty of water (beer I refused). It did taste so good, I am quite ashamed of thinking about... ...y hand as of old with a cricket bat. Then I do rather have good salt-water baths, and see glorious sunsets and sun- rises, and star-light nights, and ... ...he absence of all that is customary in En- gland on these occasions (great festivals), though I dare not say how far the loss of all these privileges ... ...ointing the Lesson and its teaching. ‘The sermon was on the thought of the Festival: “And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts ... ... bit about the weddings seems appropriate:— ‘These wedding days were great festivals, especially before many had been seen. The Chapel was dressed wit...

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...s: if they find me worthless, they will dismiss me; I will return and brew beer.” (Moniteur (in Hist. Parl. xx. 412).) Or figure what correspondences ... ...t thither; but with non- effect; he might as well have returned and brewed beer. It has become peremptorily necessary that a National Convention cease... ...a Vendee burns: Santerre can do nothing there; he may return home and brew beer. Cimmerian bombshells fly all along the North. That Siege of Mentz is ... ...led;—and sits now, about half- past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore af- flicted; ill of Revolution Fever,—of what other malady this ... ...ith precisely elevenpence-halfpenny of ready money, in paper; with slipper-bath; strong three- footed stool for writing on, the while; and a squalid— ... ...e: Barbaroux, Petion, writes he with bare shrunk arm, turning aside in the bath: Petion, and Louvet, and—Charlotte has drawn her knife from the sheath... ... The five odd days we 164 The French Revolution - V olume Three will make Festivals, and name the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Fest... ...ame the five Sansculottides, or Days without Breeches. Festival of Genius; Festival of Labour; of Actions; of Rewards; of Opinion: these are the five ... ..., whilom called Leap-year, we introduce a sixth Sansculottide; and name it Festival of the Revolu- tion. Now as to the day of commencement, which offe...

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... _2045 The chains of earth like mist melted away, Decreed to hold a sacred Festival, A rite to attest the equality of all Who live. So to their homes,... ...wrath beguiles With her own sustenance, they relenting weep: Such was this Festival, which from their isles _2305 And continents... ...eace in the Tyrant’s palace, where the throng Waste the triumphal hours in festival and song! _3900 13. 13. 13. 13. 13. Day after day the burn... ... Marlow, 1817 (summer); already in the press, March, 1818; finished at the Baths of Lucca, August, 1818; published with other poems, as the title-piec... ...nd and Helen” was finished during the summer of 1818, while we were at the Baths of Lucca. JULIAN AND MADDAL JULIAN AND MADDAL JULIAN AND MADDAL JULIA... ...MRS. SHELLE TE BY MRS. SHELLE TE BY MRS. SHELLEY Y Y Y Y. . . . . From the Baths of Lucca, in 1818, Shelley visited Venice; and, circumstances renderi... ...—and methodism; 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. Taxes too, on wine and bread, And meat, and beer, and tea, and cheese, From which those patriots pure are fed, Who gorg...

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...But she from home hath departed And wander’ d far, far away. Yes, far away bath she wander’ d, Perchance e’en over the sea; Move onward, ye sheep, the... ... Lily’s heart could surely never fall So soon away from me! As when a bird bath broken from his thrall, And seeks the forest green, Proof of imprisonm... ...87 Goethe The free-born bird of old no more is seen, For he another’s prey bath been. 1775. The Bliss of Sorrow. NEVER dry, never dry, T ears that e... ...ghters shall tend thee with sisterly care My daughters by night their glad festival keep, They’ll dance thee, and rock thee, and sing thee to sleep.” ... ...ttle away On table, on bench, and on stool; Then all who had joined in the festival gay With their partners attempt to grow cool. The hams and the sau... ...n finding us here, They’ll drink, though with toil we have fetch’d it, the beer, And leave us the pitchers all empty.” Thus speaking, the children wit... ... seem they, and grey they appear, Yet blithely they sip and they revel The beer has all vanish’d, the pitchers are void; With cries and with shouts th... ...ting a beating and scolding. But see what they’re tasting: the choicest of beer! Though three times and four times they quaff the good cheer The pitch... ..., and all things indicate peace soon; And when at length the long-expected festival’s holden Here in our church, and the bells chime in with the organ...

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...urprising how much ruin they will bear. We have an excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butch... ...ether about the shipping in the Channel, or gruffly unbending over mugs of beer at the public house, you would consider them the slowest of men. The c... ...see no end of salt and sandy little boots drying on upper window sills. At bathing time in the morning, the little bay re echoes with every shrill var... ... or it would not be French. They are very popular, and very cheap. The sea bathing—which may rank as the most favoured daylight entertainment, inasmuc... ...and I looked at him, until the driver displaced me by handing in a pint of beer, a pipe, and what I understand is called ‘a screw’ of tobacco—an objec... ...f. I am the inventor of these wans.’ His pipe was now alight. He drank his beer all at once, and he smoked and he smiled at me. ‘It was a great idea!’... ...carriage, ‘This is too fast, but sit still!’ He was at the Norwich musical festival when the extraordi nary echo for which science has been wholly un...

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...body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile chi... ...ght-eyed crea- tures—the tam htab, who is woolly and blue and lives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, w... ...-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang the Internatio... ... a heavy, “Oh, these Dutch farmers don’t want sympathy. All they need is a bath and a good dose of salts.” 17 Sinclair Lewis Carol must have flinched... .... Other saloons down the block. 38 Main Street From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty song... ...ked. Europeans are still wickeder. It doesn’t hurt any to drink a glass of beer on a warm day, but anybody who touches wine is headed straight for hel... ...n found release from loneliness. But all of the smart set went to the lawn-festivals of the Episcopal Church, and were reprovingly polite to outsiders... ...ere reprovingly polite to outsiders. The Harry Haydocks gave the last lawn-festival of the season; a splendor of Japanese lanterns and card-tables 37... ...448 Main Street to the question of whether Gopher Prairie oughtn’t to have festivals and lamb chops.” Hastily, “No, no! Sure not. I und’stand.” “But I...

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...-houses, whence, when they were wanted, call-boys summoned them from their beer. Scores of the great dandies of London squeezed and trod on each other... ...ater every day. “Do what you like—dine where you please—go and have ginger-beer and sawdust at Astley’s, or psalm-singing with Lady Jane—only don’t ex... ...ok hands with me before the whole company, and asking me at dinner to take beer with him, before the Commander-in-Chief him- self; he ain’t got manner... ... lovely Princess Amelia of Humbourg-Schlippenschloppen took place. At this festival the magnificence displayed was such as had not been known in the l... ...low; and I have no doubt got Tapeworm the advancement and the Cross of the Bath which he subsequently attained. Crowds of foreigners arrived for the f... ...s were always full of dollars and whose rela- tions were away at the grand festival of the Court, came to the Stadthaus Ball in company of his uncle’s... ...her private room and shared in the innocent amusements of the place in sea-bathing, and in jaunts in open carriages, in strolls on the sands, and in v... ...among students, bagmen, small tradesmen, and country-folks come in for the festival, Becky had found a little nest—as dirty a little refuge as ever be... ... or to come into the cities, walk into the bazaars, refresh himself in the baths, and say his prayers in the mosques, before he goes out again maraudi...

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... irritable before breakfast. It may have been the tre- mendous home-brewed beer of the prohibition-era and the cigars to which that beer enticed him; ... ... his idea he was carried down the hard, dean, unused-looking hall into the bathroom. Though the house was not large it had, like all houses on Floral ... ...s not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towe... ...he Babbitt whose god was Modern Appliances was not pleased. The air of the bathroom was thick with the smell of a heathen tooth- paste. “Verona been a... ...s as much as I feel like, and drink a hundred and nine-thousand bottles of beer.” He sighed; he read through his mail; he shouted “Msgoun,” which mean... ...well bunch of Lizzie boys and lemon-suckers and pie-faces and infidels and beer-bloated scribblers that love to fire off their filthy mouths and yip t... ...e, like all perpetrators of masculine wiles. She stared at him, the joy of festival drained from her face. “Do I bother you when we go on vacations? D... ...in the chair, his stiff hair like a hedge, his voice like a brazen gong of festival. Members who had brought guests introduced them pub- licly. “This ...

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... had no milk on board, and could only give it bits of soft bread soaked in beer, and I misdoubt me whether it did not all run out at the corners of it... ...ted a moment. Antony had the entree to the presence chamber, where on this festival night the Earl and Countess were sure to be with the Queen. He wen... ... my mind. Nay, madam, though assuredly I do desire it because the Countess bath been ever my good lady, and bred me up ever since I was an orphan, it ... ... Unknown To History of the great hall erected by the Earl over the baths was al- ready coming in sight, and by and by they would look into the... ... was the great hall, built by the present Earl George, and containing five baths, intended to serve separately for each sex, gentle and simple, with o... ...er for London first, and then for Ply- mouth, the second day after a great festival for the wedding of the little Alethea, daughter of Gilbert, Lord T... ...young heir of Arundel. The Tal- bot family had been precluded from holding festival for full fourteen years, or indeed from entertaining any guests, s... ... is,” replied Cis. “Then let him look well at the bottom of each barrel of beer supplied for the use of her household. There is an hon- est man, a bre... ... no, sir! ’Twas thus. There’s an honest man at Burton, a brewer, who sends beer week by week for this house, and very good ale it is, as I can testify...

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... there was some difficulty in deciding on which evening he should have his bath. It was never easy to get plenty of hot wa- ter , since the kitchen bo... ...tchen boiler did not work, and it was impossible for two persons to have a bath on the same day . The only man who had a bath- room in Blackstable was... ...e was Mr. Wilson, and it was thought ostentatious of him. Mary Ann had her bath in the kitchen on Monday night, because she liked to begin the week cl... ...tion, ate his simple break- fast. He was a short man, stout from excessive beer drinking, with a heavy moustache and long, unkempt hair. He had been i... ...son with heaviness of spirit. For these occasions he kept a few bottles of beer under the bed, and one of these and a pipe would help him to bear the ... ... life. “A hair of the dog that bit him,” he would say as he poured out the beer, carefully so that the foam should not make him wait too long to drink... ... last been driven off just before Christ- mas by the preparations for that festival. He could not support the thought of a Teutonic merry-making. It g...

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...by his favourite hanger- on to be destined ‘literally to cut the throat of Bath and Cheltenham.’ Some towns are said to have required the life of a ch... ...re the foremost victims to the Cheveleigh iron foundries and the Northwold baths. The close of the war brought a com- mercial crisis that their compan... ...ringing your messages.’ ‘Who set him down in the kitchen to drink a cup of beer?’ said Louis, mischievously. ‘Ah! well! one comfort is, that girls nev... ...Oh! I have heard it all this time gurgling there!’ She filled his cap, and bathed his face, apparently to his great relief, and she ventured to ask if... ...on, but such as he had habitually made, only now it was for a more perfect Festival. His father, as much awestruck by his hopes as distressed by his p... ... that were with the Provencal maiden through all her enforced round of gay festivals, light minstrelsy , tourneys, and Courts of Love. Thus far had th...

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...efresh himself, ere retiring to have his wounds dressed, with a draught of beer from a wooden bottle, when an imploring cry from a wounded Swede, lyin... ...f warm mineral water, salt and sulphurous, which were used for the sick to bathe in, and thus the place was called Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wa... ... the household gods of his family required yearly a sacrifice on their own festival day on the Quirinal Hill, arrayed himself in the white robes of a ... ...d in triumph, upon a soft litter, in a golden cage, as long as any heathen festivals lasted. The reward of Pontius Cominius does not appear; but surel... ... the T emple was newly dedicated, with songs and hymns of rejoicing, and a festival day was appointed, which has been observed by the Jews ever since.... ...ess to Attalus; but though the poor young man— no longer daintily dressed, bathed, and perfumed, but ragged and squalid—might be seen following his he... ...ee vassals of another of the murderers, she repeatedly ex- claimed, ‘Now I bathe in May dew.’ Once, indeed, she met with a stern rebuke. A hermit, for...

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... which the pen refuses to describe. Soda-water was not invented yet. Small beer—will it be believed!—was the only drink with which unhappy gentlemen s... ...Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome ... ... my hosses? Come, bear a hand, my fine feller, and Miss will give you some beer,” said John, with a horse-laugh, for he was no longer respectful to Mi... ...nal headache and fever. Got up at nine, and went down to the Hummums for a bath. I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocke... ...—smiling with countless dimples, speckled with white sails, with a hundred bathing-machines kissing the skirt of his blue garment—that the Londoner lo... ...t pointed seawards, so as to command every pleasure-boat, herring-boat, or bathing-machine that comes to, or quits, the shore, &c., &c. But have we an... ...eatest folks of England walked in the Park —there was a perpetual military festival. George, taking out his wife to a new jaunt or junket every night,... ...s a very good sport for a philo- sophical frequenter of V anity Fair. This festival, on which honest George spent a great deal of money, was the very ... ... lovely Princess Amelia of Humbourg-Schlippenschloppen took place. At this festival the magnificence displayed was such as had not been known in the l...

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...He hung about the house, not caring to do much, except taking me out in my Bath chair or languidly reading the most exciting books he could get;—but t... ...a certain age, who had lived with her uncle, and now proposed to remove to Bath. Mr. Winslow had, it appeared, lost his only son as a schoolboy, and h... ...m the place where the coach passed, connecting it with the civilisation of Bath and Bristol, from each of which places it was about half a day’s dista... ...iffith’ was always known to be a great ambition of the little queen of the festival. As to the mullion chamber legends, they had nearly gone out of ou... ...ouble to nobody, after he had had his bit of bread and cheese and glass of beer to his supper.’ Ay, Peter knew what young gentlemen was. He did not ex... ...s, under a hardworking London vicar, and thenceforth his holidays were our festivals. Our old Lon- don friends pitied us for what they viewed as a fea...

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...tle round cosily as we sit by the fire. That old thing will have a sort of festival too. Beef, beer, and pudding will be served to her for that day al... ...we sit by the fire. That old thing will have a sort of festival too. Beef, beer, and pudding will be served to her for that day also. Christmas falls ... ... good. I have often eaten half-a-crown’s worth (including, I trust, ginger-beer) at our school pastrycook’s, and that is a proof that the pastry must ... ... staying with us for a week (and who has been sleeping mysteriously in the bath-room), comes to say he is going away to spend the rest of the holidays...

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...arload had never stripped for a swim in his life; never had a simultaneous bath all over his body since his childhood. Not one in fifty of us did in t... ...crooked blinds of the people cooped within. Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a... ...o the high road. The high road ascended in a curve past a few houses and a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial to... ...unusually quiet and empty, but beyond the corner, where the first group of beershops clustered, it became populous. It was very quiet still, even the ... ...t of all the broad stretches of muddy, sandy beach, with its queer wheeled bathing machines, painted with the advertisements of somebody’s pills—and t... ...er— “Know Bungalow village?—rather. Artis’ and such. Nice goings on! Mixed bathing—something scandalous. Yes.” “But where is it?” I said, suddenly exa... ...t that time my attention was much engaged by the stir of the great Beltane festival that was held on May-day in the Year of Scaffolding. It was the fi... ...k of small fires; and it was, I think, a happy idea to revive this ancient festival of the May and November burnings. It was inevitable that the old i... ...ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 I REMEMBER that first Beltane festival as the most terribly lonely night in my life. It stands in my mind...