...my goods, and with pleasure for His name’s sake wandered in deserts and in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. I lay four months in the coldest... ... it is commonly known by the name of Kellsrhins: when we came to go up the mountain, there came on a great rain, which we thought was the occasion of ... ...her from it, so that she was ready to burst. When we got to the top of the mountain, where the Lord had been formerly kind to *Fountainhall’s Decision... ...tc.; and it is very possible that the author’s own ancestor was one of the mounted party em- bodied by Muir of Caldwell, only a day too late for Pentl... ... can use it, but it will do you no good.” Yet the old gentleman, by way of pleasantry, used to announce himself to friends as “Colonel Macgregor.” ‘ H... ... off on foot,’ writes my grandfather, ‘for Marazion, a town at the head of Mount’s Bay, where I was in hopes of getting a boat to freight. I had just ... ... badness of his boat’s sails, he replied to the author with some degree of pleasantry, “Had it been His will that you came na’ here wi’ your lights, w... ... to live for days with the dead body. These usually pass their time by the pleasant human expedient of quarrelling; and sometimes, I am assured, not o... ...on-house oscillated from 30 inches to 30.42, and the weather was extremely pleasant. This, in any situation, forms one of the chief comforts of life; ...

...r to marry him. Tonight she would tell him yes, and tomorrow she would go to Mount Diablo and through the rift. Her stomach quivered, did a little ji... ...shrouding all but the uppermost part of the span; the other she’d taken atop Mount Diablo. To the casual observer it was nothing but a sun-washed fiel... ...er feet. Peter shook his head. “You cannot rise from the bed. How would you mount a horse?” “A mounting block. And Gilda’s stride is as gentle as si... ...ad closed six of the seven rifts. The only one that remained open was at the Mountain of the Devil. And, even then, you needed a word of passing befor... ...e. With downward strokes, it flew up and away. As it reached the side of the mountain, it turned its sinuous neck and screamed out a last rebellious c... ...y son is well cared for,” she said, forcing her voice to sound promising and pleasant. Dirkk turned to sweep a glance over her. “It will be as you req...

...fice—he didn't know what was coming, but he was sure it wasn't going to be pleasant and that he wasn't going to like it. "Why do you keep doing that?"... ... But more complicated than anything Dagny had ever "thrown together" and a pleasant surprise which Tyler was sure he had earlier deprived himself when... ... she were coming out of a trance. She smiled. "Nothing to worry about. The mount of Venus, here..." Camilla pressed the base of Kelly's thumb. "This i... ...hed. "I just saw something to confirm what I'd already known." "Yes?" "The mount of the moon, here..." Camilla pressed her outer palm again. "This rev... ... of interpreting character and nature from the outward formations like the mounts of Venus and the moon, for example. Then, there's Cheiromancy, the s... ... describe Ben is ... he's like an everyman. Tall, slim, cafe au lait skin. Pleasant enough to look at, but he'd never stand out in a crowd." New Life... ... just thinking about you, girl." Amire opened the door, first shocked then pleasantly surprised as she led Kelly into the house. Kelly stood in the mi...

...Now these stratified memories arising from a time so long ago, which were pleasantly hidden in an upper layer of the superficial substance and transl... ...ture on the streets--a fear all the more salient in a time like this with mounting anxiety over insuperable fate sickening her and making her feel th... ...shouldered stink bug traversed on her body most intimately. She was their mountains, their valleys, their rivers, their sinkholes. And there, on her... ...arriage, still there was sex. And she wanted it now--that black man's body mounted into her, the ride, ever so brief, the quintessence of specious in... ... her homelessness all of it caused her to seek this writhing in unpleasant pleasantry there in her small aperture, this dark companion banging his lo... ...annibalize his brother the way that it did. Resuming her walk on this pleasant balmy morn, she reminded herself that, barred from the shelter as ... ...iving in his home, but the plane crashing and blowing up on impact with a mountain--the whole fucking world so much liquidized substance--dogs and ca... ...affected it as moon to tide. It was undeniable that it was a feeling of a pleasant drowning within and a belief that one designated man would act as ... ...lar life in the family home in New Orleans. The photographs of the Golden Mount always appealed to her most: the stone steps inclining and spiraling...

...he man in question. “I just want to know who he is!” “Goodnight Christine, pleasant dreams and don’t forget your prayers.” Bill silently patted himse... ...rrived on the job. Least he could now put a face to the name. Retaining a pleasant smile, Sandy watched Rick take the last swig of beer, placing the... ...ce you could pick up where you left off? God, Bill told me you could move mountains with a word, well Chris couldn’t be that much harder; could she?... .... Bill suddenly noticed the cross on the chain around her neck and though pleasantly surprised, wasn’t going to say anything, assuming he may sabota... ...fascinating and enlightening. The old man had a way with words, which was pleasantly different in comparison to other Christian’s Rick had met. Carl... ...Sunshine, I’ll have the new door on this afternoon.” He winked and smiled pleasantly. Sandy placed Rick’s mug on the sink while Chris leant up agains... ... silent. From the top bunk, Kelly mentioned the Beatitudes, Sermon on the Mount. Rick decided it was a good time to start again from the birth of Je...

...y arose the liveliest booths and stalls, and sittings and standings, and a pleasant hum of chaffering and huckstering from many hun- dreds of tongues,... ...t hum of chaffering and huckstering from many hun- dreds of tongues, and a pleasant, though peculiar, blending of colours,—white caps, blue blouses, a... ...ous- ness, fits, fainting, fever, ague, all equally cured by the small and pleasant dose of the great Physician’s great daughter! The process was thi... ...drum, and cymbal, told you so: On the first day after taking the small and pleasant dose, you would feel no particular influence beyond a most harmoni... ...r feet, kiss the hem of her garment, and buy as many more of the small and pleasant doses as by the sale of all your few effects you could obtain; but... ...st hearty emphasis, and had made up his mind to think no more about such a mountebank. But it came to pass that the Corporal was not to be dis- missed... .... “Do let’s look!” Again, designs upon the pavement. Centre compartment, Mount V esuvius going it (in a circle), supported by four oval compartments... ...t need,” was murmured among the crowd. “He couldn’t come that ‘ere burning mountain without a eye,” said the man. He had got himself accepted as an a...

...o lack of intellectual society in the midst of the beautiful and inspiring mountain scenery of the place. “In the afternoons, nowadays,” he records, s... ...ake, nor, I suppose, the delicate purple mist which folds these slumbering mountains in airy veils. Mr. Hawthorne has been lying down in the sun shine... ...th long grass-blades, that looked like a verdant and venerable beard.” The pleasantness and peace of his surroundings and of his modest home, in Lenox... ...before whose cottage- door it was a cow-path. A natural spring of soft and pleasant water—a rare treasure on the sea-girt peninsula where the Puritan ... ..., with perhaps some beautiful infirmity of character, that made it all the pleasanter to know and easier to love her. “Yes,” thought Hepzibah, with gr... ...ing un- awares into her tone; “my cousin Jaffrey is thought to have a very pleasant smile!” “And so he has” replied Uncle Venner. “And that’s rather r... ...usin, what an enor- 73 Hawthorne mous heap of copper! Positively a copper mountain!” “Well done! well done! well done!” quoth Uncle Venner, who had t... ...it were, through the thin veil of a dream, she was conscious of a footstep mounting the stairs heavily, but not with force and decision. The voice of ... ... Blest, in a frail bark, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a quiet harbor. There, as he lay more ...

...e to him. That other Tregear, who was now supposed to be investigating the mountains of Crim Tartary, would surely never marry. 23 Anthony Trollope A... ... annulled. No other man had an idea entered into her mind that it could be pleasant to join her lot in life with his. With her it had been all new and... ...e friends that he was almost determined to take the ‘baronet’s’ offer of a mount. This he would do even when there was no possible turn in the betting... ...at present enjoying a very much better state of health, ’ said the Ma- jor pleasantly. ‘Safe to run?’ asked Dolly. ‘Safe to run! Why shouldn’t he be s... ... It answers, perhaps, for a half-a-dozen chapters;—and to carry the reader pleasantly for half-a- dozen chapters is a great matter!-but after that a c... ...en considered very brilliant; but the husband was himself good-natured and pleasant, and Lady Cantrip was fond of him. In the first place she went to ... ...idge, as to the loss of the race. Within that little body there was a high-mounting heart, and that heart had been greatly wounded by his Lordship’s t... ...t 124 The Duke’s Children extravagant, had wondered how the figures could mount up so rapidly. But the money needed was always forthcom- ing, and the... ...understood in the world that women mourn longer than men. Silverbridge had mounted a private hansom cab in which he could be taken about rapidly,—and,...

...am on the crests of the ever- rising waves of this present generation—four pleasant young fellows whose existence was problematical, since they were n... ...n London or Paris. He had a lizard’s eye, as sharp as my own, and he could mount a horse like the elder Franconi. With the rosy cheeks and yellow hair... ...ything seems good provided that he is sure of ex- penses; he will set, not mountains fighting, for he sells them, but planets; he will work to make th... ..., pretty dresses, and social success, the Baroness was lulled to sleep and pleasant dreams in the blue, silk-curtained bed in the charming room next t... ...ey were sure to meet the young men of their set, she would simply say, ‘ A pleasant time to you, dear girls.’ Their friends among men, the only person... ... the French imagination when men fain would blunt the needle points of her pleasant humor! Dies iroe! Let us weep for Candide. Long live the Kritik of... ...ed that Nucingen wore the same armor, he respected him much as some knight mounted upon a barb and arrayed in dama- 57 Balzac scened steel would have...

...ossessing, having a look of good humour added to courtesy, and there was a pleasant, soft smile round his mouth which ingratiated one at the first sig... ...the flesh. A man looks at her he would love as at a distant landscape in a mountainous land. The peaks are glorious with more than the beauty of earth... ...him on under the hot sun, and over the sharp rock, till he has reached the mountain goal which he had set before him. But when there, he finds that th... ...ly uttered little that was original. Poetry and romance! They are splendid mountain views seen in the distance. So let men be content to see them, and... ... for all that, there may be quite as much in them.” We then again began to mount, and before we had as- cended much farther we passed my three country...

...ild, lying gently in her arms, came out into the matted hall, and began to mount the broad shallow- stepped staircase, protected by low stout baluster... ...down again, to take part in the Saturday’s reading and catechising. It was pleasant to see that large family in the hush and reverence of such teachin... ...arch of him for this purpose. She found him in the drawing-room, a pretty, pleasant room—its only fault that it was rather too low. It had windows ope... ...gure, but was much improved by his mother’s fine blue eyes, and was a very pleasant-looking boy, though not hand- some; little Tom was a thin, white, ... ...ses. “Oh, you have taken up quite a different line from mine. I began with Mount Vesuvius spouting lava like anything.” “But Mount V esuvius didn’t sp... ...s. Your verses will be much the best, Ethel; I only went on a little about Mount Vesuvius and the landscape, as Alan described it the other day, and D... ...hort interval, as they left the last buildings of the town, and be- gan to mount a steep hill. Presently Norman slackened his pace, and driving his st... ...gleam of the fire playing cheerfully over it. “Well, Ethel, have you had a pleasant walk?” “Y es—no—Oh, Margaret!” and throwing herself across the bot... ...pa,” said Norman, in a much cheered voice. They had, in the meantime, been mounting a rising ground, clothed with stunted wood, and came out on a wide...

... observed the coachman, looking over his shoulder at Nicholas with no very pleasant expression of countenance. ‘ Ay, I know that,’ was the reply; ‘but... ...d to owe small accounts, and to leave them owing. All men have some little pleasant way of their own; and this was Mr Wititterly’s. ‘If you please,’ s... ...om Mr Mantalini had derived his information. ‘From Pyke; and a demd, fine, pleasant, gentlemanly dog it is,’ replied Mantalini. ‘Demnition pleasant, a... ...money, I must try and show them what it is.’ And being, by this time, in a pleasant frame of mind for slumber, Ralph Nickleby went to bed. CHAPTER 35 ... ...ize, and following close at his heels, pulled up the glasses. The coachman mounted his box and drove slowly off, leaving the two bricklayers, and an o... ...hat no interference was attempted with these small liberties, he gradually mounted to greater, and, after helping himself to a moderately good cold co... ...ter, so Tim gave up the rest of his declaration in pure lack of words, and mounted his stool again. ‘W e may consider ourselves, brother Ned,’ said Ch... ...range contrast to the rapturous squeak to which his friend had gradu- ally mounted. ‘Go on. You didn’t come here to ask me that.’ ‘Oh dear, how you ta... ... his own, such was the tyrannical sway of Mrs Lillyvick, who reigned para- mount and supreme. Nicholas responded to this confidence on the part of Mr ...

...ch, hearing the rustle of a woman’s dress at the door. “It’s I,” said a firm, pleasant, woman’s voice, and the stern, pock marked face of Matrona Phili... ..., of which she felt certain, was flattering and delightful to her; and it was pleasant for her to think of Levin. In her memories of Vronsky there alwa... ...ce itself is dull enough, you know. And indeed, Naples and Sorrento are only pleasant for a short time. And it’s just there that Russia comes back to ... ...,” pursued Anna. “I remember, and I know that blue haze like the mist on the mountains in Switzerland. That mist which covers everything in that bliss... ...d forgotten his offense. At half past nine o’clock a particularly joyful and pleasant family conversa tion over the tea table at the Oblonskys’ was b... ... Alexan drovitch halted in the middle of the room. A woman’s step was heard mounting the stairs. Alexey Alexandrovitch, ready for his speech, stood c... ...f past five, and he was late. There were several races fixed for that day: the Mounted Guards’ race, then the officers’ mile and a half race, then the th... ...ion and drew the numbers. Vronsky drew the number seven. The cry was heard: “Mount!” Feeling that with the others riding in the race, he was the cente... ... more formidable rivals, was moving round a bay horse that would not let him mount. A little light hussar in tight riding breeches rode off at a gallo...

...ily-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a gr... ...them to a story he knew: the whole circle was animated by a couple of pale mounted figures beneath no happy light. For this was the air once breathed ... ...? She had 5 George Meredith forborne to kill him. The bitter sylph of the mountain lures men to climb till she winds them in vapour and leaves them g... ...dsome old country mansion on the top of a wooded hill backed by a swarm of mountain heads all purple-dark under clouds flying thick to shallow, as fro... ...rse our troopers. I call that the land for horses where the cavalry’s well-mounted on a native breed.’ ‘You have your brother’s notions of cavalry, ha... ... to distinguish her from the horde of her baptismal sisters. And she had a pleasant face: he was able to see that, and some individuality in the look ... ...le, showing himself at least a good reader of music. On the whole, he sang pleasantly, particularly French songs. She complimented him, with an emphas... ...prin- cess as yet; he would like to have a bit of the wreck. I shan’t be a pleasant messenger to him. I should be glad to take him something. It could... ...dumb, and had for his tutors Ferkelne the bard and Crafting the harper, at pleasant Dinree: he was grandson of Leary Lore who was basely murdered by h...

...isit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and sta...

...e. Also, per- haps, that Mamma, who made the child learn the Sermon on the Mount, is not really a Christian. The Sin of Nadab and Abihu BUT THERE IS A... ...rson is nei- ther happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it. That is why it is ... ... is necessary to happiness that one should be tired. Music after dinner is pleasant: music before breakfast is so unpleasant as to be clearly unnatura... ...that it is their religious duty to be miserable. It, and the Sermon on the Mount, and Machiavelli’s Prince, and La Rochefoucauld’s maxims, and Hymns A... ...er than your elders, are just as impor- tant as those of The Sermon on the Mount; but no one has yet seen them written up in letters of gold in a scho... ...t sometimes be driven out into the open—imprisoned in the woods and on the mountains, as it were. For there are frowsty children, just as there are fr... ...ed as such. And to be treated as anything but what you really are may seem pleasant to the imagination when the treatment is above your merits; but in... ...would not turn a hair; but the artless people would go mad and call on the mountains to hide them. I submit that this indicates a thoroughly healthy s...

... the name of Beware Chalk-Pit. Parnholt wood, that clothes one side of the mount, is beloved by botanists for possessing tracts of lily of the valley,... ..., Convallaria majalis, and likewise Paris quadrifolia, a great rarity. The mount itself is bare chalk down,* but has a wonderful view over the whole u... ...beautiful ling, in delicate purple spikes, almost as tall as the hazel and mountain ash are allowed to grow. On 88 John Kemble’s Parishes sum... ... rare Viola palustris around it. The whole tract remained untouched till a pleasant residence called the Grange was taken out of it to the south, at a... ...in 1897. The parish here borders on Bishopstoke, and the Grange commands a pleasant view over the water meadows, and up the opposite Bishopstoke Hill.... ...pensation for the Pinguicula vulgaris, which has been drained away, or the mountain pink at Highbridge, which I suspect some gardener of appropriat- i... ...though it has now been taken in hand by the Parish Council, and it makes a pleasant picture of stripes of various shades of green and brown with peopl... ...out.” And the doctor, taking to prose, replies: “I’m not like those little mountebank doctors that go about the streets, and say this, that, and the o... ...stes chloris).—Greenfinch, or Beanbird as they call it in Devonshire, is a pleasant visitor, though it has a great turn for pease. Wren (Sylvia troglo...

...es, the deception, he’d handed Archer his resignation from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archer had convinced Kurt to accept a leave instead. T... ...ce as a jockey. The veteran trainer was well respected and if she picked up a mount from him, other trainers would surely follow. Harrison dragged a... ... great exposure for her as long as Skippy ran well. It wouldn't earn her any mounts if they finished last. She shook her head. Negative thoughts w... ...hecking the blue patch of sky. The weather was fickle, affected by the nearby mountains. It had been hailing when he woke but now it was sunny and w... .... She seemed exactly who she appeared, an apprentice jockey desperate to earn mounts. It’d be damn tough. She’d picked a hard and bruising career y... .... And he didn’t like to think of himself as an interrogator. This could be as pleasant as she let him make it. But there simply wasn’t much sense in ... ...zed it, but she’d touched him three times tonight. Dinner, a few drinks, some pleasant company. He didn’t understand why it was such a big deal. He ...

.... Who is your victim tonight? Little Boy Blue?” “I think you’ll be quite pleasantly surprised.” Camilla rearranged the candles on the table as sh... ... When the steps of the brownstone loomed before them, it was as if they were mounting a tidal wave. But somehow they managed the climb, and Daniel he... ... this. She lost all notion of resistance and surrendered to the startlingly pleasant torture of his kiss. “I said, get up, you worthless slut!” Ca... ... other, you will pay. And if you will only cooperate, it can be a lot more pleasant than you can ever possibly imagine.” “I have a very good imagi... ...stalwart and inscrutable as the front. While the cabbie waited, toting his mounting fare, Falkner relentlessly stalked his circuit, reluctant to ke... ...e a mop to the unenchanted eye, but do not be deceived. No more faithful a mount has ever ridden into battle.” The death throes of the dragon reac... ...s wounded chest, staggered to the top and collapsed, ready to roll down the mountainside. “Excuse me. Time for a rescue.” Jumping over the mop ... ...th the air of queenly disdain that was a constant part of her nature, Lydia mounted the stairs. The sweep of her skirts caught the discarded sword, ... ...oke to it. The aroma of coffee tweaked at her nose and tugged her out of a pleasant but unremembered dream. The linen sheets and embroidered cover...

...mire the magnificent views of a rural landscape surrounded by snow-capped mountains. One of the reasons I brought this place, classic postcard stuff... ...id myself more damage. “Oh really.” Michael smiled. “Have you gone up the mountains there?” He pointed at what I consider Mount Everest. “Ah no, but... ...but I’ve heard its fabulous, great, wonderful views, couldn’t find better mountains.” “I get the message,” Michael replied. “Sounds good. I’m looking... ...hand and I’m in no hurry to use it. I may just have this hand stuffed and mounted, a reminder of a moment in time when I was his good luck charm. I’... ... the views, the clean air and how he’s looking forward to going up to the mountains. He asks what my plans are for my bit of earth. I stun him with ... ... guy wears; have I ever led you astray yet?” “Yes, many times.” I express pleasantries. “Oh, well, forget I said that,” Steven replies. “Okay, think ... ...little worried, having looked in the direction of the shed. “No,” I force pleasantries. “But it won’t take me long though.” I glance at Michael with... ...ld use a shoulder,” Gary said. Although nervous, there’s sincerity in his pleasant tone. “We all know what’s troubling you, Steven can annoy us too....

...both my hands And looked abroad in foreign lands. I saw the next door garden lie, Adorned with flowers, before my eye, And many pleasant places more T... ...nted cities all about. I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill, And sees before him, dale and plain, The pleasant land of count... ...Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do— All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of drea... ... with all her might, T o eat with apple-tart. She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, ... ... Robert Louis Stevenson XXXIII The Swing How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing ... ... And cut it down to dry. Those green and sweetly smelling crops They led the waggons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For... ...gons home; And they piled them here in mountain tops For mountaineers to roam. Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail, Mount Eagle and Mount ... ...ppy hills of hay! 25 A Child’s Garden of V erses XL Farewell to the Farm The coach is at the door at last; The eager children, mounting fast And kiss... ...palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home. Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet ...