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...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ...e. Captain Mitchell had himself steered the cargo lighter, all draped with flags, which, in tow of the Juno’s steam launch, took the Excellentissimo f... ..., 37 Joseph Conrad full of notabilities, sitting under the flutter of gay flags, in the place of honour by the side of Captain Mitchell, who steered,... ...urs of domestic life are marked by the shifting of light and shadow on the flagstones. Señor Avellanos was in the habit of crossing the patio at five ... ...aw, interna- tional, human, and divine, reverts now to the Gov- ernment as national property, shall remain closed till the sword drawn for the sacred ... ...n the slant of sunshine. Then the old porter would hobble in, sweeping the flagstones, and the house was ready for the day. All the lofty rooms on thr... ...n the corredor to go and get his hat, a soft, grey sombrero, an article of national costume which combined unexpectedly well with his English get-up. ...

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...e enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prison- ers, with very little loss to himse... ...dis- lodged from that important position; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of t... ...ial homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMA TION OF AMNESTY AND RECON- STRUCTION D... ...s a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive. And it is suggested as not improper that in constructin... ...has passed. For these, and espe- cially for the improved condition cf our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to God is due. We r... ...s the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Such co... ...ag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been four flags captured to-day.” Judging by the two points from which General Grant ... ... Seven NOTE ON A CARD TO SECRETARY STANTON. April 10, 1865. Tad wants some flags—can he be accommodated? A. LINCOLN. RESPONSE TO A CALL, APRIL 10, 186...

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...emains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and Joinville’s band begin... ...up the huge mountain, from the tower nestled at the foot of it to the thin flagstaff at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edi... ...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language, its ap- propriate house of call, and your ... ...Grand Cairo mids, and along the vast rock-galleries, and up to the topmost flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are ma... ...re a city in itself;—merchantmen loading and crews cheering, under all the flags of the world flaunting in the sunshine; a half-score of busy black st... ... black sides and flaunt- ing colours, are moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the ... ...the Pasha wished to raise the spirit of the fellahs, and relever la morale nationale, he actually made one of the astonished Arabs a colonel. He de- g...

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... recognition of the idea of a human commonweal as something overriding any national and pa- triotic consideration, and that is in the working class mo... ...ocial revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest soc... ...my frequently and thoroughly and placed it at last, with the adop- tion of national service, upon a footing that would have seemed very imposing to th... ...bankment. He made his way through the galleries of the booksellers and the National Gallery, which had been open continuously day and night to all dec... ...fill his vacant mind with the sounds and fury of exasperated suspicion and national ag- gression. For example, Barnet describes the London crowd as no... ...s and old men cheering and shouting, of the streets and rows hung with the flags of the Allied Powers, of a real enthusiasm even among the destitute a... ...only be done by putting all the world under one government. Our crowns and flags are in the way. Mani- festly they must go.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ interrupted F... ...ontemporary emotions. They interrupt. They set back. Suddenly out come the flags and fireworks, and the old enthusiasms are furbished up—and it’s shee...

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...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ... “stark fact.” We hung nude pictures in our rooms much as if they had been flags, to the earnest concern of our bedders, and I disinterred my long-kep... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ...fficer and the engineer, and “shop” as a poetic dia- lect, became almost a national symbol. He got hold of us wonderfully, he filled us with tinkling ... ...sunlight along some narrow Alpine mule-path shouting large suggestions for national re-organisation, and weighing considerations as lightly as though ... ...h windows, through which the tea drinking had come out upon the moss-edged flagstones even as Mrs. Seddon had planned. The party was almost entirely f... ...ire jostle one another, pass the big embassies in the W est End with their flags and scutcheons, follow the broad avenue that leads to Buckingham Pala... ...f things, Isabel—or things have made a mess of us. I don’t know which. Our flags are in the mud, anyhow. It’s too late to save those other things! The...

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...VE here an account of my military ser- vices; they will appear in my great national autobiography, in forty volumes, which I am now preparing for the ... ...and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume. My two flags were each surmounted with a real skull and cross-bones, and ornamente... ...ormed its garrison, and were keeping watch on the roof—each roof bearing a flagstaff twenty feet long on its top, the crescent glit- tering with a tho... ...the figure. The ruffians were mustered in front, the cavalry be- hind. The flags were flying, the drums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other...

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...l knowledge—” “Technical knowledge be damned! Those men mean to corner the national fuel supply. And waste it! For their prof- its. That’s what I’m up... ...fe the socialist art critic who could be trusted to play the fool and make nationalization look silly, and the rest mine owners, railway managers, oil... ...o much effort. On too high a level. And too austere. One strains and fags. Flags! ‘Flags’ I meant to say. One strains and flags and then the lower stu... ...ur rotten empire and its empty monarchy. I am bored by its parades and its flags and its sham enthusiasms. I am bored by London and its life, by its s... ...cked like an exhibition with memories of Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy, amidst which splendours a competent...

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...e great Russian empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred fostered by the Moscow school of journalists against the Po... ... Meeting with calm fortitude the cruel trials of a life reflecting all the national and social misfortunes of the community, she realized the highest ... ...r of a family party. By and by, from one of the vigorous servant- girls in national costume, we discovered that the place was really a boarding house ... ...inded Polish gentleman to eat dog by raising in his breast a false hope of national independence. It has been the fate of that credulous nation to sta... ..., when one thinks of it, a singularly poisonous regimen. Some pride in the national constitution which has survived a long course of such dishes is re... ... our best quartermaster, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde... ...all, dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing by, one heard a deep murmur of voices inside—nothing mo...

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.................................................................... 86 A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. ............................................................. ...ed-inwoven cot, _95 Thatched with broad flags. An outlawed murderer Had lived seven days there: the pursuit was hot... ...dness of infamy. 87 Shelley A NE A NE A NE A NE A NEW NA W NA W NA W NA W NATIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM. TIONAL ANTHEM... ...e “Ode to the Assertors of Liberty”. He sketched also a new version of our national anthem, as addressed to Liberty. 114 V olume Two POEMS POEMS POEM... ...a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb, And at its outlet flags huge as stakes Dammed it up with roots knotted like water-snakes. And... ...s are full, the boat makes head Against the Serchio’s torrent fierce, Then flags with intermitting course, And hangs upon the wave, and stems ...

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...e great Russian Empire—the shadow lowering with the darkness of a new-born national hatred fos- tered by the Moscow school of journalists against the ... ... Meeting with calm fortitude the cruel trials of a life reflecting all the national and social misfortunes of the community, she realised the highest ... ...ir of a family party. By-and-by, from one of the vigorous servant-girls in national costume, we discovered that the place was really a boarding-house ... ...inded Polish gentleman to eat dog by raising in his breast a false hope of national independence. It has been the fate of that credulous nation to sta... ...No money. No horse. Too far to walk.” The fall of Napoleon and the ruin of national hopes affected adversely the character of Mr. Nicholas B. He shran... ...ur best quarter- master, deft at fine needlework, he who mended the ship’s flags and sewed buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulde... ...mall dingy cafe for sailors cast a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing by, one heard a deep mur- 118 Some Reminiscences mur o... ...iving and departing ships. I saw it suddenly flicker and stream out on the flagstaff. The Red Ensign! In the pellucid, colourless atmosphere bathing t...

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...frontlet of the elk adorns, Or mantles o’er the bison’s horns; Pennons and flags defaced and stained, That blackening streaks of blood retained, And d... ...h was dumb. There breathed no wind their crests to shake, Or wave their flags abroad; Scarce the frail aspen seemed to quake That shadowed o’er ... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and...

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...ongue. The shipping in the lower reaches below the Tower there carried the flags of every country under the sky… . As he went along the riverside he m... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...lves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swagger- ing, it was greed, it was Ger... ...me. They had just negotiated, like the mere politicians they were, for the Nationalist vote. They seemed to hope that by a marvel 104 The Research Ma... ...nt influence. Strachey, for ex- ample, with his Spectator; Maxse, with his National Review. But they were grown up, they had formed their ideas. He ha... ...n villa, and at an enormous expenditure of will he ignored Amanda’s waving flags and roving glances. So, too, he denied that Amanda who was sharp and ...

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...ing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper- weight had be... ...ormous background of the world war, by his ineffective realization of vast national needs, by his passionate desire, for himself and his church, not t... ...t topic they had passed to the discussion of the war, and then of wars and national aggressions and the perpetual thrusting and quar- relling of manki... ...proved there could easily be peace all over the world now if it wasn’t for flags and kings and capitalists and priests. They still manage to keep safe... ...and these political parties, and these policies and conspiracies, and this nationalist nonsense and all the patriotism and rowdyism, all the private p... ...hat ter- rible and destructive chaos—because of the kings and churches and nationalities sturdier-souled men would have set aside. Everything was shar...

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...imer, Bishop of Worcester, to Lord Cromwell, on the birth of the Prince of Wales (afterward Edward VI.). From the National Manuscripts preserved by th... ...g— Stir not a step till I come again! It is a command!” In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national importance that lay upon a ... ...with banners and streamers; some with cloth-of- gold and arras embroidered with coats-of-arms; others with silken flags that had numberless little sil...

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...rusticity? Hadn’t he noticed, she asked, that cooking always expressed the national character, and that French food was clever and amusing just becaus... ...een in dim water. He lit his cigar, and they walked slowly up and down the flags in the languid air, till he put an arm about her, saying: “Y ou mustn... ...see how completely she has identified herself with Monsieur de Chantelle’s nationality and adopted French hab- its and prejudices. Y et when anything ... ...am down on him and he shivered in the dampness and stamped his feet on the flags. It seemed to him that a long time elapsed before the door opened and...

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... home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the ush... ... Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting... ... I look forward. I do hope good for the world. If at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without... ...otherwise with Mrs. Pagnell. She flung wild arms of a semaphore signalling national events. She sprang before Aminta to stop her retreat, and stamped ... ...humble speculations on the young schoolmaster’s grand project to bring the nationalities together, and teach Old England to the Continent—the Continen... ...r swish of leaves, the river darkened the patch of wrinkles, the bordering flags amid the reed-blades dipped and streamed. Surcharged with unassimilat...

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...ing noiseless made an echoing sound Bleak House – Volume Two 30 upon the flags. Stopping to look at nothing, but seeing all I did see as I went, I w... ... in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ... ...rsons of a rest less disposition and never do anything anywhere. On these national occasions Sir Leicester finds the cous ins useful. A better man t... ...ock in to dinner, or even the privilege of her hand in the dance. On these national occasions dancing may be a patriotic service, and Volumnia is cons... ...s it. The day begins to break now; and in truth it might be better for the national glory even that the sun should sometimes set upon the British domi...

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...mantle. Her sa- rong, the kilt-like garment which both sexes wear, had the national check of grey and red, but she had not completed her attire by the... ...tion of ambitious men who played an occult but important part in all those national risings, religious distur- bances, and also in the organized pirat... ... little finger. The two praus are large and armed. They came up the creek, flags and streamers flying, beating drums and gongs, and entered the lagoon... ...gangway and listened to his orders. “Directly there is enough light to see flags by, make a signal to the schooner to heave short on her cable and loo...

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...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w... ...en,’ said Dacier. ‘The story adds, that blows were arrested; so confer the nationality as you please.’ Diana had often to divert him from a too intent... ... she brought her hand to paint it. ‘You would be offered up to the English national hang- man, Jehoiachim Sneer,’ interposed Arthur Rhodes, evidently ... ...of the common masculine craze to scale fortresses for the sake of lowering flags. Whilst under his impression of her character, he submitted honourabl...

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...eir great-great-grandfathers had not been the first to do it when they were children. The strokes of the bare feet had worn grooves inches deep in the... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...rists was very marked. I felt repaid for my trouble. Half of the summer horde in Switzerland is made up of English people; the other half is made up o... ...cans were not as numerous as I had expected they would be. The seven-thirty table d’ho^te at the great Schweitzerhof furnished a mighty array and vari...