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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He wa...

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...man. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt...

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...rls good husbands. They are apt to be ren dered uncomfortable by comets and eclipses; and if a dog howls dolefully at night, it is looked upon as a s...

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...as I shall find means and acquaint you withal. 24 GLOUCESTER: These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of n... ... my cue is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi. EDGAR: How now, br... ..., brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses. EDGAR: Do you busy yourself about that? EDMUND: I promise you, ...

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...shall find meanes, and acquaint you withall. 433 Glou. These late Eclipses in the Sun and Moone por-tend 434 no good to vs: though the w... ...illanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom 465 o’ Bedlam. — O these Eclipses do portend these diui-sions. 466 Fa, Sol, La, Me. 467 ... ...r of a prediction I read this 470 other day, what should follow these Eclipses. 471 Edg. Do you busie your selfe with that? 472 ...

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...ou hast done, Roses haue thornes, and siluer fountaines mud, Cloudes and eclipses staine both Moone and Sunne, And loathsome canker liues in sweete... ...he maine of light. Crawles to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked eclipses gainst his glory fight, And time that gaue, doth now his gift con...

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...ngitudes, what other way have wee, But to marke when, and where the darke eclipses bee? - 22 - A VALEDICTION: OF THE BOOKE John Donne’s "Songs and S...

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... then, in this one question; why are not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, all at one time, but in some years we have more, in some less? ...

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...ean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition of its 182 Sartor Resartus little Cre... ...; the Sun misses one of his Planets in Space, and thenceforth there are no eclipses of the Moon.—Or better still, I might liken”— Oh, enough, enough o...

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...n old English family, but Richardson has given it to a creation whose fame eclipses all others! Miss Lovelace had come to settle by the lake for her f...

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...t, once by the Sultan at Nicopolis. This sympathy with France during great eclipses, in those that during ordinary seasons were always teasing her wit...

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... other than a madman could cast such a jewel away. The material loveliness eclipses intellectual qualities in such reflections. ‘He must be mad,’ she ... ...conceivable that he should desire as little of these meetings as possible. Eclipses are not courted. The specially womanly exultation of Emma Dunstane...

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...cy, at Nicopolis, and at Agincourt. This sympathy with France during great eclipses, in those that during ordinary seasons were always teasing her wit...

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...the shadow of this lady’s presence— pervasive even during her actual brief eclipses—that subdued and silenced Mrs. Leath. The latter was, moreover, pr...

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...rminated his first read- ing; long before which consummation several total eclipses of Mrs Boffin’s candle behind her black velvet disc, would have be...

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...inted with the motions of those two luminaries, and understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy. In poetry, ...

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...I scarcely think heard my remark. At that moment one of those mo- mentary eclipses I before alluded to had come over his face, extinguishing his smil...

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...e duchess, recognized in her a woman of whom they were forced to say, “She eclipses us.” In fact, Eleonore was one of the “grandes dames” now so rare....

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...s a vapour fed with golden beams That ministered on sunlight, ere the west Eclipses it, was now that wondrous frame— _665 No... ...aith, grown hoary With crime, be quenched and die.—Yon promontory Even now eclipses the descending moon!— Dungeons and palaces are transitory— ...

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... would stump the angels themselves, and do it like nothing, too — all about eclipses, and comets, and solstices, and constellations, and mean time, a...

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...l merely has a property interest in the sun, it has nothing to do with the management of it. It is a precarious kind of property, too; a succession of...

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...returned upon him like the pain of a wound received in an excitement which eclipses it, and he, too, then went on. Chapter 20 PERPLEXITY — GRINDING T...

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... LATER in the reign of Elizabeth, when James VI. was under one of his many eclipses of favour, and when the united English and Dutch fleets had been p...

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...rminated his first read- ing; long before which consummation several total eclipses of Mrs Boffin’s candle behind her black velvet disc, would have be...

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...se things, nor was ignorant of the nature of the seeming irregularities of eclipses, that in a certain revolution of time, the moon in her course ente...

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...eclipsed; which was no won- der to Dion, who understood the revolutions of eclipses, and the way in which the moon is overshadowed and the earth inter...

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... quench the sun, and thunder-smoke 79 Shelley Strangles the air, and fire eclipses Heaven. Philosophy, thou canst not even Compel their causes undern... ... that of any substance with which we are acquainted: obser- vations on the eclipses of Jupiter’s satellites have demonstrated that light takes up no m... .... Though, more dreadful than death, it scatters despair, Though its shadow eclipses the day, And the darkness of deepest dismay ...

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...cean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition of its little Creek is regulated, an... ...al; the Sun misses one of his Planets in Space, and thenceforth there are no eclipses of the Moon.—Or better still, I might liken”— Oh, enough, enough...

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...annot be reflected as from a mirror. To take an image from the language of eclipses, the correspondence between the disk of the original word and its ...

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...infant blood, to dance With LAPLAND Witches, while the labouring Moon 665 Eclipses at thir charms. The other shape, If shape it might be call’d t...

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...lendid. Compared to Day and Night. But the Night 100 The Amazing Marriage eclipses the Day. A summer sea of dancing. Who, think you, eclipsed those t...

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...gs. The great phenomena of nature, the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, eclipses, comets; thunder and lightning, and other extraor- dinary meteors;...