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...tion of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth) Hu... ...lish ear, adequate exponents of high birth or descent. Sackville, Manners, Fitzroy, Paulet, Cavendish, and scores of others, tell their own tale. Such... ...ther dependants. Now, my landlady had been a lady’s maid or a nurse in the family of the Bishop of —, and had but lately married away and “settled” (a... ...) for life. In a little town like B-, merely to have lived in the bishop’s family conferred some distinction; and my good landlady had rather more tha... ...y a party concerned. She had been to the palace to pay her respects to the family, and, dinner being over, was summoned into the dining-room. In givin... ...d part of Merionethshire, I was entertained for upwards of three days by a family of young people with an affectionate and frater- 17 Thomas de Quinc...

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...zing propensities, by striking a second blow, and ac- complishing a second family extermination. Somewhat light- ened was the provincial panic by this... ...ad of the stairs—directing her to go out and purchase some oysters for the family supper. Upon what slender accidents hang oftentimes solemn lifelong ... ...stance of her own absence for an hour; her belief that Mr. and Mrs. Marr’s family had all been mur- dered in the interval; and that at this very momen... ... a soldier been called upon to face so complex a danger. For if the entire family of his neighbor Marr had been extermi- nated, were this indeed true,... ...es of thrilling interest, this second case even went beyond the first. The family which suffered in this in- stance was that of a Mr. Williamson; and ... ...es of still surviv- ing enemies—Horne T ooke, ‘little Chamier,’ Ellis, the Fitzroy, Russell, and Murray houses—the whole progress and catas- trophe of...

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...widow ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which A... ...iterature at home. It was a cheerful, irre- sponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and flattened purple, and the girls went o... ...the Widgett girls and a select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. “But, my dear!” said Ann Veronica’s aunt. “Y ou see,” said ... ...wed himself to think of it) 11 H. G . Wells that the promptitude of their family was a little indelicate of her, and in a sense an intrusion. He had,... .... She had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family, had escaped. She carried herself well, whereas her brother slouched... ...about her that she had acquired through her long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws. He had died before they marri...

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...eautiful girl but penniless, an orphan with no near relations, but of good family; and there was an array of fine friends at the wedding. The parson, ... ...man Bondage Shakespeare. Frau Professor Erlin called her es- tablishment a family and not a pension; but it would have required the subtlety of a meta... ...re he held his nose and whistled through his teeth. It was the ruin of the family , the uprooting of morals, the destruction of Ger- many . “Aber , Ad... ...house, and the same evening at supper he saw a new face. For some days the family had lived in a state of excitement. First, as the result of heaven k... ...as in England; and in England as well in a Wesleyan, Baptist, or Methodist family as in one that fortunately belonged to the church by law established... ...f, he ripped open the envelope. 691 W. Somerset Maugham 7 William Street, Fitzroy Square. Dear Phil, Can I see you for a minute or two as soon as pos... ...d of going back to Harrington Street he stationed himself at the corner of Fitzroy Square so that he could see anyone who came along William Street. I...

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...y price be relieved from this formi- dable cetacean.* *Member of the whale family. 8 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea CHAPTER II PRO AND CON AT THE PERIO... ...abelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and was already a tribe of hardy fisherm... ...andon our heads. A light network of marine plants, of that inex- haustible family of seaweeds of which more than two thou- sand kinds are known, grew ... ... discordant cries like the braying of an ass, and birds be- longing to the family of the long-wings. As to the fish, they always provoked our admirati... ...th magnificent cocos, and which had been visited by Mr. Darwin and Captain Fitzroy. The Nautilus skirted the shores of this desert island for a little... ...se, forming distinct groups, male and female, the father watching over his family, the mother suckling her little ones, some already strong enough to ...

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...tune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food fro... ...n went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchwardens’, were detected, one Sunday, in th... ...cer- emony is repeated on her leaving church, when she walks home with the family next door but one, and talks about the sermon all the way, invariabl... ...t Mr. Robinson was of Eastern descent, and contemplated marrying the whole family at once; and the row, generally, shook their heads with considerable... ...the same. Two gentlemen, and a pair of ladies to correspond—friends of the family, no doubt; up went the steps, bang went the door, off went the first... ... It was a wedding-party, and emerged from one of the inferior streets near Fitzroy-square. There were the bride, with a thin white dress, and a great ...

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...tune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food fro... ...n went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had an obscure family pew just behind the churchwardens’, were detected, one Sunday, in th... ...cer- emony is repeated on her leaving church, when she walks home with the family next door but one, and talks about the sermon all the way, invariabl... ...t Mr. Robinson was of Eastern descent, and contemplated marrying the whole family at once; and the row, generally, shook their heads with considerable... ...the same. Two gentlemen, and a pair of ladies to correspond—friends of the family, no doubt; up went the steps, bang went the door, off went the first... ... It was a wedding-party, and emerged from one of the inferior streets near Fitzroy-square. There were the bride, with a thin white dress, and a great ...

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...l years, and was viewed as the representative of sober common sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s... ...ke than girl-like. Janet Brownlow was assuredly a very plain girl, but the family habit was to regard their want of beauty as rather a mark of distinc... ...hold me, for I cannot sleep. —Tennyson. “MOTHER CAREY,” to call her by the family name that her husband had given the first day she held a baby in her... ...that the most available house at Kenminster could not be got ready for the family before the winter, so that the move could not take place till the sp... ... as a poor helpless little thing, who was thrown on his hands with all her family.” After the morning’s examination and placing of the boys, there was... ...yes, with one voice, repeated together— “We, John Lucas Brownlow and Cecil Fitzroy Evelyn, promise with all our hearts manfully to fight under Christ’...