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...le green, and pink, while over these costumes were thrown opera cloaks and capes of astonishing complexity and elaborateness. Nearly all were bare-hea... ...me repeating: “I don’t see—I can’t understand.” Then, abruptly drawing her cape about her, she crossed the vestibule and came up to Jadwin. As she app... ...ime to hear Mrs. Cressler—a fine old lady, in a won- derful ermine-trimmed cape, whose hair was powdered— exclaim at the top of her voice, as if the m... ...m a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes, Mr. Corthell,” she answered, “one. I tried to select the pretti... ...s was its influence felt. Out, far out, far away in the snow and shadow of Northern Wis- consin forests, axes and saws bit the bark of century-old tre... ...dried, and the pinch of famine made itself felt among the vine dressers of Northern Italy, the coal miners of Western Prussia. Or another channel fill... ...nterested her with his de- scription of his life in the cathedral towns of northern Italy. But at the end of that time dinner was announced. “Has Mr. ... ...e to dodge into the portico of the Illinois Trust to es- 217 Frank Norris cape a drenching. All the passers-by close at hand were making for the same... ...opposite the fireplace, worked in the tap- estry of the best period of the northern French school, Halcyone, her arms already blossoming into wings, h...

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...and off they went in the quietest manner imaginable, without a plunge or a caper, or anything like one. Catherine, delighted at so happy an escape, sp... ...wer to compare him with! And then his hat sat so well, and the innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important! To be driven by him,... ...fore. Henry’s words, his description of the ebony cabinet which was to es- cape her observation at first, immediately rushed across her; and though th... ...her own country, and even of that, if hard pressed, would have yielded the northern and western extremities. But in the central part of England there ...

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...iterranean, and last in the West Indian trade. He had never been round the Capes. He could just write a kind of sketchy hand, and didn’t care for writ... ...outh! “We left London in ballast—sand ballast—to load a cargo of coal in a northern port for Bankok. Bankok! I thrilled. I had been six years at sea, ...

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...ccusation: ‘Men may have rounded Seraglio Point: they have not yet doubled Cape T urk.’ It is war, and on the male side, Ottoman war: her experi- ence... ...nd of us truth to nature, excluding Philosophy, is really to bid a pumpkin caper. As much as legs are wanted for the dance, Philosophy is required to ... ...SULLIVAN SMITH ‘IT MAY BE as well to take Mr. Redworth’s arm; you will es- cape the crush for you,’ said Lady Dunstane to Diana. ‘I don’t sup. Yes! go... ...; an effect was produced, if a cold one—the colder for the unparticipating northern eyes; eyes of that half cloud and blue, which make a kind of huele... ...with the hoop, as at the shape of a white cat climbing a wheel. Men of the northern blood will sometimes lend their assent to poetical images, even to... ...tch the wheel. He was a true descendant of practical hard-grained fighting Northerners, of gnarled dwarf imaginations, chivalrous though they were, an... ...roportion of the masculine world, which had not yet, has not yet, ‘doubled Cape Turk,’ approved her condemnation to the sack. There was talk in the fe... ...o restrain him. Perhaps he thought it well not to risk his gains. He was a northerner in blood. He may have thought it well not further to run the per... ...,’ Diana replied. ‘I hope I know one, never mind the hour,’ said he of the capes. He was bidden to drive rapidly. ‘Complexion a tulip: you do not ofte...

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...y, With lengths of yellow ringlet, like a girl, For on my cradle shone the Northern star. There lived an ancient legend in our house. Some sorcerer, w... ...ld of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East; ‘Three ladies of the Northern empire pray Y our Highness would enroll them with your own, As Lad... ...So saying from the court we paced, and gained The terrace ranged along the Northern front, And leaning there on those balusters, high Above the empurp... ... And she exclaimed, ‘Peace, you young savage of the Northern wild! What! though your Prince’s love were like a God’s, Have we n... ... the sun, that now Leapt from the dewy shoulders of the Earth, And hit the Northern hills. Here Cyril met us. A little shy at first, but by and by We... ...oop from heaven and take the shape With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape; But O too fond, when have I answered thee? Ask...

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...verish, imprison the soul: or else, taking wings of wine, we go aloft over capes, and islands, and seas, but are even as balloons that cannot make for... ...rseback to see you.” Wilfrid thought “Waits!” and the impossibility of es- cape gave him a notion of her power. “So, you are letting that go on,” said... ...260 Sandra Belloni broth Pole together, till he’s lusty as a prize-ox, and capers like a monkey.” Wretched woman! that could not see the ruin she had ... ...to appointment. Amazed and utterly discomfited, he looked about for an es- cape; but his father, whose plea of sickness had kept him from pursuing Emi... ...ve been less sus- picious of her? And if she had only shown the accustomed northern retenue, and merely looked all that she had to say ‘preserved her ... ...lfrid singing out that he is aloft, burning to rush ahead, while his beast capers in one spot, abominably ludi- crous. This trick of Hippogriff is pec...

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...he narrow ledges barely allow the snow to lodge or the noble crests of the Northern pines to spread themselves; farther on, some convulsion of Nature ... ...s, the richest coloring of all the varied tapestries which Nature in these northern regions spreads upon the surface of her rug- ged rocks. The eye ca... ...miling scenes nestling among the lower hills of Jarvis; where the luscious Northern vegetables spring up in fami- lies, in myriads, where the white bi... ...s supported by squared trunks of trees which give so patriarchal an air to Northern dwellings. From beneath them the eye could see the savage nudity o... ...ymptoms of death; for is not life the struggle of two forces? Here in this Northern nature nothing lived. One sole power—the unproductive power of ice... ... the sign of their properties. Those principles beget affinities which es- cape your knowledge, and which are linked to centres. The different species...

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..., by distance tame, Mellowed along the waters came, And, lingering long by cape and bay, Wailed every harsher note away, Then bursting bolder on the e... ...or’s skirmish with the King’s troops in Rob Roy; and near its head, on the northern side, is a waterfall, which is the original of Flora MacIvor’s fav... ...rd. The down of the canna, or cotton-grass. 335. Glengyle. A valley at the northern end of Lock Katrine. 337. Brianchoil. A promontory on the northern... ...och Tay. The seat of the Earl of Breadalbane is T aymouth Castle, near the northern end of Loch T ay. For Menteith, see on i. 89 above. 419. Glen Frui... .... has “Highland targe.” 197. Shifting like flashes, etc. That is, like the Northern Lights. Cf. the Lay, ii. 86: “And red and bright the streamers l... ... knew by the streamers that shot so bright That spirits were riding the northern light.” The MS. reads: “Thick as the flashes darted forth By ...

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...d pink anemones, with Daddy Neptune.’ She looked sharply at the outjutting capes. The sea did foam perilously near their bases. ‘I suppose it is rathe... ...he South Downs. As 125 D. H. Lawrence Siegmund, looking backward, saw the northern slope of the downs swooping smoothly, in a great, broad bosom of s...

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...nnine, It bursts on the roof like the thunder’s roar, Or like the sea on a northern shore, Heard in its raging ebb and flow ... ...s leaflets now 59 Shelley Frozen upon December’s bough. On the beach of a northern sea _45 Which tempests shake... ... to the drops of the thaw-rain grew; _105 And a northern whirlwind, wandering about Like a wolf that had smelt a dead child... ...m, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl. From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape, Over a torrent sea, Sunbeam-proof, ...

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..., however, lay General Webb, who com- manded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men. By uniting ... ...ndred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the por- tage. That which at first was only rumor, so... ...ess more conspicuous. A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst ... ...ads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, to- ward the northern entrance of the encampment. As they tra- versed that short distanc... ...er to the scout in her generous ardor; “that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; an... ...ion, the scout had instant recourse to the fragments of food which had es- caped the voracity of the Hurons. A very summary process completed the simp... ...ly. “Our mounds are earthen, certainly—nor are they seated on the rocks of Cape Diamond; but they stand on that shore which proved so destructive to D... ...eiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disap- peared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that ...

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...irect sympathy and authority of the Almighty. When- ever you can get these Northern audiences to adopt the opin- ion that slavery is right on the othe... ... a matter that you Kentuckians ought to note. That is a vast change in the Northern public sentiment upon that question. Of what tendency is that chan... ...in that idea in Kentucky as much as you please, but you will never win any Northern support upon it. He makes a wiser argument for you: he makes the a... ...different color from your own, is right. He thereby brings to your support Northern voters who could not for a moment be brought by your own argument ... ...w that if he said less than that, he would lose the power of “lugging” the Northern States to your sup- port. Really, what you would push him to do wo... ... as two hundred years,—at Kaskaskia, in Illinois, and at St. Genevieve, or Cape Girardeau, perhaps, in Missouri. The number of slaves was not very gre...

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...at ca- nal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half. The other was a small, s... ...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...hias was crossed by eight in the evening, and another halt was made on the northern slope, in a ruined bungalow. They had gone nearly twenty- five mil... ...ver!” The Parsee made a motion to keep silence. A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue; these were striped with oc... ...ent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne sometimes drowned the noise of... ...sses along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory... ...t streams, branches of the North Platte River, already appeared. The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curta...

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...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...she sat upright. Here—she meditated—is the newest empire of the world; the Northern Middlewest; a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new auto... ... Street, was like the ribs of a dead cow. She thought of the coming of the Northern winter, when the unprotected houses would crouch together in terro... ...wsons. 46 Main Street Luke Dawson, lender of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, ... ...And Mr. Dyer will call.” She had a record on the phonograph; Dave Dyer was capering in the center of the floor, loose-jointed, lean, small, rusty head... ...e? No. She wouldn’t go to the Jolly Seventeen. She hadn’t energy enough to caper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita’s rudeness. Not today. But s... ...d Raymie Wutherspoon. “Oh yes, do let us,” said Ella Stowbody. “That’s the caper,” sanctioned Harry Haydock. They interpreted the word “making” as May... ...Vida had seen it, she stated modestly; she had seen it on a summer trip to Cape Cod. “Have you been clear to Cape Cod? Massachusetts? I knew you’d tra...

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...ivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was c... ...eriences in a certain stable. God forbid that an unworthy churl should es- cape merited censure by hanging on to the stirrup-leather of the sublime ca... ...looking mostly into his cup. I informed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on the very brink of the eight-foot- deep well in which... ...nd in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- ward winter passage round Cape Horn. For that, too, is the wrestling of men with the might of their C...

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...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ...ld praying with us. ‘July 3.—Still at sea. As soon as we rounded the North Cape on Friday, June 29, a contrary wind sprang up, and we have been beatin... ...rary wind sprang up, and we have been beating about, tacking between North Cape and Cape Brett ever since. Fine sunny weather and light winds, but alw... ...ery slowly, passing along from the north headland of the Bay of Islands to Cape Brett, and along the land south *Left at home for education. 107 Yo n... ...or did I suffer anything like the anxiety that I did when we were rounding Cape Palliser on our way to Wellington with the Judge. Here we had sea room... ...s por- tions of New Zealand. Finally, retaining only the north part of the northern island, to take the Melanesian Bishopric. ‘I urged this plan upon ... ... island of Eangitoto with its double peak and the easternmost point of the northern shore of the harbour, lies a very sheltered bay, with its sea-fron... ... for putting things in daily and immediate use; and the hall, which is the northern part of the side of the quadrangle, is a really hand- some room, w... ...kpat, who had many broth- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeare...

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...document, it would not surprise me if the “eminent services” rendered in a Northern court by the mys- 161 Balzac terious author of my days turned out... ... “Ah! I understand; he hastens to those high functions he performs at that Northern court!” Jacques Bricheteau could no longer mistake the ironical to... ...sis. In such marriages of convenience the husband is satisfied, for he es- capes a happiness which has turned rancid to him, and he profits by a specu... ...e arts, and the legal profession can offer of their best. I, who am only a northern barbarian,—though our country, too, can boast of its celebrities,—...

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...creasing understanding…. The earth on which she was lying projected like a cape into the river. Quite close to her was a brimming lake of dammed-up wa... ...level of the waves outside the dykes, spread out their lush polders to the northern sun and sustained a dense industrious population. An intricate web... ...rld. If some curious god had chosen to watch the course of events in those northern provinces while that flanking march of the British was in progress... ...ces. I saw it quite plainly in silhouette against the luminous blue of the northern sky. The allied aeroplanes—they were mostly French—came pouring do... ... the world. The great industrial regions and the large cities that had es- caped the bombs were, because of their complete economic collapse, in almos...

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...ivers and seas, far removed from a commercial and yet romantic town of the northern hemisphere. But at that moment the mood of visions and words was c... ...oking mostly into his cup. I in- formed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on the very brink of the eight- foot-deep well in which... ...nd in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- ward winter passage round Cape Horn. For that too is the wrestling of men with the might of their Cre...

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...s the people about him. Gudrun lighted on him at once. There was something northern about him that 11 magnetised her. In his clear northern flesh and... ...he girls quickly dressed and sat down to the fragrant tea. They sat on the northern side of the grove, in the yellow sunshine facing the slope of the ... ...e splinters of light, his face was keen and ruddy, his body seemed full of northern energy. Gerald re- ally loved Birkin, though he never quite believ... ...ou mean, physically?’ asked Gerald, his eyes glistening. ‘Yes. Y ou have a northern kind of beauty, like light refracted from snow—and a beautiful, pl... ...jugate her. It was a burden upon her, that she resented, but could not es- cape. Yet when she looked at his straight man’s brows, and at his rather sm... ...iant thing that was always there, unremitting, from which there was no es- cape. He wanted so to come to the end—he had had enough. Yet he did not sle...