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...a not too pleasing exterior, his life as a lawyer had not improved it. His frame was graceless and angular. His thick knees, huge feet, and broad hand... ...ular natural prod- 22 The Commission in Lunacy uct. Against the wall hung frames of artificial flowers, and decorations in which Popinot’s initials w... ...he loftiness of the rooms, the paneling, of which nothing survived but the frames, the decoration of the ceil- ings, all displayed the dignity which t...

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... the blankest description. But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato an... ...ian tongue might well present a more spacious coalescence, and hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already... ...and the freedoms that cluster about them. In spite of myself I find myself framing his case. He is a lover, the most conventional of Anglican lovers, ... ...e swept out effectually by a few strokes of a mechanical sweeper. The door frames and window frames are of metal, rounded and impervious to draught. Y... ... handle at the foot of your bed before leaving the room, and forthwith the frame turns up into a vertical position, and the bedclothes hang airing. Yo... ... dirty , black-leaded fireplace are gone. But the faintly tinted walls are framed with just one clear coloured line, as finely placed as the member of... ... door handles and the lines of the panels of the door, the two chairs, the framework of the bed, the writing table, have all that final simplicity, th... ... begotten of sustained artistic effort. The graciously shaped windows each frame a picture—since they are draughtless the window seats are no mere moc... ... “Samurai!” I repeated, “voluntary noblemen!” and for the moment could not frame a question. He whirled on to an attack on science, that stirred the b...

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...- duchy), stands at the end of the little town close to a great arch which frames it. For buildings, as for men, position does everything. Shaded by a... ...iece, the marble shelf of which, with the candlesticks and the mirror in a frame painted in cameo on a gray ground, presented a remarkable harmony of ... ...ke hold of him; he saw in Ursula the woman the doctor had pictured to him, framed in gold by the magic words, “Seven or eight hundred thousand francs.... ...e cup from which he drank. His white hair, arranged in one curled lock and framed, hung above a crucifix and the holy water in the alcove. All the lit...

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... would recommend to be done with himself. Long before I reached Wapping, I gave myself up as hav- ing lost my way, and, abandoning myself to the narro... ...ervice that would insensibly follow. I almost began to hope that the hitherto-never-failing deserters on my rail- road would by-and-by become a phenom... ...e that would hold us until dark. Then, should we fall to work, with a general impression of Ghosts being about, and of pictures indoors that of a cert... ...s they can hire, and hang slops there— pewter watches, sou’-wester hats, waterproof overalls—’firtht rate articleth, Thjack.’ Down by the Docks, such ... ...oaches in all circumstances compatible with their triumph and victory, but never in the act of breaking down or overturning, pervaded the house. Of th... ...at they looked like overdone pie-crust; the designs of others The Uncommercial Traveller 233 were almost obliterated by the flies of many summers. Br... ... pockets, or took my eyes out of my pocket-handker- chief, I was personally lost, and my family disgraced. On the eventful day , having tried to get m... ...nd through all her voy- ages!) and surveyed the outer hull of the gracious monster that the voice had inhabited. So, perhaps, shall we all, in the spi... ...ain the railway, when my eyes rested on the inscription across the road, ‘East Lon- don Children’s Hospital.’ I could scarcely have seen an in- script...

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...- gains picked up by the worthy widow,—pictures bought for the sake of the frames, china services of a composite order; 42 Bureaucracy to wit, a magn... ... “le Chevalier de la Billardiere” and on the wall of his office hung, in a frame, his coat of arms (sable, two swords in saltire, on a chief azure thr...

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...h their happy proportions, their sculpture, and their color, are the empty frames of bril- liant pictures. They need the figure of a Francis I. to com... ... domestic, pausing to stare at a faded tapestry or to read the name on the frame of some simpering portrait. To return to Tours my companion and I had... ...vity. Here and there the black coif of an old woman or of a young girl was framed by a low doorway; but for the rest, as I have said, Tarascon was mos... ...or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of the arch, surrounded by little angels, by great apos...

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... which Van Huysum, out of regard for the martyr’s memory, came to Douai to frame in wood painted in lapis- lazuli with threads of gold, is therefore t... ...daughters and I will be content with very little; we can fill up the empty frames with other pictures in course of time and by economy; meantime 79 B... ...easons that never fail of laughter or of fetes; but there are other loves, framed in melancholy, circled by distress, whose pleasures are painful, cos...

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...PTER IV Art, stryving to compare With nature, did an arber greene dispred, Fram’d of wanton yvie flowing fayre, Through which the fragrant eglantines ... ...nial influence which characterizes the winds of the ocean invigorating his frame, cheering his spirits, and arousing his moral force. Such a day was t... ... perfect self-command, and a through knowl- edge of the power of the human frame as well as of the weapon. Pathfinder was not what is usually termed a... ... so much confidence and com- manded respect. T all, and even muscular, his frame might have been esteemed nearly perfect, were it not for the total ab... ...oming?” This appeal was made to the guide while he was in a most fortunate frame of mind to admit its force; for Mabel and her blandishments and const... ...ep of a soldier. Cap continued to walk the deck, for he was one whose iron frame set fatigue at defiance, and not once that night did he close his eye... ... door massive and small, and the roof, like the rest of the structure, was framed of hewn timber, covered properly with bark to exclude the rain. The ... ...y that would have done honor to the highest civilization; nor did she once frame any other inquiry in a way to lead indirectly to a betrayal of the mu... ... Mabel, and putting her under an arm, as if she were an infant, the sinewy frame of the woodsman was ex- erted to the utmost, and he succeeded in ente...

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...ked at the bran-new pilgrims on the wall, going to Canterbury in more gold frame than procession, and more carving than coun- try. ‘Whose writing is t... ...e among other solids. The room itself was large, though low; and the heavy frames of its old-fashioned win- dows, and the heavy beams in its crooked c... ...raders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folks warm, and of Italian frame-makers, and of barbers, and of brokers, and of dealers in dogs and si... ...y asking, as he lightly taps his hands together, to express an undesigning frame of mind: ‘ And how have I been going on, this long time, Mr V enus?’ ... ...gle instant, while your mother had the strength yet remaining in her vital frame to request them to depart? You little know your mother if you presume... ...an ambling stranger, with one eye screwed up into extinction and the other framed and glazed, who, having looked down out of that organ, as if he desc...

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...urnished like a drawing-room, the walls hung with sev- eral brown, heavily-framed, oil paintings. I don’t know if they were good, but they were big, a... ...hey were big, and with their elaborate, tar- 55 Joseph Conrad nished gilt-frames had a melancholy dignity. The man himself sat at a shining, inlaid w... ...her writing desk, of the most modern and expensive style, in a silver-gilt frame, she ne- glected to take. Having accidentally, in the course of the o... ...on the floor she let it lie there after a downward glance. Thus it, or the frame at least, became, I suppose, part of the assets in the de Barral bank... ...on Anthony, grew to the size of a passion filling with inward sobs the big frame of the man who had never in his life read a single one of those famou... ... stood and restrained himself violently from taking her into his arms, his frame trem- bling with fear as though he had been tempted to an act of 267...

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...he way to discover it. For the present, after tea, as they sat on the rose-framed porch, while Rowland held his younger cousin between his knees, and ... ... seem to us wonderfully beautiful. We sent them to Boston to be handsomely framed, and the man, on returning them, wrote us that he had exhibited them... ... for a week in his store, and that they had attracted great attention. The frames are magnificent, and the pictures now hang in a row on the parlor wa... ...than a month. Rowland passed this month of expec- tation in no very serene frame of mind. His suggestion had had its source in the deepest places of h... ...f them the landlord of the inn. They had formed a sort of rude bier of the frame of a chaise a porteurs, and by taking a very round-about course homew...

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...and the patois seemed to be the mutual attraction; also she had the sturdy frame which enables women to bear hard work. In the first three years of th... ...a young girl worthy of Mieris, or Van Ostade, or T erburg, or Gerard Douw, framed in one of those old, defaced, half ruined windows the brushes of the... ...The banker looked naively into the mirror, with bevelled edges in an ebony frame. “Mademoiselle,” he said, “I am not good-looking.” Thereupon he proce... ... grace of the vegetations which draped the roof and the dilapidated wooden frames of the windows, the wealth of the clamber- ing plants escaping from ... ...gin presented to public admiration two colored litho- graphs in small gilt frames. The altar was painted white, adorned with artificial flowers in gil... ...trait of Monsieur Bonnet as a stout, short man with a strong and red face, framed for toil, half a peasant, and tanned by the sun. So far from that, t... ...eyes rolled up in a violent spasm, and an angry shudder passed through his frame. “Am I calm?” he asked himself. Happily his eyes encoun- tered the te... ...ntegnac furnished all the necessary wood and clay for its fabrication. The framework of wood and the stone for the foundations also came from the fore... ...ght of which was easily supported by the stout beams and up- rights of the framework cut in the forest. Before his death Graslin had laid out the road...

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... of this possibility. Shaking from head to foot, the man whose scattered consciousness has thus fantastically pieced itself together, at length rises,... ...born, like six weak little rushlights, as they were lighted), having broken the thin morning ice near Cloisterham Weir with his amiable head, much to ... ... stairs.’ Miss Twinkleton looked round with a kind of stiff stare. ‘I refer, my dear,’ said Mr. Grewgious, laying his hand on Rosa’s, as the possibili... ... directed. Mr. Sapsea’s importance has received enhance- ment, for he has become Mayor of Cloisterham. Without mayors, and many of them, it cannot be ... ...themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, ba... ...n to blow a boisterous gale. The Precincts are never particularly well lighted; but the strong blasts of wind blowing out many of the lamps (in some i...

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...int of beginning. I am unable even to remember at this day what proposal I framed for the end of his holidays and the resumption of his studies. Lesso... ... who looked at me over the battle- ments was as definite as a picture in a frame. That’s how I thought, with extraordinary quickness, of each person t... ...ou never told me so, never spoke of it at all?” His clear, listening face, framed in its smooth white- ness, made him for the minute as appealing as s... ...bound up with the direct perception that it was positively HE who was. The frames and squares of the great window were a kind of image, for him, of a ...

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...of furniture adorned the chambers. Pic- tures hung upon the wall in golden frames: pictures of ships, and men fighting, and of the most beautiful wome...

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...at by his bed 19 Sir Walter Scott the whilst. He passed away in a blessed frame. ‘Morior—mor- tuus sum vel fui—mori’—these were his latest words; and... ...ng hand, and shaking it with such emphasis as almost to stagger the sturdy frame of the person whom he addressed, “how fares it with you for many a lo... ... silver sconces which hung against the walls, and by six large and richly- framed pictures, by the first masters of the age. A massy oaken table, plac... ... chairs in this apartment, which contained musical instruments, embroidery frames, and other articles for ladies’ pastime. Besides lesser lights, the ... ... Cu- pid and Psyche. On the toilet was a beautiful Venetian mir- ror, in a frame of silver filigree, and beside it stood a gold posset-dish to contain... ... to an Asiastic palace. When he was gone, his daughter took her embroidery frame, and went to establish 71 Sir Walter Scott herself at the bottom of ... ...est and the most inventive brain in England; insomuch, that his cunning in framing such pleasures had made him known to many honourable persons, both ... ...hful, and the poor old knight awoke, humbled indeed in thought and weak in frame, yet a much better judge of whatever was subjected to his intellect t... ...ur having all this ado. Let us see if thy 172 Kenilworth neat brain, that frames so many flashy fireworks, can help out a plain fellow at need with s...

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...You are here, sir!’ he said, springing on the step, and holding the window-frame by his elbow, as the carriage moved. ‘That person you pointed out to ... ...ng. One winter day when a slight fall of snow was feathering the sills and frames of the schoolroom windows, he stood at his black board, crayon in ha...

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...on. This old rice clearing, which had been several years lying fallow, was framed on three sides by the impenetrable and tangled growth of the un- tou... ...streamed down from amongst the boughs and mingled with the black hair that framed her face, as if all those plants claimed her for their own—the anima... ...and the house again there was, ranged in a semicircle, a set of low bamboo frames, and on those were piled all the carpets and cushions of Lakamba’s h... ...ess robe had half slipped off her shoulders, but the long black hair, that framed her olive face, in which the big black eyes looked out in childish s... ...t there and suddenly flung open a large shutter of attaps woven in a light framework of sticks. Lingard swung his legs quickly round the corner of his... ...e flowers; and the long hair, released, fell scattered over her shoulders, framing in its blackness the wild exaltation of her face. “Drive her off, P...

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...ve the doors, which had contained valuable pictures, bare of all but empty frames; broken marbles, mirrors carried off. In old days I was afraid to go... ...randmother’s portrait, painted at the age of twenty-five, hangs in an oval frame opposite that of the King. The Prince, her husband, is conspicuous by... ... and is exquisitely mounted; charming fan- tastic figures run all over the frame, on the feet, the support- ing bar, and the wings; the whole thing is... ...re a mere fever of the soul, bound to be fugitive because nature is not so framed as 194 Letters of Two Brides to support it long. But to make of lif...

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...oosing out few wordes most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame, With which and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Pl... ... THE FAERIE QVEENE Whose double gates he findeth locked fast, The one faire fram’d of burnisht Yuory, The other all with siluer ouercast; And wakeful... ...le with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a Lady of that other Spright, And fram’d of liquid ayre her tender partes So liuely, and so like in all men... ...expresse, he bends his gentle wit, And thinking of those braunches greene to frame A girlond for her dainty forehead fit, He pluckt a bough; out of wh... ...er beads she did forget. Whose needlesse dread for to remoue away, Faire Vna framed words and count’nance fit: Which hardly doen, at length she gan th... ...e Truth, whose shape she well can faine, And fitting gestures to her purpose frame; The guiltlesse man with guile to entertaine? Great maistresse of h... ... lay full low. As when that diuelish yron Engin wrought In deepest Hell, and framd by Furies skill, With windy Nitre and quick Sulphur fraught, And ra... ...y mettals soone consumed bene: But all of Diamond perfect pure and cleene It framed was, one massie entire mould, Hewen out of Adamant rocke with engi... ... old man, with beard as white as snow, That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame, And guide his wearie gate both too and fro: For his eye sight him ...

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... the brightness of the red, green, and yel- low signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. It seemed so safe and tranquil. 9 H G Wells CHA... ...T wo large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one might say, a ... ...he road, and splitting the bricks, smashing the windows, firing the window frames, and bring- ing down in crumbling ruin a portion of the gable of the... ...open. The passage was dark, and, by contrast with the picture the win- dow frame enclosed, the side of the room seemed impen- etrably dark. I stopped ... ...side, the soil was banked high against the house. At the top of the window frame we could see an uprooted drainpipe. The floor was littered with smash... ...any—those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance —our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and direct...

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...ld scarcely have thought, after a glance at the contours of the man’s bony frame, that this was an artist—that conventional type which is privileged, ... ...s in the character of a rabid collector, loaded with pictures, statuettes, frames, wood-carving, ivories, enamels, porcelains, and the like. He had su... ...on; Lienard (our most famous living wood-carver) had kept a couple of oval frames for models, as the ne plus ultra of the art, so fine it is.—There we... ...ferent eyes at Petitot’s enamels, spaced over crimson velvet, set in three frames of marvelous workmanship. Flowers by Van Huysum, David, and Heim; bu... ...unner! They did not turn; they took advantage of a superb V enetian mirror framed in huge masses of carved ebony to scan this phoenix of eligible youn... ...n the fiery furnace of a saleroom. Not a pic- ture but was set in a costly frame; there were frames of every kind—V enetians, carved with heavy orname... ...s in bold relief; Flemings and Germans with quaint figures, tortoise-shell frames inlaid with copper and brass and mother- 75 Balzac of-pearl and ivo... ...es inlaid with copper and brass and mother- 75 Balzac of-pearl and ivory; frames of ebony and boxwood in the styles of Louis Treize, Louis Quatorze, ... ...els. Pons, luckier than the art museums of Dresden and Vienna, possessed a frame by the famous Brustoloni—the Michael Angelo of wood-carvers. Mlle. de...

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...hich use by method for itself acquired. One, sliving suckers from the tender frame Of the tree mother, plants them in the trench; One buries the bare ... ...nt neck support the Belgian car. Then, broken at last, let swell their burly frame With fattening corn mash, for, unbroke, they will With pride wax wa... ... is it on Libya’s lonely plains. Mark you what shivering thrills the horse’s frame, If but a waft the well known gust conveys? Nor curb can check them... ...onceives The fire, in Spring tide chiefly, for with Spring Warmth doth their frames revisit, then they stand All facing westward on the rocky heights,... ...heaven no less is filled with falling snow; The cattle perish: oxen’s mighty frames Stand island like amid the frost, and stags In huddling herds, by ... ...His noisome limbs, till, no long tarriance made, The fiery curse his tainted frame devoured. GEORGIC IV Of air born honey, gift of heaven, I now Take ... ...ress through the heart of battle, and display A giant’s spirit in each pigmy frame, Steadfast no inch to yield till these or those The victor’s ponder... ...sleep.” So saying, an odour of ambrosial dew She sheds around, and all his frame therewith Steeps throughly; forth from his trim combed locks Breath... ...torms of winter chase them from the hills; Matrons and men, and great heroic frames Done with life’s service, boys, unwedded girls, Y ouths placed on ...

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...ctures have no adornments. No one has even thought of making them a silver frame; they have only received what some Cossacks have left them in their w... ...the blessing of their aged mother, and to each a picture in a cypress-wood frame from the Mezhigorski monastery at Kief. The two brothers hung the pic... ...st and easily satisfied Zaporozhetz, too coarse and unfit for her delicate frame?” Then he recol- lected that the Koschevoi, on the previous evening, ... ...ing, not of mere hints of feeling. The tears were not yet dry in them, and framed them in a shining dew which penetrated the very soul. Her bosom, nec... ...oul ascended, indignant and surprised at having so soon quitted so stout a frame. The cornet had not succeeded in seizing the hetman’s head by its sca... ...re for the archimandrite at the Mezhigorsky Monastery in Kief, and an ikon frame of pure silver for the church in honour of the Intercession of the Vi... ...ace as they roll past. And woe to the ship which is dashed against it! Its frame flies into splinters, everything in it is split and crushed, and the ... ... the stories about some deed of old which always sent a shiver through our frames and made our hair rise upright on our heads. Sometimes such terror t... ...e heard her utter a word; and that she had come on foot, and had brought a frame for the pic- ture of God’s mother, set with such brilliant stones tha...

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...la, gliding there under the sociable hood with the bright Venetian picture framed on either side by the movable window, I could see that she was amuse... ...ces between them, brown pictures, which I perceived to be bad, in battered frames, were suspended. With the excep- tion of several straw-bottomed chai... ...ossible to ask about them and no end to the answers it was not possible to frame. I had known many of my country-people in Europe and was familiar wit... ...l of flowers, smiling at me with her reddened eyes. Her white face, in the frame of her mantilla, looked longer, leaner than usual. I had had an idea ...

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...f his time, coughed impatiently, making the win- dow-panes quiver in their frames. In the choir the bored choristers could be heard trying their voice... ...r she rejoiced at what had brought her to this indifference. She could not frame a thought, not a wish apart from life with this man; but this new lif... ...meful incidents of that mor- bid period, when both were rarely in a normal frame of 57 Tolstoy mind, both were rarely quite themselves. It was only i... ... Yashvin, whose bashfulness was so queerly out of keeping with his immense frame and coarse face. “We met last year at the races. Give them to me,” sh... ...et that she had had made in Paris, and with costly white lace on her head, framing her face, and particularly becoming, showing up her dazzling beauty... ...ught sight of Anna’s head, proud, strikingly beautiful, and smiling in the frame of lace. She was in the fifth box, twenty paces from him. She was sit...

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...ge. He looked in delight at her prettiness, at the pale face appropriately framed by the satin of her fashion- able bonnet. Her slender form and grace... ... relaxingly upon us by the fluid circulating through our nerves, his whole frame seemed gradually to experience a dissolving process. He felt the an- ... ...nced the stranger that Gerard Dow’s “Money Changer” had come down from his frame. The craftiness of an inquisitor, revealed in those curving wrinkles ... ...g- ments on life while drunk, and taken men and affairs in an after-dinner frame of mind. We were innocent of action; we were bold in words. But now w... ...r the long eyelashes; the damp, red, half-open lips challenged a kiss. Her frame was strong 53 Balzac but compliant; with a bust and arms strongly de... ... that, asked questions, listened to the answers, as she leaned against the frame of the door; I detected a lan- guid charm in her movements, a grace i... ...omance. The whole blended harmony of lines, the feminine luxuriance of her frame, and its passion- ate promise, were subdued by a constant inexplicabl... ...the back of the piano, that had slipped without your knowledge between the frame and the keyboard, and I laid them on your table.’ “‘Y ou will soon be... ...ing a new opera by Rossini. Does he not renounce these courses in the same frame of mind that leads an abstemious man to forswear Ruffec pates, becaus...

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...g would fain Be think himself the only stay and prop That holds the mighty frame of Nature up. The skies and stars his properties must seem, * * * Of ... ... eternal and the ever blest. This busy, puzzling stirrer up of doubt, That frames deep mysteries, then finds them out, Filling, with frantic crowds of...