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...g years have rendered vain. Dr Porhoët drew more closely round his fragile body the heavy cloak which even in summer he could not persuade himself to ... ...t draw any the worse for wearing a well made corset, and to surround your body with bands of grey flannel will certainly not increase your talent.’ ‘... ...and very thin. His frame had a Yorkshireman’s solidity, and his bones were massive. He missed being ungainly only through the seren ity of his self r... ...poleonic in stinct decided that I could only make room by insulting some body. It is cause for congratulation that my gibes, which Raggles, a foolis... ...veryone can make game of the unknown,’ retorted Haddo, with a shrug of his massive shoulders. Arthur did not answer. He looked at Haddo curiously. He ... ...ortunity arose. I sup pose he offered the charm of the unexpected to that mass of undergraduates who, for all their matter of fact breeziness, are cu... ... a statue in por 66 TheMagician phyry, pleased her singularly. It was an index of his charac ter. The look of him gave you the whole man, strong ye...

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...when they arrive at that age, if they eat hard salt things and spices, the body becomes more and more heated, whereby the desire to veneral em- braces... ... a man, as her monthly purgations demonstrate, as also the softness of her body; it is also apparent that he does not much exceed her in natural heat,... ...the procreating of children. Then, since diet alters the evil state of the body to a better, those subject to barrenness must eat such meats as are ju... ...hap- pens twelve or fourteen days after copulation. And though this fleshy mass abounds with inflamed blood, yet it remains undistinguishable, without... ...atum oderation to smell at if she be not hysterical; of the second, make a mass of pills, and let her take three every other night: of the third make ... ...n hardly be restored again. 7 Mole: “A somewhat shapeless, compact fleshy mass occur- ring in the uterus, due to the retention and continued life of ... ...dy IN THE BODY OF MAN the head and feet are the principal parts, being the index which heaven has laid open to every one’s view to make a judgment the...

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...e left in the repose to which they have long been consigned, so far as the mass of mankind is concerned, though they must always form part of the libr... ...at the book may prove dangerous has caused it to be inscribed on a sort of Index, and good folk who never read a line of it blush at its name. Its “se... ... I threw myself between them, embracing my brother, whom I covered with my body, receiving the strokes designed for him; I persisted so obstinately in... ... to efface it. He was a tall, lank, weakly boy, with a mind as mild as his body was feeble, and who did not wrong the good opinion they were disposed ... ...to dispose of me in a manner the most repugnant to them. I was sent to Mr. Masseron, the City Register, to learn (according to the expression of my un... ...thout feeling a kind of horror, which every day gained fresh strength. Mr. Masseron, who was not better pleased with my abili- ties than I was with th... ...impeding our journey. I was in the happiest circumstances both of mind and body that I ever recollect having experienced; young, full of health and se...

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...its of the ranch. Here were the railroad tracks, and just beyond—a huddled mass of roofs, with here and there an adobe house on its outskirts—the litt... ...t that belonged to the agent dozed complacently, her paws tucked under her body. Three flat cars, loaded with bright-painted farming machines, were on... ...oking fellow, nearly twice the weight of Presley, with great shoulders and massive, hairy arms, and a tremendous, rumbling voice. “Hello, old man,” an... ... of the decayed and dying Mexican town. It was the hour of the siesta. No- body was about. There was no business in the town. It was too close to Bonn... ...e earth from sight. It was no longer an aggregate of individuals. It was a mass—a compact, solid, slowly moving mass, huge, without form, like a thick... ...among workers, taking enjoyment in simple plea- sures, healthy in mind and body. He believed in an exist- ence passed in this fashion in the country, ... ...w! I’ll give you the key.” He “fanned” his revolver, spinning it about his index finger by the trigger-guard with incredible swiftness, the twirling w... ...spot—the grain chute from the harvester into the sacks. Its volume was the index of fail- ure or success, of riches or poverty. And at this point, the...

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... only add them all in an appendix, Which saves, in fact, the trouble of an index; Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 13 For there we have them all ‘... ...t was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumined; and... ...ls To the good sense and senses of mankind, The very thing which every body feels, As all have found on trial, or may find, That no one li... ...Seville? Is it for this I scarce went anywhere, Except to bull fights, mass, play, rout, and revel? Is it for this, whate’er my suitors were, ... ...en over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals, Because, till people ... ...hey caught two boobies and a noddy, And then they left off eating the dead body. And if Pedrillo’s fate should shocking be, Remember Ugolino c... ...blimity’s firman, The most imperative of sovereign spells, Which every body does without who can, More to secure them in their naval cells, ... ...ut I shall add them in a brief appendix, To come between mine epic and its index. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Fourteen” 297 But ere he went, he ad...

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.......................................................................... 48 Index of First Lines.....................................49 5 George Mered... ...rge Meredith And while commanding blissful sight believe It holds her as a body strained to breast, Down on the underworld’s perpetual eve She plunges... ... upon his footway cast; Then match in him who holds his tempters fast, The body’s love and mind’s, whereof the soul’s. Then Earth her man for woman fi... ...ape. Midway the vast round-raying beard A desiccated midge appeared; Whose body pricked the name of meal, Whose hair had growth in earth’s unreal; Pro... ...th you, and did not faint In beating wing, the future I would paint. Those massed indifferents will learn to quake: Now meanwhile is another mass awak... ...ters to their depths the abysses of the sea. Cant. iv. 49 George Meredith Index of First Lines A A hundred mares, all white! their manes 48 Awakes f...

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...s described by a contemporary as “a little man with legs too short for his body. He walked crookedly; he was clumsy, ill-dressed, and rather ridiculou... ...f his bent and inclinations: wherefore it is no matter for wonder that his body and his soul had ended by becoming wholly immersed therein. To all app... ...tiptoe in their efforts to compass a particularly high note, and the whole body of choristers are wagging their heads before approaching a climax, and... ...also entered the room, and, throwing his cap upon the table, pushed back a mass of dishevelled black locks from his brow. The latest arrival was a man... ...em was an old 107 Gogol woman, and the other a damsel of about sixteen. A mass of golden hair fell daintily from a small head, and the oval of her co... ...while Chichikov again surveyed the room, and saw that everything in it was massive and clumsy in the highest degree; as also that everything was curio... ...n or another, was never alluded to by his family name, but who wore on his index finger a ring with which he was accustomed to dazzle his lady friends...

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......................................................................... 487 Index of First Lines ......................................................... ...eel, oh youth! A girl then find Worthy thy choice,—let her choose thee, In body fair, and fair in mind, And then thou wilt be blessed, like me. I who ... ...me’s history Now is fully known to me. Who in child or woman e’er Soul and body found so fair? 1815. 103 Goethe Next Year’s Spring. THE bed of flower... ...LT thou suddenly enshroud thee, Who this moment wert so nigh? Heavy rising masses cloud thee, Thou art hidden from mine eye. Yet my sadness thou well ... ...arful din, Her mad relations came pouring in. My blood still boils in my body! GIPSY. “Oh when will return an hour like this? I pine in silent sad... ...at together, around the glistening polish’d Circular large brown table-Äon massive feet it was planted. Merrily clink’d together the glasses of host a... ...h genuine kindness expended When he saw the fugitives passing in sorrowful masses). And to the magistrate handed it, saying:—” Divide it, I pray you, ... ...usic sunk in slumbers, Memory alone can waken now its numbers. 488 Goethe Index of First Lines A A boy a pigeon once possess’d, 297 A child refused ...

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...sweated the flesh off your bones, and well-nigh fried the soul out of your body, you go home, to what?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get ... ...L. No, not the snuff-box, but—a pinch of snuff,—ha! ha!—run me through the body if he didn’t. Could you but have seen the smile on Jack Churchill’s gr... ...ess, horseless, corporalless, with a gag in his mouth and a rope round his body, are we compelled to leave the gallant Galgenstein, until his friends ... ... have done. I can turn out a quo- tation from Sophocles (by looking to the index) as well as another: I can throw off a bit of fine writing too, with ... ... which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and poured a flood of silver light upon the little ch...

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...lroad; that adroit and philosophic solitary was an ardent worker, soul and body, in that so much more than honourable movement, which, if atonement we... ...nly added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction that buries the reformer *Gaudeamus: Carmina V agorum S... ...general law; what we really care for is something that they only imply and body forth to us. We know how history continues through century after centu... ...other of his characters. We should like to know what be- comes of the main body of the troop in the wood of La Saudraie during the thirty pages or so ... ...ory of trades or implements, with no more colour or coherence than so many index-words out of a dictionary? I do not know that we can say anything, bu... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ...