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... stale heat of the long day in town, the dusty promiscuity of the suburban train were now but the requisite foil to an 26 The Touchstone evening of s... ...olled-up evening papers which he had thrust into his pocket on leaving the train. As he smoothed them out his own countenance seemed to undergo the sa... ...orately, that he was laughing at the recol- lection of an old woman in the train, an old woman with a lot of bundles, who couldn’t find her ticket… . ... ... earlier than usual and turned in at the first book-shop on his way to the train. The show-window was stacked with conspicuously lettered volumes. “Ma... ... palm-leaf fans of a perspiring crowd, he waited a long half- hour for his train to start. He had thrust a volume in either pocket and in the train he... ...sh the letters to be published?” Glennard felt the sudden dizziness of the mountaineer on a narrow ledge, and with it the sense that he was lost if he...

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...t yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that cl... ...pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasiti- cal satellites. Still, marquise, it has been so with oth... ...ow.” “But still” — “We are forbidden to give you any explanation.” Dantes, trained in discipline, knew that nothing would be more absurd than to ques-... ...ing in Dauphine is quite the reverse of that in Provence or Languedoc. The mountaineers are Bonapartists, sire.” “Then,” murmured Louis, “he was well ... ...ome solace in these ideas. All his sorrows, all his sufferings, with their train of gloomy spectres, fled from his cell when the angel of death seemed... ...lived. The nasturtiums and other plants, which his father had delighted to train before his window, had all disappeared from the upper part of the hou... ...d from his heavy covering, preceded the traveller with the rapid step of a mountaineer, which a horse can scarcely keep up with. In ten minutes Luigi ... ...fference between the servility of a man of the cities and the pride of the mountaineer, ‘if you refuse wages, you will, perhaps, accept a gift.’ — ‘Ah...

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...s generous, but it was certainly a principle in which the young prince was trained, and which may be too probably denominated peculiar to his family, ... ...ent, with a laudable sense of the honour of the profession to which he has trained me. As we have no near relations, the tie betwixt us is of even 24... ...im. Thou knowest thy father’s strict and excellent domestic discipline has trained me to bear the invocation of a blessing before we break the daily b... ... the, scoundrels have had me stop to have my head cut off?’ Imagine such a train at your own heels, Darsie, and ask yourself whether you would not exe... ... it would be best,’ answered Rachel; ‘but what can I say? Even in the best-trained temper there may remain some leaven of the old Adam; and I know not... ...t—an established authority—a born Briton on the throne—the very High- land mountaineers, upon whom alone the trust of the exiled family reposed, assem...

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...therner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of hi... ...cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil i... ...ll know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of... ...uimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil. The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, a... ... his rate as doctors that of a baby’s pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or the down 527 Herman Melville train will reach such or such a spot... ...those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though, at...

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...utherner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his... ... cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, norcastor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil i... ...ll know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of... ...uimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil. The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, a... ...he Chase — Second Day 523 of a baby’s pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or the down train will reach such or such a spot, at such or such an ... ...those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though, at ...

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...armed and drawn up in due order into a heavy standing phalanx, admi- rably trained for encountering and overpowering an enemy who came to close combat... ...ompeting incessantly with the swift attacks and retreats of a set of fleet mountaineers, or to endure hunger and thirst, and live exposed like them to... ...,” because by early strictness of edu- cation, they, more than any nation, trained the citizens to obedience to the laws, and made them tractable and ... ...e courtesy of the youth, looked about to see if there were anything in his train fit to offer him in return; and observing the horse of Idaeus, the se... ...imself very much upon that victory, that with so small a number of his own training, he had vanquished a body of men that thought themselves the best ... ...hich when he found no notice taken, he confidently thrust himself into his train, expecting that Agesilaus would pay him some attention. When all that...

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...estruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel.” “Yes—certainly—perhaps,” replied the C... ...ing a phos- phorescent track, like those volumes of steam that the express trains leave behind. All at once from the dark line of the horizon whither ... ...se from behind the eastern horizon. The sea flamed under its glance like a train of gunpowder. The clouds scattered in the heights were coloured with ... ...endours of the night in the tropics. My remembrances went to France in the train of those zodia- cal stars that would shine in some hours’ time. The m... ...of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this energetic man could have reflected during the last mo- ments... ...Captain Nemo. “And our arms?” asked I; “our guns?” “Guns! What for? Do not mountaineers attack the bear with a dagger in their hand, and is not steel ...

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...ur Hostess. Age! twine thy brows with fresh spring flowers! And call a train of laughing Hours; And bid them dance, and bid them sing; And Tho... ... upon thy forehead clear 30 The freedom of a Mountaineer. A face with gladness overspread! Sweet looks, by human kin... ...in And mock the Form which he did feign, While he was dancing with the train Of Leaves among the bushes. ...

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...eau of the piano, found And culled a pair of fans; wherewith equipped, Our mountaineer back to the level slipped; And being landed, with considerate e... ...s by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918) IV. As starts the absent dreamer when a train, Suddenly disengulphed below his feet, Roars forth into the sunlight,... ...who having wandered all night long 45 As starts the absent dreamer when a train, 93 As swallows turning backward 12 As when the hunt by holt and fi...

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...wo years between the Grand Monarch with all his troops and marshals on the one hand, and a few thousand Protes- tant mountaineers upon the other. A hu... ... dainty pride; her cheek fell into strange and interesting lines. It was a face capable of strong emotion, and, with training, it offered the promise ... ...f ants, there was no water in the room, the very dawn had neglected to call me in the morning. I might have missed a train, had there been any in the ... ...t gardens, and looked upon in the clear air by many rocky peaks. The road along the Mimente is yet new, nor have the mountaineers recovered their surp...

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...ich was stocked with deer and other game, and where hawks and gerfalcons were trained for limiting purposes. Here the Great Khan usually dwelt during... ...y his uncle Naiam, who had placed himself at the head of five hundred thousand trained cavalrymen. Kubla having learned of the intentions of his uncle... ...n his court at Cambaluc. Having no fire-arms in that day, the King made use of trained leopards, hawks, and gerfalcons, which pursued and took the pre... ...abitants were of a very low order of humanity. He says that in the cities "the mountaineers are very beastly, eating man's flesh and all kinds of impu... ...re raised, of the numbers of his oxen and buffaloes, and of the boys he had in training to become soldiers. In return for this boastful assurance, the... ...s a procession of the King and nobles going up from the beach to the town, the trained servants bearing the sword and throne in, solemn state before t...

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...nzo’s favorite. Certainly no one else could have given him more competent training than the Duke. I was so pleased to have him and spoiled him, unti... ...have been dead for years. Friends, neighbors, filthy seamen on the coast, mountaineers, shepherds, brig- ands at the Borgia castle. Here, at Cloux, ... ...and flagged. A handsome brass cannon boomed from a flatcar coupled to his train, boomed his entry into every town and city. Often our debates were v... ...y nomination Springfield filled with ox carts, wagons, buggies, horsemen, trainloads of folk. Fifty-thousand poured into my little town. Hordes jamm... ... to force an amalgamation of North and South, I was utterly non- plussed. Trainer of Arabian horses, owner of Arabian horses, breeder of Arabians, S... ...to Springfield, an emotion that nearly overwhelmed me as I waved from the train. W. H. 1864 It was only a few years ago that John Quincy Adams w...

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... AR ARTURE TURE TURE TURE TURE ‘I bowed my pride, A horse-boy in his train to ride.’ —Scott. THE LADY OF GLENUSKIE, as she was commonly called, ... ...in the Docks in London. Sir Patrick and his lady had thus enjoyed far more training in the general European civilisation than usually fell to the lot ... ...d all the evil around he had decided that it was well-nigh im- possible to train them to courage without ruffianism, or to prevent them from being tai... ...colm Drummond, a devout and scholarly lad of earnest aspiration, should be trained at the Paris University, and perhaps visit Padua and Bologna in pre... ... usual, though they did not know that the horses they were riding had been trained for the special use of the Lady of Glenuskie and her daughter Annis... ... declared that he wished he had the plundering of it; and a fierce-looking mountaineer of the V osges of Alsace growled that if the harp- ing old King... ... shape by the French, ballons. Just then Jean’s horse, weary and unused to mountaineer- ing, stumbled. The man at its head was perhaps not attend- ing... ...ipice and sheer wall before him, but the Hapsburg was primarily a Tirolean mountaineer, and he measured the rock with a glistening triumphant eye. ‘Ma...

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...und in the bedrooms of convalescents and in dentists’ parlours and railway trains than in gentlemen’s studies. I would rather have it dipped in and di... ...e; the house quivered; one heard the metallic rattle of the tender. As the train passed, there was a glare of light above the cutting and a driving 1... ... in the throat of the tunnel, which, with the last, seemed to swallow down train, smoke, and sound in one abrupt gulp. “This country was all fresh and... ...place. Nearer at hand was the broad stretch of railway, and half-invisible trains shunted—a steady puffing and rumbling, with every run a ringing conc... ...se a notice-board, bearing, still dimly visible, the words, “BEWARE OF THE TRAINS,” half hidden by splashes of coaly mud. “Fine effects,” said Horrock... ...ommunity from the outer world. And this is the story of that man. He was a mountaineer from the country near Quito, a man who had been down to the sea... ...with a dim fancy that he was ill in bed; then realised his position with a mountaineer’s intelligence, and worked himself loose and, after a rest or s...

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..., Who to Madrid on purpose made a journey. But Donna Inez, to divert the train Of one of the most circulating scandals That had for centurie... ... New characters; the episodes are three: A panoramic view of hell ‘s in training, After the style of Virgil and of Homer, So that my name of ... ...gh led, And arm’d from boot to turban, one and all, Some twenty of his train came, rank on rank; He gave the word, — ‘Arrest or slay the Frank... ... a decorous file, And then his Highness’ eunuchs, black and white; The train might reach a quarter of a mile: His majesty was always so poli... ...gs are apt to push on; Something about the Baltic’s navigation, Hides, train oil, tallow, and the rights of Thetis, Which Britons deem their ‘... ...ntic continents or islands, The calentures of music which o’ercome All mountaineers with dreams that they are nigh lands, No more to be beheld...

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...thing was that he had actually done some of the things he boasted of. As a mountaineer, he had made an ascent of K2 in the Hindu Kush, the second high... ..., the cylinders of oxygen and so forth, which render the endeavours of the mountaineers of the present day more likely to suc ceed. He did not reach ... ...up,’ answered Susie irritably. ‘I can’t un derstand it. I waited till the train came in, but there was no sign of her. Then I thought she might have ... ...arried before the Con sul early enough on the Thursday morning to catch a train for England. She left everything in his hands. ‘I’m desperately unhap... ...ing, because I shall be too busy. Come at twelve.’ She remembered that her train started exactly at that hour. The door was opened, and with a little ... ... dreadful news. She dressed hurriedly and ate some breakfast. There was no train till nearly eleven, and she had to bear her impatience as best she co... ...after all you’ve seen with your own eyes?’ ‘If my eyes show me what all my training assures me is impossible, I can only conclude that my eyes deceive...

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...is revolver. Then he would sit up in bed, shivering nervously, with the weapon trained on the unconscious dreamer. Cuthfert deemed the man going mad, ... ...o near. But, recovering from one of these spells, the clerk noticed the weapon trained upon him. His suspicions were aroused, and thenceforth he, too,... ... grub stake. And then, one bleak morning in early January, a heavily laden dog train pulled into his cabin below Stuart River. He of the Otter Skins w... ...Otter Skins talked with his whip to a recalcitrant wheeler. An hour later, the train had taken on the likeness of a black pencil crawling in a long, s... ...e a cuirass. The group had been added to by curious passers by — husky miners, mountaineers, and frontiersmen, sons of the long legged and broad shou... ...way with men who are accustomed to great hazards, whose nerves are healthy and trained to patience, so it was with Lecl` ere, who settled himself to t... ... trance of Kalalau Valley, but the weather must be very fine. And a cool headed mountaineer might climb from the beach to the head of Kalalau Valley, t... ... Kalalau Valley, to this pocket among the peaks where Koolau ruled; but such a mountaineer must be very cool of head, and he must know the wild goat t...

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...isite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing... ...t. It is of the highest importance, therefore, that they be so organized and trained as to be prepared for any emer gency. The arrangement should be ... ...riving in Washington, the Pierces’ only surviving child had been killed in a train accident. MY C OUNTRYMEN: It a relief to feel that no heart but my ... ...eir ability and special fitness for the work. Business experience and public training may thus be combined, and the patriotic zeal of the friends of t... ...ke but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacri fice for the good of a common di... ...rma and the planter of wheat in Iowa, the shepherd in southern Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon the French INA...

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...stood nearest the windows, now spread through the church; a hearse, with a train of several coaches, was creep- 16 Twice Told Tales ing along the str... ...those who felt aright, was solemnized the union of two immortal souls. The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, the pale fe... ...dy tribe whose whole life is like the festal days of soberer men. In their train were min- strels, not unknown in London streets; wandering players, w... ...ng a representative to the General Court and an approved lieutenant in the trainbands, yet within a week after his adoption of Ilbrahim he had been bo... ...h are not costly, yet manifest good will and when at last she died, a long train of her once bitter persecu- tors followed her, with decent sadness an... ...led the refined and educated youth to pour out his heart before the simple mountaineers, and constrained them to answer him with the same free confide...

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...it sinking. And from the swan grew a white ship, and from the ship a dark train of clouds; and a voice came from the waters: ‘Get thee hence with thy... ...; Saw great Tapio’s lovely daughter, Saw T ellervo in her beauty, With her train of charming maidens; All were dressed in golden raiment, Rustled all ... ..., From the stream of T uonela! “Ancient mother who hast borne me, Who hast trained me from my childhood, Learn, I pray thee, where I linger, Where ala... ..., In the quiet fields of Ehstland, On the battle fields of Sweden, Mid the mountaineers of Lapland, In the magic fens of T urya; Seek him in T uoni’s ... ...ll thou knowest, ancient mother, How to make thy sweet bud blossom, How to train thy tender shootlet; Did not know where to ingraft it, Placed, alas! ... ...anions of the bridegroom! Never has there been in Northland Such a wedding train of honor, Never such a bride of beauty. “Bridegroom, thou beloved her...