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...of a C.S.I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to topheavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge....

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...ears he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost to top- heavy for one pair of shoulders... ...n the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders. Other shadows came and went behind the circ... ...dren are born Krishna the Well-beloved. He stooped to knot up his long wet hair, and the Parrot fluttered to his shoulder. “Fleeting and singing, and ... ...kissed Krishna. They told him this to cheer their own hearts when the grey hairs came, and he has told us the tale,” said the Bull, be- low his breath... ... Rao Sahib. I believe you’ve saved my life. How did Hitchcock -” “Oho! His hair was upon end. He rode to me in the middle of the night and woke me up ...

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...ne biographies I had read of the subtilizing or exalting influence of some diseases on the mental powers. Did not Novalis feel his inspiration intensi... ...y, a tall, slim, willowy figure, with luxuriant 12 The Lifted V eil blond hair, arranged in cunning braids and folds that looked almost too massive f... ...ss, and the green leaves that seemed to form a border about her pale blond hair, made me think of a Water-Nixie—for my mind was full of German lyrics,... ...had manifested itself again … But was it a power? Might it not rather be a disease—a sort of intermittent delirium, concentrating my energy of brain i... ...ther, with Mrs. Filmore on his right hand, and on his left—the slim, blond-haired girl, with the keen face and the keen eyes fixed on me in half-smili... ...ried nerves. I might have believed this importunate insight to be merely a diseased ac- tivity of the imagination, but that my prevision of incalculab... ...ke, it was as if a sensation of grating metal had set my teeth on edge. My diseased consciousness was more in- tensely and continually occupied with h... ...oyish admiration, for she was the very opposite, even to the colour of her hair, of the ideal woman who still remained to me the type of loveliness; a... ...eautiful sylph she looked to me as the low November sun shone on her blond hair, and she tripped along teasing me with her usual light banter, to whic...

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...time immemorial had been handsome. They were broad browed, blue-eyed, fair haired, born with dimples in their chins, and that pleasant, aristocratic d... ...- heads, and large, dignified, cold eyes. The De Courcy girls all had good hair; and, as they also possessed easy man- ners and powers of talking, the... ...a pair, born at one birth, weak, delicate, frail little flowers, with dark hair and dark eyes, and thin, long, pale faces, with long, bony hands, and ... ...tions; those warm prayers with which his manhood is wel- comed by the grey-haired seniors of the county; the af- fectionate, all but motherly caresses... ...ant so as to make their brilliancy palpably visible to all around her; her hair was dark brown, and worn very plainly brushed from her forehead; her l... ...ts to the house. She was one of his patients, and a patient fearful of the disease with which she was threatened. Though she thought the doctor to be ... ...t may be doubted whether there can be any per- manent recovery from such a disease as his. What amount of brandy he consumed to enable him to perform ... ... master is dying, very like, while you stand here?’ ‘What is your master’s disease?’ said the doctor, facing Joe, slowly, and still rubbing his hands....

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...ht he had never seen a man more naturally hideous, nor one more ravaged by disease and ruinous excitements. He was no more than skin and bone, was par... ... “That is the man,” the Britisher was saying; “there – with the long blond hair – speaking to a girl in green.” Silas identified a very handsome young... ...n- tinued existence of that hound of hell had begun to prey upon me like a disease, and his death has more refreshed me than a night of slumber. Look,... ...hat of a swift, violent, unscrupulous man of action; and his copious white hair and the deep sabre-cut that traversed his nose and temple added a note... ... He had his whole toilette fashionably renewed; and was shaved and had his hair dressed every morning by a barber in a neighbouring street. This gave ... ...be,” replied the official. “He is old and strong and beautiful, with white hair and a sa- bre-cut across his face. You cannot fail to recognise so mar... ...the middle of the street and looked in all directions. More than one white-haired man was within sight; but though he overtook each of them in success...

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... “Edward, did the child look like it was choked?” says one. “Did it have its hair parted?” says another. “What was the brand on that bar’l, Eddy?” say... ...when the ruthless “cub” engineer approached. This fellow had money, too, and hair oil. Also an ignorant silver watch and a showy brass watch chain. He... ...ventures; a narrative that was so reeking with bloodshed and so crammed with hair breadth escapes and the most engaging and unconscious personal villa... ...beauty’s cheek mean to a doctor but a “break” that ripples above some deadly disease. Are not all her visible charms Life on the Mississippi Mark T... ... experienced steamboatman would stick to the center of the boat and part his hair in the middle with a spirit level. No way freights and no way passen... ...e galloped in, at the head of his troops. Old General Pillow, with his white hair, mounted on a white horse, sailed in, too, leading his troops as liv... ...ne right after the other. No, there will always be one or two with the other diseases along between. And as you proceed, you will find out one or two ... ...le a cloud of deadly facts and statis tics which will lay you out with that disease, sure; but at the same time he will cure you of any other of the ... ... street corners, and in the squares, lay sick men, suddenly overtaken by the disease; and even corpses, distorted and rigid. Food failed. Meat spoiled...

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... with her skirts wrapping themselves round her knees, and both arms to her hair. But slowly the intoxication of movement died down, and the wind becam... ...d her father rather sharply, and Mr. Pepper went on to describe the white, hairless, blind monsters lying curled on the ridges of sand at the bottom o... ... in miniature, cups stamped floridly with the arms of the city of Bristol, hair-pin boxes crusted with shamrock, antelopes’ heads in coloured plaster,... ...olly, but now that we are here I suppose that I can face it like a man. My diseases of course will be increased—I feel already worse than I did yester... ...win- dows opened on the garden, and men with cigars kissed women with grey hairs, they were not to be counted. Some said that the sky was an emblem of... ...land, it became plain that the people of England were completely mute. The disease attacked other parts of the earth; Europe shrank, Asia shrank, Afri... ...d said, turning to wave farewell from the steps of the Travellers’ . But a disease had broken out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was... ...clothes, and her arch delicate face, which showed exquisitely pink beneath hair turning grey, she was astonishingly like an eighteenth-century masterp... ...nd I’m always 192 The Voyage Out expecting to be told that I’ve got heart disease myself. Rheumatism always goes to the heart in the end.” “For goodn...

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... The best leeches of the camp were unable to effect the cure of the King’s disease; but the prayers of the army were more successful. He became conval... ...heads should be delivered to the cook, with instructions to clear away the hair, and, after boiling them in a cauldron, to distribute them on several ... ... as wide a lake as thou seest yonder spread out behind us, yet not wet one hair above his hoof.” The Saracen looked at him with as much surprise as hi... ...owerful man, built after the ancient Gothic cast of form, with light brown hair, which, on the removal of his helmet, was seen to curl thick and profu... ...han was warranted by his full and well- opened blue eye, the colour of his hair, and of the mous- taches which thickly shaded his upper lip, while his... ... You and your sisters are on the eve of death; but let each give to us one hair from your fair tresses, in token of fealty, and we will carry you many... ...angerous occupation of daily attendance on the sick-bed of a patient whose disease was pronounced infectious, and more especially when it was remember... ...it with all them? I will tell thee. It is a cold palsy, a dead lethargy, a disease that deprives them of speech and action, a canker that has eaten in... ...fresh in the hu- 87 Sir Walter Scott man body when under the influence of disease or debility. The Scottish and English, equally jealous and high-spi...

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...minous joy on the gloomy background of the present. Her beautiful chestnut hair escaped in disorder from her cap, rumpled in sleep,—a cambric cap with... ...ing from gray curl-papers. From the back of her head hung a heavy braid of hair that was half unplaited. The excessive whiteness of her face betrayed ... ...ead, flattened by fatigue, was marked by three long wrinkles. His grizzled hair, cut close, expressed in some in- definable way the stupidity of a col... ..., the French Alcibiades, was appointed governor of Guyenne. His lungs were diseased, and, heaven knows why! the wine of the country did him good and h... ...hort, fat man, wore enor- mous rings in ears that were bushy with tufts of hair. His sparse and grizzled whiskers were called in 1799 “fins.” His joll... ...ung ladies. Brother and sister looked alike; both were thin, yellow, black-haired, and bilious. Like a true Breton girl, cradled in the practices and ... ...ered Pierrette doomed; and there now took place between the doctor and the disease, the former relying on Pierrette’s youth, one of those struggles wh... ...low instrument by the help of which an heroic remedy can be applied to the diseased bone, to arrest the progress of the caries. Even the bold Desplein...

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...at whiskers!’ said Miss Julia. ‘Charming!’ responded her sister; ‘and what hair!’ His hair was like a wig, and distinguished by that insinuat- ing wav... ...ess, ’ responded the agitated Hicks, with an inflamed countenance, and his hair standing on end as if he were on the stool of an electrifying machine ... ...ds, was fortunate enough to obtain a permanent engagement at a fashionable haircutter’s; hairdressing being a science to which he had frequently direc... ...flew to a chair; and a stern-looking man, of about fifty, with very little hair on his head, and a Sunday paper in his hand, entered the room. ‘Good m... ...lexander, ’ habited in a sky-blue suit with silver buttons; and possessing hair of nearly the same colour as the metal. After sundry praises from his ... ...ontin- ued the stranger, ‘that I come to you. If I laboured un- der bodily disease, I should not be out, alone, at such 103 Charles Dickens an hour, ... ...- self for a few moments, and then tell me, as calmly as you can, what the disease of the patient is, and how long he has been ill. When I know what i... ...d imply, why not try to save his life before delay and the progress of his disease render it impracticable?’ ‘God help me!’ exclaimed the woman, weepi... ...ely on the danger of measles, thrush, teeth-cutting, and other interesting diseases to which children are subject. The ceremony (which occupied about ...

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...ent away to Anet, to see if nose and teeth would come back to him with his hair. A strange adventure, which happened at this time, terri- fied everybo... ... first. Madame d’Uzes, only daughter of the Prince de Monaco, died of this disease. She was a woman of merit—very virtuous and un- happy—who merited a... ...wife, who was much pitied and regretted. Her children perished of the same disease, and she left none behind her. Soon after this the King ordered the... ...selle de Conde died at Paris on October 24th, after a long illness, from a disease in the chest, which con- sumed her less than the torments she exper... ...ad case, after having been so nearly successful, he descended, tearing his hair and yelling. From 173 Saint-Simon that time, although superior in for... ...sparkling with cleverness; a little cloak, a satin skull-cap over his grey hairs, a smooth collar, almost like an Abbe’s, and his pocket-hand- kerchie... ...ration and their amusement, ran here and there, cry- ing, with dishevelled hair, like Bacchantes. The Duchesse de la Ferme, who had basely married her... ...ents, with a complexion like milk-por- ridge; great, ugly, thick lips, and hair like tow, always stick- ing out and hanging down in disorder, like all... ... swindler, and thief; a rogue to the marrow of his bones, rotted with vile diseases; the most contemptible and yet most dangerous fellow in the world....

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...er roof. The autumn of one year brought him a companion in bondage, a long-haired, gray-eyed little atom, as self-contained as himself, who moved abou... ... till such date as— A gust of the growing wind drove the girl’s long black hair across his face as she stood with her hand on his shoulder calling Amo... ...ss the sea, and Maisie in a gray dress on the beach, sweeping her drenched hair out of her eyes and laugh- ing at the homeward race of the fishing-sma... ...de a background for the gray dress, the black velvet toque above the black hair, and the reso- lute profile. ‘No, there’s nothing changed. How good it... ...ere’s nothing changed. How good it is! D’you remember when I fastened your hair into the snap of a hand-bag?’ Maisie nodded, with a twinkle in her eye... ...ey feel who walking among their fellow-men know that the death-sentence of disease is upon them, and, seeing that fear is but waste of the little time...

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...even on a bronze medal. His forehead was high and broad, and his thick black hair, perfectly straight and glossy, and without any di vision, rolled b... ...d at Mrs. Luna with intelligent incredulity. She was sufficiently pretty; her hair was in clusters of curls, like bunches of grapes; her tight bodice s... ...ted in a plain dark dress, without any ornaments, and her smooth, colourless hair was confined as carefully as that of her sister was encouraged to str... ...had a rustling dress (it was evident what she thought about taste), abundant hair of a glossy blackness, a pair of folded arms, the expression of whic... ...etition, to secure attention. She was a plain, spare young woman, with short hair and an eye glass; she looked about her with a kind of nearsighted de... ...done only this, we shouldn’t boast of it. Poverty, and ignorance, and crime; disease, and wickedness, and wars! Wars, always more wars, and always mor... ...on in the service of the Associated Charities, that there was no foulness of disease or misery she feared to look in the face; but her house had alway...

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...hat he was afflicted during the greater part of his life with an incurable disease. Lord Byron had a soul near akin to Rousseau’s, whose writ- ings na... ...e cause might be which skill could never find; But he was frenzied by disease or woe T o that worst pitch of all, which wears a reasoning sh... ...describe her clothes, her head-dress, nor have the two curls of fine black hair which hung on her temples, according to the mode of that time, escaped... ...ell turned leg, and animated countenance; a well proportioned mouth, black hair and eyebrows, and my eyes, though small and rather too far in my head,... ...c smile played about her mouth, which was small and delicate; she wore her hair (which was of an ash color, and uncommonly beautiful) with an air of n... ...se as he appeared to be. He was a middle-aged man, wore his black, grizzly hair, in a queue, had a martial air, a strong voice, was tolerably cheerful... ...er head leaning gently forward, discovered a small circle of her neck; her hair, elegantly dressed was orna- mented with flowers; her figure was unive... ...ed, I am certain I should have become so from this study. Finding in every disease symptoms similar to mine, I fancied I had them all, and, at length,... ...ad been suddenly seized with them, suppose himself attacked by some mortal disease. In effect they were rather alarming than painful, and made the min...

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...f a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, ...

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...ears he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with respon- sibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; ... ...n the place of the fallen image, and the rain spilled like jewels from the hair of his neck and shoulders. Other shadows came and went behind the circ... ...ren are born—Krishna the W ell-beloved. He stooped to knot up his long wet hair, and the parrot fluttered to his shoulder. “Fleeting and singing, and ... ...kissed Krishna. They told him this to cheer their own hearts when the grey hairs came, and he has told us the tale,” said the Bull, below his breath. ... ..., Rao Sahib. I believe you’ve saved my life. How did Hitchcock—” “Oho! His hair was upon end. He rode to me in the middle of the night and woke me up ... ...ifully groomed tail, as thick and as fine and as wavy as a quadroon’s back hair. “Kansas, sir, needs no advertisement. Her native sons rely on themsel... ...e deep voice. Down the screw-shaft ran murmurs and warnings, while a heart-diseased flutter with- out told that the propeller needed re-keying. “How d... ...on the banjo, rule eight servants and two horses, their accounts and their diseases, and look men slowly and deliberately be- tween the eyes—even afte... ...price you pay for going on the tear. It’s years since I’ve had one. It’s a disease that don’t attack shorthaulers, as a rule.” “We never have hot-boxe...

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...as extremely hand some, but when I knew him he had put on weight, and his hair was thinning. He had fine eyes and a way, whether natu ral or acquire... ...one af ter ten minutes thought of her ugliness. You noticed then that her hair, though sprinkled with white, was pretty, and that her figure was exce... ... very tall, very thin, very fair. He wore a very high collar and very long hair, and held himself like an exhausted lily. ‘He always reminds me of an ... ...heir tears.’ ‘She wept in floods,’ interrupted a youth with neatly brushed hair and fat nose. ‘She wept all over our food, and we ate it salt with tea... ...n.’ Arthur saw a tall, dark fellow with strongly marked fea tures, untidy hair, and a ragged black moustache. ‘That is Mr O’Brien, who is an example ... ...n. ‘I’m very sorry to cause you this trouble,’ he gasped. ‘I suffer from a disease of the heart, and sometimes I am very near death.’ ‘I’m glad that I... ...ands of the sea. Their thin faces were earthy with want and cavernous from disease, and their eyes were dull with despair. They passed in their tatter... ... think that the strain from which she suffered is bringing on some nervous disease, and I am really alarmed. She walks about the house in 138 TheMagi... ...d to sell the land which would have rounded off the estate of Skene, and a disease had attacked every animal on his farm so that he was ruined. Arthur...

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..., with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face... ...ts, a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown, and which, in after years, would ... ...rth became the medical adviser of the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. As not only the disease interested the physician, but he was strongly moved to look int... ...ore attempting to do him good. Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of the... ... had his suspicions, indeed, that even the na ture of Mr. Dimmesdale’s bodily disease had never fairly been revealed to him. It was a strange reserve... ...atchful physician might well hope to cure you. But I know not what to say, the disease is what I seem to know, yet know it not.” “You speak in riddles... ...tribe of decorous personages, who had never heretofore been seen with a single hair of their heads awry, would start into public view with the disorde... ... in her manners. It was a sad transformation, too, that her rich and luxuriant hair had either been cut off, or was so completely hidden by a cap, tha... ... kiss your cheek with a kind of doubtful tenderness, and play gently with your hair, and then be gone about its other idle business, leaving a dreamy ...

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...st to see a cardinal’s lady-love, and trusting to God for the rest. He was hairless from top to toe and re- sembled a man about as much as a goat with... ...is eyes that glowed and sparkled with the flame of love. What lovely thick hair hung upon her ivory white back, showing sweet white places, fair and s... ...res, and my health. Go, and if tomorrow your veins are not fro- zen by the disease, you can come again. Today, I hate you, good cardinal,” said she, s... ...ty associate, but he hung there at the same time his domain, and his white hairs, his money and his horses; in short, he placed there everything he po... ...conceived in May. In short, he wished his child to be perfect, to have his hair of two colours; and for this it was necessary that all the required co... ...ns of the body, recesses of the heart, nerves of the members, roots of the hair, perspiration of the substance, limbo of the brain, orifices of the ep... ... that she thought him handsomer than unusual, “I would willingly take your disease. Together we should then have the same terrors.” 123 Droll Stories... ...was the spread, and so violent the apprehensions of 124 Balzac this nasty disease. Thus Lavalliere found himself abandoned by everyone like a leper. ... ... by a watch and ward; and if the learned in these matters declare that the disease has such a hold of you that it will kill you like our defunct sover...

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...’s Day without debt, sir,” she went on without ceasing to comb the child’s hair. “But so it is—Providence helps us out. I have a couple of cows. Then ... ... great brightness, and which expressed passions now subdued. His iron-gray hair, the deep wrinkles in his face, the bushy eye- brows that had grown wh... ...en, fish-like eyes, and the head, with its short, coarse, scantily-growing hair—a head utterly divested of all the faculties of the senses—who would n... ...officer’s benefit. “All the favorable conditions for spreading the hideous disease are there; the air is stagnant, the hamlet lies in the valley botto... ...low- est rank whenever they did not command. Our age is af- flicted with a disease that makes each of us seek to rise above his fellows, and there are... ...m, and his narrow chin turned up to meet an exaggeratedly hooked nose. His hair was turning gray already, and deep furrows which converged above the p... ...rrupted the discourse of a tall, simply- dressed woman, with thin locks of hair, who held the dead man’s hand in hers in a way that spoke eloquently. ... ...a victim to the ‘staggers,’ beats its head against a tree. Were the soul’s diseases in truth more readily cured than those of the body? I scarcely thi... ...seemed to me that suicide was the final crisis in the sufferings of a mind diseased, for it was in the power of the will to end them when reason showe...

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...ite stockings, which were nevertheless distinctly visible. His long, black hair escaped in negligent waves from beneath each side of his old pinched u... ...said Mr. Tupman. ‘English girls not so fine as Spanish—noble creatures—jet hair —black eyes—lovely forms—sweet creatures—beauti ful.’ ‘You have been ... ...le—commissioner don’t know anybody.’ ‘Who’s that little boy with the light hair and pink eyes, in a fancy dress?’inquired Mr. Tupman. ‘Hush, pray—pink... ...is own circle, present, was a little fat man, with a ring of upright black hair round his head, and an extensive bald plain on the top of it—Doctor Sl... ...d. Two gentlemen were waiting in it; one was a little, fat man, with black hair; and the other—a portly personage in a braided surtout—was sitting wit... ...ter days, before he had become enfeebled by dissipa tion and emaciated by disease, he had been in the receipt of a good salary, which, if he had been... ...nxiety in the man’s face, indicating even more strongly the ravages of the disease. The fever was at its height. ‘I took the seat I had occupied the n... ...earance of being very old, but it looked more the effect of dissipation or disease, than the length of years. He was star ing hard at the stranger, a... ...ve that the events he detailed, though distorted in the description by his diseased imagina tion, really happened. It is only matter of wonder to tho...

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...re than a hun- dred others, to be sorted and boxed for the journey. A white- haired official, with a stick under one arm, and a list in the other hand... ...ss the chums agree. It was to bring about this last condition that our white-haired offi- cial now bestirred himself. He made a most active master of ... ...But the next in turn was a tall, strapping, long-limbed, small-headed, curly-haired Penn- sylvania Dutchman, with a soldierly smartness in his man- ne... ... been trained to desperate resolves, so he accepted the match, and the white-haired swindler pro- nounced the connubial benediction, and pocketed his ... ...eathly chill and a graveyard smell began to hang about the lower floors; and diseases of the chest are com- mon and fatal among house-keeping people o... ...ountry-side was still alive with tales of uhlans, and outlying sentries, and hairbreadth ‘scapes from the ignominious cord, and pleasant momentary fri... ...onder grew daily more un- bearable, so that he wasted away like a man with a disease. Once, indeed, he broke all bounds of decency, seized an oc- casi... ...rld, ninety million miles away. II WHAT A MONSTROUS SPECTRE is this man, the disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged... ... to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to hel...