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...e of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas— was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen... ...eamer which would leave on the 6th of November for Yokohama, the principal Japanese port. The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom di... ...Verne palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong Kong see... ... En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed ... ... bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Em- pire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, befo... ...he jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the od... ...of the train to the other. It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking-cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they wi...

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...e, and take it home with you?” “Or drink it here.” “Where?” “In one of the restaurants. There wouldn’t be a soul there at this hour. I know they serve... ...ky. Without looking for it or even expecting it, Blix came across a little Japanese tea-house, or rather a tiny Japanese garden, set with almost toy J... ...rs for five cents. Blix and Snooky went in. There was nobody about but the Japanese serving woman. Snooky was in raptures, and Blix spent a de- lightf... ...y was in raptures, and Blix spent a de- lightful half-hour there, drinking Japanese tea, and feed- ing the wafers to the carp and gold-fish in the tin... ...t a desk in one of the further corners of the room and shut off by a great Japanese screen. He was in his shirt- sleeves, his hair was tumbled, his fi...

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...ith cigar stands in their vestibules; sad-looking plumbers’ offices; cheap restaurants, in whose windows one saw piles of unopened oysters weighted do... ... eight the street breakfasted. Now and then a waiter from one of the cheap restaurants crossed from one sidewalk to the other, balancing on one palm a... ... girls, the young women of the soda fountains, the waitresses in the cheap restaurants—pre- ferred another dentist, a young fellow just graduated from... ... wall-paper was admirable— 111 Frank Norris hundreds and hundreds of tiny Japanese mandarins, all identically alike, helping hundreds of almond-eyed ... ... some were still breakfasting. Now and then a waiter from one of the cheap restaurants crossed from one side- walk to another, balancing on one palm a... ...bage and some lentils for a soup, and if you don’t go to market early, the restaurants get all the best.” “And you’ve been to market already, Miss Bak... ...ed dressmaker standing on the thresh- old, carrying a cup of tea on a tiny Japanese tray. She held it toward him. “I was making some tea,” she said, “...

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...very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows. The next day in library class she had to read a theme o... ...wheel, and to set it with an embroidered lunch-cloth, and the mauve-glazed Japanese tea-set which she had brought from St. Paul. Miss Sherwin confided... ..., thrown it into a long room on which she lavished yellow and deep blue; a Japanese obi with an intricacy of gold thread on stiff ultramarine tis- sue... ...l, I’ll be switched,” as he viewed the vermilion print hanging against the Japanese obi. She was amused. But her high spirits slackened as she beheld ... ...re ec- centric in furnishing this room—they think the broad couch and that Japanese dingus are absurd. (Wait! I know they’re silly.) And I guess I’ve ... ...hile protesting that she wanted a city’s yellow glare of shop- windows and restaurants, or the primitive forest with hooded furs and a rifle, or a bar... ...incred- ibly, they were like the talked-out couples whom she had pitied at restaurants. Bresnahan would have spouted in a lively, exciting, un- reliab... ...’ve got time for it, I’d like to chase around Washington, and take in some restaurants and shows and stuff, and forget work for a while.” She realized...

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... and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the country. Except on the ... ... a manufacturer had made strong remonstrance against adapting his lamps to Japanese vases. On a marvellous sideboard was displayed a service of silver...

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...s twenty-two hundred-say six times twenty-two hundred—well, any- way, with restaurants and everything, say summers be- tween eight and fifteen thousan... ...s composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers. At the head was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and g... ...and scarlet jazz music in a cheap up- stairs dance-hall; lights of Chinese restaurants, lanterns painted with cherry-blossoms and with pagodas, hung a... ...I like it!” He had often and weightily pondered flappers smoking in Zenith restaurants, but he knew only one woman who smoked—Mrs. Sam Doppelbrau, his...

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...r spurious. Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunt- ing is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or Mark Twain 96 deco... ... eating, drinking, or smoking—crowds of other people strolling by—such is the Arcade. I should like to live in it all the time. The windows of the sum... ...emanded. This began to look reasonable. It certainly began to ac- count for the German cream which I had encountered and marveled over in so many hote...

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... be visible with Margaret in Lon- don just as much as possible; we went to restaurants, we visited the theatre; we could even contemplate the possibil... ...und’ wet tissue paper!” My best answer on the spur of the moment was: “The Japanese did.” Which was absurd. I went on to some other reply, I forget ex...

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...ed them- selves from walls of even tone; on a pier-table stood a very tall Japanese vase; before the windows the jardinieres were filled with lilium r... ...bet, who was never at a loss, made the consoling remark that breakfasts at restaurants were like funerals, where, as every one knew, eleven o’clock me...

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...He laughed, and sacrificed them. Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table. “... ...sett see that; and that was why the New Y ork of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a kaleidoscope, turn...

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...the camp—now and then we get a peep. It isn’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with... ...ish had an over- whelming gun, now the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, now the Americans a submarine that would drive ev... ...en Asiatic and white had become unusually violent and danger- ous, and the Japanese government had shown itself quite unprecedentedly difficult. The G... ...ubt, said Kurt, this was now making records across that ocean, “unless the Japanese have had the same idea as the Germans.” It was obvi- ously beyond ... ...stration. Little or no damage, they urge, was done to either the German or Japanese forces by the 120 The War in the Air wearing of buttons, the wavi... ...ts streets were empty of all life. Its bridges were intact; its hotels and restaurants still flying flags and inviting sky signs; its power- stations ...

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... his face into fantastic grimaces until he looked like a pictured devil on a Japanese kite. The crowd laughed gleefully. His short, fat legs were neve... ...unning down the middle of the street. The girl walked on out of the realm of restaurants and saloons. She passed more glittering avenues and went into...

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...pour. The roadways were flooded; a loud strident noise of falling water filled the air; the restaurants smelt heavily of wet people and wet clothing. ... ...hing it began to grow damp on the inside. I went to banks, post-offices, rail- way-offices, restaurants, publishers, booksellers, money-chang- ers, an... ...rly in art, and such long line of single trees thrown out against the customary sunset of a Japanese picture with a certain fantastic effect that was ...

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...he surging throng round the pit-door of theatres, and the glitter of cheap restaurants, bars where men, half drunk, sat on high stools talking with ba... ... strong with the English and his compatriots, and the discerning collected Japanese prints. The old masters were tested by new standards. The esteem i... ... cry like Flanagan: To hell with art. “I say , do let’s go to one of those restaurants in the Boul’ Mich’ and have a snack together, shall we?” he sug... ...e women-students was that Fanny Price would never share their gay meals in restaurants, and the reason was obvious: she had been oppressed by dire pov... ...eave it now seemed inept; he was seized with a distaste for the cafes, the restaurants with their ill-cooked food, the shabby way in which they all li... ...was tremulous with joy . It was not one of the more crowded of those cheap restaurants where the respectable and needy dine in the belief that it is b... ...oked at the branches of a tree silhouetted against the sky , it was like a Japanese print; and he found a continual magic in the beautiful Thames with... ...gs; and in the wharfs and storehouses there was the severity of grace of a Japanese print. They went further down; and the splendid channel, a symbol ...

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... sort of vision?” “Couldn’t describe it.” “But you don’t think much of the Japanese, do you?” asked Lilly. “Don’t I! Don’t I!” said Jim. “What, don’t ... ...even. I knew a Russian doctor who’d 74 Aaron’s Rod been through the Russo-Japanese war, and who had gone a bit cracked. He said he saw the Japs rush ... ...sh between the teeth—God knows if it’s true. But that’s the impression the Japanese had made on this man. It had af- fected his mind really.” Jim watc... ...on, but you always exaggerate,” said T anny. “Maybe,” said Lilly. “I think Japanese are fascinating—fascinating—so quick, and such FORCE in them—” “Ra... ...—” “Rather!—eh?” said Jim, looking with a quick smile at Tanny. “I think a Japanese lover would be marvellous,” she laughed riskily. “I s’d think he w... ...n the cafes a few men were seated drinking vermouth. In the doorway of the restaurants waiters stood inert, looking out on the streets. The curious he...

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...or-General in his bluff, sen- sible, army way, and so left it open for the Japanese to se- cure, as they subsequently did, the priority in this side o... ...ust flying and Filmer and flying and parachutes and aerial tactics and the Japanese Government and Filmer and again flying, shouldered the war in Yunn... ...G Wells houses, men and women dining, playing billiards, and drink- ing in restaurants and hotels, and several places of entertain- ment crammed with ...

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...And he must have books and pictures to quicken his sense of beauty, subtle Japanese pictures to make him love the subtler beauties of bird and tendril... ...inually along the edge of the swarm- ing pavement. People emerged from the restaurants or entered them, grave, intent, dignified, or gently and agreea...

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...and sunny , 182 The Moon and Sixpence with its comfortable hotels and its restaurants crowded with the well-to-do, tame and common- place. I envied m... ...cous voice, and some list- lessly read. They are French. Italian, Spanish, Japanese, coloured; some are fat and some are thin; and under the thick pai...

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...e-clothed Chinaman fell head foremost athwart his midday bowl of rice, the Japanese merchant came out from some chaffering in his office amazed and pr... ...y the fallen bodies. People lay in their dress clothes, in din- ing-rooms, restaurants, on staircases, in halls, everywhere just as they had been over...

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... It is a question if much were collected; it is certain that nothing was handed on; and Taniera, who had distinguished himself by a visit to Papeete a... ...idalgo-like, and accept- ing salutations with a haughty lip. The hair (with the dan- dies of either sex) is worn turban-wise in a frizzled bush; and l...

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...uses and taxis. Armored police cars surreptitiously crawl down the road as Japanese tourists take pictures of the machine guns resting on the front of... ...ht. Shaftsbury Square is the place to be on a Belfast evening. A string of restaurants is dotted along this busy road. Students of nearby Queens Unive... ...egg,” or to Laverys, the three-storied alcoholic haven. Italian and French restaurants sit adjacent to comedy clubs and theaters. Visitors to the turn...

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...as sound in denying the decadence of France; in doubting (before the Russo-Japanese struggle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in... ...mpossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of settling their differences by war among the... ...ithout an escort, to be free to travel alone, take rooms in hotels, sit in restaurants, and so forth. Now, as the women of the past decade showed, the...

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...Shaw SHIRLEY. Todger Fairmile o Balls Pond. Him that won 20 pounds off the Japanese wrastler at the music hall by standin out 17 minutes 4 seconds age... ...an- churia. STEPHEN. Good news, I hope. UNDERSHAFT. Very. STEPHEN. Another Japanese victory? UNDERSHAFT. Oh, I don’t know. Which side wins does not co... ...eam for threepence I really cannot imagine!—still you must remem- ber that restaurants break up home life. Look at the conti- nent, for instance! Are ... ...races, the negro, the Indian ryot, the Pole, the Irishman. Do you love the Japanese? Do you love the Germans? Do you love the English? CUSINS. No. Eve...

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...frames, and near the piano and furniture arranged picturesque corners with Japanese parasols, easels, daggers, busts, photographs, and rags of many co... ...ch they are eager to talk about. In town bachelors visit the baths and the restaurants on purpose to talk, and sometimes tell the most interesting thi...

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...ith the quantity and quality of the remnants of food supplied by boulevard restaurants to the cook-shop in the Rue Boucherat. Schmucke took everything... ...shop while her brother was away. A big and very ugly woman, dressed like a Japanese idol, a half-idiotic creature with a vague, staring gaze she would... .... Working people, strange to say are as shy of officials as of fashionable restaurants, they take advice from irregular sources as they turn into a li...

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...ly to drink, in officers’ clubs or the salons of 52 Resurrection the best restaurants, squandering large sums of money, which came from some invisibl... ...” “Oh, yes. Well, what is it?” “Let us come in here.” They entered a small Japanese sitting-room, and sat down by the window. CHAPTER LVIII THE VICE-G...

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...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ...ther people get it. There is no charge for this. The town is littered with restaurants, but they are small and bad, and they are overdriven with cus ...

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...ople of dif- Best of Freshman Writing 5 ferent nationalities—the Chinese, Japanese, Romans, and Indians with their feather headdresses and all of the... ...Denny’s, Big Boy’s, and Friday’s were favorites. Just thinking about those restaurants makes me feel happy and calm inside; so many hours were spent t... ...ur neighborhoods, they go to school and work with us, they eat at the same restaurants as we do, they love they love each other, like us. In fact, the...