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...in a little cabin aft. There’s a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance cov- ered with freckles and surrounde... ...follow me released my atten- tion, and I turned and looked about me at the flush deck of the little schooner. I was already half prepared by the sound... ...nto my clothes and went on deck. As I came up the ladder I saw against the flushed sky—for the sun was just rising—the broad back and red hair of the ... ... but I certainly did not expect his next move. He held out his hand to the gangway by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey-haired man in d... ...d, and then came a struggle. I was hauled, resisting weakly enough, to the gangway. Even then I noticed the oddness of the brown faces of the men who ... .... May I ask what that signifies?” I told him I had spent some years at the Royal College of Science, and had done some researches in biology under Hux... ...mong scattered trees. The colourless clearness that comes after the sunset flush was darkling; the blue sky above grew momentarily deeper, and the lit...

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... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...ubjects for tattooing that the profession became quite needy. The 28 Omoo royal ally of Hardy, however, hit upon a benevolent expedi- ent to provide ... ...” being placed at the feet instead of shot. This done, it was borne to the gangway, and placed on a plank laid across the bulwarks. T wo men supported... ...island, about which a tropi- 56 Omoo cal sunset was throwing its glories; flushing all that part of the heavens, and making it flame like a vast dyed... ...By this time everything was ready; the boat was lowered and brought to the gangway; and the captain was helped on deck by the mate and steward. It was... ...apeetee. Stopping our headway as they approached, Jermin ad- vanced to the gangway to receive them. No sooner did the consul touch the deck, than he g... ... were heard flowing; green boughs were rocking; and far inland, all sunset flushed, rose the still, steep peaks of the island. As we proceeded, I was ... ...cted an expression as possible. Though my face was averted, I soon felt it flush, and knew that the glance was on me; deeper and deeper grew the flush...

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...rt of her proper complement of men. Plump upon Billy at first sight in the gangway the board- ing officer Lieutenant Ratcliff pounced, even before the... ... ones. They took to him like hornets to treacle; all but the buffer of the gang, the big shaggy chap with the fire-red whiskers. He indeed out of envy... ... courage! don’t look so downhearted, man. Why, I pledge you in advance the royal approbation. Rest assured that His Majesty will be delighted to know ... ...agoing, the lily was quite suppressed and the rose had some ado visibly to flush through the tan. To one essentially such a novice in the complexities... ...sh in the matter of keeping up the muster- rolls, that not only were press-gangs notoriously abroad both afloat and ashore, but there was little or no...

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...rough copse and brake for the arrant deer- stealer and outlaw, and all his gang!” “Why, there’s preferment for you!” said the boy, laughing. “High gam... ...u!” said the boy, laughing. “High game for the heir of the throne! And his gang! Hold up your head, Leonillo: you and I come in for a share of the hon... ... him with a grave unmoved countenance, the fair skin of which was scarcely flushed by the exertion. “Spare him! spare him!” cried the boy, leaping for... ...least he never stripped the peaceful homestead and humble farmer, like the royal purveyors!” “Ha—young rebel!” exclaimed the hunter. “Know you what yo... ...as as bounteous, his heart as merciful, as hers, save where attacks on the royal game had been re- quited by the trouble complained of; and that in su... ...the doom of Adam de Gourdon, rebel first, and since that the terror of our royal father’s lieges, the robber of his treasurers, the rifler of our Cous... ...of thee!” It was not Richard who replied to this winning address. He stood flushed, irresolute, with eyes resolutely cast down, as if to avoid seeing ... ...y, catching at his cloak. “Why, who should it be?” “Thy wraith! Thy double-ganger has been here Richard.” “What, dreaming again?” ‘No no! I am well, I... ...Dunster here?” “Yea, my Lord,” said the little boy, coming forward, with a flush on his face, and a bold though wistful look, “but verily Richard is n...

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...h the back, mounting forest glades and coronals of precipice. Here, in the strong thorough-draught, Her Maj- esty received us in a simple gown of prin... ...nesian habit) was sent by Bishop Dordillon to South America, and there educated by the fathers. His French is fluent, his talk sensible and spirited, ... ...en one fleeing to the woods with a lamb in his mouth; and I saw another come rapidly (and erroneously) to the conclusion that the Casco was going down... ...m- less and a valued article of diet. White men explain these changes by the phases of the coral. It adds a last touch of horror to the thought of thi... ... our European horror of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished orna- ments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary cave... ...o be crowded with the brown roofs of houses; those of the palace and king’s summer parlour (which are of corrugated iron) glittered near one end con- ... ...t the man who was to do the roofing durst not begin till they had finished, lest by chance he should look down and see them. It was perhaps the last a...

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... a poet passe. “The man is brushed and shaved, dressed in the fashion of a Royal-Insti- tution-Afternoon Lecturer, the very newest shape in frock- coa... ...his was good enough. I went up the companion again, and as my eyes came up flush with the deck, a thun- dering great crab gave a kind of hysterical ju... ...suppose in the subtle and complex jungle of riddles that centres about the ganglion cell 89 H G Wells and the axis fibre there are little cleared pla... ...f his success. I remember that his eyes were unusually bright and his face flushed, and I noted even then the swift alacrity of his step. “It’s done,”... ...t first, but the stout man reassured him. “He’s quite alone. There’s not a gang in the world would own him. No!—don’t start talking, for goodness’ sak... ...ympathetic Orientals, and partly they thrust him and partly he fell down a gangway into a noisome, dark place, where he was to remain many days—how ma... ...y as I could name in this town—but none ‘ave done it—none.” I surveyed the flushed countenance, the equatorial expan- sion, the masterly carelessness ...

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... and cheerful. From his superior height, he was enabled to look down quite royally on the man whose repose he had disturbed. The following conversatio... ...cu- liarly an Englishman. Tales of injustice done on the Niger river would flush him in a heat of wrath till he cried out for fresh taxes to chastise ... ...wd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal salvo!’ said my father, and asked me earnestly whether I had forgotte... ...majority.’ Here my father’s tone was highly exalted, and he sat in a great flush. I promised him I would bend my steps toward Dipwell to be there on m... .... My father backed a horse to run in the races on Epsom Downs named Prince Royal, only for the reason that his name was Prince Royal, and the horse wo... ...t-table, laughing and telling her to guess the name of the sender. My aunt flushed. ‘Miss Bannerbridge?’ she said. A stranger was present. The squire ... ...en we saw one moving ahead. The holder of it proved to be a workman of the gang, and between us and him the strangest parley ensued. He repeated the w...

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...to that form of address): and said, ‘Mrs Dombey , my—my dear.’ A transient flush of faint surprise overspread the sick lady’s face as she raised her e... ... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...nt ob- jects. Gog and Magog held their state within ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of g... ... until she was quite out of breath, and her hair was hanging all about her flushed face, and her new christening attire was very much dishevelled, tha... ...plain, before him. It was nothing but a startled look in Paul’s wan face—a flush—a smile—and then a close em- brace—but God knows how her heart leapt ... ...lara, they found that cautious craft (which lay outside the tier) with her gangway removed, and half-a-dozen feet of river interposed between herself ... ...Barnet’s house, it were some deserted edifice on the banks of the Nile, or Ganges. ‘I never was so surprised!’ Mr Toots would exclaim.—‘Is Miss Dombey...

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...elta], whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ducal journeys, and sometimes caused them to be put ... ...hat gesture. “Pay attention to what I say. The fetish of to-day is neither royalty nor religion. Therefore the palace and the church should be left al... ...was the only safe thing to say. “What is the matter? Haven’t you the whole gang under your hand? The very pick of the basket? That old terrorist Y und... ...t now.” He pulled the newspaper out. It was a good-sized rosy sheet, as if flushed by the warmth of its own convictions, which were optimistic. He sca... ...lawfully or unlawfully, by position, wit, audacity, fortune or misfortune. Royal Highnesses, artists, men of science, young statesmen, and charlatans ... ...d any amount of work. It’s his nerves that I am afraid of. The reactionary gang, with that abusive brute Cheeseman at their head, insult him every nig... ...m too fond of you for that,” he said, with a little nervous laugh. A faint flush coloured Mrs V erloc’s ghastly and motionless face. Having done with ... ..., and marched without a limp out of the station. Outside, Comrade Ossipon, flush of safe banknotes as never before in his life, refused the offer of a... ...d to hang for ever… .” Comrade Ossipon was well informed. He knew what the gangway man of the steamer had seen: “A lady in a black dress and a black v...

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...the influence of the famous M. Arnauld d’Andilly and the gentlemen of Port Royal. A year or two later he was received into their Order, and without ac... ...tinkering with his will. Suddenly another thought pulled him up, sending a flush to his sallow temples. He remembered a word he had tossed to the lawy... ...and business under it—it would be found that the fellow was a member of a ‘gang.’ Those Italians would murder you for a quarter. He meant to have the ...

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...hter in the kitchen, but when she went in, he grew suddenly silent, and he flushed darkly when Mary Ann explained the joke. Mrs. Carey could not see a... ... stared at him for a moment with fright- ened eyes, and, as his habit was, flushed deeply . “I always used to play at home,” he answered. “I’m sure yo... ...got off because he’s a cripple,” he said angrily . Philip stood silent and flushed. He felt that they looked at him with contempt. “How many did you g... ...outing at a foot- ball match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession. It is because of them that man has been called a social a... ...a bottle of wine and a good dinner , and having once been seen at the Cafe Royal with a lady who was very prob- ably a near relation, was thenceforwar... ... at the witty immorality of a farce at the Palais 121 W. Somerset Maugham Royal, but here was nothing but filth. With an emphatic gesture he held his... ...tants left, he had to put back the sheets on the models and the cases and ‘gang’ the sweepers again. It was a dusty , dirty job. He was not allowed to...

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...arpet; and so to the Inn for which they are bound; where they present such flushed and burning faces to the cold waiter, and are so brimful of vigour,... ...sand of the New York Sewer! Here’s the Sewer’s exposure of the Wall Street Gang, and the Sewer’s exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer’s excl... ...ed the girl, with a hesitation which seemed to imply that they were rather flush of majors in that estab- lishment. ‘The master!’ said Colonel Diver ,... ...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...placid resignation. ‘Call her down, my love.’ She was called and came, all flushed and tumbled from reposing on the sofa; but none the worse for that.... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...al, smiling with a mild consciousness of his knowledge, ‘is nat’rally your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks... ...ocket-handker- chief (which was still on active service) safely across the gangway, returned in a thoughtful mood to watch the emigrants as they re- m... ...afe on board; and waiting anxiously to see the boat depart, stopped up the gangway; an instance of neglect which caused the ‘Capting’ of the Esau Slod...

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...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...rst, Second and Third species of predators: the urge to mob together in large gangs… along with some minimal social cooperation:… with liking and se... ...s, cowardice, Force-Majeure, brute force being the most important… along with ganging up on prey or an enemy, by stealth and cunning. Savagery: hate... ...in hate and hound the most. The loner predator without any supporting social gang. The antisocial leopard. What have we learned in 100,000 years... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...And appeared only in order to impress the awe-struck masses with their sacred Royal presence, their shining noble splendour… dressed in the most exp... ... you are finished with it either. You are supposed to know nothing. When you flush your toilet: you do not know where the water goes or what happens... ...o make the poor inform on each other! They did not need any secret police to flush out poor people who had money or forty more pigs than they claime... ... would die in one second from not giving anything to its other organs, and not flushing out its waste products, but keeping them inside every cell un...

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...with which the house of Somerset had thought fit to assert their claims to royalty. The cruel slaughter of her first husband, perhaps the only person ... ...umber of her daughters was oppressive, and that it was hard that while the royal branch had produced, with one exception, only useless pining maidens,... ...King-at-Arms was high-table com- pany, but he was absent, and the inferior royal pursuivant was entertaining two of his fellows, one with the Douglas ... ...ill we be across the Border.’ ‘Geordie, what means this?’ ‘I canna let her gang! I ken that she scorns me.’ ‘That proud peat Jean?’ ‘Whist! whist! She... ...ick gravely silenced her. ‘Whist, lady, brawls consort not with your rank. Gang back doucely to my leddy.’ ‘But Skywing! he has her jesses,’ said the ... ...ill excitement took the place of weariness; and Eleanor’s pale cheeks were flushed, her eyes glowing, when the Duchess’s signal closed the dance. Musi... ...nis’s assistance, she undressed her and placed her in the bed. ‘Oh, do not gang! Leave me not,’ she entreated. And as the lady sat by her, holding her... ...ronical, both to her and to the Dauphiness, on whose cheeks they brought a flush. The two kings, however, turned to receive the sisters, and nothing c... ...king’s daughter!’ And Margaret stamped her foot on the ground, while a hot flush arose in her cheeks. Her sisters, young girls as they were, could not...

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...u have it of that W rayburn one!’ Perhaps a slight additional tinge of red flushed up into her face and brow, as with a nod she laid a hand upon his l... ... for himself, if Mrs Boffin hadn’t thrown herself betwixt us, and received flush on the temple. Which dropped her, Mr Lightwood. Dropped her.’ Mr Ligh... ... side of his head with a heavy shoe, which a Buffer in the hall, champagne-flushed and wild of aim, has borrowed on the spur of the moment from the pa... ...armed in the hot springs of Iceland, and would float majestically down the Ganges and the Nile. Did History chronicle a king of men? Behold him in pep... ...ne at the stools and boxes, and spitting in the fireplace, and so loitered royally to the window and looked out into the narrow street, with his small... ...im from a window of the Observatory, where the Familiars of the Astronomer Royal nightly outwatch the winking stars. But, the minutes passing on and n... ...Friend out of me to-day , my dear, but that was to be expected. There’s no royal road to learning; and what is life but learning!’ ‘And what do you do...

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...n fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they ‘ll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love i... ...t was time to sound The pumps, and there were four feet water found. One gang of people instantly was put Upon the pumps and the remainder set... ...ee met the morning face to face; Her own was freshest, though a feverish flush Had dyed it with the headlong blood, whose race From heart to... ...e Minotaur From which our modern morals rightly shrinking Condemn the royal lady’s taste who wore A cow’s shape for a mask—was only (sinking ... ...te new), ‘Eat, drink, and love, what can the rest avail us?’ So said the royal sage Sardanapalus. But Juan! had he quite forgotten Julia? An... ...o be more exact, And that, proceeding at a very high rate, He show’d the royal penchants of a pirate. You ‘re wrong.— He was the mildest manner’... ...ft breath, And lips apart, which show’d the pearls beneath. One with her flush’d cheek laid on her white arm, And raven ringlets gather’d in d... ...y the North Pole,— they sought her cause of care, For she seem’d agitated, flush’d, and frighten’d, Her eye dilated and her colour heighten’d. B...

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...ermission, and asked no questions. On each occasion Jane came back looking flushed and very determined. At last one day she became communicative. “Wil... ..., and after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my... ... open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions. At times the Royal Entomological Society meetings resembled nothing so much as the Chamb... ... however, I had a curi- ous exterior vision of myself, sitting at a table, flushed, bright- eyed, and talkative. “I must take this other powder,” said... ...y wonder whether I was intoxicated, my slow undressing, the coolness to my flushed face of my pillow. I felt a sudden distrust. Was that last night, o... ...d. All the plain of India from the mouth of the Indus to the mouths of the Ganges was a shallow waste of shining water that night, out of which rose t... ...a vast weltering world, and at last I had a sort of leadership against the Gang—you know it was called the Gang—a sort of compromise of scoundrelly pr... ...d base ambitions and vast public emotional stupidities and catch-words—the Gang that kept the world noisy and blind year by year, and all the while th...

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...e after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way w... ...ruck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said, 79 Chapter 6 “I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand daughter doesn’t like to be ke... ...ith, and the place as bare as a stubble field. There’s the clock, and’I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!” And off he hobbled. Lucy and I sat awh... ...nd that when that time you suck from my wound so swiftly the poi son of the gangrene from that knife that our other 139 Chapter 9 friend, too nervou... ...e way. Chapter 11 167 Scratchin’ of their ears in another, when gents as is flush wants a bit of a show orf to their gals. I don’t so much mind the f... ...ry heart was bleeding, and it took all the man hood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down. I paused before an ... ...on it some great wooden boxes. The men were wiping their foreheads, and were flushed in the face, as if with violent exercise. Before I could get up t... ...when she came in. She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her eyes were flushed with crying. This somehow moved me much. Of late I have had cau...

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...e where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting; and there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her. Inste... ...n the Barnwell parlour, and he too ordered his shopman to “come out of the gangway” as my sacred person passed. “My dear friend,” said Mr. Pumblechook... ...Charles Dickens At about this time, I began to observe that he was getting flushed in the face; as to myself, I felt all face, steeped in wine and sma... ... laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar. Be that as it may, he had ... ...intimate associates, I answered, “Yes.” “Well, he’s going to ask the whole gang;” I hardly felt complimented by the word; “and whatever he gives you, ... ...een one. Mean to say he knowed nothing of you?” “Not a ha’porth. Different gangs and different ships. He was tried again for prison breaking, and got ... ...d raise them a little, when her loveliness was before him, with those rich flushes of glitter and colour in it. Of the manner and extent to which he t... ...ut to have taken it with him to the tomb, and to have brought it back. The royal phantom also carried a ghostly manuscript round its truncheon, to whi...

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...g—rent, food, clothes, clubs, insurance, doctors. Occasionally, if he were flush, he gave 22 Sons & Lovers her thirty-five. But these occasions by no... ...week. Then he was happy. On Friday night, Satur- day, and Sunday, he spent royally, getting rid of his sover- eign or thereabouts. And out of so much,... ...Morel used to say: “I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather be short, for when he’s flush, there isn’t a minute of peace.” If he earned forty shillings he kept... ...rty, but their red mouths talking with animation. Morel also walked with a gang, but he said nothing. He frowned peevishly as he went. Many men passed... ... does ter? There’s too much pick-haft and shovel-dirt on it.” The minister flushed with confusion, and sat down again. Mrs. Morel rose, carried out th... ... snow; watch the miners troop home—small, black figures trailing slowly in gangs across the white field. Then the night came up in dark blue vapour fr... ...ouch of these two magical places. In Ilkeston the colliers were waiting in gangs for the public-houses to open. It was a town of idleness and loung- i... ...He came round. One evening of that week Sarah Bernhardt was at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, giving “La Dame aux Camelias” . Paul wanted to see thi...

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...keep the peace. This was all we had of the fire, except a great cloud, all flushed red with the glare, above the roofs on the other side of the Gasse;... ... red; my nose, I fear, is going to take the lead in colour; Simpson is all flushed, as if he were seen by a sunset. I send you here two rondeaux; I do... ... oor feet. And at the Court, tae, aft I saw Whaur Advocates by twa an’ twa Gang gesterin’ end to end the ha’ In weeg an’ goon, To crack o’ what ye wul... ...I know to be a myth, because I have seen him acting so often in the Palais Royal. He plays the Duke in Tricoche et Cacolet; I knew his nose at once. T... ...c on the strength of it. The frolic was yesterday, Sawbath; the scene, the Royal Hotel, Bathgate; I went there with a humorous friend to lunch. The ma... ...ver is done about any book publication, two things remember: I must keep a royalty; and, second, I must have all my books advertised, in the French ma... ...g in joy as the moon was rising: Moon-seen and merry, under the trellises, Flush-faced they played with old polysyllables; Spring scents inspired, old... ...randy; and it’s my belief, it’s just an excuse for a dram. He an’ Stevison gang aboot their lane, maistly; they’re company to either, like, an’ whiles...

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...boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby. They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bil... ...year, sin’ I were born mysen’,’ was the reply, accom panied with a slight flush. 63 CHARLES D ICKENS ‘Very well,’ said Mr. Bounderby, pushing away h... ...in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vi nous part of the breakfast. ‘... ...ed between him self and his most worthy father.’ ‘I do not,’ said Louisa, flushing with her own great re membrance in that wise, ‘think it likely.’ ... ...o be mentioned anywhere: in order that the scoundrels concerned (there’s a gang of ‘em) may be thrown off their guard. So take this in confidence. Now... ...e recreation of that monarch to do. Sissy, though well acquainted with his Royal line, had no personal knowledge of the present Emperor, and his reign...

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...re employed in preparations for sea, reeving studding sail gear, crossing royal yards, putting on chafing gear, and taking on board our powder. On ... ... officer, seeing my lazy posture, ordered me to slush the main mast from the royal mast head, down. The vessel was then rolling a little, and I had ta... ...hould be ruined at once. So I took my bucket of grease and climbed up to the royal mast head. Here the rocking of the vessel, which increases the high... ...r deck, the chief mate on the leeside, and the second mate about the weather gangway. The steward has finished his work in the cabin, and has come up ... ...got the first touch of one during my watch on deck. I was walking in the lee gangway, and thought that I saw lightning on the lee bow. I told the sec... ...s the mate laid hold of Sam, who made no resistance, and carried him to the gangway. ‘‘What are you going to flog that man for, sir?’’ said John... ... or house on deck, which disfigures the after part of most of our vessels,) flush, fore and aft, and as white as snow, which the crew told us was fro...

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...nd shrinking from him, “what must he think of me?” and her eloquent blood, flushing over neck and brow, spoke how much she was ashamed of the freedom ... ... debty behind me, at last of my own contracting.” “ And gude right ye suld gang away as a true man, and so ye shall; for auld Caleb can tak the wyte o... ... place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The stranger, with w... ...r the shelter of his roof for the rest of the day and for the night. But a flush of less soft expression, a look much more habitual to his features, r... ...for the honour of the family, it’s nae business o’ yours; and if ye let me gang on quietly, I’se be moderate in my banquet; but if ye contradict me, d... ...llected, my leddy! what wad ye collect out of the sute and the ass? Ye may gang down yoursell, and look into our kitchen—the cookmaid in the trembling... ...ng contributions which was exercised in former times in England, when “the royal purveyors, sallying forth from under the Gothic portcullis to purchas... ...od. When he had mustered and marshalled his dishes of divers kinds, a more royal provision had not been seen in Wolf ’s Crag since the funeral feast o...

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... myself been detained two or three days at a place after steam was up, the gang planks, all but one, drawn 16 Personal Memoirs in, and after the time... ...O—EARLY CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCES—LIFE ON THE PACIFIC COAST —PROMOTED CAPTAIN—FLUSH TIMES IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO at that day was a lively place. Gol... ...nk and trotted aboard the boat, twelve or fifteen feet away, over a single gang plank. I dismounted and went at once to the upper deck. The Mississipp... ...e in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augus... ...of the navy in chang- ing our base of supplies from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock. Up to this time I had received no reinforcement... ...ouse, on the Pamunkey. The wagon train and guards moved directly from Port Royal to White House. Supplies moved around by water, guarded by the navy. ... ... rebellion. Sufficient cavalry should be left behind to look after Mosby’s gang. From Lynchburg, if information you might get there would justify it, ...

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...the arms of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the royalist emigrant. “That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew . “Monsieur le Vi... ...ild is not yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla— not paying the least att... ...ind. “Let him look for me,” thought she. Hardly had Boris gone than Sonya, flushed, in tears, and muttering angrily , came in at the other door. Natas... ...ung officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. “And me? W ould you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost in... ... desperate efforts to com- bat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had unexpectedly been made a gentleman of the bedchamb... ...h the performance was proceeding, he walked deliberately down the carpeted gangway , his sword and spurs slightly 319 Tolstoy jingling and his handso... ...k his head, with its long hair curling to his shoulders, in a majestically royal manner, and looked inquiringly at the French colo- nel. The colonel r... ...red, but at Troitsa that had passed and the doctor had only been afraid of gangrene. That danger had also passed. When 556 War & Peace they reached Y... ...beat down one another’s prices to below what they had been in former days. Gangs of carpenters hoping for high pay arrived in Moscow every day, and on...

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