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...gation is such a thing which you can’t cram into no bluejay’s head. Now, on top of all this, there’s another thing; a jay can out-swear any gentleman ... ... his back agin the chimbly, and then he collected his impressions and begun to free his mind. I see in a second that what I had mistook for profanity ... .... Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations c... ...each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue caps, and red, yellow, and green ones. The famous Mark Twain 16 duel-fighting is confined t... ... theirs, too. Kneips are held, now and then, to celebrate great occasions, like the election of a beer king, for instance. The solemnity is simple; th... ...at would be more lasting, and more satisfactory every way. So I bought the cuckoo clock; and if I ever get home with it, he is “my meat,” as they say ... ...tanen the haboolong happily ceased, and we had time to walk our- selves tolerably dry before arriving at Reichenback, wo we enjoyed a good diné at the... ... a specialty of it. I was indiffer- ent, for the chamois is a creature that will neither bite me nor abide with me; but to calm Harris, we went to the... ...earing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden. It was a sack filled with human remains which he had gathered from the orifice of a crevice in the G...

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...he Mountain in mass, may be re-elected. Roland is getting ready the Salles des Cent Suisses, as preliminary rendezvous for them; in that void Palace o... ...his which has been often re- peated, and reprinted—in italics. (Biographie des Ministres (Bruxelles, 1826), p. 96.) At two of the clock, Beaurepaire, ... ...ure sounding, Wo, wo on him! Of such stuff are we all made; on such powder-mines of bottomless guilt and criminality, ‘if God restrained not; as is we... ...er. And another sinks, and another; and there forms itself a piled heap of corpses, and the kennels begin to run red. Fancy the yells of these men, th... ...blood (if universal Rumour can be credited (Dulaure: Esquisses Historiques des principaux evenemens de la Revo- lution, ii. 206 (cited in Montgaillard... ...ments; but without ef- fect, for we heard them say: “Come search among the corpses then: for, nom de Dieu! we must find where he is.” ‘At this time, I... ...nd escaped. ‘One may fancy what terror these words, “Come search among the corpses then,” had thrown me into. I saw noth- ing for it now but resigning...

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...pital, whose life de- pended on his care—many of them of those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmn... ...to take care that, if he should fall in the battle, they would prevent his corpse from being left unburied; for the Greeks believed that till the fune... ...of the deserted field of battles, and herself covered with loose earth the corpse of Polynices. The barbarous uncle caused it to be taken up and again... ...ple itself, even into the Holy of Holies, and told him all that would most des- ecrate it and grieve the Jews. So a little altar to the Roman god Jupi... ...t prevent them from taking posses- sion of the tower at the gateway. Other mines were already prepared, and the Tzar gave notice of a general assault ... ...ines, ‘God is with us!’ On then they marched towards the openings that the mines had made, but there the dauntless garrison, in spite of the terror an... ... in the Council was one Julius, who had been a Franciscan friar, but was a des- perate, unscrupulous fellow, not at all like a monk. Finding that it w...

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...ing ended, ‘a few strokes of the file, quelques coups de lime. (Le Chateau des Tuileries, ou recit, &c., par Roussel (in Hist. Parl. iv. 195-219).) In... ...own eyes. (See Deux Amis, iii. c. 14; iv. c. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 14. Expedition des Volontaires de Brest sur Lannion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des Dauphinois;... ...n. (Naigeon: Addresse a l’Assemblee Nationale (Paris, 1790) sur la liberte des opinions.) But, on the other hand, how many Morellets, Marmontels, who ... ...ring tact. Thus, if People’s-friend Marat has to-day his writ of ‘prise de corps, or seizure of body, ’ served on him, and dives out of sight, tomorro... ...o the President, ’ justly transport himself across the Marches; to raise a corps, or do what else is in him. Royalism totally abandons that Bobadilian... ...tle hope there is in all this. Alas, with whom to fly? Our loyal Gardes-du-Corps, ever since the Insurrection of Women, are disbanded; gone to their h... ...ts, one after another, cunningly-devised, that were to explode like powder-mines and thunderclaps; not one solitary Plot of which has issued otherwise...

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...Williams been filled in and realized, she would have seen something in the corpse-like face, and heard something in the sinister voice, that would hav... ..., he had busied himself in piling the clothes elaborately over the child’s corpse. This incident undeniably gave the character of a vindictive proceed... ...atures, and those glazed rigid eyes, that seemed rightfully belonging to a corpse, when one glance at them sufficed to proclaim a death-warrant. Three... ...d at a far higher rate than if they had been raised from less aristocratic mines. So fatal for mediocrity, so gracious for real power, is any adventit... ...yology, ornithology, conchology, palaeodontology, &c., do not furnish such mines of labor as does the Greek language when thoroughly searched. The ‘Mi...

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...ad has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer’d like the apparatus Of the Hu... ...upon the sea; But none of them appear’d to share his woes, Save one, a corpse, from out the famish’d three, Who died two days before, and now ... ...er Dream’d of a thousand wrecks, o’er which she stumbled, And handsome corpses strew’d upon the shore; And woke her maid so early that she gru... ...ion;— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Nine” 213 Oh, ye great authors!— ‘Apropos des bottes,’ I have forgotten what I meant to say, As sometimes ha... ...ender. They journey’d on through Poland and through Warsaw, Famous for mines of salt and yokes of iron: Through Courland also, which that famo...

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...isigoth went down and took every one with her—ships generally do that; the corpses don’t cumber the sea for some time. ‘What did I do? I kept all the ... ...me! Shout, boys, shout! for it makes you jolly and free. —The Ramrod Corps. PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN, say that one of the quaintest spec- tacles of ... ... she is mine. MRS. G. (Quickly.) Because she is yours or because she is me mineself? CAPT. G. Because she is both. (Piteously.) I’m not clever, dear, ... ...ge these things, and should, also, work despite his blindness. In In- dian mines where they cut into the solid coal with the pick and clear it out fro... ...ld find in Janki’s house and run with Kundoo to a land where there were no mines, and every one kept three fat bullocks and a milch-buffalo. While thi... ...nfantry. In its prime it held ten thousand men and filled its ditches with corpses. ‘At peril of his head,’ sang Lalun again and again. A head moved o...

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...day, reminding me of a supposed un- derstanding that I would furnish you a corps of 35,000 men, and asking of me the “fulfilment of this understanding... ...u have done your best, so have I. I have not the power now to fill up your Corps to 35,000. I am not demanding of you to do the work of 35,000. I am o... ... modified by this resolution and would govern his course accordingly. That des- patch failed to reach Mr. Corwin, by reason of the disturbed condition... ...tofore under com- mand of General Fremont, shall constitute the First Army Corps, under the command of General Fremont; the troops of the Shenandoah D... ...mong the finest in the world. Again, there is evi- dence of very rich coal-mines. A certain amount of coal is valuable in any country. Why I attach so... ...ended by gentlemen who have an interest in the country, including the coal-mines. We have been mistaken all our lives if we do not know whites, as wel... ...on self-reliance. Much, therefore, depends upon yourselves. As to the coal-mines, I think I see the means available for your self-reliance. I shall, i... ...Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible des- patch; to organize an army, for active operations, from all the materi... ...g, from his camp be- tween Brownsville and Lexington, on the 18th. Another des- patch indicates that Grant was moving against Johnston on the 18th. A....

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...ers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the... ...ing ourselves someday with the pack of others at the doors of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, if we should not succeed—a very probabl... ...iness of his means. This chamber was a sort of garret, situated in the Rue des Fossoyeurs, near the Luxembourg. As soon as the earnest money was paid,... ...ardinal are forever seek- ing quarrels with them, and for the honor of the corps even, the poor young men are obliged to defend themselves.” “Listen t... ...be going to do in such a deserted place as the neighborhood of the Convent des Carmes.” 59 Alexandre Dumas “Yes, you are right, Treville, you are rig... ...ds of the cardinal, perceiving his youth and that he did not belong to the corps, invited him to retire before they attacked.” “so you may plainly see... ... they not?” “Sire, I can assert that they have hitherto discovered no gold mines in their mountains; though the Lord owes them this miracle in recompe...

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...ght fight do great credit to his command, and particularly to the Eleventh Corps and Geary’s part of the Twelfth. No discredit on any. A. LINCOLN. 1... ...litary skill and usefulness. His recent ap- pointment to the command of a corps, by one so competent to judge as General Sherman, proves this. In th... ... laborers in every field of industry, especially in agriculture and in our mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals. While the deman... ...e report of the Provost Marshal General. 5.The organization of the invalid corps, and 6.The operation of the several departments of the Quartermaster-... ...nd proclamation duly made by the President of the United States, specially des- ignating the ports to which the aforesaid privileges are to be extende... ...ruckee River in Nevada. Numerous discoveries of gold, silver, and cinnabar mines have been added to the many heretofore known, and the coun- try occup... ...bor, which is richly remunerative. It is believed that the produce of the mines of precious metals in that region has during the year reached, if not... ...r the first time the answer of the Richmond gentlemen to him, which in his des- patch to me of the 1st he characterizes as “not satisfactory.” That an...

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...er than the crowd o’ the passengers, apparently alive and conversible, but corpses, all of them to lie their length in fifteen minutes.’ ‘And you, Fen... ...u’ve been a bulwark to your friends.’ ‘ All, Fenellan, all-stocks, shares, mines, companies, indus- tries at home and—abroad—all, at a sweep, to have ... ..., you will see to-morrow.’ Nataly nodded, as required. ‘Good news from the mines?’ she said. He answered: ‘Dartrey is—yes, poor fellow! Dartrey is con... ...our claim counts in a number of millions. The same with the gold. But gold-mines are lodgeings, not homes.’ ‘Oh, Victor! if money … ! But why did you ... ...goes the world before them. And we see how much would be due for this to a corps of ladies like Miss Graves, not allowed to remain too long on the sta... ...less fair woman living under their roof, a contrast of very life, with the corpse and shroud; and she seen by him daily, singing with him, her breath ... ...e remembered having at times murmured, dissented. And it would have been a des- perate proud thought to comfort a slave, that never once had she known... ...ns toward their ‘com- mon tongue’; together with the rumour of a design to des- patch an American rival emissary to Japan. Nesta listened, inquired, c... ... entangling himself in a passion for maid or widow of the Wells and it was des- perate, a fever. Mr. Stuart Rem charitably remarked on his taking it s...

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...mas de Quincey that, except as a liberal courtesy, the very idea of a call des- tined to be inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two m... ...ges, when silver was chiefly employed, it gave place occasionally to gold. Mines of this metal were well known in Palestine; but there is no evidence ... ..., for example, Thevenot (tom. iii. p. 352) says—‘Le Roi fait assez souvent des presens a ses Khans, &c. L’on appelle ces presens Kalaat.’ Chardin. (ii... ...ed between the general and his council. NOTE 14. And from the fact of that corps in Charlemagne’s army, which effected the passage, having been comman... ...nastic accomplishment in which they had severally excelled. [See the Acad. des Inscriptions, about the year 1725.] At the time of Marathon, fought aga... ...he individual men, had prevailed in Greece. The enormous amount of Persian corpses buried by the Greeks, (or perhaps by Persian prison- ers,) in the P...

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...er of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such dis- tances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a... ...of Mr. Fogg’s whist part- ners on the Mongolia, now on his way to join his corps at Benares. Sir Francis was a tall, fair man of fifty, who had greatl... ...iod when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction. The English Gov- ernment has succee... ... sabres hung at their waists, and long damascened pistols, and bear- ing a corpse on a palanquin. It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in... ...ember, the one hundred and eightieth meridian, and was at the very antipo- des of London. Mr. Fogg had, it is true, exhausted fifty-two of the eighty ... ..., which is to San Francisco what Regent Street is to London, the Boulevard des Italiens to Paris, and Broadway to New York—were lined with splendid an... ... hours behind time. Passepartout, the involuntary cause of this delay, was des- perate. He had ruined his master! At this moment the detective approac...

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...bombard- 155 H G Wells ing capitals, smashing up dockyards and factories, mines and fleets.” “Did they do much to London, sir?” asked Bert. “Heaven k... ...me some new increment to human achieve- ment, a new country opened up, new mines, new scientific discoveries, a new machine! For those three hundred y... ... for three or four days, starving, and then went back to join the Hospital Corps for a week, and so fortified himself with a few square meals before h... ...d to be full of people, T eddy, and then came a time when they was full of corpses, when you couldn’t go a mile that way before the stink of ‘em drove...

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...an journal so cautious and so distin- guished for its ability as the Revue des Deux Mondes. I must not leave the impression upon my readers that this ... ...ooding over them. Yet, no! Abominable is the language of despair even in a des- perate situation. And, therefore, Oxford, ancient mother! and thou, Ca... ... the whole—“L ’on trouve les mêmes arguments chez Fontenelle, mais dégagés des longueurs du sa- vant Van Dale, et exprimés avec plus d’élégance.” This... ...ugmented and fostered, as a counterbalancing force to the Janissaries, the corps of the Topjees or artillery- men. He amassed preparatory treasures. A... ...ly im- proving. Selim and Mahmoud indeed had made effectual reforms in the corps of gunners, as we have said, and had raised it to the amount of sixty... ...s in the cannonade; for his balls, passing over the Greeks, fell amongst a corps of his own troops. These now made three assaults; but were repulsed i... ...ll as another. “If one knight give a testril—”* X. Then let us suppose the mines from which we obtain our silver to be in England. *Sir Andrew Agueche...

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... and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over... ...rning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion. Colonel Dobbin’s corps, in which old Mr. Osborne himself was but an indifferent corporal, ha... ...to more liberal husbandmen. He speculated in every possible way; he worked mines; bought canal-shares; horsed coaches; took government contracts, and ... ...ok fortunes with them to America. For want of proper precautions, his coal-mines filled with water: the government flung his contract of damaged beef ... ...oolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner, M... .... They are a good deal worn now; but, you know, we poor girls can’t afford des fraiches toilettes. Happy, happy you! who have but to drive to St. Jame... ...were left her in the world. And the business of her life, was—to watch the corpse of Love. To death she looked with inexpressible longing. Then, she t... ...” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by which the des- tinies of Europe were twice decided. Then, as after Austerlitz, as aft... ...nd more favourable: at last an aide-de-camp actually reached Brussels with des- patches for the Commandant of the place, who placarded pres- ently thr...

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... _505 So sumptuous, yet withal so perishing! Even as the corpse that rests beneath their wall. A thousand mourners deck the pomp of ... ...nd from that hour did I with earnest thought Heap knowledge from forbidden mines of lore; Yet nothing that my tyrants knew or taught I cared to learn,... ...ght that grate was lifted, and the seven Who brought me thither four stiff corpses bare, _1325 And from the frieze to the four winds of He... ...I might eat, I stretched and clung Over the shapeless depth in which those corpses hung. 26 26 26 26 26. A woman’s shape, now lank and cold and blue, ... ...oned in its wells. _3315 14. 14. 14. 14. 14. ‘“Man seeks for gold in mines, that he may weave A lasting chain for his own slavery;— In fear and ... ... through the soul’s abyss, like some dark stream _100 Through shattered mines and caverns underground, Rolls, shaking its foundations; and no beam ... ...es, and it rose like an exhalation from its ruin. See Sismondi’s “Histoire des Republiques Italiennes”, a book which has done much to- wards awakening...

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...elling power; we have no other. Without it we should be mere inert images, corpses; no one would do anything, there would be no progress, the world wo... ... In Nevada, Circumstance furnished me the silver fever and I went into the mines to make a fortune, as I sup posed; but that was not the idea. The id... ...charity founders, and bicycle champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier des peradoes, and Napoleons. Anything to get notoriety; any thing to set ... ...ing them: THE COMMANDER: “He was in my army.” THE GENERAL: “He was in my corps.” THE COLONEL: “He was in my regiment. A brute. I remember him well.... ...ally a republican and socially a just man because he holds up an atrocious des pot like Caesar Borgia as a mirror for rulers. What Machiavelli behel...

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...ed chamber of my sister. From the gorgeous sunlight I turned around to the corpse. There lay the sweet childish figure; there the angel face; and, as ... ...ote me senseless to the ground. Again I am in the chamber with my sister’s corpse, again the pomps of life rise up in silence, the glory of summer, th... ...her contrived to color favorably, by calling us—that is, me and himself—”a corps of observation;” and he condescendingly explained to me, that, althou... ...ans. It seems that in the central forests of Gombroonia there were diamond mines, which my people, from their low condition of civilization, did not v... ...ild must have a special horoscope written in the stars, or else a peculiar des- tiny written in his constitution, entitling him to take posses- sion o... ...ed watching of five days and nights together, when the rebels were growing des- perate for prey and mischief, did not appear to sink his spirits in th... ...were thus driven, by mere frenzy of just indignation, or, perhaps, by mere des- peration, into acts of rebellion which else they had not medi- 237 Au... ...iographic Sketches trade and our steam engines began to stimulate the coal mines, which in their turn stimulated them, did any great energy apply itse...

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...strophus were captains over the Halizoni from distant Alybe, where there are mines of silver. Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his... ...rs for all his great stature and valour; so he was driven back. Thus the two corpses lay stretched on earth near to one another, the one captain of th... ...oon as they heard it they set about their twofold labour, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood. The Argives on their part also has ... ...e Argives on their part also has tened from their ships, some to gather the corpses, and others to bring in wood. The sun was beginning to beat upon ... ...o hands, and made lamen tation saying, “Of a truth even in the house of Ha des there are ghosts and phantoms that have no life in them; all night lo... ...s of fat, against the time when I shall myself go down into the house of Ha des. As for the barrow, labour not to raise a great one now, but such as ...