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...searchingly). Have ye ever haird of a bad charac- ter in these seas called Black Paquito? DRINKWATER (with a sudden radiance of complete enlight- enme... ...: Ev aw said a word agin him? Ev aw nah? RANKIN. But is Captain Brassbound Black Paquito then? DRINKWATER. Waw, it’s the nime is blessed mather give i... ...lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. RANKIN (not quite convinced). But why black Paquito? DRINKWATER (artlessly). Waw, the bird in its netral stite be... ...Y. What a pleasant face your sailor friend has, Mr. Rankin! He has been so frank and truthful with us. You know I don’t think anybody can pay me a gre... ...e is now a converted man. LADY CICELY. Of course he is. His telling you so frankly proves it. You know, really, Howard, all those poor people whom you... ...m. LADY CICELY. Captain Brassbound: I have heard all that before about the blacks; and I found them very nice people when they were properly treated. ... ...Sunday School! The darlings would love this place, with all the camels and black men. I’m sure you would enjoy having them here, Captain Brassbound; a...

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... so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the island...

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...asts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas... ...e house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater ... ...ing everywhere more exposed, of the wind always louder and bleaker, of the black, roaring winters, of the gloom of high-lying, old stone cities, immi-... ...eir own rustic voices. It was in these early days, I think, that Professor Blackie won the affection of his pupils, putting these uncouth, umbra- geou... ...e border, and he regarded En- gland as a perilous, unhomely land. When the Black Watch, after years of foreign service, returned to Scotland, veterans... ...tle for the housemaid as for David Hume. The interests of youth are rarely frank; his passions, like Noah’s dove, come home to roost. The fire, sensib... ... we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. – Franklin. THERE CAN BE NO FAIRER ambition than to excel in talk; to be affa... ...imes divides the man’s attention. He does not always, per- haps not often, frankly surrender himself in conversation. He brings into the talk other th... ...y 81 Memories and Portraits a somewhat elaborate reserve as a means to be frank, much as they wear gloves when they shake hands. But a man has the fu...

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...Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBAUM, historian: “...written with great sensibility” Worchest... ...auses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the terra cotta and black jar, its painted chariot, charioteer and horses: The charioteer w... ...His hands, gliding over my hair and neck, are dead. His voice, out of its black, re- proaches me. I want to cry: but I didn’t blind you! The other... ...ter, not only for his humor, but for his wisdom. His reddish whiskers and black brows gave him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he gu... ...offs and sneers but what is he but a two-legged cricket, brown, yellow or black? I’m sure the cricket has his illusions, some of them as pat as ours... ...un!” Someone had dusted his shields and spears on the wall: I noticed the black point of an Egyptian lance, the cold grey pennons on a Persian hide:... ...s reveal our happiness. When I shared lines with him, he laughed at their frankness, eyes dancing. He remembered some of them, and shot them back at... ...e became popular, and was introduced to the American colonies by Benjamin Franklin. Despite his considerable contribution to the evolution of typogr...

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...one’s governess. But what a gov- erness!” (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) “But after all, while she was in... ...able honesty. In him, in his handsome, radiant figure, his sparkling eyes, black hair and eyebrows, and the white and red of his face, there was somet... ... kept up here that you are the best of skaters,” she said, with her little black-gloved hand brushing a grain of hoar- frost off her muff. “Yes, I use... ...gs are in a bad way with me, very bad. And it’s all through women. Tell me frankly now,” he pursued, picking up a cigar and keeping one hand on his gl... ...ordston. She was a thin, sallow, sickly, and nervous woman, with brilliant black eyes. She was fond of Kitty, and her affection for her showed itself,... ...olute face. Every- thing about his face and figure, from his short-cropped black hair and freshly shaven chin down to his loosely fitting, brand-new u... ..., still more exasperated, would have answered, but Vronsky with his bright frank smile rushed to the support of the conversation, which was threat- en...

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...ACHER. There was no brass plate. It was a shop window: red, you know, with black lettering. Doctor Leo Schutzmacher, L.R.C.P .M.R.C.S. Advice and medi... ...rick of looking you straight in the face with them, which, combined with a frank smile, is very engag- ing. Although he is all nerves, and very observ... ...l right as to the cheque, for a while at all events. He talked to me quite frankly before dinner as to the pressure of money difficulties on an artist... ...hink! How long will it take you, man, to find out that he’s a damned young blackguard? BLENKINSOP. Oh, thats severe, Sir Patrick, very severe. Of cour... ...ives: which is it to be? that honest decent man Blenkinsop, or that rotten black- guard of an artist, eh? RIDGEON. Its not an easy case to judge, is i... ...? Blenkinsop’s an honest decent man; but is he any use? Dubedat’s a rotten blackguard; but he’s a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good thing... ...sound my wretched lung. [With im- pulsive candor] My dear Ridgeon: I’ll be frank with you. Whats the matter in this house isnt lungs but bills. It doe... ... am sorry. [He places his hand ingenuously on Walpole’s shoulder and looks frankly at him]. WALPOLE [sinking on the stool with a gasp] Dont mention it... ...hand warningly to silence him. Sir Ralph sits down quietly on the sofa and frankly buries his face in his hand- kerchief. MRS DUBEDAT [with great reli...

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...asty glance upon the palms of his hands. On parting, Agnes, with her usual frankness, held out her hand. The Hungarian took it with an air of sad sole... ...ife, or had shown a defect of judgment, it was at this point—in not having frankly and fully reported the circumstances to me. On the last of these oc... ...hich the house offered. The dilapidated walls, the mouldering plaster, the blackened mantel-pieces, the stained and polluted wainscots—what could be a... ...mas de Quincey began to pelt her with stones. Ah, my friends, of the genus blackguard, you little know who it is that you are selecting for experiment... ...ached a billowy scene of rocky masses, large and small, looking shockingly black on their perpendicular sides as they rose out of the vast snowy expan... ...greatly soothed by the fervor of her prayer, revolved upon her in deadlier blackness. All turned, she saw, upon a race against time, and the arrears o... ...er. But his bold martial demeanor, his yet youth- ful style of beauty, his frank manners, his animated conver- sation that reported a hundred contests... ...t win from the simple-hearted people with whom he had to deal—and from the frank carelessness of his unconscious competitor. At the very outset of his... ...y as- suming the coercion of public pledges, may become an ex- pression of frank courage, or even of noble principle, not fearing the shame of confess...

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...ed as she came and went. Farther down, before one of the cottages, a lady in black was walking demurely up and down, telling her beads. A good many pe... ... “Come go along, Lebrun,” he proposed to Robert. But Robert admit ted quite frankly that he preferred to stay where he was and talk to Mrs. Pontellie... ...her handsome than beautiful. Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory subtle play of features. Her ... ...the water. The beach was very still of human sound at that hour. The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bat... ... her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon’s, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead. But the cavalry officer melted im... ...urned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether. The lady in black, creeping behind them, looked a trifle paler and more jaded than us... ...use flattered her. But she disapproved of Mr. Pontellier’s club, and she was frank enough to tell Edna so. “It’s a pity Mr. Pontellier doesn’t stay ho... ...ferent life might have been if he had known her years before. With ingenuous frankness he spoke of what a wicked, ill disciplined boy he had been, an... ...before her chatty eagerness to make him feel at home and in face of Gaston’s frank and wordy hospitality. His manner was as courteous toward her as th...

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...ecipitately under the influence of a pseudo-science as di- sastrous as the blackest Calvinism. Calvinism taught that as we are predestinately saved or... ...erman dynastic ambition should be painted by journalists and recruiters in black and red as European dangers (as in fact they are), leav- ing it to be... ...rs older than Lady Utterword, and even better looking. She has magnificent black hair, eyes like the fishpools of Heshbon, and a nobly modelled neck, ... .... Unlike her sister she is uncorseted and dressed anyhow in a rich robe of black pile that shows off her white skin and statuesque contour. MRS HUSHAB... ...erge jacket suit with an unbuttoned mackintosh over it, and carries a soft black hat of clerical cut. ELLIE. At last! Captain Shotover, here is my fat... ... your friend Mr Hushabye. I’m in love with him. [She rises and adds with a frank air] Now we are in one another’s confidence, we shall be real friends... ...he carpenter’s bench. 109 GB Shaw RANDALL. I take it that we may be quite frank. I mean about Lady Utterword. HECTOR. You may. I have nothing to be f... ...nglish culture. You are very charming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, hu- mane, unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and ev- erythin...

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...a negative qualification, it did not prevent Peter from being an appalling blackguard and an arrant poltroon, nor did it enable Byron to become a reli... ...it a class insult; and it certainly was not for the pot to call the kettle black. The aristocracy he defended, in spite of the political marriages by ... ...-on-Sun- day, Mr Bad Form, Mr Murderer, Mr Burglar, Mr Co-re- spondent, Mr Blackmailer, Mr Cad, Mr Drunkard, Mr La- bor Agitator and so forth, can rea... ...l pairs above his ears and at the angles of his spreading jaws. He wears a black frock coat, a white waistcoat (it is bright spring weather), and trou... ...ing, the small head and regular features, the pretty little moustache, the frank clear eyes, the wholesome bloom and the youthful complexion, the well... ...ctly self-controlled woman, and looks it; though her pose is fashion- ably frank and impulsive. She inspires confidence as a person who will do nothin... ...isused, we have no right to say that he is refusing honest work. Let us be frank in this matter before we go on with our play; so that we may enjoy it... ... them, perhaps, it would be wiser to kill without malice in a friendly and frank manner; for there are bipeds, just as there are quadrupeds, who are t... ...brigands any less honest than ordi- nary citizens? MENDOZA. Sir: I will be frank with you. Brigandage is abnormal. Abnormal professions attract two cl...

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...nd Rachel, the shortest of them all, a very young, dark girl, with eyes as black as ink, a Jewess, whose snub nose confirmed by exception 30 De Maupa... ...hel on to his knees, and, getting excited, at one moment kissed the little black curls on her neck, inhaling the pleas- ant warmth of her body, and al... ...ver hearts!” Thereupon Lieutenant Otto, who was a species of bear from the Black Forest, jumped up, inflamed and saturated with drink, and seized by a... ...so quickly that the glass upset, spilling the amber colored wine on to her black hair as if to baptize her, and broke into a hundred fragments as it f... ...uare, opposite the white, closed front of the mairie, the church, mute and black, showed its great oak door with the wrought-iron trimmings. Then, as ... ...or good reasons too; they laugh best who laugh last.” He turned toward her frankly: “Oh! very well, I can blame you, since you were the cause of it.” ... ...egan to think that he was making fun of me, and I continued: “Come now, be frank. You have been the victim of some great sorrow; despair in love, no d... ... her half-open lips. Her gentle eyes with their magnetic look had a happy, frank expression, and from the mere ar- rangement of her hair, one could se...

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... one sprinkles white milk, one sprinkles red milk, and the third sprinkles black milk over the hills and mountains; thus they become the “moth ers of... ...egration of their bodies, over which Kalma, the god of the tombs, with his black and evil daughter, presided. After their spirits had been fully purif... ...e required to voyage over nine seas, and over one river, the Finnish Styx, black, deep, and violent, and filled with hungry whirlpools, and angry wate... ...e salmon, the whiting, the perch, and the pike were sheltered in the “coal black waters of Manala.” From the seed grains of the death land fields and... ...daughters of T uoni are mentioned in the runes, the first of whom, a tiny, black maiden, but great in wickedness, once at least showed a touch of huma... ... Comest thou as from T uoni, From the castles of Manala?” This, Kullervo’s frank confession: “Infamous the tale I bring thee, My confession is dishono...

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... feast upon the fat of the land-no longer shall our beards be odorous with frankincense—our loins girded up with fine linen from the Temple.” “Racal” ... ... ordinary elephant. Near the root of this trunk was an immense quantity of black shaggy hair—more than could have been supplied by the coats of a scor... ... vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, 29 V olume Five hideous, and indistinguishable mass. The crippl... ...not possible to mistake. These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats,... ...en themselves. Their voluminousness of wristband, with an air of excessive frankness, should betray them at once. The gamblers, of whom I descried not... ...f the villain at all, and one day when he had been cuffed until he grew so black in the face that one might have mistaken him for a little African, an... ...n to imagine. “I am quite sure you will win it, Dammit,” said he, with the frankest of all smiles, “but we are obliged to have a trial, you know, for ... ...person named Charles who was not an open, manly, honest, good-natured, and frank-hearted fel- low, with a rich, clear voice, that did you good to hear... ...articular. Much to the astonishment of every one present, Mr. Pennifeather frankly admitted that it was. The magistrate now considered it his duty to ...

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...had kept the peace of years. Those who attacked him were steeped in blood, black blood, white blood, brown blood, yellow blood, blue blood. The Inca h... ...now that beneath the trappings of Imperial Majesty there is a Man: simple, frank, modest, unaffected, colloquial: a sincere friend, a natural human be...

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... writer, and his perversions of facts for the whitewashing of despots, and blackening of popular institu tions. These points he discoursed on, exempl... ...m from the world, unless in the cases, becoming fewer every day , in which frank ness on these subjects would either risk the loss of means of subsis... ...y trusted advisers of after years, and perhaps to seal up the fountains of frank and spontaneous communicativeness in the child’s nature, it is an evi... ...elt, though without stating it clearly to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and ami ability of French personal intercourse, and the ... ...s exposition of the Pandects; to which was added a considerable portion of Blackstone. It was at the commencement of these studies that my father, as ... ...Perry, the editorship and management of the paper had devolved on Mr. John Black, long a reporter on its establishment; a man of most extensive readin... ...hicle of the opinions of the Utilitarian Radicals. This was mainly by what Black himself wrote, with some assistance from Fonblanque, who first showed... ...r been to any other man. He was indeed one of the most lovable of men. His frank, cordial, affectionate, and expansive character; a love of truth alik... ... rejecting. I therefore put their disposi tion to the proof by one of the frankest explanations ever tendered, I should think, to an electoral body b...

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...m its po- sition, an object sufficiently artificial; but how affecting the black plume of Ravenswood floating on the waves which had engulphed the pro... ...meal-bag slung over his shoulders! What pathos Scott ex- tracts from that “black bitch of a boat,” which Mucklebackit, in the frenzy of his grief, acc... ...at all.’ Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish’d by black, brown, or fair. How many pictures of one nymph we view, All how unli... ... prouder as a punk; 70 Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. What then? let... ...w should equal colours do the knack? Chameleons who can paint in white and black? ‘Yet Chloe, sure, was form’d without a spot’— Nature in her then err... ...eneral rules, Your taste of follies, with our scorn of fools: Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride... ... This way and that the wavering sails they bend, While freezing Boreas and black Eurus blow, Now here, now there, the reeling vessel throw; Thus on ea... ...mended by his friend Arnall, and received a small pittance for pay.—P . B. Franklin seems to have thought that his friend Ralph was alluded to here. S...

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...ring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in G... ...ast possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen... ..., though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of i... ...ncircled mountain pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black deeps you fear to gaze: those eyes, those lights that sparkle in it... ...ouse of Commons, we shall note what progress he has made. He digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me ... ...on Cloth. “Often in my atrabiliar moods, when I read of pompous ceremonials, Frank fort Coronations, Royal Drawing rooms, Levees, Couchees; and how t... ...man so known for impenetrable reticence as Teufelsdr¨ ockh would all at once frankly unlock his private citadel to an English Editor and a German Hofr... ...hat the Tailor is not only a Man, but something of a Creator or Divinity. Of Franklin it was said, that ‘he snatched the Thunder from Heaven and the S...

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... Leipzig. — Progress of Gustavus Adolphus. — The French invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly ordered by Maximilian to ... ...ssion of, in order to ob- struct Ferdinand’s progress to his coronation at Frankfort. If the accession to the imperial throne was important for the pl... ... the most certain of his possessions. While he was thus elected Emperor in Frankfort, he was in Prague deprived of the Bohemian throne. Almost all of ... ...declared guilty of ‘lese-majeste’ and high treason. During the election of Frankfort, he had contrived, by per- sonal representations, to win over to ... ...nded these troops after the recall of Spinola, hastily raised the siege of Frankenthal, when Mansfeld entered the Lower 117 Friedrich Schiller Palati... ...in the course of two days, had carried off nearly 400 men in his camp. The black spots which appeared upon his body, his own dying expres- sions, and ...

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...c Chemist 27 JACOBUS VAN’T HOFF (1852 - 1911) Dutch Physical Chemist 28 WILLIAM H. WOLLASTON (1766 - 1828) English Chemist and Physicist 28 EDWARD FRANKLAND (1825 - 1899) English Chemist 29 SVANTE A. ARRHENIUS (1859 - 1927) Swedish Chemist 29 FREDERICK SODDY (1877 - 1956) English Chemist 30 FRANCIS W. ASTON (1877 - 1945) English Chemist and Physicist 30 HENRY MOSELE...

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...NCK, HEISENBERG, LORENTZ, FERMI, OPPENHEIMER and EINSTEIN on ATOMIC PHYSICS, QUANTUM THEORY and RELATIVITY. The AGE of BOYLE, CAVENDISH, PRIESTLEY, BLACK, SCHEELE, STAHL and RUTHERFORD on ELEMENTAL CHEMISTRY. The AGE of LAVOISIER, DALTON, BERZELIUS and MENDELEEV on MODERN CHEMISTRY, ATOMIC THEORY and the PERIODIC TABLE. The AGE of KEKULE, LIEBIG, WOHLER, GAY-LUSSAC, ...

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...cian and Plant Physiologist 71 Characterized the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN MODERN CHEMISTRY 75 JOSEPH BLACK (1728-1799) Scottish Chemist 77 Discovered the fixed air or carbon dioxide. HENRY CAVENDISH (1731-1810) English Chemist and Physicist 79 Discovered the inflammable gas (hydrogen) and synthesized water. JOSEPH PRI...