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... with a pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem child... ...age. They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling c... ...ign. It costs too much; I can’t get it yet a while. There’s two kinds, one German gilt and the other French gilt; but the German gilt is no good.” McT... ...animals for Uncle Oelbermann’s store. Trina’s ancestors on both sides were German-Swiss, and some long-forgotten forefather of the sixteenth century, ... ...social discussions with Heise the har- ness-maker, and with one or two old German, habitues of the place. These discussions Marcus carried on, as was ... ...in the Panamint.” “Just going down for a rodeo in the Panamint.” “Panamint brands.” “Has a range down in the Panamint.” Then by and by the remark, “Ho...

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...ORE CANISIUS. DEAR SIR:—Y our note asking, in behalf of yourself and other German citizens, whether I am for or against the constitutional provision i... ...; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected. Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. ON NOMINATION TO THE NATIONAL... ...l not be made good, be assured the fault shall not be mine. ADDRESS TO THE GERMAN CLUB OF CINCIN- NATI, OHIO, FEBRUARY 12, 1861. Mr. CHAIRMAN:—I thank... ...in these sentiments, not only of the native-born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries. Mr. Chairman, I hold that whil... ...nds into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home. In regard to the Germans and foreigners, I esteem them no better than other people, nor any ... ...Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in other words, what about our German friends? Shall we put the card through, and arrange the rest after- ...

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...r.” “Velcome, velcome Tchooge,” said the elder of the party, with a strong German accent. “Miss Petsy vill owe me a kiss.” “And cheerfully will I pay ... ...he quarry , with a pair of eyes that stood out like those of lobsters. The German’s muscles were unmoved, but his quick sight scanned each movement. M... ...gerous 42 The Pioneers position, and upset, with the runners outward. The German and the divine were thrown, rather unceremoniously , into the highwa... ... if for the latter it was successful; for, turning his face to the veteran German, he said: “V ery true, Major Hartmann, very true, sir; a prudent man... ...at peace and plenty , on the fertile borders of that beautiful stream. The Germans, or “High Dutchers,” as they were called, to distinguish them from ... ...t inhabitants of the forest remained also standing before the extinguished brands, probably from an unwillingness to depart without his comrades. The ... ...gloom of the eastern mountain. Its motion ceased suddenly; a scattering of brands was in the air, and then all remained dark as the conjunction of nig... ...f the bushes, as they worked their way cautiously among the unextinguished brands. At the first short cessation in the rain, Oliver conducted Elizabet...

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...ing with affright, Recalled the vision of the night. The hearth’s decaying brands were red And deep and dusky lustre shed, Half showing, half conceali... ... rival glared, With foot advanced and blade half bared. XXXV . Ere yet the brands aloft were flung, Margaret on Roderick’s mantle hung, And Malcolm he... ...rd the vassals took, With forward step and fiery look, On high their naked brands they shook, Their clattering targets wildly strook; And first in ... ...e, chilled with watching, spread their hands O’er the huge chimney’s dying brands, While round them, or beside them flung, At every step their harness... ...e soil That paid so ill the labourer’s toil; Their rolls showed French and German name; And merry England’s exiles came, T o share, with ill-concealed... ...is way in the town which he inhabited, the capital, if I mistake not, of a German province. He had accidentally involved himself among the narrow and ... ...is hest their desperate hold, But either still on other glared,” etc. 795. Brands. A pet word with Scott. Note how often it has been used already in t... ...eed, they are not the same class of beings. In the huge metrical record of German chivalry entitled the Helden- Buch, Sir Hildebrand, and the other he... ...words, imitating the jargon of the Swiss, which is a mixture of French and German: ‘Tout est verlore, La Tintelore, 219 Sir Walter Scott T o...

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...resden, shep- herds in bridal garb, with delicate bouquets in their hands, German fantasticalities surrounding a platinum clock, in- laid with arabesq... ...e’s character to make a merit of doing her duty. The master was a Catholic German; one of those men born old, who seem all their lives fifty years of ... ...ged to those strange creations which have been properly depicted only by a German, —by Hoffman, the poet of that which seems not to exist but yet has ... ...ne knew then, or later, what abbe or pious spinster had discovered the old German then vaguely wandering about Paris, but as soon as mothers of famili... ...appeared. He gave vent to witty little remarks and flowery speeches in his German-Gallic patois, very observing and very quaint and said with an air w... ...face bathed in hot tears. “You have cast into my soul, in one moment, more brands than I have tears to quench. Yes, the life I live would justify 16 ...

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... up to perform the like. Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german. For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice; and L... ...d not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being Merope, the daughter of Erechtheus. In the meanwhi... ...d them on a smooth piece of ground, which they now call Cermanes, formerly Germanus, perhaps from Germani, which signifies brothers. Near this place g... ... also, in imitation, gave the two other following months his own names, of Germanicus and Domitianus; but, on his being slain, they recovered their an... ... seen at Samos, having been built by order of Polycrates the tyrant. These brands upon the Samians’ foreheads, they say, are the allusion in the passa... ...ut the fate did not deserve the man; Not for the like of him and his slave-brands Did Athens put the sherd into our hands.” But we have given elsewher... ...ive times consul; the younger, by the son of Scipio Africanus, his cousin- german, and was by him named Scipio. Of the daughters of Aemilius, one was ... ...ut the fate did not deserve the man; Not for the like of him and his slave-brands, Did Athens put the sherd into our hands. And, in fact, none ever af...

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... drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard, Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my tru... ...RIC: The carriages, sir, are the hangers. HAMLET: The phrase would be more german to the mat ter, if we could carry cannon by our sides: I would it...

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...dly quantity of peat, which was crumbling to white ashes among the burning brands, and incensed the kitchen with its not ungrateful fragrance. The exu... ...ts as cut out on one identical pat tern, like little wooden toy people of German manufacture. One long, united roof, with its thousands of slates gli... ...iry drapery. Her arm was in regular movement, as if she were busy with her German wor sted, or some other such pretty and unprofitable handiwork. Whi...

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...y summer winds. The grand terrace of stone steps leading down to the water, spacious enough to mass the army of a German principality upon, was a pict... ...it believable that there was warrant for this man’s ferocious doom?” “It is the law, your Grace—for poisoners. In Germany coiners be boiled to death i... ...vingly as a mother might; and so, with a parting caress, left him and sat down by the fire, and began to poke the brands about in an ab- sent and aiml... ...ers were, by Act of Parliament, condemned to be boiled to death. This Act was repealed in the following reign. In Germany, even in the seventeenth cen...

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...aining. He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly b... ...thed hair that had the gloss of black briony leaves, and eyes like burning brands in a cave; while T racy’s hair was red as blown flame, with eyes of ... ...enting, and what I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think... ...ow yet whether I can thank him for. He made me know the music of the great German. I used to listen: I could not be- lieve such music could come from ... ...rman. I used to listen: I could not be- lieve such music could come from a German. He followed me about, telling me I was his slave. For some time I c... ...like what you get at the tables of those Erzhogs, as you call ‘em, over in Germany. Simple fare; sound wine! At all events, it won’t hurt you. You’ll ...

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...hasn’t dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it *Baron Dieskau, a German, in the service of France. A few years previously to the period of t... ...came to a place where the party of Le Renard had made a halt. Extinguished brands were lying around a spring, the offals of a deer were scattered abou... ...reality as possible, one of the boldest of their number had conveyed a few brands into some piles of tree-tops that had hitherto escaped the burning. ...

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...the pang of it will be always in her heart.” “What do we talk of marks and brands, whether on the bodice of her gown or the flesh of her forehead?” cr... ...ht an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university bodily through the air and setting him down at the door o... ...nd, whether in some remote rural village, or in vast London—or, surely, in Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy—thou wouldst be beyond his power and ...

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...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem... ...he police! Police! you are afraid to encounter the terrible prejudice that brands it on the brow.” “Certainly,” said la Peyrade, “it is a necessary in...

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...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni... ...it lay uninhabited. His second war was in defense of the Gauls against the Germans, though some time before he had made Ariovistus, their king, recogn... ... upon their very approach; for never expecting the Romans would attack the Germans, whom he had thought it more likely they would not venture to withs... ... and setting fire 298 V olume Two to it, burnt it on them. Then they took brands from the pile, and ran some to fire the houses of the conspirators, ... ...tude, flocking in some from one part and some from an- other, snatched the brands that were half burnt out of the pile, and ran about the city to fire...

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...r remain concealed.” Such are the words in which one of the most judicious German critics has eloquently described the uncertainty in which the whole ... ...pacted troops stand wedged in firm array, A dreadful front! they shake the brands, and threat With long-destroying flames the hostile fleet. The king ... ... rojans! lend your valiant hands, Haste to the fleet, and toss the blazing brands!” They hear, they run; and, gathering at his call, Raise scaling eng... ...bold T rojan arm’d his daring hands, Against the sable ships, with flaming brands, So well the chief his naval weapon sped, The luckless warrior at hi... ...treats. Then swift from all sides pour 306 The Iliad of Homer The hissing brands; thick streams the fiery shower; O’er the high stern the curling vol... ...rts fly round him from a hundred hands, And the red terrors of the blazing brands: Till late, reluctant, at the dawn of day Sour he departs, and quits... ... in which men were interested. 455 Pope 14 Rather, “bright-eyed.” See the German critics quoted by Arnold. 15 The prize given to Ajax was Tecmessa, w... ... Dryden’s “Virgil,” i. 70. So Apuleius, l. c. speaks of her as “Jovis germana et conjux, and so Horace, Od. iii. 3, 64, “conjuge me Jovis et soro... ...tions. Such gifts gradually became regu- lar, and formed the income of the German, (T acit. Germ. Sec- tion 15) Persian, (Herodot. iii.89), and other ...

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...f brilliant effects produced by defying the Muse under pretext of adapting German, English, and Romanesque mannerisms. The poem began with this ballad... ...alzac life at the Chateau d’Anzy. Some pious dames talk over the different brands of the Word of God—the Abbe Fritaud as compared with the Abbe Guinar... ... This social phenomenon, I am told, may be seen in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany; but in France, as in every country where there is but one capital,... ...in sooner or later to desert the second. Adolphe is, in fact, a tow-haired German, who has not spirit enough to be false to Ellenore. There are Adolph... ...e was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; he spoke of her...

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...he servants’ hall? Again, had my title borne ‘Waverley, a Romance from the German,’ what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profli- gate abbot, an... ... and sombre library, with no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that ... ...the wappen-brief, or concession of arms, of Frederick Redbeard, Emperor of Germany, to my predecessor, Godmund Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gi... ... round him; but all was still solitary. If it had not been for the decayed brands of the fire, now sunk into grey ashes, and the remnants of the festi... ...—”Better an old woman with a purse in her hand, than three men with belted brands?”’ Then, turning to the company, he proposed the ‘Health of Captain ... ...g. The ruthless proscription of party seems to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But let us hope that a brighter day is approachin... ...well to. T o go round a person in the opposite direction, or wither-shins (German wider- 154 Waverley shins), is unlucky, and a sort of incantation.]... ...en through France, and the Low Countries, and a’ Poland, and maist feck o’ Germany; and oh! it would grieve your honour’s soul to see the murmuring, a... ...culiarly calculated to give it splendour; for I question if the Emperor of Germany hath his boots taken off by a free baron of the empire. But here li...

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...impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier if you tried to ... ...t eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?” “Y ou may.” “Of the foul German spectre—the Vampyre.” “Ah!—what did it do?” “Sir, it removed my veil... ...n with her terminated. She had two successors: an Italian, Giacinta, and a German, Clara; both considered singularly handsome. What was their beauty t... ...Charlotte Brontë tongue—neither French nor Latin. Whether it were Greek or German I could not tell. “That is strong,” she said, when she had finished:... ...t not all—for we are not as clever as you think us, Hannah. We don’t speak German, and we cannot read it without a dictio- nary to help us.” “And what... ...thoroughly the topic on which I had but touched. Diana offered to teach me German. I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and...

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...d fragrant woof Of his ambrosial swaddling-clothes he piled— As among fire-brands lies a burning spark Covered, beneath the ashes cold and dark. 40. 4... ...iver Ohio. Plants have been found in the fossil state in the inte- rior of Germany, which demand the present climate of Hindostan for their production... ... Voltaire”.) We find, from the testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and France were much colder than at present, and that their great ... ...tle. I roared defiance to the infuri- ate Gaul, defiance to the victorious German; but arrows and spears rebounded in shivers from my body. The Sarace... ..., and writhe, and die.!”’ This fragment is the translation of part of some German work, whose title I have vainly endeavoured to discover. I picked it... ...—the romances and chivalry of the middle ages—but in the pe- rusal of such German works as were current in those days. Under the influence of these he... ...d pine, which a monument stands _5 Of faded grandeur, which the brands Of the tempest-shaken air Have riven on the desolate heath; Yet it s...

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...the ground—a cloud of smoke, black figures were flitting round it, pushing brands into red places, and feeding the bonfire. “What have you been doing?... ...isiting Egypt and Palestine, and refreshing his memory with every Italian, German, or French Cathedral, or work of art, that had delighted him in earl... ...maxim that no one unpaid could be trusted; and when he talked of beautiful German churches with pierced spires, declared that the building must not ma...