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...ngerous man to fall foul of! See here.” He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands. “See that yo... ...ee that you keep yourself out of my grip,” he snarled, and hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the room. “He seems a very ami... ...rip was not much more feeble than his own.” As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again. “Fancy his ... ...t. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth brush are, I think all that we need... .... I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”...

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...lf, is Bond- street. From this lonely spot I make pilgrimages into the surrounding wilderness, and traverse extensive tracts of the Great Desert. The ... ...Member, with his right hand buttoned up in the breast of his coat, and his back characteristically turned on bales of petitions from his constituents,... ...ement for him, and, when he had brought him down, would look severely out of his study window and ask him how he enjoyed the fun. I thought how Mr. Ba...

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...t him go about alone. T rust them. You’re a queer fellow. One of these fun pokers. I see now why you have been clipping your words so oddly, but—” He ... ... the thing he meant to say was already in his mind. But this silence, this isolation, the sudden with- drawal from that contagious crowd, this silent ... ...implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inac- tive, inoperative. Their isolation seemed at times the strangest, the most un- expected of all the t...

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...l in their view of earthly things, for simplicity is a good counsellor and isolation not a bad educator. A turn of mind composed of innocence and scep... ...ost palpable. Y oung Powell felt it. He felt it in the sudden sense of his isolation; the trustworthy, powerful ship of his first acquaintance reduced... ...oken-down old man, either. Y ou can see yourself what he is. Straight as a poker, and life enough in him yet. But he made no move, and I began to feel... ...horoughness so far from all temptations, in the peace of the sea and in an isolation so complete that if it had not been the jealous devotion of the s... ...given me the impression of absolute rigidity, as though he had swallowed a poker. But it seems that he could collapse. I can hardly picture this to my... ... his rigidity now. He was bent. Nothing more deplorably futile than a bent poker. He said noth- ing. She added gently, suppressing an uneasy remorsefu... ...out an unbearable sight, he was stiffen- ing up in his corner to his usual poker-like consistency. She regarded him in silence. His thin obstinate lip... ...oo, shadowy and alive. Y ou know he always car- ried himself as stiff as a poker. We stood by the cot as though waiting for him to make us a sign that...

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...r, broke through chinks of cottage shutters, throwing stripes like red hot pokers upon cupboards, chests of drawers, and other furniture within; and a... ...ueous light which pervaded the open mead, impressed them with a feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve. At this dim inceptive stage of the... ... chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love’s counsel would prevail. The afternoon advanced, and still ... ...ort of trance, with a heap of coals by his side: it was the engineman. The isolation of his manner and colour lent him the appearance of a creature fr... ... distance was too long for a walk, but Clare felt such a strong desire for isolation that at first he would neither hire a conveyance nor go to a circu...

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... “they’re a dream.” And Ann Veronica found herself being carried off to an isolation even remoter and more conspicuous than the corner of the lawn, wi... ...hat have you been doing with yourself? …” She raked into the fire with the poker. “All of which doesn’t help me in the slightest degree to pay back th... ... a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. In- stantly she seized the poker and made a desperate effort to get them out again. But she was only a... ...urned with avidity. She remained for some seconds crouching at the fender, poker in hand. “By Jove!” she said, standing up at last, “that about fin- i... ...res for most people?” she said, not looking at him. “I do. It means social isolation—struggle.” “If you dare—I dare,” said Ann Veronica. “I was never ...

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... and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the hous... ...ed. ‘W retched inmates!’ I ejaculated, mentally , ‘you deserve per- petual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospi- tality. At least, I ... ...ghts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tr... ...mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and hu... ...t, I was not going to sympathise with him—the brute beast! Oh, give me the poker! This is the last thing of his I have about me:’ she slipped the gold... ..., do, do!’ 193 Emily Brontë But when I proceeded to open a place with the poker the sacrifice was too painful to be borne. She earnestly suppli- cate... ...est; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles of her craft: but I re- t...

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...ked rather stealthily at Rodney, who was tapping the coal nervously with a poker, and quivering almost physically, so Denham thought, with desire to t... ...ely appeased, but, neverthe- less, he sat silent for a moment, holding the poker per- fectly upright in the air, regarding it with his rather promi- n... ...ham remarked. “Well, I’ll lend it you,” Rodney announced, putting down the poker. As he moved to fetch the play, Denham stretched a hand to the bookca... ...orrent, Mary was no more in love with Denham than she was in love with her poker or her tongs. But probably these extreme passions are very rare, and ... ...Mary bent low over the fire and stirred the coal be- tween the bars with a poker. Katharine’s mention of Ralph had roused within her an almost irresis... ...e. Mary had no wish to speak. In the si- lence she seemed to have lost her isolation; she was at once the sufferer and the pitiful spectator of suffer... ...otion. Six months of torture, and after that the silence of the grave, the isolation of the insane, the exile of the damned; at best, a life from whic...

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... 173 Sinclair Lewis let a pneumonia patient choke rather than interrupt a poker game.” “Oh no. I can’t believe—” “Well now, I’m telling you!” “Does h... ... “Oh no. I can’t believe—” “Well now, I’m telling you!” “Does he play much poker? Dr. Dillon told me that Dr. Gould wanted him to play—” “Dillon told ... ... toothache,” or “Guess can’t make it tonight; Dave wants me to sit in on a poker game.” When, after a month of labor, as many as nine-elevenths of the... ...et quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation. But a village in a country which is taking pains to be- come alt... ...p— He blurted, “Oh. Forgot tell you. Some of the fellows coming in to play poker this evening. Suppose we could have some crackers and cheese and beer... ...n Street “He might have mentioned it before. Oh well, it’s his house.” The poker-party straggled in: Sam Clark, Jack Elder, Dave Dyer, Jim Howland. To... ...ke- shifts of the little brown cottages; she pitied their shab- biness and isolation; had compassion for their assertion of culture, even as expressed...

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...dy suddenly laughed—it sounded so remote and absurd. “What, play bridge or poker or something conventional of that sort?” said Josephine in her distin... ...” “I do, though. You learn to be quite alone, and possess your own soul in isolation—and at the same time, to be per- fectly WITH someone else—that’s ... ...t was: the people seemed little, upright brisk figures moving in a certain isolation, like tiny figures on a big stage. And he felt himself moving in ... ...hich, from his profoundest soul, he did not intend to do. By the innermost isolation and singleness of his own soul he would abide though the skies fe... ... which connected him with the woman, and gave the two of them this strange isolation, beyond the bounds of life, as it seemed. He caught it again. And... ... alone—as far as he, Aaron, was concerned. Lilly was alone— and out of his isolation came his words, indifferent as to whether they came or not. And h...

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...st look at the bitter sea-water. These harsh fruits of indigence, and this isolation in the midst of Paris, Lisbeth relished with delight. And besides... ... a Government office, the visitor felt oppressed, conscious at once of the isolation in which the mistress lived. Grief, like pleasure, infects the at... ...ound sum of money.” “They have fine appetites, have the goody sort! By the poker! they sell their sermons dearer than we sell the rarest and realest t... ...n, and you will find that generosity to me is not unrewarded.—Come, by the Poker! welcome your stepmother and come to the wed- ding.” “But you have no... ... ever, more Musketeer, Abbe Dubois, and Marechal de Richelieu! By the Holy Poker!—My wife, who is wandering in her head, has just sent me a man in a g...

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...atible disposi- tions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility. At Halliford I had already ... ...ard, and play- ing the “joker” with vivid delight. Afterwards he taught me poker, and I beat him at three tough chess games. When dark came we decided...

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...rds; also games not so simple, and calling for quite another kind of skill—poker. He had been the aptest pupil of a steady-eyed, sententious American,... ...ean. The memory of the Californian stranger was perpetuated in the game of poker—which became popular in the capital of Celebes from that time—and in ... ...eature—had been revealed clearly in that moment the tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneli- ness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and ev...

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...ry about the whole world. Only in after years did sexual feeling lose that isolation and spread itself out to illuminate and pervade and at last posse... ...tself; the whole world of politicians is far too like a man who snatches a poker to a failing watch. It is easy to say he wants to “get something done... ...g done,” but the only sane thing to do for the moment is to put aside that poker and take thought and get a better implement… . One of the results of ... ...nterwoven with all our other interests; to go out of the world and live in isolation seemed to us like killing the best parts of each other; we loved ...

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...l returns. In the mining days at Placerville there was no more redoubtable poker player in the county. He had been as lucky in his mines as in his gam... ...n the turn of a card. You didn’t get the reputation of being the strongest poker player in El Dorado County for nothing. Now, here’s the biggest gambl... ...th fragrant tobacco smoke. On a corner of the dining-room table, a game of poker was begun. One of the drivers, a Swede, produced an accordion; a grou... ...ars apart—was cut the name “Angele Varian.” But the quiet, the repose, the isolation of the little clois- ter garden was infinitely delicious. It was ... ...instincts of the old- 145 Frank Norris time gambler, the most redoubtable poker player of El Dorado County, stirred at the word. Chance! To know it w... ... reverses all our figures?” The one-time mining king, the most redoubtable poker player of Calaveras County, permitted himself a momen- tary twinkle o...

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...most for their failings. She was touched by their simple good faith, their isolation in the midst of all their queer apostles and parasites, their way... ...ch forgiving warmth, but the same sense of small- ness, insignificance and isolation which perpetually hung like a cold fog on her own horizon. Sudden... ...r more than a day?” “Oh, I shouldn’t be afraid—not much, that is, with the poker, and Nat’s water-pistol,” emended Junie, still judicious. Susy again ...

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...know Paris well, could not have understood the privacy and qui- etude, the isolation and safety which made this house excep- tional in Paris. After mi... ... some money left in her hands, which she is now called upon to pay. By the poker!— a queer thing is a heart of two and-twenty.” “V er’ goot, ver’ goot... ...n, are in solitary confinement. It is impossible to conceive of the sudden isolation in which a suspected criminal is placed. The gendarmes who appre-... ... Court. It will be seen that before the Revolution the Palace enjoyed that isolation which now again is aimed at. This block, this island of residence... ...the power with which the examining judge is armed, as a consequence of the isolation or separation of persons under suspicion, or the value of such a ... ... the stairs of the Tour Bonbec—the only exits from the yard. In this utter isolation every trivial inci- dent is an event, everything is interesting; ...

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...ng outside, and a crane or two, and the ever-busy wind and sea, the face of the world was of a prehistoric empti- ness; life appeared to stand stock-s... ...tic of Tembinok’ that he must invent a game for himself; highly characteristic of his worshipping household that they should swear by the absurd inven...

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...ood aside, and the other let him drive his nose all the compass round at a poker fist. What was worse, Matey examined these two, in the interests of f... ...hetically, as that of Aminta did when came a whisper of her situation, her isolation, her friendlessness; hardly dissimilar to what could be imagined ...

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...kes, is it? BLAYNE. No, it really is wanted. Anthony, you were the biggest poker-winner last week, and you’ve defrauded the tax-collector too long. Si... ...ceeding that of the smallest station to which Government has ever sent you—isolation that weighs upon the waking eyelids and drives you by force headl...

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...ichaelis by staring unwinkingly at the fire had regained that sentiment of isolation necessary for the continuity of his thought. His optimism had beg... ... door held desperately shut against a man’s rage (not for very long); of a poker flung once (not very far), which stilled that particular storm into t...

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...r enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted place was... ...r herself and passing through the midst of the cardinal’s numerous guards, courtiers eager to pay homage, the luxurious show of a competing royalty, s... ...ke his leg last night beneath your majesty’s window—the cry we heard was his—and there is no executioner nearer at hand than Bristol.” “But the Comte ... ...or my safety.” “Sire,” replied Juxon, “you shall be obeyed.” Meanwhile, the miner underneath was heard working away incessantly, when suddenly an unex...

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... symbolize something unseen. Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all out... ...mbinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all gen- eral methodization formed upon such ... ...ne whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. CHAPTER 61 Stubb Kills a Whale I F ... ...t lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils. The same secludedness and isolation to which the school- master whale betakes himself in his advancin...

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...survivors delighting in a broad-chested fitness. And consider the freezing isolation of a body of our quint- essential elect, seeing below them none t... ...e water-colour drawing interested him. He said he envied her that power of isolation, and the eye for beauty in every season. She opened a portfolio o... ...sure of him likewise. And then a truce to all that Radical rageing and hot-pokering of the country! and lie in peace, old Shrapnel! and get on your le... ...for striking, and to which he retired continually baffled and wrathful, in isolation. Then ensued the dreadful division in his conception of his power... ...g the look of a sweating smith’: pre- sumptively in the act of heating his poker at the furnace to stir the country. It now became an offence to him t...

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...ymbol ize something unseen. Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outw... ...inations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an ir regular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a ... ...one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. Chapter 61 Stubb Kills a Whale I f... ...t lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils. The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing ...

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... but quietly returned to her copy- ing; and when Henry came with paper and poker to remove the damage, she only shoved back her chair, and sat waiting... ...p if she did not creep up close to me. I’m tired of going at them with the poker, and would poison every man Jack of them if it were not for the fear ... ...us unsmiling gravity, the deeply worn stamp of patient endurance and utter isolation. There was much of rest and calm, and even of content—but withal ...

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... my comprehension, nor the real meaning of Christian fellowship. Thence my isolation.’ ‘You had never fairly seen the Church.’ ‘Never. It might have m... ... in and were mad entirely; and Mr. Kendal threatened to brain him with the poker if he did not quit it that instant, and sent Gilbert for a soldier fo... ... Lucy went down on your bare knees to get him to relent.’ ‘Well, I own the poker does throw an air of improbability over the whole. Minus that and the...

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...ee fat books, and a large looking-glass. Lastly, in (ap- parently) sunlike isolation, there was seated at the table the President. On arriving at the ... ...A grown, middle-aged man—a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker—suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while a...

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...ression of my face. I shut the door of the study behind me, and, seizing a poker, began an attack upon the desk. That is how they found me. The cover ... ...ons, and Mr. Cave, who had been out in the af- ternoon, supped in a gloomy isolation that contrasted pleas- antly with the impassioned controversy of ... ...dented kind. Few people without a training in science can realise the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of 214 The Country ...

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...came in to kindle the fire, which was soon effected by thrusting a red-hot poker between the bars of the grate, where the fuel was already disposed fo... ... spirits and preserve him from the tedium of absolute idleness and a total isolation from all society but mine, and a useful ally to me. I could not b...

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...nd said, ‘Gin.’ Then beat an imaginary child, and said, ‘Broom-handles and pokers.’ ‘When Maggy was ten years old,’ said Little Dorrit, watch- ing her... ...m; and that to make a kind of domesticated fairy of her, on the penalty of isolation at heart from the only people she knew, would be but a weakness o... ... me that again,’ cried Mr Dorrit, quite beside himself, ‘and I’ll take the poker to you!’ John Chivery backed to the door. ‘Stop, sir!’ cried Mr Dorri...

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...ith this view a signal of distress was made and a gun fired with a red-hot poker from the galley. Its detonation awoke the sleepers. Door after door w... ...civilisation of to-day, and even to the end of my grandfather’s career the isolation 40 Robert Louis Stevenson was far greater. There ran no post at ... ...kedness: it is scarce evil; it is only, in its highest power, the sense of isolation and the wise disinterestedness of feeble and poor races. Think ho...

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...shman Looks at the World munity may maintain itself in a state of complete isolation, but more usually there are tracks or roads to the centres of adj... ...lish and inhuman as that sorry compendium of mercantile vices, the game of poker, and I am amazed to find Chesterton commend it. But that is a critici... ...tram, but said that he thought it would go better without all that jiggery-pokery of wires up above. They are like the Western judge in the murder tri... ...talk to Washington, is to receive an extraordinary impression of the utter isolation and hopeless- 237 H. G . Wells ness of Washington. The National ...

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...s. Morel raked. And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remain- der of the coal to ma... ...nderstood thing that if one woman wanted her neighbour, she should put the poker in the fire and bang at the back of the fireplace, which, as the fire... ...ren played on. They were brought exceedingly close together owing to their isolation. If a quarrel took place, the whole play was spoilt. Arthur was v... ...with a brief note: “You will allow me to send you this, and so spare me my isolation. I also sympathise and wish you well.—C.D.” Paul flushed hot. “Go... ...him turn, and saw them come to rest together. Something in their per- fect isolation together made her know that it was accom- plished between them, t... ... bond. At any rate, the elemental man in each had met. He went down to the isolation hospital, with Dr. Ansell’s card. This sister, a healthy young Ir...

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...nd said, ‘Gin.’ Then beat an imaginary child, and said, ‘Broom-handles and pokers.’ ‘When Maggy was ten years old,’ said Little Dorrit, watch- ing her... ...m; and that to make a kind of domesticated fairy of her, on the penalty of isolation at heart from the only people she knew, would be but a weakness o...

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...worth no money to me.” Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest. He longed to get out of the room, but he w... ...could not continue in- definitely. It was not more possible to find social isolation in that town than elsewhere, and two people persistently flirting... ...to be overcome by a sense of fellowship deep enough to make all efforts at isolation seem mean and petty instead of exalting. But Mr. Casaubon was now... ...ion lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might all... ...ried life tolerable—everything which saved him and Rosamond from that bare isolation in which they would be forced to recognize how little of a comfor... ...he was at his side in mournful but unreproaching fellowship with shame and isolation. All this went on within her in a mere flash of time—while she sa...

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... worth no money to me.” Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest. He longed to get out of the room, but he w... ..., could not continue indefinitely. It was not more pos sible to find social isolation in that town than elsewhere, and two people persis tently flirtin... ...to be overcome by a sense of fellowship deep enough to make all efforts at isolation seem mean and petty instead of exalting. 336 Book IV — Three Lov... ...ion lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might all... ...d life tolerable— everything which saved him and Rosa mond from that bare isolation in which they would be forced to recognize how little of a comfor... ...he was at his side in mournful but unreproaching fellowship with shame and isolation. All this went on within her in a mere flash of time— while she sa...

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...a delighted voice. “Eh, Joe?” as there was a pause; and as he replaced the poker, he looked up to her with a colour scarcely to be accounted for by th... ...a moon somewhere, and the darkness was not total, but the dreari- ness and isolation were the more felt from the absence of all outlines being manifes...