...l defect of the scheme, and the remedy then suggested was to rally round a champion at the next election, in the person of one of the two men who so g... ... that was obviously one of the quaint nick- 9 Balzac names assumed by the champions of the Reformation—had set up as highly respectable cloth merchan... ...our writing-table carved and gilt, brocade window curtains, and a Japanese bowl full of flowers on the round table among a selection of the new- est b... ...e friend who con- doled with her on her isolation: “I would rather have my bowl empty than with anything in it!” This speech produced a terrible effec... ...e was so much admired in a certain bonnet that she made it do duty for two seasons. So it was in everything. Not unfrequently her artistic sense led h... ...seat. “And yet she could quit the joys of Seville, its woods and fields of orange-trees, for a Norman soldier who won her love and carried her away to... ...nce, and we saw a Spaniard, whose glittering eyes shone through a clump of orange-trees. On finding himself the object of our attention, the man vanis... ...of Bracciano found her glove. Adolphe, who had brought her back to the orange grove, might certainly have supposed that there was some purpose... ... of the Department an unhappy creature. Monsieur de Clagny was her valiant champion; he went several times to the Chateau d’Anzy to acquire the right ...

...mighty works and magnificence of its founders. It is in the form of a half orange, of enormous dimensions, and well lighted, though no light penetrate... .... Your worship’s great courage has been fully manifested already; no brave champion, so it strikes me, is bound to do more than challenge his enemy an... ...nd a great ball-player; he runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over the nine-pins as if by magic, sings like a lark, plays the guita... ...hat not always; for it is reserved for God alone to know the times and the seasons, and for him there is neither past nor future; all is present. This... ...what I intend to amuse myself with is playing all fours at Eastertime, and bowls on Sundays and holidays; for these huntings don’t suit my condition o... ... not to feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and th... ...e the greatest enemy that the Church of God our Lord had, and the greatest champion it will ever have; a knight-errant in life, a stead- fast saint in... ...f courtesy, ha- ven of strangers, asylum of the poor, home of the valiant, champion of the wronged, pleasant exchange of firm friendships, and city un...

...e Meredith BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY WHEN YOUNG Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his mid... ...think she could say—I look old enough: will they tattle of me now? Nevil’s championship of her good name brought her history spin- ning about her head... ...out it like a pair of nine- pins while the Muscovites are at work with the bowls. Very well. Let me tell you my story. It’s perfectly true, I give you... ...ring sisterhood until the thought of them threw another shade on him. What champion was she to look to? To whom but to Mr. Everard Romfrey? It was wit... ... think of the Tories of that day benignly:—when his champion Review of the orange and blue livery waved a wondrous sharp knife, and stuck and bled the... ...cast a reap- ing season, we have in history durable testification that our seasons come in the souls of men, yea, as a planet that we have set in moti...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critic...

...ominoes for Kirschenwasser. We have given you out to be the most undaunted champion who ever wrestled in a drinking-bout at close quarters with the mo... ...of strawberries, pines, fresh dates, golden grapes, clear-skinned peaches, oranges brought from Setubal by steamer, pomegranates, Chinese fruit; in sh... ...eam. Here, will you not take some?’ “She pounced like a kitten, on a china bowl full of milk. She did it so quickly, and put it before me so prettily,... ...etical illusion with which the intel- lect invests it. Even these fearless champions, accustomed to measure themselves with excess, were struck with h... ...the servant, swal- lowing a huge morsel that he had just dipped in a large bowl of coffee. “There is his carriage,” said the elderly stranger, pointin... ...r I have to keep a cool and even temperature with blocks of ice and at all seasons to put fresh flowers all about. He is rich! He has a thousand franc... ..., a man of creeds and enthusiasms, the head of the “Vitalists,” a romantic champion of the esoteric doctrines 198 The Magic Skin of Van Helmont, disc... ...matic plants bloomed about it, in a realm of meadow as fresh as an English bowling-green. The fine soft grass was watered by the streams that trickled...