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...s of Brookfield heard that their Pole, Polar, and North Pole, the splendid image of themselves, had been transformed by the Tinleys, and defiled by th... ...a confided the fact to Cornelia, who, with a similar mental and muscu- lar compression, said instantly, “Manoeuvre her.” Adela re- marked, “If you tel... ...completely cut him off from his cronies; and the sense of restriction, and compression, and that his own house was fast becoming alien territory to hi... ... his not commonly brilliant brain. In truth, that little episode showed an image of nature weak with the burden of new love. I do not charge the young... ...ve. I do not charge the young cavalry officer with the power of perceiving images. He saw no more than that she could not sing because of what was in ... ...eed!” A sad irony, which told that much gold-leaf had peeled away from her image in his heart. Wilfrid was a gallant fellow, with good stuff in him. B... ...er pecu- liar charms of feature, were all conjured up to combat the dismal images suggested by that fatal, dragging-down smell. It was vain. Horrible ... ...n. He might have spoken it in a ballroom. To Cornelia, who exulted in self-compression, after the Roman method, it was more dangerous than a tremulous...

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...e Crossways than the paragraphs of Perry Wilkinson, a gossip presenting an image of perpetual chatter, like the waxen-faced street advertizements of l... ...ration and her essence. You have to teach your imagination of the feminine image you have set up to bend your civilized knees to, that it must temper ... ...h to an ideal of the heroical feminine type for the worship of mankind, an image as yet in poetic outline only, on our upper skies. ‘So well do we kno... ...desiring to witness the sentimental fit, she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of t... ... getting that idea from the pe- rusal of romances. ‘Yes, our lives require compression, like romances, to be interesting, and we object to the process... ... looked in the glass and mused on uttering the word, ‘Liar!’ to the lovely image, her senses were refreshed, her mind somewhat re- lieved, the face ap...

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...pectator is to observe the man from bout where that flag is, and he must observe the tower itself from the ground. This harmonizes the seeming discrep... ...dder to get into it, no doubt. We visited the principal church, also—a curious old struc- ture, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of gro- ... ...cess of irritation, I said I would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight for the door—as I supposed—and suddenly confronted my dim sp... ... I think it is a haystack or a woman. This study was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1879, but did not take any medal; they do not give medals for stu... ... the old- fashioned towing industry is on its death-bed. A second steam- boat began work in the Neckar three months after the first one was put in ser... ...way at a steep slant to unknown deeps, for its course was lost in darkness. What a place that was to be in—especially if that leather belt should brea...

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...ersons for whom such pictures are not without charm will have an imperfect image of the magic scene which delighted the still impressionable souls of ... ...the charms of youth and distinguished manners, made this emigre a graceful image of the French noblesse. He presented a strong contrast to Hulot, who,... ...g contrast to Hulot, who, ten feet distant from him, was quite as vivid an image of the vigorous Re- public for which the old soldier was fighting; hi... ...which agitated him. The graceful curve of his lips was lost in their close compression, and his skin turned yellow under the struggle of his stormy th... ...the soldiers of the escort; by thus presenting to his mind triumphantly an image of his danger she made him feel that his life depended on a word from... ...schists, must have been seen in order to understand how vividly a spectral image was suggested by the empty and gloomy carcass of the building. Its di...

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... apostrophized Sir Austin, “com- bustibles are only the more dangerous for compression. This 26 Ordeal of Richard Feverel boy will be ravenous for Ea... ...5 George Meredith and undirected hunger: when the heart is possessed by an image we fly to wood and forest, like the guilty.” Adrian’s report accused ... ...o spare their feelings on a subject to him so deeply sacred. The healthful image of his noble boy rose before him, a triumphant living rejoinder to an... ...t—”I do not weep for sorrow,” The big bright drops lighten, and roll down, imaged in his soul. They lean together—shadows of ineffable tenderness play... ...e and covert contempt. He sketched the Woman—the strange thing made in our image, and with all our faculties—passing to the rule of one who in taking ... ...ubjection. And it was horrible. For it was a continued outrage on the fair image he had in his heart. The notion of the world laughing at him because ...

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... for your sex, no belief in virtue, 295 Anne Brontë no admiration for its image. He will give such a version of this story as will leave no doubt at ... ... thrice through the room. I knew by the contraction of her brow, the tight compression of her lips, and wringing of her hands, that meantime a vio- le... ...t heave with impatience to get the crisis over; but they could not dim her image in my mind, or mar the vivid recollection of what had been said and f... ...th folded arms, and eyes fixed upon the ground, an over- whelming force of images, thoughts, impressions crowding on my mind, and nothing tangibly dis... ...its outward form, at least, impressed upon my mind as indelibly as her own image, which, alas! I must not see again—then walked a few steps further; a... ...slim young gentle- 400 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall man, with his mother’s image visibly stamped upon his fair, intelligent features, in spite of the ...

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...eer play, and whose manly qualities would deteriorate under the pow- erful compression of religious ideas pushed to their utmost consequences. Of four... ...dame de Vandenesse can, however, be explained without recourse to Biblical images. She felt in her soul an enormous power that was unemployed. Her hap... ...entiment. Forget-me-nots are not more blue, lilies not more white than the images, thoughts, and radiantly illumined brow of this accomplished artist,...

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...d animation, which diminished their beauty even more than the thinness and compression of the lips, and the very pale gray of the eyes. The family wer... ...iful—her highest praise “very right,” and tell me if there can be a better image of duty.’ Claude might have had some chance of bringing Lily to her s...

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... haggard face and sunken eyes. ‘What is the matter?’ she asked Blanche, an image of contented beauty. ‘Matter? Oh, they have been stupid in marking th... ..., and he was something taken away from her—a brightness had faded from his image. And this marriage—with every effort at rejoicing and cer- tainty of ... ...had no power to dwell upon them. The brief answers were given with a stern compression and contraction of face; as if the manhood that had grown on hi... ...y saved it from whirling away, and made it fall short. ‘There, Ethel, your image has put on my hat; and henceforth will appear to the wondering city i...

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...orgiana, as if the supplication were being squeezed out of her by powerful compression. ‘I so hate him for saying it!’ ‘For saying what, my dear?’ lau... ... them, and her eyes just caught him smirking in it. She gave the reflected image a 50 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 2 look of the deepest disdain, and th... ...age a 50 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 2 look of the deepest disdain, and the image received it in the glass. Next moment they quietly eyed each other, a... ... such a Dragon!’ Then, she got up and looked in the glass, and said to her image, ‘Y ou have been positively swelling your features, you little fool!’... ... night when he was striving against the drugged drink, there was but a dim image of Eugene’s person; but he remembered his name, and his manner of spe...

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...the dis- tributive forces of nations gathered themselves, under the strong compression of the sword, into mighty aggregates— denominated Universal Emp... ...ed that it was the weak- ness of Cæsar; for the dreams were noble in their imagery, and Cæsarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, f... ...ght hand of Jove. It would seem that perhaps some obscure and half- formed image floated in his mind, of the eagle, as the king of birds; secondly, as... ...tonness of mischief. Ovid accordingly notices, as one amongst the familiar images of daybreak, the half-burnt torch of the traveller; and, apparently,... ...p of real life, in short, is represented by the ancients under the uniform image of heat, and by the moderns under that of cold. the violence of the w... ...iers and at all the military stations, of renewing as much as possible the image of distant Rome by the erection of long colonnades and piazzas—single...

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...t liberty to dispose of what would be his. Then he turned to his wife. “My image,” said he (for so he often called her, there being some sort of relat... ...he power of groans and tears, to yield to the sole reverence of the sacred image of Valour, this can be no other than the effect of a strong and infle... ...of water the trembling beams of light, reflected from the sun, or from the image of the radi- ant moon, swiftly float over every place around, and now... ...y im- portant and worthy to be followed. Every one finds in him- self some image of such agitations, of a prompt, vehement, and fortuitous opinion; an... ...Egyptians after their feasts were wont to present the company with a great image of death, by one that cried out to them, “Drink and be merry, for suc... ...ls that serve to discharge the belly have their own proper dilatations and compressions, without and beyond our concurrence, as 147 Montaigne well as...

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...tiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. The image as a whole was that of a small Noah’s Ark on a small Ararat, allow ... ...ance take the form of an attitude threatening a possible enclosure, if not compression, of her person, she edged off round the bush. ‘Why, Farmer Oak,... ...ustworthy still. The young dog, George’s son, might possibly have been the image of his mother, for there was not much resemblance between him and Geo... ... elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water. All this Oak saw a... ...ost vividly, and through the slow hours of shadow he tenderly regarded her image now. It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensa... ...To think of her was to get good humoured; to speak of her was to raise the image of a dried Normandy pippin. ‘Stop your scrubbing a moment,’ said Bath... ...thrown over on the shears, and his head balanced sideways, with a critical compression of the lips and contraction of the eyelids to crown the attitud... ...as coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertio...

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...ness there. It was not because the creature was dead that I was so haunted, because I know that I might have been (and I know it because I have been) ... ...!’ ‘Port!’ ‘Steady!’ ‘Steady!’ ‘Go on!’ ‘Go on!’ A stout wooden wedge driven in at my right temple and out at my left, a floating deposit of lukewarm ... ...rms on my birthday. The first Magic Lantern I ever saw, was secretly and elaborately planned to be the great effect of a very juvenile birthday; but i... ...little town to buy another. In the The Uncommercial Traveller 261 small sunny shops—mercers, opticians, and druggist-gro- cers, with here and there a... ... remarked that he thought the waiter who ought to wait upon us had brightened a little when suggesting curry; and although I knew him to have been at ...

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...had been kind to her! shot across Theodora’s mind with acute pain, and the image of Arthur in grief swallowed up everything else. ‘I will go with you,... ...seemed of diamond worth. Per- haps the delights were the more intense from compression; 371 Yonge but it was a precious reprieve when Arthur’s answer... ... the object of her life. She had formed her beloved niece, like the fabled image of snow, moul- 433 Yonge ded by the enchanter and animated by no wil... ...thinking twice of such a selfish, ne’er- do-well as Arthur Martindale. The image of that pale young mother and her little ones pursued him, and with i... ...t she?’ ‘Oh, is not she pretty?’ ‘Whish! don’t praise yourself; she is the image of you at 556 Heartsease sixteen. Now that I have seen her, I see yo...

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...or- tune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental... ...e, the ox will bellow with joy. But man — man, whom God created in his own image — man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to lov... ...etween the past and the present. They saw, or rather continued to see, the image of what they had witnessed; but little by little the general vertigo ...

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...e all that had his allegiance appears shattered, overthrown, like a broken image, or at least unable to en- dure examination, then—” “Oh, Norman, is t... ...away for ever. It stilled the sounds of pain, and the restless motion; the compression of the hands became less tight, and he began to hope that the l...

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...he sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was qu...

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...face had a faded nobleness, tem- pered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing ... ...ence, something she was not to repeat, that she was in appearance the very image of the lady in Chester Square. The motive that prompted this declarat...

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...ntial an ornament were they deemed, that in the idolatrous times, even the images of their false gods were not considered becomingly attired without t... ...tonishment, that the foolish women of his time should bear to inflict such compression upon their tender feet. Even as early as the times of Herodotus... ...it. The reason lurks here:—In the word theatre, is contained an evanescent image of a great audience—of a populous mul- titude. Now, this image—half w... ...ul collision with the silence of hills— with the solitude of forests; each image, from reciprocal con- tradiction, brightens and vivifies the other. T... ...from reciprocal con- tradiction, brightens and vivifies the other. The two images act, and react, by strong repulsion and antagonism. This principle w... ...lates the sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities. The images of architectural splendor, suddenly raised in the very centre of Par...

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... brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- sion of the portly dames. There is ... ...axen tapers, carefully tended by writers on the Press, light-up mysterious images of our national selves for admiration. Something surely we do, or we... ...orm is reached, of the art of setting them beneath the flambeau of a final image, before thrusting them inside to be rivetted on their pedestals, have... ...lent chance of doing the same, let but the provident narrators direct that image to paint the thing a moth-like humanity desires, in the thing it shri... ..., it moved him to a curious contempt of the youth. He had to conjure-up an image of the young man in person, to correct the sentiment:—and it remained... ...and the gentleman was taught to feel that a never so slightly length- ened compression of the hand female shoots within us both straight and far and r... ...n he derided Dudley; but Victor was at war with the picture of her, in her compression of a cruel laugh, while her eyelids were hard shut, as if to ex...