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...old Cox. So we pass, mostly in automobiles that bump tremendously over war roads, a cloud of witnesses each testifying after his manner. What- ever el... ...ooking men. I have seen thousands of poilus sitting about in cafes, by the roadside, in tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have seen Alpini sitting res... ... upon the way in which all Venetia was being opened up by the new military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Napoleon dr... ...to locate Venice. My earlier rides in V enetia began always with the level roads of the plain, roads frequently edged by watercourses, with plentiful ... ...t gravi- tates back now—as though there had been no Napoleon. And upon the roads and beside them was the enormous equipment of a modern army advancing... ... lounge in attitudes of haughty pride that would shame the ceiling gods of Hampton Court. One 63 H G Wells passes through arcades of waiting motor va...

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...Esmond learned from seeing Doctor Tusher in his best cas- sock (though the roads were muddy, and he never was known to wear his silk, only his stuff o... ...k, and others, was set on foot, for waylaying King William as he came from Hampton Court to London, and a secret plot was formed, in which a vast numb... ...se he had, drawn by a pair of small horses, and running as swift, wherever roads were good, as a Laplander’s sledge. When this carriage came, his lord...

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... steep and narrow village streets, and had been carrying all day along the roads and lanes. Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere... ...ets, and jerked out at the town gate. Among the day’s unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on tree... ...hat hung in the doorways. From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through squalid villages, where there was not a ... ...ay when Clennam was at the cottage, the Dowager Mrs Gowan drove up, in the Hampton Court equi- page which pretended to be the exclusive equipage of so... ...d to hand her to the Pill-Box which was at the service of all the Pills in Hampton Court Palace; and she got into that vehicle with distinguished sere... ...ou will have the kindness to look for this foreign gentleman along all the roads and up and down all the turnings and to make inquiries for him at all... ...s lighter to breathe than the air of England. On again by the heavy French roads for Paris. Having now quite recovered his equanimity, Mr Dorrit, in h...

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...enus de Medicis. Perhaps, too, thou hast seen the gallery of beau ties at Hampton Court. Thou may’st remember each bright Churchill of the galaxy, an... ...; though unhap pily, indeed, the badness of the neighbourhood, and of the roads, made this of little use; for none who had set much value on their ne... ...ake?”— ”Why, you must keep the strait road.”—”But I remember there are two roads, one to the right and the other to the left.”—”Why, you must keep the... ...ing a little cold? I wish, indeed, we had a guide to advise which of these roads we should take.”—”May I be so bold,” says Partridge, “to offer my adv... ...oning our horses, scrambled as well as we could through the fields and bye roads, till we arrived at a little wild hut on a com mon, where a poor old... ... knowing which way I went, and making it my chief care to avoid all public roads and all towns—nay, even the most homely houses; for I imagined every ...

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...sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death... ...For half a minute, perhaps, he stared silently. “I was walking through the roads to clear my brain,” he said. “And suddenly—fire, earthquake, death!” ... ...ple of Walton and Weybridge, and all the dis- trict were pouring along the roads Londonward, and that was all. My brother went to church at the Foundl... ...o get off at once because the Martians are coming. We heard guns firing at Hampton Court station, but we thought it was thunder. What the dickens does... ...nday visitors. They seemed to increase as night drew on, until at last the roads, my brother said, were like Epsom High Street on a Derby Day. My brot... ...of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams of the electric light vanished,... ... made me think of what I had read of the destruction of Pompeii. We got to Hampton Court without misadventure, our minds full of strange and unfa- mil... ...sadventure, our minds full of strange and unfa- miliar appearances, and at Hampton Court our eyes were relieved to find a patch of green that had esca... ...der the chestnuts, and some men and women hurrying in the distance towards Hampton, and so we came to T wickenham. These were the first people we saw....

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...edition on which he was going; and as Chelsey was distant from London, the roads bad, and infested by footpads, and Esmond often in the habit, when en... ... packets passed daily between the Dutch and Flemish ports and Harwich; the roads thence to London and the great inns were crowded with army gentlemen;... ...s hanging round about her. When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond pa... ...ate carried him. Mistress Beatrix was away in attendance on her Majesty at Hampton Court, and kissed her fair fingertips to him, by way of adieu, when... ...s since, whilst you were on your visit to your friend Cap- tain Steele, at Hampton. He told us all that you had done, and how nobly you had put yourse... ...to arrive, had driven to Kensington from their country-house, the Hovel at Hampton Wick. “Not from our mansion in Bloomsbury Square,” as Mrs. Steele t... .... Steele took care to inform the ladies. Indeed Harry had ridden away from Hampton that very morning, leav- ing the couple by the ears; for from the c...

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...eater part of it was very Charles Dickens 9 misty and cold. There were no roads, no bridges, no streets, no houses that you would think de serving o... ...much to improve the condition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, and arm the... ...ed by the gardener’s spade. Wells that the Romans sunk, still yield water; roads that the Romans made, form part of our highways. In some old battle f... ...d ing it, or desiring to be foremost with the rest, came pressing on. The roads for a great dis tance were covered with this immense army, and with ... ...as amusing himself with archery in the garden of the magnificent Palace at Hampton Court, which that very Wolsey had presented to him. The greatest em... ...y, under the name of a conference, met, first at York, and af terwards at Hampton Court. In its presence Lord Lennox, Darnley’s father, openly charge... ...ft his palace at Whitehall, and went away with his Queen and chil dren to Hampton Court. It was the eleventh of May, when the five members were carri... ... their county man and much beloved and honoured. When the King set off for Hampton Court, the gentle men and soldiers who had been with him followed ... ...s Kingston upon Thames; next day, Lord Digby came to them from the King at Hampton Court, in his coach and six, to inform them that the King accepted ...

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... cut off the hope of immediate conciliation. Immediately afterward all the roads and avenues to this city were obstructed, and the capital was put int... ...e enemy now? GENERAL McCLELLAN: From four to five miles from us on all the roads—I think nearly the whole army—both Hills, Longstreet, Jackson, Magrud... ...ttle to the enemy, or drive him south. Y our army must move now, while the roads are good. If you cross the river between the enemy and Wash- ington, ... ...n a march? His route is the arc of a circle, while yours is the chord. The roads are as good on yours as on his. You know I desired, but did not order... ...-GENERAL Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days? A. LINCOLN. 241 The Writings of Ab... ... Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days? A. LINCOLN. 241 The Writings of Abraham Li...

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...bly, after all his practice on those night mares they call his “celebrated Hampton Court cartoons.” Raphael was a bird. We had several of his chrom... ...ion which was perfect. My men had orders to strike across country, avoiding roads, and estab lishing connection with any considerable towns whose l... ...mned him to eternal fire, the gentle law buried him at midnight at the cross roads with a stake through his back, and his master the baron or the bish... ...f the country without damage. I found a comfortable seat for the king by the roadside, and then gave him a morsel or two to stay his stomach with. The... ...ast. I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long la... ...ts. We traveled pretty fast, and finally drew rein some time after dark at a roadside inn some ten or twelve miles from the scene of our troubles. My ...

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...ew of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, which, in- deed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader do... ...re only beginning to appreciate. In turn, Samuel Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, took up his work as a trainer of youth. He had very raw ... ...am indebted to Robert C. Ogden, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute and the intimate friend of General Armstrong during the w... ...racter of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Institute, but it was done at Hampton by white men. The plan had, i... ...tions is a positive evil. This is a demonstration of the efficiency of the Hampton-Tuskegee idea that stands like the demon- stration of the value of ... ...some time. As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads post-office called Hale’s Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do n... ...ted to have attend it. The most of my travelling was done over the country roads, with a mule and a cart or a mule and a buggy wagon for conveyance. I... ...rly years of the Tuskegee school I walked the streets or travelled country roads in the North for days and days without receiving a dollar. Often as i...

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..., and contained 10,590 acres of land, of which 2600 were in common, 372 in roads and lanes, about 1000 under growth of coppice-wood, and the rest eith... ...as dying that Richard was requested by the “Rump” to resign, and return to Hampton Court, with the promise of a pension and of payment of the debts in... ...g in a grove. At a short distance eastward of the churchyard begin the two roads, both leading to Otterbourne; the northern one, part of which still b... ...gins. Every line in the 91 Charlotte M. Yonge place is a curve-hedges, roads, gardens and all, and this gives the view a peculiar grace, so that o... ... stage coach at early dawn The journey was begun. And through the turnpike roads till eve T rotted the horses four, With inside passengers and out ... ...Cuckoo Bushes. (H. quadrangulum). Mallow (Malva sylvestris).—Everywhere by roadsides, used to be esteemed by old women as a healing “yarb.” Musk M. (M...

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..., and always watched by Roman soldiers. The Romans made beautiful straight roads all over the country, and they built towns. Almost all the towns whos... ...g the town of Meaux, where there was a very cruel robber, who made all the roads to Paris unsafe, and by the time he had taken it his health was much ... ...ut just as the war was going to begin, as he was riding near his palace of Hampton Court, his horse trod into a mole-hill, and he fell, breaking his c... ...es than anyone thought of. Sixty years before, when he began to reign, the roads were so bad that it took three days to go by coach to London from Bat...

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...arts, and convey it into their barns. We went through the town of Staines. Hampton Court, a Royal Palace, magnificently built with brick by Cardinal W... ... a small hill: whilst we stopped here in doubt, and consulted which of the roads we should take, we saw all on a sudden on our right hand some horseme...

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... to San Antonio was then computed at one hundred and fifty miles. Now that roads exist it is probably less. From San Antonio to Austin we computed the... .... In view of the im- mense bodies of men moved on the same day over narrow roads, through dense forests and across large streams, in our late war, it ... ...s some delay in getting supplies ashore from vessels at anchor in the open roadstead. CHAPTER VII THE MEXICAN WAR—THE BATTLE OF PALO ALTO—THE BATTLE O... ... night. The chap- arral before us was impenetrable except where there were roads or trails, with occasionally clear or bare spots of small dimensions.... ...nce. Learning later of Sheridan’s going with two divi- sions, he also sent Hampton with two divisions of cavalry, his own and Fitz-Hugh Lee’s. Sherida... ...revilian, while Fitz-Hugh Lee was the same night at T revilian Station and Hampton but a few miles away. During the night Hampton ordered an advance o... ...to destroy the Weldon and South Side roads. Now that Sheridan was safe and Hampton free to return to Richmond with his cavalry, Wilson’s position beca... ...nal ob- jective. Bragg had now been sent to Augusta with some troops. Wade Hampton was there also trying to raise cavalry suffi- cient to destroy Sher... ..., and announced his purpose as soon as his men could em- bark to start for Hampton Roads. Porter represented to him that he had sent to Beaufort for m...

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...Esmond learned from seeing Doctor Tusher in his best cas- sock (though the roads were muddy, and he never was known to wear his silk, only his stuff o... ...k, and others, was set on foot, for waylaying King William as he came from Hampton Court to London, and a secret plot was formed, in which a vast numb... ...se he had, drawn by a pair of small horses, and running as swift, wherever roads were good, as a Laplander’s sledge. When this carriage came, his lord... ...edition on which he was going; and as Chelsey was distant from London, the roads bad, and infested by footpads, and Esmond often in the habit, when en... ... packets passed daily between the Dutch and Flemish ports and Harwich; the roads thence to London and the great inns were crowded with army gentlemen;... ...s hanging round about her. When she went away, accompanying her Majesty to Hampton Court, a darkness fell over London. Gods, what nights has Esmond pa... ...ate carried him. Mistress Beatrix was away in attendance on her Majesty at Hampton Court, and kissed her fair fingertips to him, by way of adieu, when... ...s since, whilst you were on your visit to your friend Cap- tain Steele, at Hampton. He told us all that you had done, and how nobly you had put yourse... ...driven to Kensington from their country-house, the Hovel at 287 Thackeray Hampton Wick. “Not from our mansion in Bloomsbury Square,” as Mrs. Steele t...

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... 90 When by the son the trembling father died, Where the three roads the Phocian fields divide; If I the Sphynx’s riddles durst explain, T... .... Roberts. Folio. An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton Court (Lord H—y). Printed for J. Roberts. Folio. A Letter from Mr C... ... or Laguerre:’ V errio (Antonio) painted many ceil- ings, &c., at Windsor, Hampton Court, &c; and Laguerre at Blenheim Castle, and other places.—P . 5... ...an letter:’ the letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice. ‘Et tibi quae Samios diduxit litera ramos.’—Pers....

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...ional Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other facilities, not on “alert, ” would need time to... ...ficers suggested that the tribals would prefer to try a raid rather than a roadside ambush because they would have better control, it would be less da... ...atience of some of the officials who felt they had already been down these roads and who found the NSC’s procedures slow.“We weren’t going fast enough...