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... who dreamt of a patent lever chain; and it seemed to Bert that he was the perfect model of a gentleman of spirit. He hired out quite the dirtiest and... ...wheels, simple and sufficient; it stopped, reversed stood still, balancing perfectly. It maintained its astounding equilibrium amidst a thunder of app... ...nteer opinions, criticisms, and autobiography, supply portraits and photo- graphs of himself, and generally spread his personality across the terrestr... ...g, changed absolutely every dozen years in a stupen- dous progress towards perfection, and people grew less and less warlike, and there was no war. An... ...nding causes of offence. The real deciding cause, it is now known, was the perfecting of the Pforzheim engine by Germany and the consequent possibil- ... ...t land of Phari- sees and reptiles, can do nozzing!—nozzing! You see, I am perfectly frank wiz you. Well, I am instructed that Chermany recognises all...

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...and nobly dreaming writer at the desk. That vision of the strengthened and perfected state is pro- tagonist in my story. But as I re-read “The Prince”... ...man. That lit things wonderfully for us. When I went up to Cambridge I was perfectly clear that life was a various and splendid disorder of forces tha... ...te distinctly evolving that vision. We were then fully fifteen and we were perfectly serious about it. We were not fools; it was simply that as yet we... ...iocre profes- sional men, as assistant masters in schools. Cambridge which perfects them is by the nature of things least oppressed by them,—except wh... ... Justice and Virtue and Well Being, 86 The New Machiavelli and in short a Perfectly Splendid Time. I had already discussed this sort of socialism und... ...o resistance, took him at once into a corner and showed him Italian photo- graphs by Coburn. We dispersed early. I walked with Britten along the Chels...

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...y, but pausing as the contradiction struck even herself. “I understand you perfectly, my child,” interrupted the aunt, “merely as an unnecessary secur... ...s as delightful as his name: his eye, his nose, his whole countenance, are perfect. In short, Julia, he is just such a man as we used to draw in our c... ...ry to read: on this she dwelt until the periods were lengthened into para- graphs, each syllable into words, and each letter into syllables. Anna Mill... ...na; but so long as miles of weary roads and endless rivers run between us, perfect happiness can never reign in the breast of your Julia. Anna, I conj... ...to spend the winter with us, for I feel already that without you life is a perfect blank. Y ou indeed must have something to enliven it with a little ... ...ove to you is natural; but my friendship for Anna rests on sympathy, and a perfect knowledge of her character.” 24 James Fenimore Cooper “I am glad, ...

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... capture new reactions, new suggestions, and even new rhythms for my para- graphs. For a moment I fancied myself a new man— a most exciting illusion. ... ...tern Archipelago. Sun- shine gleams between the lines of those short para- graphs—sunshine and the glitter of the sea. A strange name wakes up memorie... ...xcessive, the suspicious immobility of a painted scene; and it enclosed so perfectly the accomplished acting of his amazing pretences that the rest of... ...se why should I buy your rifles and powder?” He was always like this—word- perfect in his part, playing up faithfully to the mys- teries and certitude... ...so he stopped short and contemplated the row 49 Joseph Conrad of weapons, perfect and severe, drawn up in a line behind the black-framed panes. I sto... ...make it hot for the caballeros. Well, good luck to him, poor devil! He was perfectly stunning.” We walked on. “I wonder whether the charm worked—you r... ...re. I am damned too!” “Come,” said Millot, alarmed and conciliating. “I am perfectly alive! . . . Oh, my God!” She had screamed, “Alive!” and at once ...

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...is disengaged eve- nings at her lodgings in Caroline Place. Mrs. Biggs was perfectly aware that the young gentleman did not come for her bohea and muf... ...g glance at Perkins, Mr. Scully began tramping up and down the garden in a perfect fury. “Good heavens!” exclaimed the timid John Perkins— ”don’t say ... ...est young men that ever lived, had acted as became himself, and might with perfect propriety give up the place, his tal- ents being so prodigious that... ..., handed over the document to his nephew. It contained the following para- graphs:— “Hawksby has sounded Scully: we can have him any day we want him. ...

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...of that portrait. At some critical juncture the resemblance is found to be perfect. A prophecy may be connected.’ It is not impossible that this conce... ...me possessed the gift of distinguishing this grand natural phenomenon more perfectly than many of their neighbors. The Great Stone Face, then, was a w... ...hetic personage so long and vainly looked for, and that his visage was the perfect and undeniable similitude of the Great Stone Face. People were the ... ... on the moun tain side. But now, again, there were reports and many para graphs in the newspapers, affirming that the likeness of the Great Stone Fa...

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... …My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that’s what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I don’t mean that it did me no good, but that I never ha... ...she’s so stern, so philosophic. She is very serious; she sits for hours in perfect silence, with her eyes fixed on the hori- zon. I heard her say yest... ...time to do nothing well; and then Mr. Cockerel, who, to do him justice, is perfectly good-natured, remarks that she had better wait till she has been ... ...ike these impressions to be 18 The Point of View favourable appears to me perfectly natural; I don’t make a crime to them of that; it seems to me, on... ... sweetest na- ture possible; she is extremely well-bred, and is dressed to perfection. She chatters from morning till night; but it isn’t a pleasant s... ... never heard of; telegrams from Europe about Sarah Bernhardt; little para- graphs about nothing at all; the menu of the neighbour’s dinner; articles o...

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...n was demonstrated. France may be Paris, but Paris is not France; that was perfectly evident on the return to the capital. I must not speak, however, ... ... and at their 11 Henry James feet, watch over them. Nothing could be more perfect than this monument, which is the work of Michel Colomb, one of the ... ...f an hour there one morn- ing, listening to what the church had to say, in perfect solitude. Not a worshipper entered,—not even an old man with a broo... ...ll boy, who takes you from room to room, and who has learned his lesson in perfection. The place is full of Catherine de’ Medici, of Henry III., of me... ... the drama wants nothing to make it com- plete. What episode was ever more perfect—looked at as a dramatic occurrence—than the murder of the Duke of G... ... feature of this dateless tube, except the inevitable collection of photo- graphs to which you are introduced by the door-keeper, is the view you enjo...

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...ingly against them even if the other objections were met. There would be a perfect and probably a very complicated pedigree to trace. How did they get... ...or having been led on to advertise his treasure (it was his interlocutor’s perfectly natural scepticism that produced this effect), for he felt that h... ...in a moment of inspiration got hold of the tail of a really musical idea—a perfect accompaniment for the song he had so kindly given her. She had scra... ...at the museum and comparing his different portraits, engravings and litho- graphs, in which there seemed to be conscious, pleading eyes for the betray...

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...owever, re- mains with the historic town, whence the view on every side is perfectly enchanting, where the air is deliciously pure, the vegetation spl... ...why?” “Oh, I know you, having seen you there,” replied the Pari- sian with perfect gravity. “ All the princes’ creditors dine there. You know that you... ... ambition was founded on love, and who knew what love means, Dinah thought perfectly odious. When Dinah saw herself condemned to six years’ residence ... ...iving her certain explanations, as were so many stabs to Dinah, though she perfectly understood that Anna’s advantages all lay on the surface, while h... ...ecollected her album. Madame de la Baudraye had caught the mania for auto- graphs; she possessed an oblong volume which deserved the name of album bet... ...e little plot looked inquiringly at each other, evidently surprised at the perfect coolness of the two supposed lovers. “Oh! I can tell you a better s...

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... was so strong, brave, and sturdy, that he was a boy to be proud of, and a perfect king in his own way, making every one do as he pleased. All the mai... ..., dark blue eyes, and jetty profusion of shining curls, were our notion of perfect beauty, select the little naval cadet for her partner at the dancin... ...tleford’s weak partiality. That old Mr. Frith had, Clarence used to say, a perfectly venom- ous way of accepting his salute, and seemed always surpris... ... were ex- emplary, so that a letter was written to my father expressive of perfect satisfaction with him. ‘There,’ said my father, ‘I knew it would be... ...running very high, and there were scurrilous papers about, which my father perfectly abhorred; and one day at dinner, when declaiming against somethin... ... 217 Yo n g e off in a desponding mood. Tidings were less rapid when tele- graphs were not, and railways incomplete. Clarence did not reach Baden till...

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...It was addressed to her. When the parson opened it he found a dozen photo- graphs of Mrs. Carey . They showed the head and shoulders only, and her hai... ...e was weakly and deformed, and because he was her child. She had no photo- graphs of herself taken since her marriage, and that was ten years before. ... ...mon; and it was neces- sary to deal only with churchgoers; Mrs. Carey knew perfectly that the vicarage custom might 22 Of Human Bondage make all the ... ... they might like to ask him a question or two so that they should not make perfect fools of themselves, spent the last quarter of an hour of the histo... ...ew dark and threatening. He was a man insane. Philip had known the passage perfectly the day before, but now he could remember nothing. “I don’t know ... ...r when I was in his form.” And before Philip, his mind fixed on the photo- graphs, had time to gather the meaning of the remark, Mr. Perkins was showi... ... Third; and now and then he let fall a sly hint, which showed that he knew perfectly what went on in his colleague’s form. He took it good- humouredly... ... was at the door Philip forced himself to speak. “I say , Rose, don’t be a perfect beast.” “Oh, go to hell.” Rose slammed the door behind him and left... ...o the 619 W. Somerset Maugham blankets. On the dressing-table were photo- graphs of Philip’s mother , the frames had been smashed and the glass shive...

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...erry; the fog was rising over the citied hills of San Francisco; the bay was perfect – not a ripple, scarce a stain, upon its blue expanse; everything... ...nd if he come not appreciably nearer to the art of Shakespeare, grows letter-perfect in the domain of A- B, ab. But the time comes when a man should c... ...had the pleasure of his acquaintance; he appeared grossly stupid, not in his perfect wits, and interested in noth- ing but small change; for that he h... ... way to a small cavern, fitted with a hearth and chimney, where he might lie perfectly concealed. A confederate landscape-painter might daily supply h... ... which we figure, the child of happy hours. No art, it may be said, was ever perfect, and not many noble, that has not been mirthfully conceived. And ... ...out of laughter, recognised his drift. By portraits he meant indecent photo- graphs; and in the Arethusa, an austere and rising author, he thought to ...

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...ckled in the bottom of a den, thence spilling down a stair of rock into the sea. The draught of air drew down under the foli- age in the very bottom o... ... poorly lodged. His house was a wooden frame, run up by Europeans; it was indeed his of- ficial residence, for Tari was the shepherd of the promon- to... ... It had been the design of M. Delaruelle, who was much in love with the whimsicalities of his small realm, to elicit something comical; but not even h... ...lls and small enclosures. No trace remained of any superstructure, and the scheme of the amphitheatre was difficult to seize. I visited another in Hiv... ...lar finery, stepped, leaped, swayed, and gesticulated—their plumed fingers fluttering in the air like butterflies. The sense of time, in all these oce... ...nsense!’ he cried. ‘That’s the old woman, the mother. It doesn’t belong to her. I believe that’s the man the house belongs to,’ and he pointed to one ...

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... subsequent success. Accustomed as we are in these days of steam and tele- graphs to have every intelligent boy survey the whole world each morning be... ... of Session, where the technique of the profession has reached its highest perfection, and centu- ries of learning and precedent are involved in the e... ...ic that the fathers who created the Constitu- tion in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, and to secure the blessings of liberty... ... of the plain people, as he always called them, never lost or impaired his perfect sympathy with them, was always in perfect touch with them and open ... ...judg- ment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric 76 The Writings of Abraha... ...s capacity for refinement devel- oped also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. The rough backwoodsman, who...

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...gilt of college arms; and, for decoration, there hung upon the wall photo- graphs of bridges and cathedrals and large, unprepos- sessing groups of ins... ...el and help and generally sustain her mother. Mrs. Hilbery would have been perfectly well able to sustain herself if the world had been what the world... ...ay and that in the moonlight, as the breeze went through them. But she was perfectly conscious of her present situ- ation, and derived some pleasure f... ... eyes was already on his feet, delivering an accurately worded speech with perfect composure. William Rodney listened with a curious lifting of his up... ... conver- sation should rest with him. But she submitted so far as to stand perfectly still, her eyes upon the opposite wall, and her lips very nearly ... ...g. The look gave him great pleasure. For the first time he felt himself on perfectly equal terms with a woman whom he wished to think well of him, alt... ... her daughter’s body. “What is nobler,” she mused, turning over the photo- graphs, “than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficult... ...ld not forbear to turn over the pages of the album in which the old photo- graphs were stored. The faces of these men and women shone forth wonderfull...

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...r tongue in a clipped uncertain sing song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white–a poor whi... ...m Heaven in thy country? Is it the Way to sing them songs?’ ‘No man is all perfect,’ said the lama gravely, recoiling the rosary. ‘Run now to thy moth... ...ld have been pommelled to death that same evening by an elephant. This was perfectly true. ‘Ahai! I am only a beggar’s brat, as the Eye of Beauty has ... ...liveliness to live up to. But they fell in on the platform next morning in perfect shape and condition; and Kim, left be hind with the sick, women, a... ...pense of his education, and that will put the Lodge in a good temper. It’s perfectly easy. I’ve got to go down to Lucknow next week. I’ll look after t... ...e stones, sometimes with piles of swords and daggers, sometimes with photo graphs of natives. Through the afternoons he and the Hindu boy would mount ...

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... ac- quaintances afterwards described his dissimulation as so ready and so perfect, that if, in making his way through the streets, always so crowded ... ...f a household, she had this value, viz., that she, if caught and murdered, perfected and rounded the desolation of the house. The case being reported,... ...ee him take the wrong one: and then Nemesis will be at his heels with ruin perfect and sudden. Meantime, if the murderer allows himself to loiter, the... ...wished for a little change to be made— which, and which only was wanted to perfection. Dr. Johnson, though he pretended to be satisfied with the ‘Para... ...Refutations, dispensing with the whole of Mr. T aylor’s book, single para- graphs of which would have forced them to cancel their own. The possibility... ...sio veri. B, which, on any other solution than the one I have proposed, is perfectly unintelligible, now becomes plain enough. To imagine a heavy, coa...

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...heart. He laughed a good deal, and said it was very pretty and romantic, a perfect idyl of the Himalayas; but, as he was engaged to a girl at Home, he... ...mewhat erroneous. It would not have made the least difference had she been perfectly cor- rect; for the Englishman had no intention of coming back to ... ...plain’s wife. Lispeth was a very old woman when she died. She always had a perfect command of English, and when she was suffi- ciently drunk, could so... ...was the bed- ding, and on the table lay The Boy’s writing-case with photo- graphs. He had gone away to die like a poisoned rat! The Major said to hims... ...6 Plain Tales from the Hills and I ran out to get at my own horse. I had a perfectly unnec- essary notion that everything must be done decently and in... ... alone knew. But they did not strike Pluffles as con- flicting. Hers was a perfect little homily—much better than any cler- gyman could have given—and...

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... allowed smoking. But, in the first place, New Y ork was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was “not the thing” to arrive early... ...h his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed. Mr. Jackson, if perfection had been attainable on earth, would also have asked that Mrs. Ar... ...rs. Ar- cher grumbled to Janey, the only witness of her slight lapses from perfect sweetness. She had behaved beautifully—and in beautiful behaviour s... ...noon,” Janey speculated. “At the Opera I know she had on dark blue velvet, perfectly plain and flat—like a night-gown.” “Janey!” said her mother; and ... ...Mr. Jackson sank into the arm- chair with satisfaction, lit his cigar with perfect confidence (it was Newland who bought them), and stretching his thi... ... new order too. The telephone clicked, and Archer, turning from the photo- graphs, unhooked the transmitter at his elbow. How far they were from the d...