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...l in itself. His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese. He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meanin... ...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...r situation more minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. As thes... ...ad been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks, where, standing in the water, they were left to pass the night. The ... ...- ward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent ...

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...el on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar—a precipice which is so sumptu- ously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse ... ...y individuals. On a summer afternoon in the Castle gardens, I have seen six students march solemnly into the grounds, in single file, each carrying a ... ... refresh my own memory, too, for I have never read it before. 69 A Tramp Abroad THE LEGEND LORE (TWO SYLLABLES) was a water nymph who used to sit on ... ...venings, with his Zither and “Express his Longing in low Singing,” as Garnham says. On one of these occasions, “suddenly there hovered around the top ... ...s sweet enchantment, Raying to me, oh! en- chantment. “O, wert thou but my sweetheart, How willingly thy love to part! With delight I should be bound ... ... enchanting bopple.’ What is ‘bopple’?” “‘Picture. ’ It’s Choctaw.” “What is ‘schnawp’?” “‘Valley.’ That is Choctaw, also.” “What is ‘bolwoggoly’?” “T... ...ese for ‘hill.’” “‘Kahkahponeeka’?” “‘Ascent. ’ Choctaw.” “‘But we were again overtaken by bad hogglebumgullup.’ What does ‘hogglebumgullup’ mean?” “T... ...and ‘schnawp’— are they better than the English words?” “No, they mean just what the English ones do.” “Then why do you use them? Why have you used al... ...gn of untold riches held in reserve. I will let your ‘learning’ remain in your report; you have as much right, I suppose, to ‘adorn your page’ with Zu...

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...translucent stone beautifully clouded with rose and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and ... ...se and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and scraps of seaweed. A stranger, entering, felt... ...lay curled up asleep at the core of the glamour, like the moon; on the sea rocking backwards and forwards till it rocked her island as she slept. She ... ...ning sunlight pierced vividly through the slits of the blind. Beatrice lay rocking herself, breathing hard, her finger-nails pressing into her palm. T... ...er,’ he replied sim- ply. ‘The sea seems to be poured out of the moon, and rock- ing in the hands of the coast. They are all one, just as your eyes an... ...tide had half covered a stretch of fair, bright sand that was studded with rocks resembling square altars, hollowed on top. He threw his clothes on a ...

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... called by any name, but I will hazard a guess that it is either Washington or Broadway. Here are the blacksmith’s, the chemist’s, the general merchan... ...ublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscov- ered; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers... ...or about a furlong we followed a good road alone, the hillside through the forest, until suddenly that road widened out and came abruptly to an end. A... ...up the canyon, it contained only rubbish and the uprights for another triple tier of beds. The whole building was overhung by a bold, lion-like, 30 ... ...apart by solid wooden wedges, and a pine, half undermined, precariously nodding on the verge. Here also a rugged, horizontal tunnel ran straight into ... ...ere and there a crag, here and there dwarf thicket clinging in the gen- eral glissade, and over all a broken outline trenching on the blue of heaven. ... ...ng pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing... ...infamous, a centre of pistol-shots: and an- other who, if not yet known to rumour, will fill a col- umn of the Sunday paper when he comes to hang – a ...

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... mind; I’ll go somewhere and have a cup of tea.” “Why not get a package of Chinese tea, now that you’re down here, and take it home with you?” “Or dri... ... too.” And then for the first time in her life, there in that airy, golden Chinese restaurant, in the city from which he hasted to flee, T ravis Besse... ...te’s yarn, Chinatown, the charming unconventionality of their lunch in the Chinese res- taurant, the sparkling serenity of the afternoon, and the joy ... ...laying the banjo, the delightful and picturesque confusion of the deserted Chinese restaurant; Blix again, turning her head for him to fasten her veil... ...n this very matter of playing before—before that day of their visit to the Chinese restaurant—and had felt no great qualm of self-reproach. Had their ... ...ng out of the boat on the shore by Richardson’s. In a mud-hole between two rocks they discovered a tiny striped snake, hardly bigger than a lead penci... ...t with the Seris on the lower California Islands, sold champagne—made from rock candy, effervescent salts, and Reisling wine—to the Coreans, had dream... ... there the land came tum- bling down into the sea in great, jagged, craggy rocks, knee-deep in swirling foam, and all black with wet. The air was full... ..., huge, brown cups of fuzzy bark, lay underfoot and in the crevices of the rocks. They found a jelly-fish—a pulpy translucent mass; and once even caug...

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...ing to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulogne or Dieppe) is still an immense event. The peasants c... ... and, finally the mighty ocean tossing its foaming fringe upon the granite rocks as if the better to bring out their weird formations—that sight uplif... ...me. I am not the dupe of his professed desire to go to Croisic and see the rocks and the dunes and the salt-marshes without me. He meant to leave us a... ...out her in all this. She has too much the air of knowing abstruse things, —Chinese, He- brew, hieroglyphics perhaps, or the papyrus that they wrapped ... ...heir blood; they are born co- medians, braggarts; extravagant in form as a Chinese vase; perhaps they even laugh at themselves. Their personality is g... ...lunging. You are the Perseus of a poor Andromeda; you re- lease me from my rock. If he loves you, so much the better! but I doubt it; he loves no one ... ...n a slender parasol. Nothing is finer to the eyes than a woman poised on a rock like a statue on its pedestal. Conti could see Calyste from the vessel...

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...unt of a private struggle between himself and a certain path of planks and rock edges called the Bisse of Leysin. This happened in his adolescence. He... ...e it hangs like an eyebrow over nearly or quite vertical walls of pine-set rock. Beside it, on the outer side of it, runs a path, which becomes an off... ...lls corner, which gives the favourite picture postcard from Mon- tana, the rocks project so sharply above the water that the passenger on the gangway ... ... time trying to screw himself up to walk along the jagged six-inch edge of rock between cliff and torrent into which the path has shrunken, to the sag... ...tood ready. Then came the large hall, with its noiseless carpets and great Chinese jars, its lacquered cabinets and the wide staircase, and float- ing... ... sky… . As he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that ta... ...Wells and have a talk in Kensington Gardens? You know the place, near that Chinese garden. Paddington Gate… .” The lady’s voice fell to flatness. She ... ...the world, you will see the T ropics, you will see India, you will go into Chinese cities all hung with vermilion, you will climb mountains. Oh! men c... ...ent’s respect from a sane man. They’re things like niggers’ nose-rings and Chinese secret societies; 170 The Research Magnificent childish things, id...

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...re- turning to the precinct police station to make their night report, and Chinese market gardeners teetering past un- der their heavy baskets. The ca... ...he fell out. By damn! I thought she’d killed herself; struck her face on a rock and knocked out a front tooth. It’s a wonder she didn’t kill herself. ... ...iss Baker’s door. The little old lady was sitting close to the wall in her rocking- chair; her hands resting idly in her lap. “Now, Maria,” she said p... ...mical rush of the surf and the sonorous barking of the seals upon the seal rocks. The four dogs curled themselves down upon the sanded floor. “Here’s ... ...arcus would try and force the secret out of him; would rush blindly at the rock upon which the two must split, stirred by the very best of motives, wi... ...lats, at the fringe of the town, were the dump heaps, the figures of a few Chinese rag-pickers moving over them. Far to the left the view was shut off... ...he end of the table. “The light end should be rolled to a point.” “Ah, the Chinese cigar-makers,” cried Marcus, in a pas- sion, brandishing his fist. ... ...els; burnt umber for the chickens, zebras, and so on; then, last, a dot of Chinese white for the eyes, and there you are, all finished. They sell for ... ...talls, intent upon their day’s marketing. On rainy days their servants—the Chinese cooks or the second girls—took their places. These servants gave th...

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...ppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare v... ...height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No cheating here,— ... ...o History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- known agen... ...n cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibeg... ...despicable firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket-wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing natur... ...once only: for as your Congreve needs a new case or wrappage for every new rocket, so 99 Thomas Carlyle each human heart can properly exhibit but one... ...e arena of joyous or mournful experi- ences; if perhaps the cradle we were rocked in still stands there, if our Loving ones still dwell there, if our ... ... ing those of Constantinople and Samarcand: in most Col- leges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. ... ..., therefore, of Pope Pius, Emperor Tarakwang, and the “White Water-roses” (Chinese Carbonari) with their mysteries, no notice here! Of Napo- leon hims...

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...’s animation seemed entirely to have deserted her. She seated herself on a rock, and re mained there until Hollingsworth came up; and when he took he... ...myself, it grew to be a custom to spend the Sabbath afternoon at a certain rock. It was known to us under the name of Eliot’s pulpit, from a tradition... ...an scatter cheerfulness as it never could among the dark browed pines. The rock itself rose some twenty or thirty feet, a shattered granite bowlder, o... ..., but dwelt among damp mosses, though not akin to them. At the summit, the rock was overshadowed by the canopy of a birch tree, which served as a soun... ...lf perceptible glow of a transfiguration. I the more minutely describe the rock, and this little Sab bath solitude, because Hollingsworth, at our sol... ...e seen the diorama of Moscow or Bunker Hill, or the moving panorama of the Chinese wall. Here is displayed the museum of wax figures, illustrating the...

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...er the Americans at Breed’s Hill; for the peace in 1814, and the beautiful Chinese bridge in St James’s Park; for the coronation of his Majesty, whom ... ...-spirits rise in the air, and are whirled howling round the palace and the rocks. My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots fly hurtling through the air! A... ...d piteously asked us for Christmas alms. Those darling alligators on their rock winked at us in the most friendly way. The solemn eagles sat alone, an...

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...an was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed with a rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, livi... ...en, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron ore and the promise of sword and spear; he froze to deat... ... out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their begi... ...ry; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of volcanoes like cricket balls and blowing pumice into foam, and... ... those Swiss villages which live under the perpetual threat of overhanging rocks and moun- tains go about their business—just as though the possible w... ... and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintain... ...g the inducive. Always before in the development of warfare the shells and rockets fired had been but momentarily explosive, they had 65 H G Wells go... ...the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. T...

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... of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city, though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. The Brah- ... ...e Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing abo... ...es from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days, so... ... on the opposite coast. Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese go... ...83 Jules Verne palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong... ...evada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific—its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile. S... ...satch Mountains. It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American en- gineers found the most formidable dif... ..., avoided its difficulties by wind- ing around, instead of penetrating the rocks. One tunnel only, fourteen thousand feet in length, was pierced in or... ...f the sea, one of the highest points attained by the track in crossing the Rocky Mountains. After going about two hundred miles, the travellers at las...

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...e Castle, so we went into the middle of the road and formed a line. Soon a rocket (the signal that the Queen was at Slough) was let off, and then 17 ... ...ousin, George May Coleridge; and here the brothers and sisters climbed the rocks, boated, fished, and ran exquisitely wild in the summer holi- days. C... ... vite,” the fear being of an ice avalanche falling on us, and we heard the rocks and ice which are detached by the wet falling all about. The view fro... ... and refreshing it is to look at it; but as yet we have seen no beach; the rock runs right into the sea. Such bustle and excitement on board! emigrant... ... who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather nice-looking. She spoke a li... ...ellington with the Judge. Here we had sea room and no fear of driving upon rocks. It is blowing a good deal now, as you see by my writ- ing. I have a ... ...eak strongly to them on their own duties, first to Aborigines, secondly to Chinese (of whom some 40,000 live in Victoria), thirdly to Melanesians. I d... ...es, to stand up as the apologist of the despised Australian black, and the Chinese gold-digger, and the Melanesian islander. ‘ All the Primate had tau...

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...and she made her way, al- most unconsciously into his room. He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much sk... ... ‘Is it? I’m so glad you like it, because I’ve always been fond of it. The Chinese Ambassador gave it me.’ ‘I know,’ he said. ‘But why do you copy it?... ..., lying in the sun. The water 97 ran over a little stone wall, over small rocks, splashing down from one pond to the level below. The swans had gone ... ...d sharp blows of unknown, terrifying noise struck through her till she was rocking with terror. She recoiled like a spring let go. But a glistening, h... ...de the blood faint in her veins, her mind went dim and unconscious. And he rocked on the water perfectly, like the rocking of phospho- rescence. He lo... ...‘There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” the whole way; he was blind and he had a ... ...lovely bubbles of swaying lights, the launch did not look far off. She was rocking her lights in the early night. Gudrun rowed as hard as she could. B...

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...est men and women and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art o... ... beautiful ideal birds are painted on the ceilings and the shutters, where Chinese monsters laugh with open jaws on the mantle-shelf, and drag- ons, g... ...tess, the illustrious editor of the “Journal des Debats” knew by heart the Chinese kiosk, the bridges, the isles, the hermitage, the dairy, the ruined... ...e ap- pearance of an alpine torrent. Sometimes it hollowed a bed among the rocks, sometimes it went underground; on this side the brooks came down in ... ...only one. We must here content ourselves with two paragraphs. A projecting rock, covered with dwarf trees and abraded at its base by the Avonne, to wh... ...p until it reaches in the distance a series of cascades falling among huge rocks, where little weeping willows with elastic motion sway back and forth... ... waters. Beyond these cascades is the hillside, rising sheer, like a Rhine rock clothed with moss and heather, gullied like it, again, by sharp ridges... ... in fact its leading actors. When the clever journalist reached a group of rocks where the main stream is imprisoned, as it were, between two por- tal... ... valley took pattern from the turbans, the poke-bonnets, the fur caps, the Chinese head-gear of the handsome Socquard, to whose luxury the big-wigs of...

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...nough for its furry dubi- ousness; and excepting the sentimental of men, a rocket- headed horde, ever at the heels of fair faces for ignition, and up ... ...hat disorder sky and earth with a deadly flight of zig-zags, like military rockets, among the living. And if these are given to cry too much, to have ... ...t my messenger to tell you how I hang on you. I see my ship making for the rocks. You break your Emma’s heart. It will be the second wrong step. I sha... ...paid to them; they met aristocracy in the persons of Lord Larrian, of Lady Rockden, Colonel Purlby, the Pettigrews, but neither of them held the table... ...ss in my nature full of infernal possibilities. I think I am hewn in black rock. A woman who can do as I did by instinct, needs to have an angel alway... ... and scattered, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, bits of porcelain, silver incense-urns, dozens of dai...

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...proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller—all of them men in their several ways and circumstances and pos... ...map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the portrait of a b... ...d enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors from a Noah’s Ark made a various, dangerous, al... ...eanliness, and eating hard-boiled eggs in a vast clear space of rime-edged rocks, snow-mottled, above a blue-gashed gla- cier. All about us the monstr... ...tific construction that filled my mind. He could as easily have understood Chinese poetry. His motives were made up of intense rivalries with other me... ...e-edged, white cyclamens in flower. And there was a big lacquer cabinet, a Chinese thing, I suppose, of black and gold against the red-toned wall. To ... ... inspired by a passionate desire to substitute manacled but still criminal Chinese for honest British labourers throughout the world. And when it came... ...d, “ has been the end and the begin- ning of much. New ideas are abroad—” “Chinese labour,” yelled a voice, and across the square swept a wildfire of ... ...to a more popular strain with a gross eulogy of my opponent’s good taste. “Chinese labour!” cried the voice again. “You’ve given that notice to quit,”...

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...ave a pair of shillyshallying children like Rone and Ted. I may not be any Rockefeller or James J. Shakespeare, but I certainly do know my own mind, a... ...nd floor of the Reeves Building. The Reeves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed b... ...writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you were standin... ...shroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem of the club was the dining-room, the maste... ...lways talking about ‘morals’— meaning monogamy, I suppose. You’ve been the rock of ages to me, all right, but you’re essentially a simp. You—” “Where ... ... shade of yellow or rose silk.) On the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigar... ...Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as t... ... globes and scarlet jazz music in a cheap up- stairs dance-hall; lights of Chinese restaurants, lanterns painted with cherry-blossoms and with pagodas... ...Babbitts and Rieslings went festively to the movies and had chop suey at a Chinese restaurant. As they walked to the restaurant through a street of ta...

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...es and only curtains closed the doorways. They seemed to be made of yellow Chinese silk, and fluttered all together, the four of them, as the two men ... ...and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. “Them’s rockets, sir—ain’t they?” said one of the men in a muffled voice. “Aye, roc... ...o windward and beyond a maze of broken water, sandspits, and clus- ters of rocks, the black hull of the yacht heeling over, high and motionless upon t... ...been brought up in the middle of a broad belt of clear water. To the north rocky ledges showed in black and white lines upon the slight swell setting ... ... Two figures, noiseless like two shadows, moved slowly over the beach of a rocky islet, and stopped side by side on the very edge of the water. Behind... ...and, near by, the leaves of creepers drooping from the summit of the steep rock stirred no more than the festooned stone. The faint light, disclosing ... ... the Harbour Office, crossing the Esplanade, disappearing down a street of Chinese shops, while at his elbow and as tall as himself, old Jorgenson pac...