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...as Beard) came from Colchester to see the old man. She lived on board. The crew of runners had left, and there remained only the officers, one boy, an... ...simple hearts—all die … . No matter. “They loaded us at last. We shipped a crew. Eight able sea- men and two boys. We hauled off one evening to the bu... ...d, which contained the gal- ley, the cook’s berth, and the quarters of the crew. As we had expected for days to see it swept away, the hands had been ... ...nt down the leak took up. When it came to bending a fresh set of sails the crew demanded to put back—and re- ally there was nothing else to do. Boats ... ...her topsides. This was done, the repairs finished, cargo re-shipped; a new crew came on board, and we went out—for Bankok. At the end of a week we wer... ... oozed here and there and everywhere in slender threads, in an invis- ible film, in an incomprehensible manner. It made its way into the cabin, into t...

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... wisps of straight coarse hair dyed a mahogany tint, was the tindal of the crew—a kind of boatswain’s or serang’s mate. The other, sitting beside him ... ...lder of a position of dignity and ease. The kassab was the only one of the crew taking their evening meal who noticed the presence on deck of their co... ...the beggars got to windward of us by fair words, till one morning a boat’s crew from the Frenchman’s ship found the girl lying dead on the beach. That... ...y of them flat-nosed chaps we have to make shift with, instead of a proper crew of decent Christians. Fight- ing!” he went on with unexpected pugnacit... ...offer assistance. The general opin- ion among the seafaring portion of her crew was that little effective assistance could be expected from a vessel o... ...hat gave the impression of a clear blue abyss seen through a trans- parent film. And when she raised her eyes the same abysmal immobility seemed to re... ...first rate,” said Lingard, smil- ing at the nape of her neck, her ear, the film of es- caped hair, the modelling of the corner of her eye. He could se...

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...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...sengers, and therefore was afraid the law would be after him in case the matter got noised about or any accident happened. So I char- tered the raft a... ...e at work in the dewy fields by this time. The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and wi... ...The Neckar has always been used as a canal, and thus has given employment to a great many men and animals; but now that this steamboat is able, with a... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with... ... wedge, the Matterhorn. Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to ... ...n, and had filled up, the interstices of the rock-face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting here and there. These were at times covered with ...

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...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ...g out the wa- ter. And Pollock tries to repair it by reading poetry to the crew! Me, I want to yank it up on the ways, and fire the poor bum of a shoe... ...nees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring. She couldn’t reach the dining-room. She w... ...f Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles. The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic...

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...ain blows malicious mockery. BERNARDO: It was about to speak, when the cock crew. Hamlet, Act I, scene i 8 HORATIO: And then it started like a guil... ...ess Itself to motion, like as it would speak; But even then the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish’d from ou... ...ur soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infec...

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...ke County is dotted with spas; Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs are the names of two stations on the Napa Valley rail- road; and Calistoga itself... ...ng the road. The Silverado problem was scarce solved. Rufe himself was grave and good-natured over his share of blame; he even, if I remember right, e...

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...te’s—that of most part of the passengers, and a considerable number of the crew. For myself, I swore— ensign as I was—I would win her for my wife; I v... ...t my throat, when a voice exclaims, “Stop!—kill him not, it is Gujputi!” A film came over my eyes—exhausted nature would bear no more. 66 Major Gahag...

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...uth revived somewhat, and looked upon her; but his sight was glazed with a film, and she sang her name to him ere he knew her, and the sad sweetness o... ...en it sprang weakly, and sought to fly and soar, and fluttered; but a blue film lodged over its eyes, and its panting was quickly ended. So I looked a... ...essel on stormy waters, plunging up and down with tattered sails, when the crew fling overboard freight and ballast and provision. Surely his time wou... ... treasures and profusion of jewels, and splen- did lazy growths and lavish filmy illuminations, and multi- tudinous pearls and sheering shells, that l...

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...oks of courtesy with eyes that were impenetrable beneath the glaze and the film. We passed, therefore, as if mutually invisible. I can nowise explain ... ...wood, in this portion of it, seemed as full of jollity as if Comus and his crew were holding their revels in one of its usually lonesome glades. Steal...

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...d, hot, naked in their looking at him. And on them there seemed to float a film of disintegration, a sort of misery and sullenness, like oil on water.... ...uddenly and staring with her black eyes, on which there seemed an unseeing film of flame, fully upon Gerald. He laughed dangerously, from the blood. H... ...rom the blood. Her child- ish speech caressed his nerves, and her burning, filmed eyes, turned now full upon him, oblivious of all her antecedents, ga... ...ming overhead, sometimes it was bramble bushes, some- times the walls of a crew-yard and the butt of a barn. ‘Are you going to Shortlands to dinner?’ ... ...like creatures in some menagerie of apish degraded souls. God, what a foul crew they were! Her blood beat black and thick in her veins with rage and l... ...stance. It was very cold, and the darkness was palpable. One of the ship’s crew came along the deck, dark as the darkness, not really visible. They th...

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...- ers (one fifteen, and the other ten), that is about the roll-call of the crew. The aunt brings up the two sisters; the cure comes and teaches the bo... ...fusion of serum in the brain; they look as though they were covered with a film of fine dust, do you notice? I shall know more about it by to-mor- row...

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...Sweet are the shy recesses of the woodland. The ray treads softly there. A film athwart the pathway quivers many-hued against purple shade fragrant wi... ...51 George Meredith nite influence upon us, and yet we cannot fasten on the filmy things and make them visible and distinct to ourselves, much less to ... ...ows), and perhaps the clear-thoughted, intensely self- examining gentleman filmily conceived, Me also, in com- mon with the poet, she gazes on as one ... ...ss troop of adolescent ruffians, born rebels, to any amount. The beardless crew know 194 Ordeal of Richard Feverel that they have not a chance of pay...

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...hatless, dishevelled, with a man’s arm about her, confronting that drunken crew, headed by her guardian’s pitiable figure. The picture filled her with... ...ornaments were in place, and the corners of one ceiling re- tained a light film of plaster tracery. Harney had found an old bench at the back door and...

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...ston of the gun sprang back, there was a sharp explosion, and a very faint film of smoke in the air. Then the other two guns fired, and there was a lu... ... of danse macabre of ugly criminals. ‘Did you ever see such a God-forsaken crew creeping about! It gives you the very horrors to look at ‘em. I sit in...

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... I was a boy,—an acre or so of white, sweet smelling boards in each raft, a crew of two dozen men or more, three or four wigwams scattered about the ... ... quarters,—and I remember the rude ways and the tremendous talk of their big crews, the ex keelboatmen and their admiringly patterning successors; fo... ...rt of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly ... ...randeur created with a bit of pitch pine just before arriving at a town; the crew are grouped on the forecastle; the broad stage is run far out over t... ... literature will command when impartially divided up among twelve raftsmen’s crews, who have pulled a heavy skiff two miles on a hot day to get them, ... ...l crossing; the pilot not on watch takes his “cub” or steersman and a picked crew of men (sometimes an officer also), and goes out in the yawl—provide...

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...mermen, mermaids, and sea-horses that had come ashore upon the islands and attacked the crews of boats upon the sea; and my uncle, in spite of his inc... ...e is none near by to protect or even to help them; and the presence in such a spot of a crew of foreign adventurers – poor, greedy, and most likely la... ...look, followed this time by Rorie. I heard that the schooner was losing ground, but the crew were still fighting every inch with hopeless ingenuity an... ...or behind him. Markheim stood and gazed at him with all his eyes. Per- haps there was a film upon his sight, but the outlines of the new comer seemed ... ...ady sunken in pearly greyness, and a great, pale moon came swinging skyward through the filmy poplars. The Doctor sang, the Doctor whistled, the Docto...

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...dlers be, infer. 29 XL THE thought beneath so slight a film Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the... ... Its white foot tripped, Then dropped from sight. Ah, brig, good-night T o crew and you; The ocean’s heart too smooth, too blue, To break for you. ... ...89 The sweets of Pillage can be known 304 The thought beneath so slight a film 29 The treason of an accent 313 The way I read a letter’s this: 158...

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...mers were rock- staked on the Nile outside the city, and that of all their crews there remained not one; and Khartoum was dead,—was dead,—was dead! Bu... ...ith white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to de- scribe the gray film in the studio. ‘We all want a little patching and repairing from time ... ...gued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blind- ness, all t... ...t it. It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pain...

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...ous Lingard, when, after a long contest, he boarded the craft, driving the crew over- board. This girl, it was generally known, Lingard had adopted, w... ...onal charms, of which she heard many a young brave warrior of her father’s crew express an appreciative admira- tion. There was in her the dread of th... ...to buy gutta-percha or beeswax, because he intended to employ his numerous crew in collecting trepang on the coral reefs outside the river, and also i... ...d. When he sighted us he ran inside the reefs and put the brig ashore. The crew escaped in boats be- fore we could take possession. As our boats neare... ...ve no fear, O master of my life, the sea is ever true.” Over their heads a film of dark, thread-like clouds, looking like immense cobwebs drifting und...

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...armless, and the falchion flies.” Furious he said, and towards the Grecian crew (Seized by the crest) the unhappy warrior drew; Struggling he followed... ...broken rock the force of Pyrus threw, (Who from cold Ænus led the Thracian crew,) 102 Full on his ankle dropp’d the ponderous stone, Burst the strong ... ...sed the spoils of gallant Diomed. Struck with amaze and shame, the T rojan crew, Or slain, or fled, the sons of Dares view; When by the blood-stain’d ... ... To aid her, swift the winged Iris flew, Wrapt in a mist above the warring crew. The queen of love with faded charms she found. Pale was her cheek, an... ... if Jove’s great son he should pursue, Or pour his vengeance on the Lycian crew. But heaven and fate the first design withstand, Nor this great death ... ...l mists. “But to nobler sights Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed.” “Paradise Lost,” xi. 411. 1...