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...th their busy apricot-breasted swallows, have assuaged my loneliness. How lonely we become, as we grow older, even when there is someone to share. T... ...g blended into a pattern of peace and goodness. There are times when our hearts are particularly open to beauty: this was one of those times. Every... ... courage. A VOICES FROM THE PAST 52 Yes, there are times when our hearts open. P There is more to life than wandering over an island. There... ...hepherd’s bell! “I’ve wanted to be a shepherd,” I said. “It would be too lonely for me,” he said. “It’s lonely enough at sea. I look for a sign of ... ...from deep inside. She has wonderful wind-swept sight, from the rapture of lonely skies, her communions. She is priestess of self- contained youth. Sh... ...his book, insatiability floods everywhere: lyric by lyric, our smoldering hearts reveal our happiness. When I shared lines with him, he laughed at t... ....rocky Judea... Caesar Augustus, your crimes are everywhere...imperator...killer! I need to be baptized with love. With wisdom. Yesterday, in this... ...write no more tonight. 199 Peter’s Iyyar 2 h, Jerusalem, you killer of prophets, stoner of those sent to help you! How I have wanted ... .... The sea boomed and Pliny, the upright Roman, governor, senator, consul, killer of Christians, stood before me in his white toga: P - I respect ...

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...ould take too long and by the time the Marshal got to the Carey Station, the killers, were they not already, would be long gone. There was also ... ... back to the scene of the killings, what are we supposed to do? Wait for the killers to come here and kill us? “I understand your concern, sir,” r... ...n’t been apart this long since I’d owned him, and I suspected he was getting lonely. I slipped on my boots and started the long walk down Main St... ...Forced to maintain their full run for so long, their muscles ached and their hearts were straining. Davy’s horse was the strongest, but he was gett... ... replied. “In the meantime,” Ellen continued, “if you find yourself getting lonely, feel free to stop over to the mercantile. Father keeps it nice...

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... still had a First Time Slayer Award to think about. “I was looking for the killer, you silly twit. That’s my job!” Totally confused now. A Vampir... ... stud muffin. You told me if got you the blood, you’d tell me all about the killer and why you’re a Vampire cop.” “No, I didn’t.” Okay, maybe I ... ...ved by, but sounded too right to be wrong. Instead of helping catch the real killer, I’d just staked one of the good guys. This may be the craziest... ...p, so to speak.” “What do you think it means?” I prayed he said Rufio was lonely and needed the company. J. Morgan 34 “Worst case scenario? ... ...ing an army.” “Is there a better case scenario?” Like he was really, really lonely and needed a cuddle buddy or two because he was afraid of the da... ...self. “You are. I’m going now. Try not to do something stupid like get our hearts broke. Okay? This job is tough enough without having to listen... ...statue of St. Louis, I peeked into the sacristy. All the pews sat vacant and lonely. Evening mass must have ended some time ago to allow parishione... ... had made me act like a total goob at the sound of his name. In my heart of hearts, I wanted to be him. No, that wasn’t right and ew. Just once I ... ...s our mouths refused to admit aloud. We came from different worlds, but our hearts didn’t see the distinction. They only saw two people who loved e...

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..., Lacey would associate the smell of rum with her mother’s bedroom and her lonely childhood. Closing the door quietly, Lacey went to the kitchen. She ... ...er loneliness, she read her book as she ate her food. 6 SUSAN BRACKEN THE LONELY days turned into lonely weeks and years. Her teach- ers praised Lace... ..., as she did every Saturday. Miss Blodgett, the librarian, had noticed the lonely, un- kempt girl that read so many books, and she saw Lacey’s sad fac... ...BIRTHDAY; SPRING BREAK STARTS; SCHOOL CONCERT, and had put happy faces and hearts beside her notations. On the Valentine’s Day square she had written,... ...ast- ern Ontario to the Bay of Quinte. It was an idyllic time. As the pain-killers took hold and Jake slept better, he regained some vestige of his fo... ...ling on? A spade was led and the dummy came down. They were off the ace of hearts! Danny had made her positive bid with only five points! “Sorry, part... ... off the top because of the six-card suit. She would not have to touch the hearts! “I claim,” said Lacey, spreading her hand. “Six spades, four diamon...

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...ope To summon back from lonesome banishment 175 And make them inmates in the hearts of men Now living, or to live in times to come. Sometimes, mistaki... ...d kindness. In November days, When vapours, rolling down the valleys, made A lonely scene more lonesome; among woods At noon, and ’mid the calm of sum... ...f Nature, in the sky And on the earth! Ye Visions of the hills! And Souls of lonely places! can I think 495 A vulgar hope was yours when Ye employ’d S... ...ntates. Oh! with what echoes on the Board they fell! Ironic Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts, Diamonds, Spades, A congregation piteously akin. Cheap matter did... ...nfluxes My mind lay open, to that more exact And intimate communion which our hearts Maintain with the minuter properties Of objects which already are ... ...ght to feed By the shy rivers, and the pelican 455 Upon the cypress spire in lonely thought Might sit and sun himself. Alas, alas, In vain for such so... ... the wishing cap 365 Of Fortunatus, and the invisible coat Of Jack the Giant killer, Robin Hood, And Sabra in the forest with St. George! The child wh... ...— To have, for instance, brought upon the scene The champion, Jack the Giant killer; lo, 305 He dons his coat of darkness, on the stage Walks, and atc...

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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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...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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..., judging even from my emo tions, and I was no party in the suit, that to hearts so untried and fresh it was a shock to come into the inheritance of ... ...ng and steaming of the heated horses, and the quickened beating of our own hearts, we alighted in no inconsiderable confusion. “Ada, my love, Esther, ... ...thing out of it now or will ever know it for anything but an eyesore and a heartsore. It is a street of perishing blind houses, with their eyes stoned... ...d all that night the coffin stands ready by the old port manteau; and the lonely figure on the bed, whose path in life 147 Bleak House – Dickens has... ... Harmonic friends rally round their pillows. Then there is rest around the lonely figure, now laid in its last earthly habitation; and it is watched b... ...ry strangely, there was something quickened within me, associated with the lonely days at my godmother’s; yes, away even to the days when I had stood ... ...er couldn’t wind up a top for his life. He knows no more of Jack the Giant Killer or of Sinbad the Sailor than he knows of the people in the stars. He...

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... is not loneliness—because you have your better self as company. What could be better? If you can‘t be comfortable with yourself you are very lonely... ...t. This is still true today in some cultures. But as the idea of romantic love evolved, more people were allowed to follow the paths of their hearts... ...lanet for humanity‘s future is not taken seriously. Can we really smile with joy when looking down the barrel of a 357 Magnum held by a serial killer...

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...e sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry an... ... The snarls ceased. The yelping died away. Silence settled down again over the lonely land. 18 White Fang He sat for a long while upon the sled. Ther... ...h, the aspiring solitary ones would back off, turn tail, and continue on their lonely way. The Battle of the Fangs 29 One moonlight night, running th... ...It was to be expected. He was a carnivorous animal. He came of a breed of meat killers and meat eaters. His father and mother lived wholly upon meat. ... ... weight the weasel was the most ferocious, vindictive, and terrible of all the killers of the Wild. But a portion of this knowledge was quickly to be ... ...ion was what his own kind killed and ate. This portion was composed of the non killers and the small killers. The other portion killed and ate his own... ...nd countless winter campfires, that had peered from safe distances and from the hearts of thickets at the strange, two legged animal that was lord over... ...he Enemy of His Kind 99 Not for nothing had he first seen the light of day in a lonely lair and fought his first fights with the ptarmigan, the weasel, a... ...d and made himself understood. After this event he found a warmer place in the hearts of the Sierra Vista people, and even the groom whose arm he had ...

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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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...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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...and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary, in the great expanse of water. The foam... ...and heard the rattle of the rapid British chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smaller battles, there was a battle fought near... ... best English laws, so, let you and I pray that it may animate our English hearts, at least to this—to resolve, when we see any of our fellow creature... ...ime was not the last, and that there was an other death to come. It was a lonely forest, accursed in the people’s hearts for the wicked deeds that ha... ... an other death to come. It was a lonely forest, accursed in the people’s hearts for the wicked deeds that had been done to make it; and no man save ... ...st rush to change the fortune of the day; but Bruce (like Jack the Gi ant killer in the story) had had pits dug in the ground, and covered over with ... ...d, when her father, Charles of France, heard of her misfortunes and of her lonely condition in England, he went mad: as he had several times done befo...

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...ade on the Tanana, hev yeh?” “Well, I guess yes. Boys, it would have done your hearts good to see that whole tribe fighting drunk — and all because of ... ...he Northland Lochinvar. More than one rough adven turer of the North felt his heartstrings draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunni... ...world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men, Carter Weatherbee threw up his snug clerkship, tur... ..., nothing. He alone took breath in the midst of the great silence. It was very lonely. Hark! What was that? A chill passed over his body. The familiar... ... woman, tall, and slender, and fair to the eye. “You know the winter, long and lonely, breeding evil thoughts and bad deeds. The Chief Factor was a ha... ...ain. All together, it was the face of a man to be afraid of in a dark alley or lonely place. And yet Tom King was not a criminal, nor had he ever done... ...ezes to death on some lonely mountain top. I am not afraid of Diaz and all his killers; but this boy, of him am I afraid. I tell you 402 JACK LONDON ...

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... “Now, old fellow, we’ve got to separate.” Gully, thus confronted with the lonely realities of his scheme, did not like the prospect. After a moment’s... ... made her speech impressive, “will you come to me on a long visit? In this lonely place I am greatly in want of a friend and com- panion of my own age... ...vening with some friends, and to urge the unkindness of leaving Miss Carew lonely. At last Alice washed away the traces of her tears and returned to t... ... poor wretch for the last time is known in pugilistic circles as ‘Cashel’s killer,’ and that he has attempted to repeat it in all his subsequent encou... ...re that easily touched; and I have known stronger than he to die of broken hearts only because they were unlucky in their calling. Just think what a h... ...Melbourne, as you may suppose, all the girls and women were breaking their hearts for his sake. I declare to you that I used to have two or three of t... ...his heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do; Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of all.” Lydia hastily stepped down from the ladder, and r...

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...et Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever cease singing? In ... ...ge of Art! To make the Ideal more credible than the Actual: to enchain our hearts, to com- mand our hopes, our regrets, our tears, for a mere brain-bo... ...lant adversary. We were the better friends for our combat, as what gallant hearts are not? The breach was to be stormed at sunset, and like true sol- ... ...ent up plaintive echoes 40 Thackeray which moaned through those rocky and lonely steeps; the stars began to glimmer in the purple heavens spread sere... ...aussee at twelve miles an hour—pass the ground hourly and daily now: ’twas lonely and unfrequented at the end of that seventeenth century with which o... ...itou, and St. Germain l’Auxerrois, the warrior and his charger reached the lonely spot where now we find them. 41 Burlesques The warrior who bestrode... ...etched haberdashers in the city exhibited the blue stocks, called “Heiress-killers, very chaste, two-and-six:” long before that, the monde had rushed ...

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...upper 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 an... ...ons, of our Clothes thatch, and how, reach ing inwards even to our heart of hearts, it tailorizes and demoralizes us, fill me with a certain horror at... ...here else is the GOD’S P RESENCE manifested not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow man?” In such passages, unhappily too rare, the ... ... I 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 b... ...ng 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 lan...

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...legal dilemmas as to whether she was married or “betrayed,” quite miss our hearts and worry our minds. T o console our- selves we must just look at he... ...d melodramas are blus- tering about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to h... ... me. [She casts a glance at T anner over her shoulder]. And Jack the Giant Killer. [She goes past her mother to Octavius]. And Jack’s inseparable frie... ...n’t know that I am in the right, I mean. TANNER. Oh, they know it in their hearts, though they think themselves bound to blame you by their silly supe... ...and resolution as well as suffering. THE OLD WOMAN. Excuse me; but I am so lonely; and this place is so awful. DON JUAN. A new comer? THE OLD WOMAN. Y...

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...hrob in the air as unmistakeable as an audible sound, or with tight- ening hearts studying the phases of the moon in London in their bearing on the ch... ...re going to stay here. LADY UTTERWORD. You are an exceedingly clever lady- killer, Hector. And terribly handsome. I am quite a good player, myself, at... ...N. Perhaps you think I can’t do without you. ELLIE. I think you would feel lonely without us all, now, after coming to know us so well. MANGAN [with s... ...use is not Heartbreak House: is it, Lady Utterword? HECTOR. Yet she breaks hearts, easy as her house is. That poor devil upstairs with his flute howls...

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...ravelled in the province of Archangel, and so ingratiated himself into the hearts of the simple minded people that they most willingly aided him in co... ...ds he vowed and uttered: ‘Many trees that I shall injure, Shall devour the hearts of mountains, Shall not slay my nearest kindred, Shall not kill the ... ...uch a husband Storms would bring us pain and trouble, Winds would rack our hearts and temples; Therefore thee I cannot follow, Cannot keep thy home in... ...the fish catcher, On the breast of the elk hunter, By the side of the bear killer. Thou hast won the best of suitors, Hast obtained a mighty hero; Nev... ...n the sandy sea shore. It was not a maiden weeping, But a vessel, sad, and lonely, Waiting on the shore and wailing. Spake the ancient Wainamoinen: “W... ... ball of the woodlands, Onward, onward, must thou journey From thy low and lonely dwelling, T o the court rooms of the village. Go, my treasure, throu... ... Nor a sacred lizard calling, It was but the mountain berry Calling to the lonely maiden: “Come, O virgin, come and pluck me, Come and take me to thy ...

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...eft the room to find Sonya. “How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their sleeves!” said Anna Mikhaylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he... ... young man. As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and mad... ...are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and i... ... the subaltern, laugh- ing (the regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected ... ...man.” “All right, all right, we’ll see!” As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appe... ...d-for-nothing lad! You know that sort of tradesman’s son, a dandy and lady-killer. He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is ... ...estion he knew was in his wife’s mind. “Y ou have no idea how unhappy, how lonely, I feel when you are like that. It always seems to me... “ “Mary, do...