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...pass on with great satisfaction to show, that Persia was anciently very rich in silver mines, and is on that account symbolized by that metal. And w... ... is on that account symbolized by that metal. And why then should Chaldea, which had no mines of gold, be symbolized by gold. The third kingdom figu... ... came unto them: and what they had done in the country of Spain, for the winning of the mines of the silver and gold which are there.” 1 Maccab. vii... ... their armies, shall that day be entirely destroyed, and the immense multitude of their corpses given up a prey to all the fowls of heaven, gathered...

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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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...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 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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...n. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and t... ...rale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She went home, and that... ...n and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks. The Bon Ton Store—Haydock & Simons’—the larges... ...ectual set, and the solid financial set, they sat up with gaiety as with a corpse. Juanita Haydock talked a good deal in her rattling voice but it was... ...inkled with thin black and gray hairs. He was covered with a sheet, like a corpse, and outside the sheet was his right arm, wrapped in towels stained ... ...rail- way maps, and traced motor-routes from Gopher Prairie to Winnipeg or Des Moines or Grand Marais, thinking aloud and expecting her to be effusive... ... to Property, as elsewhere he had el- evated and served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered g... ...don’t know what they miss. And anybody can endure anything. Look at men in mines and in prisons.” He drew up on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. ... ...and gold. The amateur baseball-team hired a semi-professional pitcher from Des Moines, and made a schedule of games with every town for fifty miles ab...

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... are of high importance to your- self. That is why you work so hard at the mines. If you can produce coal to cook five thousand dinners a day, you are... ...then he explored the Amazon,’ said Birkin, ‘and now he is ruling over coal-mines.’ The girl looked at Gerald with steady, calm curiosity. He laughed, ... ... one attacked by the tomb-influences which dog us. And she was gone like a corpse, that has no presence, no connection. He remained hard and vindictiv... ...ed her and broke her down, so that she suf- fered sheer dissolution like a corpse, and was unconscious of everything save the horrible sickness of dis... ...n,’ came Gerald’s voice from the lower room. ‘Neither the Pussums, nor the mines, nor anything else.’ ‘You be interested in what you can, Gerald. Only... ...f saying loudly, to Ursula: ‘Regarde, regarde ces gens-la! Ne sont-ils pas des hiboux incroyables?’ And with the words of French in her mouth, she wou... ...beard, now streaked with grey, seemed to spring out of the waxy flesh of a corpse. Yet the atmosphere about him was energetic and playful. Gudrun subs... ...pect for the betise before you’ve committed it,’ laughed Ursula. ‘Ah then, des betises du papa?’ ‘Et de la maman,’ added Gudrun satirically. ‘Et des v...

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... king; and, in a short time, he took the field at the head of a provincial corps. In the mean time Marmaduke had completely committed himself in the c... ...nd of Great Britain. His boyhood had passed in the neighborhood of the tin mines, and his youth as the cabin-boy of a smuggler, between Falmouth and G... ...mankind, however, than if he had been riding a donkey in one of his native mines. But, being discharged from the navy at the peace of ‘83, he declared... ...evotes these jewels of the forest, these pre- cious gifts of nature, these mines of corn- I fort and wealth, to the common uses of a fireplace? But I ... ...ter about Oliver that proceeds from education, which would forbid so clan- des- tine a proceeding.” “Could an ignorant fellow smelt?” continued Richar... ...ared in the ranks, and arranged themselves in the order of battle. As this corps was composed of volunteers, and was com- manded by a man who had pass... ..., after he had filled the honorable station of sergeant-major to a dashing corps of Virginia cav- alry through much of the recent war. Another of thes...

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...re could be no Alexanders or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, ‘These old fools,’ exactly as it is here foretold. These, ... ...tween these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe. The coal mines were manifestly doomed to closure at no very distant date, the vast a... ...The World Set Free tunes, which were largely invested in bank shares, coal mines, and house property, were destroyed. Reduced to penury, he sought to ... ... night upon the lines laid down by Napoleon and Moltke, his own scientific corps in a state of mutinous activity was preparing a blow for Berlin. ‘The... ... a blow for Berlin. ‘These old fools!’ was the key in which the scientific corps was thinking. The War Control in Paris, on the night of July the seco...

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...nt. He had to hurry them then the whole length of the jetty; it had been a des- perate dash, neck or nothing—and again it was Nostromo, a fellow in a ... ...itive method it had ceased to make a profitable return, no matter how many corpses were thrown into its maw. Then it became forgotten. It was rediscov... ...n- tific aspect of his labours remained vague and im- perfect in his mind. Mines had acquired for him a dramatic interest. He studied their peculiarit... ...hem as one goes with curiosity to call upon remarkable persons. He visited mines in Germany, in Spain, in Cornwall. Abandoned workings had for him str... ...young people had met in Lucca. After that meeting Charles Gould visited no mines, though they went together in a carriage, once, to see some marble qu... ...ople? Is it not worth while to make another effort, which is not at all so des- perate as it looks, rather than—” 190 Nostromo Decoud finished his th... ...lying about, and he flat- tened himself down at once by the side of a cold corpse. He heard a voice saying, “Here is one of those wounded rascals craw... ...he could make out the shape of land about the harbour entrance. This was a des- perate affair, and he was a good swimmer. A mile was nothing to him, a... ...His bare feet were upturned in the shadows repulsively, in the manner of a corpse. His eloquent mouth had dropped open. His youngest daughter, scratch...

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...hee.’ 32 The Shaving of Shagpat The touch of a hand was as the touch of a corpse to Bhanavar, and the damsel was constrained to speak by a power she ... ...ber and through to a passage and a vault hung with black, wherein were two corpses, one in a tomb and one unburied, and we slew them there, clasping e... ... signal for fresh entertainments, exhausting the resources of her art, the mines of her wealth, to fascinate him. Ravishments of de- sign and taste we...

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... was to be had but the toil of a rough journey; as if, forsaking the gold- mines of finance and that political slaughter of fat oxen whereby a man him... ...our Professor, “so could I write a Spirit of Clothes; thus, with an Esprit des Lois, properly an Esprit de Coutumes, we should have an Esprit de Costu... ...anter’s wand, the—shall I speak it?—the Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, ev... ...to guide our British Friends into the new Gold- country, and show them the mines; nowise to dig out and exhaust its wealth, which indeed remains for a... ...ilings from some, and saturnalian rev- elries from the most, the venerable Corpse is to be burnt. Or, in plain words, that these men, Liberals, Utilit... ..., “who can hinder it; who is there that can clutch into the wheelspokes of Des- tiny, and say to the Spirit of the Time: Turn back, I com- mand thee?—...

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... limbo, after testifying against them. Who is to know the fit one in these mines of deception? Women of the class offering wives de- cline to be taken... ...rofit by Hannibal’s example and train elephants to serve as a special army corps for the perfect security of our priceless Indian Empire, instanced th... ... to out-climb, though we were cavalry.’ ‘Yes, my lord, and exercised crack corps are wanted with us,’ Weyburn replied. ‘The English authorities are ad... ...submissive in showing bed, knickknacks, furniture. They told the tale of a corpse. He washed and dressed, and went out to his club to dine, hating the...

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...vecots—with its method of manual training for example—keeping up esprit de corps and the manliness of himself and every one about him, keeping up his ... ... the singular nick- name, which never reached his ears, of the “Galvanized Corpse.” He got through, however, at the cost of four quite trifling spills... ...se men down there in the quarry? What of his debt to the unseen men in the mines away in the north? What of his debt to the stokers on the liners, and... ...hing else you can still sit about and sing. Miners who have been buried in mines will sing, people going down in ships.” “The Sussex labourers don’t s... ...atred and nationalism and faction….” Then came a queer fancy. “Great guns, mines, battleships, all that cruelty-apparatus; I see it more and more as t...

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...e of La Ville-aux-Fayes, over which, as you know, the nephew of our friend des Lupeaulx lords it. Tall forests lying on the horizon, along vast slopes... ...ed that name, which was quite unknown down here, and called herself Madame des Aigues, as if to merge her identity in the estate, which she delighted ... ...ed by the Austrians Gross-Aspern), and came near perishing when that noble corps was driven back on the Danube. He managed to cross the river astride ... ...e valley, be- tween the river (bordered on both sides by the forest called des Aigues) and the royal mail road, defined by a line of old elms in the d... ...mind, by occupation, from dwelling on his fall. Though he had yielded his “corps d’armee” to the Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and ... ...t conscription. In 1809 young Niseron was still only an artilleryman, in a corps d’armee stationed in Illyria and Dalmatia when it received sudden ord... ...aughter and his sons may go to law, and end by sell- ing the lead and iron mines to manufacturers, from whom we shall manage to get them back.” The ch...

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...in perfect contentment looking at the last French fashions in the Courrier des Dames, and thinking how her pink satin slip would dye, and make just su... ...itol Loan and Life Assurance Com- pany, had discovered the Chimborazo gold mines, and the Society for Recovering and Draining the Pontine Marshes; cap... ... to “V efour’s” for dinner, or patronise my friend M. Duboux of the “Hotel des Reser- 126 Men’s Wives voirs” who gives not only a good dinner, but as... ...is time, the 120th Regiment was quartered at Weedon Barracks, and with the corps was a certain Assis- tant-Surgeon Haggarty, a large, lean, tough, raw...

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...art gone, and forever! XVII. See Stumah, who, the bier beside His master’s corpse with wonder eyed, Poor Stumah! whom his least halloo Could send like... ... From V ennachar in silver breaks, Sweeps through the plain, and ceaseless mines On Bochastle the mouldering lines, Where Rome, the Empress of the wor... ...list of the domestic officers who, independent of Luichttach, or gardes de corps, belonged to the establishment of a Highland chief. These are, 1. The... ...to Scotland, and penetrated as far as to the remote Highlands (au fin fond des Sauvages). After a great hunting-party, at which a most wonderful quant... ...a great friend of the Vidame, to Brantome, by whom it is recorded in Vies des Hommes Illustres, lxxxix. 14. ... After all, it may be doubted whether ... ...jours jusques a ce que vous me voyez morte (car je m’y en vais) la Defaite des Suisses, et le mieux que vous pourrez, et quand vous serez sur le mot, ... ...e him to have consulted on literary questions. Lady Capulet, on seeing the corpse of T ybalt, exclaims,— ‘Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!’”...

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...h to complete, and which, if perfect, might outvie the Tower of Babel. The mines of Brazil must have been productive of gold and silver indeed when th... ...s at an establishment called Fort Manuel there, and by punsters the Manuel des V oyageurs; where Govern- ment accommodates you with quarters; where th... ...elling (more or less) in that vicinity. I saw a young Oxford man seize his des- patches, and slink off with several letters, written in a tight neat h... ...e does not fail to point out the famous Mameluke leap, by which one of the corps escaped death, at the time that His Highness the Pasha arranged the g...

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... piled bricks concealing the most devious and enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors fro... ...traightforward and a bit thought- ful, about Patriotism, say, or esprit de corps, or After-Life.” I looked at Britten. Hitherto we had not considered ... ...“if that isn’t so what the deuce are we up here for? Instead of working in mines? If some things aren’t to be thought about ever! We’ve got the privil... ...service and its candelabra of solid gold, I seem to feel the slums and the mines and the over-crowded 262 The New Machiavelli cottages stuffed away u...

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...skipping, light of foot because light of heart, on his way to the Terrasse des Feuillants to take a look at the people of quality on promenade there. ... ...wit, their beauty, or their lov- ers; one who passed was the heroine Mlle. des Touches, so well known as Camille Maupin, the great woman of letters, g... ...ris! Never- theless, he dressed and went to take a stroll in the Terrassee des Feuillants. He had his day of triumph. He looked so handsome and so gra... ...he dark,” he added, making a lunge. “Now writers, my boy, are in different corps; there is the writer who writes and draws his pay; there is the write... ...n’t cost the management anything, for the chorus and the orchestra and the corps de ballet are to take them whether they like it or not; but your pape... ... ser- pents found in the human heart and human body, and so proceed to the corps diplomatique,” said Lousteau. “And we could exhibit one in spirits, i... ...t we, all of us, shall continue to write, like men who work in quicksilver mines, knowing that they are doomed to die of their trade. “Look there,” he...

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... hesi- tated to submit its vices to Mike Monday and his expert reclamation corps. The more enterprising organizations of the city had voted to invite ... ...ed a somber oligarchy by gaining control of banks, mills, land, railroads, mines. Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together make up the tr... ... which—though not all—lay inland, against a back- ground of cornfields and mines and of small towns which depended upon them for mortgage-loans, table... ...d. “But you look here, all of you! I’m getting sick and tired of being the corpse in this post mortem! If you want to kill somebody, go kill the preac...