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...nt like that before Al- caeus was out of danger, and we cheered him on the road to recovery. Pittakos and some of his officials visited him, expressi... ...beauty. Near Capernaum I met an officer as I rested under trees along the road. His horse was lathered with sweat and the man was tired; he leaned f... ... this world to help men see...” Last week I cured lepers on the Jericho road, men and women, all in rags. All were afraid of me, afraid of themsel... ...some, Countess Bardolph, Lord Fenton, Lady Page, were perfumed bores; the Irishmen were troublemakers... The Captain of the Guard requested a dance... ...n...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared grin. Meerie, talking Irish, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filt... ...t an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With his friendly Irish spirit, he has favored Irish immigration. With his eye on the presid... ...ep, until someone wakes me. Tonight I would like to bowl at Caspari’s but bowling, because of the war, is off-limits for me. Somebody’s afraid a str... ...rucifixion. I know. I have thought— October 24, ’64 I wish I could go bowling, swap yarns. When I bowl I really never care whether I win. When I... ... an exchange, maybe, if I relate one of my circuit stories. I can not go bowling when men are dying. There is no escape. I should not look for an e...

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...ay was straight, south and barren and made him almost yearn for the tortuous roads that appeared near Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although t... ...himself why, even now, he was staring at moving forest and long stretches of road with this yearning for love. He opened another pint of milk. He sip... ...in buildings, and widths of streets. Everything from the thin dust-sheathed roads to the hangul (Korean language) on the signs, looked as identical a... ...ith them. She assumed that driving through a crowd of people was a lot like bowling only the pins weren't stationary. Actually, she thought, it did ... ...eren't stationary. Actually, she thought, it did sound more of a sport than bowling ever did. However, the thought of doing such things out of the co... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k...

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...at the telephone poles. They recede at the exact same 45-degree angle as the road does. The farther you look ahead, the more everything gets small... ... to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jew... ... and strings. Walk around that land: view it, decide where you will make the road, where you will build your house, where you will dig your well, la... ... Where do you draw an abstract line of any sort…? And turn it into an actual road, an actual wall, an actual tradition, an actual ethic, and an act... ...bal crop failure. Without a high diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China ... ...re of Ulster had deflected attention away from England herself, and the Ire of Irish, all their energy was wasted fighting Scots in Ulster, not Engla... ...ance, you join a folk-dance cult, a folk-dance club. If you bowl, you join a bowling cult, a bowling club. The only problem with this kind of i... ...rts, all balls used in sports, the hitting of all balls, ping-pong, badminton, bowling, bowling pins: the decapitation of bowling pins by a bowling ...

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...l we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes risso... ...o create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as ‘Irish Stew,’ three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young... ...; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but ashamed to own his country... ...m to make the least distinction between these extremes, but would cheerily fol- low up ‘Tom Bowling’ with ‘Around her splendid form.’ The father, an o... ... on Liberton Hill, near Edinburgh, an Irish labourer trudging homeward from the fields. Our roads lay together, and it was natural that we should fall... ...ravelled over most of the world, and enjoyed wonderful opportunities on some American rail- road, with two dollars a shift and double pay on Sunday an... ...ty ser- vant-maids, but looked more like a country wench who should have been employed at a roadside inn. Now was the time for me to go and study the ... ...awns, opening one out of the other through tall hedges; these have all the charm of the old bowling-green repeated, do not require the labour of many ...

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...R I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch f... ...to refuse. He took a firmer hold of the cork grips of his handle- bars—the road being in a wretched condition after the recent hauling of the crop—and... ...winter’s sowing. But such little hauling as there had been had reduced the roads thereabouts to a lamentable condition, and, during the dry season of ... ...wled Annixter. Then sud- denly he demanded, “Where’s that dog?” A decrepit Irish setter sometimes made his appearance in and about the ranch house, sl... ...r the Chinese cooks had set out in the shed of the eating-house, long as a bowling alley, unpainted, crude, the seats benches, the table covered with ... ...own his glass, wiping his lips with a murmur of satisfaction, the decrepit Irish setter that had attached himself to Annixter’s house came out from un... ...I see that dog has turned up,” he announced with brisk cheerfulness. “That Irish setter I was asking about.” Hilma, a swift, pink flush deepening the ...

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... the midst of a light Stonehenge of samples. And yet—proceeding now, to introduce myself positively— I am both a town traveller and a country travelle... ...in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, London—now about the city streets: no... ... thinking, anything but new to the spot. Yet, I had never seen it in my life, a minute before, and had traversed two hundred miles to get at it. That ... ...I had never seen it in my life, a minute before, and had traversed two hundred miles to get at it. That very morning I had come bowling down, and stru... ...ere all frightfully disap- pointed to see us. ‘Who have you got up-stairs here?’ says Sharpeye, gener- ally. (In the Move-on tone.) ‘Nobody, surr; sur... ...t back to his bed and laid himself down on the outside of it. I could have pro- nounced him, alone, to be a young man aged by famine and sickness. As ... ... famine and sickness. As we were standing by the Irish soldier’s bed, I mentioned my perplexity to the Doctor. He took a board with an inscription on ...

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...ady of high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam-... ...shamed of his wonderment, and accounts for it by ‘not having known she was Irish.’ She ‘turns out to be Dan Merion’s daughter.’ We may assume that he ... ...eing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked Islands. Henry Wilmer... ...miring … quite lost his head . . on his honour! never again !’ Once in the roadway, and Copsley visible, she checked her arrowy pace for breath, and a... ...scribe as pulp. He was utterly beaten. The sight of Redworth on the valley road was a relief to them both. He had slept in one of the houses of the va... ...rossways tied a knot, barred a gate, and pointed to a new direction of the road on that fine spring morning, when beech-buds were near the burst, cows... ... through the valley led them past a field, where cricket- ers were at work bowling and batting under a vertical sun: not a very comprehensible sight t... ...h score—old days—over two hundred t’ his bat. And he used to bowl too. But bowling wants prac- tice. And, Emmy, look at the old fellows lining the boo...

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... men and boys out of every ninety nine and a quarter. Except when a branch road joins the main one, there is seldom more than one track of rails; so t... ...ns the main one, there is seldom more than one track of rails; so that the road is very narrow, and the view, where there is a deep cut ting, by no m... ...pelessness of there being anybody to get in. It rushes across the turnpike road, where there is no gate, no policeman, no signal: nothing but a rough ... ...ard name, while the other looks about for it on all the doors and windows. Irishmen both! You might know them, if they were masked, by their long tail... ...nd make canals and roads, and execute great lines of Internal Improvement! Irishmen both, and sorely puzzled too, to find out what they seek. Let us g... ... broad stone cellar steps ap pears, and a painted lamp directs you to the Bowling Saloon, or Ten Pin alley; Ten Pins being a game of mingled chance a... ...the copper. He carries its people too. They are partly American and partly Irish, and herd together on the lower deck; where they amused them selves ...

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...cted, evasive rendering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because ... ... Days of the Comet stepway and the lanes toward Clayton Crest and the high road. But my memories carry me back so effectually to those days before the... ... dripping fire into the night. A hazy movement of people swayed along that road, and we heard the voice of an itinerant preacher from a waste place be... ...o altogether free from insult, and on one occasion at least an intoxicated Irish woman shook her fist at him… . A dark, quiet crowd, that was greater ... ...ambury, and given to the serving of lunches and teas. It had a broad mossy bowling- green, and round about it were creeper-covered arbors amidst 178 ...

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...se beggars were as ragged as those of Ireland, and still more voluble, the Irish traveller will be able to form an opinion of their capabilities. Thro... ...three hours, in the worst carriages, over the most diabolical clatter- ing roads, up and down dreary parched hills, on which grew a few grey olive-tre... ...is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest and simplest of Irishmen:he has embraced his children, and reviewed his little invalid garr... ...quer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without depriving you of any blessed rest. Men of... ...ades 41 Thackeray or Cimon ever had, that we consoled ourselves along the road. It was flat for six miles along the plain to the city:and you see for... ...beautiful, brilliant, brave, and wise?We saw four Greeks on donkeys on the road (which is a dust-whirlwind where it is not a puddle); and other four w... ...hours kept tolling, And through the ocean rolling, Went the brave “Iberia” bowling Before the break of day - When a squall upon a sudden Came o’er the...

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...e basement for the use of the soldiers; and there is on the other hand the road by which wagons find their way to the underground region with fuel, st... ...overed with grand timber. The ground is varied and broken, and the private roads about sweep here into a dell and then up a brae side, as roads should... ...e camp. The fences had disappeared. The gardens were trodden into mud. The roads had been cut to pieces, and new 23 Trollope tracks made everywhere t... ...ral troops at Louisville, and Sydney Johnston, the Confederate general, at Bowling Green, as yet remained opposite to each other, and the work was sti... ...universally in the towns of Kentucky. This work is chiefly in the hands of Irish and Germans. Considerably above one-third of the population of the wh... ... the streets of the town, I should say that nearly every man was either an Irishman or a German. St. Louis has none of the aspects of a slave city. I ... ...d destroyed the railway bridge over the Green River, and were now lying at Bowling Green, between the Green River and Nashville. This place it was und... ...s, were sinking under fatigue. I was informed by various officers that the Irish regiments were on the whole the most satisfactory. Not that they made... ...he West had abandoned the for- tified position which they had long held at Bowling Green, in the southwestern district of Kentucky. Roanoke Island, on...

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...ave feared to cry in it, for his sobs were not loud. On a rise of the park-road where a fir-plantation began, he heard his name called faintly from th... ...und which the sea-tide flows. My father must have borne me miles along the road; he must have procured food for me; I have an idea of feeling a damp f... ...our English. T urn it over as you’re about to speak.’ ‘Change loads on the road, you mean,’ said John Thresher. ‘Na, na, he’s come to settle nigh a we... ...m, however, of impudence. She let me see a portrait of her dead mother, an Irish lady raising dark eyelashes, whom she resembled. I talked of the port... ...ore kisses! Oh, yes, I will kiss you, dear.’ Heriot said, ‘Your mother was Irish, Julia.’ ‘Yes. She would have loved you.’ ‘I ‘ve Irish blood too. Giv... ...now, one who had bowled to Heriot for hours and stood against Saddlebank’s bowling, was a tough customer, never mind his age. 75 George Meredith This... ...dies. All the better; keep him there Captain Bulsted convoyed me to pretty Irish-eyed Julia Rippenger. Temple had previ- ously made discovery of Janet... ...osition of Saddlebank’s fame, neither of us, from what we had known of his bowling, doubting that he de- served it. ‘Acquainted with him, gentlemen?’ ...

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... with her and her invariable voyages. The old ship ought to have known the road better than her men, who had not been kept so long at it without a cha... ...d the riding lights of ships cast trem- bling trails upon the water of the roadstead. Captain Whalley saw not a gleam anywhere till the dawn broke and... ...ntary sidewalks and a soft layer of dust cushioning the whole width of the road. One end touched the slummy street of Chinese shops near the harbor, t... ...eighted his feet like a great fatigue. A succession of open carriages came bowling along the newly opened sea-road. You could see across the wide gras... ...ld and incoherent tale of his infatuation for the wife of a sergeant in an Irish infantry regiment. The regiment, however, had done its turn of garris...

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...ceived “a gen- eral system of internal improvements” in the shape of rail- roads, canals, and banks,—a reckless policy, burdening the State with debt,... ...n and women can give, and enters upon some form of pub- lic service on the road to usefulness and honor, the Uni- versity course being only the first ... ...inly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads, and in the clear- ing of navigable streams within their limits, is w... ...uppose I can ascertain before the law will be pub- lished, if it is a law. Bowling Greene, Bennette Abe? and yourself are appointed to make the change... ...evil day for a time, which I really dreaded as much, perhaps more, than an Irishman does the halter. After all my suffering upon this deeply interesti... ...e an anecdote which seems too strik- ingly in point to be omitted. A witty Irish soldier, who was always boasting of his bravery when no danger was ne...

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...g too preposterous for contemplation. Well, one matchless summer’s day I was bowling down the bend above island 66, brimful of self conceit and carryi... ...ed and twenty five!” The captain surrendered. Five minutes later Stephen was bowling through the chute and showing the rival boat a two hundred and fi... ...mained, but business was dull with them; the multitudes of poison swill ing Irishmen had departed, and in their places were a few scattering handfuls... ..., by reducing the freight trip to New Orleans to less than a week. The rail roads have killed the steamboat passenger traffic by doing in two or thre... ...bought some cheap litera ture to kill time with. The vender was a venerable Irishman with a benevolent face and a tongue that worked easily in the so... ...ompany than the sappy literature he was selling. A random remark, connecting Irishmen and beer, brought this nugget of information out of him— “They d... ...moved off as if they had not expected any, and struck down a winding country road afoot. But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; fo... ...6 people who live on it have to ferry themselves over and work the Illinois roads and pay Illinois taxes: singular state of things! Near the mouth of...

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...ne that would carry a woman. Two of them were hunters; the third, a useful road-horse: this third he resolved to exchange for one that his cousin migh... ...whom she even forced Lady Bertram to go through ten miles of indiffer- ent road to pay a morning visit. It was not long before a 34 Mansfield Park go... ...ew of the Parsonage and all its demesnes, gently rising beyond the village road; and in Dr. Grant’s meadow she immediately saw the group—Edmund and Mi... ...ded on each side by a high wall, contained beyond the first planted area a bowling-green, and beyond the bowling-green a long ter- race walk, backed b... ... regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the ter- race. They all felt the refreshment of it, and f... ...hat. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle’s. Your sister loves to laugh.” “You think her more... ...w,” smiling, “better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles’ drive.” “Naturally, I believe, I am as ...

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...shining qualities of his wife.” Mr. Kenge proceeded to tell us that as the road to Bleak House would have been very long, dark, and tedious on such an... ...ade a pretty large town in my eyes; and at last we got into a real country road again, with windmills, rick yards, milestones, farmers’ waggons, scent... ...have sung to the bells, so cheerful were the influences around. “The whole road has been reminding me of my name sake Whittington,” said Richard, “an... ... weather to think that you live in an island with the sea a rolling and a bowling right round you. Guster is busy in the little drawing room on this ... ... for the knocker was gone—and after a long parley gained admission from an Irishwoman, who was in the area when I knocked, breaking up the lid of a wa... ...owned, and assuredly went over the side of a transport ship at night in an Irish harbour within a few hours of her arrival from the West Indies, as I ...

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...blue veins might be seen branching off in various directions, like so many roads on an ethereal map. This fact in itself, though it had been a solitar... ... up to his seat upon the roof. Off went the mail at a canter down the dark road; the lamps gleaming brightly, and the horn awakening all the echoes, f... ...body knew whence and going nobody knew whither; had turned out of the high road, and driven unexpectedly to the Blue Dragon; and here was the old gent... ...huzzlewit and his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all with their little ... ...olonel knocked at this house with the air of a man who lived there; and an Irish girl popped her head out of one of the top windows to see who it was.... ...the now dark street. It was quickly opened by a man with such a thoroughly Irish face, that it seemed as if he ought, as a matter of right and princip... ... an elephant would have made of a castle; just swinging it on his back and bowling downstairs as if, being naturally a heavy sort of fellow, he could ...

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...rice had—as they considered—thrown himself away on a little lively lady of Irish parentage, no equal in birth or fortune, in their opinion, for the gr... ...e front door opened on a narrow sweep, the river cut- ting it off from the road, and crossed by two wooden bridges, beside each of which stood a weepi... ...uaintance was near, he emerged with Albinia from the gate, and crossed the road as the chime of the bells changed. ‘We are late,’ he said. ‘You will p... ...ruple about reverence. Albinia set them to read, and suffered for it. Lucy road flippantly; Sophy in the hoarse, dull, dogged voice of a naughty boy. ... ... of thirty-six cousins, and thought, with her aunts, that Winifred was too Irish. Yet, at any other time, the histories would have made her sometimes ... ...more than Albinia thought war- ranted by any fact relating to the horde of Irish cousins. 100 Yo n g e ‘Only think, Albinia, I have found out that po... ...?’ ‘Oh, mamma, there you are!’ and Lucy joined them as they emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archer...

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...h. On the other side of the house was a terrace sloping down to a lawn and bowling-green, hedged in by a formal row of evergreens. A noble plane-tree ... ...e was a field, called Long Acre, bounded on the other side by the turnpike road to Raynham, which led up the hill to the village green, sur- rounded b... ...ge was, however, at the foot of the hill, where the Court lane crossed the road, led to the old church, the school, and parsonage, in its little garde... ...t day was spent rather more rationally. Lord Rotherwood met with a book of Irish Tales, with which he became so engrossed that he did not like to leav... ...traying away to join in some of Reginald’s sports, and was grateful to the Irish book for keeping him out of mischief. Emily was in her glory; it was ... ... when he had whistled up two of the dogs, they proceeded merrily along the road, dirty and wet though it was. Their walk was not entirely without adve... ...e a deep sigh, and sat silent for some minutes. Next, Claude began a droll Irish fairy-tale, which he told with spirit and humour, such as some people... ...st, called Claude to come out on the lawn to look at the preparations. The bowling-green was to serve as drawing-room, and at one end was pitched an i...

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...right into the quadrangle of the Castle, so we went into the middle of the road and formed a line. Soon a rocket (the signal that the Queen was at Slo... ..... By the bye, I do not really want a book-case much, and you gave me the “Irish Stories,” and I have not yet been sent up. I would rather not have a ... ...ainst Harrow and Winchester. He was sent in first in the Harrow match; the bowling was steady and straight, but Patteson’s defence was admirable. He s... ...here was but one four, and by steady play completely broke the neck of the bowling. Eton won the match easily, Patteson making a brilliant catch at po... ...idding, the Winchester captain, played an uphill game so fiercely that the bowling had to be repeatedly changed. Our eleven were disorganised, and the... ...reement was made that the cost should for the present be made over to the ‘Irish fund.’ Another friend of this period, now well known as Principal Sha... ... free-spoken fellow. ‘I went, on the same afternoon, two miles of very bad road to visit the French priest, who is living here. More talk and of a ver... ...ittle pocket-compass. ‘My first day was eighteen miles in pouring rain; no road, in your sense of the word; but a good warm room and tea at the end. N... ... am sleeping at home. ‘May 23rd.—I suppose anyone who has lived in a dirty Irish village—pigs, fowls, and children equally noisy and 474 Life of John...

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...aining energies of Algernon’s mind were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. He preached it over the county, struggling through laborious liter... ...bious, and the present fruit of it is discomfort; to quit a comrade on the road, and return home without him: these are tricks which no boy of spirit ... ...gh the briar hedge, calling out for one of them to direct them the nearest road to Bursley. The tinker was kindling preparations for his tea, under th... ...nothing loath, and in a short time they were following the two lads on the road to Bursley, while a horizontal blaze shot across the autumn and from t... ...onsense! There’s no so much harm in being young, here and there. I knew an Irish lady was married at fourteen. Her daughter married close over fourtee... ...priate illustrations to the ballad-monger’s repertory. Clare sang a little Irish air. Her duty done, she marched from the piano. Mothers are rarely de...

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...s; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, 72 Moby Dick other fragments of the la... ...Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Le- icester, on bended knees, did likew... ...y go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to ‘em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall! But those chaps there... ...s they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for a... ...ntry houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road-side door. When the porter is sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be ...

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...s; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themse... ...Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewis... ...y go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to ’em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall! But those chaps there... ...s they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for a... ...ntry houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road side door. When the porter is sleepy, the anvil headed whale would be...

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...nnagan, who managed with strange skill to combine a cockney whine with his Irish brogue. 21 John Dos Passos “Overseas?” took up the lanky man. “If I ... ... make signs to them, can’t ye?” said Flannagan “an’ they can understand an Irishman anywhere. But ye won’t ‘ave to talk to the ‘uns. Begorry I’ll set ... ...what d’ye think of that?” Everybody laughed. “How’d that do? I’ll start an Irish House in Berlin, I will, and there’ll be O’Casey and O’Ryan and O’Rei... ...in a dilapidated mansion that stood among old oaks and chestnuts, beside a road where buggies and oxcarts passed rarely to disturb the sandy ruts that... ...sleep. The column was like some curious khaki-colored carpet, hid- ing the road as far as you could see. In Fuselli’s company the men were shifting th... ...as to take the weight of his pack off his shoulders. They were at a cross- roads on fairly high ground so that they could see the long sheds and barra... ...rer. There were loud eager rumbles as of bowls being rolled very hard on a bowling alley, combined with a continuous roar like sheets of iron being sh...

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........144 BOOK VII.......................................155 Song of the Open Road......................155 BOOK VIII..................................... .........276 After the Sea Ship.............................277 BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE ..278 A Boston Ballad (1854).....................278 Europe (The... ...................................317 A March in the Ranks Hard Prest, and the Road Unknown.....................318 A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray... ...ith the apparitions pressing, Pioneers! O pioneers! Lo, the darting bowling orb! Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and pla... ... lands come sounding round me, The German airs of friendship, wine and love, Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles, Chansons of France... ...ve returns unharm’d, the immigrant is back beyond months and years, The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well known n...

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...spray rose eighty feet at the new pier. Some wood has come ashore, and the roadway seems carried away. There is some- thing fishy at the far end where... ... comparatively little: what there may be below, on ne sait pas encore. The road- way is torn away, cross heads, broken planks tossed here and there, p... ...ly none above five, that always go halting and stum- bling up and down the roadway, are ordinarily very quiet, and sit sedately puddling in the gutter... ...] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsburgh and Chicago, just now bowling through Ohio. I am taking charge of a kid, whose mother is asleep, ... ...my mind of what I have read has been to awaken a livelier sympathy for the Irish; although they never had the remarkable virtues, I fear they have suf... ...Road, or dear mysterious Leith Walk! But here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling; here in this strange place, whose very strangeness would have been...

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...ot one that would carry a woman. Two of them were hunters; the third, a useful road horse: this third he resolved to exchange for one that his cousin ... ...nd to whom she even forced Lady Bertram to go through ten miles of indifferent road, to pay a morning visit. It was not long before a good understandi... ...a view of the parsonage and all its demesnes, gently rising beyond the village road; and in Dr. Grant’s meadow she immediately saw the group — Edmund ... ...unded on each side by a high wall, contained beyond the first planted a erea, a bowling green, and beyond the bowling green a long terrace walk, backed... ...much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling green and the terrace. They all felt the re freshment of it, a... ...at what. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle’s. Your sister loves to laugh.” “You think her ... ... know,” smiling, “better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles’ drive.” “Naturally, I believe, I am...

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...r some weeks, was walking with her in full view of the carriages along the road. He had, indeed, you see, been very fortunately, if not con- sideratel... ... of his veracity, until she heard that a gentleman had taken him up on the road in a gig, and had driven him to a farm to show him strings of birds’ e... ... to Laetitia until Crossjay related how that he had stood to salute on the road to the railway, and taken off his cap to Sir Willoughby, and Sir Willo... ...h gentleman—of the brainless class, if you like, but an elegant fellow; an Irishman; you will see him, and I should like to set a naval lieutenant bes... ...h- out any form at all.” Willoughby knew his friend Horace’s mood when the Irish tongue in him threatened to wag. 162 The Egoist “You see what may ha... ...ly?” said Sir Willoughby. “No, nor making acquaintance with an actor in an Irish part in a drama cast in the Green Island. ’Tis Flitch, my dear Willou... ... WHICH THE COMIC MUSE HAS AN EYE ON TWO GOOD SOULS CLARA MET VERNON on the bowling-green among the lau- rels. She asked him where her father was. “Don...

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...ky. Here they met Norman again, and walked on along a very rough and dirty road, the ground growing more decidedly into hills and valleys as they adva... ...nt, and by her vexation at not being always comprehended. They went by the road, for the plantation gate was far too serious an undertaking for any on... ... and Flora coaxed Norman to come with them, “just one mile on the turnpike road and back again; he would be much fresher for his Greek afterwards.” He... ... Such rags as there were under it! Oh, Ethel!” “Which was it?” “That merry Irish-looking child. I don’t know her name.” “Oh! it is a real charming Iri... ... promise of a Prayer-book. She could really read and say the Catechism—her Irish wit and love of learning had out- stripped all the rest—and she was t... ...bered all the history up to the flood, and how prettily it came out in her Irish accent! That made up for all the atrocious stupidity of others, who, ... ...dies were in the gardens, they repaired thither at once. The broad, smooth bowling-green lay be- fore them; a marquee, almost converted into a bower, ...

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...u de Bordeau, in a little sloping meadow, not very far from the newly made road, by which the man who came off victori- ous could reach Lyons. Raphael... ...ere he is,” said the seconds, who soon descried a caleche coming along the road; it was drawn by four horses, and there were two postilions. “What a q... ...d the arrival of the carriage with a kind of uneasiness. It stopped in the road; old Jonathan laboriously descended from it, in the first place, to as... ...matic plants bloomed about it, in a realm of meadow as fresh as an English bowling-green. The fine soft grass was watered by the streams that trickled... ...th sparkling eyes, attractively and fancifully arrayed. One had adopted an Irish jacket, which displayed the alluring outlines of her form; one wore t...

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...e found the wind ahead in the bay, and were obliged to come to anchor in the roads. We remained there through the day and a part of the night. My watc... ... the south east and north west winds, that it is little better than an open roadstead; and the whole swell of the Pacific ocean rolls in here before ... ...ression which California had made upon us was very disagreeable:—the open roadstead of Santa Barbara; anchor- ing three miles from the shore; runn... ... of diamonds, for their brilliancy. As for their color, they were like the Irishman’s pig, which would not stay to be counted, every change of posi... ...the sun: two Englishmen, three Yankees, two Scotchmen, two Welshmen, one Irishman, three Frenchmen (two of whom were Normans, and the third from ... ...e was no rust, no dirt, no rigging hanging slack, no fag ends of ropes and ‘‘Irish pendants’’ aloft, and the yards were squared ‘‘to a t’’ by lifts an... ... our studding sails in and brace up; and in a couple of hours more, we were bowling gloriously along, dashing the spray far ahead and to leeward, wi...

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...To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven ministers were all noted... ...ortion of his legs, could move only with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor, the prodigious muscular power which nature seemed to have be... ...- quence into play to save it. I vowed to serve him as St. Patrick, in the Irish chronicle, is said to have served the toad,—that is to say, “awaken h... ...liar), to a spot about three miles to the east of the borough, on the main road leading to the city. Here the track made off into a by-path through a ... ...im black and blue to no purpose. “Look,” he cried with enthusiasm, “at the Bowling-Green Fountain in New Y ork! or if this be too vast a contemplation... ... admit the ingenuity, magnificence, and superiority of the Fountain at the Bowling Green, as described by the Doctor. Nothing like it, he was forced t...

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...ly fee, and was soon rolling out of London. CHAPTER VI MY GENTLEMAN ON THE ROAD THE POSTILLION had every reason to believe that he carried a real gent... ..., hearing the wheels of 53 George Meredith the chariot still dragging the road in his rear. The postillion was in a dissatisfied state of mind. He ha... ... to bait, and saw no reason why he should not take a lift that part of the road, at all events. Evan thanked him briefly , but declined, and paced on ... ...t they are Britons, it abashes them. They are not the men they were. Their bowling is as the bowling of babies; and see! Nick, who gave the catch, and... ...te up to her mark—a tailor’s daughter, you know. Gad, if she didn’t set an Irish Dragoon Captain on me!—I went about in danger of my life. The fellow ... ...8 Evan Harrington CHAPTER XXV IN WHICH THE STREAM FLOWS MUDDY AND CLEAR AN IRISH RETRIEVER-PUP of the Shannon breed, Pat by name, was undergoing tuiti... ...of profound repose when his desire to be up and bounding was mighty. Pat’s Irish eyes were watching Rose, as he lay with his head couched between his ...