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...for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-st... ..., Michael, and Raphael, against your coming. Here ye strike but splintered hearts together—there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses! EXTRACTS. “A... ...ith instant destruction;— ‘Stern all, for your lives!’” —Wharton the Whale Killer. “So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold ... ... your lives!’” —Wharton the Whale Killer. “So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!” —Nantu... ... old woman, he must have “broken his digester.” As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first... ...corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow ... ... his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world... ...pus; II., the Black Fish; III., the Narwhale; IV ., the Thrasher; V ., the Killer. Book II. (Octavo), Chapter I. (Grampus).—Though this fish, whose lo... ... is mostly found in the circumpolar seas. Book II. (Octavo), Chapter IV . (Killer).—Of this whale little is precisely known to the Nantucketer, and no...

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...of the sea, and the scenery viewed from this height was mag- nificent. The lonely bay of Nukuheva, dotted here and there with the black hulls of the v... ...proved to be much decayed; the rinds partly opened by the birds, and their hearts half devoured. However, we quickly despatched them, and no ambrosia ... ...pped the due limits of female decorum. Having diverted themselves to their hearts’ content, our young visitants now withdrew, and gave place to succes... ...e as pacific as so many lambkins, the reputation of a confederacy of giant-killers. But subsequent events proved that I had been a little too prematur... ... any account of them, on the same shelf with Blue Beard and Jack the Giant-Killer. While others, implicitly crediting the most extravagant fictions, f... ...uropeans were drawn up provided with nothing else but bony fists and stout hearts, with which they set to in column, and pummelled one an- other at th...

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...and said: “Sh!” “What is it, Tom?” And the two clung together with beat ing hearts. “Sh! There ’tis again! Didn’t you hear it?” “I —” “There! Now you... ...h; I’d a bet anything it was a stray dog.” The dog howled again. The boys’ hearts sank once more. “Oh, my! that ain’t no Bull Harbison!” whispered H... ... little, and his face came into the moonlight. It was Muff Potter. The boys’ hearts had stood still, and their hopes too, when the man moved, but thei... ...tion. This indifference must be broken up at any cost. Now she heard of Pain killer for the first time. She ordered a lot at once. She tasted it and w... ...ped the water treat ment and everything else, and pinned her faith to Pain killer. She gave Tom a teaspoonful and watched with the deepest anxiety f... ...plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain killer. He asked for it so often that he became a nuisance, and his aunt ... ...s were one to him; he was indifferent. They presently separated to meet at a lonely spot on the river bank two miles above the village at the favorite... ...denly dawned on Tom The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 82 that it was become very lonely and still. He made one final struggle with his pride, and then dar... ...ad at last he was hardly grate ful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was. He drifted ...

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...er. “More’n a tiger,” said Witherspoon…. When at last Skinner followed the lonely footpath over the swelling field that separated Hickleybrow from the... ...the great Boomfood elec- tion. “Caterham,” “Boomfood,” and “Jack the Giant-killer” again and again and again, and monstrous caricatures and distortion... ...” “Mechanism,” “Monstrosity,” and the like. But it was as “Jack the Giant- killer” that the popular imagination considered Caterham most correctly cas... ...Caterham most correctly cast, and it was in the vein of a Jack the Gi- ant-killer poster that the man from prison, enlarged that dis- tant miniature. ... ...ed into silence, and it seemed to them the universe hung still. Only their hearts were audible, beating. They seemed to be living together in a world ... ...he was never to see clearly. It was the whole gigantic social side of this lonely dumb monster crying out for his race, for the things akin to him, fo...

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...low, and to the trailing creepers of the Jungle, that they should mark the killer of the buck so that he should know him again, and he said, “Who will... ...t of the Yearling. From all of his Pack he may claim Full-gorge when the killer has eaten; and none may refuse him the same. Lair-Right is the rig... ...— if I know Man.” “That I do not need. Sing to them a little, lest they be lonely on the road, and, Gray Brother, the song need not be of the sweetest... ...g or not going, there is the hole in the wall. Peace, now, thou fat monkey-killer! I have but to touch thy neck, and the Jungle will know thee no long... ...their blood in the thin passages of the ear, and the thumping of their own hearts, that sounded as loud as the noise of sorcerers’ drums beaten across... ...e was a solitary wolf, fending for himself, his mate, and his cubs in some lonely lair, as do many wolves in the south. Won-tolla means an Outlier—one... ...go by; In the dawns when thou shalt wake To the toil thou canst not break, Heartsick for the Jungle’s sake: Wood and Water, Wind and T ree, Wisdom, St...

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...irable Mrs. Chapone. In leaving the Mall, Miss Amelia carries with her the hearts of her companions, and the affectionate regards of her mistress, who... ... is referred to the same periodical. Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not u... ...stand that he and Brummel were the leading bucks of the day. But he was as lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. He scarcely knew a single s... ... from the rest of the school, who were pursuing their various sports—quite lonely, and almost happy. If people would but leave children to themselves;... ...Fair – V olume One no wonder, when such news as this was agitating all the hearts and all the Stocks of Europe. Meanwhile matters went on in Russell S... ...don’t push me too hard. I’m a modest man. I—ah—I don’t set up to be a lady-killer; but I do own that she’s as devilish fond of me as she can be. Anybo... ...that poor Briggs was allowed to see her patroness; and persons with tender hearts may imagine the smothered emotions of that sentimental female, and t...

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...By midnight she would be out of sight of land, rolling on the swell of the lonely ocean under the moon’s white eye. Condy and Blix sat quiet and witho... ...d revolvers, swelling by calibres into the thirty-eight and forty-four man-killers of the plains- men and Arizona cavalry; hunting knives and dirks, a... ...shells, and all the entrancing munitions of the sportsman, that savored of lonely canons, deer-licks, mountain streams, quail uplands, and the still r... ...s back again and the two sat, pretending to eat their chili peppers, their hearts in their throats, hardly daring to raise their eyes from their plate... ...hey stood there for a moment in the half dark, fac- ing one another, their hearts beating, their breath fail- ing them in the tension of the instant. ... ...Something was preparing for them. From the lowest, untouched depths in the hearts of each of them something was rising steadily to consciousness and t...

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...behaviour, and modest kindness of demeanour, won all their unsophisticated hearts; all which simplicity and sweetness are quite impossible to describe... ... Mr. Osborne, having a firm conviction in his own mind that he was a woman-killer and destined to conquer, did not run counter to his fate, but yielde... ...e better of this control and company. They went on till two o’clock; their hearts were with the column as it marched far- ther and farther away. Dread... ...ane sometimes, if she could be spared to come down and console a poor sick lonely old woman.” This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated... ...igher and lower than reason—blind beau- tiful devotions which only women’s hearts know. It was Will- iam Dobbin’s task to muse upon these movements of... ...), at his waist- band, at his false teeth, at his pretensions to be a lady-killer above all, and his absurd vanity in fancying every woman whom he cam... ...n the ceiling), plumping and patting the pillows of the bed. Oh, thou poor lonely little benighted boy! Mother is the name for God in the lips and hea... ...ry and bustle in the house. Lights went about from window to window in the lonely desolate old Hall, whereof but two or three rooms were ordinarily oc...

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...n the sheets, the said girls (those whose cheeks were unwrinkled and their hearts gay) would steal noiselessly out of their cells, and hide themselves... ...r evangelical parable. Although this sight caused certain rav- ages in the hearts of those most virtuous maidens, they paid little attention to the fl... ... am undone!” said she. Then she endeavoured to run away. But the good lady-killer had posted about devoted atten- dants, who, without knowing what was... ... jewels in the shrine of love, since the said jewels would so affect their hearts, was so rapturously deli- cious, so titillatingly voluptuous, that a... ...make his meals off the grain, she threat- ened to leave her lover cold and lonely in his domain if he did not allow her to indulge her filial piety. I...

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...lourishing away with his fore feet, in a manner which would have gone to the hearts and souls of any reasonable crowd. But a Mudfog crowd never was a ... ... in a manner that might have touched a heart of stone; but the crowd had not hearts of stone, and they laughed heartily. ‘Dear me, Mr. Jennings,’ said... ...till the people hated, and his old friends shunned him. He grew tired of the lonely magnifi cence of Mudfog Hall, and his heart yearned towards the L... ...and numbers of children’s books principally in circulation: ‘Jack the Giant killer 7,943 Ditto and Bean stalk 8,621 Ditto and E...

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...much respect in those entrusted with it. Nevertheless, like Jack the Giant-Killer, I was fully confident in the advantage of my “Coat of Darkness;” an... ...nd the manners of days which have long passed away— stands revealed to the hearts and the eyes of his affectionate and admiring countrymen. If he hims... ... and himself. He therefore begged the company to imagine all that grateful hearts could prompt the most eloquent to utter, and that would be a copy of... ...ied, as exquisitely painted, and as undying a range of characters into our hearts? The shape of the mere mould into which genius poured its golden tre... ... braw snoods and bon- nets are gane, and the Saxon’s house stands dull and lonely, like the single bare-breasted rock that the falcon builds on— the f... ...ifice ease, independence, and virtue itself at their shrine; the misty and lonely moun- tain seems as a throne to the majestic but terrible Genius of ... ...an’s dwelling neither, but a woman’s.” “A woman’s!” I repeated, “and in so lonely a place! What sort of a woman can she be?” “Come this way, my leddy,...

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...irable Mrs. Chapone. In leaving the Mall, Miss Amelia carries with her the hearts of her companions, and the affectionate regards of her mistress, who... ... is referred to the same periodical. Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not u... ...stand that he and Brummel were the leading bucks of the day. But he was as lonely here as in his jungle at Boggley Wollah. He scarcely knew a single s... ... from the rest of the school, who were pursuing their various sports—quite lonely, and almost happy. If people would but leave children to themselves;... ... 112 V anity Fair no wonder, when such news as this was agitating all the hearts and all the Stocks of Europe. Meanwhile matters went on in Russell S... ...don’t push me too hard. I’m a modest man. I—ah—I don’t set up to be a lady-killer; but I do own that she’s as devilish fond of me as she can be. Anybo... ...that poor Briggs was allowed to see her patroness; and persons with tender hearts may imagine the smothered emotions of that sentimental female, and t... ... Mr. Osborne, having a firm conviction in his own mind that he was a woman-killer and destined to conquer, did not run counter to his fate, but yielde... ...), at his waist- band, at his false teeth, at his pretensions to be a lady-killer above all, and his absurd vanity in fancying every woman whom he cam...

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...I never knew but one man who could. I knew he could, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had live... ...ramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustl... ...This speech had so good an effect that my principal imme- diately stretched forth his hand and said, “I am myself again; give me the weapon.” I laid i... ...where. I have since found out that there is nothing the Germans like so much as an opera. They like it, not in a mild and moderate way, but with their... ...e would grant to the destroyer of the dragon, any one solitary thing he might ask for; for he had a surplusage of daughters, and it was customary for ... ...our hundred years, I feel a desire to believe the legend for its sake; so I will humor the desire, and consider that the tree really watches over thos... ... sank to sleep in the presence of the benignant serenity of the Alps; the Great Spirit of the Mountain breathed his own peace upon their hurt minds an...

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...er- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and ... ...ns, of our Clothes- thatch, and how, reaching inwards even to our heart of hearts, it tailorizes and demoralizes us, fill me with a certain horror at ... ...ere else is the GOD’S-PRESENCE manifested not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow-man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the hi... ... could only weep for and never help; and ye, who wide-scattered still toil lonely in the monster-bearing Desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your bl... ...some little profit of thy own,—how dost thou, from the very carcass of the Killer, bring Life for the Living! “What, speaking in quite unofficial lang...

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...ble, in no time what- ever can they entirely eradicate out of living men’s hearts a certain altogether peculiar reverence for Great Men; genuine admir... ...finite radiance of hope and wonder, as of a young child’s thoughts, in the hearts of these strong men! Strong sons of Nature; and here was not only a ... ...y became a god; and that his People, feeling a response to it in their own hearts, believed this message of his, and thought it a message out of Heave... ...ow, that old Norse work,— Thor the Thunder-god changed into Jack the Giant-killer: but the mind that made it is here yet. How strangely things 34 Tho... ...it is a most touching face; perhaps of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it;...

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...crowded to make holiday. The drum-beat of the Polynesian has a strange and gloomy stimulation for the nerves of all. White persons feel it—at these pr... ...bility reigns upon the surface; and ladies will faint at the recital of one tithe of what they daily expect of their butchers. Some will be even cryin... ...nt turned on wheels like a machine. Nowhere have I seen or- der more complete and pervasive. And yet I was always reminded of Norse tales of trolls an... ...finished house, enjoying the double pleasure of directing Rubam and mak- ing a dinner of cocoa-nut dumplings, and all eagerness to have the formula of... ... a Chinaman some half a mile away; and thither Captain Reid and a na- tive boy escorted us by torch-light. On the way the torch went out, and we took ... ...an manner, and is said to appear; but the king has never seen him. The doctors treat disease by the aid of Chench: eclectic Tembinok’ at the same time... ...ed. They feared I thought the box would cure me; whereas, without the wizard, it was useless; and when I was threatened with another cold I should do ...

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...erous qualities of thieves, and sympathising with the rascalities of noble hearts. For our own part, we know what the public likes, and have chosen ro... ...fection for Mrs. Cat; in the second place, that he was a professional lady-killer, and therefore likely 31 Thackeray at some period to resume his pro... ...ty (as I presume everybody knows) becomes the principle in certain women’s hearts— their moral spectacles, their conscience, their meat and drink, the... ...Come, Tummas,” said he to Mr. Bullock “since we can’t have the girl of our hearts, why, hang it, Tummas, let’s drink her health!” To which Bullock had... ... disposition, continued to bestow them upon him: because, she said, he was lonely and unprotected, and deserved them more than other children who had ... ...e she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein. The spot was convenient, being very lonely, and at the same time close to the Count’s lodgings at Whitehall. Hi...

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...d drive far into the country in Macfarlane’s gig, visit and desecrate some lonely grave- yard, and return before dawn with their booty to the door of ... ...single finger, these things stood them in lieu of thought and filled their hearts with joy. The path they were following led them through a wood of pi... ...ce. ‘But I am sorry for you, too,’ she continued, ‘it must be very sad and lonely.’ ‘You misunderstand me,’ said Dick, chokingly. ‘My fa- ther is the ... ...respect and affection, to heal up this breach of kindness, and reunite two hearts. But alas! the Squire was sick and peevish; he had been all day gloo... ...cocked a white wide-awake coquettishly upon his head—the habit of the lady-killer clung to him; and Esther had already thrown on her hat, and was read... ... the other, here was the danger- ous beginning of a separation between two hearts. Esther found herself at variance with her sweetest friend; she coul...

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...est qualities of which mankind are capable. And oh, young readers, if your hearts burn within you as you read of these various forms of the truest and... ...nown how much of her story is true, but it was one that went deep into the hearts of Grecian men and women, and encouraged them in some of their best ... ...n, lamenting shrill with plaintive notes, Like the poor bird that sees her lonely nest Spoil’d of her young’. Again she heaped dry dust with her... ... strains as these, sung to his harp, the war- 17 Yo n g e rior gained the hearts of his men to enthusiastic love, and gathered followers on all sides... ...e fight was won.’ ‘Nay, T riller mine, the land be thine, My trusty giant-killer, A farm and house I and my spouse Grant free to George the T riller...

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... that these exist, because without them we might not know how deep was the lonely man’s interest and sympathy in all that concerned his kindred and fr... ...or, because they hear words and see things which find no response in their hearts; be- cause they are told, ordered almost, to believe things the pro-... ...looked into his sitting room, and saw him with his little Bible, and their hearts were comforted concerning him. After that fam- ily prayers were neve... ...hen I am alone, as here at night in a great (for it is large) cheer- less, lonely room, as I should have thought it once; though I can’t help thinking... ...r the universal sympathy which has been expressed by everyone here for the lonely situation of the Nihills at Nengone made me feel almost a personal i... ...hen the Principal. He learned rapidly to read and speak Maori, and won all hearts there by his gentle unassuming manners. My husband was at that time ... ...ly warning them that another vessel which was becalmed near at hand was a “killer,” and the people were so uneasy about her that Mr. Brooke went on bo...