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...douleurs de l’accouchement, qui devient beaucoup moins éprouvant – une femme excisée n’étant pas douillette, pas cha¬touilleuse, pas narcissique, pas capri¬cieuse – ; en fait la clitoridectomie fait disparaître la quasi totalité des plus détestables traits de caractère féminins) ; les Lalilas stériles deviennent prêtresses, intendantes, missionnaires. Qu’elles soient orig...

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...i, il brigantino Valoroso, la fregata a vela Partenope ed il vapore armato Capri. Avvistarono i garibaldini la Stromboli e il Capri. Quest'ultima era ...

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...y. He was a strong critic of Lenin. Partly to avoid his wrath, he exiled himself to Capri, Italy in 1906. Moreover, though he upheld the Bolshev...

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... (dua eld. 1913); trad. ,Wilhelm Tell‘ de Schiller, 1906; ,Edziĝa festo en Capri' de Heyse, 1906;Ĉapitro el la ,Ama vivo' de Bolsche, 1906; ,La monaĥe...

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...th his bride. “Even the skies have illuminated,” said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for l... ...and neck. How can I describe to you the scene we had before us? We were at Capri—” “I have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and ... ...have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and drunk vero Capri—muddy stuff like cider—at the summit.” “Ah!” said the man with the wh... ... white face; “then perhaps you can tell me—you will know if this is indeed Capri. For in this life I have never been there. Let me describe it. We wer... ...any building you have ever seen—and in one place there was the old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stem... ...ellammare glittering and near.” I interrupted suddenly: “Y ou have been to Capri, of course?” “Only in this dream,” he said, “only in this dream. All ... ...its thousands of pleasure-seekers from the uttermost parts of the earth to Capri and its delights. All these things, I say, stretched below. “But we n... ...ls “What was there to do but flight? I had not thought the war would touch Capri—I had seemed to see Capri as being out of it all, as the contrast to ... ...s story with questions. “Where did you go?” I said. “When?” “When you left Capri.” “South-west,” he said, and glanced at me for a second. 48 The Door...

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...and neck. How can I describe to you the scene we had before us? We were at Capri—” “I have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and ... ...have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and drunk vero Capri—muddy stuff like cider—at the summit.” “Ah!” said the man with the wh... ...white face; “then perhaps you can tell me—you will know if this was indeed Capri. For in this life I have never been there. Let me describe it. We wer... ...any building you have ever seen—and in one place there was the old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stem... ...llamare glitter- ing and near.” I interrupted suddenly: “Y ou have been to Capri, of course?” “Only in this dream,” he said, “only in this dream. All ... ...its thousands of pleasure-seekers from the uttermost parts of the earth to Capri and its delights. All these things, I say, stretched below. “But we n... ...n. “What was there to do but flight? I had not thought the war would touch Capri—I had seemed to see Capri as being out of it all, as the contrast to ... ...id you go?” I said. “When?” 176 Twelve Stories and a Dream “When you left Capri.” “Southwest,” he said, and glanced at me for a second. “We went in a... ...aid. “All through the night and morning that we sailed across the sea from Capri to Salerno, we talked of escape. We were full of hope, 177 H G Wells...

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...ple crawl; Perished with each,—then mourned for all! A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me; I felt his gaze, I heard his moa...

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...the islands. “The islands—the islands? Ah, my dear young lady, I have seen Capri, I have seen Ischia!” Well, so have I, but that doesn’t prevent … (A ...

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...stantly forgotten, nor did they bear in mind that La France is a woman and capri- cious, and must be happy or chastised at her own good plea- sure. If... ... the shoulders; the gesture was meant to say that she was noth- ing if not capricious, and that a lover must take her as she was.—”Besides,” she added... ...n me, you have said so much of your horror of women made up of nothing but caprice; and now do you wish me to understand that, like other women here i... ...nly beauty in her. He had some excuse for believing that so many storms of caprice had been but clouds covering a heavenly soul; that these must be li... ... seemingly inaccessible point; like Gen- eral Lamarque, at the storming of Capri, they would con- quer Nature. The cliff at the end of the island, a s... ...island, a sheer block of granite, afforded even less hold than the rock of Capri. So it seemed at least to Montriveau, who had taken part in that incr... ... as these bridges were, they were always ready for use; high waves and the caprices of the sea could not throw them out of work- ing order; the ropes ...

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... world. Think of the luck of it. The luck of it. I expect he’ll be sent to Capri. It’s the best fun for a greener.” His cough overtook him again. Then... ...e you. And abroad they want to see you. Paris, New Y ork, Chicago, Denver, Capri—thousands of cities are up and in a tumult, undecided, and clamouring... ... it? But I think Wraysbury, the fashion- able capillotomist, is here. From Capri.” “Capillotomist,” said Graham. “Ah! I remember. An artist! Why not?”... ...raham. “We had prepared a show of dancers— they have been brought from the Capri theatre.” “I hate ballets,” said Graham, shortly. “Always did. That o... ...nd wreckage. You can man- age your own wings now, and you can soar away to Capri if there is any smoke or fuss. We have the pull of all the great thin...

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...th his bride. “Even the skies have illuminated,” said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits for lo... ...and neck. How can I describe to you the scene we had before us? We were at Capri—” “I have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and ... ...have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and drunk vero Capri—muddy stuff like cider—at the summit.” “Ah!” said the man with the wh... ...white face; “then perhaps you can tell me—you will know if this was indeed Capri. For in this life I have never been there. Let me describe it. We wer... ...any building you have ever seen—and in one place there was the old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stem... ...ellammare glittering and near.” I interrupted suddenly: “Y ou have been to Capri, of course?” “Only in this dream,” he said, “only in this dream. All ... ...its thousands of pleasure-seekers from the uttermost parts of the earth to Capri and its delights. All these things, I say, stretched below. “But we n... ...n. “What was there to do but flight? I had not thought the war would touch Capri—I had seemed to see Capri as being 292 The Country of the Blind out ... ...s story with questions. “Where did you go?” I said. “When?” “When you left Capri.” “South-west,” he said, and glanced at me for a second. “We went in ...

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... selves, composed a spectacle unknown to man. One of them, proud, haughty, capricious, with black hair and beautiful hands, was casting the flame of h... ...rong beings derive from the consciousness of their strength. By a singular caprice of nature, the charm of her face was, in some degree, contradicted ... ...e sky, in the glow- ing tints of the setting sun; they read it in even the capri- cious vapors which met and struggled in the ether. Each day resemble...

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...leming found, no doubt, both pleasure and profit in lending himself to the capricious pleasures of his royal client. Cornelius had now lived nine year... ...ourt paid him frequent visits. He lent them money rather liberally, though capri- cious in his manner of doing so. On certain days he refused to give ... ... a mixture of light and shade the hollows and reliefs of the carvings. The caprices of this white light gave a sinister expression to both edifices; i...

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...hink of the Hickses?” “Because I caught a glimpse of them the other day at Capri. They’re cruising about: they said they were coming in here.” “What a... ...nual difficulty of deciding between Deauville and St. Moritz, Biarritz and Capri. Nick was not surprised to learn that it was becoming the fashion, th... ...ean, Fred Gillow on the way to his moor, Strefford to stay with friends in Capri till his annual visit to Northumberland in September. One by one the ... ...ether lest they should not be invited at all. Equally exhilarating was the capricious favouring of the dull and dowdy on occasions when the brilliant ...

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...experience out of it. After keeping quiet for some time about this opposition she suddenly—one Sunday afternoon on a penny chair in the Regent’s Park—...

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...scarcely reached beyond the foot of the bed and illumined the count’s head capriciously; so that the fitful movements of its flash upon those features... ... to him, like the face of a woman, had its physiognomy, its smiles, ideas, caprices; there green and sombre; here smiling and azure; sometimes uniting... ... like a veil before the face of a bride, he followed their undulations and caprices with the joy of a lover. His thought, married with that grand expr... ... enterprise of Orpheus. Often, when crouching in the crevice of some rock, capri- ciously curled up in his granite grotto, the entrance to which was a...

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...ng to put a gloss on what even at the time I myself half suspected to be a caprice. It was in an Eastern port. She was an Eastern ship, inas- much as ... ...ture and went away from the door. The fact was that disease played with us capri- ciously very much as the winds did. It would go from one man to anot... ...h. Enough, at least, to keep hope alive. But suppose that I had used those capricious gusts of wind to sail away to the west-ward, into some region wh...

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... now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capri cious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nast... ...only know the gross desire; Their passions move in lower spheres, Where’er caprice or folly steers. A dog, a parrot, or an ape, Or some worse brute in... ... need no rivals apprehend Her sex, with universal voice, Must laugh at her capricious choice. Cadenus many things had writ, Vanessa much esteemed his ...

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...a meal before. One- and-ninepence it cost him, Sir, and the name of it was Capri! It was really very passable Capri—a manufactured product, no doubt, ...

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...declared her intention to have his portrait painted on porcelain. It was a caprice, a charming fancy which the first Minister of Police of the second ... ...mili- ated by an atrocious absurdity imposed upon him by this man’s savage caprice. Besides, General D’Hubert had been in this last instance too unwil... ...doing when they built their vil- las on these shores, in Baiæ, in Vico, in Capri. They came down to this seaside in search of health, bring- ing with ... ...gulf, ei- ther in one of the hotels in Sorrento or hiring a small villa in Capri. He had a piano, a few books: picked up transient acquaintances of a ...