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...ys have remained 96 The Pathfinder strangers to her. Her situation in the family had been less that of a domestic than of a humble companion, and the... ...e the ocean! Well, Magnet, that from a girl who has had real seamen in her family is downright nonsense. What is there about it, pray, that has even t... ...ou do not think of Mabel for a soldier’s wife,” returned Cap gravely. “Our family has done its share in that way already, and it’s high time that the ... ... had that air of modest gentility about them which she had obtained in the family of her patron- ess, annoyed her less by their ill-concealed admirati... ...en like your mother’s daughter, girl, and in a way to do credit to the Cap family. Now, I’ve hit upon a traverse that will just suit all parties; and,... ...r presented the quiet aspect of men who slumbered. They were left in their gore, unequivocally butchered corpses. All this passed in much less time th... ...lt, that is the head of the Scud’ s mainsail, for it is cut with a smaller gore than common; and then you can see that the gaff has been fished—quite ... ...ought your eyes could see anything! Now to me nothing is plainer than that gore and that fish; and I must say, my honest friend, that in your place I ... ...ed.” “V ery true, friend Cap; but if you know your sails and masts by your gores and fishes, I know my canoes and my paths by frontier knowledge. If y...

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...e a just and beneficent principle, in its applica- tion to the whole human family, by letting in the light of truth upon a system, esteemed by some as... ... rolling casks, or doing what labor he might, to support himself and young family; four years he brooded over the scars which slavery and semi-sla- ve... ...hing of the months of the year, nor of the days of the month. They keep no family records, with marriages, births, and deaths. They measure the ages o... ...fe with me that I now remem- ber—and I remember it but hazily—began in the family of my grandmother and grandfather. Betsey and Isaac Baily. 23 Frede... ...e; his place much to the regret of the slaves generally—was taken by a Mr. Gore, of whom more will be said hereafter. It is enough, for the present, t... ...A Chapter of H A Chapter of Horr orr orr orr orrors ors ors ors ors AUSTIN GORE—A SKETCH OF HIS CHARACTER— OVERSEERS AS A CLASS—THEIR PECULIAR CHAR- A... ... CLASS—THEIR PECULIAR CHAR- ACTERISTICS—THE MARKED INDIVIDUALITY OF AUSTIN GORE—HIS SENSE OF DUTY—HOW HE WHIPPED—MURDER OF POOR DENBY—HOW IT OCCURRED—... ... OF DUTY—HOW HE WHIPPED—MURDER OF POOR DENBY—HOW IT OCCURRED—SENSATION—HOW GORE MADE PEACE WITH COL. LLOYD—THE MURDER UN- PUNISHED—ANOTHER DREADFUL MU... ...succeeded by a very different man. The name of the new overseer was Austin Gore. Upon this individual I would fix particular attention; for under his ...

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...ches one’s sense of honour, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the V an Rensselaers, or 16 Moby Dick Randolphs, or Ha... ...et had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore. How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad re... ...e shore intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the captain have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he does not trouble hims... ...ing to warn ye against—but never mind, never mind—it’s all one, all in the family too;—sharp frost this morning, ain’t it? Good-bye to ye. Shan’t see ... ...n merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for ... ...at are there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of silver chips, th... ..., cracking, agonized respirations. At last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red wine, shot into the frighted... ...craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask’s boat and marring the bows. It was his death stroke.... ...first help thee towards the bulwarks, sir.” “Oh, oh, oh! how this splinter gores me now! Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul sho...

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...&c. They have a parity of character, which makes them seem brothers of one family. I believe when the reader is led into this tract of reflection, if ... ...they pierced the mountain boar, Ranged the wild deserts red with monsters’ gore, And from their hills the shaggy Centaurs tore: Yet these with soft pe... ...o boldly touch’d the T rojan shore, And dyed a Phrygian lance with Grecian gore; There lies, far distant from his native plain; Unfinish’d his proud p... ...leed! if yet you thirst for more, Bleed all his sons, and Ilion float with gore: To boundless vengeance the wide realm be given, Till vast destruction... ...t pierced, the plaited linen tore, And razed the skin, and drew the purple gore. As when some stately trappings are decreed To grace a monarch on his ... ...orn’d by all the perjured line. Not thus our vows, confirm’d with wine and gore, Those hands we plighted, and those oaths we swore, Shall all be vain:... ...ge that they formed but 465 Pope one nation were but branches of the same family. Homer has ‘men of other tongues:’ and yet Homer had no general name...

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...od, for such was his nature, though he was sparing him now on account of his family, if he had one. Both of them was edging away in different directio... ...ys. I was now beginning to feel a strong sense of being a part of the boat’s family, a sort of infant son to the captain and younger brother to the of... ... body else had finished. I did not feel so much like a member of the boat’s family now as before. However, my spirits re turned, in installments, as... ...ase “as dark as the inside of a cow,” we should have eaten up a Posey County family, fruit, furniture, and all, but Life on the Mississippi Mark T ... ...tern, then, of course; and as we backed and filled to get away, the precious family stood in the light of it—both sexes and various ages—and cursed us... ... a line that ‘s being surveyed, there ‘s little dabs of land that they call ‘gores,’ that fall to the surveyor free gratis for nothing. Life on the Mi... ...09 All you’ve got to do, on your side, is to survey in such a way that the ‘gores’ will fall on good fat land, then you turn ‘em over to me, I stock ... ...heer ily, as we were parting— “Ah, by the way, you needn’t mind about those gores. I don’t really know anything about cattle, except what I was able ...

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..., hope, and joy , fair pleasure’s smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, These mixt with art, and to due bounds confin’d, Make and... ...he resounding wood, All vocal beings hymn’d their equal God: The shrine with gore unstain’d, with gold undrest, Unbrib’d, unbloody , stood the blamel... ... seem’d th’ etherial vault no more; Altars grew marble then, and reek’d with gore: Then first the flamen tasted living food; Next his grim idol smear’... ... blood Has crept thro’ scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can e...

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...re awful rot, you know.” His companion looked at him a moment with her dark blue eyes, and then she looked down in the chasm where the water was tumbl... ...es. “I am afraid I haven’t read that, either,” was the young man’s rejoinder, laughing a little and blushing. “I am afraid you’ll think I am not very ... ...Mrs. Westgate, turning to Beaumont with her bright exposi- tory air, “must buy something every day of her life. If she can not do it herself, she must... ...not make out, as Mrs. Westgate had said, she was shy. If she was shy, she carried it off very well. “Mr. Beaumont,” she had said, “please tell me some... ...umont would have said, Mrs. Westgate disembarked on the 18th of May on the British coast. She was accompanied by her sis- ter, but she was not attende... ...ushes and notepaper. The most she would consent to do in this line was to spend half an hour at Madame Tussaud’s, where she saw several dusty wax effi... ...r,” she answered at last, curtly. “Then I should like to frighten them,” declared Mrs. Westgate, clasping her jeweled hands. “To frighten whom?” “All ...

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... the earth, So may his heart’s-blood drench his hearth! As dies in hissing gore the spark, Quench thou his light, Destruction dark! And be the grace t... ... Whose every gasp appeared his last 88 The Lady of the Lake In Roderick’s gore he dipped the braid,— ‘Poor Blanche! thy wrongs are dearly paid; Yet w... ...is stride; Needs but a buffet and no more, The groom lies senseless in his gore. Such blow no other hand could deal, Though gauntleted in glove of ste... ...aptive hour, T o know those spears our foes should dread For me in kindred gore are red: ‘T o know, in fruitless brawl begun, For me that mother wails... ... the ear Of wounded comrades groaning near, Whose mangled limbs and bodies gored Bore token of the mountain sword, Though, neighbouring to the Court o... ...w my deed, ‘t were best not know myself.” 103. Cambusmore. The estate of a family named Buchanan, whom Scott frequently visited in his younger days. I... ...d chieftains, to a late pe- riod, retained in their service the bard, as a family officer, admits of very easy proof. The author of the Letters from t... .... The Graeme. Scott has the following note here: “The ancient and powerful family of Graham (which, for metrical reasons, is here smelled after the Sc... ...f the Bleeding Heart. The bleeding heart was the cognizance of the Douglas family. Robert Bruce, on his death-bed, bequeathed his heart to his friend,...

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...s above (A sacred oath), each proud oppressor slain, Shall with inglorious gore this marble stain.” Awed by the prince, thus haughty, bold, and young,... ...th) the hideous Cyclops tore His quivering limbs, and quaff’d his spouting gore. Three sons remain’d; to climb with haughty fires The royal bed, Euryn... ...ng light, Promiscuous death the form of war confounds, Each adverse battle gored with equal wounds; But when his evening wheels o’erhung the main, The... ...e dogs against the stony floor: The pavement swims with brains and mingled gore. Torn limb from limb, he spreads his horrid feast, And fierce devours ... ...the rock; his second dire repast. I then approach’d him reeking with their gore, And held the brimming goblet foaming o’er; ‘Cyclop! since human flesh... ...o come. He meets his mother Anticles, from whom he learns the state of his family. He sees the shades of the ancient heroines, afterwards of the heroe... ...r pace, And reach’d her master with a long embrace. All crowded round, the family appears With wild entrancement, and ecstatic tears. Swift from above...

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...tion of the churchyard, as if declining to claim fellowship with the great family of man, and wishing (in the affecting language of Mr. Wordsworth) Hu... ...ther dependants. Now, my landlady had been a lady’s maid or a nurse in the family of the Bishop of —, and had but lately married away and “settled” (a... ...) for life. In a little town like B-, merely to have lived in the bishop’s family conferred some distinction; and my good landlady had rather more tha... ...y a party concerned. She had been to the palace to pay her respects to the family, and, dinner being over, was summoned into the dining-room. In givin... ...d part of Merionethshire, I was entertained for upwards of three days by a family of young people with an affectionate and frater- 17 Thomas de Quinc... ... is the dilemma, the first horn of which would be suffi- cient to toss and gore any column of patient readers, though drawn up sixteen deep and consta...

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...smooth faced, placid miscreant! Dabbling its sleek young hands in Erin’s gore, And thus for wider carnage taught to pant, Transferr’d to gor... ... Like garden gods — and not so decent either. The Missal too (it was the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass b... ... many a sparkling hearth was bright With the piled wood, round which the family crowd; There ‘s something cheerful in that sort of light, Ev... ...nidada,’ Was steering duly for the port Leghorn; For there the Spanish family Moncada Were settled long ere Juan’s sire was born: They wer... ...g by land or water, Most naturally some small doubt inspires— A female family ‘s a serious matter (None trusts the sex more, or so much admire... ... Simoom sweeps the blasted plains. The last sight which she saw was Juan’s gore, And he himself o’ermaster’d and cut down; His blood was runni... ...amented Should ever be those blood hounds, from whose wild Instinct of gore and glory earth has known Those sufferings Dante saw in hell alone... ... for you could scarcely tell (As he bled inwardly, no hideous river Of gore divulged the cause) that he was dead: So as I gazed on him, I thou... ...The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. And why?— because it brings self approbation; Whereas the oth...

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...or him endlesse mone, and euermore With her soft garment wipes away the gore, Which staines his snowy skin with hatefull hew: But when ... ..., Did shrieke alowd, that through the house it rong, And the whole family therewith adred, Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong, ... ... virgin sheene: The mortall steele stayd not, till it was seene To gore her side, yet was the wound not deepe, But lightly rased her so... ...s same fraile fleshly mould, That all mine entrailes flow with poysnous gore, And th’vlcer groweth daily more and more; Ne can my runni... ...soucing on the sandie shore, He tombled on an heape, and wallowd in his gore. Like as the sacred Oxe, that carelesse stands, With gilde... ...ith mortall stroke astownd, Doth groueling fall, and with his streaming gore Distaines the pillours, and the holy grownd, And the faire...

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...ble catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale was com- m... ...le was com- municated to me many years since, was a near connection of the family in which the event happened, and always told it with an appearance o... ... statue. It is unnecessary further to withdraw the veil from this scene of family distress, nor, although it occurred more than a hundred years since,... ...Monkbarns traces of the character of a very intimate friend of my father’s family. I may here also notice that the sort of exchange of gal- lantry whi... ...ul zeal of his retainers. But as he had been a distinguished Jacobite, his family and property were exposed to the system of vindictive destruc- tion ... ...nt expected that the wound, which had so lately flooded the apartment with gore, would send forth fresh streams at the touch of the homicide, Robin Oi...

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...ins the most careful provision for the education and starting in life of a family of three daughters and seven sons, of whom the young- est seems to h... ...rk of necromancy. And after she was wed- ded to King Uriens of the land of Gore, that was Sir Ewain’s le Blanchemain’s father. CHAPTER III Of the birt... ...ve hun- dred knights with him. Also there came to the feast King Uriens of Gore with four hundred knights with him. Also there came to that feast King... ...Also there swore King Urience, that was Sir Uwain’s father, of the land of Gore, and he would bring six thousand men of arms on horseback. Also there ...

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... that although Davie showed as much respect and attachment to her father’s family, as it was in his nature to show to any, yet they were always oblige... ...ppiness still to remain, connected by ties of intimate friendship with the family of the venerable Dr. Adam Fergusson, the phi- losopher and historian... ...contrived to raise such a crop of oats or barley, as afforded meal for his family; and the whole of this slovenly and imperfect mode of cultivation le... ...cceeded to a moderate fortune, a good deal dilapidated, from the share his family had taken in the disturbances of the period. They were much and gene... ...ower a bit,” said Hobbie, “and live hearty and neighbour-like wi’ the auld family friends, as the Laird o’ Earnscliff should? I can tell ye, my mother... ...atures. Yet why should I say so? Why should not the whole human herd butt, gore, and gorge upon each other, till all are extirpated but one huge and o...

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... in the hall of the earl’s castle. I)o not you see the coat of arms of the family of Lincoln carved in the open work of the back? But when his daughte... ...country. But his descendants still remain in New England; and the good old family name is as much respected in our days as it was in those of Sir Rich... ...d tarry in Salem for a time; she was probably received as a guest into the family of John Endicott. He was the chief person in the plantation, and had... ...you, were you bidden to copy every chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible! Would not this be a heavy toil? But if the task were, not to ... ...n can hardly grasp so wide a subject as is embraced in the experience of a family chair.” “It makes my breath flutter, my heart thrill, to think of it... ...tepped cautiously, and shuddered, as if he were afraid that, even now, the gore of his slaugh tered countrymen might stain his feet. Before him rose ...

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...s at this festive time. My friend Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large family that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and ... ...M. THACKERAY . December 1854. THE ROSE AND THE RING I. SHOWS HOW THE ROYAL FAMILY SATE DOWN TO BREAKFAST THIS IS VALOROSO XXIV ., King of Paflagonia, ... ...etiously called her (for even royalty will have its sport, and this august family were very much attached), embraced her husband, and, twin- ing her a... ...Paflagonia’s christening, and pretended to do all sorts of things for that family; and what has happened—the Prince, her godson, has been turned off h... ...eakfast,’ said he, ‘so eager was I to behold the Prin—the Court and august family of Paflagonia, and I could not wait one minute before appearing in Y... ...ants. ‘Touch me not, dogs!’ he said, ‘or by St. Nicholas the Elder, I will gore you! Y our Majesty thinks Hogginarmo is afraid? No, not of a hundred t...

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...n. It was a matter of two hundred rupees or so, but, when I turned up, the family made a point of showing their gratitude by admitting me to their int... ... that I remembered I had been engaged to dine that very evening with the S-family. Though vexed with my forgetfulness (it would be rather awkward to e... ...pectable citizen by that time and added regretfully: “All the women of our family are perfectly scandalised.” But by that time I had given up visiting... ...re perfectly scandalised.” But by that time I had given up visiting the S— family and the D—family. The elder ladies pulled such faces when I showed m... ...earl of the Ocean; in which case it would certainly have been reeking with gore and a mere wreck of burgled houses from end to end. One could not make...

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..., had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros,... ...shore on the south coast of Aros, in Sandag Bay, where so many dismal things befell our family, as I propose to tell. The thought of all these dangers... ...s ringed adven- turer, but for Mary and myself, and for the good, old, hon- est, kindly family of the Darnaways. CHAPTER III: LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG B... ...e on memories of the past, and now startingly recalled from that tender exercise; happy family parties struck into silence round the table, the mother... ...other with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than such a murderer as yourself. Do I say that I follow ... ...ns, he applied to me in a matter of distress among some of his parishioners. This was a family – but you are ignorant of Spain, and even the names of ...

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...st thou: seem they grave and learned? Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family? Why, so didst thou: seem they religious? Why, so didst thou: or a... ...oken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these m... ...ies. Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep’d, And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes That... ...ant limbs In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,...