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...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... as such anywhere, anytime, by everyone. Affiliation and Morality The Anglo-Saxon members of the motley "Coalition of the Willing" were proud of t... ... of self- definition ("I am an Israeli", for instance) shared by all the affiliated members (the affiliates). One's moral obligations towards one's ... ...reducing the numbers of humans. To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature caus... ... individual over a serious illness can in the long run contribute to weakening the resistance of the whole human race to certain diseases. If we pa... ...s. Read more about Europe after communism - click HERE to download the e-book "The Belgian Curtain". Many articles about Europe and the European Un... ...ir internal power structure. It poses new demands on scarce resources. It provokes resistance and unrest. If mismanaged - it can spell doom rather ...

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...pers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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...lows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daugh- ter Dorothy Beltham; a married da... ...to our house. The sins of Mrs. Waddy were forgiven her, owing to her noble resistance to the legal gentleman’s seductive speech. So I walked up and do... ...nconvenience created by the ap- propriation of our pocket-handkerchiefs by members of the crowd, induced us to disentangle ourselves from it without c... ... rather he had been a savage captain, to have braced our spirits to sturdy resistance, instead of a mild, good-humoured man of kind intentions, who le... ...t or marvel pre- tending to amuse us. Temple and I cantered over the great Belgian battlefield, talking of Bella Vista tower, the statue, the margravi... ...ve to be speaking French in an hour.’ ‘German, Richie, German.’ ‘But these Belgians speak French.’ ‘Such French as it is. You will, however, be engage... ...l I should become efficient in German to amuse her, but the dulness of the Belgian city compared with her lively German watering- places compelled her... ...bosom of its great jealous Fatherland. Previously in Sarkeld I had noticed members of the diminutive army to smile down on them. I saw the princely ar... ...lo—it was buffalo courtship; and his shout of rallying astonishment at her resistance, ‘What? What?’ rang wildly to heighten the scene, she leaning co...

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...he air, out of nothingness, that will necessarily array against itself the resistance of all those who are in con- trol, or interested in the control,... ...f the affairs of sovereign States of the world as they are at present; the resistance of a gigantic network of Government organisations, interests, pr... ...al of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling th... ...considered worthless and impracticable. But it is manifest now that if the Belgian and French fron- tiers had been properly prepared—as they should ha... ... its tradition from Magna Charta onward, the legal training of most of its members, all make towards a reverence for private ownership and private cla... ...igns, to adventure or achieve. “Wait and see” crystallises its spirit. Its resistance is admirable, and it has no “go.” Nevertheless there is a tenden... ...ss, but a warm welcome back to the comity of nations. The French, British, Belgians and Italians, and every civilised force in Russia would tumble ove... ...triotic intrigue and more racial self-respect. They are not only Poles but members of a greater brotherhood. My impression is that Poland will “go Sla...

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... phlegmatic, flat, inexcitable, and that you cannot get up to the pitch of resistance, why, God made you to be crushed; and lie down by all means, and... ...hat they 48 The Professor said—yet French, in the mouths of Frenchmen, or Belgians (I was not then sensible of the horrors of the Belgian accent) was... ...!” said I. “But,” asked he, “do you understand French well enough to teach Belgian boys English?” Fortunately I could answer this question in the affi... ...ch circumstance, all who are in any degree acquainted with the ongoings of Belgian schools, and who know the relation in which professors and pupils t... ...ial; I, poor, despised and powerless; so we stood to the world at large as members of the world’s society; but to each other, as a pair of human being... ...captured spoil, saying, that was noth- ing—a mere copy of verses. I put by resistance with the deci- sion I knew she never long opposed; but on this o... ...barrassment might have im- pelled her to contend, but self-respect checked resistance where resistance was useless. “Frances, how much regard have you...

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...could only speak English, Dobbin procured for Jos’s party a swarthy little Belgian servant who could speak no language at all; but who, by his bustlin... ...of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. They seem for the most part shabby i... ...mmand of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and 49 Thackeray the bonne, who was maid-of-all-work for ... ...t to meet the Emperor Napoleon. This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. The troops of his nation signalised themselves in this war ... ..., as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James’s powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy. My Lord Southdown, her late husband, an e... ...nd delight his sister-in-law, who was disposed to look kindly upon all the members of her husband’s family. He wrote to his brother a very frank, manl... ...hese and four others formed the representative body which returned the two members for Queen’s Crawley. There was a show of courtesy kept up between t... ...this reasonable desire was always very injurious to the old gentleman; and resistance became doubly exasperating when gout, age, loneliness, and the f... ...re- proach and a pain to her. His very sight annoyed her. Fear, doubt, and resistance sprang up, too, in the boy’s own bosom. They were separated from...

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...bstance like soft oilcloth; one warms the mattress (which is of metal with resistance coils threaded to and fro in it); and the others warm the wall i... ... in various de- grees, each directing current through a separate system of resistances. The casement does not open, but above, flush with the ceiling,... ...aw” is to degrade, thwart, torture, and kill the weakest and least adapted members of every species in existence in each generation, and so keep the s... ...y certain in the latter case that there was no “promiscuity,” and that the members mated for variable pe- riods, and often for life, within the group.... ...,” at what Mr. Francis Galton now calls “Eu- genics,” in the mating of the members, and there was also a limitation of offspring. Beyond these points ... ...ed it, he would overcome and disre- gard. He has the most amazing power of resistance to un- congenial ideas; amazing that is, to me. He hates the ide... ...ines of the popular logic. The depopulation of the Congo Free State by the Belgians, the horrible massacres of Chinese by European soldiery during the...

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...a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament; and the place, from the day of that illustrious visi... ...born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married to Grizzel, sixth... ...you would disinherit him in case of disobedience would only be followed by resistance on his.” “Why, hang it, man, you don’t call offering him eight o... ...could only speak English, Dobbin procured for Jos’s party a swarthy little Belgian servant who could speak no language at all; but who, by his bustlin... ...of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. They seem for the most part shabby i... ...mmand of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and the bonne, who was maid-of-all-work for the establishm... ...t to meet the Emperor Napoleon. This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar. The troops of his nation signalised themselves in this war ... ..., as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James’s powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy. My Lord Southdown, her late husband, an e... ...this reasonable desire was always very injurious to the old gentleman; and resistance became doubly exasperating when gout, age, loneliness, and the f...

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...de Quincey under the spontaneous impulse of our own horses. Their diabolic resistance continued to the last. And one may ven- ture to hope that the se... ...t; but he was even more signally under a demoniac pos- session of mutinous resistance to man. The case was really a memorable one. If ever there was a... ...ra- ture by translating and improving the work of Tenhove the Dutchman (or Belgian?) upon the house of the De ’ Medici— a work which Mr. Roscoe consid... ...which young academicians are placed in the family of a professor. Here, as members of a private household, and that household under the presiding eye ... ...exampled distinction—her vast disposable fund of accommodations for junior members within her own private cloisters—pos- sesses an advantage which she... ...retensions of Christ Church; feelings of superiority and leadership in the members of that college, and often enough of defiance and jealousy on the p... ...st violent, but where (being possibly the weakest) it is most fretted with resistance. In England, the very reason why the aristocratic feeling makes ... ...ts the patronage of France; and in effect that same remark which a learned Belgian (Van Brouwer) has found frequent occasion to make upon single secti...

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...of Nations idea, is to think of some very elaborate and definite scheme of members on the model of existing legislative bodies, called together one ha... ...gressively possess it. And, more- over, this idea queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emph... ...ear say—putting them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portugues... ...ell die fighting as starve. This is a far more vital issue to him than the Belgian issue or Poland or Alsace-Lorraine. Our statesmen waste their breat... ...in the government of their own lands, until they too become free and equal members of the world league. Neither France nor Italy nor Britain nor Ameri... ...her it will resist openly, become the centre and sym- bol of a reactionary resistance, and have to be abolished and swept away altogether everywhere, ... ... by known and responsible men. London, alas! does not seem to care how its members are elected. What Londoner knows 81 H.G. Wells anything about his ...

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... Italian business; that their merchants are not bona-fide individuals, but members of a nationalist conspiracy to gain economic controls. The German i... ... and her husband had met a min- ister—I found afterwards he was one of the members of the late Giolotti government—who had been talking very loudly an... ...owl- edge is not the last among the forces that is crumpling up the German resistance upon the Somme. I visited some French guns during the tir de dem... ...to be of more use with a commission and drew him, in spite of considerable resistance, out of the firing line. T o which he always returns whenever he... .... We shall still be in a drama of blind forces following the line of least resistance. One of the people who is often spoken of as if he were doing an... ...is the happiness of a few thou- sands of the Herero, a few millions of the Belgians—whose numbers moreover are constantly diminishing—when we might we... ...r the fine and generous. It leaves out the French and the Italians and the Belgians and all our blood brotherhood of allies. It has no compelling forc...

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... has made out the certificates, and they are al- ready in the hands of the members. I suggest that they come on with them; but that, for greater caut... ...to understand. It says “General Schofield has refused leave of absence to members in military service to attend the legislature. All such are radical... ...sday will prob- ably turn upon this thing.” what does this mean? Of course members of the legislation must be allowed to attend its ses- sions. But h... ...es has been brought to a close by the award of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, to whose arbitration the question was referred by the parties. T... ...ur armed de- fenders, and the masses of the people, that courage, power of resistance, and endurance necessary to secure that result; to implore Him i... ...he Executive aid and assistance to any such people so soon as the military resistance to the United States shall have been suppressed in any such Stat... ...s than heretofore shall be adopted. In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the na- tional authority on the part of the insurgents as the...

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...ION’S STORY H E WAS VERY RELUCTANT to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, by beginning the round of stories they were to relat... ...have no doubt (said the poor relation) that I shall surprise the assembled members of our family, and particularly John our esteemed host to whom we a... ...t what I am supposed to be. It is supposed, unless I mistake—the assembled members of our family will correct me if I do, which is very likely (here t... ... had nothing to say; but, on the part of the Society, he counselled deadly resistance. With this view he recommended that all available desks should b... ... little what his name was. Let us call him Legion. If you were ever in the Belgian villages near the field of Waterloo, you will have seen, in some qu...

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... be patient.’ His heart was hard with disillusion: a continual gnawing and resistance. But he worked on. What was there to do but submit! The sunlight... ... father’s. It was he who had all the glamour for her. He and she were like members of some forbidden secret society who know one another but may not r... ...r more obvious. Therefore I read with a callous heart the effusions of the Belgian damsel. But then I gathered my attention. For the 81 England, My E... ...t. ‘It’s the boy from the next farm,’ she said. ‘Oh, well,’ said I, ‘those Belgian girls! Y ou never know where their letters will end. And, after all... ... the veins in his neck stood out, and he stirred again uncomfortably. ‘The Belgian girl said her baby had been born a week ago, and that they were goi... ...cated with the vestry, not with the body of the chapel. She knew the choir members had been peeping for information. At last Harry came—rather sheepis...

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...alled Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south co... ... being heard by a guard of Norman horse soldiers outside, was mistaken for resistance on the part of the English. The guard instantly set fire to the ... ... was one of the very few places from which he did not run away; because no resistance was shown. He made another ex pedition into Wales—whence he di... ...y, named Nichola de Camville (whose property it was), made such a sturdy resistance, that the French Count in command of the army of the French Prin... ...h, to what was called a Committee of Government: consisting of twenty four members: twelve chosen by the Barons, and twelve chosen by himself. But, at... ...ople who had suffered from them. He also called about his bed the enriched members of the Woodville family, and the proud lords whose honours were of ... ... called him by the sounding name of the White Rose of England. The leading members of the White Rose party in England sent over an agent, named Sir Ro...

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... ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 AND THERE was an extraordinary mental resistance to discov- ery and invention for at least a hundred years after ... ... of civilisation, shattered, it seemed, almost irrepara- bly. He found the Belgian hills swarming with refugees and desolated by cholera; the vestiges... ...ays I hope to place things in the hands of a more efficient caterer….’ The members of the new world government dined at three long tables on trestles,... ...l renascence, there was little attempt to get negotiable advantages out of resistance to the new order. Human beings are foolish enough no doubt, but ... ...nd super- intelligences into the control of affairs. It was teachable, its members trailed ideas with them to the gathering, but these were the conseq... ... its proceedings due to the forgetfulness, irritability, or fatigue of its members. It experimented considerably and blundered often. Excepting Holste...

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...it to immigration any more than to inva- sion; each is war to the knife, and resistance to either but legitimate defence. Yet we may regret the free t... ...s ironically called the free town of Frankfort-on-the-Main ; nor the Franco- Belgian frontier; nor the inn at La Fere; last, but not least, he is pret... ... utterance of which he had the secret – “Suivez!” said he. The arrest of the members, the oath of the T ennis Court, the signing of the declaration of...

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...ces on the hangings, where they were caught back by ropes of pearl. A warm Belgian carpet, thick as turf, of a gray ground with blue posies, covered t... ...e engrossed in a round of other inter- 12 A Daughter of Eve ests. All the members of such a family live disunited, forget- ting one another, bound to... ...itimist, henriquinquist Right, and the carlest Right. Between the party of resistance and that of action there was no discussion; they might as well h...

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...s enemies pressed forward to- wards Metellus. This old commander, making a resistance beyond what could be expected from one of his years, was wounded... ...ies, who came and sat down before the town, hoping to take it without much resistance; and meantime gave over the pursuit of the Spaniards, and allowe... ...d order in the cities, and without bloodshed or banishment of any of their members, reestablished the proper constitution in the governments, and now ... ... them; but now they made their en- trance, and burnt and plundered without resistance the hith- erto untouched and sacred territory, up to Eurotas, an... ...ppearance he seemed far distant from Rome, entangled in the affairs of the Belgians, Suevians, and Britons, in truth he was working craftily by secret... ...ns he wrote against Antony, and so they are called to this day. When these members of Cicero were brought to Rome, Antony was holding an assembly for ... ...ntor of all these ingenious and exquisite compli- ments, enacting that the members of any deputation that the city should send to Demetrius or Antigon...

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...two ex- tremes of toil and pleasure which make up a journalist’s life, and resistance is the very foundation of virtue. Y ou would be so delighted to ... ...ands of men of abilities even lower than the average, but endowed with the resistance of flexibility of india-rubber, qualities denied to noble genius... ...ant analysis, seemed so far greater in his eyes than the grave and earnest members of the brotherhood. And besides all this, he was reveling in his fi... ...y a Liberal if it was well reviewed by the Opposition papers; but then the Belgian pirated editions were not as yet. The preparatory attacks made by L... ...t back a box of 223 Balzac tumbled artificial flowers. The more incapable members of the party were grotesquely tricked out in these blossoms, and a ...

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... beset with enemies within as well as without. Some of the “suspects” were members of her official house- hold. Her Minister of Interior was thrown in... ...rom the canteen in his slightly unsteady and delicately made hand. He is a Belgian. Volun- teered at beginning of war. Permission at Paris, overstayed... ...jabbings of strange tongues. Some high boy’s voice is appeal- ing to me in Belgian, Italian, Polish, Spanish and—beautiful English. “Hey, Jack, give m... ...oward the very station whereat some hours since I had disembarked with the Belgian deserter and my former es- corts, we moved. I was stiff with cold a... ...ss of time it has occasioned me. Imagine it—I had contracts with countless members of The Lords— and the war came. Then I was sent to the front by The... ...zone of the armies. It was pointed out to me that the task of finding such members of the human race was pas difficile: in the case of the men, any fo... ... up the peeling of the amazingly cold pota- toes which formed the pièce de resistance (in guise of Soupe) for both women and men at La Ferté. And if t... ...you. You heard that. I saw the whole affair. He was attacked, he put up no resistance whatever, he was beaten by two cow- ards. He is no more to blame...

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...ngaged in “aggravating” her, Miss Flouncy screamed: at the next moment the Belgian giant lay sprawling upon the carpet; and Jeames, standing over him,... ... what a dinner we’ll serve you to-day.” Jools wrote off to his paper— “The members of the haughty and luxurious English aristoc- racy, like all the re... ...y grinning on his harm! “Phansy my feelinx.” “Immagin when these unfortnat members of my famly hentered the room: you may phansy the ixtonnishment of ... ... of Russia and family had paid their accustomed visit; and the King of the Belgians had, as usual, made his visit to his royal father-in-law, under pr... ...nce of duty and pleasure, but really to demand payment of the Queen of the Belgians’ dowry, which Louis Philippe of Orleans still resolutely declined ... ...and the whole of his face in a beautiful foam of lather. Mr. Bar made some resistance.— ”Don’t think of it, Mr. Cox,” says he; “don’t trouble yourself... ...e one of you that will not respond to the cry in behalf of these deserving members of our sex? “It has been determined by the Ladies-Patronesses to gi...

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...dd years of our domestic perplexity, in the presence of the eighty and odd members pledged for Home Rule, have been moved to excited inquiries regardi... ...ake in order to check the advance of the Italian fourth corps d’armee. The resistance to the undertaking of Cialdini may be, on the part of the Austri... ...ked at Naples and Civita V ecchia, comprising a strong batch of French and Belgian priests returning from a pilgrimage to Rome, well supplied with ros... ...l the hostages held for ransom; and next, the summary execution of several members of gendarmery and police force captured in various skirmishes by th...

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...d radiating — Extinction separates and defines groups —Morphology, between members of the same class, between parts of the same individual — Embryol- ... ...f cases of albinism, prickly skin, hairy bodies, &c., appearing in several members of the same family. If strange and rare deviations of structure are... ...y tail-feathers, instead of twelve or four- teen, the normal number in all members of the great pigeon family; and these feathers are kept expanded, a... ... a bay horse. My son made a careful examination and sketch for me of a dun Belgian cart-horse with a double stripe on each shoulder and with leg-strip... ... theory, and should be loth to apply it to breeds so distinct as the heavy Belgian cart-horse, Welch ponies, cobs, the lanky Kattywar race, &c., inhab... ...his would have favoured the average length of their flotation and of their resistance to the injurious action of the salt-water. On the other hand he ...

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...as they are. In practice their Imperialism resolves itself into a vigorous resistance to taxation and an ill-concealed hostility to education. It matt... ...—wise. The thing our society has most to fear from Labour is not organised resistance, not victorious strikes and raised condi- 43 H. G . Wells tions... ...oportional representation, with large constituencies return- ing each many members, there is to be found a way of escape from this disastrous embarras... ...eadily pressed over the margin of subsistence. It was a nearly involuntary resistance to class debasement. Mr. Vernon Hartshorn has expressed it as th... ... doubt if there is any use for more than 400,000 men upon the whole Franco-Belgian frontier at the present time. Such an army , properly supplied, cou... ...y must contemplate a working politi- cal combination between the Socialist members in Parlia- ment and just that non-capitalist section of the Liberal... ...d some logical minds would even go further, and have no law as between the members of a family, no rights, no private property within that limit. The ...

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...of grass have died upon a dying earth, man, indomitable by his training in resistance to misery and pain, shall set this undiminished light of his eye... ...ement will only be lim- ited by the power of helping itself to the severed members of its friends and neighbours. The era of wars so eloquently denoun... ... the conduct of the menaced Governments carried with it no sug- gestion of resistance. It was no doubt, the effect of neither courage nor fear, but of... ...th of its ideals conscious of their kinship with the West. Such a power of resistance creates a moral obligation which it would be unsafe to neglect. ... ...I know what England will do” (this was before the news of the violation of Belgian neutrality arrived), “though I won’t tell you, for I am not absolut... ...? A Board of … I believe the Speaker of the Irish Parliament is one of the members of it. A ghost. Less than that; as yet a mere memory. An office wit... ...out a murmur. When she went she plunged bodily down like a stone. The only members of the ship’s company who survived were the third officer, who was ...

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...ss at the time, and had the right of nomination. He and my father had been members of the same debating society (where they were generally pitted on o... ...ng as Ohio years, to me. At last all the examinations were passed, and the members of the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of ser... ... As the men charged with mutiny submitted to being placed in irons without resistance, I always doubted if they knew that they had mutinied until they... ...e a few men in front and I charged upon them with my company. There was no resistance, and we captured a Mexican colo- nel, who had been wounded, and ... ...ve been won, just as it was, if I had not been there. There was no further resistance. The evening of the 9th the army was encamped on its old ground ... .... The incumbent was appointed by the county court, which consisted of five members. My oppo- nent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen... ...o the old United States flint-lock muskets changed into percussion, or the Belgian musket imported early in the war—almost as dangerous to the per- so...

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...tting her head in at the door again after she had taken it out, to enforce resistance to the two clever ones. It appeared to have become a perfect pas... ...with no knowledge even of the com- mon daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred... ...n, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco- ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that con- vivial institution had left them on its ad... ...he trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were too deaf t... ...nt from the room. This was quietly done by Flora; Mr F.’s Aunt offering no resistance, but inquiring on her way out, ‘What he come there for, then?’ w... ...al force, would perhaps have screwed it out of her, if there had been less resistance in her; but she was too strong for him. So far as Mistress Affer... ...ing, worked with beads! I have often seen these among old Dutch people and Belgians. Quaint things!’ ‘They are old-fashioned, too,’ said Mrs Clennam. ...

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... and McCloskies, who on such an occasion were bound to show themselves, as members of the family. With them and his two sons the Duke walked across to... ... selves on being the elect of the nation. It often appears to me that some members of Parliament so regard their success in life,—as the fellows of ou... ...ucation or religion. I have known gentlemen who have felt that in becoming members of Parliament they had achieved an object for themselves instead of... ...occasion there was to be a consid- erable infusion of royal blood,—German, Belgian, French, Spanish, and of native growth. Everybody, who was asked wo... ...and af- fectionate, are not strong enough to support their own feelings in resistance to the will of those who have au- thority over them. ’ Had it b...

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...ing room, which like all the rooms in the house was exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one behind each chair—stood wait- ... ...were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to the young prince. The members of the house- hold were all gathered in the reception hall: Michael... ...other end sat the younger and less important guests, and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Helene, side by side. Prince V asili ... ...’s face, the count went out of the room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all expected this. “Papa! Pa-pa!” he called afte... .... The Imperial army, strictly speaking, was one third com- posed of Dutch, Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, ... ...even in his eyes was now replaced by an energetic readiness for action and resistance. His feet were bare. Pierre first looked down the field across w...

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...tting her head in at the door again after she had taken it out, to enforce resistance to the two clever ones. It appeared to have become a perfect pas... ...with no knowledge even of the com- mon daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred... ...n, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco- ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that con- vivial institution had left them on its ad... ...he trials were made in the presence of a board of six, of whom two ancient members were too blind to see it, two other ancient members were too deaf t... ...nt from the room. This was quietly done by Flora; Mr F.’s Aunt offering no resistance, but inquiring on her way out, ‘What he come there for, then?’ w... ...al force, would perhaps have screwed it out of her, if there had been less resistance in her; but she was too strong for him. So far as Mistress Affer... ...ing, worked with beads! I have often seen these among old Dutch people and Belgians. Quaint things!’ ‘They are old-fashioned, too,’ said Mrs Clennam. ...