...me and her definition of a pecking order. Ali has also made a note to get builders in, to erect a new chicken shed. I just hope a governor’s mansion... ... joint.” My sister hasn’t heard a word I’ve said. Ali’s eyes shine like a lighthouse beacon and her whole body rises off the chair. I thought as muc...

...road champaigns. T o the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the ... ... boyhood. But we have some possessions that not even the infuriate zeal of builders can utterly abolish and destroy . Nothing can abolish the hills, ... ...s body, it would arise like one man and make night hideous with arson; the builders and their accomplices would be driven to work, like the Jews of yo... ...ress of events, and the chisels are tin- kling on a new row of houses. The builders have at length adventured beyond the toll which held them in respe... ...an, looking on these doomed meads, imagines a similar example to deter the builders; for it seems as if it must come to an open fight at last to prese...

... tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi....

...vations, of hedges broken down and replaced by planks, of wheelbarrows and builders’ sheds, of rivulets overtaken and swallowed up by drain-pipes. Big... ...s, an immense clustering of futilities. It is as unfin- ished as ever; the builders’ roads still run out and end in mid-field in their old fashion; th... ...us, and presently a movement of people directed one’s attention to a white lighthouse on a cliff to the east of us, coming up suddenly; and then one t... ... and 214 The New Machiavelli mountain worlds, to ports and fortresses and lighthouses and watch-towers and grazing lands and corn lands all about the... ...licitly addressed. I was as it were one of a little swarm of would-be reef builders looking back at the teeming slime upon the ocean floor. All the hi...

...h towards Santa Cruz, but from your right also, round by Chinatown and Pinos lighthouse, and from down before you to the mouth of the Carmello river. ... ...well selected. The Pacific booms in front. Westward is Point Pinos, with the lighthouse in a wilderness of sand, where you will find the lightkeeper p... ...s perhaps credited with more duplicity than it deserves. The visitation of a lighthouse at least is a business of the most transparent nature. As soon... ...o love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet pre- se...

...land in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a lighthouse on a bluff, or simply the peaked form of a mountain like an ant-... ... and that tower, tinged a faint evening red in the salt wind-haze, was the lighthouse on St. Catherine’s Point. My skipper recovered first from his as... ...ength, and grace that the devoted gen- 101 Joseph Conrad erations of ship-builders have evolved from some pure nooks of their simple souls, the sight...

... up as he stood by the foresheet. They heard the anchor-watch snoring on a lighthouse-tug, nosed into a pocket of darkness where a lantern glimmered o... ... to East Gloucester, where they tramped through the bayberry bushes to the lighthouse, and lay down on the big red boulders and laughed themselves hun... ...ptains of tugs and water-boats, rig- gers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front. The...

...e effect upon the edifices,—the edges of the stone look as sharp as if the builders had just left their work; and close to the grand entrance stands a... ...imaginable device of fortification; to the right, St. Elmo, with flag and lighthouse; and opposite, the Military Hospital, look- ing like a palace; a... ...viour, the cupola is open, and you see the blue sky overhead. Which of the builders was it that had the grace to leave that under the high protection ...

...ere going, and suggested by way of amendment. ‘Why do you not rather show him the cemetery?’ I saw it; it was but newly opened, the third within eight... ... dreams are made on,’ and vanished at a wink, only to appear in other places; and by and by not only islands, but refulgent and revolving lights began...

...glistening houses white, Curves with the curving beach away To where the lighthouse beacons bright, Far in the bay.” THAT STANZA of Matthew Arnold... ... Arnold’s, and the stanza about the Duchess Marga- ret coming to watch the builders on her palfry white. Then there came to me something in regard to ...

...to pierce through the darkness. They had left the Ile Ratonneau, where the lighthouse stood, on the right, and were now opposite the Point des Catalan... ... him, for he usually attracted a crowd of spectators in the bay before the lighthouse at Marseilles when he swam there, and was unani- mously declared... ... the evening all was ready, and at ten minutes past seven they doubled the lighthouse just as the beacon was kindled. The sea was calm, and, with a fr... ...er of an Englishman, who, having heard that the Genoese excelled all other builders along the shores of the Mediterranean in the construction of fast-...

...sounds up here,’ quoth Eugene, stirring the fire, ‘as if we were keeping a lighthouse. I wish we were.’ ‘Don’t you think it would bore us?’ Lightwood ... ...ow that you were dwelling in the advan- tages of a monotony of two.’ ‘In a lighthouse. Do me the justice to remember the condi- tion. In a lighthouse.... ... Hole, among the riggers, and the mast, oar and block makers, and the boat-builders, and the sail-lofts, as in a kind of ship’s hold stored full of wa...

...upies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, withou... ...k searches, I find none prior to them. For though their progeni- tors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear th... ...d, in the dread gale of God’s wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyp- tians were a natio...

...ies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Ed dystone lighthouse. Look at it — a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, with... ...my researches, I find none prior to them. For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear th... ...d, in the dread gale of God’s wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyptians were a nation ...

...ridle-track through unfrequented wildernesses; he must sometimes plant his lighthouse in the very camp of wreckers; and he was continually enforced to... ...lready in a post of some authority, superintending the construction of the lighthouse on the isle of Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde. The change... ...it would console. Very different, perhaps quite as welcome, is this from a lighthouse inspector to my grand- father: ‘In reading your letter the trick... ...must re- member me the best way you can to the children.’ ‘On Board of the Lighthouse Yacht, July 29 th . ‘I got to Cromarty yesterday about mid-day, ... ... and leaving this letter to let you know my progress and that I am well.’ ‘Lighthouse Yacht, Stornoway, August 4 th . ‘To-day we had prayers on deck a... ...pon the gallery was not generally in use; but, as the working hours of the builders extended with the height of the building, the forge could not be s... ...ther being very favourable to-day, fifty-three stones were landed, and the builders were not a little grati- fied in having built the twenty-second co... ...tion at the Bell Rock, and during the last four months few of the squad of builders had been ashore. In particular, Mr. Peter Logan, the foreman, and ... ...ch consisted of the forty-seventh course, forming the storeroom floor. The builders were at work this morning by four o’clock, in the hopes of being a...

...rned away and re- ceived full in the eyes the brilliant wink of the Borkum lighthouse squatting low down in the darkness. The shade of the night had s... ...ted upon the properties of material, such as wood or steel. You can’t, let builders say what they like, make a ship of such dimensions as strong propo... ...grounds should you endeavour to hit end on?” “Because we are taught by our builders and masters that the heavier the smash, the smaller the damage, an... ...p (in a spirit of irony far removed from fun) at the call of the sub- lime builders of unsinkable ships. I thought that, as a small boy of my acquaint...

...e and the other sort of people. Amongst the diggers, pioneers, and rampire-builders, I will do as did Neptune and Apollo at Troy under Laomedon, or as... ...tage, finishing and turning the grapes into wine. Nor are these pretty new builders of dead stones written or pricked down in my Book of Life. It is a... ...ur, till the first year was wholly elapsed. During all which time also the builders did hardly inhabit their new- structured dwelling-places, for fear... ...amothy, of a fine and delightful prospect, by reason of the vast number of lighthouses and high marble towers in its circuit, which is not less than t... ...Gnatho, one of whom was a Sicilian of ful- some memory, the ancient master-builders of their monastic 684 Gargantua & Pantagruel cram-gut voluptuousn... ...t. Here are some of the public and some of the private growth; some of the builders’ fortifica- tions, loans, gifts, and gratuities, escheats, forfeit... ... satisfied us that they were the lanterns of the watch, or, more properly, lighthouses, set up in many places round the precinct of the place to disco...

...to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse. Occasionally, the smoke came rolling down the chimney as though... ...to pieces, what ooze and slime and other dregs of tide, what yards of ship-builders and ship-breakers, what rusty anchors blindly biting into the grou... ...oat, lay low in the mud; and a little squat shoal- 402 Great Expectations lighthouse on open piles, stood crippled in the mud on stilts and crutches;... ...e wall, and yet entreat- ing to be released from the giddy place where the builders had set me; that I was a steel beam of a vast engine, clashing and...

...enoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— tak... ...he surface, whose form was indistinctly shown as it lay asleep. The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of a...