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...to my father, they were very happy. I never knew my mother; she died giving birth to me. My father, in many ways, reared me as though I were a son. ... ...me I met Philippe, I was riding Josephine back to the house. I was wearing breeches and shirt, with my hair pulled back in a braid. I alighted at t... ...ademoiselle Delacroix, do you not fear to scandalize the countryside in your breeches?” There was a touch of humor in the question. “Monsieur, if th... ...o my room. Inside, I stripped hurriedly from the green gown and donned the breeches and loose shirt that I kept at hand. My green-topped boots com... ...other.” I made to sketch a curtsey and realized how foolish it looked in the breeches I wore. He seemed amused by the aborted gesture, but he took C... ...be shopping and could hardly walk around Paris in a divided riding skirt or breeches. The green wool was simple, yet elegantly cut, and I felt beau... ... an angel. The right side, though, was discolored and twisted. A port wine birthmark discolored skin so thin and fragile that lumps of misshapen bon... ... my breath away. What a rakehell he would have been but for an accident of birth, I thought. The flower girl was obviously charmed and intrigued b...

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...e, Nor enmity with anyone, Invisible Entity, Timeless and Formless, Beyond birth and death, Ever Self- Existent. The Creator’s Grace is attainable by... ...y and dignity of females, Guru Nanak preaches: “Why condemn women who give birth to Kings and all other human beings?” (Guru Nanak, Page 473) Aws... ... depth and vastness. How could the son know about details of His Father’s birth? The whole universe is the creation of the True Lord”. (Page 284) ... ...] so ikau mMdw AwKIAY ijqu jMmih rwjwn ] 19 ] “Why condemn women who give birth to kings and all human-beings?” (Page 473) soriT mhlw 5 - pMnw 6... ...uniting with the True Lord, instead of finding out details about someone’s birth or caste. But the real caste and status of a person is known by his... ...d in the hair-tress, (c) Kaschehraa: an underwear, the specially designed breeches, (d) Karaa: a steel ring worn on the right - hand wrist and (e) K...

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...rab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was the birth of Mary Brown’s child, which Helen delivered... ...gical,’ Helen chided herself aloud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern... ...oad shoulders, slim hips and long legs, the muscles of his thighs accentuated by his tight riding breeches. He was wearing a linen shirt, the ruffle... ... a painting of a famous Spanish matador, which hung on her sitting room wall - black velvet knee breeches, with gold and silver embroidered panels a... ...noticed that her husband had evidently left the camp in a hurry because, apart from his boots and breeches, he was naked. Whilst she dressed, Gavin ... ...d a young girl of just thirteen years old. She heard that she was to be married on her fourteenth birthday and even at that tender age, would THE C... ...Mirapore. Because of the warmth of the evening, Gavin was wearing only his tight doe-skin riding breeches and a white linen shirt unfastened at the ... ...s arms and laid her on the bed. Still holding onto her with one hand, he divested himself of his breeches and, completely naked, knelt over her. Hel... .... The houses you see across the river belong to the ‘Untouchables’, who by circumstances of their birth, must always be casteless.’ ‘Yes, said Hele...

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...ning tone. “You said 'sixteen years old.' I'm seventeen, Father. I had my birthday in June.” Her father waved her explanation off. “Then you definite... .... “Ladies and gentlemen. As you know, yesterday afternoon we experienced a breech in security. My mortal enemy sent some of her pets here to harm wha... ...child. I was happy with Helena, but the joy on her face after she’d given birth to Laylah was worth all my misgivings about the pregnancy.” Henry cl... ...t was determined she could hear telepathic messages. When Laylah’s fourth birthday came and went without her shifting, the Council grew tired of wai... ...y had Helena saved the brat? He and Laylah had never really bonded. From birth, she’d always clung to Helena. Laylah would cry hysterically if he ca...

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... the moment when she felt that, alone, without help, she was about to give birth to her child, and to all her other terrors was added that of the acci... ...oir’s safety Nature was merciful. It was more a miscarriage than a regular birth, and the child was so puny that it caused little suffering to the mot... ... Beauvouloir. “Ah! I see!” he said to himself. “It ought to be a premature birth, ought it?” he whispered to the countess, who replied with an affirma... ...other’s breast is the remedy for all the ills of infancy. I have seen many births of seven months’ children, but I never saw any so little pain- ful a... ...him to leave to nature the extinction of that hated child, and to wait the birth of a second son who might be healthy and vigorous before getting rid ... ..., after the fashion of the day, his open doublet exposed to view above his breeches. He threw off his felt hat, adorned with an old red plume, in orde... ...had chosen his finest lace, his best-embroidered mantle, his violet-velvet breeches; in short, those handsome habiliments which we connect in all memo...

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...ny. Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little pre- ceded the birth of the author, it was not sufficiently advanced 6 The Pioneers to re... ...e moc- casins, which, gartering over the knees of his tarnished buck- skin breeches, had obtained for him among the settlers the nickname of Leather-S... ...throwing his rifle across his left arm, and knocking up a brass lid in the breech, from which he took a small piece of greased leather and, wrapping a... ... different pronunciation Marmaduke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers... ...o the calf, and were broad in proportion. Be- neath, there were a vest and breeches of red plush, somewhat worn and soiled. He had shoes with large bu... ...r Le Quoi in a coat of snuff-color, covering a vest of embroi- dery , with breeches, and silk stockings, and buckles—that were commonly thought to be ... ...l, faced with green velvet, and below, so as to exhibit a pair of buckskin breeches, with long, soiled, white top-boots, and spurs; one of the latter ... ... dows in the background. On the tomb were the names, with the dates of the births and deaths, of several individuals, all of whom bore the name of Gra... ...of Nature; for a man is no more to be condemned for the misfortunes of his birth, than he is to be commended for the natural advantages he may possess...

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...Murat that, and hurrah Murat in red and white and green uniform, tunic and breeches, and a chimney-afire of feathers; and how the giant he was charged... ...the charge. Why speak of him in the past? He is an English lord, a lord by birth, and he is alive; things may be expected of him to- morrow or next da... ...e going to have a kind of bitter, clawed, forked female, in vestments over breeches. “How do you like that bundling of the sexes?” Lord Adderwood like... ...ow, corrupt our blood. Weyburn was a man to have them by the throat at the birth. Still they thronged; heavy work of strangling had to be done. Her to... ...as her champion’s perusal of a lady candidly assert- ing her right to have breeched comrades, and paying for it in the advocacy which compromises. She... ...re. Life would be the coldest of dishes without it.’ And as for mixing the breeched and petticoated in those young days—’I can’t enter into it,’ my lo... ...had the honour occasionally.’ ‘Stick to the title and write yourself plush-breech. Can’t you be more than a footman? T ry to be a man of the world; yo... ...honour, by ‘a woman springing up out of nothing’—a woman of no distinctive birth. She was rational in her fashion; or Weyburn could at least see where... ...ng out wine for him. It was a toned old Burgundy, happy in the year of its birth, the grandest of instruments to roll the gambol-march of the Dionysia...

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...f them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, the... ...It was published, as Salva y Mallen shows conclusively, at Alcala, his own birth-place, in 1585 and no doubt helped to make his name more widely known... ...his basin on his head, on his way to bleed a patient; the recruit with his breeches in his bundle, tramping along the road singing; the reapers gather... ...o far to make even the most barren muses fertile, and bring into the world births that fill it with wonder and delight. Some- times when a father has ... ...s of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brav... ...ok of chivalry printed in Spain, and from this all the others derive their birth and origin; so it seems to me that we ought inexorably to condemn it ... ...it to untie gently and silently the running string which alone held up his breeches, so that on loosening it they at once fell down round his feet lik... ...reak was coming on apace, very cautiously untied Rocinante and tied up his breeches. As soon as Rocinante found himself free, though by nature he was ... ...great lords after any hard words they give a servant to give him a pair of breeches; though I do not know what they give after blows, unless it be tha...

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...by what is called the course of circumstances; concerning whose parentage, birthplace, prospects, or pursuits, curi- osity had indeed made inquiries, ... ...albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibegs (though breeches, as the name Gallia Braccata ind... ...clap bells on the peak. Fur- ther, according to my authority, the men have breeches without seat (ohne Gesass): these they fasten peakwise to their sh... ...still a man, we might call a real love. None of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History ... ... by the peck of a turkey; and this ill-starred individual by a rent in his breeches,—for no Memoirist of Kaiser Otto’s Court omits him. Vain was the p... ... I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean; A seizing and giving The... ...elf and mankind! Or hast thou forgotten the day when thou first receivedst breeches, and thy long clothes became short? The village where thou livedst... ...n a psychological point of view, it is perhaps ques- tionable whether from birth and genealogy, how closely scrutinized soever, much insight is to be ... ...f some sister’s daughter, suddenly deceased, in Andreas’s distant Prussian birthland; of whom, as of her indigent sorrowing widower, little enough was...

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...him both books, with the inscription, “T o dearest Artie, on his sixteenth birth- day;” it was McT urk who ordered their hypothecation; and it was Bee... ...and go and shoot bunnies.” Three saloon-pistols, with a supply of bulleted breech-caps, were stored in Stalky’s trunk, and this trunk was in their dor... ...us as a steady old hack, and I told him he had to shake off his D.A.Q.M.G. breeches and help me. Tertius volunteered like a shot, and we settled it wi...

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...ingle our bloods together in the earth, From whence we had our being and our birth. PERICLES: Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus Intend m... ...isherman : Ha, come and bring away the nets! First Fisherman : What, Patch breech, I say! Third Fisherman : What say you, master? First Fisherman :... ...s journey: and I’ll tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and to morrow is her birth day; and there are princes and knights come from all parts of the w... .... SIMONIDES: Return them, we are ready; and our daughter, In honor of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty’s child, whom nature gat... ...RICLES: Now, mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe: Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for Thou art the r... ... whom foul death hath made this slaughter; Marina was she call’d; and at her birth, Thetis, being proud, swallow’d some part o’ the earth: Therefore t...

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...ed. Mrs. Doria was nearly right about his heart. A singular mishap (at his birth, possibly, or before it) had unseated that organ, and shaken it down ... ... George Meredith CHAPTER II OCTOBER, shone royally on Richard’s fourteenth birthday. The brown beechwoods and golden birches glowed to a bril- liant s... ...rsuit in time to bestow a few farewell stripes as they were escaping tight-breeched into neutral ter- ritory. At the hedge they parleyed a minute, the... ... exclaimed the lady. “Look at my Clare. She will not dance on her cousin’s birthday with anyone but him. What are we to do to enliven these people?” “... ...toward his cousin; not to be asked whether he had forgotten to receive his birthday kiss from her; for, if he did not choose to remember that, Miss Cl... ...advice, framed a for- mal report of the catastrophe, in which the farmer’s breeches figured, and certain cooling applications to a part of the farmer’... ...ys today, you’ll stick by to-morrow.” Thus adjured, the Bantam hitched his breech. What on earth the young gentleman meant he was at a loss to specu- ... ...rried. Fib like a man and pay your fee—what does it matter? Any one who is breeched can obtain a licence in our noble country. And the interests of mo... ...as on the pattern of an overgrown charity-boy in the regulation jacket and breech. For this she first scorns the narrow capacities of the tailor, and ...

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... PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS in a certain town, which for many rea... ...uld produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop. Oliver Twist’s ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, some what diminutive in stature, and... ... and per haps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth day at all. Be this as it may, however, it was his ninth birthday; an... ...and disclosed to great advantage his flapped waistcoat and drab plush knee breeches. As they drew near to 28 OLIVER TWIST their destination, however,... ...ng in the dim light, like high shouldered ghosts with their hands in their breeches pockets. Coffin 31 OLIVER TWIST plates, elm chips, bright headed... ...of death in such a place. ‘Lord, Lord! Well, it IS strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she ... ...llow of about five and thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace up half boots, and grey cotton stockings which inclosed a bu... ...ame in one leg, who was dressed in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, nankeen breeches and gaiters, and a broad brimmed white hat, with the sides turned ... ... orange neckerchief; a coarse, staring, shawl pattern waistcoat; and drab breeches. Mr. Crackit (for he it was) had no very great quantity of hair, e...

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...he herself was twenty-five? 1745, then, was the date of your dear mother’s birth. I daresay her father was absent in the Low Countries, with his Royal... ...arah Marlborough, and little Mr Pope, of Twitnam, died in the year of your birth? What a wretched memory you have! What? haven’t they a library, and t... ...on. What hardened ferocity in the countenance of the desperado in yel- low breeches! What compunction in the face of the gentleman in black (who, I su...

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...y black hair, and wore a blue coat and metal buttons, an old red vest, and breeches of the same colour.” A second witness testified to having seen him... ... him wearing “a blue coat with silver buttons, a red waistcoat, black shag breeches, tartan hose, and a feathered hat, with a big coat, dun 5 Robert ... ...y from me nor look me fairly in the face. What he was, whether by trade or birth, was more than I could fathom; but he seemed most like an old, unprof... ...my father’s hand and thus conceived: “T o my brother Ebenezer on his fifth birth- day” Now, what puzzled me was this: That, as my father was of course... ...und-house of a merchant brig: having a hat with feathers, a red waistcoat, breeches of black plush, and a blue coat with silver buttons and handsome s... ...will be better work, let me tell you,” said he, “for a gentleman of decent birth, than scraping plates and raxing* drams to a wheen tarry sailors.” Th... ...at-coats; but to be sure, the first of them, the one that came alone, wore breeches and stockings, while the rest had sailors’ trousers. “Ah,” said I,... ... the hour of dawn, bristling with arms and dot- ted with the red coats and breeches. “Ye see,” said Alan, “this was what I was afraid of, Davie: that ... ... best excuse. But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offence, slower to forget it, and now incensed both aga...

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... ideas of full-blown jackets, bear in mind that our enemies are coated and breeched. It may be creditable to you that your cunning is not the cunning ... ... you know them; and one is an Austrian officer, and he is an Englishman by birth, and he is coming to meet some English friends who enter Italy from S... ...ame bound by a sacred tie of friend- ship. He, though not of distinguished birth, had the choice of an almost royal alliance in the first blush of his... ...all I be a Star? Shall I be a Cinder? It is tomor- row night her moment of Birth! No; she prefers to be extin- guished. For what? For this thing she c... ...your voice, and kick your country to the gutter, and know your Italy for a birthplace and a cradle of Song, and no more, and enough! Bah!’ Having thus... ...aves: all are slaves. While I am a slave, shall I boast that I am of noble birth? “Proud of a coronet with gems of paste!” some one writes. Save me fr... ... eclipsed, when his valet had to loosen the buck- les of his waistcoat and breech. Now, what do you say?’ ‘I say,’ Weisspriess replied, ‘that if there... ...overlooking the court, where a stout fellow in broad green braces and blue breeches lay half across a wooden table, thrumming a zither, which set the ...

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... Steep’d in the Colours of their Trade; their Daggers 881 Vnmannerly breech’d with gore: who could refraine, 882 That had a heart to loue; ... ... Shakespeare: First Folio 1498 (From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth) 1499 Liues in the English Court, and is receyu’d 1500 Of the... ...ipse: [mm6v 1556 Nose of Turke, and Tartars lips: 1557 Finger of Birth- strangled Babe, 1558 Ditch- deliuer’d by a Drab, 1559 Make t... ... fast the mortall Sword: and like good men, 1818 Bestride our downfall Birthdome: each new Morne, 1819 New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, ne...

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... black leather belt, his stout shoes, his ribbed socks, his linsey-woolsey breeches, and his gray woollen doublet made him look like the clerk of some... ...istory and romance-writers have consecrated the brown camlet coat, and the breeches of the same stuff, worn by Louis XI. His cap, decorated with leade... ... not be- come extinct. After the departure of the count, the countess gave birth to a son, whose career was famous in the history of France under the ...

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...ident loyalty, and showed his satisfaction by liberal gifts. But after the birth of Moreau’s third child, a daughter, he felt himself so securely sett... ...ters, coming above the knee, were fastened round the ends of his velveteen breeches and secured by silver buckles. His hob- nailed shoes weighed two p... ...rd-room. He was dressed in a long blue over- coat which came to his heels, breeches of yellowish leather and top-boots, and in his hand he carried a r... ... as if he had stepped from a bandbox. He appeared in black silk stockings, breeches of “pou-de-soie” (paduasoy), a white pique waistcoat, dazzling 10... ... a blue-bottle coat, violet silk gloves, gold buckles to his shoes and his breeches, and, lastly, a touch of powder and a little queue tied with black...

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...f a lady whose vines he tilled. He had three sons; his wife died in giving birth to the last, and the poor man did not long survive her. The mistress ... ...erfumers. Cesar owned at this period a pair of hob-nailed shoes, a pair of breeches, blue stockings, a flow- ered waistcoat, a peasant’s jacket, three... ...ns of a T ourangian; if he yielded sometimes to the native idleness of his birthplace, it was counterbalanced by his desire to make his fortune; if he... ...1793 a poor girl of Tillet, a village near Andelys, came by night and gave birth to a child in the garden of the curate of the church at Tillet, and a... ...en he dressed for the Sunday evening festivities he put 45 Balzac on silk breeches, shoes with gold buckles, and the inevitable square waistcoat, who... ...Such was Cesar Birotteau; a worthy man, to whom the fates presiding at the birth of men had denied the faculty of judg- ing politics and life in their... ...f Madame Ragon and his brother an only son, who had lost his mother at his birth. T o give him a trade, Madame Ragon placed her nephew at “The Queen o... ...d Constance. They, one and all, gazed at Cesar, attired in black silk knee-breeches, silk stockings, and the new bottle-blue coat, on which was about ... ...rloom, fastened with a bluish cameo set as a pin; he wore short black-silk breeches which revealed the skinny legs on which he boldly stood. Cesar sho...