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...reeable a mummy. In no country in the world did parasitism ever take on so pleasant a form. Never did selfishness of a most con- centrated kind appear... ... in great things as well as in little ones. The stairs, up which everybody mounted without wiping their feet, were never polished; the walls, painted ... ...of hunger after contemplating with an ardent eye the fields of air and the mountain heights where genius soars. His work in the city library escaped a... ...difference to comfort. Never did the Chevalier de Valois, or du Bousquier, mount the steps of the double stairway leading to the portico of this house... ...oach Virtue for its defects, and how full of indulgence we all are for the pleasanter qualities of Vice! Chestnut hair of extraordinary length gave to... ...for several years,—”my dear mamma, do not let us go out just yet; it is so pleasant here before the fire.” The mother heard, without comprehending, th... ...ut together. The Chevalier de Valois, who had taken refuge on the Sa- cred Mount of the upper aristocracy, now passed his life at the d’Esgrignons. He...

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..." Alinet Reed Latson, Jr., '09 5 "Mammy Loo" Cartwright Glee Club t") "The Mountains" Washington Gladden 'oO The Clubs The following men were taken on... ...o much of its time dreaming dreams. Yet if to dreamland one will go, it is pleasant to be guided thither by Mr. Westermann. The really beautiful poem,... ...CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH President's Address Arthur James Pierce. Song — "The Mountains," By the Class. Poem. George Burweli Dutton. BY HOPKINS HALL ' Co... ...s, and known as Albertypes; they will be printed on onion-skin tissue, and mounted on the pages of the book. The illustrations will con- sist of 103 p... ...ner-up of the tour- nament, f The annual Geology I trip to the Heltlerborg mountains in New York for this year has been sched- uled for Friday, Uny 17... ...ife— a painting, a figure, a poem which men will quote—and no task is less pleasant than to out out the figures of tbe painting, to calcu- late tbe co... ...- terest would be heightened. Why didn't we get a glimpse of Flora? "Death Mountain" embodies many elements of the ideal short story. We deal in reali... ...ife—i- painting, a figure, a poem whioj men will quote—and no task ie less pleasant than to out out th. figures of the painting, to calcc late the cou... ... This first contribution ot Mr. Lehman gives promise tor the future. It is pleasant to recognize in the Literary Monthly one of the valuable •interest...

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...s. Your Honors Players hearing your amendment, 284 Are come to play a pleasant Comedie, 285 For so your doctors hold it very meete, 286 ... ...erie of Arts, 302 I am arriu’d for fruitfull Lumbardie, 303 The pleasant garden of great Italy, 304 And by my fathers loue and leaue ... ... Why this a heauie chance twixt him and you, 613 Your ancient trustie pleasant seruant Grumio: 614 And tell me now (sweet friend) what happ... ... thou arm’d for some vnhappie words. 1005 Pet. I to the proofe, as Mountaines are for windes, 1006 That shakes not, though they blow perpe... ...sullen, 1123 And now I finde report a very liar: 1124 For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, 1125 But slow in speech: yet swe... ...0 Good master take it not vnkindly pray 1351 That I haue beene thus pleasant with you both. 1352 Hort. You may go walk, and giue me lea... ..., 2168 And bring our horses vnto Long- lane end, 2169 There wil we mount, and thither walke on foote, 2170 Let’s see, I thinke ’tis now so...

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... her wishes were carried out and none opposed her. Her house was among the pleasantest in the town. She had a considerable fortune, not so much from h... ...w. Chapter III “HOW DO YOU DO, Marya Dmitrievna?” cried the young man in a pleasant, ringing voice. “How do you like my new pur- chase?” Marya Dmitrie... ... large disheveled trees, a stretch of meadow in the background, and jagged mountains on the horizon. Lisa looked over his shoulders at his work. “In d... ...wn little prop- erty, and in a week General Korobyin was there, and with a pleasant melancholy in his looks and movements he took the superintendence ... ..., he spread her fame through the world, and, whatever one may say, that is pleasant. Mademoiselle Mars had already left the stage, and Mademoiselle Ra... ...THE MORNING AFTER the day we have described, at ten o’clock, Lavretsky was mounting the steps of the Kalitins’ house. He was met by Lisa coming out in... ...aching carriage, the long ditches, over- grown with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash; and as he watched the fresh fertile wilderness and solitude o... ...r your great-grandfather had, I do assure you, a magic amulet; a monk from Mount Athos made him a present of this amulet. And he told him, this monk d... ...ecious, mysterious, and holy on earth. It breathed of deathless sorrow and mounted dying away to the heavens. Lavretsky drew himself up, and rose cold...

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...’ said Sir Richard to Dan. ‘When these lands were mine, I never loved that mounted men should cross the brook except by the paved ford. But my Swallow... ... be thine, boy,” he said, “till I come again, or till thou art slain. Now, mount, men, and ride. We follow our Duke into Kent to make him King of Engl... ...said he was little, and could not endure to be helped to his saddle?) “Six mounted men or twelve archers thou shalt send me whenever I call for them, ... ...ty— Tell him England hath taken me! As for my little Sister waiting In the pleasant orchards of Normandie; Tell her youth is the time of mating— Tell ... ...o robbed Egypt. He knew all the care of a ship. ‘ After the storm we saw a mountain whose top was covered with snow and pierced the clouds. The grasse... ...e top was covered with snow and pierced the clouds. The grasses under this mountain, boiled and eaten, are a good cure for soreness of the gums and sw... ...ou considered. Time is what we need— you and I and Maximus. Let me carry a pleasant message back to the Winged Hats—something for them to make a 107 ...

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...having a the- atre at all. Men go thither for amusement. This is the para- mount purpose, and even acknowledged merit or absolute superiority must giv... ...ecollections which surrounded one whom cus- tom regarded as little above a mountebank, and the illiberal law as a vagabond. The same degrading appreci... ...the mighty volume of waters in that particular summit amongst the chain of mountains which embosoms its earliest fountains, nor are we shocked at the ... ... the ramparts of a capital fortress, with no witnesses but a few gentlemen mounting guard at the dead of night,—what a mist, what a mirage of vapor, i... ...at spectacle is a rare one. And everywhere women of all ages engage in the pleasant, nay elegant, labors of the hay field; but in Great Britain women ... ... meet with such a nondescript monster as the following, viz., “Love out of Mount Mlna by Whirlwind” he would suppose himself reading the Racing Calend... ... work of his, not even Dr. Dryasdust. He had written in vain, which is not pleasant to know. There would be no second edition called for by a discerni... ...les or consignments not es- sentially varying from each other. True; it is pleasanter to pursue an intellectual study than to make entries in a ledger...

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...’ you. Swallow a spoonful of sody, an’ you’ll sweeten up wonderful an’ be more pleasant company.” In the morning, Henry was aroused by fervid blasphem... ... or six miles from the lair, the stream divided, its forks going off among the mountains at a right angle. Here, leading up the left fork, he came upo... ...a variegated wall, composed of the trees that fringed the stream, the opposing mountain that towered above the trees, and the sky that out towered the... ...d rolled him over on his back. Kiche looked on anxiously. White Fang felt fear mounting in him again. He could not quite suppress a snarl, but he made... ...t would be the wonder and awe of man at sight of some celestial creature, on a mountain top, hurling thunderbolts from either hand at an astonished wo... ...rom town. Usually this occurred at night, so as to avoid interference from the mounted police of the Territory. After a few hours of waiting, when day... ...l liberty. And yet it was not physically painful. On the contrary, it was even pleasant, in a physical way. The patting movement slowly and carefully ...

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...uld get off to sleep ere the heat roused him. One Saturday night it was my pleasant duty to put the pa- per to bed alone. A King or courtier or a cour... ...irty heathen idols there, and we’ll be the thirty-third and fourth. It’s a mountaineous coun- try, the women of those parts are very beautiful.” “But ... ...ave to travel through Afghanistan to get to that country. It’s one mass of mountains and peaks and glaciers, and no Englishman has been through it. Th... ...r Khan,” he yelled to his servant, “drive out the camels, but let me first mount my own.” He leaped on the back of his beast as it knelt, and, turning... ... made me wear outrageous things to look like a heathen. That was in a most mountaineous country, and our camels couldn’t go along any more because of ... ...taineous country, and our camels couldn’t go along any more because of the mountains. They were tall and black, and coming home I saw them fight like ...

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...This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge ... ...thodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable ami... ... surface, and better suited for the habitation of man. T wo long chains of mountains divide it from one extreme to the other; the Alleghany ridge take... ...arallel with the Pacific. The space which lies between these two chains of mountains contains 1,341,649 square miles.* Its surface is therefore about ... ...e the other rises in an uninterrupted course towards the tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which t... ...ive of the departure of the first pilgrims:— “So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden,* which had been their resting-place for above elev... ...he faces of each other, with a most unanimous inclination to leave all the pleasant accommodations of their native country, and go over a terrible oce...

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...owever, some- thing had caused me to forget; and when next I saw the young mountaineer, I forgot that I had forgotten it. Consequently, at first I was... ... those countries, and in the neighborhood of a river-system so awful, of a mountain-system so unheard-of in Europe, there would probably, by blind, un... ...Lord Oranmore, distin- guished for his horsemanship, and always splendidly mounted from his father’s stables at Castle M’Garret, to whom our stormy co... ...cts for contemplation: one, bright as Aurora—that radi- ant Koh-i-noor, or mountain of light—the eight hundred thousand pounds; the other, sad, fuscou... ...very judiciously re- peated to him the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount, by both of which the Khan was profoundly affected, and often recurre... ...l, illustrating all the races of men,—and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion. On my mother’s suggestion, he had been summoned to Laxt... ...read; and even this less for its in- imitable delicacy, humor, and refined pleasantry in dealing with manners and characters, than for its insipid and... ...ues to be to the end of life, a reflex knowledge, ac- quired through those pleasant miscellanies, half gossip, half criticism—such as Warton’s Essay o... ...best accounts, few men of rank or fashion were now seen on horseback. This pleasant collection of dreams did Doctor Brown solemnly propound to the Eng...

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...child; but it was the same with us all, or nearly so. She never knew how to be pleasant to children. But you are now of an age to be treated better; I... ...acknowledged importance of her riding on horseback, no measures were taken for mounting her again, “because,” as it was observed by her aunts, “she mi... ...ot without its effect; and in the course of their progress, her mind became so pleasantly occupied in superintending the fortunes of her eldest niece,... ...nted to have it so; a talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford, is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay at home man; and Mr. Crawford’s b... ...e the eldest best. She knew it was her way. Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any rate; he was the sort of young man to be gener... ...emen’s seats in the kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished — pleasant sisters, a quiet mother, and an agreeable man himself — with t... ... up to any thing, William expressed an inclination to hunt; and Crawford could mount him without the slightest inconvenience to himself, and with only... ...y. — Soon after the second breakfast, Edmund bad them good bye for a week, and mounted his horse for Peterborough, and then all were gone. Nothing rem...

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... man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness...

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...o the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the num... ...l fate by a slow river of sweet water under a plantain tree that bears its pleasant manna without the toil of man. Then all at once he became a corsai... ...l joys. I have reveled in the contemplation of seas, peoples, forests, and mountains! I have seen all things, calmly, and without weariness; I have se... ... “Don’t look!” Raphael cried, pouncing upon it. “Who knows? Suspense is so pleasant.” “Unluckily,” Emile said, with burlesque melancholy, “I can see n... ...con, perfumes, gold, silks, luxury, every- thing that sparkles, everything pleasant, belongs to youth alone. Time alone may show us our folly, but goo... ...aims to have suffered as no other ever did?” “Ah!” Raphael sighed. “What a mountebank art thou with thy ‘Ah’! Look here, now. Does some disease of the... ...e lycee, with its imaginary troubles and genuine happinesses, which are so pleasant to look back upon. Our jaded palates still crave for that Lenten f... ...h a lace veil, like flame through cannon smoke. My way of love would be to mount by a silken ladder, in the silence of a winter night. And what bliss ... .... He had let the paper-knife fall at his feet, a malachite blade with gold mounting, which he had used to cut the leaves of the book. The amber mouthp...

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... Meagles; and Mrs Meagles was, like Mr Meagles, comely and healthy, with a pleasant English face which had been looking at homely things for five-and-... ...ss in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without. ‘Now, I ask you,’ said Mr Meagles in the ... ...dishes, south- ern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors. ... ...s, and I am afraid I may not show my appreciation of it as others might. A pleasant journey to you. Good-bye!’ She would not have put out her hand, it... ... man good night, and went up-stairs with her to the top of the house. They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old close house, little us... ... rules; I cannot say that I believe my forty years have been profitable or pleasant to myself, or any one; but I have habitu- ally submitted, and I on... ...and the faint lamps slung across the road, and the huge Diligence, and its mountain of luggage, and its six grey horses with their tails tied up, gett... ...solution so often recalled, Clennam might have wished him in the crater of Mount Etna, in return for this civil- ity. ‘I have had the pleasure of seei... ...h forehead and as to a pillar with a marble pavement and balustrades and a mountain, I never saw him near it nor not likely in the wine trade, excelle...

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...ers to the book. They find themselves in good company, in a comfort- able, pleasant place, agreeably stimulated with wit and fun, and cheered with fri... ...I were travelling in the Highlands of Scotland, and I pointed out to him a mountain which I observed resembled a cone, he corrected my inaccuracy, by ... ... sight, indeed, prevented him from enjoying the common sports; and he once pleasantly remarked to me, ‘how wonder- fully well he had contrived to be i... ... scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will * Both of them used to talk pleasantly of this their first journey to London. Garrick, evidently meanin... ...favourable distinction. His schoolfellow and friend, Dr. Taylor, told me a pleasant anecdote of Johnson’s triumph- ing over his pupil David Garrick. W... ...nty thousand men in an army who will go without scruple to be shot at, and mount a breach for five-pence a day.’ Goldsmith. ‘But have they a moral rig... ...ry great merit to the inventory of articles found in the pocket of the Man Mountain, particularly the description of his watch, which it was conjectur... ...Dr. Butter, then physician there. He was in great indignation because Lord Mountstuart’s bill for a Scotch militia had been lost. Dr. Johnson was as v... ... Highlands of Scotland was the single exception to Milton’s remark of “The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty,” being worshipped in all hilly countries.’—’...

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...psed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwest Territory entered, followed by two... ...ver miss fire. God prosper him; good luck go with him; and” — “Confusion to the Mounted Police!” cried Bettles, to the crash of the empty cups. The Wh... ...e Man’s canoe and go to the Salt Water. Yes, bad wa ter, rough water, — great mountains dance up and down all the time. And so big, so far, so far aw... ...d least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes of his childhood. And most pathetic w... ...iting, hoping, praying for his comrade to die. The White Silence 23 It is not pleasant to be alone with painful thoughts in the White Silence. The si... ...eyes were fixed upon the north. Unseen, behind their backs, behind the towering mountains to the south, the sun swept toward the zenith of another sky ... ... with his God for pity. And there were other times. The rec ollection was not pleasant. It brought shame to him that his spirit should be so weak and... .... And that ’d be hell, wouldn’t it, now?” He chuckled at contem plation of so pleasant a dilemma. Nightfall found him by the edge of the stream, his ... ... had no sensation of pain. He was not hungry. The thought of food was not even pleasant to him, and whatever he did was done by his rea son alone. He...

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... Meagles; and Mrs Meagles was, like Mr Meagles, comely and healthy, with a pleasant English face which had been looking at homely things for five-and-... ...ss in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without. ‘Now, I ask you,’ said Mr Meagles in the ... ...dishes, south- ern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors. ... ...s, and I am afraid I may not show my appreciation of it as others might. A pleasant journey to you. Good-bye!’ She would not have put out her hand, it... ... man good night, and went up-stairs with her to the top of the house. They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old close house, little us... ... rules; I cannot say that I believe my forty years have been profitable or pleasant to myself, or any one; but I have habitu- ally submitted, and I on... ...and the faint lamps slung across the road, and the huge Diligence, and its mountain of luggage, and its six grey horses with their tails tied up, gett... ...solution so often recalled, Clennam might have wished him in the crater of Mount Etna, in return for this civil- ity. ‘I have had the pleasure of seei... ...h forehead and as to a pillar with a marble pavement and balustrades and a mountain, I never saw him near it nor not likely in the wine trade, excelle...

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...k to the alley and saw the woman reach the farther end, where she began to mount—not without re- ceiving the obsequious bow of an old portress—a windi... ...hey have no compunctions, and circle prudently around the scaffold without mounting it, innocent in the midst of crime, and vicious in their innocence... ... Inquiry being made, it was shown that a small boy, armed with a lath, had mounted guard and called to all foot-passengers to keep away. The affair en... ...est; your person pleased me; your voice, your manners all inspired me with pleasant presentiments. When you came up, when you spoke to me, the color o...

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... Nidhi deliberately provided her guest to ask about her life with Doctor Roy; and informed the questioner that having lived with her during a very pleasant honeymoon trip and a couple of days back in the family, her man was to go back to his official place of work in U A.E. .... Revival of Acquaintance, after 65 Years ... At Lalji’s residence, a maid opens the door a...

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...l were supposed to approach was, during my sojourn, always guarded by vast mountains of flour barrels. Looking up at the windows of the building, I pe... ...amily property. The family were friends of General Washington, whose seat, Mount Vernon, stands about twelve miles lower down the river and here, no d... ...spared. Very little in this way has been spared in the country all around. Mount Vernon, Washington’s own residence, stands close over the Potomac, ab... ...or Maryland side of the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonie... ... was taken from Maryland, and on that the city was built. It comprised the pleasant town of Georgetown, which is now a suburb—and the only suburb—of W... ... return no member to Congress, either as a senator or as a Representative. Mount Vernon was never within the Dis- trict of Columbia. When I first made... ...siness it was to protect the government? American private soldiers are not pleasant fellow-travel- ers. They are loud and noisy, and swear quite as mu... ...which side shall go this child, and who shall remain in possession of that pleasant homestead? Putting secession aside, there were in the United State... ...he course of this people had been too straight, and their way had been too pleasant. That which to others had been ever difficult had been made easy f...

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...em now, of the rich peoples; he was on their side—if it was n’t rather the pleasanter way of putting it that they were on his. Something of this sort ... ...ed. Mrs. Assingham exactly represented and embodied his pledges—was in her pleasant person the force that Book I, Chapter 1 13 had set them successiv... ...merican girls accepted as “good enough”—had n’t be gun to be; so that the pleasant pair had been, as to the risk taken on either side, bold and origi... ...she has had little enough else to do with it.” “Oh I say hers,” the Prince pleasantly explained, “very much as at this time of day I might say mine. I... ...he rubbed with her palm the polished mahogany of the balustrade, which was mounted on fine ironwork, eighteenth century English. “Because you think I ... ...odless rubies, pearls either too large or too opaque for value; miniatures mounted with diamonds that had ceased to dazzle; snuff boxes pre sented to... ...d” place, that had, as she knew, formerly stood up, on the pedestal of its mountain slope, showing beau tifully blue from afar, as the head and front... ...before the couple took their departure, that Mrs. Noble and Dr. Brady must mount unchallenged guard over the august little crib. If she had n’t suprem... ...Oh yes, at this, for his companion, it had indeed its effect, and while he mounted their steps she but stared, without following him, at his opening o...

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...rd from the nuptial chamber. It was then the custom, to prevent any coarse pleasantry which old times perhaps admitted, that the key of the nuptial ch... ...semble that of Wolf’s Crag as much as any other, while its vicinity to the mountain ridge of Lammermoor renders the assimilation a probable one. We ha... ...lage, just as we heard the distant cheer of the boys which accompanied the mounting of the new symbol of the Wallace Head. Dick Tinto mended his pace ... ...ches on the coast of East Lothian and Berwickshire, I was seduced into the mountains 25 Sir Walter Scott of Lammermoor by the account I received of s... ...es of such repairing nature. —Henry VI. Part II. IN THE GORGE of a pass or mountain glen, ascending from the fertile plains of East Lothian, there sto... ...e was a dead pause of surprise, not unmixed with less 59 Sir Walter Scott pleasant feleings. The Master wrapt himself in his cloak, made a haughty in... ...over the dike and fight with me. —Old Ballad. THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD had mounted the ambling hack- ney which he before rode, on finding the accident... ... and to subdue them. The morning, which had arisen calm and bright, gave a pleasant effect even to the waste moorland view which was seen from the cas... ...ENJOYED themselves in the kitchen, the com- pany in the hall were not less pleasantly engaged. So soon as Ravenswood had determined upon giving the Lo...

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...; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. En...

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...h breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of move- ment, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulations, their ... ...g iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and hunted Covenanters. Breaths come to him in song ... ... began to think it had been dropped at press; and when at last I found it, mounted on the shoulders of so many succes- sors, and looking in that postu... ...s of rail, and the scream of the engine and the shock of meet- ing buffers mount to it all day long. The aisles are lined with the inclosed sepulchres... ... upon the graves. There, in the hot fits of youth, I came to be un- happy. Pleasant incidents are woven with my memory of the place. I here made frien... ...s by sallies, witty, innocent and inhumane; and by a misapplied Johnsonian pleasantry, demolish honest sentiment. I can still see and hear him, as he ... ...tender heart was what made the difference; or, per- haps, his solitary and pleasant labour among fruits and flow- ers had taught him a more sunshiny c... ...laces. So may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his compa... ... landscape. Sail- ors and shepherds, and the people generally of coast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented in literatu...

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...o an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey .Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al O... ...we have some planes. ” Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if the... ...t, at this critical time, NORAD’s top command- ers, in Florida or Cheyenne Mountain, coordinated with their counterparts at FAA headquarters to improv... ...al Ralph Eberhart, was en route to the NORAD operations center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, when the shootdown order was communicated on the air th... ...ce 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir’s supporters began to displace those of Turabi. The attempt... ...e grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan. ” But the T aliban, like the Sudanese, would eventua... ...Afghanistan. In school,Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language. 64 When Atta ar... ...d time, especially because they did not know anyone. Bayoumi told them how pleasant San Diego was and offered to help them settle there.The two pairs ...

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...ittle official residence, and took a refresher of the principal rivers and mountains of the world, their breadths, depths, and heights, before settlin... ...ng.’ ‘You have your own room here?’ ‘Oh yes. Upstairs. And it’s quiet, and pleasant, and airy.’ ‘ And she always has the use of this room for visitors... ... I never was among. For I have seen very few flowers indeed, in my life.’ ‘Pleasant fancies to have, Jenny dear!’ said her friend: with a glance towar... ...gs on the very spot, lest Boots and Brewer should have instant occasion to mount and away. Those fleet mes- sengers require the Analytical to see that... ...n. In his honest indignation he would reply, “Away with it!” But suppose I mounted higher in the social scale. Suppose I drew my arm through the arm o... ...w streets, not minding them, and you see the golden arrows pointing at the mountains in the sky from which the wind comes, and you feel as if you were... ... V ol. 2 on a Jew, and the old man went his different way up-stairs. As he mounted, the call or song began to sound in his ears again, and, looking ab... ...’ ‘I told you so, Pa, but you wouldn’t believe it,’ returned Bella, with a pleasant childish gravity. ‘Isn’t it shocking?’ ‘It would be quite so, if y... ...Sloppy. ‘You don’t think he is in a very, very bad way, do you?’ asked the pleasant creature with her wholesome cordiality. Put upon his good faith, a...

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... life. He had no ambition whatsoever. He came from a decent family, from a pleasant country home, from delightful sur- roundings. He should, of course... ...nd liked to do things for him. The doctor came—a fat country practitioner, pleasant and kind. ‘What, little girl, been tumbling down, have you? There’... ...light. And round he swung on his wooden steed, flinging one leg across her mount, and perilously tipping up and down, across the space, half lying bac... ...rl with his arm, he seemed to make such a nice fit. And, after all, it was pleasant to be so held: so very comfort- ing and cosy and nice. He leaned o... ...over—now! T rap’s not come, has it?’ ‘Not yet,’ said Isabel. His voice was pleasant and ordinary, but it had a slight suggestion of the stable to her.... ... an almost hypnotizing ef- fect on her. He went away upstairs. She saw him mount into the dark- ness, unseeing and unchanging. He did not know that th... ...ading hay on the trucks, along with Albert, the corporal. The two men were pleasantly billeted in a cottage not far from the station: they were their ... ...again and looked as if he were going to fall off the truck. A slight flush mounted under the girl’s full, ruddy face. She liked him. Always, after thi... ...her and welcomed her, in his broad northern, melancholy singsong before he mounted the pulpit. Fanny was handsome in a gauzy dress and a beautiful lac...

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...ver cease to remember that it was Mr. Royall who brought you down from the Mountain.” She had been “brought down from the Mountain”; from the scarred ... ...le Range, making a perpetual background of gloom to the lonely valley. The Mountain was a good fifteen miles away, but it rose so abruptly from the lo... ...ver the village in rain and darkness. Charity was not very clear about the Mountain; but she knew it was a bad place, and a shame to have come from, a... ...down from there, and hold her tongue and be thankful. She looked up at the Mountain, thinking of these things, and tried as usual to be thankful. But ... ... the desk and stood before her. “Have you a card-catalogue?” he asked in a pleasant abrupt voice; and the oddness of the question caused her to drop h... ...condescension in his tone, and asked sharply: “Why?” “Because it’s so much pleasanter, in a small library like this, to poke about by one’s self—with ... ...house. But instead of entering she passed on, turned into a field-path and mounted to a pasture on the hillside. She let down the bars of the gate, fo... ...llside. He pressed her hands lightly and let them go. “Why, to make things pleasanter for you here; and better for the books. I’m sorry if my cousin t... ... without giving him any sign of acquiescence or even of attention. “He’s a pleasant fellow to talk to—I liked having him here myself. The young men up...

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...scribed upon the ice, without once stopping for breath, a great many other pleasant and astonishing devices, to the excessive satisfac tion of Mr. Pi... ...e had done so, and ran after his predecessor, his black gaiters trip ping pleasantly through the snow, and his eyes beaming cheer fulness and gladne... ... Mr. Pickwick? ha, ha!’ Mr. Hopkins appeared highly gratified with his own pleasantry, and continued—’No, the way was this. Child’s parents were poor ... ... Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association were held in a large room, pleasantly and airily situated at the top of a safe and commodious ladder. ... ...autiful channel Charles Dickens 105 stealing on, far away, the same lofty mountains which, like the troubles of life, viewed at a distance, and parti... ... he came round the second time; he rushed in, slammed it in Dowler’s face, mounted to his bedroom, locked the door, piled a wash hand stand, chest of ... ...ng Bristol as good a place for his purpose as any other he could go to, he mounted the box, and reached his place of destination in such time as the p... ...at relief, that he had done quite right, and it was unnecessary for him to mount guard any longer. ‘I thought it better to come myself,’ said Mr. Pick... ...ions concerning the safety of his limbs and neck, Charles Dickens 143 Sam mounted into the pear tree, to wait until Arabella should come into sight. ...

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...“two years! I thought – but indeed I see I have been made the subject of a pleasantry.” “By no means,” replied Mr. Malthus mildly. “My case is peculia... ...New Arabian Nights the night. And now,” added the President, “I wish you a pleasant walk.” Florizel acknowledged the salutation rather awkwardly, and ... ...ghts and the crowd at first rather abashed our young adventurer, and then, mounting to his brain with a sort of intoxication, put him in possession of... ...She was very towardly and lenient in her behaviour; she led him on to make pleasantries, and then applauded him to the echo; and in a very short time,... ... a repetition of the order. It was with a heart full of alarms, that Silas mounted into the luxurious ve- hicle, and was driven to his destination. Th... ...e to face with the loiterer of Box Court. “Good-night, sir,” said the man, pleasantly. But Silas was too profoundly moved to find an answer, and regai... ...ciddental taste, I shall only add that Mr. Scuddamore has already begun to mount the ladder of political fame, and by last advices was the Sheriff of ... ...wo of wine, the Colonel gave each of them a loaded revolver, and the three mounted into the cab and drove off for the address in question. Rochester H... ...ned with the speed of unallayed curiosity to the house in the Rue Lepic. A mounted servant was leading a saddle-horse to and fro before the garden wal...

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... a person who has any merit of reality and genuineness: which is admirably pleasant. We have a preventive station at our watering place, and much the ... ...parts, and therefore infinitely more healthy. Still, it is a bright, airy, pleasant, cheerful town; and if you were to walk down either of its three w... ...sant women, always neatly and comfort ably dressed, riding home, with the pleasantest saddle furni ture of clean milk pails, bright butter kegs, and... ...here lying sunning on rough stone para 39 Charles Dickens pets, that the pleasant mist on all such objects, caused by their being seen through the b... ...ellows, ap parently for purposes of refreshment, I could not refrain from mounting on the shaft of the second vehicle, and looking in at the portal. ... ...he Great Saint Bernard! I have lived in Switzerland, and rambled among the mountains; but, why I should go there now, and why up the Great Saint Berna... ...es along; and why does this thing stalk into my mind on the top of a Swiss mountain! It is a figure that I once saw, just after dark, chalked upon a d... ...Reprinted Pieces came tearing down from the house tops as if they had been mountain tops. Mrs. Parkins, my laundress—wife of Parkins the porter, then ... ... and pitched heavily, and at intervals long slants and flaws of light made mountain steeps of communication between the ocean and the sky. A walk of t...

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... prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary , and told her that my thoughts were so entirely ben... ...that was so rough and terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little a time after. And now, lest my good resolutions shoul... ... my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could... ...at the oar to bring the boat near the shore – we could see (when, our boat mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many people runn... ...e daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and had a great mind to venture out, in... ...creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mountains towards the sea; whether it was the male pursuing the female, or ... ...f fire and the noise of the gun, swam on shore, and ran up directly to the mountains from whence they came; nor could I, at that dis- tance, know what... ...in all day. DEC. 26. – No rain, and the earth much cooler than before, and pleasanter. DEC. 27. – Killed a young goat, and lamed another, so that I ca... ...t still, when I looked about, and saw how everything was put in order, how pleasantly concealed I was, and how safe from danger, it made me very loath...

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...c with one more draught from the Stone Jug:*—yet awhile to listen, hurdle- mounted, and riding down the Oxford Road, to the bland con- versation of Ja... ...n.” The two gentlemen were seated at their ease at the inn table, drinking mountain-wine; and if the reader fancies from the sketch which we have give... ...een a pair of gorgeous silver stirrups, and above it, a couple of sil- ver-mounted pistols reposing in bearskin holsters; the bit was silver too, and ... ... and checked the impetuosity of his son, William Nassau Dobbs, who was for mounting the animals, and who expressed a long- ing to fire off one of the ... ...cup—and we are content to call the poison wine! 12 Catherine: A Story The mountain-wine at the “Bugle” was, in fact, execrable; but Mrs. Cat, who ser... ...punch, which he made on purpose for her. Mr. Trippet stayed too. “A mighty pleasant man,” said she; “only not very wise, and seemingly a good deal in ... ...on’t quote Plato, like Eu- gene Aram; or live like gentlemen, and sing the pleasantest ballads in the world, like jolly Dick Turpin; or prate eternall... ... tradesmen were discharged, any more than his debts of honour, as they are pleasantly called. Having thus settled with his creditors, the gallant Coun... ...easeless scolding, violence, and discontent on the part of a wife, are not pleasant to describe: so we shall omit altogether any account of the early ...

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...tion prompted, but I took my Mother, at a time when I thought her a little pleasanter than ordinary, and told her, that my Thoughts were so entirely b... ...that was so rough and terrible the Day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so little time after. And now least my good Resolutions should ... ... Cabbin, and look’d out; but such a dismal Sight I never saw: The Sea went Mountains high; and broke upon us every three or four Minutes: When I could... ...g at the Oar to bring the Boat near the Shore, we could see, when our Boat mounting the Waves, we were able to see the Shore, a great many People runn... ...Day time, I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries ; and had a great mind to venture out in... ...reatures one pursuing the other, (as we took it) with great Fury, from the Mountains towards the Sea; whether it was the Male pursuing the Female, or ... ...of Fire and the Noise of the Gun swam on Shore, and ran up directly to the Mountains from whence they came, nor could I at that Distance know what it ... ...Rain all Day. Dec. 26. No Rain, and the Earth much cooler than before, and pleasanter. Dec. 27. Kill’d a young Goat, and lam’d another so as that I ca... ...ut still when I look’d about and saw how every thing was put in order, how pleasantly conceal’d I was, and how safe from Danger, it made me very loath...

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...me, the whole story of Esmeralda’s passion for the worthless archer is un- pleasant enough; but when she betrays herself in her last hiding-place, her... ...s the heart more nearly. The loves of Cosette and Marius are very pure and pleasant, and we cannot refuse our affection to Gavroche, although we may m... ...e aristocratic principle, than the adventures of Gwynplaine, the itinerant mountebank, snatched suddenly out of his little way of life, and installed ... ... wordy, and even, now and then, a little wearisome. Ursus and his wolf are pleasant enough companions; but the former is nearly as much an abstract ty... ...ll who knew him. Such a course as this, 40 Robert Louis Stevenson however pleasant to a thirsty vanity, was lowering to his na- ture. He sank more an... ...e important poems. Here was a young man who, from a very humble place, was mounting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of ... ...en I intended, flew off in a tangent of female dignity and reserve, like a mounting lark in an April morning; and wrote me an answer which measured ou... ...an who first attacked literature with a hand that seemed capable of moving mountains, should have spent his later years in whittling cherry-stones. Me... ...emporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so many celebrated mountains and waterfalls, and not seize the opportunity to make a poem. Ind...