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...to have caught the ear of Night, and sang confident of her charm. It was a grand old Italian air, requiring severity of tone and power. Now into great... ...o- portions, were to meet, mix, and revolve: the Celebrities to shine; the Metropolitans to act as satellites; the County ig- noramuses to feel flatte... ...tood forth for their amusement: they being the butts of the quick-wit- ted Metropolitans, whom they despised, while the sons of renown were encouraged... ...tantly, “Manoeuvre her.” Adela re- marked, “If you tell her the company is grand, she will come, and her Irish once heard here will destroy us. The ve... ... Adela. For, so united were the ladies of Brookfield, and so bent on their grand hazy object, that they looked upon married life unfavourably: and the... ... to London, too, gave it noble ad- vantages. Rapid relays of guests, and a metropolitan reputa- tion for country attractions, would distinguish Beswor... ...n, Mrs. Chump owned to the intoxication of gliding smoothly—gliding on the rapids. The breakfast was coming to an end, when Braintop’s name was sent i... ...’ I say, ‘what zat dam silly smile mean?’ Oh, no! I am not lazy!’ ‘But you area fool!’ ‘Oh, no!’ ‘And what are you, zen? And what shall you do?’ Nussi... ...s for the rest:— ‘Soldati settentrionali, Come sarebbe Boemi a Croati,’ we area match for them! Artillery we shall get. The Piedmontese are mad for th...

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...rating keen- ness of a Chicago evening at the end of February. The Italian Grand Opera Company gave one of the most popular pieces of its repertoire o... ...town of central Mas- sachusetts, was in great distress. She had never seen Grand Opera, she would not have missed a note, and now she was in a fair wa... ...cried. “Isn’t it too bad. I can’t imagine why they don’t come.” Page, more metropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of ci... ...sion, the little girl was now in great distress. “Laura is putting on her ‘grand manner,’” she lamented. “I just know how she’s talking. The man will ... ...th of the City, and drawn from all directions, over a territory of immense area, this glut of crude subsistence was sucked in, as if into a rapacious ... ...had given up the idea of finishing his studies in the High School in Grand Rapids, on the chance of going into business with a livery stable keeper. T... ...ine! You remember her, Sam. Re- member how you used to come out from Grand Rapids 157 Frank Norris every now and then to go squirrel shooting with me... ...being paid off, new and improved farming implements were being bought, new areas seeded new live stock acquired. The men were buying buggies again, th... ... And I tell you, J., you’ve put the price of wheat so high, that the wheat areas are extending all over the country.” “You’re scared,” cried Jadwin. “...

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...was what is called a man of ideas, but they were not always good ideas. My grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the ... ...ver the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was alre... ...egan; something else became more urgent or simply he tired; a considerable area of the Number 2 territory was never even dug up. In the end the affair... ...several boys’ boarding- schools came, drawing their pupils from London,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was... ...Then the parish graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with an air of appetite was walled in by a Bromstead Cemetery Company,... ...the sunshine—to vanish in a flash at one’s shadow. In one place, too, were Rapids, where the stream woke with a start from a dreamless brooding into f... ... what we felt about that maga- zine. “To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” 67 H G Wells CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAP... ... Board—I had great ideas about town-planning, about revisions of municipal areas and re- organised internal transit—and the War Office. I swayed stron...

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...ont, so they saw a double reason why Matey should; and walking home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero... ...the purpose of casting eclipse upon Major-General Lord Ormont, the son and grandson of English earls; for he was an earl by his title, and Murat was t... ...peless, to her thinking. How preach at a creature on the bend of passion’s rapids! One might as well read a chapter from the Bible to delirious patien... ...s it had been between them at the beginning, so it was now, when they were grandparents running on three lines of progeny from two daughters and a son... ...yment. The ceremony over, he pitched a bugle voice to fit the con- tracted area: “I hear from Mr. Abner that you have made acquaintance with Olmer. Go... ... promised her—it’s not known to Lord Ormont himself:—a printed letter in a metropolitan paper, copied into the pro- vincial papers, upholding him for ... ... hectoring of the grand new manufacture of wit in London:—the in- imitable Metropolitan PUN, which came down to the coun- try by four-in-hand, and sto...

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...cked oli- garchy, and in the other half by his blind hatred of Caesar; the grandeur of whose nature he could not comprehend, and the real patriotism o... ... In Rousseau there is not even so much. In the whole work there is nothing grandly affecting but the character and the inex- plicable misery of the wr... ...have completed my second year; namely, 1st, a remarkable dream of terrific grandeur about a favorite nurse, which is interesting to myself for this re... ...ccident, but a lesson by way of practice in the art of contending with the rapids of the St. Lawrence and other Canadian streams. However, as the dang... ...re of the Welsh valleys; too generally they take the basin shape—the level area at their foot does not detach it- self with sufficient precision from ... ...mberland and Westmoreland valleys, which almost universally present a flat area at the base of the surrounding hills, level, to use Wordsworth’s expre... ...ers of an- other, so also this city, stretching forth her foundations over areas so vast, is yet not satisfied with those superficial di- mensions; th... ...ndividual hotel, apparently far from being the most conspicuous, viz., the Metropolitan, reputed to have “more than twelve miles of water and gas pipe...

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...ll Social Occasions 12 Second Street, Troy, N. Y. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Offers Metropolitan Advantages of E«eni Kind Oollaga at Uborml Aptm AJJress De.in ... ...nly that you are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the ma... ...ll Social Occasions 12 Saoond street, Troy, N. Y. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Offers Metropolitan Advantages of Ever; Kind OolUge of LiberalAplm AdJress De.in W... ...ll Social Occasions 12 Second Street, Troy, N. Y. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Offers Metropolitan Advantages of Ever; Kind Collaga of Ubei-al Arim A.klrtiss De.... ...edical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North ... ... HARRY W. REINHARD, JOHN H. FALLON, it MURRAY HILL HOTEL St One Block From Grand Central Station European Plan—Music—Smoker Headquarters in New York f... ... Wolverines, all of which, with the exception of the first, with the Grand Rapids league team, have been victories. Whipple, the pitcher who will prob... ...llowed only six hits in three games. The scores follow : Michigan 1; Grand Rapids League Team. 10. Michigan 7; Michigan Agri- cultural College 2. Mich... ...g- gested all through by lines like these: • 'So my snnny waters The white rapids leaping From dark fearsome valleys Come singing at last." The review...

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...ater in the great ocean its howling voice — is nothing. To say that all is grand, and all appalling and horrible in the last degree, is nothing. Words... ...; 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... ...ts streets (as its alias sufficiently im ports) are planted with rows of grand old elm trees; and the same natural ornaments surround Yale College, ... ..., who opened the discourse by in forming me, in a grave whisper, that his grandfather was the inventor of cold drawn castor oil. I mention the cir c... ... with as much ease and comfort as though we had been escorted by the whole Metropolitan Force from A to Z inclusive. The suite of rooms on the ground ... ...heights and watch it through the trees, and see the wreathing water in the rapids hurrying on to take its American Notes – Dickens 212 fearful plung... ...ht with uncommon interest and pleasure. In the afternoon we shot down some rapids where the river boiled and bubbled strangely, and where the force an... ...of the river being rendered so dangerous and difficult in the interval, by rapids, that steamboats do not make the passage. The number and length of t... ...orward very much, took from the ground, by a great effort, the specimen of metropolitan work manship which I had just pulled off: whistling, pleas a...

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...ve of offspring becomes the central interest in life. In the babble of the grandchil- dren, with all the sons and daughters grown and secure, the 10 ... ...owners who attempted to stifle sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and publi... ...our public control at present, and I suggest it here as something that our grand- children perhaps may begin to consider. But if in the obscu- rity of... ...RADFORD, “The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. “Metropolitan Police Office, “New Scotland Yard, “January 28th, 190... .... None of this has been very fully analyzed, of course (there are enormous areas of valuable research in these mat- ters waiting for people of intelli... ...lly, intellectually, economically, like those of their parents. Over great areas homogeneous traditions held, and it needed wars and conquests, or it ... ... within the last hundred years—volcanoes even. Vesuvius, for ex- ample, is grand and beautiful, its smell of underground rail- way most impressive, it... ...art the plain of our personal and egoistic schemes, a great river with its rapids, with its deep and silent places, a river of uncertain droughts, a r...

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...s soon as the steel-crested prow had pushed into her Paradise of the Canal Grande, she quietly shrouded her hair from tobacco, and called upon rapture... ...uis contrives to keep them concealed, and he is ready to face marriage—the Grandest Inquisitor, next to 49 George Meredith Death. Two furious matchma... ...s we call girls. Paris! my dear Nevil. Paris! It’s the book of women.’ The grandeur of the decayed sea-city, where folly had danced Parisianly of old,... ...nding of public opinion, that are as little to be compared with the mighty metropolitan as are the fife and bugle boys practising on their instruments... ...k the world’s view of Beauchamp, and this to her was like a descent on the rapids to an end one shuts eyes from. He noticed her perturbation, and spok... ...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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...ll it had been made absurd by certain changes of circumstances, was always grand and usually beneficent. These changes of circumstances have altered t... ...e city, but it is a very pleas- ant city. They say that the harbor is very grand and very beautiful. It certainly is not so fine as that of Portland, ... ...the ceremony with all the gravity, and more than all the decorum, of their grandfathers. When I was three years old I had not yet, as I imagine, been ... ...is brothers to row, and reminding them that the stream runs fast, that the rapids are near and the daylight past? I asked, as a matter of course, whet... ...ll tributary streams, and I would come down upon one of them, shooting the rapids of the rivers as soon as the first freshets had left the way open. A... ...ontain timber to the value of two, three, and four thousand pounds. At the rapids the large rafts are, as it were, unyoked, and divided into small por... ...that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that most of our free metropolitan schools are still necessarily con- fined. You and I, reader, w... ...omposed of two old provinces, of which Hartford and New Haven were the two metropolitan towns. Indeed, there was a third colony, called Saybrook, whic... ...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...