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...oint of missionary policy just arisen, about our new Town Hall and the balls there—too long to go into, but a quaint ex- ample of the intricate questi... ...great part of the floor is knee-deep in books, yet nearly all the shelves are filled, alas!It is a place to make a pig recoil, yet here are my intermi... ...bert Louis Stevenson FRIDAY, MAY 13TH. Well, the last chapter, by far the most difficult and un- grateful, is well under way, I have been from six to ... ...hat might be. As he left I heard the villagers asking which was the great lady?And a little further, at the borders of Malie itself, we found the guar... ...o the Men of Mulinuu. The news of the fighting was of no concern to mortal man; it was made much of because men love talk of battles, and because the ... ... of firelight and shadow and prepos- terous tales; the king seen at night galloping up our road upon unknown errands and covering his face as he passe... ...e was a war party out from 176 Robert Louis Stevenson Mulinuu; and a little further on, as we stopped to sketch a flag of truce, the beating of drums... ...the red handkerchief about their brows, that makes the Malietoa uniform, and the boats have been com- ing in from the windward, some of them 50 strong... ...htest in the annals of V ailima. I got leave from Captain Bickford to have the band of the Katoomba come up, and they came, fourteen of ‘em, with drum...

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...ouble loss; ’T is lost, and lost to me. LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west T o a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin ves... ...wing why. T o-morrow, night will come again, Weary, perhaps, and sore. Ah, bugle, by my window, I pray you stroll once more! 46 LXXIII ... ...plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king. 5... ...ihilate a single clause, And Being ’s beggary. 71 CXX I HAD a daily bliss I half indifferent viewed, Till sudden I perceived it stir,—... ...ot, That mushroom,—it is him. XXVI THERE came a wind like a bugle; It quivered through the grass, And a green chill upon the heat So om... ... it flows, That any brook is there; And yet your little draught of life Is daily drunken there. Then look out for the little brook in March, When the ... ...t disappoint, Myself a poorer prove Than this great purchaser suspect, The daily own of Love Depreciate the vision; But, till the merchant buy, Still ... ...ff 276 Their height in heaven comforts not, 204 There came a wind like a bugle; 97 There is a shame of nobleness 205 There is a solitude of space,...

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...ut the one interest in common: each of us who had any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articl... ... As a gentleman by birth, and a scholar by taste and education, I was the type of all that he least under- stood and most detested; and the mere view ... ...rce under command, ‘if you knew how your generous words— how even the sight of you—relieved the horrors of this place, I believe, I hope, I know, you ... ...e aunt, flattered Ronald, and now in the witty, now in the sentimental manner, declared my love and received the as- surance of its return. By means o... ...eautiful smoothness, very ingeniously laid down, and so well kept that in most weathers you could take your dinner off any part of them without distas... ... good to remember, though at the time it put me on the rack. All was to no purpose. Fast as we were travelling towards France, he was travelling faste... ...he luxuries or the amenities of my rank in life. To be attended on by servants I had only been accustomed to in inns. My toilet had long been military... ...I said, ‘you need have no fear. By how much I love my own honour, by so much I will take care to pro- tect yours. We are but fraternising at the outpo... ...hich de- ceived nobody, and wearisome arts which proved to be artless? The day was drawing to an end when Mr. Rowley and I bowled into Edinburgh to th...

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...winter dawn, the wind carries abroad over Edinburgh the sound of drums and bugles. Grave judges sit bewigged in what was once the scene of imperial de... ...keep ledgers, and attend church, and have sold their immortal portion to a daily pa- per. By all the canons of romance, the place demands to be half d... ...ry, I know only one token that remains. In the Par- liament Close, trodden daily underfoot by advocates, two letters and a date mark the resting-place... ... upon the names of those concerned. Intelligent men have been walking here daily for ten or twenty years without a rag of business or a shilling of re... ...May. And while you are looking, across upon the Castle Hill, the drums and bugles begin to recall the scattered garrison; the air thrills with the sou... ...egin to recall the scattered garrison; the air thrills with the sound; the bugles sing aloud; and the last ris- ing flourish mounts and melts into the...

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...ior is, they say, a free and jovial priest, who loves the wine-cup and the bugle-horn better than bell and book: Good; let him come, he shall be welco... ...King John, that he confined a wealthy Jew in one of the royal castles, and daily caused one of his teeth to be torn out, until, when the jaw of the un... ...ded for the morrow. T o the best archer a prize was to be awarded, being a bugle-horn, mounted with silver, and a silken baldric richly ornamented wit... ... be refused thee.—If thou dost beat this braggart, Hubert, I will fill the bugle with silver-pennies for thee.” “A man can do but his best,” answered ... ...is dislike to his person. “These twenty nobles,” he said, “which, with the bugle, thou hast fairly won, are thine own; we will make them fifty, if tho... ...it with my heels!—I serve the duty of my chapel duly and truly—T wo masses daily, morning and evening, primes, noons, and vespers, aves, credos, pater... ...he wore no mask, the glittering baldric across his shoulder, with the rich bugle-horn which it sup- ported, as well as the calm and commanding express... ..., if deprived of their sovereign in some of those dangers which it is your daily plea- sure to incur, and from which you have but this moment narrowly...

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...d, more popular as well as more con- spicuously well done than the former. We had a regular daily competition to guess the vessel’s progress; and twel... ...sh a devotion; but people in all classes display the same appetite as they gorge themselves daily with the miscellaneous gossip of the newspaper. News... ...y tingle in the air, that this friend (who shall here be nameless) heard the notes of a key-bugle played with much hesitation, and saw the smoke of a ... ...e. The eldest son, in the uniform of a private of dragoons, was choosing out notes on a key-bugle. Two or three daughters lay in the neighbourhood pic... ...ir peace; not one spoke or smiled; only the dragoon kept choosing out single notes upon the bugle, and the father knitted away at his work and made st... ...ole party to mechanical waxworks. Certainly, he affirms, a wax figure might have played the bugle with more spirit than that strange dragoon. And as t... ... the ancestral habit, to which a respectable lady must study to conform. Two conveyances go daily to Le Puy, but they rival each other in polite conce... ... day after day the mists drive overhead, the snow-flakes flutter down in blinding disarray; daily the mail comes in later from the top of the pass; pe...

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...n the busy hum of men, where the constant resort of strange merchants, the daily interests of a self-governing municipal- ity, and the numerous festiv... ...were too steep to sustain the snow. The waterfall length- ened its icicles daily, and the whole court was heaped with snow, up even to the top of the ... ...ina had unconsciously rendered her most devoted ser- vant, not only by her daily care of his wound, but by her kind courteous words, and by her giving... ...y their mother, but far too strong to be easily discouraged. They had long daily gazed at Ulm in the distance, hoping to behold the spire completed; a... ...thing!” said Friedel. “They can scarce pay meal and poultry enough for our daily fare; and if we were to flay them alive, we should not get sixty gros... ...or the travellers at our landing-place,” cried Ebbo, and again raising the bugle to his lips, he sent forth three notes well known as a call to arms. ... ...th. “Herr Freiherr,” said Moritz, presently, “have you breath to wind your bugle to call the men back from the pursuit?” Ebbo essayed, but was too fai... ...“Sir,” he said, “if they try to lay hands on you, strike my death-blow!” A bugle-horn was wound outside. The men stood daunted—Christina in extreme te... ...’s hand, and with eyes of fire glaring on the mutinous warriors. An- other bugle-blast! Heinz was almost in the act of grappling with the silent foe, ...

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...Meantime, and sought the loftiest place T o beacon the approaching chase. ‘Daily upon the meads to browse, Goes Nancy with those dairy cows Y ou see b... ...revealed, Heaving with adoration! there The work of husbandry is done, And daily bread is daily earned; Nor seems there ought to indicate 61 The spri... ...w, the air smells of the mowing, And the sharp song of the scythe whistles daily; from dawn, till the gloaming Wears its cool star, sweet and welcome ... ...n; For when the bird is scared away, The captive bursts to song again. Yet daily with its flattering voice, T alking amid its fluttering wings, Store ... ...enough In that inveterate machine Through which we speak the printed stuff Daily, with voice most hugeous, mien XVII T remendous:- as a lion’s show Th... ...in-muscle feats, Who guts a drum to fetch a snappish groan: For his fierce bugler horning onset, whom A truncheon-battered helmet caps … The creature ... ...hain She heard upon a day in ‘I who can’; Start to the softened, tremulous bugle-blare Of that Caesarean Italian Across the storied fields of trampled... ...man spent A dart that laughed at distance and at speed. XIX Right loud the bugle’s hallali elate Rang forth of merry dingles round the tors; And defte...

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...a ship upside down is a certain forerunner of bad weather. The Fata Morgana, a daily phenomenon in the Straits of Messina, shows the phantoms of vesse... ...of age, such as seemed of a bold and dauntless disposition, whom he instructed daily as to the delights of Mohammed's paradise, and how he could bring... ... beloved. But their sorrow was not unalloyed, for as the heralds following the buglers proclaim in the market places and squares the death of the sove... ...district. In this work the Spaniards were assisted by the natives, who brought daily an abundance of provisions, and in every way manifested their hos... ...e arm of the Almighty. At an early hour, on the 5th of September, the blare of bugles aroused the sleepless camp, and the order was given to prepare f... ...eived. It is estimated by Cortez that at least thirty thousand people appeared daily in the market place of the city, and that the population of the p... ...ought every opportunity to impress Cortez with the peril of his situation, and daily advised him that the Mexicans were planning a strategy by which t...

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...courage in my ear. With voiceless calls, the ancient earth Summons me to a daily birth. Thou, O my love, ye, O my friends – The gist of life, the end ... ...him, the shepherd folds his flocks. For those he loves that underprop With daily virtues Heaven’s top, And bear the falling sky with ease, Unfrowning ... ...son XXVIII – TO MY FATHER Peace and her huge invasion to these shores Puts daily home; innumerable sails Dawn on the far horizon and draw near; Innume... ... drucken lads, In the mirk nicht, the winter rain Dribbles an’ blads. Whan bugles frae the Castle rock, An’ beaten drums wi’ dowie shock, Wauken, at c... ... a gray thing gray, no black; To a steigh brae, a stubborn back Addressin’ daily; An’ up the rude, unbieldy track O’ life, gang gaily. What you would ...

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..., when crags they hurled, Were thunder spitting lightnings on the world In daily deeds, and she their evening Muse. This man, this hero, works not to ... ... cricket song, With gold necks bent for any zephyr’s kiss; When vine-roots daily down a rubble soil Drank fire of heaven athirst to swell the grape; W... ...an spent A dart that laughed at distance and at speed. XIX. Right loud the bugle’s hallali elate Rang forth of merry dingles round the tors; And defte...

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... for anything I know, one hun dred years. Not that I have grown old, for, daily on the neighbouring downs and grassy hill sides, I find that I can st... ...ard house roof, we are swimming in the murky ditch, when lo! ‘Qui v’la?’ a bugle, the alarm, a crash! What is it? Death? No, Amiens. More fortificatio... ...are little old men and women, and the men and women lively boys and girls. Bugle, shriek, flight resumed. Monied Interest has come into my carriage. S... ...those by whom she was surrounded; and she pathetically complained that the daily association and the nightly noise made her worse, and was driving her...

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...er, – im sachsenhausen, and the almost continuous winding of all manner of bugles and trumpets, sometimes in stirring flourishes, and sometimes in mer... ...uld give way. To-night, as I was walking along Princes Street, I heard the bugles sound the recall. I do not think I had ever remarked it before; ther... ...e must be warm hearts and bright fires waiting for one up there, where the buglers stood on the damp pavement and sounded their friendly invitation fo... ...th century: Trial of Joan of Arc, Paston Letters Basin, etc., also Boswell daily by way of a Bible; I mean to read Boswell now until the day I die. An... ... we are a brave, cheery crew, we human beings, and my admiration increases daily – primarily for myself, but by a roundabout process for the whole cro... ...n, a most pleasant old boy with whom I discuss the universe and play chess daily. He has been out of France for thirty- five years, and never heard of... ...have been only two days ago shaved by the tonsorial artist Michaels; drink daily at the Bohemia saloon; get my daily paper from Hadsel’s; was stood a ... ...of his prowess with the hatchet (which he persists in calling an axe), and daily sur- prised at the perpetuation of his fingers. The reason is this: t...

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...or a big shop, or any other of the places where human life and welfare are daily sacrificed in order that some greedy foolish creature may be able to ... ...erty is an excellent thing; but it cannot begin until society has paid its daily debt to Nature by first earning its living. There is no liberty befor... ...ated lately in a public correspondence on this very point. A writer in The Daily Telegraph having commented on the falsehood uttered by Brynhild in ac... ... her, a correspondence in defence of the beloved heroine was opened in The Daily Chronicle. The imputation of falsehood to Brynhild was strongly re- s... ...re: every soldier is expected to learn and distin- guish between different bugle calls and trumpet calls; and anyone who can do this can learn and dis...

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... is an irradiated sky, under the spell of imagined magical beauty. She was bugle, banner, sunrise, of his inmost ambi- tion and rapture. And without a... ...beted for the maltreating of natives: the ring and fervour of the notes on daily events told of Rockney’s hand upon the national heart—with a faint, a... ...Rather no journalism at all for him! He thought the office of the ordinary daily preacher cowlike. His gadfly stung him to warn, dictate, prognosticat... ... to his voice when he delivered it in ardour— circumstance coming to be of daily recurrence. Great love creates forethoughtfulness, without-which ince... ... early in his reflections had noted that:—and it is partly a result of our daily habit of tossing the straw to the monetary world and doting on our- s... ...Press to spur Parliament to fitly represent the people, and writing on his daily topics with strenuous original vigour, even though, like Rockney, he ...

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...aning of that phrase—which is, self sacrifice for another alone. Men make daily sacrifices for others, but it is for their own sake first. The act m... ...o the house, next time, and ate with the family; kept on doing this almost daily, thereafter. But, once the gull was away on a journey for a few days,... ...llowed him home, entered the house without excuse or apology, and became a daily guest again. Gulls do not rank high mentally, but this one had memory... ...case he really had no Free Will: his temperament, his train ing, and the daily influences which had molded him and made him what he was, compelled ... ...he magistrate and the constables and the jailer treasure up the assassin’s daily remarks and doings as precious things, and as wallowing this week in ... ...or an hour and two and wait for the third act. In a moment or so the first bugles blew, and the multi tude began to crumble apart and melt into the t... ...began to crumble apart and melt into the theater. I will explain that this bugle call is one of the pretty features here. You see, the theater is empt... ...undreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding house; the first bugle call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain ... ... a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. This company of buglers, in uni form, march out with military step and send out over the l...

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...free and merry, Merry is the life of walrus, Feeding on incautious salmon, Daily eating perch and whiting; Whitings live in quiet shallows, Salmon lov... ...w was strong and wondrous, But alas! it was ill natured, Asking for a hero daily, T wo the heads it asked on feast days. Ilmarinen, skilful artist, Wa... ... of battle, Steeped in blood of valiant heroes, Evidence of fatal warfare. Daily does the wife Kyllikki Look about her vacant chamber, In the home of ... ...ummer, Burned the wood of many forests, Emptied all the, springs of Pohya; Daily did the, forests lesson, And the wells gave up their waters, Thus to ... ...her’s answer: 239 The Kalevala ‘This the manner of thy workings, Thus thy daily work accomplish: Stamp with diligence and courage, Grind with will an... ...best intentions, Though against the will of Ukko. “From a distance bring a bugle, Bring a shepherd’s horn from heaven, Bring the honey flute of Ukko, ... ...st season. “Dost thou hear the tones of cow bells, Hear the calling of the bugles, Ride thyself within the meadow, Sink upon the turf in slumber, Bury... ...to do her milking!” Then the wizard, Kullerwoinen, From an ox bone makes a bugle, Makes it from T uonikki’s cow horn, Makes a flute from Kiryo’s shin ... ...ki’s cow horn, Makes a flute from Kiryo’s shin bone, Plays a song upon his bugle, Plays upon his flute of magic, Thrice upon the home land hill tops, ...

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...ering over the chaussee at twelve miles an hour—pass the ground hourly and daily now: ’twas lonely and unfrequented at the end of that seventeenth cen... ...d Martial and halso as a privat Gent. I despise the vulgar snears that are daily hullered aginst that Igsolted Pottentat. Betwigxt the Prins & the Duk... ...apting.” “Thusday Night.—O Hangelina, Hangelina, my pashn for you hogments daily! I’ve bean with her two the Hopra. I sent her a bewtifle Camellia Jyp... ... paid the three-and-six balliance, and never sor ‘em mor. “The market fell daily. The Rewin grew wusser and wusser. Hagnies, Hagnies! it wasn’t in the... ...e it to say, that during our five months’ trajet, my mad passion for Julia daily increased; so did the captain’s and the surgeon’s; so did Colonel Lil... ... the maidens of her train; and a hat, set off with moss-roses, sunflowers, bugles, birds-of-paradise, gold lace, and pink ribbon, gave her a distingue... ... his pocket, (it was used for signals in his battalion in place of fife or bugle,) speedily called his scat- tered warriors together. “Take the musket...

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...e lack of humanity, kindliness, sanity, and harmony which he encoun- tered daily in the world at large, but he had an ever abiding sense of the invinc... ...tive features, and all were very much alike in look and person, from their daily dissipation, and the life common to houses of public accommoda- tion.... ...ench couplets, and bits of German songs, which they had picked up in their daily intercourse with the enemy. Soon the men themselves, intoxicated by t... ...d not to be butter-fingered, but what is chiefly necessary is patience and daily practice for long, long years.” His modesty surprised me all the more... ...and? Why do you not? I have I not explained to you by what constant, long, daily practice I have learned to plant my knives without seeing what I am d... ...ure, and if I had to give my opinion about abolishing drums, trumpets, and bugles, I should propose to replace them in every regiment by a pretty girl...