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...of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven-ninths; the Lena, Amoor, Hoang-ho, Yang-tse-kiang, and Nile, fiveninths; the Ganges, less than one-half; the Indus, less than one-third; the Euphrates, one-fifth; the Rhi...

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...ace, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with about seven ninths; the Lena,... ...teamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England,... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...rve to show how narrow some of the chutes were. The passengers had an hour’s recreation in a virgin wilderness, while the boat hands chopped the bridg... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...with the Natchez, is the best on record, and, inasmuch as the race created a national interest, we give below her time table from port to port. Left N... ...ive trade in that staple, collecting it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and shipping it by boat; but Uncle Mumford says she built... ...e. The most beautiful of all the national cemeteries is here. Over the great gateway is this inscription:— “HERE REST IN PEACE 16,600 WHO DIED FOR THE... ...the bear in sole possession. He presently grew lonesome, and started out for recreation. He ranged the whole boat—visited every part of it, with an ad...

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...imer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preserved by th... ...d wonder at the vast pile of masonry, the wide-spreading wings, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with its gilded bars and it... ... with splen- did people in them and splendid servants outside, were arriving and departing by several other noble gateways that pierced the royal encl... ...g— Stir not a step till I come again! It is a command!” In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national importance that lay upon a ... ...breast- plate, and a company of musicians. The advance-guard of the expected procession now appeared in the great gateway, a troop of halberdiers. ‘Th... ...ng to his royal office. Even the two hours devoted to certain princely 81 The Prince and the Pauper pastimes and recreations were rather a burden to ... ...iew the whole of the great north transept—empty, and waiting for England’s privileged ones. We see also the ample area or platform, carpeted with rich...

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...sociated in the minds of all Englishmen with brave, unpretending, cordial, national service. We like to look at him in his Sunday state; and if we wer... ...dungeon a ship going down; secondly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.... ...s his baptismal name, and substi tuting for his ancestral designation the national ‘Dam!’ Nei ther can he by any means be brought to recognise the d... ...town, a little decayed market is held, which seems to slip through the old gateway, like water, and go rippling down the hill, to mingle with the murm... ...en, 46 Reprinted Pieces not immoderately bilious, could see them in their recreations without very much respecting the character that is so easily, s... ...ution, and having left those two forms dangling on the top of the entrance gateway—the man’s, a limp, loose suit of clothes as if the man had gone out... ...ains, steamboats, sick travellers, and luggage, is our great Pavilionstone recreation. We are not strong in other public amusements. We have a Literar... ...apels, of which I passed one every other minute. They must have some other recreation. Whether they pretended to take one another’s 88 Reprinted Piec... ...or dinner. They are not the turnkeys of the T own Jail, looking out of the gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my ...

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...ll belonging to it, and a perfect town of out houses; and painted over the gateway, ‘Stabling for Sixty Horses;’ as indeed there might be stabling for... ... awfully shading their warlike eyes, and very big sticks clenched in their National grasp. Also the Malle Poste, with only a couple of passen gers, t... ... When we left the place, I accompanied her into her house, under the outer gateway of the fortress, to buy a little his tory of the building. Her cab... ...n garlands made of vine leaves—of a guard house, and a drawbridge—and some gateways—and vendors of iced water, sitting with little trays upon the marg... ... as much nicety as on a billiard table. But the most favourite game is the national one of Mora, which they pur sue with surprising ardour, and at wh... ...e of Goldoni’ s comedies, the staple of the Drama is French. Anything like nationality is dangerous to despotic gov ernments, and Jesuit beleaguered ... ...n the church at Modena—and had scooped out a little ring at one end of the area; where their performances had taken place, and where the marks of thei... ...s to them) in the streets at night, for the pleasure and excitement of the recreation. I think the president of this amiable society was a shoemaker. ...

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... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...s unfit for any public duty or trust. In a town government, having a small area of jurisdiction, where the voice of the majority of qualified vot- ers... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ...reat nation, its very dust is shared as a relic: and what is become of the gateways of a thousand palaces? 52 Democracy in America places, much more ... ...n frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues as a recreation after their house- hold labors. Debating clubs are to a certain ... ...itu- tion. Their influence extends beyond the limits of the courts; in the recreations of private life as well as in the turmoil of public business, a... ...roes are less carefully kept apart; they sometimes share the labor and the recreations of the whites; the whites consent to intermix with them to a ce... ...nd T erritories had increased to 51, the population to 62,831,900, and the area of the States, 3,602,990 square miles. This does not include the Phili...

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.... The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges span the river. Now the view broadens; throu... ...ally endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining that the French duel is the most health-giv... ...r? ... oh, yes—France! I die that France may live!” The surgeons swarmed around with their probes in their hands, and applied their microscopes to the... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...ece, not to jodel any more. There is somewhat too much of the jodeling in the Alps. About the middle of the afternoon we passed through a prodigious n... ...sight. Across the valley, and apparently quite neighborly and close at hand, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, be... ...the rocks, for it would have made an elegant para- graph; but we were disappointed. Still, we were far from being disheartened, for there was a consid...

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...rtillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? T... ...was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation. We were in- sulted,... ...ls are to kings. The cry for war was absolutely unanimous, and a supremely national cry, Everard Romfrey said, for it excluded the cot- ton-spinners. ... ...eart into what he says,’ Mr. Oggler bowed. ‘ Are you for giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, mi... ...f an evil propensity than in satisfying a harmless curiosity and getting a recreation. The Sabbath claimed them; if they were disobedient, Sin ultimat... ...see her bestowing so considerable a portion of her intelli- gence upon her recreations. T o prosecute them with her whole heart is an ingenious exhibi... ...us whip was wide. Foot-farers over the sodden common were attracted to the gateway, and lingered in it, looking at the long, green- extended windows, ... ...ys 448 Beauchamp’s Career had pushed up through the garden to the kitchen area. From time to time a woman in a dripping bonnet whimpered aloud. An ai...

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...e land apportioned to it is nearly as compact as may be, and it exceeds in area the size of a parallelogram four miles long by two broad. These dimens... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ...nd, I was told, had been a pleasant place. It had been constructed for the recreation of the city, and for the purpose of peri- odical agricultural ex... ...ame way; so that the quarters of the men were reached, as it were, through gateways. The whole thing was pretty enough; and while the ground was hard ...

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...eme of mine comes to,’ pursues Durdles, considering about it with the same sodden gravity; ‘I don’t know what you may precisely call it. It ain’t a so... ...representing My Lords of the Circumlocution Department, Commandership-in-Chief of any sort, Government. It was quite an edifying little picture to be ... ...h kindred hospitality; and on that occasion Mr. Jasper seated himself at the piano, and sang to him, tickling his ears – figuratively – long enough to... ...isdom of his elders, and that he is sound, sir, at the core. In proof of which, he sang to Mr. Sapsea that evening, no kickshaw ditties, 131 Charles ... ... the gatehouse into the street; once there, she asked: ‘Has he followed us? You can look without seeming to. Is he behind?’ ‘No. Yes, he is! He has ju... ...iative city. Mr. Datchery, however, was more appreciative. He found that if he sat with the main door open he would enjoy the passing society of all c... ... and money down, possession to be had next evening, on condition that reference was permitted him to Mr. Jasper as occupying the gatehouse, of which o... ... hopes – and I hope – that it will come out at last.’ It was not hard to divine that Mr. Grewgious had related the Bazzard history thus fully, at leas...

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...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...ing small-sword exercise, broad-sword exercise, wres- tling, and other such feats. I went in, and some of the sword- play being very skilful, remained... ...pened their abode with an exceeding large key. The one solitary inscription on their house related to a fire-plug. The house was partly undermined by ... ... her present post. For, though devoid of personal charms, I have observed this lady to exer- cise a fascination over the elderly ticker-porter mind (p... ...ness in white sheets. The light-weight of shrewd appearance, with one eye always shut up, as if he were eating a sharp goose- berry in all seasons, wh... ...re once maintained for purposes of savage party warfare; working men’s clubs of the same day assumed the same character. Gentlemen’s clubs became plac... ..., I suppose, it would have done so.) There, in a tent prettily decorated with looking-glasses and a myriad of toy flags, the people danced all night. ... ...scription, innumerable times, and I never saw him checked. The blaring use of the very worst language possible, in our public thoroughfares—especially...

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...; the bricks were so very red, the stone was so very white, the blinds and area railings were so very green, the knobs and plates upon the street door... ...fers from ours, and is both simple and effective. In the centre of a lofty area, lighted by windows in the four walls, are five tiers of cells, one ab... ...s there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We hav... ...of obtaining it, I suppose?’ ‘Well, I don’t know:’ which, by the bye, is a national answer. ‘Her friends mistrust her.’ ‘What have they to do with it... ... the bricks not quite so red, the stone not quite so white, the blinds and area railings not quite so green, the knobs and plates upon the street door... ...heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about the bases of the marble columns. But in s... ...inners, and suppers, were ne cessities of nature never to be coupled with recreation or enjoyment; and having bolted his food in a gloomy silence, bo... ...nded, as it were, in the air; its picturesque steep streets and frown ing gateways; and the splendid views which burst upon the eye at every turn: is... ... be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome fancies, must fade before the stern utilitar ian...

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...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...tch itself wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock... ...t across a flat of trifling width to a lofty mountain barrier, which has a gateway in it shaped like an inverted pyramid. Beyond this gateway arises t... ... bulk of the Jungfrau, a spotless mass of gleaming snow, into the sky. The gateway, in the dark colored barrier, makes a strong frame for the great p... ... concerned, but not for the Jungfrau, towering into the heavens beyond the gateway. She was a roaring conflagration of blinding white. It is said the ... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ...be he did. If he did, it seriously short ened his law study hours and his recreation time in the courts. In those very days he was writing great play... ... it did; it could have attended cat assizes on the shed roof nights, for recreation, when no one was noticing, and have harvested a knowledge of cat... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

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...to Mrs General’s apartment (which would have absorbed about a third of the area of the Marshalsea), to present his compliments to that lady, and repre... ...e. They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as—hum—national benefits. Mr Merdle is the man of this time. The name of Merdle is... ...s sight. On turning it, he saw the man no more. Standing now, close to the gateway of his mother’s house, he looked down the street: but it was empty.... ...oke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. ‘A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doy... ... of his not being usually of a sanguine character. He thought of the great National Department, and of the delight it would be to him to see Doyce bet... ...of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies... ...ely place.’ A dead sort of house, with a dead wall over the way and a dead gateway at the side, where a pendant bell-handle pro- duced two dead tinkle... ... The entry to the house was on the left, and it was garnished as the outer gateway was, with two printed bills in French and English, announcing Furni... ... through its barred window into the jail. 378 Charles Dickens The cramped area of the prison had such an effect on Mrs Meagles that she began to weep...

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...he escutcheons they held in their grip. Thence the path wound underneath a gateway, and through a court yard where the principal en trance was (I hur... ...g, he crosses the square and is swallowed up by the shadow of the southern gateway. Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes, and the... ... in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ... ...rsons of a rest less disposition and never do anything anywhere. On these national occasions Sir Leicester finds the cous ins useful. A better man t... ...state of dilapidation quite equal to our expectation. T wo or three of the area railings were gone, the water butt was bro ken, the knocker was loose... ...s with his duty, and I’ll be wery thankful. I’d be more thankful than I am aready if it wos any ways possible for an unfortnet to be it.” He makes so ... ..., but a comfortable substantial building, and as we drove in under a large gateway before I knew it, where a landlady and her pretty daughters came to... ... relics of his old calling hang upon the walls, and these it is the chosen recreation of a little lame man about the stable yard to keep gleaming brig...

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...nd hillocks, and Death and Man are at grip for the haul. There we find our nationality, our poetry, no Hebrew com- peting. We do: or there at least we... ...ll the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national literary flag, which signalizes us while we float, sub- sequently ... .... An unstable London’s no world’s market-place.’ ‘No, no; it’s a niggardly national purse, not the journals,’ Mr. Radnor said. ‘The journals are tradi... ...r?’ ‘Quite. You would have boxing with the gloves to be a kind of monastic recreation.’ ‘Recreation is the word, sir; I have often admired it,’ said S... ...n this man to spy the pleasures and reveal the joy of his pasture on them: gateways to the sunny within, issues to all the outer Edens. Few of us poss... ... At this point, it became a crying necessity for Skepsey to escape from an area of boastfulness, into which he had fallen inadvertently; and he hasten...

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...shrilled his tinselled shaft. —Tennyson. IF TIMES DIFFER, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former tim... ...me to see the brats on their good manners now and then. You have had other recreations—shall I call them, or cares? I never supposed, when I sent you ... ...ourt of Delavie House, whereas the new one, in modern fashion, had only an area and steps between the front and the pavement. The hall door stood wide... ...ost of which had perished in the fire of London. There was a double-doored gateway, and after much thun- dering in vain, at which the tipstaff, a red-... ...window on the east side of the house she saw, over numerous tiled roofs, a gateway which she guessed to be T emple Bar, and a crowded thoroughfare, wh...

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...ne forms, when grief had furrowed that network of delicate veins. Esther’s nationality proclaimed it- self in this Oriental modeling of her eyes with ... ... kissing her on the brow. And this essentially Catholic word tells all. In recreation hours Esther would question her compan- ions, but discreetly, as... ...urishment did not sustain Esther. A pure and regular life, divided between recreation and studies intentionally abridged, taking the place of a dis- o... ...in Paris such vehement promenaders, real gendarmes watching a recalcitrant National Guardsman, bailiffs taking steps to effect an arrest, creditors pl... ...6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life those Parisians who are born to be of any nationality they please. But I do not advise that you should give yourself ... ...cused were, no doubt, flung pell-mell into a low room un- derneath the old gateway. The prisons were among the crimes of 1789, and it is enough only t... ...ting her on the way, especially after her promise given in the Saint- Jean gateway. After that fortunate achievement she had gone on to the Place de G... ... some hours every day, especially the early hours of summer mornings. This recreation ground, the ante- room to the scaffold or the hulks on one side,... ... counsel may meet, to which the prisoners have access through a formidable gateway—a double passage, railed off by enor- mous bars, within the width o...

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...nger years one of the biggest failures that history commemorates, an immense national fiasco, and it had implanted in his mind a deep aversion to the i... ...ther stultification of the suffrage, the prospect of conscript mothers in the national Senate. It made no difference; she didn’t mean it, she didn’t kn... ...moment, what he was doing; he only had a general sense that such places were national nerve centres, and that the more one looked in, the more one was... ...e others, who didn’t. ‘Does your scheme of work exclude all distraction, all recreation, then?’ the young man inquired; and his look expressed real su... ...nows nothing either of the jealousy or the dignity of high walls and guarded gateways), constitutes the great university of Massachusetts. The yard, o... ...idn’t 188 The Bostonians look old, it looked significant; it covered a large area, and it sprang majestic into the winter air. It was detached from th... ...k, and if it had been possible to imagine Doctor Prance bored and in want of recreation, the way she lingered there as if she were quite willing to ha...

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... the Palatine, or riding too often in the shadow of the aqueducts. In such recreations the chords of feeling grow tense, and after-life, to spare your... ...self to a very modest quantity, and submitted without reserve to the great national dis- cipline which began in 1861. When the Civil War broke out he ... ... coun- try lawyer sustaining the burden of this customary epi- sode of our national festival. The sonorous twang, the see-saw gestures, the odd pronun... ... and not be afraid, to fling Imitation overboard and fix our eyes upon our National Individuality. “I declare,” he cried, “there ‘s a career for a man... ...nt which is poised on the very apex of the mountain. He rang at the little gateway; a shabby, senile, red-faced brother admit- ted him with almost mau... ...d the messen- ger, and presently found Madame Grandoni occupying a liberal area on the steps of the tribune, behind the great altar, where, spreading ...

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...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...ple kept their senses, until we passed into sudden quietude un der an old gateway and drove on through a silent square until we came to an odd nook i... ...coach window. “One of the young Jellybys been and got his head through the area railings!” “Oh, poor child,” said I; “let me out, if you please!” “Pra... ...the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Rich ard and Mr. Guppy ran down ... ...arn and bar ley. The discontented goose, who stoops to pass under the old gateway, twenty feet high, may gabble out, if we only knew it, a waddling p... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...it.’ The fellow sends a most abandoned villain with one eye to construct a gateway. I play upon that execrable scoundrel with a fire engine until the ... ...of man) is a choice collection of copper plate impressions from that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty... ... relics of his old calling hang upon the walls, and these it is the chosen recreation of a little lame man about the 866 Bleak House – Dickens stable...

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...nastic appear- ance. The entrance to the park lay through an old-fashioned gateway in the outer wall, the door of which was formed of two huge oaken l... ...We shall be finely helped up here,” said Michael Lambourne, looking at the gateway and gate, “if this fellow’s suspicious humour should refuse us admi... ...lly by her side in council—willingly listened to in the moments of courtly recreation—favoured with ap- proaches even to familiar intimacy—looked up t... ...ty of the long bridge we have mentioned, which served to protect the outer gateway of the Castle of Kenilworth. Under such disastrous circumstances, a... ...r the ladies who were to witness the feats of chivalry pre- sented on this area, was erected on the northern side of the outer tower, to which it gave... ... whole country around, had been at once the scene of solemnizing some high national festival, carried the same oppressive thought still closer to her ... ...r Owen Hopton is at my devotion; he commands the T ower of London, and the national treasure deposited there. My father and grand-father needed never ...

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...hing seemed to combine to lower the price of wheat. The extension of wheat areas always exceeded increase of population; competition was growing fierc... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ..., and down go the prices. The remedy is not in the curtailing of our wheat areas, but in this, we must have new markets, greater markets. For years we... ...opulation of China ate a half ounce of flour per man per day all the wheat areas in California could not feed them. Ah, if I could only hammer that in... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...ouse, cook house, and dairy boarded up. Nailed upon a tree near the broken gateway was a board, white painted, with stencilled letters, bearing the in... ...succeeding crop. It was the mystery of creation, the stupendous miracle of recreation; the vast rhythm of the seasons, measured, alternative, the sun ...

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...ed on your backs in an enormous A. Theological works are the sole literary recreation of the well-conducted and deserving. Consider the fate of this p... ... Miss Random, a strange young lady. Had there been a Black Hole within the area of those law regions to consign Ripton to there and then, or an Iron R... ... the Royal British Oak has made me thrice conservative. I see now that the national love of a lord is less subservience than a form of self-love; putt... ...ival—a veteran edition of the culinary Doctor! Blind to the Doctor’s great national services, deaf to her wild music, he grasps the intruder, dismembe... ...What has passed out of her, and into him? The Serpent laughs below. At the gateways of the Sun they fall together!” This alliterative production was w...

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...tland Place and Bryanstone Square.’ It was a corner house, with great wide areas containing cellars frowned upon by barred windows, and leered at by c... ...s and alleys, which emerged, after a long time, upon a stable yard, with a gateway at the end, whence the roar of a great thoroughfare made itself aud... ...orway, and put there to prevent the little MacStingers in their moments of recreation from tumbling down the steps. ‘ A boy that can knock my door dow... ...m to point out the turnings; and when he called to a man at a neighbouring gateway to hold his horse, pending his visit to the buildings that had succ... ...a young woman, who stood close be- side her, withdrawn like herself into a gateway. Mrs Brown’s daughter looked out, at this bidding on the part of Mr... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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...he country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what w...

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...helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ... telescope might have swept the parishes of Tipton and Freshitt, the whole area visited by Mrs. Cadwallader in her phaeton, without witnessing any int... ...not like it, you are all right. But it’s a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung—that kind of thin... ... thing, you know—will not do.” “I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises,” said Mr. Casaubon.... ..., Will had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. Genius, he held, is necessarily intol- erant of fetters: on... ...ainst Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform. By the time that Lord John Ru... ...hom the irony of events had brought on the same side with Bulstrode in the national movement, Will became a favorite with the ladies; especially with ... ...al frame and more than usually serene, under the influence of his innocent recreation. He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total absence of ... ...hen he hastened back to Fred, who had followed him, and watched him in the gateway. They went to work, and Fred helped vigorously. His spirits had ris...

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...he country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what w...

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...helpless looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ...kes intangible savings. A s Mr. Casaubon’s carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested the entrance of a pony phaeton driven by a lady with a... ... telescope might have swept the parishes of Tipton and Freshitt, the whole area visited by Middlemarch 45 Mrs. Cadwallader in her phaeton, without wi... ...not like it, you are all right. But it’s a pity you should not have little recreations of that sort, Casaubon: the bow always strung—that kind of thin... ... do.” 50 Book I — Miss Brooke “I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises,” said Mr. Casaubon.... ...ainst Middlemarch, Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform. By the time that Lord John Ru... ...hom the irony of events had brought on the same side with Bulstrode in the national movement, Will became a favorite with the ladies; especially with ... ...ual frame and more than usually serene, under the influence of his innocent recreation. He was doctrinally convinced that there was a total absence of ... ...hen he hastened back to Fred, who had followed him, and watched him in the gateway. They went to work, and Fred helped vigorously. His spirits had ris...

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...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ... brick house, so dingy as to be all but black, standing by itself within a gateway. Before it, a square court-yard where a shrub or two and a patch of... ...and ran, and played at hide-and- seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway ‘Home.’ Wistful and wondering, she would sit in summer weather by t... ...upils, who were by this time coming to school, desisted from their morning recreation of cuffing one another with bags and books, to stare with all th... ... at the last house in Bleeding Heart Y ard, and his name was over a little gateway. Arthur took down the address and gave her his. He had now done all... ... and a letter of instructions that extinguished him. It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocu- tion Office that had gradually led t... ..., with a ram- shackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be num- ber twenty-fou... ... then. ‘My love, you have had a life of hardship here. No compan- ions, no recreations, many cares I am afraid?’ ‘Don’t think of that, dear. I never d...

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...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ... brick house, so dingy as to be all but black, standing by itself within a gateway. Before it, a square court-yard where a shrub or two and a patch of... ...and ran, and played at hide-and- seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway ‘Home.’ Wistful and wondering, she would sit in summer weather by t... ...upils, who were by this time coming to school, desisted from their morning recreation of cuffing one another with bags and books, to stare with all th... ... at the last house in Bleeding Heart Y ard, and his name was over a little gateway. Arthur took down the address and gave her his. He had now done all... ... and a letter of instructions that extinguished him. It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocu- tion Office that had gradually led t... ... then. ‘My love, you have had a life of hardship here. No compan- ions, no recreations, many cares I am afraid?’ ‘Don’t think of that, dear. I never d... ...of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies...

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... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ...long a series of terraces, that traversed the whole breadth of the topmost area at that point of crossing the Cordilleras, and which perhaps, but not ... ..., hardly two stones’ throw in advance, lay a mass of rock, split as into a gateway. Through that opening it now became prob- able that the road was ly... ... the natural gates. Gates of paradise they were. Ah, what a vista did that gateway expose before her dazzled eye? what a revelation of heavenly promis... ... ser- vants caused delay; and on returning to the street through the broad gateway of the convent, whom should she face but the Alcalde! How he escape... ...iery child, whose girlish romance, whose patriotic heroism electrified the national imagination. The King of Spain must kiss his faithful daughter, th... ...t the same moment, and then all rushed simultaneously into the little open area. The thundering sound of about thirty horses, all rushing at once into... ...or had built a gorgeous hunt- ing-lodge, to which he resorted annually for recreation and relief from the cares of government. Led onwards in pursuit ...

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...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ...in or flour, from Chicago to Buffalo, which latter place is, as it were, a gateway leading from the lakes, or big waters, to the canals, or small wate... ...is generally bought and sold; but at Buffalo it is merely passed through a gateway. It is taken from vessels of a size fitted for the lakes, and place... ...when a man sits down at half-past two, that keeping up of the after-dinner recreations till bedtime becomes hard work. In Boston the houses are very s... ...on of Congress interfering with slavery, with the purport of extending its area by special enactment, and therefore by such a pledge the North and Wes...

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...an. I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him. I cannot bu... ... and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more cond... ...llow, and not remarkably pure. A walk through the woods thither was often my recreation. It was worth the while, if only to feel the wind blow on your... ..., however, was not the case,) and in an hour or two, without labor, but as a recreation, I could, if I wished, catch as many fish as I should want for ... ...r respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatant... ...ce, making one hundred and seven. This is a remarkable depth for so small an area; yet not an inch of it can be spared by the imagination. What if all... ...steep an angle. But the deepest ponds are not so deep in proportion to their area as most suppose, and, if drained, would not leave very remarkable va... ...ike cups between the hills; for this one, which is so unusually deep for its area, appears in a vertical section through its centre not deeper than a ...