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...e qualities. Some- thing so stately , you know: so uncompromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and n... ...lain and obvi- ous that it could hardly be otherwise. Louisa, my dear, ar- range with Richards about money, and let her have it when and how she pleas... ...n Portland Place and Bryanstone Square.’ It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at... ...arms and shook her head, and conveyed a relenting expression into her very-wide-open black eyes. ‘It ain’t right of you to ask it, Miss Floy, for you ... ... precious dark set of offices, and in the room where I sit, there’s a high fender, and an iron safe, and some cards about ships that are going to sail... ...tarpaulin, and dead bushes; with bottomless tin kettles and exhausted iron fenders, thrust into the gaps. Here, the Staggs’s Gardeners trained scarlet... ...cle— throw those shoes under the grate. Miss Florence—put your feet on the fender to dry—how damp they are—here’s an adventure, Uncle, eh?—God bless m... ...mifications in the approaching holidays, and for that purpose had made ar- rangements to board with two old maiden ladies at Peckham, Paul regarded hi... ...iss Blimber’ s, and to the dog. For he was free of the whole house now, to range it as he chose; and, in his desire to part with everybody on affectio...

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... workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile of fenders against the poor laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the ... ...only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child’s heart for the first time. Mr. Bumble walk... ...s cook’s uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pau per assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace wa... ... slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. Against the wall were ranged, in regular array, a long row of elm boards cut in the same shape: l... ...door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body. The kennel was stagnant and fi... ...rror and alarm as he stood a few paces off, looking on with his eyelids as wide open as they would possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into... ... speedily removed by the young lady’s behaviour. She took her feet off the fender, pushed back her chair, and bade Fagin draw up his, without saying m... ...ey wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor: close outside the fender. They slept, or appeared to sleep, for some time; nobody stirring bu... ...a dead stand still. For he was not quite satisfied that he was beyond the range of pistol shot; and Sikes was in no mood to be played with. ‘Bear a h...

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...d along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the So... ...cting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies. One winter picture of the ... ...nse cumulus clouds were forever sliding across low mounds; and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the sky of cities…she decla... ...ge of the Jolly Seventeen. IV The Jolly Seventeen (the membership of which ranged from fourteen to twenty-six) was the social cornice of Gopher Prairi... ...the head of a “charivari,” banging immensely upon a dis- carded automobile fender. His companions were yelping in imitation of coyotes. Kennicott had ... ...ed with an entirely new group, and this time there were three auto- mobile fenders and a carnival rattle. When Kennicott again interrupted his shaving... ...nd fought herself, and lost the battle. Spitting did not identify him with rangers riding the buttes; it merely bound him to Gopher Prai- rie—to Nat H... ...e shining thought into action. She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies ... ...armhouse, the seat burned her fingers and her head ached with the glare on fenders and hood. 154 Main Street A black thunder-shower was followed by a...

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... his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, t... ...wilderness were to be encoun- tered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and appar- ently an impervious boundary of forests severed the posses-... ...licy of the distant monarchs of Europe. Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the inter- mediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture ... ...ady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.* A wide frontier *W ashington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European g... ... to glisten with the ardor of his usual occu- pation; “if they come within range of a bullet I will drop one, though the whole Six Nations should be l... ...to seek to find their owners!” “Then give them their bridles, and let them range the woods,” Heyward ventured to suggest. “No; it would be better to m... ... Louis de Saint V eran will be viewed by posterity only as the gallant de- fender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego a...

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...- ing and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh of content- ment to those wider dreams. I like to think of him so, with brown books before him lit by... ... from this vine-wreathed veranda under the branches of a stone pine; I see wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with h... ...andering across the middle of these, now between steep banks, and now with wide shallows at the bends where the cattle waded and drank. Yellow and pur... ...nking how far a mind in its general effect quite hopelessly limited, might range. After that I went through all her diaries, trying to find something ... ...eling at the time; such expression as it found was all beyond my schoolboy range. I did not know when I pleased her and I did not know when I distress... ... face; I was lean and fair-haired and some inches taller than he. Our talk ranged widely and yet had certain very definite limitations. We were amazin... ...” “All his little jokes and things,” said Esmeer regarding his feet on the fender, “it’s just a nervous sniggering—because he’s afraid… . Oxford’s no ... ...n pale blue, manifestly a young political wife, stood with one foot on the fender listening with an expres- sion of entirely puzzled propitiation. A t... ...rtine,” and Altiora, flushed, roguish, and dishevelled, was sitting on her fender curb after dinner, and pledging little parties of five or six women ...

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...onor of Mrs. McKelvey’s notable guest, Miss J. Sneeth of Wash- ington. The wide hall is so generous in its proportions that it made a perfect ballroom... ...ors for the Polish army. It hummed like a million bees, glared through its wide windows like a volcano. Along the high wire fences, searchlights playe... ...?” he cried. The wives re- fused, with giggles, but the men, speaking in a wide, elaborate, enjoyable manner, gloated, “Well, sooner than have you get... ...nothing to do. Though they had few servants, yet with gas stoves, electric ranges and dish- washers and vacuum cleaners, and tiled kitchen walls, thei... ...into living-rooms. The kitchens were cupboards each containing an electric range, a copper sink, a glass refrigerator, and, very intermittently, a Bal... ...rn. And think of being able to order a drink whenever you wanted one! Just range up to a bar and holler out loud, ‘Gimme a cocktail, and darn the poli... ...r came a less cautious car. It skidded, it almost raked them with its rear fenders. In relief at their escape the Bunch—Tanis, Minnie Sonntag, Pete, F...

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...y we have in the Army.” Stalky smiled a tight-lipped smile, and at extreme range opened fire: the old horse half wheeled in the shafts. “Where he gwai... ... of a ten-bed establishment, which, in turn, com- municated with the great range of dormitories that ran prac- tically from one end of the College to ... ...ers leave in the waste room of a house. The passage was perhaps three feet wide, and, except for the struggling light round the edges of the cupboards... ...pted long ago. I’ve been a fag, Padre.” “Well, I fancied I knew the normal range of your iniquities; hut if you take so much trouble to pile up circum... ...ey.” “He’s not blubbin’ really. Roll up, Beetle, or I’ll kick you into the fender,” roared McT urk. They made a hideous noise among them, and the bait... ...on and Campbell en- tered to find Beetle on his side, his head against the fender, weeping copiously, while McT urk prodded him in the back with his t... ... Still no sign from Beetle. He was on a steamer, his passage paid into the wide and wonderful world—a thousand leagues beyond Lundy Island. King dropp... ...pretty sheer, for five or six hundred feet, into a gorge about half a mile wide and two or three miles long. There were chaps on the other side of the...

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...nguish the words, and he felt a pleasing sense of having duly asserted the wide sympathy that binds all cyclists together, of having be- haved himself... ... tried to think of something else to say. But the gulf in the conversation widened rapidly and hopelessly. “There’s nothing further,” began Mr. Hoopdr... ...high with meat and mustard, to the door, intending to stand, with his legs wide apart and his hands deep in his pockets, and stare boldly across the r... ... Doyle, Victor Hugo, and Alexander Dumas were well within Mr. Hoopdriver’s range of reading, and he had not read them for nothing. “I will be perfectl... ...nd pin and dropped it behind him gently. It fell with a loud ‘ping’ on the fender. Happily she made no remark, being preoccupied with the binding of t...

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...aimed savages, but to whom there was less apparent glory in ministering. A widespread district of very colonial 8 The Trial colonists, and the charge... ... out over the top of her work to smile an answer, and her artistically ar- ranged hair and the crispness of her white dress and broad blue ribbons mar... ...ed—there were will and force, but not scholarship—and besides, there was a wide blurred spot in his memory, as though all the brain- work of the quart... ... way through a sticky clayey path through a hazel copse, his eye fell on a wide reach of meadow land, the rail- road making a hard line across it at o... ..., having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, surmounted by a pediment, carved wi... ...veyed no elucida- tion of the mystery. There were Leonard’s books in their range on the drawers, his fossils in his cupboard, his mother’s pho- tograp... ...e fire was burning, Tom was sitting crumpled over it, with his feet on the fender, and his elbows on his knees, and Aubrey in his father’s arm-chair, ...

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...y to our muscular system, and they have no effect when we stand beyond the range. On the contrary, they reflect sombrely on the springs of hilarity in... ...he allowed her- self in speech and action must have been trying to her de- fenders in a land like ours; for here, and able to throw its 9 George Mere... .... Her troop of enemies was of her summoning. Ordinarily her topics were of wider range, and those of a woman who mixed hearing with reading, and obser... ...troop of enemies was of her summoning. Ordinarily her topics were of wider range, and those of a woman who mixed hearing with reading, and observation... ...pole for enthusiasm. His large grey eyes lightened from time to time as he ranged them over the floating couples, and dropped a word of in- quiry to h... ...the cloud shot a lightning flash, and the doors of her understanding swung wide to the entry of a great wonderment. A shock of pain succeeded it. Her ... ...f or the dead. The window closed. He went to the door and waited. It swung wide to him; and O marvel of a woman’s divination of a woman! there stood D... ...d the world’s clumsy machinery of civilization: these were the capital of- fenders: not the wife who would laugh ringingly, and would have friends of ...

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... The two girls were soon walking swiftly down the main road of Beldover, a wide street, part shops, part dwelling- houses, utterly formless and sordid... ... and took his former position, crouching 73 seated before the fire on the fender. ‘Don’t you love to feel the fire on your skin?’ he said. ‘It is rat... ... fell on his heavy, rather bowed shoulders, he sat slackly crouched on the fender, his face was uplifted, weak, perhaps slightly disintegrate, and yet... ...ntessa wore a dress of tissue, of orange and gold and black velvet in soft wide stripes, Gudrun was emerald green with strange net-work, Ursula was in... ...e, and forced her round. She roared as she breathed, her nostrils were two wide, hot holes, her mouth was apart, her eyes frenzied. It was a repulsive... ... anybody would say of her or think about her. People had passed out of her range, she was absolved. She had fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath ... ...e drive to the door. She wanted to set the dogs on them, ‘Hi Rip! Hi Ring! Ranger! At ‘em boys, set ‘em off.’ But Crowther, the butler, with all the r... ...on to the great marble hearth-stones, that lay bare in the room, with- out fender or bar. ‘I don’t know, I’m sure,’ he replied. ‘But I do think you’ve... ...its poses. But between two particular people, any two people on earth, the range of pure sensational experience is limited. The climax of sensual reac...

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...with a pitying love for those I left behind—this state can be perhaps more widely understood. I was in this state when I first shrunk from the light a... ...t. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me. My guardian intending to go back ... ...ilding; on the contrary, I often sat in this place wondering how the rooms ranged and whether any echo like a footstep really did resound at times, as... ...ul and grave it was, and how the old stone balus trades and parapets, and wide flights of shallow steps, were seamed by time and weather; and how the... ... – Volume Two 99 human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home. In the oven made by the hot pavements and hot... ...might be almost covered with a hand. These objects lie directly within his range. An excited imagination might suppose that there was something in the... ...rom acerbity, as to whether Miss Dedlock, sit ting with her feet upon the fender, was or was not falling into the fire when rescued (to her great dis... ... by the fire and take off my wet shoes, which he turned up to dry upon the fender, talking all the time. “Don’t you be at all put out, miss, by the wa...

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...e clear black eyes looked as if nothing like this had ever come within her range of observation, and Albinia could sympathize with her difficulty of r... ...lass, and when she had rubbed that away, and se- cured a clear corner, her range of vision was not much more extensive. She could only see the grey ou... ... Lucy knew far less than the first class at Fairmead, and made her replies wide of the mark, with an air of satisfaction that nearly overthrew the you... ...z curtains, she saw the clear fire shining upon half-a-dozen school girls, ranged op- posite to a couch. ‘ Ah!’ as he perceived them, ‘shall I take he... ...red was aware she exerted her voice to call Gilbert! Pushing the door just wide enough to enter, and treading almost noiselessly, he came forward, loo... ...r second had put Maurice into his arms, blooming and contented, and with a wide- mouthed smile for his papa. Mr. Kendal held him fondly through all th... ...air to the whole house; and the low fireplace and comfort- able fan-shaped fender made the room very cheerful. Fresh delicately-tinted furniture, chos... ...ith both his little fists clenched, and then precipitated himself over the fender to snatch his treasure from the grate, but was instantly captured an... ...s were treated as mere matters of course. But such strong pity for the of- fender did not seem to accord with this; and the more she thought, the more...

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...a word against us.” And Louise explained conventions to Lucien, who opened wide eyes. He had still to learn that when a woman thinks better of her fol... ...d many of his ideas as to provincial life in the course of it. His horizon widened; society assumed different proportions. There were fair Parisiennes... ...ien a process of disenchantment was at work; Paris was the cause. Life had widened out before the poet’s eyes, as society came to wear a new aspect fo... ... is divided, in the first place, into several zones, but our great men are ranged in two hostile camps. The Royalists are ‘Ro- mantics,’ the Liberals ... ...l of them come down at last to the banks of the Seine. You may study their range of notes there any day if you care to make an instructive pilgrimage ... ... and only then did Coralie’s eyes alight on Lucien’s boots, warming in the fender. Berenice had pri- vately varnished them, and put them before the fi... ...ht to explain the presence of a myste- rious pair of hessians in Coralie’s fender. He remembered now that he had seen the name of “Gay, Rue de la Mich... ...ng to Lucien.—”Yes, M. Camusot. Yes, you saw some boots lying about in the fender here the other day, and that is the identical pair, and this gentlem... ... courtesan herself used to say—to transact business which could not be ar- ranged elsewhere. The editorship had been promised to Hec- tor Merlin. Luci...

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... gods threatened to punish this wickedness and profanity by a sig- nal and wide-spreading calamity . With these several instances, concurring to show ... ...sooner did he expire his last breath than the gates of Janus’s temple flew wide open, and, as if war had, indeed, been kept and caged up within those ... ...s which added much to the people’s liberty, in particular one granting of- fenders the liberty of appealing to the people from the judg- ment of the c... ...battle, Brennus appeared with his army at the city, and, finding the gates wide open and no guards upon the walls, first began to suspect it was some ... ...med men, falling upon them before they could get into their usual order or range themselves in their proper squad- rons, so disturbed and pressed upon... ... it. The Odeum, or music-room, which in its interior was full of seats and ranges of pillars, and outside had its roof made to slope and descend from ... ...ge and finely equipped fleet, he obtained for the Greek cities any new ar- rangements they wanted, and entered into friendly relations with them; and ...

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...nsations had so far subsided as to leave me calm enough to remark for what wider and clearer boundaries I had ex- changed that sooty girdle. When I di... ...e Brontë throwing back the white curtains of my bed, I looked forth into a wide, lofty foreign chamber; how different from the small and dingy, though... ...n somewhat chilling had not a second large pair of folding-doors, standing wide open, and disclosing another and smaller salon, more snugly furnished,... ...oth in caste and country; as I sat on my estrade and glanced over the long range of desks, I had under my eye French, English, Belgians, Austrians, an... ...ey under it, then saying—”Oh here is my glove! I had dropped it within the fender; good evening, ma- demoiselle,” I made my second exit. Brief as my ...

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...f her dress tucked up, her hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frown- ing at the fire. In the name of Heaven, said Miss Betsey, ... ...s Betsey shut the door again, and sat down as before: with her feet on the fender, the skirt of her dress tucked up, and her hands folded on one knee.... ... Betsey s occasionally ejaculating Ha! as she sat with her feet upon the fender. David had bought an annuity for himself with his money, I know, s... ...aid aside her work (which was a stocking of her own), and opening her arms wide, took my curly head within them, and gave it a good squeeze. I know it... ... I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an or- phan in the wide world. She was very kind to me. She kept me there all day, and left me... ...g with some difficulty on the way. He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind a door: Bring up that tea and bread- and-butter! wh... ...ng, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide dis- tances apart. It came up hot at about my time every day, and many... ...ne another without any restraint. She told me that everything would be ar- ranged for me by Mr. Wickfield, and that I should want for nothing, and gav... ...finding that I was not at present dis- posed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that I was, for the time being, proof against the bla...

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...erine too made some purchases herself, and when all these matters were ar- ranged, the important evening came which was to usher her into the Upper Ro... ...ich, after many flights and many landing-places, brought them upon a long, wide gal- lery. On one side it had a range of doors, and it was lighted on ... ...ing-places, brought them upon a long, wide gal- lery. On one side it had a range of doors, and it was lighted on the other by windows which Catherine ... ... of a wood fire. “How much better is this,” said she, as she walked to the fender—”how much better to find a fire ready lit, than to have to wait shiv... ... lock, though in that her eye could not discern anything unusual, a double range of small draw- ers appeared in view, with some larger drawers above a... ... author must share in the glory she so liberally bestows. But my affair is widely different; I bring back my heroine to her home in solitude and disgr...

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...citizens was directed to a development of the natural ad vantages of their widely extended dominions. Before the war of the Revo- lution, the inhabite... ... above the earth lay alike buried beneath the snow. A single track, barely wide enough to receive the sleigh,* denoted the route of the high- *Our tal... ... points, and broke the sameness of the outline, or setting to the long and wide field of snow, which, without house, tree, fence, or any other fixture... ...old gloom of the valley. Along the summits of the mountains in the eastern range, it is true, the light still lingered, receding step by step from the... ...ight yellow, with black lines that were drawn by no very steady hand, were ranged opposite, and in the intervals between the other pieces of furniture... ...n. When I went with Sir William agin’ the French, at Fort Niagara, all the rangers used the rifle; and a dreadful weapon it is, in the hands of one wh... ...lege of the initiated, and repeated his question as to the name of the of- fender, “Which way , which way , squire?” exclaimed the hardy wood- chopper...

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...lets and yeomen. Lost all alone on the edge of the common, at the end of a wide, grassy, briar-entangled lane shaded with oak, it had never known the ... ...table. But he did not want to alter it. Ah, marvellous to sit there in the wide, black, time-old chimney , at night when the wind roared overhead, and... ...a dyke-bank, through the pines and above the sloping little bog, under the wide, desolate oak trees, till there was Winifred’s cottage crouch- ing une... ...ed as the natural twang among the miners. The stranger put his foot on the fender and looked into the fire. He was handsome, well coloured, with well-... ...ighted doorway of the kitchen. There sat his wife, planted in front of the range, where a furze fire was burning. She sat in a chair full in front of ... ...e, where a furze fire was burning. She sat in a chair full in front of the range, her knees wide apart on the fender. She looked over her shoulder at ... ...She sat in a chair full in front of the range, her knees wide apart on the fender. She looked over her shoulder at him as he entered, but she did not ... ...r the oven. His wife still sat with her knees apart, her feet on the steel fender and stared into the fire, motionless. Her skin was smooth and rosy i... ...leaned forward and poked the ends of the sticks in between the bars of the range. He lifted his head and looked at her. ‘Others gone to bed, have they...