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... youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists. (from W...

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...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me in the...

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...y Constance Garnett KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK A STUDY I WE ALL SETTLED DOWN in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was Ge...

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...gh the evening in my skin had stolen the sun. Was she looking for the sun? She had seen me before. I lay naked and still for hours hearing her slowly circle my tent and later, for perhaps the first time, nothing. I heard nothing. An artery in my left arm pulsed. The throb pressed and pressed trying to say her name. Say it and be done. I stumbled outside following my racing...

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... always two separate parties going on at every ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion is...

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...icial party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor’s eye; most of the younger women... ... for the benefit of 10 Another Study of Woman simpletons and drawing-room circles, who laughed at it. Marriage was never spoken of between us; six ye... ... lady is a marvelous mistress. What she likes in you is a man to swell her circle, an object for the cares and attentions which such women are now hap...

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...hy, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there weren?t any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together....

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...em going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a d...

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...grapher, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's witticisms and opinions, and a window on his social circle that is packed with incidental detail of 18th-century life and concerns. This second of four volumes covers the years 1764-1776. (Summary by Philippa)...

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...!” Finley decided, and began to blow bubbles out of his spout, creating a circle of bubbles around himself. Soon, a group of seagulls saw the bubbles... ...nderful time together that they didn’t notice that they were walking in a circle….and then it happened. “We have arrived,” called Sammy “It’s here, j... ...ith his finger toward his house. “I’ve lived here forever. We walked in a circle and we came back to my house!” called Sammy, and then he burst out ...

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...re set, like a kite’s eyes, in eyelids so broad, and bordered by so dark a circle sharply defined on his cheek, that they seemed rather prominent. The... ...ck. On his head was a black velvet cap like a priest’s, sitting in a close circle above his forehead, and not showing a single hair. It was the strict... ...s gleamed light above faces in shadow, and various bald heads, with only a circlet of white hair, were distinguished among the crowd like battlements ... ...ce, more or less near the centre, occupied by beings in their re- spective circles. He gave mathematical expression to God’s grand idea in the co-ordi... ...hem in the heavenly sea. Then the Doctor accounted logi- cally for hell by circles placed in inverse order to the shining spheres that lead to God, in... ...rough space! Thought, love, and faith are its mystical keys. T raverse the circles, reach the throne! God is more mer- ciful than you are; He opens Hi... ...nt, from awful silence to heartrending cries, till I reached the uppermost circle of Hell. Already, from afar, I could see the glory of Paradise shini... ... merable spring like flowers in a meadow. “There, on the last level of the circles where those phan- toms dwell that I had left behind me, like sorrow... ...ade uttered appalling cries, to which the damned responded from the lowest circle, the deepest in the immen- sity of suffering, to the more peaceful z...

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...! These metaphysics of magicians, And necromantic books are heavenly; Lines, circles, scenes, letters, and characters; Doctor Faustus – Marlowe 6 Ay... ...eign kings; I’ll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair Wertenberg; I’ll have them fill the public schools with silk,... ...l obey thy hest, Seeing thou hast pray’d and sacrific’d to them. Within this circle is Jehovah’s name, Forward and backward anagrammatiz’d, Th’ abbrev... ...eruse it well: The iterating of these lines brings gold; The framing of this circle on the ground Brings thunder, whirlwinds, storm, and lightning; Pr... ...ll ne’er a word on’t. ROBIN. That thou shalt see presently: keep out of the circle, I say, lest I send you into the ostry with a vengeance. DICK. Tha... ...s, and the stars, The tropic zones, and quarters of the sky, From the bright circle of the horned moon Even to the height of Primum Mobile; And, whirl... ...come, give it me again. ROBIN. Ay, much! when, can you tell?—Dick, make me a circle, and stand close at my back, and stir not for thy life.— Vintner, ... ...ese ripe grapes. FAUSTUS. Please it your grace, the year is divided into two circles over the whole world; so that, when it is winter with us, in the ... ...es over the whole world; so that, when it is winter with us, in the contrary circle it is likewise summer with them, as in India, Saba, and such count...

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... And saying; ‘Comes he thus, my friend? Is this the end of all my care?’ And circle moaning in the air: 15 ‘Is this the end? Is this the end?’ And for... ...air To breathe thee over lonely seas. For I in spirit saw theee move 5 Thro’ circles of the bounding sky, Week after week: the days go by: Come quick,... ...he winds were in the beech: We heard them sweep the winter land; 10 And in a circle hand in hand Sat silent, looking each at each. Then echo like our ... ...HE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ‘this is I:’ But as he grows... ...in thy second state sublime, Thy ransom’d reason change replies With all the circle of the wise, The perfect flower of human time; And if thou cast thi... ...slept. 20 The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there; And l... ...he garden flew, 20 And tumbled half the mellowing pears! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and... ... within the glooming wave; And last, returning from afar, Before the crimson circled star Had fall’n into her father’s grave, And brushing ankle deep ... ...oth and tent, 110 In Memoriam Imperial halls, or open plain; And wheels the circled dance, and breaks 30 The rocket molten into flakes Of crimson or i...

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...ace fronts, and shining pillars, and lofty carven arches that spanned half-circles of the hot grey sky, were plainly visible. Then gazed he awhile des... ...fficer of state surrounded by slaves, lounging upon clouds of silk stuffs, circled by attentive ears: in another city there was no beast so base as I.... ...she hurried on even to the opening of a spacious Hall, and in it slaves in circle round a raised seat, where sat one that was their lord, and it was t... ...g—and she sumptuously arrayed, in perfect queenliness, her head bound in a circlet of gems and gold, her figure lustrous with a full robe of flowing c... ...and passed from her sight; and the damsel was exulting, and leapt and made circles in her glee, and she danced and rioted and sang, and clapped her ha... ...l he was in the hum of many tents, and the sun of that day hung a red half-circle across the sand. He alighted before the tent of his mother, and sent... ...outh blessed in a bride like that youth! Now, the twain lived together the circle of a full year of delightful marriage, and love lessened not in them... ...falling waters, a hissing and a rushing of wings, and behold! Bhanavar was circled by rings and rings of serpent-folds that glowed round her, twisted ... ...sweat dropped heavily from the forehead of Aswarak, she stepped out of the circle of serpents, singing, Over! over! Hie to the lake! ...

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...a certain ironical force to Madame Munster’s next words. “Now this is your circle,” she said to her uncle. “This is your salon. These are your 39 Hen... ...felt one 40 The Europeans rising in her heart. She kept looking round the circle; she knew that there was admiration in all the eyes that were fixed ... ...estness and subtlety. The discussion went forward, as I say, in the family circle; but that circle on the evening following Madame M; auunster’s retur... ...s, in the manner of a person with a bad conscience. The only person in the circle with no sense of oppression of any kind was, to Felix’s perception, ... ... as now when, for the first time, the standard of comparison of her little circle was a prey to vague- ness. The sense, indeed, that the good people a... ...n of their suspended sympathy; so that it had become a tradition in Boston circles that the highest charity, as regards this young lady, was to think ... ...ed. The complexion is wonderfully bleached.” And Felix looked round at the circle, as if to call their attention to these interesting points. Mr. Went... ...aised than he was blamed; but he was tacitly felt to be an ornament to his circle. He was the man of the world of the family. He had been to China and... ...y no means so much of a man of the world as he was supposed to be in local circles; but it must be added that he knew also that his natural shrewd- ne...

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...ompose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What vary’d being peoples every star , May tell why he... ... his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n, That each may fill the circle mark’d by heav’n: Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero p... ...w’rs trod And quitting sense call imitating God; As eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach eternal w... ...race he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Y et make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one reg... ...f T ully’s, or your own. All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade An Eu... ...ind to wake As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov’d, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend,...

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..., in- ter-threading as in a loom, noisy as at a fair. A simply bour- geois circle will not furnish it, for the middle class must have the brilliant, f... ...ute example of mis- anthropy; whereas Alceste is only a misanthrope of the circle he finds himself placed in: he has a touching faith in the virtue re... ...is perceived by her shrewd head. Still he is a very uncommon figure in her circle, and she esteems him, l’homme aux rubans verts, ‘who some- times div... ...ophanic robustness, something of Moliere’s delicacy. The laughter heard in circles not pervaded by the Comic idea, will sound harsh and soulless, like... ...diness and preserve a notion of identity. The professor is better out of a circle that often confounds by lionizing, sometimes annoys by abandoning, a... ...s upon life, from the speci- men he has presented in the bright and narrow circle of a spy-glass. I do not know that the fly in amber is of any partic...

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...w, at the same time wrenching downward and backward. Buck described a complete circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to the ground on h... ... huskies ran to the spot and surrounded the combatants in an intent and silent circle. Buck did not comprehend that silent intentness, nor the eager w... ...appeasingly) when Spitz’s sharp teeth scored his flank. But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his heels to face him, mane bristling, e... ...y be? With drooping tail and shivering body, very forlorn indeed, he aimlessly circled the tent. Suddenly the snow gave way beneath his fore legs and ... ...7 Spitz was equally willing. He was crying with sheer rage and eagerness as he circled back and forth for a chance to spring in. Buck was no less eage... ...nce to spring in. Buck was no less eager, and no less cautious, as he likewise circled back and forth for the advantage. But it was then that the unex... ...e attack on the team. Billee, terrified into bravery, sprang through the savage circle 18 The Call of the Wild and fled away over the ice. Pike and Dub... ...arled. In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death. As they circled about, snarling, ears laid back, keenly watchful for the advant... ...se dogs that were ill tamed wolves; and they were now drawn up in an expectant circle. They, too, were silent, their eyes only gleaming and their brea...

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... her fatiguing toil. Her late hours had left a trace on her face by a pale circle marked under each eye on the fresh rosiness of her cheeks. The poor ... ...ad already detected the strangers, though her false eyes, deep set in dark circles, did not seem to have strayed from the prayer-book she held. Angeli... ...ing-room at Bayeux had invaded his home; the broad panels were hollowed in circles, and decorated with those arabesques of which the long, monotonous ... ...s priest, a man of about eight- and-thirty, who brought with him, into the circle of the en- lightened and tolerant Paris clergy, the bitter provincia... ...elique was promoted to rank as an angel. The old women who constituted the circle in which she moved—for at that time it was not yet “the thing” for y... ... her acid-sweet remarks and the intolerable dulness of her nar- row-minded circle, and she tried to put him in the wrong before the servants and her c...

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...udied drawing with Servin, who was thought a great draughtsman in academic circles. After that he went to Schinner’s, to learn the secrets of the powe... ... happiest people on earth. Pierre Grassou never emerges from the bourgeois circle, in which he is considered one of the greatest artists of the period...

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...ition more and more developing itself into affluent security, an agreeable circle of acquaintance, and a certain real influence, though of a peculiar ... ...hn Sterling Sterling at Cambridge had undoubtedly a wide and rather genial circle of comrades; and could not fail to be re- garded and beloved by many... ...g becoming for the time an intimate and almost an inmate in Mr. Crawford’s circle, doubtless not without results to himself beyond the secretarial wor... ...rench, John Mill, Charles Buller: these, and some few others, among a wide circle of a transitory phantasmal character, whom he speedily forgot and ca... ...re none. These must have been pleasant evenings in Regent Street, when the circle chanced to be well adjusted there. At other times, Philistines would... ...ble guidance it was like to have! Thus, too, an extensive, very variegated circle of con- 44 The Life of John Sterling nections was forming round him... ...onately yours, “J. Sterling.” Sterling and his circle, as their ardent speculation and activity fermented along, were in a... ...panish manners tempered into cosmopolitan, he had been welcomed in various circles of society; and found, perhaps he alone of those Span- iards, a cer... ...s, among others, he had made acquaintance; became famil- iar in the social circle at South Place, and was much es- teemed there. With Madam Torrijos, ...

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...at curves of the globe. The long deck made a white spot in the sharp black circle of the ocean and in the intense sea-light, while the shadow of the s... ...gton spring when the air began to show a southern glow and the Squares and Circles (to which the wide empty avenues converged according to a plan so i... ...in the place itself, revolving about the subject in widening and narrowing circles, perching successively on its many branches, considering it from ev... ...rt address themselves to Pandora Day. He resisted the impulse to join this circle: if he should speak 35 Henry James to her at all he would somehow w... ...o not left them an ideal privacy. But the others gradually dispersed; they circled about a kind of showman who was the authorised guide, a big slow ge...