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...f ice, snow in the crevices of a boggy bank, the mound of a muskrat house, reeds in thin black lines, arches of frosty grasses. It was an impression o... ...Guns and churns and barrels of nails and beau- tiful shiny butcher knives. Chester Dashaway’s House Furnishing Emporium. A vista of heavy oak rockers ... ...sweeps of gray-green ice, ring- ing to the skates. On shore the ice-tipped reeds clattered in the wind, and oak twigs with stubborn last leaves hung a... ...econd-hand store. It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravin... ... to stretch unchanging to the North Pole: low hill, brush-scraggly bottom, reedy creek, muskrat mound, fields with frozen brown clods thrust up throug... ...venue in a snow-storm, with limousines, golden shops, a cathedral spire. A reed hut on fantastic piles above the mud of a jungle river. A suite in Par... ...d wandered to Los Angeles, where, the Dauntless reported, “Our good friend Chester has accepted a fine position with a real- estate firm, and his wife...

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... for me to stray, And waste the solitary day, In plucking from yon fen the reed, And watch it floating down the T weed; Or idly list the shrilling lay... ... cell. Nor long was his abiding there, For southward did the saint repair; Chester-le-Street, and Rippon, saw His holy corpse, ere Wardilaw Hailed ... ...e; Though scarce a puny streamlet’s speed Claimed homage from a shepherd’s reed; Yet was poetic impulse given, By the green hill and clear blue heaven... ... on high, To Marion of the blithesome eye; His crook, his scrip, his oaten reed, And all Arcadia’s golden creed? Changes not so with us, my Skene, ... ...e Admiral alone is left. Let Stanley charge with spur of fire – With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland’s central host, 191 ... ...head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted “Victory! Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!” Were the last words of Marmion. XXXIII....

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...force, then Arch- deacon of Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newl... ...pearl, but no nose ornaments. They had strips of a kind of cloth, woven of reed, and elaborate varieties of head-gear, some plastering their hair whit... ...d beside his much- loved wife in Feniton churchyard. Bishop Sumner of Win- chester, the friend of his boyhood, read the funeral service. ‘His works do... ... this promises to be! It will be beautiful. About 11 I reach a hut made of reeds on the very brink of the river, tether the horse, give him a feed, wh...

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...and swift hawks pursue after him, and hounds with mischief meet him in the reeds; then is neither good to him nor the land nor the flood; the hawks hi... ...nicles:Roman De Brut king named Constant—he caused to be nourished at Win chester, and there he made him to be vowed a monk. The second son was calle... ...ver the bodies of the dead. Shields were hewn asunder; spears snapped like reeds; the wounded were trampled beneath men’s feet, and many a warrior die... ...els for this fair assemblage. Houses were swept and garnished, spread with reeds, and furnished with hangings of rich arras. Halls and chambers were g... ...st, shields were cloven, the hauberk rent asunder, ash staves knapped like reeds, girths were broken, saddles voided, and strong men thrown, and brave... ...ester were lords and con stables of the seventh legion. Earl Curfalain of Chester and Earl Urgain of Bath held the eighth legion as their bailly; for... ...n lands. Urgent, Lord of Bath, Balluc, Earl of Guitsire, and Earl Cursa of Chester, warden of the marches of Wales, per ished in a little space, so t... ...hrough the night to London, where he hoped to find succour. He leaned on a reed, for the citizens would not suffer him to enter in their gates. He tur... ...the Thames, rode to Winchester without stay. Mordred sought refuge at Win chester, and tarrying awhile, summoned his friends to his side. He took hos...

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...n they swim in a place in which they fear to meet with him they then get a reed across into their mouths; which if they two meet by accident, secures ... ...o see, I need not their light, having thee, Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish... ... shall tell you what Camden and others speak. The river Dee, which runs by Chester, springs in Merionethshire; and, as it runs toward Chester, it runs... ...ppy enjoyments of such minds As, rich in self contentedness, Can, like the reeds, in roughest winds, By yielding make that blow but small At which pro... ...s; as namely, one cadis called a piper, whose husk, or case, is a piece of reed about an inch long, or longer, and as big about as the compass of a tw... ...and fish renown’d; And Avon’s fame to Albion’s cliffs is rais’d. Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee; York many wonders of her Ouse can tell; The Pe...

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... by a ring, which she him sent, That mongst the manie vertues, which we reed, Had power to staunch al wounds, that mortally did bleed. The F... ... entred on the other side, A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride. For all his... ...ron tuskes at that displeasing sight. Concord she cleeped was in common reed, Mother of blessed Peace, and Friendship trew; They both h... ...the Medway and the Thames agreed. Long had the Thames (as we in records reed) Before that day her wooed to his bed; But the proud Nymph... ...d following Dee, which Britons long ygone Did call diuine, that doth by Chester tend; And Conway which out of his streame doth send Ple...

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...ndered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS, accord- ing to the amplest extent of any power to make such... ...y, was suddenly taken off my hands by the eminent house of Messrs TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS, Boston, U. S. To them I owe my acknowledgments, first of al... ...xact title,) a large folio written by the ingenious Dr. Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, 10 and published early in the reign of Charles II., a folio which... ...of speaking the Ziph remains unimpaired. I forget whether in the Bishop of Chester’s account of this cryptical language the consonant intercalated be ... ...ern England to Dublin, did not (as in elder and in later days) go round by Chester. A few miles after leaving Shrewsbury, somewhere about Oswestry, it... ... for they were built to meet the roads. Carriages of our present light and reedy (almost, one might say, corky) construction would, on the roads of Ge... ...o address one word to me until dusk, when we found ourselves rattling into Chesterfield, having barely accomplished four stages, or forty or forty-two... ... Such an honest, old, butler-looking servant waited on us during dinner at Chesterfield, carving for me, and urging me to eat. Even Mephistopheles fou...

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...e. The place is altogether too big for comfort. Our little parlour at Win- chester was twice as snug as that overgrown drawing-room 33 Yonge down-sta... ... crosses have heavy loads imposed. I made what now seems hardly a cross of reed, into a scourge! Oh, Violet! would that I had done no harm but to myse...

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...s naturally deemed more pathetic for them than for her. She had a house in Chester Square and an income and a victoria—it served all purposes, as she ... ...and he had made no use of it to ask what she thought of the personality in Chester Square or how she liked it. He had only said “Did she take you out?... ... She had caught the inevitable note, the pitch, on her very first visit to Chester Square. She had arrived there in intense excitement, and her excite... ...as not to repeat, that she was in appearance the very image of the lady in Chester Square. The motive that prompted this declaration was between aunt ... ...might adminis- ter a muscular push. Yes indeed, men in general were broken reeds, but Captain Jay was peculiarly representa- tive. Respectability was ...

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... was there, _275 Beside a sluggish stream among the reeds. 46 V olume One It rose as he approached, and, with strong wings Sca... ...f ever rising clouds, Shone, softly burning; though his lips did seem Like reeds which quiver in impetuous floods; And through his sleep, and o’er eac... ... were now lost … it were a grief indeed If he had changed one unsustaining reed For all that such a man might else adorn. The colours of his mind seem... ...sh; when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the... ... from Hell with pure intent! Slash them at Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, and Chester; _645 Drench all with blood... ... _95 Another in her wilful grief would break Her bow and winged reeds, as if to stem A greater loss with one which was more weak; And dull ...

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...tantly taking its pattern from him had to be faced. He arrives (arrives at Chester) as for the dread- ful purpose of giving his creator “no end” to te... ...he enquirer at the office, so that the un- derstanding they should meet at Chester rather than at Liverpool remained to that extent sound. The same se... ...e winced a little, truly, at the thought that Waymarsh might be already at Chester; he reflected that, should he have to describe himself there as hav... ...lf expressive. What it expressed at midnight in the gas-glaring bedroom at Chester was that the subject of it had, at the end of years, barely escaped... ...ctly the discrimination of types and tones, exactly the wicked old Rows of Chester, rank with feudalism; exactly in short Europe. There was light for ... ...long gilt frame disposed its enclosing lines; the poplars and willows, the reeds and river—a river of which he didn’t know, and didn’t want to know, t... ...ed with the lap of the water, the ripple of the surface, the rustle of the reeds on the oppo- site bank, the faint diffused coolness and the slight ro...

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... was an excellent relation with them —a possible one even with so broken a reed (from her slightness of cohesion) as Henrietta Stackpole. It is a fami... ...She had been looking all round her again—at the lawn, the great trees, the reedy, silvery Thames, the beautiful old house; and while engaged in this s... ...ed that Isabel, in separating from him in Win- 184 The Portrait of a Lady chester Square, had repudiated his suggestion that her motive in doing so w...

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... sensibility; upon which as- sumption, the wonder ceases that Cicero, Lord Chesterfield, and other brilliant men, who took the utmost pains with their... ...mers, in nine vols. 8vo, in 1811; by Johnson and Stevens, revised by Isaac Reed, in twenty-one vols. 8vo, in 1813; and the Plays and Poems, with notes... ...hibition, or else they demand too vivid illustrations of the meaning. Lord Chesterfield him- self, so brilliant a man by nature, already therefore mak... ...hy in excess as regarded its ex- pression. “Come now, my friend,” was Lord Chesterfield’s morning adjuration to his author;” come now, cut it short— d... ...ke Carlisle in this day, where a considerable manufacture exists, but like Chester as it is yet. The chapter of a cathedral, the resident ecclesiastic...

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... collected them about the King, that once, when the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the ... ... lay north of Watling Street, as the old Roman military road from Dover to Chester was called, and to give A Child’s Histroy of England 44 Ironside a... ... those marshy grounds which were difficult of approach, they lay among the reeds and rushes, and were hid den by the mists that rose up from the wate... ...rother Henry, the late King had been liberal; making Henry Bishop of Win chester, and finding a good marriage for Stephen, and much enriching him. T... ...ee noblemen to death. The Regent then remained there, and Henry went on to Chester. All this time, the boisterous weather had pre vented the King fro... ...unded, and the King was stuck on a wretched horse, and carried prisoner to Chester, where he was made to is sue a proclamation, calling a Parliament.... ...ome packets of gunpowder about him. Then they heaped up wood and straw and reeds, and set them all alight. But, unhappily, the wood was green and damp...

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...s in supporting distance are capable of keeping him from returning to Win- chester. But if Sigel be sent forward to you, and McDowell (as he must) be ... ...estal’s, 5 miles; Gregory’s, 13; Snicker’s, 18; Ashby’s, 28; Manassas, 38; Chester, 45; and Thornton’s, 53. I should think it prefer- able to take the... ...have to be definitely settled now. Please answer. A. LINCOLN. TO ALEXANDER REED. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, February 22, 1863. REV . ALEXANDER RE...

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...ed worthy of a Latin epitaph, probably the work of a chaplain or of a Win- chester scholar to whom he had endeared himself: Hic in humo stratus, John ... ...lternately with T udor portcullises, profusely adorn Fox’s chantry in Win- chester Cathedral. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI C... ...od in Derbyshire. Gilbert Heathcote, one of the sons, was an Al- derman at Chesterfield, and was the common ancestor of the Rutland as well as the Hur... ...bred up her only son with the most anxious care. She lived chiefly at Win- chester, and it may be interesting to note that her son re- membered being ... ... be remembered. In that year, 1869, Bishop Sumner resigned the see of Win- chester, and for three years the diocese had the benefit of the great power... ...belonging to an alluvial soil, washed down from the chalk hills. The great reed-mace adorns the Itchen, and going along the disused towing path of the... ...the black and golden spikes of the sedge, and the curious balls of the bur-reed, very like the horrid German weapon called a morning star. Also meadow... ...ouse but it is no longer even a farm-house—the moat is choked with mud and reeds, and only grows fine forget-me-nots, and the curious panel picture of... ...oths. Kingfisher (Alcedo ispida).—This beautiful creature darts out of the reeds bordering the Itchen, and it used to be at Chandler’s Ford before the...

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... hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops, Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count t... ...uthor bewails a learned Friend, unfor tunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of ... ...rethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood. But now my oat proceeds,...

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... L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO MRS. SITWELL TRAIN BETWEEN EDINBURGH AND CHESTER, AUGUST 8, 1874. My father and mother reading. I think I shall talk... ...rite; but it is very hard in this flying train, or I would write you more. CHESTER. – I like this place much; but somehow I feel glad when I get among... ... this good peace. BARMOUTH, AUGUST 9TH. – To-day we saw the ca- thedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verge... ...ity and fellow-citizens; sometimes to sit down quietly, with the slen- der reed, and troll a few staves of Panic ecstasy – but fy! fy! as my ancestors... ...eave ahead: Here’s luck. Art and Blue Heaven, April and God’s Larks. Green reeds and the sky- scattering river. A stately music. Enter God! R. L. S. A...

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...to the Courtiers there. It is twenty years, gone Christmas-day, since Lord Chester- field, summing up what he had noted of this same France, wrote, an... ...government, now exist and daily in- 19 Thomas Carlyle crease in France.’ (Chesterfield’s Letters: December 25th, 1753.) Chapter 1.1.III. Viaticum. Fo... ...lion, explosion, of unknown extent is to be calcu- lated on. There are, as Chesterfield wrote, ‘all the symp- toms I have ever met with in History!’ S... ...ing there ‘in black-velvet cloaks,’ in high-plumed ‘hats of a feudal cut’? Reeds shaken in the wind! The Clergy have got up; with Cahiers for abolishi...

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...he septier of wheat; a measure which contains a little more than four Win- chester bushels. In Great Britain, the real recompence of labour, it has al... ...of cotton. The rest were mere objects of vulgar wonder and curiosity; some reeds of an extraordinary size, some birds of a very beautiful plumage, and...