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...les, and its too lonely, too unsheltered situation,—only shielded from the war of wind and weather by a group of Scotch firs, themselves half blighted... ...‘Come, my lad!’ said he. ‘Are you too busy making love to my niece to make war with the pheasants?—First of Octo- ber, remember! Sun shines out—rain c... ...I hope you will make a very good wife to Mr. Huntingdon!’ said she, with a queenly bow, and retired. ‘Oh, Miss! how could you say so to her!’ cried Ra... ... sir, you will find yourself checkmated before you are aware. Look to your queen.’ The combat deepened. The game was a long one, and I did give him so...

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...isbury on her mother being made one of the ladies at- tending on the young Queen Margaret of Anjou, lately mar- ried to King Henry VI. Attendance on t... ...and with the Duke of York, while his lady was in atten- dance on the young Queen, and it was judged right and seemly to despatch to her a courier with... ... the Countess Alice. Her mother had been summoned from at- tendance on the Queen, but at first there only was returned a message that if the maid was ... ...ce hers—that all might be well with him, for she knew that in this unhappy war important captives were not treated as Frenchmen would have been as pri... ...ant captives were not treated as Frenchmen would have been as prisoners of war, but executed as traitors to their King. She paused over him till a low... ...s way more safely on foot than in the panoply of an es- quire, for in this war, the poorer sort were hardly touched; the attacks were chiefly made on ...

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...ught her house would be safer if I were away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they kee... ...ared monastic houses. Anne St. John had been sent thither at the time when Queen Margaret was making her attempt in the north, where the city of York ... ...e red-handed House of Clifford is lurking here, on the look- out to favour Queen Margaret and her son. Couldst thou put us on the scent, King Edward w... ...ted to meet him there, came in sight through the trees, riding an old grey war-horse, much resembling himself in the battered and yet strong and effec... ...l, well-made, strong youth, and his stepfather spoke of his going to learn war in Burgundy; but not only was his mother afraid to venture him there, b... ...ttle of Barnet Queen Margaret had landed at Weymouth with her son, and the war would be renewed in Somersetshire. Search for prisoners being over at B...

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...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ... like of them ever will be announced or decided. TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD... ...a House of Representatives which will really support the Government in the war. If the result shall be the election of himself as Speaker, let him se... ...ens, Hunter, and Campbell on board the United States steam transport River Queen in Hamp- ton Roads. The conference was altogether informal. There w...

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...se, the second wife of Philip V . of Spain, had involved that country in a war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the S... ...aughter of the Marquis de Varennes, and soon distinguished himself both in war and policy, so as to receive the title of Comte de Bourke. The French C... ...n-in- law being often absent, as was the case at present. A fresh European war had been provoked by the ambition of the second wife of Philip V . of S... ...f Philip V . of Spain, the Prince for whose cause Berwick had fought. This Queen, Elizabeth Farnese, wanted rank and dominion for her own son; moreove... ...ood lad. Nay, for my part, we all lived peaceably and happily enough under Queen Anne; and by all I hear, so they still do at home under the Elector o... ... brought her from time to time. ‘Mere weeds,’ she said. And the grapes and Queen Claude plums he brought her were always sour. Yet a something deep bl...

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...nce of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of the separation. It then became, in a sub- sequent division of territ... ...ellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; an... ...the cellars of the authors paternal residence. Soon after the close of the war, Washington, accompanied by many distinguished men, visited the scene o... ..., even to the sev- ered arm of W olfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido.* The author has elsewhere said that the character of Leather- S... ...ose of the Mohawk. This migration had occurred as far back as the reign of Queen Anne; and their descendants were now living, in great peace and plent... ... of Babylon, which ri- oted in luxury and vice, and who styled herself the Queen of Nations in the drunkenness of her pride? Remember the prayer of ou...

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...hese groups, almost entirely made up of men who four years earlier were at war with her. One other and rather noticeable sign left no doubt upon the o... ...e many others, from important studies to defend their country, and in whom war had not yet smothered the senti- ment of art, were so much struck by th... ... said, for the sec- ond time, in a hoarse voice, roughened by the toils of war. “You ask why?” replied a voice. Hearing these words, which seemed to i... ...lues, which covered so little ground that it looked from a distance like a queen-bee sur- rounded by the swarm. The Chouans might have carried the day... ...itoyenne,” he said, “it is always an honor to obey you. Beauty is the only queen a Republican can serve.” Mademoiselle de Verneuil’s eyes, as she watc... ...151 Balzac and patient industry) another circular road exists, called the “Queen’s Staircase”; this is cut in the rock itself and leads to a bridge bu...

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...able pastilles of this botanic seraglio. Standing on the portico, like the queen of flowers, behold a woman robed in white, with hair unpowdered, hold... ...n one of the wagons laden with cuirasses. By one of the strange chances of war our guide had served a breakfast to Napoleon on the morning of the batt... ... a Titan, but he con- tains a dwarf, like the pasteboard giant who saluted Queen Elizabeth at the gates of Kenilworth. Choleric though kind, and full ... ...ut a word. It is only strong men, choleric and powerful, thunder- bolts of war, diplomats with olympian heads, or men of genius, who can show this utt... ...’t expect we should ever be friends.” “That’s what I call a declaration of war,” said the general. “Monseigneur,” retorted Fourchon, “when Les Aigues ... ...esn’t know it. Oh! that I should ever—well! after all, I have waltzed with queens and empresses. I’ll tell her 132 Sons of the Soil this very night,”...

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...to point at a separation of the two British kingdoms, after the decease of Queen Anne, the reign- ing sovereign. Godolphin, then at the head of the En... ...that there was no other mode of avoiding the probable extremity of a civil war, but by carry- ing through an incorporating union. How that treaty was ... ... 22 under the act of security, they were not indifferently pre- pared for war, and waited but the declaration of some of the nobility to break out in... ...” “Many thanks, Hobbie,” answered Earnscliff; “but I hope we shall have no war of so unnatural and unchristian a kind in our time.” “Hout, sir, hout,”... ...they say folk maunna take booty in the wars as they did lang syne, and the queen’s pay is a sma’ matter; there’s nae gathering gear on that—and then m... ...n, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullen mind. —Faery Queen. T he intruder on Miss Vere’s sorrows was Ratcliffe. Ellieslaw had, i...

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...ich breathe sweet breath have been proved in mortal fire. Mrs. Fleming, of Queen Anne’s Farm, was the wife of a yeoman-farmer of the county. Both were... ...ther their mutual compliments, drawn from the chief book of their reading. Queen of Sheba was Dahlia’s title. No master of callisthenics could have se... ...village in garlands, and crowned the fairest little one 9 George Meredith queen of May: a sight that revived in Mrs. Fleming’s recol- lection the tim... ...twice in my life.” Mrs. Boulby murmured, “Ah! are you still going to be at war with those gentlemen, Robert?” He looked at her steadily, while a shrew... ...ht hateful: and he stood apparently in profound contemplation of a ship of war and the trees of the forest behind the masts. Either the fatigue of sta... ...ial boys of wealth and station, who are of the army of England. He studied war when the trumpet slum- bered, and had no place but in the field when it...

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...?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fatherless, cr... ...” What do they mean, anyway? Lydia Puckett KNOWLT HOHEIMER ran away to the war The day before Curl Trenary Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett ... ...d him never again To cross my path. Then he stole the hogs and went to the war— Back of every soldier is a woman. 24 Spoon River Anthology Frank Drum... ...oubt, but die while living In depths of azure, rapt and mated, Kissing the queen-bee, Life! 80 Spoon River Anthology Thomas Trevelyan READING in Ovid... ... SUPPOSE it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey— (Material things as well as culture ...

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... be kind to her; and she has come to the right shop; hasn’t she, my little queen?’ ‘I thought she almost wished it this morning,’ said Ethel, ‘when sh... ...he house was of more recent date, having been built by a wealthy yeoman of Queen Anne’s time, and had long ranges of square-headed sash win- dows, sur... ...ese were the times of Jeanie Deans; if the pardon depended on our own good Queen, he should not doubt of it a moment. Why, was not the boy just the ag... ...rvid heat of the first commencements of disunion and threatenings of civil war. After the ladies had repaired to their saloon, with its grand ottomans... ...f it were safe to invest money in a country apparently on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, wit... ... contin- ued, with anxiety that he could not suppress, ‘what is this about war in America?’ ‘Not near Indiana; no fear of that, I trust. But how did y...

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... tion, but a cipher that votes with it to enlighten the govern- ment, make war against abuses, and promote progress in all things—” “What do you call ... ... now at Gondreville. Abd-el-Kader has resumed the offensive in Africa; the war is being vigorously carried on. This poor young man was among the first... ...he beginning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly o... ...o one now, she is the only woman who knows how to hold a salon; she is the queen of Arcis. Madame Beauvisage has tried to make her refusal polite, tha... ...“What are you doing here?” to order his retreat to Arcis with the air of a queen, while Mademoi- selle Chocardelle, first astonished and then enlighte... ...d beautiful. She has had great trouble in obtaining permission from Marie, queen of angels, to with- draw me from earth. But last night she brought me...

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... about to fix upon her his two insupportably stern eyes. Implacable as the war then going on between the Church and Calvinism, the count’s forehead wa... ...-three the count, anxious to distinguish himself in that unhappy religious war the signal for which was given on Saint-Bartholomew’s day, had been gri... ...of age, he ap- peared at first sight to be sixty, so much had the toils of war, without injuring his robust constitution, dilapidated him physically. ... ... King’s Guard. The Marechal d’Ancre takes care of my lad, and our gracious Queen Marie thinks of ally- ing him nobly, now that he is created Duc de Ni... ...courier sent to you by the king,” replied Bertrand. “The king, and not the queen-mother!” exclaimed the duke. “What is happening? Have the Huguenots t...

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...th these ladies, moreover, would be very well to do when the people at the War Office had come to an end of their for- malities. “But Government depar... ...s, which was not in harmony with her projects. “You must put yourself on a war footing,” said she. After much serious consideration the two widows wen... ...t become aware of the fact that the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was one of the queens of fashion, that her house was thought to be the pleasantest in the ... ...e. de Beauseant had not been there, my divine countess would have been the queen of the ball; none of the younger men had eyes for any one else. I was... ...is who were not already appropriated, and that the capture of one of these queens would be likely to cost something more than bloodshed. “Confound it ... ... and every man’s hand will be against you. Napoleon met with a Minister of War, Aubry by name, who all but sent him to the colonies. “Feel your pulse....

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... seeing me he flour- ishes his hat right off his head as if I had been the queen and he says, “Excuse the intrusion Madam, but pray Madam can you tell... ...organ-men that quiet was our object is unknown, for he made lion and tiger war upon them to that degree that without seeing it I could not have believ...

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...he fact of having once held a commission in the service of Her Majesty the Queen of Portu- gal. It scarcely need be said that he had been through the ... ...of winder, and me and my emporium as free as hair?” “Y ou don’t say so? Is Queen Anne dead? and has she left you a fortune? or what’s the luck in the ... ...left you a fortune? or what’s the luck in the wind now?” “It’s better than Queen Anne, or anybody dying. What should you say to seeing in that very pl... ... said he would get him the nominal rank of Captain, the fees at the Panama War Office were five-and-twenty pounds, which sum honest Eglantine produced... ...he Captain’s exchequer was rather low at that moment, and the fees at the “War Office” were pe- remptory. Meanwhile His Highness left Regent Street, w... ...se of the Life Guards, and a few more. Can you tear yourself away from the war of wits, and take a quiet dinner with a few mere men about town?” The l...

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... effect. Once the little Lady Jane turned to Tom and dismayed him with this question,— “Hast paid thy duty to the Queen’s majesty to-day, my lord?” 3... ...quis- itely inlaid in gold. This martial panoply belonged to the true prince—a recent present from Madam Parr the Queen. Tom put on the greaves, the g... ...oment a servant entered with the breakfast. “Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!” roared the man of war, and made so savage a spring tow... ...remained kind and gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all that were oppressed, and he made tire- less war upon unjust laws: yet upon occas... ...bank of vapour as a mountain-peak projects above a cloud- rack. Tom Canty, splendidly arrayed, mounted a prancing war-steed, whose rich trappings almo... ...ised it twice after the instance we have seen of it before he was called from this world—once at the accession of Queen Mary, and once at the accessio...

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...“Only,” added Susan, “I must buy Dicky’s canary seed.” “ And I must have a queen’s head to write to Mamma,” said Annie. “Oh! never mind that, such tru... ...n her desk. There’s a bundle of Papa’s when he was gone out to the Crimean War, and that’s to have a frigate on it, because of the Calliope—his ship, ... ...dard maiden-blush rose, always serv- ing as the prison. And now the tug of war rages round it, he darts here and there within his bounds, holding out ... ...om David. Sam had lost a farthing by the shower, and had likewise bought a queen’s head, to write to his father. The rest, fourpence-three farthings, ... ... David. “Out of my prize-money then.” “You can’t get prize-money without a war,” said Elizabeth. “Oh! don’t let there be a war!” cried Susan. “Yes, bu... ...ook, and more too,” said Annie. “Where can it come from, Davie?” “From the Queen,” said Davie composedly; “the Queen always does justice.” Miss Fosbro...

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...d, with a young cousin, been chiefly under the charge of their aunts, Mrs. Annesley and Miss Ferrars, and had found a kind home in their house in Mayf... ...other Albinia bravely stood a desperate wringing of her hand at the tug of war. She was glad she had come, for the boy suf- fered a good deal, and was... ...d to enjoy it; but by the time he had heard all her oral traditions of the war by way of notes, his attendance began to slacken; he stayed out later, ... ...ore she was fondly embraced. It was not at all what she had intended. Mrs. Annesley and Miss Ferrars were very kind aunts, and she had much affec- tio... ...y one, and consult about French read- ing-books and Italian grammars. Mrs. Annesley began a gentle warning against overtaxing her strength, and Miss F... ...what Winifred there thinks wisest? Ah! Albinia, you want to learn, as poor Queen Anne of Aus- tria did, that docility in illness may be self-resignati... ...be- gun to regard Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in the same relation as the king and queen at chess. The day before the christening, Mr. Ferrars brought back Gi... ..., and Winifred made a discovery that excited her more than Albinia thought war- ranted by any fact relating to the horde of Irish cousins. 100 Yo n g... ... or psalm, Gilbert signed imploringly for more, even like our mighty dying queen; and at each short pause, the distressed agonized ex- pression would ...