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...ordeal of whose consciousness one would have quite honestly to assist. The expression of her state and that of one’s intimate relation to it might the... ...ent of her strength. Such an attitude and such movements, the passion they expressed and the success they in fact represented, what were they in truth... ...ain to our major convenience, as it happens to be at the time, that of our drawing breath through the young woman’s lungs. Once more, in other words, ... ...en not known about, but he patronised Lexham Gar- dens. Kate’s only actual expression of impatience, how- ever, was “I’m glad you’re so much better!” ... ...you came to offer? Make of my idea what you can; I think I’ve sufficiently expressed it, and it’s at any rate to take or to leave. It’s the only one, ... ...em a matter of taste; and that, if her aunt chose to glare at her from the drawing-room or to cause her to be tracked and overtaken, she could at leas... ...bringing Mrs. Lowder round. When shortly after- wards, in this lady’s vast drawing-room—the apartments at Lancaster Gate had struck him from the first... ... me yesterday while I waited for her at Lancaster Gate. The things in your drawing- room there were like the forms of the strange idols, the mystic ex... ...yes failed to blink even though Milly’s questions might have been taken as drawing her rather further than she had originally meant to go—”well, Kate’...

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...dge to be close at hand, both by the signs of the times, and from the prophetic numbers expressly given to guide us in the anticipation of these gre... ...very nature and intention of the dispensation itself, as it hath been understood and is expressed by all orthodox divines; who have agreed in holding... ...ings for his body’s sake, that is the church.” These three great parts are necessary to express and embody that idea of witness and testimony for th... ...hen the world should all be brought in, and the gift become universal, was necessary to express the unchangeableness of God’s grace, which is another... ... grave considerations o f the divine will, authority, wisdom, and goodness; and lastly, drawing forth the various uses of consolation, of terror, of ... ...popular method of expressing spiritual things by visible and common imagery, instead of drawing the fact, and illustration, and doctrine and all from... ...cation of the church, is by using the more refined language of the learned classes, and drawing the subject matter of the discourse i nto the form of... ...oldly sayest, what need for any one to take upon him self the great and arduous work of drawing pure that which is locked up in the holy scriptures,... ...o the mind. Nor, I may add, has the church ever defined any truth, no, nor ever can, by drawing the text from its obvious and natural sense, and carr...

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...ch served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes, too well-behaved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitchings of their sleek shining skins, but duly grateful to the coachman, who roused himself now and then to whisk off some more pertinacious tormentor with the end of his whip....

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...er watch, and study the countenances of the bystanders to see whether they expressed any anxiety respecting the non-arrival of the train. All, how- ev... ...as little fitted for a permanent abode. In spite of all the longing wishes expressed during the drive, no ancestral home, beloved by inheritance, coul... ...mination,” added she, as fondly leaning on his arm, she proceeded into the drawing-room, and they sat down together on the sofa, talking eagerly and j... ...ne whose peculiar loveliness of counte- nance well deserved the admiration expressed by her son. It was indeed pale and thin, but the features were be... ...deed pale and thin, but the features were beautifully formed, and had that expression of sweet placid resignation which would have made a far plainer ... ...d Henrietta, “and looking into that beautiful Sussex coom, that there is a drawing of in mamma’s room.” “What size is it?” added Fred. “The comparativ... ...ance with it does not extend beyond the recollec- tion of a pretty-looking drawing-room with French windows, and a lawn where I used to be allowed to ... ...tions with the ostensible purpose of sketching, but in which I had all the drawing to myself, while the others talked either wondrous wisely or wondro... ...m sure it suits you best.” “Thank you, thank you, my dear ones,” said she, drawing them towards her, and fondly kissing them, “but it is all settled, ...

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...y”— which entire work was purchased by a joint-stock company of boys, each drawing lots afterwards for the separate prints, and taking his choice in r... ...d taking his choice in rotation? The writer of this, too, had the honor of drawing the first lot, and seized immediately upon “Philoprogenitiveness”—a... ...nd Harle- quin; but he, like them, is certainly the children’s friend. His drawings abound in feeling for these little ones, and hideous as in the cou... ...olfellow the correction of the pump, which is as graceful and elegant as a drawing of Stothard. Dull books about children George Cruikshank makes brig... ...- fly-hunting across a common! Such a light, brisk, airy, gentle- man-like drawing was never made upon such a theme. Who, cries the author— “Who has n... ... As Zeuxis had a bevy of virgins in order to make his famous pic- ture—his express virgin—a clerical host must have passed under Cruikshank’s eyes bef... ...r comparative want of finish. All the effects are perfectly given, and the expression is as good as it could be in the most delicate engraving upon st... ...se gentlemen; into which, nevertheless, the artist has managed to throw an expression of ludicrous agony that one could scarcely have expected to find... ...very trees which are covered with dust—it is fine to look at the different expressions of the two interesting fugitives. The fiery charioteer who bela...

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...y. She looked as sad as a woman could look whose face was not charged with expression; that is her tinted oval mask showed friction as an exposed surf... ...uck me as preponderantly social; such for instance as would help to make a drawing-room look well. However, a drawing-room was always, or ought to be,... ... visiting which had given them pleasant intonations. I could see the sunny drawing-rooms, sprinkled with periodicals she didn’t read, in which Mrs. Mo... ...s I began to find her too insurmountably stiff; do what I would with it my drawing looked like a photograph or a copy of a photograph. Her figure had ... ...o meanly constituted—what Italian is?—as to depend only on that member for expression he conveyed to me, in familiar but graceful mimicry, that he was... ...r years), unjustly suspected. Suddenly I saw that this very atti- tude and expression made a picture, whereupon I told him to sit down and wait till I... ...t better of me for having at last an “establishment.” They saw a couple of drawings that I had made of the establishment, and Mrs. Monarch hinted that... ...ted that it never would have struck her that he had sat for them. “Now the drawings you make from us, they look exactly like us,” she reminded me, smi... ...hed in “Rutland Ramsay” Miss Churm ar- rived pretty often. They managed to express to me tacitly that they supposed I wanted her for the low life of t...

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... excepting the card of a Mrs. Baerens, who had audience of her at once. By express arrangement, the card of General Wilson Ople, as her nearest neighb... ...s, that she had found useful, she affirmed, lay on the writing-desk in her drawing-room. General Ople gathered from the rector that she had a great co... ... alongside presumed to enter into conversation, during which he managed to express re- grets at his aunt’s turn for solitariness. As they belonged to ... ...es, with a contraction of the brows, as if in pain. He perceived a similar expression whenever he spoke of his residence. Perhaps it recalled happier ... ...ssion.’ She laid such stress on her remark, that the General, who had just expressed a very modest estimate of his abilities, was unable to reject the... ...ew position is likely to be ticklish. So the General entered Lady Camper’s drawing-room warily, watching the fair en- emy. He knew he was captivating,... ...ere her last words. ‘My road,’ he answered gallantly, ‘is forward.’ He was drawing backward as he said it, and something provoked her to smile. 28 Th... ...calm and happy curiosity, he perceived that it was composed of pen-and-ink drawings. And suddenly his heart sank like a scuttled ship. He saw himself ... ...ll cover you?’ she exclaimed, and peremptorily bidding him sit down in the drawing-room, she took one of the famous pair of pistols in her hand, and s...

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... Sylvia!” cried Kate, quite forgetting every- thing in the interest of her drawing on a large sheet of straw- paper. “Do you see what it is?” “I don’t... ...I would draw a pony, only I never can nicely; but look here,” Kate went on drawing as she spoke ”here is Lady Ethelinda with her best hat on, and a li... ...looking man; “and who is Lady Ethelinda!” “O Papa, it’s just a story I was drawing,” said Kate, half eager, half ashamed. “We have done all the lesson... ...aunt, Barbara Umfraville.’ Then I am to go and live with them!” said Kate, drawing a long sigh. “O Papa, do let Sylvia come too, and learn of my gover... ...s, and have some meat for your tea, with Mrs. Lacy, and then come into the drawing-room.” This was a stroke upon Kate. She who had dined with the rest... ...as she to know that this only meant that he had once had the misfortune to express his disapproval of the high- backed long-legged school-room chairs ... ...t always read any book on the table ordered her never to touch any without express permission. Sometimes the aunts worked; sometimes Lady Barbara play...

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...ther, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer in -shire; and I, by his express desire, succeeded him in the same quiet occupation, not very willin... ... elicit a single satisfactory answer, or even a casual re- mark, or chance expression calculated to allay their curiosity, or throw the faintest ray o... ...led by their drooping lids and long black lashes, but the brows above were expressive and well defined; the forehead was lofty and intel- lectual, the... ...The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to her book, but with a momentary, indefinable expression of quiet scorn, that was inexpressibly provoking to me. ‘She thi... ...nd re- store them to the baskets; and Mrs. Graham took her camp- stool and drawing materials; and having begged Miss Millward to take charge of her pr... ...d me by consulting my taste and judgment about some doubtful matter in her drawing. My opinion, happily, met her appro- bation, and the improvement I ... ...subject, for fear of raising inquiries as to the cause of the quarrel, and drawing the public attention to his connection with Mrs. Graham, which, whe... ... the recollections of the last few weeks, that I cannot attend to them. My drawing suits me best, for I can draw and think at the same time; and if my... ...left the room and went to seek Mr. Boarham. He was walking up and down the drawing-room, humming snatches of tunes and nibbling the end of his cane. ‘...

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... deserting the num- bered succession, came and sat about the fire in a big drawing- room and argued also. In particular there was Lady Sunderbund, a p... ...ng way to an appetite for special words, special recognitions. He knew the expression of that craving on their faces. He knew the way-laying movements... ...ple of the most various types, people who had never met tolerantly before, express- ing now opinions of unprecedented breadth and liberality. All this... ...rticle written by one of those sceptical spirits who find all too abundant expression in our periodical literature. The writer boldly charged the “Chr... ...ath the apparent worldliness of Hoppart and Bent. The trouble began in the drawing-room after dinner. Out of deference to the bishop’s abstinence the ... ...ally orientals, fifteen hundred years ago, but which now— 63 H G Wells He expressed just what they came to now by a gesture. She echoed his gesture. ... ... and then went very slowly upstairs, past the golden angel up to the great drawing-room. In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man w... ... balcony were black and gold with crimson shape like squares wildly out of drawing. Lady Sunderbund kept him waiting perhaps five minutes. Then she ca... ...s sitting, and leaning forward at him, so as to seem almost as much out of drawing as a modern picture. “It seems,” he reflected; “—as if it were a na...

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... wedding over— Mr. and Mrs. Hawkesworth gone, and the guests departed, the drawing-room had returned to its usual state. It was a very large room, so ... ...curtains; and near them was at one end of the room a piano, at the other a drawing-desk. 10 Scenes and Characters The walls were wainscoted with poli... ...s every Saturday, and turning a deaf ear when she talked of the age of the drawing-room carpet, and the ugliness of the old chariot. Emily had a good ... ...e school and poor people; and she was also much engrossed by her music and drawing, her German and Italian, and her verse writing. Claude had more pow... ...l faults, except giddiness, restlessness, and unrestrained spirits. In the drawing-room, schoolroom, and nursery she was continually in scrapes, and s... ...n Waverley, and on finding that his daughters did not under- stand him, he expressed great surprise at their want of taste. Poor things,’ said Claude,... ...rything to their masters, and will it not be pleasant to have so sweet and expressive a face about the house?’ ‘Do I know her face?’ said Claude. ‘Oh ... ... Claude, with his arm still round his sister’s waist, gave Maurice a look, expressing, ‘Is that the truth?’ and Reginald tumbled head over heels, excl... ...ve, and of deep gratitude from Mr. Mohun; but these feelings were scarcely expressed in words. Emily gave her some graceful thanks, and Jane disliked ...

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... I could understand the still ness in the house and the thoughtfulness it expressed on the part of all those who had always been so good to me. I cou... ...e turned by the same means!” Bleak House – Volume Two 8 I could not help expressing something of my wonder and regret that his benevolent, disintere... ...olume Two 9 “I know it well, Dame Durden, well.” He was so good, his touch expressed such endearing com passion and affection, and the tone of his vo... ...ou don’t go and occupy his whole house, he having already turned out of it expressly for that purpose, by heaven and by earth he’ll pull it down and n... ... Good looks out of them. Good qualities out of them. I have felt them even drawing my rest away in the night. Cold and glittering devils!” She tapped ... ...ads inside. But of all the shadows in Chesney Wold, the shadow in the long drawing room upon my Lady’s picture is the first to come, the last to be di... ... Sir Bleak House – Volume Two 82 Leicester has just appeared in the long drawing room after dinner, a bright particular star surrounded by clouds of... ...lodges, and in holy matrimony with Will or Sally. Up comes the bright sun, drawing everything up with it—the Wills and Sallys, the latent vapour in th... ...right weather. In no way wearied by his sallies on the road, he was in the drawing room before any of us; and I heard him at the piano while I was yet...

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...group, who made no effort to conceal a despair which seemed as deep as the expression of it was simple. But the flow of this fugitive sym- pathy, char... ...of them were your persecu- tors in the olden times.” These words roused no expression of hatred on the part of the two brothers. “Ha! you are no longe... ...ife, on walls painted in a dark gray, proved that, barring a difference in expression, the most distinguished young girls have as much fun and folly i... ...mbs snatched over-night from a graveyard; besides these objects, pictures, drawings, lay figures, frames without paintings, and paintings without fram... ...port. Several young girls were animating the scene by the variety of their expressions, their attitudes, and the differences in their toilets. The str... ...- ures and distinguished features, but there was little in their glance or expression that was simple and candid. Though their attitudes were elegant ... ...the rest. “That head is strong,—the flesh tints a little too rosy, but the drawing is excellent.” Laure raised her head and looked tenderly at Ginevra... ...med thoughtful, and walked slowly to her easel, glancing carelessly at the drawings and paintings on her way, and bid- ding good-morning to each of th... ... more than I do.” A pause followed, during which the professor studied the drawing of the officer’s head. “It is a masterpiece! worthy of Salvator Ros...

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...iness was not centred in turtle-soup. A while after dinner, Amelia timidly expressed a wish to go 4 V anity Fair – V olume Two and see her mamma, at ... ...preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedley that a muffin and a qua... ...n. While these delicacies were being transacted below, Amelia, leaving the drawing-room, walked upstairs and found herself, she scarce knew how, in th... ..., let alone a Frenchman,” and tossed off a glass of beer with a wink which expressed her liking for the beverage. Having frequently been in presence o... ... this phenomenon. “Hang it,” he would say (or perhaps use a still stronger expression out of his simple vocabulary), “before I was married I didn’t ca... ...wley has dragged the name of Crawley through the mud, Miss Briggs. Marry a drawing-master’s daughter, indeed!— marry a dame de compagnie—for she was n... ...d Amelia, ah! where was she?) Lady Jane would be sitting in Miss Crawley’s drawing-room singing sweetly to her, in the twilight, her little simple son... ...tunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elabo- ... ... once frightful to the la- dies, who are whispering in the twilight in the drawing-room, and inexpressibly odious to the gentlemen over the mahogany, ...

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... Paul, my—Mrs Dombey—of course.’ She feebly echoed, ‘Of course,’ or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again. ‘His fat... ...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... ...ice, who, running up to him with a kind of screw in her face and carriage, expressive of suppressed emotion, flung her arms around his neck, and said,... ... I ever knew in all my days, he’s such a per- fect Dombey.’ Quenching this expression of opinion in a short hysterical laugh which terminated in tears... ... low and earnest entreaty, ‘that nothing but the—I have some difficulty in expressing myself—the dubiousness of the result would have induced me to ta... ...s he stood gazing round the room (principally round the ceiling) and still drawing his hand across and across his mouth. ‘Y ou heard what I said to yo... ...e of dismal state, with a circular back to it, containing a whole suite of drawing-rooms looking upon a gravelled yard, where two gaunt trees, with bl... ...ar Miss! Don’t be afraid of me.’ ‘I am not afraid of you,’ said the child, drawing nearer. ‘But I want to know what they have done with my Mama.’ Her ... ..., and clasping her round the neck. ‘ And the child’ s heart,’ said Polly , drawing her to her breast: ‘the little daughter’s heart was so full of the ...

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... rap- idly and attentively, sometimes threw back his head and held out his drawing at arm’s-length, and kept up a soft, gay-sounding humming and whist... ... to care so much about church-spires. She was not pretty; but even when it expressed per- plexed irritation her face was most interesting and agree- a... ...tured, my dear,” his companion declared. The young man held out one of his drawings, with his head on one side. His tongue was gently moving along his... ...etty foot. “My dearest sister,” said the young man, always intent upon his drawing, “it ‘s the first time you have told me I am not clever.” “Well, by... ...quite as vulgar as to boast about it.” “My poverty! I have just finished a drawing that will bring me fifty francs!” “Voyons,” said the lady, putting ... ...red, clear- faced, witty-looking, with a delicate finish of feature and an expression at once urbane and not at all serious, a warm blue eye, an eyebr... ...“were you so happy at sea?” Eugenia got up; she still held in her hand the drawing her brother had given her. It was a bold, expressive sketch of a gr... ...ill held in her hand the drawing her brother had given her. It was a bold, expressive sketch of a group of miserable people on the deck of a steamer, ... ...ghing at everything he saw. You would have said that American civilization expressed itself to his sense in a tissue of capital jokes. The jokes were ...

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...d justifica- tions. In any case I should have found difficulties enough in expressing the complex thing I have to tell, but it has added greatly to my... ...Department, and this my father would supplement with maps and diagrams and drawings of his own. But he never really did experiments, except that in th... ...t ought anyhow to happen when you did. He had considerable powers of vivid expression, so that in this way he could make us see all he described. The ... ... turns to me as I write of it. Well, my boy,” he said, approaching with an expression of beneficent happiness, “I’ve done with gardening. Let’s go for... ...tock enterprises. First one and then several boys’ boarding- schools came, drawing their pupils from London,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London... ...ested in these affairs to advertise, used the epithet “Bromstedian” as one expressing peculiar virtues, and so maintained in the general mind a weak t... ...home of taste,” with a vivarium in the conservatory that opened out of the drawing-room, or again, making preserves in the kitchen. My father’s scienc... ...ue-books, to discover Altiora Bailey receiving before the fireplace in her drawing-room. She was a tall commanding figure, splendid but a little untid... ...nners in those days, for a preliminary gossip with Altiora in front of her drawing-room fire. One got her alone, and that early arrival was a little s...

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...ugust ??, 1858 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent o... ...D, OCT 18, 1858 HON. J. U. BROWN. MY DEAR SIR:—I do not perceive how I can express myself more plainly than I have in the fore-going extracts. In four... ...ore plainly than I have in the fore-going extracts. In four of them I have expressly disclaimed all intention to bring about social and political equa... ... of each number of your paper containing the whole, and send them to me by express; and I will pay you for the papers and for your trouble. I wish the... ...yself, ten days ago I wrote to Dr. Ray, requesting him to forward to me by express two sets of the numbers of the Tri- bune which contain the reports ... ... presented. I will nevertheless occupy a good portion of your time here in drawing your attention to certain points in it. Such of you as may have rea... ...e original disunion minority, and with them adopted an ordinance for with- drawing the State from the Union. Whether this change was wrought by their ...

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...fog at that time of the year, and who had been engaged by Nicholas Tulrumble expressly for the occa sion. There was the horse, whisking his tail abou... ... Twigger had plenty of time to de nounce Nicholas Tulrumble to his face: to express her opin ion that he was a decided monster; and to intimate that... ... communications received from our able, talented, and graphic correspondent, expressly sent down for the purpose, who has immortalized us, himself, Mu... ...dog to night; if any particulars should transpire, I will for ward them by express.’ ‘HALF PAST EIGHT. ‘The animal has been procured. He is a pug do... ...all tray. Her shrieks still reverberate in my ears! I grieve to say that the expressive features of Pro fessor Muff were much scratched and lacerated... ... sorrow and regret. One flea, reduced to the level of a beast of burden, was drawing about a miniature gig, containing a particularly small effigy of ... ... commencement of a Session of Parlia ment is neither more nor less than the drawing up of the curtain for a grand comic pantomime, and that his Majes... ...to stay away. We went early, and posted ourselves in an eligible part of the drawing room, from whence we could hope to obtain a full view of the inte...

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...nod- ded to her brother and sister, showed that liveliness was the natural expression of that engaging face. Say what they would, it was evident that ... ...a could sympathize with her difficulty of reply. Mr. Kendal was not in the drawing-room when they re- entered, there was only Gilbert nursing his toot... ...and book- cases; none were to be seen except that, in a chiffoniere in the drawing-room, there was a row in gilded bindings, chiefly Pope, Gray, and t... ...nouncement that Ad- miral and Mrs. Osborn and the Miss Osborns were in the drawing-room. ‘Before luncheon—too bad!’ she exclaimed, as she hurried upst... ...ose words, bit she was obliged to add, ‘Alas! there’s all the world in the drawing-room!’ ‘Who?’ ‘Osborns and Drurys.’ ‘Do you want me?’ ‘I ran away o... ...ch mercy to call the first day.’ Mr. Kendal looked as if his instinct were drawing him study-wards, but Albinia hung on his arm, and made him come int... ...th the soft- ness of long dark eyelashes—beautiful eyes, full of light and expression—and as she moved towards the table, there was a finish and delic... ...ss might not be so much from want of compunction, as from want of power to express it. Oh! for a consultation with her brother. But he and his wife we... ...ful countenance I ever saw, full of life and joy; and there were wonderful expressions in the eyes when he was thinking or listening. He used to read ...

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...young woman,’ as George Rivers called her, of blooming face and sweet open expression, had begun, at Gertrude’s entreaty, a game of French billiards. ... ...se who had ever been under Mrs. May’s discipline thought impossible in the drawing-room; but Aubrey was a rival pet, and with the family characteristi... ...e passed on to his room. ‘I don’t like that,’ said Ethel, returning to the drawing- room, where Mary was boiling up the kettle, and kneeling down to m... ... ‘Up there, first door to the right. You can’t mistake;’ then disappeared, drawing the door after him. Much discomfited, Mary nevertheless plunged bra... ...down with one on each knee, and caressed them as he looked them well over, drawing out their narration of the wonder- ful things ‘she’ had done, the f... ... did fill her with a certain apprehension, was the new and lofty beauty of expression that sat on that sleeping countenance. ‘A nice boy,’ ‘rather a h... ...to-day; and the Doctor moving on, they found themselves in the cool pretty drawing-room, rather overcrowded with furniture and decoration, fresh and t... ...of the lustrous light that resided in them, but far more by their power of expression, some- times so soft and melancholy, at other moments earnest, p... ...he world! And Leonard, distressed and hurt at the reception of his natural expression of the weariness of seven weeks’ sickness and sorrow, felt above...