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... Guaisqlain. The tax-gath- erer now writes the name, as do the rest of the world, du Guenic. 10 Balzac At the end of a silent, damp, and gloomy lane ... ...he family. It is as it was in the days when the crusaders of the Christian world invented these symbols by which to recognize each other; the Guaisnic... ...re with a tortoise-shell comb. The color, not un- decided in tone as other blond hair, sparkled to the light like a filagree of burnished gold. The ba... ...ut to write the impieties that actors repeat, 50 Balzac to roam about the world, first with an enemy to the Pope, and then with a musician, ah! Calys... ... was able to study the different comedies which passion, covetousness, and ambition make the general- ity of men perform,—even those who are highest i... ...lained her conduct, incomprehensible to her friends, in vari- ous ways,—by ambition, by the dread she felt of a lonely old age; she wanted to confide ... ...pyrus that they wrapped round mummies. Personally, Beatrix is one of those blondes beside whom Eve the fair would seem a Negress. She is slen- der and... ...the old housekeeper in the background arranged some biscuits. “Fair women, blonds,” said Camille, “have the advantage over us poor brown things of a p... ...reat writer; but this unpublished Machiavelli laughs within himself at all ambitions; he knows what he can do; he has instinctively taken the measure ...

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...t I have to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius a... ...a great host of minds that have had a kindred aspiration, have dreamt of a world of men better ordered, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities ... ...fe, washed himself, put on his “noble court dress,” closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hat- ing and personal... ...ful qual- ity. It is their exclusive claim that sends them wrong, the vain ambition that inspires them all to teach a uniform one- sided God and be th... ...er as the journey progressed. My educational bias came later. The swelling ambitions that have tramped over Alpine passes! How many of them, like mine... ...ould end muddle for ever; it ruled all our ideals and gave form to all our ambitions. Every man was to be definitely related to that, to have his pred... ...4 The New Machiavelli and I was twenty-two. It was just before the walking tour in Switzerland that opened up so much of the world to me. I saw her on... ...ompany them. One of them I recall as a quite romantic figure with abundant blond curly hair on which was poised a grey felt hat encircled by a refined... ...authorities would prevent it. If Messrs. Perowne or Cook organised a cheap tour of Manchester op- eratives, it would be stopped. No one dare bring the...

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...e was a brave girl, ready to go all over the 6 Lord Ormont and His Aminta world with him; had taken to him as he to her, shot for shot. Her taking to... ...n eye for the field and the moment for his arm to strike as any Murat. One world have liked to see Murat matched against the sabre of a wily Rajpoot! ... ...ing the English hero’s age—as that he, Lord Ormont, had been a name in the world for the last twenty- five years or more. The noble lord could be no c... ...to a sister sharing the pride exultant in the cry of the hawk, scornful of ambitions poultry, a passed fin- ger-post to the plucked, and really regret... ...y the sisterly lady on the tombstone of hopes aimed with scarce pardonable ambition at her brother. She blew away the rumour. Ormont, she vowed, had n... ...ard if we would gain assurance of man’s advance. It nerves an ad- monished ambition. He was ushered into a London house’s library, looking over a nigg... ... Mrs. May, Amy May, notorious wife of a fighting captain, the loneliest of blondes; and other ladies, other gentlemen, Mr. Morsfield in the list, pair... ...ere, you know; and there was a time when the lovely innocent Amy, Queen of Blondes, held the seat of the Queen of Brunes. Ah, my dear, the infidelity ... ... was inattentive to Mrs. Lawrence’s answer. The allu- sion of the Queen of Blondes had stung her in the unac- knowledged regions where women discard t...

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...d to stay here 9 Balzac as long as her father lives, she has fastened her ambition on a future son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors an... ... Balzac with so great a contentment with himself that he smiled on all the world and under all circumstances. Those simpering lips smiled at a funeral... ...us flag of Progress. Progress! one of those words behind which more flimsy ambitions than ideas were trying to group themselves; for, after 1830, it r... ...Yes.” It was gilding put upon the word liberalism, a new pass-word for new ambitions. “If I have rightly understood what this meeting is for,” said Je... ...Marne, and Haut-Marne, richly endowed with vineyards, the fame of which is world-wide, are otherwise full of flourishing industries. Without speaking ... ...al life, might still evolve from that living block a charming woman of the world. Madame Beauvisage had had the courage to bring up her 51 Balzac dau... ...present in the countess’s salon last evening. The chief talkers were Emile Blondet of the “Debats,” and Monsieur Bixiou, the caricaturist, one of the ... ...don’t see how he can rise any higher after all that success.” “That,” said Blondet, “is a regular Bixiou opinion.” “No doubt; and well-founded it is. ... ...nor the sixteenth century.” “Has Dorlange any such delusions?” asked Emile Blondet. “He? he will talk to you by the hour of returning to the life of t...

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... probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community. The author’s most sincere thanks for assistance rendered i... ... him?” she hazarded. “Oh, Laura, I couldn’t,” gasped Page. “I wouldn’t for worlds.” “Couldn’t she, Aunt Wess’?” appealed Laura. “Wouldn’t 10 The Pit ... ...nishingly good-looking, small-made, wiry, alert, ner- vous, debonair, with blond hair and dark eyes that snapped like a terrier’s. He made friends alm... ...exalta- tions and enthusiasms. Until he was eighteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said ... ...st, for the reason that there is a great harvest of wheat somewhere in the world for every month in the year; and, second, because the smart man who r... ...o marry him, but she, deep in her studies at the time, consumed with vague ambitions to be a great actress of Shakespearian roles, had told him she co... ...d to indicate that one phase of her life was ended. Then, too, she had her ambitions. These hardly took definite shape in her mind; but vaguely she ch... .... Gretry and Page. The broker’s wife was a vivacious, small, rather pretty blonde woman, a little angular, a little faded. She was garrulous, witty, s... ...s as spruce as though he were already the bridegroom, his cheeks pink, his blonde hair radiant. But he was thin and a little worn, a dull feverish gli...

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...g; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world con- fronting her. Our temporary world,... ... woman capable of faith in the pelted solitary of her sex, our tempo- rary world blows direct East on her shivering person. The scandal is warrant for... ...he stolid bid her best sayings rebound on her reputation. Nevertheless the world, as Christian, re- members its professions, and a portion of it joins... ...escribes her in his ‘Recollections’ as a splendid brune, eclipsing all the blondes coming near her: and ‘what is more, the beautiful creature can talk... ...iana regained her happy composure at Copsley. She had, as she imagined, no ambition. The dulness of the place con- veyed a charm to a nature recoverin... ...he saw fine qualities in him. It might be that he was lavish on his bridal tour. She said he was unselfish, kind, affable with his equals; he was cord... ...he perplexing riddle: the knottier because the man was idle: and Diana had ambition; she despised and dreaded idleness in men. Empty of inhabitants ev... ...for she had wealth and a cook, a husband proud of his wine-cellar, and the ambition to rule; all the rewards, together with the expecta- tions, of the... ...that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-coloured Beauty. ‘A lovely wheat sheaf, if the head were ri...

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...ppose. It’s not my habit to bang about the piazza and pounce upon innocent tour- ists. But tonight, I confess, I am under the charm. And then, somehow... ...brush who had posted himself here to ex- tort an “order” from a sauntering tourist? But I was not called to defend myself. A great brazen note broke s... ...ve really lived, intellectually. One by one, all profane desires, all mere worldly aims, have dropped away from me, and left me nothing but my pencil,... ...th some satis- faction, that I have not added a mite to the rubbish of the world. As a proof of my conscientiousness and he stopped short, and eyed me... ... the morning in the Tribune of the Uffizi— that little treasure-chamber of world-famous things. He had turned his back on the Venus de’ Medici, and wi... ... know, who deny that his spot- less Madonnas are anything more than pretty blondes of that period enhanced by the Raphaelesque touch, which they decla... ...tever my talents may be, I am honest. There is nothing grotesque in a pure ambition, or in a life devoted to it.” There was something so sternly since... ...e 33 Henry James sculpture and satire, signore, has been my unprecedented ambition. I flatter myself that I have not egregiously failed.” As this jau...

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...rk Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years sin... ...hich has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE RHINE FROM BASLE TO ROTTERDAM, by F. J. Kiefer; translated by L. W. Garnham, B.... ...rt of way which quietly pretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them all his life, and that the reader cannot possibly be ignorant of them—... ...ty of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds ... ...of branches to a point about twenty- five feet above-ground, and from there upward so thick with boughs that not a ray of sunlight could pierce throug... ...precise, and courtly ceremony with which the thing is conducted, invests it with a sort of antique charm. This dignity and these knightly graces sugge... ...mmonly awkward; but, like the sword leading true be- lievers to the gates of Paradise, they must needs be passed before we could attain to the summit ... ...The contents of the sack were spread upon a long table, and officially inventoried, as fol- lows: Portions of three human skulls. Several tufts of bla... ... still per- fect at seventy-two, and he exhibited strong emotion. He said: “Pierre Balmat was fair; he wore a straw hat. This bit of skull, with the t...

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...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...he Great Scholar of the neighbor- hood; the authority on everything in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blod... ...pped back into cautious reality. Chum Frink had recently been on a lecture-tour among the small towns, and he chuckled, “Awful good to get back to civ... ...re, you want to look at what they’re aiming to become, and they all got an ambition that in the long run is going to make ‘em the finest spots on eart... ...s disconcerting. Zilla was an ac- tive, strident, full-blown, high-bosomed blonde. When she condescended to be good-humored she was nervously amusing.... ... newspaper as he hated a broken sales-contract. She was seventeen now. Her ambition was to be a cinema actress. She did not merely attend the showing ... ...y and spinsterish. She was perhaps forty; her hair was an unconvincing ash-blond; and if her chest was flat, her hips were ponderous. She greeted Babb... ...rity when he failed to keep up. To be the “livest” of them was as much his ambition now as it had been to excel at making money, at playing golf, at m...

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... hundred francs, and renounce ‘The Queen of Roses,’ your true glory? Leave ambition to others. He who puts his hand in the fire gets burned,—isn’t tha... ...practice. Little Xandrot, as we call him, thinks, like all the rest of the world, that we are richer than we are. If his father, that big farmer who i... ...to you to let me make you rich. For a Parisian girl you have 13 Balzac no ambition! If it hadn’t been for your perpetual fears, no man could have bee... ...on’t know how to talk, nor to play ‘your obedient servant’ like men of the world; how then do you expect that we could succeed in government places? I... ...an’t sleep. Hey! luckily little Popinot has the finest head of hair in the world. A shop-girl with hair long enough to touch the ground, and who could... ...nce. At the time when this history begins he was vicar of the cathedral of Tours, and had only once left that city to visit his brother Cesar. The bus... ...their business, it was necessary to find a man who had more integrity than ambition, more plain good sense than ability. Ragon proposed the affair to ... ...orning-gown, fresh and rosy as a young girl is fresh and rosy at eighteen, blond and slender, with blue eyes, Cesarine seemed to the young artist a pi... ... I dazzled, am I going blind? Was that Cesarine?” he cried, recollecting a blond head he had seen at the window. He had actually seen his daughter, hi...

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...nk-house. He was more or less of a charlatan, but he fired Mrs. McTeague’s ambition, and young McTeague went away with him to learn his profession. He... ...rmous strength. For McTeague was a young giant, carrying his huge shock of blond hair six feet three inches from the ground; moving his immense limbs,... ...ctor McT eague. Dental Par- lors. Gas Given”; but that was all. It was his ambition, his dream, to have projecting from that corner window a huge gild... ... “Dental Parlors” was for him a point of vantage from which he watched the world go past. On Sundays, however, all was changed. As he stood in the bay... ...irst experience. With her the feminine element suddenly entered his little world. It was not only her that he saw and felt, it was the woman, the whol... ...ing—he sweated under it—to be forced to tor- ture her, of all women in the world; could anything be worse than that? “Hurt?” he inquired, anxiously. S... ...usin Mark very well. And then suddenly this cross-current had set in; this blond gi- ant had appeared, this huge, stolid fellow, with his im- mense, c... ...east. Then Trina, resting on her elbows, would part his mustache-the great blond mustache of a viking—with her two hands, push- ing it up from his lip... ... was the T ooth—the famous golden molar with its huge prongs—his sign, his ambition, the one unrealized dream of his life; and it was French gilt, too...

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...worth eleven francs have been known to drop to six. In this country, as in Touraine, atmospheric vicissitudes control commercial life. Wine-growers, p... ...ive his daughter to the one or to the other. The old cooper, eaten up with ambition, was looking, they said, for a peer of France, to whom an income o... ... former retorted that the Abbe Cruchot was the most insinuating man in the world: pit a woman against a monk, and the struggle was even. “It is dia- m... ...r hand, and said: “Adolphe wishes to make you my little offering.” A tall, blond young man, pale and slight, with tolerable man- ners and seemingly ra... ...e of its boot, and said to Eugenie,— “Thank you, my cousin, but I dined at Tours. And,” he added, looking at Grandet, “I need nothing; I am not even t... ...ad in one quarter of an hour than she had ever had since she came into the world. “Mamma,” she said, “my cousin will never bear the smell of a tallow ... ...ou will accept. A voice will henceforth and for- ever pray for you in that world where we must all go, and where I am now as you read these lines. Vic... ...ly the nickname of “the old dog.” If the mayor of Saumur had car- ried his ambition higher still, if fortunate circumstances, draw- ing him towards th... ...of d’Aubrion; they have known each other from childhood.” Intoxicated with ambition, Charles toyed with the hopes thus cleverly presented to him in th...

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...he modern Phocaeans are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, ... ...round them. Their intense happiness isolated them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in broken words, which are the tokens of a joy s... ...r; it is Fernand — the man whom, after you, Edmond, I love the best in the world. Do you not remember him?” “Yes!” said Dantes, and without relinquish... ... bad sort of one.” “Perhaps not,” replied Danglars; “but I hear that he is ambitions, and that’s rather against him.” “Well, well,” returned M. Morrel... ...oleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitions followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the per... ...of an unending torture seized upon his heart. The man he sacrificed to his ambition, that innocent victim immo- lated on the altar of his father’s fau... ... “No, sire,” he replied, “I alighted at the Hotel de Madrid, in the Rue de Tournon.” “But you have seen him?” “Sire, I went straight to the Duc de Bla... ... the more so as the person for whom the yacht was intended had gone upon a tour through Switzerland, and was not expected back in less than three week... ... with large blue eyes, of that deep color that harmonizes so well with the blond complexion; only his hair, which was too light, gave his face a most ...

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... her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no ... ...; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. ... ...sition. Miss Rebecca was not, then, in the least kind or placable. All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, and we may be pretty cer... ...ouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them trooping to water- ing-places? What ... ...avern where the Prince found her, and whither we should all like to make a tour; when shrill cries, as of a little fellow weeping, woke up his pleasan... ... piano. Being a light- complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatte... ...nel to the smallest drummer in the regiment, all were filled with hope and ambition and patriotic fury; and thanked the French Emperor as for a person... ...dowed with such quali- ties as Miss Swartz possessed; and a great dream of ambition entered into old Mr. Osborne’s soul, which she was to realize. He ...

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...at only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it— a difference; and it... ...ction to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustome... ...hild, might quit its abode—whether in the church vault or in the un- known world of the departed—and rise before me in this chamber. I wiped my tears ... ...eeress. I though how I would carry down to you the square of unembroidered blond I had myself pre- pared as a covering for my low-born head, and ask i... ...sk why I did not come. She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... ... started at the word “ambitious.” He repeated, “No. What made you think of ambition? Who is ambitious? I know I am: but how did you find it out?” “I w... ...sion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowl- ed... ...s, has perma- nent power over me. Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, in... ...n of the result of my labours. With some difficulty, I got him to make the tour of the house. He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had...

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...umbug, so an uninitiated man cannot take upon himself to portray the great world accurately, and had best keep his opinions to himself, whatever they ... ... portly, brass-buttoned, noble-looking, polite, and prosy—the young ladies blonde, timid, and in pink—the mothers grand, beautiful, sumptuous, solemn,... ...would take care artlessly to apolo- gize for her blunders, so that all the world should know that she had made them. Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and... ...which was spent upon the entertainments with which they treated the polite world was a 11 Thackeray mystery which gave rise to some conversation at t... ...Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. Obstinate heretics used to be brought thither convenient... ... V olume Three If he had been an English nobleman travelling on a pleasure tour, or a newspaper courier bearing dispatches (government messages are ge... .... We see by these examples that we are not to consult our own interest and ambition, but that we are to consider the interests of others as well as ou... ...ty was too cruelly genteel for Emmy, and all jumped for joy when a foreign tour was proposed. CHAPTER LXII Am Rhein THE ABOVE EVERYDAY EVENTS had occu... ...other mug of beer?” and one and another suc- cessively having buried their blond whiskers in the mawkish draught, curled them and swaggered off into t...

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...lace at home knew him again, and made the acquaintance also of a handsome, blonde young woman, of redundant contours, speaking a foreign tongue. The f... ...onstantly to believe that all women were fair, all men were brave, and the world was a delightful place of sojourn, until the contrary had been distin... ...an art. He did n’t see why we should n’t produce the greatest works in the world. We were the biggest people, and we ought to have the biggest concept... ...ppy, I suspect, in spite of your virtues, and there are worse fates in the world than being loved too well. I have not had the pleasure of seeing your... ...ible greatness, “that you don’t at all thank me for stirring up your son’s ambition on a line which leads him so far from home. I suspect I have made ... ...n art- world, had not hitherto been subject to incursions from inquisitive tourists, and, having no regular reception day, was not versed in the usual... ...erior girl. My own impression is that she is a mixture of good and bad, of ambition and indifference. Mrs. Light, having failed to make her own fortun... ... pulling them in. If her daughter were less of a beauty, her trans- parent ambition would be very ridiculous; but there is something in the girl, as o... ...ust have measured, from ear to ear, at least a yard and a half. And he was blond, too, which made it worse— as blond as Stenterello; pure fleece! So I...

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...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...eir felicity, it was the foundation of all my misfortunes. I came into the world with so few signs of life, that they entertained but little hope of p... ...ng: and in good health— the hands that opened my eyes to the light of this world may close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the comm... ...emphasis, an aqueduct! an aqueduct! Till then, at intervals, I had fits of ambition, and could fancy myself Brutus or Aristides, but this was the firs... ...obtained an easy subsistence, if not a fortune; this would have bounded my ambition; I should have had means to indulge in moderate pleasures, and sho... ...the principal object. A single castle, for instance, might have bounded my ambition; could I have been the favorite of the lord and lady, the daughter... ...s pre- decessor, whose head became deranged, the consul from France, M. le Blond, had been charged with the affairs of 280 The Confessions the embass... ...s to saying, ‘voyez cela’, examine and pay attention to this. I went to M. Blond to beg he would speak to the patrician, to whom the theatre belonged,... ...t he might discharge Veronese, who had engaged in the name of the king. Le Blond, to whom the commission was not very agreeable, executed it badly. Zu...

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...rovised Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor... ...—and all on such a scale, and under such aspect: cloudy ‘death-birth of a world;’ huge smoke-cloud, streaked with rays as of heaven on one side; girt... ...ear or flurry, at what moment soever, to the wants of the moment. Were the world on fire, one improvised tricolor Municipal has but one life to lose. ... ...the Temple and been committed elsewhither to Prison, some, as Governess de Tourzelle, are to be let go: one, the poor Princess de Lamballe, is not let... ...lauded and feasted; paraded in glittering saloons, floods of beautifullest blond-dresses and broadcloth-coats flowing past him, endless, in admiring j... ...urning on the heel, but strives to interpret it differently.)—”Marat!” The blonde-gowns quiver like aspens; the dress-coats gather round; Actor Talma ... ... and such like; a set of men sold partly to Pitt; sold wholly to their own ambitions, and hard-hearted pedant- ries; who will not fix the grain-prices... ...as, there is our old Salle de Manege; but neither at this Gate of the Pont Tournant is there egress. Try the other; and the other: no egress! We wande... ...thing, or rather two other things, we will still mention; and no more: The Blond Perukes; the Tan- nery at Meudon. Great talk is of these Perruques bl...

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...orrecting popular errors endorsed by historians, made and published to the world very remarkable works. Thus Monsieur de Launoy, nicknamed the “Expell... ...s the generals of armies, become objects of hor- ror or derision? Half the world hesitates between the famous song on Marlborough and the history of E... ...reat prince would have succumbed. Having to make head against factions and ambitions like those of the Guises and the house of Bour- bon, against men ... ...ompted by the same sentiment. At this epoch Venice had the commerce of the world; Rome had its moral govern- ment; Italy still reigned supreme through... ...that the young man had offered an insult to the favorite. Diane’s greatest ambition was for the honor of an alliance with the royal family of France. ... ...his model, and, above all, his master in gallantry—concealed the excessive ambition of his house beneath an external ap- pearance of light-hearted gai... ... which came down on each side of her face. Though fair and white as a true blonde, she seemed to be shrewd and roguish, all the while trying to hide h... ...urselves? I love to pass my fingers through your silky hair and tangle its blond curls. Ah ca! sweet one, don’t let your women kiss that pretty throat... ... fair and fresh and gay. At sixteen, Mary Stuart’s skin had that exquisite blond whiteness which made her beauty so celebrated. Her fresh and piquant ...

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...ad of the great banking house in Paris. This young man with a livid face—a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescrib... ...target of its arrows and a member of the unnum- bered tribe of Niobes. Her blonde wig, carefully curled and well arranged upon her head, became the co... ...onged to the type of woman called, perhaps in memory of Eve, the celestial blonde; whose satiny skin is like a silk paper applied to the flesh, shudde... ... had for- gotten for twenty years, thought himself the happiest man in the world as the owner of the little house (which his master’s liberality had f... ...bed were in harmony. The girl had transported her ex- istence into another world, as much denied and disbelieved in in these days of ours as the new w... ...will become of her?—an old maid, of course.” “What a fate! to have had the world at her feet; to have had the chance to marry Francisque Althor,—and n... ...answers, bestowing upon him a great deal of wit and intelligence. The high ambitions of her heart hidden within these ro- mances were the real explana... ...cause his trumpet had never ceased tooting its one little tune.” Canalis’s ambition was to enter political life, and he made capital of a journey he h... ...in this noble family of alleged egoists. Ah! if I had found self-interest, ambition, a seared nature where I now can see my best loved flowers of the ...

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... 1 1 1 1 1 ONE OF THE MINOR PECULIARITIES of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information—in which eve... ... wicked Hindenburg Ogre. Well, I come 6 War and the Future back from this tour with something not so simple as that. If I were to be tied down to one... ...d say that this war is Queer. It is not like any- thing in a really waking world, but like something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of l... ...it has the quality of wholesome instinct struggling under a nightmare. The world is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts ... ...is my unshakeable belief that essentially the Allies fight for a permanent world peace, that primarily they do not make war but resist war, that has r... ...al Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- tithesis to the Imperial boomster of Berlin... ... There are stories that sound pleasantly true to me about General Joffre’s ambitions after the war. He is tired; then he will be very tired. He will, ... ...upon a coin, whose merits were a little flawed by a childish and dangerous ambition to run over every cat he saw upon the road, I talked to de T essin... ...ge. A face that had still a healthy natural pinkness looked out from under blond curls, and an elegant and carefully tended hand tossed 131 H G Wells...

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... her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no ... ...; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. ... ...sition. Miss Rebecca was not, then, in the least kind or placable. All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, and we may be pretty cer... ...ouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them trooping to water- ing-places? What ... ... piano. Being a light- complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatte... ...nel to the smallest drummer in the regiment, all were filled with hope and ambition and patriotic fury; and thanked the French Emperor as for a person... ...dowed with such quali- ties as Miss Swartz possessed; and a great dream of ambition entered into old Mr. Osborne’s soul, which she was to realize. He ... ... portly, brass-buttoned, noble-looking, polite, and prosy—the young ladies blonde, timid, and in pink—the mothers grand, beautiful, sumptuous, solemn,... ...other mug of beer?” and one and another suc- cessively having buried their blond whiskers in the mawkish draught, curled them and swaggered off into t...

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...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...le wife Jessica saw to the shop, and Heaven had planned him for a peaceful world. Unfor- tunately Heaven had not planned a peaceful world for him. 5 ... ...u see?” “Not singing in the streets?” “Streets! No fear! But ‘ow about the Tour of the Waterin’ Places of England, Grubb? Singing! Young men of family... ...of bed-bench, in an atti- tude of elaborate self-abandonment, was a large, blond lady, wearing a fur coat and a big floriferous hat. Her head lolled b... ...ht of it first as it trailed past him, and was seized with a discreditable ambition to kill it. He pursued it, briskly with unpleasant cries. It cross... ...ung Caesar. To many he seemed Nietzsche’s Overman revealed. He was big and blond and virile, and splendidly non-moral. The first great feat that start... ...ltless English as he entered. He had a beaming face, and a sort of pinkish blond hair. “Fancy you being Butteridge. He slapped Bert’s meagre luggage ... ... and violence and cruel folly, stupidity and blun- dering hate and selfish ambition—all the things that men have done—all the things they will ever do...

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... such as one sees in the later portraits of the Duke of Wellington. He was blond, and incessant exposure to the sun had, instead of tanning him brown,... ...tudy of literature, and, more especially, of poetry. It was his insatiable ambition to write verse. But up to this time, his work had been fugitive, e... ... fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, a... ...wearied him. He cared for none of these things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagina... ...e facts. Just what he wanted, Presley hardly knew. On one hand, it was his ambition to portray life as he saw it—directly, frankly, and through no me-... ...nt, eter- nal, strong, the nourisher of nations, the feeder of an en- tire world. Ha! there it was, his epic, his inspiration, his West, his thunderin... ...pport. Both her parents were dead; she was dependent upon herself. Her one ambition was to see Italy and the Bay of Naples. The “Marble Faun,” Raphael... ...mself, with his own erect, fine carriage, his thin, beak-like nose and his blond hair, with its tendency to curl in a forward di- rection in front of ... ...my way?” Dyke hesitated in some confusion, tugging at the ends of his fine blonde beard. “No, no. I guess I’ll leave you here. I’ve got—got other thin...

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...t, plump, and fresh, with fine shoulders and a rather rosy complexion. Her blond hair, bordering on chestnut, showed, in spite of her husband’s catast... ...ife. She shuddered at the risk her children ran of being left alone in the world without means. Quite incapable of understanding Roguin when he explai... ...lippe, the elder of the two sons, was strikingly like his mother. Though a blond lad, with blue eyes, he had the dar- 21 Balzac ing look which is rea... ...; he is happier, he is independent, he lives as he likes, he reigns in the world of fancy. Your son has a glorious future before him. Faculties like h... ...herself, “Ah! how he loves me!” Alas, the hero loved but one person in the world, and that person 36 The Two Brothers was Colonel Philippe. His misfo... ..., in the end, make her pseudonym of Mariette famous; and the motive of her ambition, it must be said, was praise- worthy. She had a brother, a clerk i... ...O’s, from which it derived the name of “schoolpaper”—the loveliest mass of blonde hair that ever a daughter of Eve could have desired, was twisted up,... ...ed all the pleasures of educating Flore without the annoy- ances which the ambitions and pretensions of Mademoiselle de Romans inflicted, it is said, ... ...ere the rules his father had told him to follow. Usury, that clog upon the ambition of the peasantry, is the destroyer of country regions. This levy o...

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...them?” “Almost.” “What has become of them?” “I don’t know; we separated, as you know. They are alive, that’s all that I can say about them; from time ... ... They are alive, that’s all that I can say about them; from time to time I hear of them indirectly, but in what part of the world they are, devil take... ...chefort smiled contemptuously. “Since I was a faithful servant, my lord, to Cardinal Richelieu during his life, it stands to reason that now, after hi... ...th him, he made use of his time in gazing at Bazin. Bazin wore his dress, it may be observed, with equal dig- nity and saintly propriety. It was not d... ...again in the Bastile.” “Oh, as to that, I shall take care, I assure you. The air, the fresh, free air is so good; besides,” and Rochefort drew a deep ... ... lover of Madame de Chevreuse, who had been to a former court what Madame de Longueville was in that day; and he wondered how it was that there should... ...nly failed to reply, he even changed the sub- ject of conversation. “Y ou see,” said he, calling D’Artagnan’s attention to the fact that they had come... ...ame; could De Rochefort have fore- stalled him with Athos? Again, the moderate fortune which Athos possessed, concealed as it was, so skillfully, seem... ... woman?” he said. “I don’t know what it was. As I have said, she was twice married, once in France, the second time in England.” “She was young, you s...

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...r the Jefferson Gryce collec- tion was really considered the finest in the world, and what 11 Edith Wharton was the largest price ever fetched by a s... ...od scanning her with interest and approval. He was a plump rosy man of the blond Jewish type, with smart London clothes fitting him like upholstery, a... ...f escape that she knew. Her search was rewarded by the discovery of a very blond young man with a soft reddish beard, who, at the other end of the car... ... hands with her guests 26 House of Mirth when they bade her good night. A world in which such things could be seemed a miserable place to Lily Bart; ... ...more—and how little that would have seemed to her a few years earlier! Her ambitions had shrunk gradually in the desiccating air of failure. But why h... ...valley—” Mrs. Bart stared. Her own fastidiousness had its eye fixed on the world, and she did not care how the luncheon-table looked when there was no... ...auty needs more tact than the possessor of an average set of features. Her ambitions were not as crude as Mrs. Bart’s. It had been among that lady’s g... ...s a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy. Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing ... ...foot across the threshold? Oh, I understand what you mean. Y ou despise my ambitions—you think them unworthy of me!” Selden smiled, but not ironically...

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...ish, and be- came on the strength of that an universal favourite—it takes so little in this world of shipboard to create a popularity. There was, besi... ...forth into life, that great battle, to fight for his own hand. The most pleasant stories of ambition, of dif- ficulties overcome, and of ultimate succ... ...ge, we exchanged pieces of information, naming our trades, what we hoped to find in the new world, or what we were fleeing from in the old; and, above... ...at could Mr. Dar- win have done for these sick women? But this fellow scraped away; and the world was positively a better place for all who heard him.... ...ust have passed near half a century upon the seas; square-headed, goat- bearded, with heavy blond eyebrows, and an eye without radiance, but inflexibl... ...rd he was not without some curious admirers. There was a girl among the passengers, a tall, blonde, hand- some, strapping Irishwoman, with a wild, acc... ...he one side of me a rude, knobby, shepherd’s staff, such as cheers the heart of the cockney tour- ist, on the other a rod like a billiard cue, appeare... ...magazine club supplies you with everything, from the Quarterly to the Sunday at Home. Grand tournaments are organised at chess, draughts, billiards an... ... many an English lane. And I suppose the T rossachs would hardly be the T rossachs for most tourists if a man of admirable romantic instinct had not p...

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...erial for future guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Thi... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ...f the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was sound in denying the decadence of France; in doubting (... ... of the three Powers will be small or homogeneous enough to serve dynastic ambitions, embody a national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any... ...nite, the issues will be so lifted out of the spheres of merely per- sonal ambition and national feeling, that I do not see why the negotiating means,... ... weary of military adventure 26 What Is Coming? that the danger of German ambition will cease to overshadow European life. Those are the ends of the ... ...e recovered very largely from the impoverishment of the struggle; we shall tour in State-manufactured automo- biles upon excellent roads, and we shall... ...d you will find that not one is German. The first begetter of Nietzsche’s “blond beast,” and of all that great flood of rubbish about a strange superi...

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...ble yourself to reveal your good luck; no one asks for your secret-all the world knows your discretion. But since you possess that vir- tue, why the d... ...s—that is to say, exactly upon the baldric. Alas, like most things in this world which have nothing in their favor but appearances, the baldric was gl... ... too many; but he was not sufficiently broken into the fashions of the gay world to know how to extricate himself gallantly from a false position, lik... .... He was a Picard, whom the glorious Musketeer had picked up on the Bridge Tournelle, making rings and plashing in the water. Porthos pretended that t... ...Athos had never pledged or offered for sale. It had long been an object of ambition for Porthos. Porthos would have given ten years of his life to pos... ...ion was terrible. Buckingham had returned to London; Mme. Chevreuse was at Tours. More closely watched than ever, the queen felt certain, without know... ... reflected; but, it must be admitted, upon something widely different from ambition. In spite of herself her thoughts constantly reverted to that hand... ...ught you carried your eyes higher.” “Higher? And who am I, to nourish such ambition? A poor Musketeer, a beggar, an unknown-who hates slavery, and fin... ...se, in order that he might see without being seen. Milady put her charming blond head out at the window, and gave her orders to her maid. The latter—a...

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...is grand-nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world; resolute Choiseul, the abrupt proud man, disdaining him, or even for... ...ves; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which nevertheless hangs won- drously as by a single hair. Should th... ... hand chaises,—sufficient not to conquer Flanders, but the patience of the world. With such a flood of loud jingling ap- purtenances does he lumber al... ...Revolution, of its kind; and in that taciturn dull depth, or deep dulness, ambition enough. Meanwhile, alas, his Fotunatus’ Purse turns out to be litt... ...s he live and digest. Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in sterling money, three hundred... ...n vouchsafed him? Disgust and edacity; laziness that can- not rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship:—O, within that carbuncled skin what a c... ...gain’: and in her salute there shall again be a sun-smile, and that little blonde-locked too hasty Dauphin shall be admonished, “Salute then, Monsieur... ...homas Carlyle tism: ‘A man Lebrun by name; about thirty years of age, with blonde hair and in quantity; has, ’ only for the time being surely, ‘a blac... ...lauded and feasted; paraded in glittering saloons, floods of beautifullest blond-dresses and broadcloth-coats flowing past him, endless, in admiring j...

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...o of them are actually dead. I don’t know …. I know nothing—nothing in the world—of the hearts of men. I 6 The Good Soldier only know that I am alone... ...t have been enough time to get the tremendously long conversations full of worldly wisdom that Leonora has reported to me since their deaths. And is i... ...art. And, if one doesn’t know as much as that about the first thing in the world, what does one know and why is one here? I asked Mrs Ashburnham wheth... ... of Peire Vidal. Two years ago Florence and I motored from Biarritz to Las Tours, which is in the Black Mountains. In the middle of a tortuous valley ... ...here rises up an immense pinnacle and on the pinnacle are four castles—Las Tours, the Towers. And the immense mistral blew down that valley which was ... ...d in the retaining of her in this world I had my occupation, my career, my ambition. It is not often that these things are united in one body. Leonora... ... But even that could not stop Florence. She went on saying that it was her ambition to leave this world a little brighter by the passage of her brief ... ...accent, an income of fifty thousand dollars a year from real estate and no ambitions to increase that income. And—she faintly hinted—she did not want ... ... at a ball that was held in their common hotel. Edward was tall, handsome, blond and very wealthy as she understood—and Leonora went up to bed early. ...

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...o himself. It was in this that he would take refuge from the horror of the world that had fallen upon him. He was sick of revolt, of thought, of carry... ... scorn. Scorn—that was the quality he needed. It was such a raw, fantastic world he had suddenly fallen into. His life before this week seemed a dream... ... seen in a shop window—it was so different. Could it have been in the same world at all? He must have died without knowing it and been born again into... ...ers playing billiards in a well-lighted room painted white and gold, and a blond girl in a raspberry-colored shirt- waist enthroned haughtily behind t... ...showed golden brown. Her face had the same golden tan under a mass of dark blonde hair. She smiled when she saw the two soldiers, drawing her thin lip... ...es to the floor, and yawned too. “This goddam armistice sure does take the ambition out of a feller,” he said. “Hell of a note,” said the red-haired s... ...of producing it? … I swear I’d rather hear a man picking out Aupres de ma Blonde on a 260 Three Soldiers trombone that Kreisler playing Paganini imp... ...ere many automobiles of different sizes and shapes, limousines, runabouts, touring cars, lined up along the curb, all painted olive-drab and neatly st... ...he … . Toute ta chevelure, toute ta chevelure, Melisande, est tombee de la tour … . D’you remember?” “How wonderful you are.” They sat side by side on...

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... or start him in business? Besides, with cheek a man always gets on in the world.” Madame Bovary bit her lips, and the child knocked about the village... ...looked almost like a tilbury. He was happy then, and without a care in the world. A meal together, a walk in the evening on the highroad, a ges- ture ... ...nta- 33 Flaubert tions of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity! If her childhood had been spent in the shop- parlour of... ...lers’, repeated in the newspapers, known to all France. But Charles had no ambition. An Yvetot doctor whom he had lately met in consultation had somew... ...e plain, gently rising, broadens out, showing as far as eye can follow its blond corn- fields. The water, flowing by the grass, divides with a white ... ... con- traction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed. She was pale all over, white as a sheet; the skin of h... ... in her little room on the second floor, where there were pictures of the “Tour de Nesle.” At four o’clock Hivert awoke her. When she got home, Felici... ...e was the happiest of fathers, the most fortunate of men. Not so! A secret ambition devoured him. Homais hankered after the cross of the Legion of Hon...

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...ne who repented of it as a thing done ere he had learnt to weigh the whole world against a soul.’ ‘Yes, you must see her,’ said Lucy. ‘Well, what more... ...ancholy dreaminess of expression, as if the whole ceremony, not to say the world itself, were distasteful. Now and then, as though endeavouring to cas... ...pres- sion—contemptible, perhaps, to the astute, but most win- ning to the world-weary. He shook his head at the fair reflec- tion, smiled as he saw t... ...er. But Diane saw no corpse at once so tall, so young, and so fair, though blond Normans and blue- blooded Franks, lads scarce sixteen and stalwart wa... ...nd bald forehead, and had brought out a little black velvet mask, called a tour de nez, often used in riding to protect the com- plexion, intending to... ...by Narcisse. Besides, how could he thwart the love of his daughter and the ambition of his son both at once? No; the only security for the possession ... ... to my wild entreaties; but this I know— that you would never have reached Tours a living man.’ ‘And now, now he is on the way to her!’ cried Berenger...

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...g smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it--dark without the daybeams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader?...

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...s as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day- beams of th... ...roes, and muse over the thoughts of sages. What is grocery for one who has ambition? What sweetness hath Muscovada to him who hath tasted of Poesy? Th... ...l attachment. This flame acts violently upon George. His bosom swells with ambition. His genius breaks out prodigiously. He talks about the Good, the ... ...s. Inspired by Millwood and love, George robs the till, and mingles in the world which he is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the... ... has done it. Y e should have killed one of your own, Joe, ye thief of the world.” “I!” said the amazed and Right Honorable Joseph Addison; “I kill Di... ...g to me that I should wish to retain it? hath Pleasure no after-Weariness? Ambition no Deception; Wealth no Care; and Glory no Mockery? Psha! I am sic... ...—hamiable, fond of poetry, plays the gitter. Then she hasked me if I liked blond bewties and haubin hair. Haubin, indeed! I don’t like carrits! as it ... ...I don’t like carrits! as it must be confest Miss Hemly’s his—and has for a blond buty, she has pink I’s like a Halbino, and her face looks as if it we... ...tains of which peeped out the swan-like necks and the haughty faces of the blond ladies of the castles. But for these descriptions we have not space; ...

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...t seen, a beyond to all countries and corners of the ideal known hitherto, a world so over-rich in the beautiful, the strange, the questionable, the f... ...jestic philosopher, and made this creation the preacher of his gospel to the world. Whether my brother would ever have written “Thus Spake Zarathustra... ...6 I chanced to be there again when he was revisiting this small, for- gotten world of happiness for the last time. It was on these two roads that all ... ...hey therewith hide! Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy— for tour enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight. Your ene... ...there is so much lusting for loftiness! There are so many convulsions of the ambitions! Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one! Alas! t... ...ay, from all those bawlers and scribe-blowflies, from the trader-stench, the ambition-fidgeting, the bad breath—: fie, to live among the rabble; —Fie,... ...saken weeping? The lonesomest leg? In fear perhaps before a Furious, yellow, blond and curled Leonine monster? Or perhaps even Gnawed away, nibbled 2...

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...d English 30. As of this writing, we will set forth to achieve this worthy ambition, with the full backing of the Associate Dean for Faculty and Resea... ... is the im- age of a cheerleader. Usually, cheerleaders are stereotyped as blonde, glamorous, air-headed, and undisciplined, but in reality most are o... ...odhaj ski). Another common stereotype of cheerleaders is that they are all blondes and have no mind of their own. Yes, they all look alike because of ... ...(Sierra Club 1892- 1998). Both the Sierra Club and leaders from around the world must form compromises that would benefit the health of its citizens. ... ...ling she needed her food. That precious moment of not having a care in the world is well worth all the difficult tasks of maintain- ing a successful g... ... garden is not wasted, but rather something that I would not trade for the world. To me, it is what is behind the actual vegetables that means the mos... ... is the im- age of a cheerleader. Usually, cheerleaders are stereotyped as blonde, glamorous, air-headed, and undisciplined, but in reality most are o... ...louds and smiley faces all over it. Finally. I got to my beast. He had all tour paws hooked into the sides of the goose, and his mouth around the neck... ... perfectionism caused her to reject several contracts (Menning 26-27). Her tour of Australia in 1934 was the greatest triumph of her career, until the...

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...age church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter. Then there was well-bred economy, which ... ...as theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of ... ...or Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent-looking Celia was knowing and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues whic... ...ed by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world—that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small gro... ...n of supe- riority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution. “But ... ...you, Miss Brooke,” he said, raising his hat and showing his sleekly waving blond hair. “It has has- tened the pleasure I was looking forward to.” Miss... ...o have 81 George Eliot been detrimental to his theology. “And I like them blond, with a certain gait, and a swan neck. Between ourselves, the mayor’s... ... “Instructor on the Flute;” a wheezy performance, into which he threw much ambition and an irrepressible hopefulness. CHAPTER XII “He had more tow... ...llow, but at present his ardor was absorbed in love of his work and in the ambition of making his life recognized as a factor in the better life of ma...