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... the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1965. For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been trans... ...een heard to say that she doesn’t know how old she is! “I’ve had so many double birthdays, I’ve lost count,” were the words re- peated to me. Why d... ...eemed to shrink inside himself as if afraid of me. He closed his eyes and doubled his hands. I waited and then repeated my com- mand slowly. Like som... ...e his oar,” Luke said and laughed. He was drying by the fire, his clothes steaming. He explained that they had been blown first one way and then ano... ...nterest the authorities in an ideal city. I made models for them. Planned double-decked streets. Vehicles would use the lower level, pedestrians the... ..., I had the companionship of a girl whose fourteen years should have been double fourteen to equal her double sight for fox, hawk, raven and snail: ...

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...n the general direction of the kitchen. “Coffee?” And, thus, perched over two steaming cups of freshly-ground beans I told her far more than I... ... “You never told me that you are employed by a government agency!” – I lashed at my double-crossing erstwhile friend. “You never asked.” – said Da... ...oposed to put all these assets at our disposal and to provide us with a list of Red double agents, moles, and traitors in the West. Moreover, he und... ...rational espionage and counter-espionage service throughout Eastern Europe: agents, double agents, moles, Russian-speakers in every country, anti-Co...

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... I took off. The IHOP waits for no man. Or Vampire, either. ***** The steaming platter hit the table ten seconds past my third hunger induced ... ...ok my finger under his nose. “You can be chastised after you buy me a cup of steaming hot coffee.” “If that’s what it takes to get back in your goo... ...houghts before they got the best of me, I walked up the steps to the looming double doors of the church. After walking around for the past three hou... ... just crack a joke?” Sounded like one, but coming from his mouth I’d have to double check. Yep, a joke. He stopped looked over his shoulder to the... ...g inside, reality came crashing down. I forced myself to push open the huge double doors. I’m not certain if it was bravery on my part, or just th... ...ing you for that mess in the park, but that doesn’t let you off the hook.” Double yippie! And big thank you that he didn’t know about the scene at... ...I must warn you it will do you no good. My sycophants have all assured me a double murder will garner me a higher viewing share.” Rudolpho paused ...

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...f his son; then again, if he disliked his choice, the major takes the key, double-locks his coffer, and Master Andrea would be obliged to live like th... ...hts which had disturbed me during my year of constant agony came back with double force. The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who h... ... be able to do so.” “Then make yourself quite easy. M. Danglars would give double that sum to attain the same end.” “Am I, indeed, so happy?” said Alb... ...rd the shadow at the window call him; his disturbed mind told him so. This double error became an irresist- ible reality, and by one of the incomprehe... ...nt- ing, I believe, to 80,000 livres per annum.” “And this fortune will be doubled at the death of the old Jacobin, Noirtier.” “That is a tenacious ol... ...the desperate gallop it had kept up since leaving the barrier, and arrived steaming at Louvres. “Certainly,” said Andrea, “I shall not overtake my fri...

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... two other houses had the porch lights off. Running his hands along the massive double doors, Taranto found the lock. He inserted two steel blades f... ...to the right, he spied a grandfather clock standing guard next to a set of dark double doors with matching brass knobs. The library he mused. Swingi... ... approached the master bedroom suite, they encoun­ tered another set of matching double doors with brass knobs. Taranto snapped off the light and lis... ... the Matloch estate. Richard arrived on time wearing the only suit he owned, a double-breasted, pin stripe that he was requested to buy when he was... ...flowers cascaded down the domed walls like a colorful waterfall .. Two massive double doors on the other side of the immense marble foyer opened an... ...w minutes later Randall was on the phone. "What took you so long?" Alana asked, steaming. "I'm in the field working. I got a job, remember." "You'r...

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... EMBELLISHED WITH MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS AND LARGE DOUBLE-PACE COLORED PLATES, DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK BY AMERICA... ...to the Red Sea, and sailing down the coast of Africa, continued until they had doubled the cape, passing up the westward coast, and again entered the ... ...ome became master of Egypt, the custom revenues from this trade with India was doubled, and that one hundred and twenty ships were engaged in the comm... ...f the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a head wind, profanely swore that... ...nd with all kinds of distortion. Sometimes the ship is in the air; sometimes a double reflection is presented in the water; occasionally there are thr... ...ith green leaves, around which the diners assembled, and immediately after two steaming roast pigs were thrown into the centre of the party, all of wh...

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...re- painted by the original owner. Such customs, it might be argued, being double-edged, will ultimately right themselves. But it is otherwise in prac... ...yment, the people, and the place. Yet there was a fly in the ointment. The double error of unnec- essary stealth and of the immixture of a trading com... ...y white, with eyes and ideas. But it should be borne in mind that he had a double task, and must first lead his sovereign, before he could begin to dr... ...ss, the captains impatiently expected day, doubtful if they were dragging, steaming gin- gerly to their moorings, and afraid to steam too much. Day ca... ...ber had dragged anchors with the rest; her injured screw disabled her from steaming vigor- ously up; and a little before day she had struck the front ... ...hose who now rallied beside Knappe braved (as they supposed) in doing so a double danger, from the fury of the sea and the weapons of their enemies. A... ... inverted cabin. Three ships still hung on the next margin of destruction, steaming desperately to their moorings, dashed helplessly together. The Cal... ... a little ahead, the Olga close a- starboard, the reef under her heel; and steaming and veering on her cables, the unhappy ship fenced with her three ...

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...n her most suitable colours, and with an air of negli- gence upon her that doubled Mr Sparkler’s fetters, and riv- eted them. ‘I HEAR YOU are acquaint... ... greater wonder with which he saw them stop at the Patriarchal door. A low double knock at the bright brass knocker, a gleam of light into the road fr... ...ich two pieces of toast at that moment awaited consumption. Bending over a steaming vessel of tea, and looking through the steam, and breathing forth ... ...but Bar overtook him on the staircase. Bar, strengthened as usual with his double eye-glass and his little jury droop, was overjoyed to see the engagi... ...in, if I quote him correctly—and if not,’ with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion’s shoulder, ‘my learned friend will set m... ... physician dropped in next. Bar, who had a bit of one eye and a bit of his double eye-glass for every one who came in at the door, no matter with whom...

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...into remarkable little white-metal tur- rets with big windows and airtight double doors that enabled one to inspect the vast cavity of the gas-chamber... ...t Smallways; a square fight in blue water, guns or nothing, and all of ‘em steaming ahead!” He spread his maps, he had to talk, and so he delivered a ... ...ung out in the modern fashion at distances of thirty miles or so, and were steaming to keep themselves between the Germans and either the eastern stat... ...tely below, burning fore and aft, but still fight- ing two of her guns and steaming slowly southward. The Bremen and the Weimar, both hit in several p... ...crossing behind them, 106 The War in the Air pounding them in succession, steaming in between them and the big modern Furst Bismarck, which was comin... ... machine was heeling over. It was of the Colt-Coburn-Langley pattern, with double up-tilted wings and the screw ahead, and the men were in a boat-like... ... astride of a saddle, as in the Butteridge machine, and he carried a large double-edged two-handed sword, in addition to his explosive-bullet firing r... ...m any attempt to conceal himself, and went across the little bridge at the double. He found nobody. It was his first visit to these huge fragments of ... ...mittees, trying to establish an order below and to keep the sky above. The double effort destroyed them. And as the exhaustion of the mechanical resou...

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... was commenced before the close of the last century and in which more than double the amount of seventy thousand pounds has been swallowed up in costs... ...n. “Begludship’s pardon—dead.” “With their”—Chancellor looking through his double eye glass at the papers on his desk—”grandfather.” “Begludship’s pa... ...f some dogs, and a gush of light from the opened door, and the smoking and steaming of the heated horses, and the quickened beating of our own hearts,... ...e had already looked, this was the time when he did it. I observed that he doubled his right fist and delivered a secret blow into the crown of his ca... ...arnest that he gave it no rest, and a chin that might have subsided into a double chin but for the vehement em phasis in which it was constantly requ... ...has gut tered down until the whole length of its wick (still burning) has doubled over and left a tower of winding sheet above it. His hair is ragged... ... too, and there is a laggard mist a little way up in the air. It is a fine steaming night to turn the slaughter houses, the un wholesome trades, the ...

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...e round table—pull out hairs wi’ tu clamsh’ls,” gabbled Wilbur’s stupefied double; and Wilbur the alert said to himself: “You’re not drunk, Ross Wilbu... ...cceeded in eliminating. A flight of six steps, brass-bound and bearing the double L of the bark’s monogram, led them down into a sort of vestibule. Fr... ...renzy, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, every sense exalted, ev- ery force doubled, insensible to pain, deaf to all reason. Her dirk uplifted, she rus... ...utching at his throat with her one free hand; and as he felt her strength— doubled and tripled in the fury of her madness—Wilbur knew that, however ea... ...s. The warmth, the stillness, the placid, drowsing quiet of Magdalena Bay, steaming under the golden eye of a tropic heaven, the white, baked beach, t...

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...share of the coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull’s command, heaped double handfuls of shillings into one side of the scales, while Betsey rema... ... of the poor Yankees. And perhaps he would call for a bottle of wine, or a steaming bowl of punch, and drink confusion to all rebels.” “Our grave old ... ...gazed sadly at the Province House, before which a sentinel was pacing, the double leaves of the door were thrown open, and Sir William Howe made his a...

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...ng you wanted?” repeated Robert, military, rather peremptory. Jim suddenly doubled himself up and burst into a loud harsh cackle of laughter. Whoop! h... ...elf up and burst into a loud harsh cackle of laughter. Whoop! he went, and doubled him- self up with laughter. Whoop! Whoop! he went, and fell on the ... ...rt was anxious. “I’m afraid he’ll wake the house,” he said, looking at the doubled up figure of Jim writhing on the grass and whoop- ing loudly. “Or n... ...ing round to look what the other man was doing. And the sight of the water steaming in a jet from the teapot seemed attractive. “Yes,” said Lilly. “Yo... ...himself forever beyond her jurisdiction. Henceforth, life single, not life double. He looked at the sky, and thanked the universe for the blessedness ... ...nk,” said Francis archly. “Oh, well, it’s a matter of opinion. Y ou’re the double decker, not me.” “The double decker!” said Francis archly. “Why, wha...

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..., though the original monastery destroyed by the Danes had been one of the double founda- tions for monks and nuns. Entering the building, the brother... ...and his attendants, that the whole floor of their quarters was strewn with doublets, boots, chaper- ons, and gloves, saddles, bridles, and spurs, when... ...at the splashes of mud that reached even to his waist. ‘I will don a fresh doublet, sweetheart,’ said Henry, more rebuked than seemed fitting, ‘and be... ... Kate.’ ‘That was not well in you, my Lord, to come in thus di- shevelled, steaming with wet—not like a king. You will be sick, my Lord.’ The little w...

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...out the adjoin ing room. It was in an old house at Albany, a large, square, double house, with a notice of sale in the windows of one of the lower ap... ...for a small Lancret hanging near it, which represented a gentleman in a pink doublet and hose and a ruff, leaning against the pedestal of the statue o... ...d. She may have slackened speed for an hour, but before we know it she’ll be steaming away again. Excuse another metaphor.” Mrs. Touchett excused it p... ... and the plash of the fountains in their mossy niches had lost its chill and doubled its music. On the corners of the warm, bright streets one stumble... ...repared to think of it as a scandal; but that she had played any part in it, double or single, was an imputation against which she proudly protested. ...

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...5 Goethe The social banquet now goes on, Unchequer’ d by alloy; The sacred double-numbers then Let us at once enjoy! 1802. The Spring Oracle. OH proph... ...then: ergo bibamus! With wallet light-laden from hence I must wend. So double our ergo bibamus! Whate’er to his treasures the niggard may add, Yet... ...ur— Go! let me murmur. Oh, worthy man, Fly from this land! Deadly marshes, Steaming mists of October Here interweave their currents, Blending for ever... ... stands our master dear; His dirty apron he puts away, And wears a cleanly doublet to-day; Lets wax’ d thread, hammer, and pincers rest, And lays his ... ...been! But, surely, ’twasn’t worth the trouble For half a horseshoe to bend double! And so he turn’d away his head, As if he heard not what was said, T... ...her that he had gone to the garden. Then she nimbly strode across the long double courtyard, Left the stables behind, and the barns all made of good t...

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...inued to shout. “He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” He scattered the b... ...eutenant. When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up ... ...ne company dinner was ready, and the sol- diers were gazing eagerly at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster sergeant wa...

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...is as true and as omnipres- ent as that of birds and flies. All things are double, one against another.—Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a ... ...t of character and dialogue, —as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage,—wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial and on such ... ...ience. But the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more m... ... and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his... ...parts not in union acquire. Life will be imaged, but cannot be divided nor doubled. Any invasion of its unity would be chaos. The soul is not twin-bor... ...the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odor- ous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the c...

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... with its coat of slime Holds all the country, whence the hollow dykes Sweat steaming vapour? But no whit the more For all expe... ...ot A pole eight feet projecting, earth boards twain, And share beam with its double back they fix. For yoke is early hewn a linden light, And a tall b... ...anvil set. But lo! a boundless space we have travelled o’er; ’Tis time our steaming horses to unyoke. THE GEORGICS 34 GEORGIC III Thee too, great P... ...hen uplifted falls On his right shoulder; betwixt either loin The spine runs double; his earth dinting hoof Rings with the ponderous beat of solid hor...

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...he trading part of the concern, in which case I think I can pledge myself to double their capital in four or five years. T urn back with me, young man... .... See!—destruction roars through my dark forests, while the lakes boil up in steaming billows, and the mountains are volcanoes, and the sky kindles wi... ... face left a deep im pression on the memory. The forehead bulged out into a double prominence, with a vale between; the nose came boldly forth in an ... ...ent on the un precedented physiognomy of the speaker. The forehead with its double prominence the broad hooked nose, the shaggy eyebrows, and fiery e... ...onfusion of heavier sounds with their shrill voices of mirth or terror. “The double faced fellow has his eye upon me,” muttered Robin, with an indefin...

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...antly delivered himself of this, Mason fell into a dreamy contemplation of his steaming moccasins, but was aroused by Ruth filling his cup. “Thank God,... ..., and bending over the dog, cut the traces. No word was spoken. The teams were double spanned and the difficulty overcome; the sleds were under way aga... ..., which told its own story of the home cabin, the roaring Yukon stove, and the steaming pots of tea. But the home cabin had been invaded. Three score ... ...lder and elbow. With his other 120 JACK LONDON hand he lifted her forearm and doubled it back. Disgust and wonder showed in his face, and he dropped ... ...is feet to serve for both moccasins and socks. Then he drank the pot of water, steaming hot, wound his watch, and crawled between his blankets. He sle... ... paroxysm. Porportuk waited patiently, sipping from his glass and studying the double row of faces down the board. “It is no joke,” he said finally. “M... ...believed implicitly in the smiling future his imagination had wrought into the steaming cloth stream. He had become a man very early in life. At seven... ...e nodded, with equal coolness. “What savages they are.” His admiration for her doubled on itself. She was indeed his sort. He would have been satisfied... ...na jungle and guava scrub they drove him like a rabbit. But ever he turned and doubled and eluded. There was no cornering him. When pressed too closel...

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...o- site him as he hitched his sleeves up at the wrists and leaned over his steaming food. He was sturdy, with curly hair and full vigorous lips that h... ... “No, it don’t,” came a melancholy drawling voice from a lanky man who sat doubled up with his long face in his hands and his elbows resting on his kn... ...they waiting for now?” Bill Grey, next to Fuselli in the ranks, stood bent double so as to take the weight of his pack off his shoulders. They were at... ...isfield made out eagles on tight khaki shoulders, then a single star and a double star, above which was a red 119 John Dos Passos ear and some grey h... ...e and uniforms and officers with maple leaves or eagles or single stars or double stars or triple stars on their shoul- ders. He had a sudden picture ... ...diana?” said Judkins, punching Chrisfield jovially in the ribs. Chrisfield doubled his fists and gave him a smashing blow in the jaw that Judkins ward... ...of desire for furious fleshly enjoyments went through him, making him want steaming dishes of food drenched in rich, spice-flavored sauces; mak- ing h...

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...ssy, swampy glade, already quite free from snow. He went back himself to a double birch tree on the other side, and leaning his gun on the fork of a d... ...steeplechase. The horses who had run in the last race were being led home, steaming and exhausted, by the stable-boys, and one after another the fresh... ...ther of the saddle. Getting his right foot in the stirrup, he smoothed the double reins, as he always did, between his fingers, and Cord let go. As th...

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...d into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself c... ...d rattling, the same snow on the window, the same rapid transi- tions from steaming heat to cold, and back again to heat, the same passing glimpses of...

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...where the orthodox and the up-to-date were said to be combined. The school doubled its numbers. It built new class-rooms, laboratories and a gymna- si... ...The people who were standing by it moved aside. She saw a deserted meadow, steaming and grey, and beyond it slateroofed cottages, row beside row, clim... ... a state that I believed, actually believed, that Fauns lived in a certain double hedgerow near the Cog Magogs, and one evening I walked a mile sooner... ...ny expenses, he used to talk as if he were a millionaire. He must at least double his income before he can dream of more intimate ties. This has been ... ...re being scarcely any tops in Wiltshire—because high upon it there stood a double circle of entrenchments. A bank of grass enclosed a ring of turnips,... .... Turn where he would, it encircled him. It took visible form: it was this double entrenchment of the Rings. His mouth went cold, and he knew that he ...

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...ng round her neck, with the ends uneven. Her throat was bare, wound with a double row of pearls, her arms were bare to the elbows, and might again be ... ...mas, but they were very nice about it. There is Dolly’s photograph—in that double frame.” “Are you quite certain that I’m not interrupting, Mrs. Wilco... ...resting.” The man of business smiled. Since his wife’s death he had almost doubled his income. He was an im- portant figure at last, a reassuring name... ...ess to the nations, and Portsmouth, a latent fire, and all around it, with double and treble collision of tides, swirls the sea. How many villages app... ... will have to lose something.” She was not so sure. For instance she would double her king- dom by opening the door that concealed the stairs. Now she... ...the castle moat must have been; then there’s that detestable little river, steaming all night like a kettle. Feel the cellar walls; look up under the ...

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...e, Nekhludoff left Kolosoff’s question unanswered, and sitting down to his steaming soup, went on eating. 97 Tolstoy “Do let him eat,” said Missy, wi... ...lars unrolled their long, balmy buds, and in shops and dwelling-houses the double window-frames were being removed and the windows cleaned. In the Tol... ...e nets were the prisoners, on the nearer, the visitors. Between them was a double row of nets and a space of 7 feet wide, so that they could not hand ... ...hem all at once. She had such a clever arrangement, a sort of big cradle—a double one she could put them in one way or the other. It had a handle. So ... ... pillows, had been placed in the room. The bed was covered with a dark red doublebedded silk quilt, which was elaborately and finely quilted, and very... ...s, with an apron and spectacles, stood by the fire stirring something in a steaming pan. “Whom do you want?” she asked severely, looking at him over h... ... Opposite her, in an armchair, leaning forward, so that he was nearly bent double, sat a young fellow with a slight, black beard and moustaches. “Lydi... ... coat on, and high top-boots. He stepped lightly and quickly, carrying two steaming teapots, and holding a loaf wrapped in a cloth under his arm. “Wel...

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...said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a sec- ond. “Did your friend w... ... wall dividing the two cours) met the prison building; and here was a huge double door, twice padlocked, through which the waterseekers passed on to t... ...self, entered with a suffering waddle, each of them bearing a huge bowl of steaming something. At least six people immediately rose, gesturing and imp... ...r form upon his person, and no matches. The door was locked behind him and double and triple locked—to judge by the sound— by a planton, usually the B... ...ghing to which she had always been subject grow thicker and deeper till it doubled her up every few minutes, creasing her body as you crease a piece o...

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...ad- ful thing had happened: Mr. Beebe, without consult- ing Mr. Eager, had doubled the size of the party. And though Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish had... ...plained that the hood was stuffy. Leaning forward, she looked out into the steaming dusk, and watched the carriage- lamp pass like a search-light over... ...reece, but they went by themselves. They alone of this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the Saronic gulf. They alone will vis...

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...e, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Best... ...ushed with confusion, and sat down again. Mrs. Morel rose, carried out the steaming saucepan. Morel took off his coat, dragged his armchair to table, ... ...r the rough, dark fields behind him, out of breath, ready to drop. But the double row of lights at the station drew nearer. Suddenly: “There she is!” ... ...d sent him mad. He sat up and looked at the room in the darkness, his feet doubled under him, perfectly motionless, listening. He heard a cat somewher... ...I should have dropped. Paul, as true as I’m here, it’s a lump as big as my double fist. I said: ‘Good gracious, mother, whenever did that come?’ ‘Why,...

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...hat they wore, thin scales of gold or silver as cuirasses over their satin doublets, and the swords and lances of festive combat in that court had bee... ... that hung over the banks, while he used his ling strides to enable him to double back and enter into conver- sation with passers-by, quite of the tra... ...e Baron must condescend to obtain entrance as my assistant—the plain black doublet—yes, that is admirable; but I did not know that Mon- sieur was so t... ... articles of no consequence, from his pockets; then reluctantly opened his doublet, and took off the belt containing his store of gold, which had been... ... little shrugs; and Philip, becoming conscious of his shock hair, splashed doublet, and dirty boots, had vague doubts whether his English dignity were... ...etween her tow careful plump hands a red earthenware bowl, with the tisane steaming in it, and the yellow petals strewn over the surface. She and Phil...

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...ride; The Aeneid Virgil 8 Broke by the jutting land, on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide. Betwixt two rows of rocks a sylvan s... ...iam’s eldest daughter bore, Her orient necklace, and the crown she wore Of double texture, glorious to behold, One order set with gems, and one with g... ...in Eliza’s veins the gentle poison shed: For much she fear’d the T yrians, double tongued, And knew the town to Juno’s care belong’d. These thoughts b... ...t Heav’n once more Would land me safely on my native shore, His death with double vengeance to restore. This mov’d the murderer’s hate; and soon ensue... ...oulders ply, Till from the posts the brazen hinges fly. He hews apace; the double bars at length Yield to his ax and unresisted strength. A mighty bre... ... th’ Idaean grove. It swept a path in heav’n, and shone a guide, Then in a steaming stench of sulphur died. “The good old man with suppliant hands imp... ... to steer his airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depths arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies. From hence the Grecian bards thei...

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...ent that her prank would be taken in good part. Sonya and fat little Petya doubled up with laughter. “Y ou see! I have asked,” whispered Natasha to he... ...inued to shout. “He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” He scattered the b... ...eutenant. When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up ... ...ne com- pany dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster sergeant wa... ...s rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could give no ... ...s announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka. The campfires crackled and the sol- diers’ songs re...

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... which were inevitable by reason of them, endowed as Maupassant was with a double power of feeling life bitterly, and at the same time with so much of... ...gon drove up at a gallop with its four horses, splashed up to their backs, steaming 29 Selected Writings and panting. Five women got out at the botto... ...? In that case I was a somnambulist—was liv- ing, without knowing it, that double, mysterious life which makes us doubt whether there are not two bein... ...; then I fas- tened the iron shutters and going back to the door quickly I double-locked it with a padlock, putting the key into my pocket. Suddenly I... ...y- where; then I set fire to it and made my escape, after having carefully double locked the door. I went and hid myself at the bottom of the gar- den... ...by a peasant, which stood in the center of a Norman court, surrounded by a double row of beeches. “Quitting the Falaise. I gained the hamlet, which wa...

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... deeds What it intends; till first I know of thee, What thing thou art, thus double form’d, and why In this infernal Vaile first met thou call’st Me F... ... And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher; therefore as farr From granting hee... ... Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From Hill or steaming Lake, duskie or grey, Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts wit... ...eive from us Knee tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile, Too much to one, but double how endur’d, To one and to his image now proclaim’d? But what if b... ...t, but turns Foul on himself; then wherfore shund or feard By us? who rather double honour gaine From his surmise prov’d false, finde peace within, Fa... ...and dreadful gloom, Which to his evil Conscience represented All things with double terror: On the ground Outstretcht he lay, on the cold ground, and ...

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...nt. The fellow received it as the waiter of a fash- ionable hotel receives double his proper fee from the hands of a country gentleman—that is, with a... ...to any one—”sacrifice, indeed!—but I crave your honour’s pardon, and whilk doublet is it your pleasure to wear?” “Any one you will, Caleb; my wardrobe... ... and you will do well, madam, to have your hunt- ing-sword right sharp and double-edged, that you may strike either fore-handed or back-handed, as you... ...out man or woman either, paid little attention; but was soon stript to his doublet, with tucked-up sleeves, and naked arms up to the elbows in blood a... ... bubbled on the afore- said bickering fire a huge pot, or rather cauldron, steaming with beef and brewis; while before it revolved two spits, turned e... ...teed, they mounted in the courtyard. Caleb had, with much toil, opened the double doors of the outward gate, and thereat stationed himself, endeavouri...

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...ed almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming The Awakening – Chopin 6 and wet, into the bend of her arm, an... ...y were, they pulled together and stood their ground in childish battles with doubled fists and uplifted voices, which usually prevailed against the ot... ...SED a very charming home on Esplanade Street in New Orleans. It was a large, double cottage, with a broad front ve randa, whose round, fluted columns... ...ong wiry fingers, holding it loosely without warmth, and executing a sort of double theme upon the back and palm. “Yes,” she went on; “I sometimes tho... ...f the fire and the soft lamplight, the night was chill and murky. The Doctor doubled his old fashioned cloak across his breast as he strode home throu... ...d firm chin, which The Awakening – Chopin 61 was growing a little full and double. “Oh, yes! You will tell me that I am adorable; everything that is...

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...the sky. Blood stain’ d her cheeks, and from her mouth there came 150 Blue steaming poisons, and a length of flame. From every blast of her contagious... ... Heaven seems improved with a superior ray, And the bright arch reflects a double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation l... ...e sacrificed both modesty and ease; Left operas, and went to filthy plays: Double-entendres shock’d my tender ear; Yet even this, for thee, I chose to... ...vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not he... ...prings of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath, And kee... ...monides, who invented single letters. But Aristarchus, who had found out a double one, was therefore worthy of double honour.—Scribl. W . 401 ‘Digamm...

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...e, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the street. A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth ... ...h had driven the Puritans to the wilderness. Another guard of soldiers, in double rank, brought up the rear. The whole scene was a picture of the cond... ...ing of the dreadful gloom that had so overawed the multitude: it was but a double fold of crape, hanging down from his fore- head to his mouth, and sl... ...these misdoers. Methinks their dignity will not be fitted with less than a double share of stripes.” Endicott rested on his sword, and closely surveye... ...f this trial,” observed he, sighing heavily; “yet I would that it might be doubled to me, if so the child’s mother could be spared. Her wounds have be... ...avor us with a glass apiece of whiskey punch, which was speedily prepared, steaming hot, with a slice of lemon at the bottom, a dark-red stratum of po...

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...ing when the sun was setting and the air was full of the smell of hay , of steaming dung-heaps and new milk, a plain-looking cart drove into Dyudya’ s... ...hat I must see her about: ‘It’s high time,’ I’d say to myself, ‘to put the double windows in for the winter,’ and the whole day I’ d idle away over at... ... his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock lying in it. The man held a double- barrelled gun cocked in his hand, and screwed up his eyes in the di...

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...ICAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 SQUALLS—A THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—... ... to whom little is given and of whom much is required. His wages are usually double those of a common sailor, and he eats and sleeps in the cabin; but... ...rboard. In the lee scuppers it was up to a man’s waist. We sprang aloft and double reefed the topsails, and furled all the other sails, and made all ... ...aul down, reef and furl, until we had got her down to close reefed topsoils, doublereefed trysail, and reefed forespenser. Snow, hail, and sleet were... ...pon which, out of the reach of the water, was a pile of dry bullocks’ hides, doubled lengthwise in the middle, and nearly as stiff as boards. These t... ... my opportunity to revisit the old scenes. She sails to day, and I am off, steaming among the great clippers anchored in the harbor, and gliding ra...

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...and the hand graspeth upwards. There doth the heart become giddy through its double will. Ah, friends, do ye divine also my heart’s double will? This,... ...there a laughing, and it fled: then did it become still around me, as with a double stillness. I lay, however, on the ground, and the sweat flowed fro... ...on!—so willeth my nature. And especially have I a grudge against all ardent, steaming, steamy fire-idols. Him whom I love, I love better in winter tha...

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...the breasts of such As charged to meet her. All the long shaft dripped With steaming blood. Swift were her feet as wind As down she swooped. Her aw... ...and, dreaded sore Of scared seafarers, when its lowering crags Must needs be doubled. For his death the blood Of famed Hippolochus’ son was horror ch... ...g snow Made turbid. As a man distraught he seemed: All things he saw showed double, and he groaned Fearfully; yet he ceased not to exhort The men of ...