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...re; or of Alonso de Ojeda, who figured in 7 Yo n g e like manner upon the tower of the Spanish cathedral. The same daring afterwards carried him in t... ...eft on the steep precipice, still remain the foundations of the ‘hold’, or tower, believed to have been the David’s retreat, and near at hand is the l... ...m the favorite spring, bearing it back, once again through the foe, to the tower upon the rock! Deeply moved was their chief at this act of self-devot... ..., then called Gedrosia, and now Mekhran. It was a most dismal tract. Above towered mountains of reddish-brown bare stone, tree- less and without verdu... ...us, he left behind him a governor and an army of soldiers stationed in the tower of Acra, which overlooked the Temple hill, and sent for an old man fr... ...Margaret Giggs. With this household he lived in a beautiful large house at Chelsea, with well-trimmed gardens sloping down to the Thames; and this was... ..., a young law- yer, of whom Sir Thomas was very fond, and his household at Chelsea was thus a large and joyous family home of chil- dren and grandchil... ...is conference with the King in the T ower, and was rowed down the river to Chelsea, he was so merry that William Roper, who had been waiting for him i... ...y was given to his family, and laid in the tomb he had already prepared in Chelsea Church; but the head was set up on a pole on London Bridge. The cal...

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...gn, at length procured him an honourable discharge. with an allowance from Chelsea, and a handsome gratuity from the patriotic fund. Moreover, Sergean... ...zon, gleamed ruddy in the setting sun. In the centre of this wood rose the towers, or rather the chimneys, of the house, or castle, as it was called, ... ...t the twa Saxon gentlemen and their ser- vants cannily into the pit o’ the tower till they gae up the bagain o’ free gude-will, but the Laird winna he... ...his dream— All night long he heard your scream— Haste to cave and ruin’d tower, Ivy, tod, or dingled bower, There to wink and mope, for, hark! In... ...bove him, when he came upon the deck of the galley. It was a gloomy square tower, of considerable size and great height, situated upon a headland proj... ..., which they had entered on the preceding evening. A wall, with flank- ing towers at each angle, surrounded the castle to landward; but, towards the l...

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... the broad stretch of verdure beneath it, and the country-town, and church-tower, si- lent and white beyond. “In that little town there was, and I bel... ...forests, took it as a compliment rather:— “To Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Chelsea, London. “Herstmonceux near Battle, 29th May, 1835. “... ... than of unction or inspiration in that kind. Sterling returned with us to Chelsea that day;—and in the afternoon we went on the Thames Putney- ward t... ...l the strength he had. One evening about this time, he came down to us, to Chelsea, most likely by appointment and with stipulation for privacy; and r... ...ich give reasonably good account of him:— “To Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Chelsea, London. “Funchal, Madeira, 16th November, 1837. “M... ...ety I want,—though it is not quite equal to that of London, even excluding Chelsea. “I have got about me what Books I brought out; and have read a lit... ...ond day took us through Martigny to Sion, cel- ebrated for its picturesque towers upon detached hills, for its strong Romanism and its population of c... ...Cathedral and its appendages more, the more I see them. The leaning of the Tower is to my eye decidedly unpleasant; but it is a beautiful building nev... ... thoroughly mean and prosaic. My other remark is, that Rome, seen from the tower of the Capitol, from the Pincian or the Janiculum, is at this day one...

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...uld say that. As much as she liked anything. And she had seen his house in Chelsea. Lewisham, whose knowledge of London had been obtained by excursion... ...don, because then perhaps you might see me. There is a big boys’ school at Chelsea, and when I go by it every morning I wish you were there. Then you ... ...see if I don’t.” They were given an ad- 54 Love and Mr. Lewisham dress in Chelsea. The house, when Lewisham found it at last, proved a large one, wit... ... CCOUNT CCOUNTABLE ABLE ABLE ABLE ABLE THAT NIGHT, as she went with him to Chelsea station, Miss Heydinger discovered an extraordinary moodiness in Le... ...th it. It was exhilarating, but one got home too soon, and so the way from Chelsea to Clapham was lengthened, first into a loop 74 Love and Mr. Lewis... ...a glass and a half. Then, very warm and comfortable, they went down by the Tower, and the Tower Bridge with its crest of snow, huge pendant icicles, a...

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... caused her pony to be saddled, and he had ridden away with her to his old tower, leaving his brother, the Chevalier, to con- duct the attack on the H... ...of Margaret Roper and her sisters, often sharing their walks in the bright Chelsea garden. Indeed, the musk- rose in her own favourite nook at Hurst W... ...f his explanation with his kindred. And thus they arrived at Montpipeau, a tower, tall and narrow, like all French designs, but expanded on the ground... ...ild as she was. To appeal to her vassals, garrison with them a ruinous old tower in the woods, and thence send for aid to the Montmorencys; to ride to... ...hen,’ said Eustacie, ‘I will send for thee, either to Saumur or to the old tower! Adieu, dear Veronique, do not be frightened. Thou dost not know how ... ...ly, tightened her cloak over her head, looked up to a glimmer in the watch-tower of her own castle far above her on the hill and closed against her; a... ...es me young again to get a smack of the haut-bois your mother brought from Chelsea Gardens.’ ‘Haut-bois! He’d never see if the house ere afire overhea...

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... the roar of falling water for change of music. Of a sudden, mist and rain would clear away, and I would come down into picturesque little towns with ... ...ng to church, though I see as many as four churches with their steeples clamouring for people. I choose my church, and go up the flight of steps to th... ...e same way, but rather quicker. Number three getting safely to the door, there turns reckless, and banging it open, flies forth with a Whoop! that vib... ... by people tempted up from the country, how many hundreds of wretched creatures of both sexes— many quite innocent—swung out of a pitiless and inconsi... ...d dig, paddling canoe-wise from field to field, and here are the cabarets and other peasant-houses where the stone dove-cotes in the littered yards ar... ...s out, Titbull’s was startled by another phenomenon. At ten o’clock in the forenoon appeared a cab, containing not only the Greenwich Pensioner with o... ...er with one arm, but, to boot, a Chelsea Pensioner with one leg. Both dismounting to assist Mrs. Mitts into the cab, the Greenwich Pensioner bore her ... ... tak- ing it up, goaded by the infuriated state of public feeling next morning, was anticipated by another phenomenon. A T ruck, propelled by the Gree...

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...ily luminous, beneath him. He looked across the vapors in the direction of Chelsea; looked fix- edly for a moment, and then returned to his chair. But... ...Seal, and Mary Datchet, and Mr. Clacton to enchanted people in a bewitched tower, with the spiders’ webs looping across the corners of the room, and a... ... think me if she knew that I almost made up my mind to walk all the way to Chelsea in order to look at Katharine’s windows. She wouldn’t understand it... ...Mr. Hilbery at home, or Mrs. Hilbery?” Denham asked, of the parlor-maid in Chelsea, a week later. “No, sir. But Miss Hilbery is at home,” the girl ans... ... it was the chance of seeing Katharine that had brought him all the way to Chelsea on pretence of seeing her father. He made some show of considering ... ... upon the long beach. So large is the church, and in particular the church tower, in com- parison with the little street of cottages which compose the... ...ied. “And afterwards?” he asked. “We take a house, I suppose, somewhere in Chelsea.” “It’s very interesting,” he observed, stealing another look at he... ...ence was agreeable to her, his manners were exemplary; and when the church towers and factory chimneys of the town came into sight, she roused herself... ...ersonal appear- ance. Denham could see him against the blank buildings and towers of the horizon. He saw him dignified, exalted, and tragic, as he mig...

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...y’s jails. Her Majesty has fallen, many thousands of times, from that same Tower, which I claim a right to tumble off now and then. So has Winking Cha... ...the con trary, I am the enchanted son of the King my father, shut up in a tower on the sea shore, for protection against an old she goblin who insist... ...a car penter, six foot four in height, and plays quoits well. He lives in Chelsea, London, by the church. I got leave from the shop, to be took on ag... ...pson’s wife lived, along with a little daugh 117 Charles Dickens ter, at Chelsea. Knowing that Thompson was somewhere in the country, I watched the ... ...nally, we shook hands with our wor thy friend Pea, and ran all the way to Tower Hill, under strong Police suspicion occasionally, before we got warm.... ...s the very Pyra mids. There was not light enough, yet, to strike upon the towers of Notre Dame across the water; but I thought of the dark pavement o... ...aggy, furry, and hairy: of calf skin, cow skin, horse skin, and bear skin: towers a cocked hat and a blue cloak. Slavery! For our Police wear great c...

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...orrespond. There were hundreds of them, many hun- dreds. I could build six towers as high as myself with them, and there seemed quite enough for every... ...ce as I was steaming past the brown low hills of Staten Island towards the towering vigour and clamorous vitality of New York City, that mood rose to ... ...ging gondoliers, float aerially. Remote and low before us rises the little tower of our destination. Our men swing together and their oars swirl leisu... ...d she liked it to be heavy for her. That act of servitude was in essence a towering self- assertion. I would glance sideways while some chairman floun... ...oto- graphs by Coburn. We dispersed early. I walked with Britten along the Chelsea back streets to- wards Battersea Bridge—he lodged on the south side... ...qualm of nostalgia even to name those places now. I think of St. Stephen’s tower streaming upwards into the misty London night and the great wet quadr...

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... weight of a jolly round of beef, a ham of the first magnitude, and sundry towers of buttered Y orkshire cake, piled slice upon slice in most alluring... ...pair at a late hour to Kentish Town or Hampstead, or even to Kensington or Chelsea, unarmed and unattended; while he who had been loudest and most val... ...ement of the business, that his quarters would be at the Crooked Billet in Tower Street; where he would be found waking until midnight, and sleeping u... ...ght upon my forehead; at the very same moment, I heard a voice outside the tower—rising from among the graves.’ Here old John precipitately interrupte... ...the utmost in these warlike shows, they marched in glittering order to the Chelsea Bun House, and regaled in the adjacent tav erns until dark. Then a... ...n dows painted on their rotten walls; one had a mimic clock, upon a crazy tower of four feet high, which screened the chimney; each in its little pat... ...ome said that Lord George Gordon had been sent under a strong guard to the Tower; others that an attempt had been made upon the King’s life, that the ... ...voc they had made in Moorfields, proclaimed that they were on their way to Chelsea, whence they would return in the same order, to make of the spoil t...

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...kin is in the same State with Euclid, with Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and th... ...g heat, to the entering-in of that ill-fated town. Childe Roland to the dark tower came. A polite gendarme threw his shadow on the path. “Monsieur est... ...h, not one but has its legend, quaint or tragic: Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still observed (in the ballad) drinking the blood-... ...d 136 Across the Plains scurrying abroad with the myriad feet of insects or towering into the heavens on the wings of birds: a thing so inconceiv- ab...

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...e, having occasion for fresh air. The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horse back towards me, which had like to have cos... ...and horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet dis Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 34 tance. I stepped... ...spied me, and began a squall that you might have heard from London Bridge to Chelsea, after the usual oratory of Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 76 infa... ...ly seen. I was very desirous to see the chief temple, and par ticularly the tower belonging to it, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom. Acco... ...edge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the w...

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...r. Joseph’s great form should heave in sight. “Sister Anne is on the watch-tower,” said he to Amelia, “but there’s nobody coming”; and laughing and en... ...egret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich for the old honest pimple-nosed coachmen? I won- der w... ...d out, some dressed in long straight stays and gowns that look as stiff as towers, and some with long ringlets, and oh, my dear! scarcely any stays at... ... brief sojourn in Elba, and from steeple to steeple until they reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair the Imperial birds... ...rket- place,” said she, in a burst of ridicule fit to have brought the old tower down. The place was full of English soldiery as they passed. English ... ...nd stood there for a moment looking out after he was gone. The cathe- dral towers and the full gables of the quaint old houses were just beginning to ...

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...r. Joseph’s great form should heave in sight. “Sister Anne is on the watch-tower,” said he to Amelia, “but there’s nobody coming”; and laughing and en... ...egret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich for the old honest pimple-nosed coachmen? I won- der w... ...d out, some dressed in long straight stays and gowns that look as stiff as towers, and some with long ringlets, and oh, my dear! scarcely any stays at... ... brief sojourn in Elba, and from steeple to steeple until they reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair – V olume One the ...

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...n’t know how far, but a long way …. Blood, you know—Yes—well— “Oh, I hated Chelsea—I loathed Chelsea—Chelsea was purgatory to me. I had a corporal cal... ...oot two—and about twenty-four years old. He was my stand-back. Oh, I hated Chelsea, and parades, and drills. You know, when it’s drill, and you’re giv... ... he would. I said to Wallace I’d rather be out here, at the front, than at Chelsea. I hated Chelsea—I can’t tell you how much. ‘Oh no, sir!’ he said. ... ...helsea—I can’t tell you how much. ‘Oh no, sir!’ he said. ‘I’d rather be at Chelsea than here. I’d rather be at Chelsea. There isn’t hell like this at ... ...of finality in love was as much a criminal suicide as to jump off a church-tower or a mountain-peak. Let a man give himself as much as he liked in lov... ... the freshened light shone coloured in living tablets round the wonderful, towering, rose-hearted dusk of the great church. At some altars lights flic... ...nce Palazzo Vecchio went up like a cliff, to the battlements, and the slim tower soared dark and hawk-like, crested, high above. And at the foot of th... ...eways, like the tips of a flower, and sideways lit up the stem of Giotto’s tower, like a lily stem, or a long, lovely pale pink and white and green pi... ..., as should be: and fearless blos- soms in air, like the cathedral and the tower and the David. “I love it,” said Lilly. “I love this place, I love th...

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... choly in it, and I don’t know why. When we went to see the famous leaning tower at Pisa, it was a bright sunny day, and it and the buildings near it ... ...ad but a chilly time of it. 136 Charles Dickens Lord Decimus, like a tall tower in a flat country, seemed to project himself across the table-cloth, ... ...ident that he had a very large castle in hand. All day long he was running towers up, taking towers down, adding a wing here, putting on a battlement ... ...ainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame. Building away with all his might, but reserving the p... ... from Mrs Sparkler’s sense of touch as if he had been a highly meritorious Chelsea V eteran or Green- wich Pensioner. Thoroughly convinced, as he went... ...city, over its jumbled roofs, and through the open trac- ery of its church towers, struck the long bright rays, bars of the prison of this lower world...

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...emember the seats and flags in Westminster, and the row with the cabman at Chelsea.” “The Diamond Jubilee, it was,” said Warming; “the sec- ond one.” ... ...and ivy and teazle and tall grasses. Here and there gaudy pleasure palaces towered amidst the puny remains of Victorian times, and cable ways slanted ... ... staring over his shoulder saw the battlements of Portsmouth Landing Stage towering over the ridge of Portsdown Hill. In another moment there came int... ...the aeropile circled about to the north again. But he perceived the Eiffel Tower still standing, and beside it a huge dome surmounted by a pinpoint Co... ...ays,” that Graham did not heed at the time. But he marked the minarets and towers and slender masses that streamed skyward above the city windvanes, a... ...s is appalling!” said Graham, as that deafening scream of mercantile piety towered above them. “What is appalling?” asked his little officer, apparent...

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... which the old Ab 95 Bleak House – Vol. One bey Church, with its massive tower, threw a softer train of shadow on the view than seemed compatible wi... ...l the whole length of its wick (still burning) has doubled over and left a tower of winding sheet above it. His hair is ragged, mingling with his whis... ... up to the room, and walked down again to the door, where he stands like a tower, only condescending to see the boys at his base occasionally; but whe... ...littering in the sun, and the city a mere mound in a plain—two dark square towers rising out of it, and light and shadow descending on it aslant, like... ...ed. Mr. Kenge’s cousin was a Mr. Bayham Badger, who had a good practice at Chelsea and attended a large public institution besides. He was quite willi... ...lours, how beautiful they looked! The house, with gable and chim ney, and tower, and turret, and dark doorway, and broad terrace walk, twining among ...