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...as a pretty daughter, whom he refused for many years to recognize; but the death of his son, unfor- tunately killed in a duel, has compelled him to ta... ...e poor girl has suddenly become one of the richest heiresses in Paris. The death of his son threw the poor man into an agony of grief, which sometimes... ...with extraordinary ardor to plan a crime theoretically. While fancying the death of the merchant he saw distinctly the gold and the diamonds. His eyes... ...way under him. 20 The Red Inn “This coward of a sawbones deserves a dozen deaths! Get on!” cried the two soldiers who had him in charge, lending him ... ...e restores to me my innocence. My life would always have been wretched; my death leaves me without reproach. But is there a future?” The whole eightee... ... right to be- tray a secret surprised by me,—to add a murdered head to the dowry of an innocent girl, to give her for the rest of her life bad dreams,...

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... treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus. MARCELLUS: Sha... ..., and Attendants .] KING CLAUDIUS : Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in ... ...Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with the drea... ...st the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd: whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he ... ... Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee... ...eet heavens! HAMLET: If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou Hamlet, Act III,...

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...ed; But leaden-hearted, leaden-heeled, I marked them steadfast in the field. Death grimly sided with the foe, And smote each leaden hero low. Proudly ... ...y rector; Opened his eyes and held his breath, And flattered to the point of death; And was at last, by that good fairy, Apprenticed to the Apothecary... ...ion (Smooth, honourable, fat and flowery, With Heaven knows how much land in dowry), Look at me - Am I in good case? Look at my hands, look at my face... ...er?’ Robin cried. ‘O she!’ said Ben - ‘I think she died.’ ‘Battle and blood, death and disease, Upon the tainted Tropic seas – The attendant sharks th... ... to their inmost heart. 21 Moral Emblems There shall the simple tenant find Death in the falling window-blind, Death in the pipe, death in the faucet...

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...ders; but, somehow, those whom he obliged felt that they would sooner face death than fail to repay him; a certain resolute look, sometimes seen on hi... ...hat felt moved to pity by a tale of misfortune, not one who did not see in death the solution of the all-absorbing problem of misery which left them c... ...ce of the night. It vibrated through the student, who took the sound for a death groan. He opened his door noiselessly, went out upon the landing, and... ...a barbarian that has three millions (so they say), and will not give you a dowry; and a pretty girl needs a dowry nowadays.” “Poor child!” said Mme. V... ...eloped in him till it almost became a mania. All the af- fection balked by death seemed to turn to his daughters, and he found full satisfaction for h... ...t free to choose for themselves. Each had half her father’s fortune as her dowry; and when the Comte de Restaud came to woo Anastasie for her beauty, ... ...w, as he remembered yesterday’s proposal, the thought of Mlle. Taillefer’s dowry came, of course, to his mind, and he could not help thinking of Victo... ...tful language! I wished myself a hundred feet down in the earth. He had my dowry, so he paid my debts, but he stipulated at the same time that my expe... ...oliban has three millions; I know the amount of his fortune. Once have her dowry in your hands, and your char- acter will be as white as the bride’s w...

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...em disappear. The commandant himself feared that he had sent them to their deaths, and an involuntary shudder seized him as he saw the last of them. O... ...g to oppose, came upon their flanks, and, with a close, quick volley, sent death and disorder among the enemy. This manoeuvre very nearly equalized th... ...ach man, observant of danger, was silent. The scene was gloomy and cold as death itself. Nothing was heard through the clash of arms and the grinding ... ... who have gone through a goodly number of catarrhs and apoplexies and whom death respects; it moaned as it rolled, and squeaked spasmodically. Like a ... ...din, in a mocking tone. “Good-bye, uncle.” “You sha’n’t have a penny at my death,” cried his uncle, in a rage. “I’ll disinherit you.” “Thank you, uncl... ...ke if she has,” replied the partner. “Well, she can’t offer innocence as a dowry,” said the lady, laughing. The Gars turned abruptly to see the lady w...

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...us to pay his debt of grati- tude, enabled Moreau, lying under sentence of death, to make his escape; in 1804 he asked for his pardon, obtained it, of... ..., very intimately allied with Madame Husson, was at that time condemned to death; he was unable therefore to marry the widow, being forced to leave Fr... ...of the Gov- ernor of Smyrna, whom the Sultan had ordered Chosrew to put to death. It was one of the most curious things I ever saw, though I’ve seen m... ...r you from end to end of the principal street of a town, shouting for your death! Ah! those eyes were so many flames, all mouths were a single curse, ... ...se, while from the volume of that burning hatred rose the fearful cry: ‘To death! to death! down with the murderer!’” “So those Dalmatians spoke our l... ...our father, who gave him his sister, Mademoiselle Husson, with an enormous dowry for those days, which enabled him to make a large fortune in the silk... ...house were ruined by the maxi- mum; and the money of Mademoiselle Husson’s dowry had enabled him to do this, and so make a fortune that was al- 102 A...

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...larity and also fleshly vile; a guide to life and a biter at the fruits of death; both open mind and hypocrite. It has not yet been taught to apprecia... ...y have served his turn; we have no grounds for thinking him malignant. The death of his enemy closes his allusions to Mrs. Warwick. He was growing anc... ...ments, riddled to threads, that gained the day. That is life— when we dare death to live! I wonder at men, who are men, being anything but soldiers! I... ...nd a man two removes from a baronetcy has no right to set his reckoning on deaths:—if he does, he becomes a sort of meditative as- sassin. But what we... ...on, that the military hero aims at personal reward—’ ‘He braves wounds and death,’ interposed Diana. ‘Whereas the civilian hero—’ ‘Pardon me, let me d... ...st and loose, warm and cold. I’m ready to settle twenty times a nobleman’s dowry on my niece and she’s a fine girl, a handsome girl, educated up to th... ...eautiful, now writhing, woman madly enamoured of him—and the heiress whose dowry could purchase a Duchy; this was a note to make the gossips of Englan...

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...re were quiet, upon expecta- tion of recovering the kingdom after Aegeus’s death, who was without issue, as soon as Theseus appeared and was ac- knowl... ...uld deliver up Daedalus to him, threatening, upon their refusal, to put to death all the young Athenians whom his father had received as hostages from... ...es, but, as soon as the libation was ended, went up and related the king’s death, upon the hearing of which, with great lamentations and a confused tu... ... them that honor in recompense of their former hospitality. Now, after the death of his father Aegeus, forming in his mind a great and wonderful desig... ...irst instituted in memory of Sciron, Theseus thus making expiation for his death, upon account of the nearness of kindred between them, Sciron being t... ...gn that the rape was committed there, and that the island was given her in dowry when she married Pluto. These early demonstrations of divine favor gr... ...that after his death there was but barely enough left to answer his wife’s dowry. His first wife was Papiria, the daughter of Maso, who had formerly b...

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...er of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. So now all who escaped death in battle or by ship wreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and... ...s wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these th... ...ill make for yet another twelve months. If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, ... ...pleted a pall for the hero Laertes, to be in readiness against the time when death shall take him. He is very rich, and the women of the place will ta... ...they wheeled and circled about, beating the air with their wings and glaring death into the eyes of them that were below; then, fighting fiercely and ... ...owever, we both grew up, they sent Ctimene to Same and received a splen did dowry for her. As for me, my mistress gave me a good shirt and cloak with...

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... to the world in general as Jarvis’s. It was not published until after his death, and the printers gave the name according to the current pronunciatio... ...gion extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was always called. At his death in battle in 1143, the castle passed by his will to his son Alfonso M... ...lder, and of which this very preface, written only a few months before his death, is such a striking proof. He gives us to understand, too, that he wa... ...upil.” This was in a little collection of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the prof... ...s comrades and superiors, insisted on taking his post, saying he preferred death in the service of God and the King to health. His galley, the Marques... ...ed in giving birth to her, and that he was very rich in consequence of the dowry left to him with the daughter. He asked their advice as to what means...

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... he, Richard Nevil, had been created Earl of Salisbury in her right on the death of her father, the staunch warrior of Henry V . in the siege of Orlea... ... A message was also sent to Sir William Copeland that his son had been the death of the daughter of Whitburn; for poor little Grisell lay moaning in a... ...adam,” began the Earl. “I kept him in close ward while she was in peril of death, but—” A fresh bugle blast interrupted him, as there clattered throug... ...d me, I did not say, but I fetched the mirror. Oh! oh! It has not been the death of her.” “Nay, nay, by God’s blessing! Take away the glass, Marga- re... ...k the income and expenditure of the convent; to know who had duly paid her dowry to the nunnery, what were the rents, and the like. The sisters had al... ...ensioner without payment, far less to admit a novice as a sister without a dowry. Mistress Grisell must be returned instantly upon the hands either of... ...y or of the Countess of Salisbury, and certainly not readmitted unless her dowry were paid. He scarcely consented to give time for communication with ... ...es to the place, what lists he do but turn out the poor maid for lack of a dowry, not so much as giving time for a notice to be sent.” “If we had such... ... the Pope, it will cost him noth- ing, but we may, for very shame, force a dowry out of his young knighthood to get the wench into Whitby withal!” 82...

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...s the pro- phetic owl’s face. I have always a fancy of his hooting his own death-scrip. I wrong our Barto:—Medole would be the jackal, if it lay betwe... ...e being kindled in their bosoms, no country that has lain like ours in the death-trance can revive. In the death-trance, I say, for Italy does not die... ... out of sight: I pray that you will love more than my dust. Were death defeat, much weeping would be right; ’Tis victory when it leaves... ...d caught note of his own language. The melancholy severity of that song of death changed to a song of prophetic triumph. The signorina stood up. Camil... ... be free!” Vittoria gave the inspiration of a dying voice: the conquest of death by an eternal truth seemed to radiate from her. Voice and features we... ...on. There were many suitors for the hand of Clelia Guidascarpi, though her dowry was not the portion of a fat estate. Her old nurse counselled the bro...

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..., Antiochus, and, with a soul Embolden’d with the glory of her praise, Think death no hazard in this enterprise. ANTIOCHUS: Bring in our daughter, cl... ... even of Jove himself; At whose conception, till Lucina reign’d, Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence, The senate house of planets all did sit... ...ds this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch’d; For death like dragons here affright thee hard: Her face, like heaven, entice... ...ain in Cupid’s wars; And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist For going on death’s net, whom none resist. PERICLES: Antiochus, I thank thee, who ha... ...hose fearful objects to prepare This body, like to them, to what I must; For death remember’d should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath,... ...e to you. [To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS .] Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus. ANTIOCHUS: Scorning advice, ...

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...ace of what he made me! These are driving him to the place where I lie. In death, therefore, I am avenged. Fletcher McGee SHE took my strength by minu... ...ry, The she, who survives me, snared my soul With a snare which bled me to death, Till I, once strong of will, lay broken, indifferent, Living with Ni... ... I KNOW that he told that I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all the men loved him, And most of the women pitied him. But sup... ...r a brutal hunt. He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up, Like one stepping deeper and deeper i... ...for a wife, and poor Minerva, my daughter, Whom you tormented and drove to death. So I crept, crept, like a snail through the days Of my life. No more... ... a fraud on the world, A treacherous lure to young men, raising hopes Of a dowry not to be had; And a man while selling his vote Should get enough fro...

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... the following:— 510. Grassou de Fougeres (Pierre), rue de Navarin, 2. Death-toilet of a Chouan, condemned to execution in 1809. Though wholly sec... ...ousand francs’ worth of canvas. His wife has six thousand francs a year in dowry, and he lives with his father-in-law. The Vervelles and the Grassous,...

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...is result, which seems at first sight exaggerated, explains itself. On the death of their father, Brigitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, ... ...rnal grandfather, Sieur Galard, market-gardener at Auteuil, brought up the dowry to thirty thousand francs. Old Galard and Monsieur and Madame Lemprun... ...ar- riage she had the manner, air, and attitude of a person con- demned to death, whose only desire is that it might all be over speedily. 20 The Les... ...e to the Colleville concerts. Madame Colleville was deeply affected by the death of young Gondreville; she felt, she said, the finger of God. In 1824 ... ...ers, of Constantine, of Lisbon, of Sainte- Jean d’Ulloa; they deplored the death of Napoleon and the fatal catastrophes of the Saint-Merri and the rue... .... There are some philanthropists who pity nothing but the man condemned to death. V anity is certainly the basis of philanthropy; but in the case of t... ...uld take place, to acknowledge the re- ceipt of said sum advanced upon the dowry. Matters being thus arranged and accepted by the candi- date, who saw... ...m I in need of charity? Has Picot (Nepomucene), to whom his wife brought a dowry of one hundred thousand francs, ever stretched out his palm to any on...

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... ‘Has she ten thousand pounds?’ ‘Elizabeth? She will have, at her father’s death . . . but as for my income, it is moderate, and only sufficient to ma... ...n artist, I must request you to keep my number of years a secret.’ ‘To the death, madam,’ said the General. ‘And now we will take a turn in the garden... ...h a quivering tongue, ‘unless I stay at home inside the house; and that is death to me, or unless I abandon the place, and my lease; and I shall—I say... ...d pounds, to which sum Lady Camper reduced her stipulation for Elizabeth’s dowry, he signed over to his dear girl gladly, and came out with the confes...

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...n here. You are not the law, though you have sworn an oath to starve us to death, you miserable forest-gauger, you!” The fury of the keeper waxed so h... ... are twins; though the soldier has something more than the peasant,—he has death hanging over him at any minute.” “I want to say that from the pulpit,... ...get her up in the morning with her flattery; to the day of dear mistress’s death the maid never could see the slightest change in her, and when dear m... ...ases. But Gaubertin’s fixed idea of acquiring Les Aigues at the old lady’s death led him to depreciate the value of the magnificent estate in the matt... ... order to marry his daughter to a rich banker he was obliged to give her a dowry of two hundred thousand francs; he had to pay thirty thousand for his... ...y thou- sand, out of which he would be forced, sooner or later, to pay the dowry of his remaining daughter, Elise, for whom he hoped to arrange a marr... ... Though an only daughter, Ma- demoiselle Sarcus, whose beauty was her only dowry, could scarcely have lived on the salary paid to a notary’s clerk in ... ...nd of Ma- demoiselle Elise Gaubertin, the mayor’s youngest daughter, whose dowry, like that of her elder sister, was two hundred thousand francs, not ... ...as soon in love with her,—all the more when he found that his sweetheart’s dowry would one day be consid- erable. The obstacles came from the countess...

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...is,”—who was Parvis?—”I have just received your letter announcing Elwell’s death, and while I suppose there is now no farther risk of trouble, it migh... ... little enough for con- jecture to feed on. “I have just heard of Elwell’s death, and while I suppose there is now no farther risk of trouble, it migh... ...uld never come back, that he had gone out of her sight as completely as if Death itself had waited that day on the threshold. She had even renounced, ... ... knew more than you appear to—I mean about the cir- cumstances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked... ...und on his desk that day? It was written just after he’d heard of Elwell’s death.” She noticed an odd shake in Parvis’s unemotional voice. “Surely you... ... turn round I shall not go on!—He wrangled horribly with my father over my dowry— he wanted me to have more than either of my sisters, though one marr...

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... by his agreeing to sign an acknowledgment in the marriage con- tract of a dowry not received, equal to that of her elder sister, who was married to C... ...here was no discussion; they might as well have hesitated between life and death. At this period a flock of newspapers, created to represent all shade... ...this apartment.” “Not one item,” said Blondet; “sell all. Ambition is like death; it takes all or nothing.” “No, a hundred times no! I would take anyt... ...s eyes. “Where can I see you? where can I speak with you?” he said. “It is death to be forced to disguise my voice, my look, my heart, my love—” Moved... ...Rastignac, now out of power with the ministry, which went to pieces on the death of de Marsay, leaned upon Nathan, and gave him in return the warmest ... ...n to leave; their eyes see things invisible, their ears are listening to a death-knell, they pay no attention to the minor things about them. These al...