...commonplace than the original bald stark words. Conning for an hour in the British Museum the pages of works devoted to extinct, half extinct, obscure... ...as he stooped; and, presently, selecting a spe cially fine product of the ‘British Queen’ variety, he stood up and held it by the stem to her mouth. ‘... ...n’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learni... ...ery irregularity of the soil was prehistoric, every channel an undisturbed British trackway; not a sod having been turned there since the days of the ...

...ting country ! 26 Hunting Sketches THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND NEVER JUMPS T he British public who do not hunt believe too much in the jumping of those who... ...y there went forth, at any rate in one diocese, a firman against cricket ! Novels, too, are for- bidden; though the fact that they may be enjoyed in s...

...ed to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance... ...ibrary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. P... ...orms that puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about England, about the British CHAPTER 6 43 constitution, the English character, the state of p... ... I don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe t... ... novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal of ability, but I don’t suppose they’re very acc... ...ity, but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once had a lady who wrote novels staying here; she was a friend of Ralph’s and he asked her down. S... ...e two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to i... ...as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present profoundly indifferent to Miss Is... ...y. Isabel presently found herself in the singular situation of defending the British constitution against her aunt; Mrs. Touchett having formed the ha...

...1 Wordsworth of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extrava... ...e, all perished: every tear Dried up, despairing, desolate, on board A British ship I waked, as from a trance restored. Peaceful as some immeasu...

...rguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure s... ...red, two things must be attended to that require no proof: FIRST, that the British constitution is the best that ever was since the creation of the wo... ...defect in the child’s imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the pri- vacy of his own heart. He does not yet know enough of th...

...the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel,...

...between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had... ...l right. He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “S... ...ed officer of the regiment, an “unmixed” Bhil, a Companion of the Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a ... ...es for even the smallest repairs. —Sailing Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile... ... capacity of every boat, on those seas, that they were anxious to avoid. A British ship with a good conscience does not, as a rule, flee from the man-... ...row. ‘Didn’t come to stay for ever,” said Scott, dropping one of Marryat’s novels, and rising to his feet. “Martyn, your sister’s waiting for you.” A ... ...Robert Burns, of course, and the other Gerald Massey. When he has time for novels he reads Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade chiefly the latter—and kno... ...ow?” said he. “In Wiltshire,” said I. “Ah! A man ought to be able to write novels with his left hand in a country like this. Well, well! And so this i...

... I have loved Mlle. Emilie these seven years; she has read so many immoral novels, that she refused all offers for me, without knowing what might come... ...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ...atched her confusion under his gaze, after the manner of the heroes of the novels of Auguste Lafontaine of chaste memory. “You are adorable,” said he....

...ers on, she ties them up tight and reaching over to her bedside table picks up a book and starts to read. Nicola likes to read, especially romance novels and this one, about a girl in Jamaica has become very exciting; and Nicola is finding it hard to put down! Avidly she reads, imagining herself on a Jamaican beach in the arms of a strong, Jamaican hotel owner when Stef...

...The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific...

...HAPTER XII — LIFE AT MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . 40 CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH SAILOR CHAPTER XIV — SANTA BARBARA—HIDE DROGH ING—HARBOR . . .... ... 39 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH SAILOR The next day, the cargo having been entered in due for... ...he others said he was no shipmate. He had been a petty officer on board the British frigate Dublin, Capt. Lord James Townshend, and had great ideas ... ...shipped in a brig bound to the Sandwich Islands. From Oahu, he came, in the British brig Clementine, to Monterey, as second officer, where, having s... ... together with Lascars, Negroes, and, perhaps worst of all, the off casts of British men of war, and men from our own country who have gone to sea bec... ...racter; and kinder feelings exist. Godwin, though an infidel, in one of his novels, describing the relation in which a tutor stood to his pupil, sa...

...H-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA BARBARA?HIDE-DROGHING?HARBOR -- DUTIES?DISCONTENT?SAN PEDRO, 46 -- CHAPTER XV ? A FLOGGING?A NIGHT ON SHORE?THE STATE OF THINGS ON -- BOARD?SAN DIEGO, 52 -- CHAPTER XVI ? LIBERTY-DAY ...

... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...nited States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Rivie... ...oyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the most stately of all recorded British Coronations is past. What new phase in the life of our nation and o... ...nt King exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an al... ...made me think a good deal at different times about the business of writing novels, and what it means, and is, and may be; and I was a professional cri... ... and what it means, and is, and may be; and I was a professional critic of novels long before I wrote them. I have been writing novels, or writ- ing a... ...s long before I wrote them. I have been writing novels, or writ- ing about novels, for the last twenty years. It seems only yes- terday that I wrote a... ...ders, women and girls and young men at least will insist upon having their novels significant and real, and it is to these perpetually re- newed eleme...

...aht of a steam yacht in Mogador awber not twenty minnits agow. Gorn to the British cornsl’s. E’ll send em orn to you: e ynt got naowheres to put em. S... ...ke up the case against him. RANKIN. Is such a thing possible to-day in the British Empire? SIR HOWARD (calmly). Oh, quite. Quite. LADY CICELY. But cou... ...n fifty yawds. (Bustling them about) Nah then: git the plice ready for the British herristoracy, Lawd Ellam and Lidy Wineflete. REDBOOK. Lady faint, e... ... letter? Your men are waiting to hear it, I think. BRASSBOUND. It is not a British ship. (Sir Howard’s face falls.) LADY CICELY. What is it, then? RAS... ...ley Othman el Kintafi, and announces that he is coming to look for the two British travellers Sir Howard Hallam and Lady Cicely Waynflete, in the Cadi... ...d, and gazes at him with the stead- fast candor peculiar to liars who read novels. His eyes turn to the ground; and his brow clouds perplexedly. He ri...

...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...n the numerous visitors of the house. She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. Her fa... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...

... and Young. must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ...n the numerous visitors of the house. She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. Her fa... ...ay stay a long while there in spite of professional accomplishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility between scientific insight and f...