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...e conversation with him after a time, and we got on remarkably well. In the drawing room I asked the host how long he had known Mr. Slinkton. He answ... ...ute or two on indifferent topics, and went away. I had scarcely unlocked the drawers of my writing table next morning, when he reappeared. I noticed t... ...e loop back towards us, and spinning it out as it came, was a hand carriage, drawn by a man. ‘Yes,’ said Miss Niner, ‘this really is my shadow, uncle.... ...s sunk on his breast, and who was enveloped in a variety of wrappers. He was drawn by a very quiet but very keen looking man, with iron gray hair, who... ...leave him, Mr. Sampson, very soon, ’ said the young lady; ‘I know my life is drawing to an end; and when I am gone, I hope he will marry and be happy.... ... Julius Caesar! Come and drink!’ As he hoarsely roared this out, he beat the poker and tongs together in a mad way, as if that were his usual manner o...

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...h with something heavy in her arms. The Chaplain’ s wife was dozing in the draw- ing-room when Lispeth came in breathing hard and very ex- hausted wit... ...ld have to ride on a prancing horse over hills covered with tea-vines, and draw a sumptuous sal- ary for doing so; and he was very grateful to his unc... ... were waiting for our return. Saumarez most of all. His face was white and drawn. As Miss Copleigh and I limped up, he came forward to meet us, and, w... ...bad words. Then a stony silence held the Colonel’s Wife, while a man could draw his breath five times. The speech that followed is no affair of mine o... ...dministration, and he watched in a dreamy, amused way Wonder’s attempts to draw matters which were entirely outside his province into his own hands. “... ...alcove wherein the subalterns of the white Hussars were accustomed to play poker of nights; and there, after many oaths on the Colonel’s part, they ta...

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...im in arms, and heard him exult (to use his own words) in the prospect of ‘drawing his claymore once more before he died.’ In fact, on that memorable ... ...be held as pledg- ing the author to some special mode of laying his scene, draw- ing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, ... ...hed express, arrived but an hour earlier, he might have had the benefit of drawing a new settlement of the lordship and manor of Waverley-Honour, with... ...wood Lodge, his father’s seat. Their attention was attracted by a carriage drawn by six stately long-failed black horses, and with as much carving and... ...the air of dignity, yet of deep feeling, with which he flung down the half-drawn sword, and turned away for ever from the house of his ancestors. Then... ... by a candle which he bore in his left hand ; in his right he brandished a poker. What hast ho here, wench?’ ‘Oh!’ cried the poor girl, almost going o...

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...sleep.” “My mind is perfectly lucid. It was never clearer. But I know I am drawing towards the vortex. Presently—” “Yes?” “You have seen things go dow... ...n a snapping like the crackling of dry sticks. Graham strained his ears to draw some single thread of sound from the woven tumult. Then he perceived, ... ...e of the buildings. Rows of spectral white shapes like the ghosts of blind-drawn win- dows rose above them. They came to the end of a cable fas- tened... ...t him go about alone. T rust them. You’re a queer fellow. One of these fun pokers. I see now why you have been clipping your words so oddly, but—” He ... ...he Council House they had been in darkness. He watched them ap- proaching, drawing nearer past first this blazing electric star and then that; the min... ...k on a spear of metallic filigree, cable stayed. T o its summit Graham was drawn in a little wire-hung cradle. Halfway down the frail-seeming stem was...

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...st have been happy. That she couldn’t help it. Or, at all events, with one drawback. Yes. That he would have allowed. With only one; but that one cert... ... allowed. With only one; but that one certainly involv- ing much. With the drawback of hope deferred. That hope deferred, which, (as the Scripture ver... ...assisting at the increase of great fami- lies, was walking up and down the drawing-room with his hands behind him, to the unspeakable admiration of th... ...ays be a comfort to me!’ Mrs Chick made this impressive observation in the draw- ing-room, after having descended thither from the inspection of the m... ...Dickens As the husband did nothing but chuckle and grin, and con- tinually draw his right hand across his mouth, moistening the palm, Mrs T oodle, aft... ...t bedstead, for the entertain- ment of such genial company as half-a-dozen pokers, and a hall lamp. A set of window curtains with no windows be- longi... ...ckens close before the fire, and fell to beating the coals softly with the poker. ‘The faint-hearted, fawning knaves,’ he muttered, with his two shini...

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... unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness and flavour, had the drawback of remaining constantly present to the taste next day; and nobody... ..., he left off. ‘You won’t do it agin, ’ said the boy, nodding his head and drawing back, with the elbows ready in case of the worst; ‘now ’ ‘Stand s... ... story of this one, before a very long time is over, ’ said his companion, drawing his chair to the table. ‘You saw my sister Nell?’ ‘What about her?’... ...his friend. ‘It’s very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him. ... ...vant girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stars had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which letter she now held ... ...ll you!’ So, the scaffolding was made again, and Kit, climbing up with the poker for a hammer, knocked in the nail and hung up the cage, to the immeas... ...n into the next street, and finding that nobody followed him, armed with a poker or other offensive weapon, put his hands in his pockets, walked very ... ...up. Halloa there! Halloa!’ With these exclamations, Mr Quilp caught up the poker, and hurrying to the door of the good lady’s sleep ing closet, beat ... ...ich, having forgotten in the sudden flurry of his spirits to part with the poker, he thrust it as he cried ‘Come in!’ Who should present himself but t...

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...essence of the fog, hung visibly in the wide and rather empty space of the drawing-room, all silver where the candles were grouped on the tea-table, a... ...walk along the streets and in and out of traffic and foot-passengers, this draw- ing-room seemed very remote and still; and the faces of the elderly p... ... each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in the drawing-room was thickened by blue grains of mist. Mr. Denham had come in a... ...ly for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this so- phisticated drawing-room, where, among other disagreeables, he certainly would not appe... ...o life. But Mrs. Hilbery was immedi- ately sensitive to any silence in the drawing-room, as of a dumb note in a sonorous scale, and leaning across the... ...ked rather stealthily at Rodney, who was tapping the coal nervously with a poker, and quivering almost physically, so Denham thought, with desire to t... ...ely appeased, but, neverthe- less, he sat silent for a moment, holding the poker per- fectly upright in the air, regarding it with his rather promi- n... ...ham remarked. “Well, I’ll lend it you,” Rodney announced, putting down the poker. As he moved to fetch the play, Denham stretched a hand to the bookca... ...orrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs. But probably these extreme passions are very rare, and ...

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...I congratulate myself, since it is colourless and dull. Mr. Strickland has drawn the portrait of an excellent husband and father, a man of kindly temp... ... to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime. The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the plea- sure of his wor... ... be prac- tised in the present day . We did not think it hypo- critical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence. The spade was not i... ...at was always neat and cheerful, gay with flowers, and the chintzes in the draw- ing-room, notwithstanding their severe design, were bright and pretty... ...elt sure that she was an admi- rable mother. There were photographs in the drawing-room of her son and daughter. The son — his name was Robert — was a... ... the law, when the law is sup- ported by strength. It is hazardous to play poker with them, but their ingenuity adds a peculiar excitement to the best...

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...nes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, lan guidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord ... ...me, at corners of dinner tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing rooms, concerning which the fashionable intelligence is elo quent... ... a bag wig frequenfly came in and out, and when he did so, we could hear a drawling sound in the distance, which he said was one of the counsel in our... ...out, and there was nothing in the grate but ashes, a bundle of wood, and a poker), “you find me, my dears, as usual, very busy; but that you will excu... ... with a swelled face bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing room (now connected by an open door with Mrs. Jellyby’s room) and c... ...egs 45 Bleak House – Vol. One and establish an export trade, delighted in drawing Mrs. Jellyby out by saving, “I believe now, Mrs. Jellyby, you have ... ...ded turns up and down while uttering these broken sentences, retaining the poker in one hand and rubbing his hair with the other, with a good natured ...

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...vent it must have passed to a distant branch of the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from your looks,” said the f... ...astic ruins in the county of Dumfries, and spent much of the day in making drawings of them from different points; so that, on mounting his horse to r... ...at livelier pace than before, affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening. This hope, however, was not s... ...ows on each side, and a door in the middle, leading to a parlour and with- drawing room, full of all manner of cross lights. This was the New Place of... ...s arranged by the architect for lowering the port- cullis, and raising the drawbridge. A rude farm-gate, made of young fir-trees nailed together, now ... ...e! 375 Sir Walter Scott we shall all be murdered!” “Murdered! where’s the poker?” said the advocate in some alarm; “but nonsense! we are three men be...

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...herself, rising over some geranium pots in the win- dow of that lady’s own drawing-room. “It is Mrs. Sedley’s coach, sister,” said Miss Jemima. “Sambo... ... of private grief. A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were pro- duced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and thes... ...y,” said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever. Then came the struggle and par... ...iss Sharp’s father was an artist, and in that quality had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton’s school. He was a clever man; a pleasant compani... ...n Russell Square, a great deal of conversa- tion had taken place about the Drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops ... ...im. “Thank you for the beautiful shawls, brother,” said Amelia to the fire poker. “Are they not beautiful, Rebecca?” “O heavenly!” said Miss Sharp, an... ...traight to the chandelier. Joseph still continued a huge clattering at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his y... ... dumb waiter. Two kitchen chairs, and a round table, and an attenuated old poker and tongs were, however, gathered round the fire- place, as was a sau...

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...k for the press, these inconsistent sentences and passages have been with drawn from the text and inserted in the Appendix; or, in a few unimportant ... ...ied ages ago; and having been a great sinner in his life time, and having drawn lands, manors, and a great mass of wealth into his clutches, by viole... ...d kind of bashfulness, he began to extend his care to these matters; being drawn into them unawares, and possi bly perceiving and learning what he ta... ...d to have become an angel in his own likeness. Crusty Hannah, who had been drawn to the door of the study by the unusual tones of his voice,—a kind of... ...veness of his manner, and scowling askance at the stranger,—”what may have drawn on me the good fortune of being compelled to make my time idle, becau... ...rse like an Englishman, but in that absurd, stiff continental way, as if a poker should get on horseback. Neither has he an English face, English mann...

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...in a spacious room on the two-pair front; where, in the company of certain drawing-boards, parallel rulers, very stiff-legged compasses, and two, or p... ...le to settle in his own mind what expression it wore, and were desirous to draw 28 Martin Chuzzlewit from it as good a clue to his real meaning as it... ... Martin?’ ‘Call you?’ cried the old man, looking quickly up, and hurriedly drawing beneath the coverlet the paper on which he had been writ- ing. ‘No.... ...rateful to him for his humanity and wisdom. ‘And how,’ asked Mr Pecksniff, drawing off his gloves and warm- ing his hands before the fire, as benevole... ... himself in bed, and, though not yet awake, gave tokens that his sleep was drawing to an end. By little and little he removed the bed-clothes from abo... ...be!’ cried Mr Jonas, stopping his honoured parent’s hand in the use of the poker. ‘Do you mean to come to want in your old age, that you take to wasti... ...an oath. ‘He didn’t know what to say. Same, sir, if he wasn’t as mute as a poker. But you know what a good fellow Nobley is!’ ‘The best fellow in the ...

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...dresser, to the very roof. The latter had 5 Emily Brontë never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a fram... ... and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the hous... ...e, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sob... ...blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, ... ...ped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower- plot under the drawing-room window. The light came from thence; they had not put up the sh... ...y them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee. I had Cathy by the hand, ... ...ghts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tr... ...t, I was not going to sympathise with him—the brute beast! Oh, give me the poker! This is the last thing of his I have about me:’ she slipped the gold... ..., do, do!’ 193 Emily Brontë But when I proceeded to open a place with the poker the sacrifice was too painful to be borne. She earnestly suppli- cate...

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... that some occupation would be good for him. His spare time he occupied by drawing circles with compass and pencil on a piece of paper. He applied him... ...right, mon cher. He’s fat—the animal.” Mr Vladimir, First Secretary, had a drawing-room reputa- tion as an agreeable and entertaining man. He was some... ... what I think is the matter: you are a lazy fellow. How long have you been drawing pay from this Embassy?” “Eleven years,” was the answer, after a mom... ... his neck- tie. The favourite of intelligent society women had assumed his drawing-room attitude accompanying the delivery of delicate witticisms. Sit... ...disclosed the innocent Stevie, seated very good and quiet at a deal table, drawing circles, circles, circles; innumerable circles, concentric, eccentr... ... door held desperately shut against a man’s rage (not for very long); of a poker flung once (not very far), which stilled that particular storm into t...

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...bloom appeared on the more dark. The light itself was the ordi- nary light of morning, colourless and clean; and on this ground of jewels, pencilled o... ...lac- rity; death, he was persuaded, awaiting him upon the beach. It was more than a year later, in the Gilberts, that the ex- planation dawned upon my... ... me they are to be reckoned by the dozen; and as the roads have been made long posterior to their erection, perhaps to their desertion, and must simpl... ...ho accordingly crossed the pass, chose some one in Hatiheu, ‘gave him his name’—an onerous gift, but one not to be rejected—and from this improvised r... ...le, or to see a building so antique still bright with novelty. The architect, a French lay brother, still alive and well, and meditating fresh foundat... ...tic of Tembinok’ that he must invent a game for himself; highly characteristic of his worshipping household that they should swear by the absurd inven...

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...l harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der the wet skylig... ...nst left. “Say , gen’ elmen, this is deader’n mud. Can’t we make a game of poker between us?” There was no answer, and he puffed his cigarette, swung ... ...below .” Penn and Manuel stood knee deep among cod in the pen, flourishing drawn knives. Long Jack, a basket at his feet and mittens on his hands, fac... ...nd quin- tal,” said Dan. “Turn in, Penn. You’ve no call to do boy’ s work. Draw a bucket, Harvey . Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt ‘fore you sl... ...ling as a compliment to his powers. But now that it was paid, he wished to draw away and make his berth alone, till it was time to go up to the Virgin... ... stump-foremast, but Long Jack had a gift of expression. When he wished to draw Harvey’ s attention to the peak-halyards, he dug his knuckles into the...

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...ll the Americans there; all the best of them, at least. Of course you play poker?” “Oh, I say,” cried Newman, with energy, “you are not going to lock ... ...for that.” “What the deuce have you come for! You were glad enough to play poker in St. Louis, I recollect, when you cleaned me out.” 22 The American... ...id it, and after their first meet- ing he passed a great many hours in her drawing-room. After two or three talks they were fast friends. Newman’s man... ...s nowadays a very light weight. His only aspi- rations were to hold out at poker, at his club, to know the names of all the cocottes, to shake hands a... ... “Only I am tired of having it thrown up at me. Besides, there are several drawbacks. I am not intellectual.” “One doesn’t expect it of you,” Mrs. Tri... ...ance for the magnificent women.” “You are not fair.” Newman rejoined. “You draw a fellow out and put him off guard, and then you laugh at him.” “I ass... ...now what a Legitimist is, or an Ultramon- tane? Go into Madame de Cintre’s drawing-room some af- ternoon, at five o’clock, and you will see the best p... ...stepped out upon the balcony and announced that there were visitors in the drawing-room. When Newman’s host- ess had gone in to receive her friends, T...

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... his head. II IT WA S A WEEK LATER. Philip was sitting on the floor in the drawing-room at Miss Watkin’s house in Onslow gardens. He was an only child... ...en Notting Hill Gate and High Street, Kensington— Emma led Philip into the drawing-room. His uncle was writing letters of thanks for the wreaths which... ...He told Emma and asked her what he should take. “ You’d better go into the drawing-room and see what you fancy . ” “Uncle William’s there.” “Never min... ...now, but it seemed strange. He closed the door behind him. The blinds were drawn, and the room, in the cold light of a January afternoon, was dark. On... ... in them. They smelt of the scent his mother used. Then he pulled open the drawers, filled with his mother’s things, and looked at them: there were la... ... when Philip came in, and he pointed out to his nephew that there were two pokers. One was large and bright and polished and unused, and was called th...

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...ieve we saw a hundred children between Paris and Chalons. Queer old towns, draw bridged and walled: with odd little towers at the angles, like grotesq... ...dy rag, deep down into your unbelieving body, Heretic, at every breath you draw! And when the executioner plucks it out, reeking with the smaller myst... ...nd oranges hanging in garlands made of vine leaves—of a guard house, and a drawbridge—and some gateways—and vendors of iced water, sitting with little... ...n the same floor, and opening out of this same cham ber, are dining room, drawing room, and divers bed rooms: each with a multiplicity of doors and w... ...ld or thought of. There is a little vine covered terrace, opening from the drawing room; and under this terrace, and forming one side of the little ga... ... one to another, in the course of the ceremony, by the handle—like a short poker—was a child, than I had that it was my own christening. I borrowed th...

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...and the 5 Melville certain destruction of hair and beard. The day was now drawing to a close, and, as the land faded from my sight, I was all alive t... ...Nukuheva, the blue, looming island of St. Christina greeted us from afar. Drawing near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small m... ... in pantomime, the object of which seemed to be, that the islanders should draw near. One of them stepped forward and made answer, seemingly again ur... ...om the scuttle, which was a mere hole in the deck. There being no slide to draw over in case of emer- gency, the tarpaulin temporarily placed there wa... ... scrapes he got into. T wo or three wags, aware of his infirmity, used to “draw him out” in conversation whenever the most crabbed and choleric old se... ...aph. The affidavits read, Wilson, who, all the while, looked as stiff as a poker, solemnly drew forth the ship’s articles from their tin case. This do...

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..., there’s the room you can see through the glass — that’s just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it whe... ...ittle peep of the passage in Looking glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing room wide open: and it’s very like our passage as far as you ca... ...ng over the book (in which Alice had put ‘The White Knight is sliding down the poker. He balances very badly’) ‘That’s not a memorandum of your feelin... ... head on her — ’ ‘She must be sent as a message by the telegraph — ’ ‘She must draw the train herself the rest of the way — ’ and so on. But the gentl... ... that!’ said Alice. ‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’ Alice laughed. ‘There’s not us... ... ‘Which door?’ said the Frog. Alice almost stamped with irritation at the slow drawl in which he spoke. ‘This door, of course!’ The Frog looked at the...

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...ortant and imposing personage followed the man, who opened the door of the drawing-room, announcing: “Monsieur Crevel.” On hearing the name, singularl... ...and listen. She even took the precaution of shutting the glass door of the drawing-room, smiling on her daughter and her cousin, whom she saw seated i... ...t the cardroom door open, so as to hear if any one should open that of the drawing-room to come in. 8 Cousin Betty As she came and went, the Baroness... ...her agita- tion. But when she finally came back from the glass door of the drawing-room, as she entered the cardroom, her face was hidden behind the i... ...ook, never since I set foot in your house have you been able to do up your drawing-room furniture. ‘Hard up’ is the word shouted by every slit in the ... ...ound sum of money.” “They have fine appetites, have the goody sort! By the poker! they sell their sermons dearer than we sell the rarest and realest t... ...n, and you will find that generosity to me is not unrewarded.—Come, by the Poker! welcome your stepmother and come to the wed- ding.” “But you have no... ... ever, more Musketeer, Abbe Dubois, and Marechal de Richelieu! By the Holy Poker!—My wife, who is wandering in her head, has just sent me a man in a g...

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... panorama, peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in comic relief. “The comic,” explained the author yet at the beginni... ...f Gogol’s mas- terpiece differ. Some consider the author a realist who has drawn with meticulous detail a picture of Russia; others, Merejkovsky among... ... love of colour derived from his Cossack ancestry. He realised that he had drawn a host of “heroes,” “one more com- monplace than another, that there ... ...nds exchanged hearty embraces, and Manilov then conducted his guest to the drawing-room. During the brief time that they are traversing the hall, the ... ...hing seemed to be wanting in the establishment. For instance, although the drawing-room was filled with beautiful furniture, and upholstered in some f... ...A grown, middle-aged man—a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker—suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while a...

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... V eneering and the large man linked together as twin brothers in the back drawing-room near the conservatory door, and through his ears informing him... ...ceptible to east wind, First-Gentleman-in-Europe collar and cravat, cheeks drawn in as if he had made a great effort to retire into himself some years... ...ood looking over me.’ 29 Charles Dickens The girl put aside her work, and drawing her seat close to his seat by the fire, laid her arm gently on his ... ... was under the water in the days of Noah’s Ark. Look here! When I take the poker— so—and give it a dig—’ ‘Don’t disturb it, Charley, or it’ll be all i... ...with another hesitating hand lifting the crown of his hat to his lips, and drawing it before his mouth. ‘The gentleman, R. W .,’ said Mrs Wilfer, ‘pro... ...ffin. They were garish in taste and colour, but were expensive articles of drawing-room fur- niture that had a very odd look beside the settles and th... ...late mother had systematically accelerated his retire- ment to rest with a poker. The chaining of the door behind her, as she went forth, disenchanted...

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...the matter of ten pounds in gold and a cheque for the balance on Coutts’s, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can’t mention, though... ...ecalled by Mr. Utterson asking rather suddenly: “And you don’t know if the drawer of the cheque lives there?” “A likely place, isn’t it?” returned Mr.... ...the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow. By ten o’clock, when the sho... ... been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd light footstep drawing near. In the course of his nightly patrols, he had long grown accus... ... so sat she became aware of an aged beau- tiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane; and advancing to meet him, another and very sm... ...s an axe in the theatre,” continued Poole; “and you might take the kitchen poker for yourself.” The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into ... ...t his watch. “And now, Poole, let us get to ours,” he said; and taking the poker under his arm, led the way into the yard. The scud had banked over th...

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... voice of the abbot subsided into silence through a descending scale of long drawn melody, like the sound of the ebbing sea to the explorers of a cave... ...ch Robert Earl of Huntingdon as a traitor!” and at the same time he held his drawn sword between the lovers, as if to emblem that royal authority whic... ... hand. His yeomen ranged themselves at his side, and stood with their swords drawn, still and prepared, like men determined to die in his defense. The... ...” said brother Michael. The little friar smiled and filled his cup. “He will draw the long bow,” pursued brother Michael, “with any bold yeoman among ... ...valour does somewhat amaze me.” “She can fence,” said the little friar, “and draw the long bow, and play at singlestick and quarter staff.” “Yet mark ... ...id not dream of a garrison? You looked for no weapon of opposition but spit, poker, and basting ladle, wielded by unskilful hands: but, rascals, here ...

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...nt; and among other names that occur to me, like a mixed handful of jewels drawn from a bag, are George Street, Morley Roberts, George Gissing, Ella d... ...t railway stations in the old country, and mathematical calcu- lations and drawings of various sorts. And I used to lie watch- ing the blessed bird st... ...aid to be alone. In addition she had locked the door, and put the chest of drawers against it. They listened and talked in whispers after they had gon... ...nding. It was then, perhaps, a quarter to six, and the blinds were closely drawn and the house quite silent. The landing was a spacious one, a broad, ... ... “That’s better,” said I, gnashing them, and so returned to the study. The drawers of the writing-desk were locked. Its revolving top was also locked.... ...ression of my face. I shut the door of the study behind me, and, seizing a poker, began an attack upon the desk. That is how they found me. The cover ...

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...elf were panting. Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to keep out the stare. Grant it but a chink or keyhole, and it shot i... ...it, one of the two men lolled, half sitting and half lying, with his knees drawn up, and his feet and shoulders planted against the opposite sides of ... ...into the soft, Smooth, well-shaped hand, with evident dread—more than once drawing back her own and looking at the man with her fair brow roughened in... ...at part of the pavement where the thumb had been in the plan. They were so drawn in that direction, that the Italian more than once followed them to a... ...mmand of the soldiers; a stout, serviceable, profoundly calm man, with his drawn sword in his hand, smoking a cigar. He very briefly directed the plac... ...nd said, ‘Gin.’ Then beat an imaginary child, and said, ‘Broom-handles and pokers.’ ‘When Maggy was ten years old,’ said Little Dorrit, watch- ing her... ... me that again,’ cried Mr Dorrit, quite beside himself, ‘and I’ll take the poker to you!’ John Chivery backed to the door. ‘Stop, sir!’ cried Mr Dorri...

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...I could not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventu- ally of finding for them in the... ... King’s ease with him, their conversa- tion, in which the King courteously draws from Johnson knowledge of that in which Johnson is expert, Johnson’s ... ...includes the smoky and swarming courts and highways of London, its stately drawing-rooms, its cheer- ful inns, its shops and markets, and beyond is th... ...rsions: his only amusement was in winter, when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted, who pulled him along by a garter fi... ...ng after his de- cease, Dr. Johnson has, in his Life of Edmund Smith, thus drawn in the glowing colours of gratitude: ‘Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus prese... ... his little black wig on the top of his head, instead of a nightcap, and a poker in his hand, imagining, probably, that some ruffi- ans were coming to... ...ick, but it does not make the fire burn. There is a better; (set- ting the poker perpendicularly up at right angles with the grate.) In days of supers...

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... he realised, was “not based on pride, but on the absence of any desire to draw nearer to each other”; while he looked back regretfully to the pension... ...lic opinion, and in our day women are particu larly powerful,” he finally draws a picture of the ideal Leo Tolstoy 18 wife who shall urge her husban... ... is easier to go all together? Why yes, to dig or to mow. But one can only draw near to God in isolation … I picture the world to myself as a vast tem... ...g to Tolstoy in every thing that he read or wrote. When his attention was drawn to an illuminating essay on the poet Lermontov he was pleased with it... ...moral. The mettle tried and proved at Sebastopol sustained him when he had drawn on himself the bitter animosity of “Holy Synod” and the relentless an... ...e they would, all of them, be beaten to death. In consequence, he seized a poker and went out of the house. “Come!” he shouted, let us follow the law ...

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...man. A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but... ...e did,” said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it: “she Ram-paged out, Pip.” “Has she been gone long... ... his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to in- spire confidence. This w... ...thing in it was; but there was a little greasy memoran- dum-book kept in a drawer, which served as a Catalogue of Prices, and by this oracle Biddy arr... ...Joe, when you were as little as me?” “W ell, Pip,” said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling him- self to his usual occupation when he was thoughtfu... ..., pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, “were a drawback on my learning.” “Certainly , poor Joe!” “Though mind you, Pip,” s... ...oe!” “Though mind you, Pip,” said Joe, with a judicial touch or two of the poker on the top bar, “rendering unto all their doo, and maintaining equal ... ...ongenial and uncom- fortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. “It were but lonesome then,” said Joe, “living here alone, and I got... ...ared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lo...

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...nder the alder trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gi... ...had not re- turned. On a doorstep somewhere a man was singing loudly, in a drawl: “Lead, kindly Light.” Mrs. Morel was always indignant with the drunk... ...nd went to bed. He was already dead asleep. His narrow black eyebrows were drawn up in a sort of peevish misery into his fore- head while his cheeks’ ... ...s. Morel raked. And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remain- der of the coal to ma... ...nderstood thing that if one woman wanted her neighbour, she should put the poker in the fire and bang at the back of the fireplace, which, as the fire... ...e baby. Its deep blue eyes, always looking up at her unblinking, seemed to draw her innermost thoughts out of her. She no longer loved her husband; sh... ... leaned on the table with one hand, and with the other jerked at the table drawer to get a knife to cut bread. The drawer stuck because he pulled side...

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...nist the statue. I feel sure you would like to know more of that statue—to draw him out when he is off duty, so to speak. To gratify you, I have resor... ... no more lost their logic than an eigh- teenth century pastel has lost its drawing or its color, yet, like the pastel, they grow indefinably shabby, a... ...although [here be suddenly becomes very serious indeed] you have one great drawback. OCTAVIUS. [anxiously] What drawback is that, Mr Ramsden? I should... ...y] What drawback is that, Mr Ramsden? I should rather say which of my many drawbacks? RAMSDEN. I’ll tell you, Octavius. [He takes from the table a boo... ...efield and I lost chance after chance through our advanced opinions. But I draw the line at Anar- chism and Free Love and that sort of thing. If I am ... ...e her meet her match. TANNER. No man is a match for a woman, except with a poker and a pair of hobnailed boots. Not always even then. Anyhow, I can’t ... ... a pair of hobnailed boots. Not always even then. Anyhow, I can’t take the poker to her. I should be a mere slave. MRS WHITEFIELD. No: she’s afraid of...

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... explanation had been long meditated and prearranged. “Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box.” The casket was soon open ... ..., and I should not know how to walk.” Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn it off. “It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie d... ...x and carried away. Dorothea too was unhappy, as she went on with her plan-drawing, questioning the purity of her own feeling 12 Middlemarch and spee... ...nce cur- rent had sent it alighting on her. When the two girls were in the drawing-room alone, Celia said— “How very ugly Mr. Casaubon is!” “Celia! He... ...thea? Certainly he seemed more and more bent on making her talk to him, on drawing her out, as Celia remarked to herself; and in looking at her his fa... ...worth no money to me.” Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest. He longed to get out of the room, but he w...