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...f their own; worn-out gardeners, de- crepit grave-diggers, or octogenarian sextons, who thank- fully received a comfortable lodging and one shilling a... ...ough the enemy should be never so open to assault. At length a more deadly artillery is brought to bear; slowly, but with effect, the advance is made;... ...m, coaxed him out of his project; to have overcome him with all her female artillery, and to have redeemed her father at the cost of herself; but prid...

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...e, the poacher knows it; he obeys the rule and never misses. An officer of artillery would have found the essential parts of this weapon in good condi... ...ite head, who combines the functions of bell-ringer, beadle, grave-digger, sexton, and clerk, in defiance of his republican opinions,—I mean the grand... ...pital of the de- partment. Before the elder Soudry, a quartermaster in the artillery, became a brigadier of gendarmes, he had been wounded in a skirmi... ...?” “Doesn’t madame know the story?” said Olympe. “Well, the son of the old sexton at Blangy, a splendid fellow, so the people 153 Balzac about here t... ...drafted at the great conscription. In 1809 young Niseron was still only an artilleryman, in a corps d’armee stationed in Illyria and Dalmatia when it ... ...the French. Zena Kropoli, called in derision the Frenchwoman, followed the artillery, and came to France after the peace. Auguste Niseron asked permis... ...ht to satisfy both his lust and his vengeance. When I took Pere Niseron as sexton I told him what Rigou’s intentions were. That is one of the causes o... ...c is in the Gospel.” The stanch republican carried the cross, and wore the sexton’s robe, half- red, half-black, and was grave and dignified in church... ...t tribe of expectant heirs. Madame Niseron, the wife of the old republican sexton, always paid the greatest attention to her husband’s uncle, the prie...

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...ed, and the roll of wheels upon the pavement was as the rever- beration of artillery caissons. 31 Frank Norris “Get your carriage, sir?” cried a ragg... ...oed noisily from the dark vaulting of the nave and chancel. The janitor or sexton, a severe old fellow, who wore a skull cap and loose slippers, was m... ...shing his way forward. “It was on the table when we came out just now. The sexton says a messenger boy brought it. It’s for Mrs. Jadwin.” He handed he... ...entire fortune to bear, in the manner of a general concentrating his heavy artillery, and crushed the opposition with appalling swiftness. He issued f... ... the last huge strategical move, the concentration of every piece of heavy artillery. Never in all his multitude of operations on the Chicago Board of...

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... Burial Service. Not alone the cleric’s good work is upset by him; but the sexton’s as well. He howks the grave, and trans- forms the quiet worms, bus... ...one part of the fight he thought he would be beaten. He was overmatched in artillery, and it was a cavalry charge he thundered on them, riding across ...

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...d the way. His dinner had prepared this young Englishman to defy the whole artillery of established mor- als. With the muffled roar of London around t... ...stinate animal, is a safer horse, and conducts man at a slower pace to the sexton. Adrian had never travelled. He was aware that his romance was earth...

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...e Methodist miller; and the door-post against which I discharged my brazen artillery; I remember the window by which I sat while my mother taught me F... ...d with stipulation for privacy; and read, for our opinion, his Poem of the Sexton’s Daughter, which we now first heard of. The judg- ment in this hous... ...lume of it. I have also written some poems, and shall probably publish the Sexton’s Daughter when I return. “My health goes on most favorably. I have ... ...oquent melodies, tainted to me with something of the same dis- ease as the Sexton’s Daughter, though perhaps in a less degree, considering that the st... ... writ- ten, publishing chiefly in Blackwood, a large assortment of verses, Sexton’s Daughter, Hymns of a Hermit, and I know not what other extensive s...

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... apparent. But quiet or noisy, it was all one to John. If a train of heavy artillery could have come up and commenced ball practice outside the window... ...r Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell; bent ... ... and hazard, but would be to challenge an attempt at rescue. Directing the sexton to lead the horse, he walked close by the murderer’s side, and in th... ...m to do what he would, and go away from them in heaven’s name. Leaving the sexton at the horse’s bridle, he drew out the 469 Charles Dickens chaise w... ... in his saddle. The murderer was put inside, the blinds were drawn up, the sexton took his seat upon the bar, Mr Haredale mounted his horse and rode c... ...awbridges were raised, the cannon loaded and pointed, and two regiments of artillery busied in strength ening the fortress and preparing it for defen...

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...e heard the explosion of the pistol. He could not choose but hear it: the thing was shaped like a little blun- derbuss, charged to the mouth, and made... ...ised for a moment a pale and tell-tale face that was as direct as a confession. The rascal had expected to see Fenn come forth alone; he was waiting t...

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...rt of Time to bury up the ancient city, as if it were a corpse, and he the sexton; so that, in eighteen centuries, the soil over its grave has grown v... ...d passed, the merry-makers resumed their antics with fresh spirit, and the artillery of bouquets and sugar plums, suspended for a mo- ment, began anew...

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... the third or fourth day after my arrival at Mount Sharon, Time, that bald sexton to whom I have just referred you, did certainly limp more heavily al... ...een for a time dispelled by Alan’s eloquence, like a fog by the thunder of artillery, yet it seemed once more to settle down upon the mass of litigati...

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...ng, Being wronged as we are by this peevish town, Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery, As we will ours, against these saucy walls; And when that we h... ...e this hour within this hour. BASTARD: Old Time the clock setter, that bald sexton Time, Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue. BLANCH: The ...

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... common room of the Wallace Arms, on a Saturday evening. No less would our sexton, John Duirward, have held it an unlicensed in- trusion, to suffer an... ...eans his original intention. He had risen to the rank of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and was reck- ... ...upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks... ...o the defences of the gate, and which was protected by two pieces of light artillery, was a small enclosure, where stood a huge block, on which lay an... ...d I do not see that any of these fellows have muskets either. So with what artillery you propose making good the pass, before you come to hand blows, ... ..., to counterbalance the difference of superior numbers and the presence of artillery and cavalry, that Montrose encountered the army of Lord Elcho upo...

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...tier, his successor, and a certain Monsieur Mignonnet, ex-cap- tain in the artillery of the Guard. Carpentier, a cavalry of- ficer risen from the rank... ...itself,—a work that was somewhat like that of the soldiers who carried the artillery over the pass of the Grand Saint-Bernard. The cart was then remou... ...p at the facade of the parish church of Saint-Cyr. I talked there with the sexton, who came to ring the angelus, and asked him for information about t... ...Gilet; I wish to make their acquaintance.” “Well, there’s a captain of the artillery of the Guard, Mon- sieur Mignonnet, a man about forty years of ag... ...lot. This conspiracy, in which several regiments of cavalry, infantry, and artillery were concerned, had its centre in the north of France. The strong... ... de Brambourg, he began to frequent the house of a lieuten- ant-general of artillery, the Comte de Soulanges. Insatiable in his wants, and backed by t...

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... hands on me; and, not daring to at- tack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel. ‘Well, Mr. Earnshaw,’ she cried, ‘... ...r word, I must call a smile—‘I’ll tell you what I did yesterday! I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin ... ...nton’s side, damn him! I wish he’d been soldered in lead. And I bribed the sexton to pull it away when I’m laid there, and slide mine out too; I’ll ha... ...he task of dictating an inscription for his monument, and con- sulting the sexton about it; and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell his age, ... ...y, if you please, accompany me: and mind, particularly, to notice that the sexton obeys my directions concerning the two coffins! No minister need com... ... the scandal of the whole neighbourhood, as he wished. Earnshaw and I, the sexton, and six men to carry the coffin, comprehended the whole attendance....

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...th the left foot 11 in the stirrup—of Napoleon, in an age when the use of artillery was first understood, that he found every man standing to his gun... ... the leading feature which strikes the mind with amazement in this natural artillery, is its fine re- tail distribution. Everywhere you may meet an en... ...to precedency in respect of anybody, unless it were the amen clerk, or the sexton? In reality, however, the case is worse, If a man did really bring a...

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...ose the career that pleased me most,—either military or naval engineering, artillery, or staff duty, or the civil engineering of mining, and ponts et ... ...ies,— posts that are almost as useless in our corps as colonels are in the artillery, where the battery is the essential thing. The engineer-in-ordina... ...tery is the essential thing. The engineer-in-ordinary, like the captain of artillery, knows 164 The Village Rector the whole science. He ought not to... ... but the old mother, as the last act of her tender pity, had requested the sexton to make the grave there,—putting together those whom earth had so vi...

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...e Fosseur, which is no doubt a contraction of fossoyeur, for the office of sexton had been in his family time out of mind. All the sad associations of... ...his world has there been such a fricasse of an army, caissons, transports, artillery and all, in such snow as that and under such a pitiless sky. It w... ...d for three hours did wonders. Under cover of the fighting the baggage and artillery set out. We had a park of artillery and great stores of powder, o...

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...re was I, the pitiless cause of it all, so utterly impenetrable to all the artillery of his looks and words, so calmly cold and proud, he could not bu... ...e loud in hilarious discourse; though I did hear it uplifted in rating the sexton in a manner that made the congregation stare; and, in his transits t...

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... explained to him Frederick’s oblique attack, Napoleon’s employment of the artillery arm preparatory to the hurling of the cataract on the spot of wea... ...e heights for defence, but saw at a glance that it was the city for modern artillery to command, crush and enter. He lost idea of these afflicted peop... ... Bourges, where her brother lay with his life endangered by an accident at Artillery practise,—Mr. Peridon was generally conductor. Victor was to lead... ...nce of penitence. That worm-like thread of voice came up to him still from sexton- depths: it sounded a larger forgiveness without the word. He felt t...

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...out it; Master Some 101 Bleak House – Vol. One body—a sort of ridiculous sexton, digging graves for the merits of causes in a back room at the end o... ...n Mr. Bagnet and young Woolwich opportunely come home. Mr. Bagnet is an ex artilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the ... ... old girl that brought out my musical abilities. I should have been in the artillery now but for the old girl. Six years I hammered at the fiddle. Ten... ...He is a most respectable man with a wife and family, formerly in the Royal Artillery—” “My friend, I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal A...

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...farther, I saw com- ing from the prebytere three or four priests, with the sexton and the serving boys. One of them, a spare thin man, with a little b... ...ace beneath us, with the moat and ditch between, crowded with baggage, and artillery near the walls, with gentlemen on foot and horseback, their shorn... ...dispatched a page to warm him, and at the same time she gave orders to the artillerymen to fire on the advancing troops as soon as they came within ra...

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...h a mournful roll of wheels, like the passing of a cortege, like a file of artillery-caissons charioting dead bodies; the engine’s smoke enveloping it... ...same instant. At a distance, the ploughs resembled a great column of field artillery. Each driver was in his place, his glance al- ternating between h... ...g her desperate situation as best she might. Two or three hours later, the sexton woke her. The church was being closed; she must leave. Once more, ch...

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...bout it; Master Some 101 Bleak House – Dickens body—a sort of ridiculous sexton, digging graves for the merits of causes in a back room at the end o... ...n Mr. Bagnet and young Woolwich opportunely come home. Mr. Bagnet is an ex artilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the ... ... old girl that brought out my musical abilities. I should have been in the artillery now but for the old girl. Six years I hammered at the fiddle. Ten... ...He is a most respectable man with a wife and family, formerly in the Royal Artillery—” “My friend, I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal A... ...l or grave of waste paper, the virtuous Judy groping therein like a female sexton, and Mrs. Smallweed on the level ground in the vicinity snowed up in... ... in the establish ment of Mr. Matthew Bagnet, otherwise Lignum Vitae, ex artilleryman and present bassoon player. An occasion of feast ing and fest...

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... how it may, he often glanced at Mr Carker while the Major plied his light artillery, and seemed watchful of its effect upon him. But the Major, havin... ... to count what they have gained by the affair, and talk it over, while the sexton tolls a funeral. Now, the carriages arrive at the Bride’s residence,... ...f curls, and her bright spectacles, still 580 Dombey & Son working like a sexton in the graves of languages. Here is the table upon which he sat forl... ...orch, and has put his hat in the font—for he is quite at home there, being sexton. He ushers them into an old brown, panelled, dusty vestry , like a c...

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...e almost a dishonour to the flag. But Isabel, who knew little of the sorts of artillery to which young women are exposed, flattered herself that such co... ...She stood herself at the edge of the grave, and Isabel stood beside her; the sexton himself had not a more practical interest in the scene than Mrs. T...

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...lmost a dishonour to the flag. But Isabel, who knew little of the sorts of artillery to which young women are exposed, flattered herself that such con... ...e stood herself at the edge of the grave, and Isabel stood beside her; the sexton himself had not a more practical interest in the scene than Mrs. Tou...

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...rove with both windows closed so that the Vicar should not catch cold. The sexton was waiting at the porch to take the communion plate, and while the ... ...siastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnacht to hear the rattle of artillery at Gravelotte. But one mark of a writer’s greatness is that diffe...

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... are speeches— that celebrated speech of his own, on the emoluments of the sexton, and the duties of the office, for instance— which might be communic... ...kmore make his terrific ascent, surrounded by flames of fire, and peals of artillery, and where the white garments of Madame Somebody (we forget even ...

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...e, and in equal dismay and indignation she came round the point. The light artillery fled at her aspect, and she had to catch Francis’s arm in the act... ...ut go towards the stile leading to that corner of the churchyard where the sexton had finished his work, and smoothed the sods over that new grave. 4... ...er that new grave. 415 Yo n g e Some one was standing at the foot—not the sexton—but a young man bending as with an intolerable load of grief. Rachel...

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... are speeches— that celebrated speech of his own, on the emoluments of the sexton, and the duties of the office, for instance— which might be communic... ...kmore make his terrific ascent, surrounded by flames of fire, and peals of artillery, and where the white garments of Madame Somebody (we forget even ...

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...or I can neither read nor write.” “You lie! You have taken it away for the sexton to scribble upon.” “Well, if the sexton wanted paper he could get so... ...soldier bearing a green, iron-clamped box in- scribed: “The —th Battery of Artillery”; long strips of freshly-tilled earth which gleamed green, yellow...

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...d by Ovid; or, as they are sometimes called in our own language, the whole artillery of love. Now Mrs. Waters and our heroe had no sooner sat down t... ...r heroe had no sooner sat down together than the former began to play this artillery upon the latter. But here, as we are about to attempt a descrip ... ...place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse grave digger. I had a sexton, when I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is dig...

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...hafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud... ... mates After a storm; quaff’d off the muscadel And threw the sops all in the sexton’s face; Having no other reason But that his beard grew thin and hu...

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..........................329 I Saw Old General at Bay..................330 The Artilleryman’s Vision.................330 Ethiopia Saluting the Colors...... ...commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery, And artillery men, the deadliest that ever fired gun. STILL T ... ...o to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat! To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket barrels in the... ...The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers of the crowd for their favorites, The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly... ... it’s O to sing it well! It’s O for a manly life in the camp. And the sturdy artillery, The guns bright as gold, the work for giants, to serve well th... ... is some murderer’s knife with a half pull’d scabbard. This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee, An unceasing death bell tolls there. Leaves of ...

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...he like; so let the village, do not stop short at a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish li brary, and three selectmen, because our Pilgrim fore ... ... the river hear the ice crack at night with a star tling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a fe...

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...he like; so let the village do, — not stop short at a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish library, and three selectmen, because our pilgrim forefa... ...near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a ...

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...chcraft said. VIII When Phoebus next unclosed his wakeful eye, Up rose the sexton of that place profane, And missed the image, where it used to lie, E... ...hat discourteous knight, His heart unworthy is, shootress divine, Of thine artillery to feel the might; To wreak thine ire behold me prest and fit, I ...

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...nd had her eyes rolled, had she put forth against him any of that ordinary artillery with which youthful feminine batteries are charged, he would have... ...at there as passively as though she were conscious of the possession of no artillery. There was not a single gun fired from beneath her eyelids. He kn... ... Barchester should mention. Before any other one had reached the spot, the sexton and the verger between them had led in between them, among the grave...

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...uccessful—protected as he will be by the tre- mendous fire of the powerful artillery he disposes of—in these twofold operations, the Austrians defendi... ... these three corps d’armee to attack when they hear the roar of Cialdini’s artillery on the right bank of the Po? Are they destined to force the pas- ... ...uched at the same time from three different roads, supported with numerous artillery. An officer of the Austrian staff, waving a white handkerchief, w... ...ported by uhlans, sharp-shooters (almost a battalion) and twelve pieces of artillery. These positions were 32 Miscellaneous Prose subsequently abando... ...own at last, dead! Such was the case with a Neapolitan—Major Abate, of the artillery—and his name is worth the glory of a whole army, of a whole war; ... ...tter hearing of the guns if possible. After a few words exchanged with the sexton—a staunch Italian, as he told us he was—we went up the ladder of the...

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...attention to the body, and to receive information where he was to find the sexton, or beadle, who had in charge the deserted churchyard of the Armitag... ...ind to restore his spirits. It was necessary he should see Mortsheugh, the sexton of the old burial-ground at Armitage, to arrange matters for the fun... ...nres which mark the graves of per- sons of inferior rank. The abode of the sexton was a solitary cottage adjacent to the ruined wall of the cemetery, ... ...m, as if to receive his commands; and as he did not immediately speak, the sexton opened the dis- course in his own way. “Ye will be a wedding custome... ... at the Graigfoot in Ravenswood Park.” “Alice Gray!—blind Alice!” said the sexton; “and is she gane at last? that’s another jow of the bell to bid me ... ...the towers of a belea- guered city as they reel under the discharge of his artillery; or rather, she considered these starts and inequalities of tempe...

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...e spoke. “Come, my bride!” said those pale lips, “the hearse is ready. The sexton stands waiting for us at the door of the tomb. Let us be married; an... ...ath? And therefore I have bidden these funeral friends, and be- spoken the sexton’s deepest knell, and am come, in my shroud, to wed you, as with a bu... ...VEIL A P VEIL A P VEIL A PARABLE ARABLE ARABLE ARABLE ARABLE 1 1 1 1 1 THE SEXTON stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the b... ...than on week days. When the throng had mostly streamed into the porch, the sexton began to toll the bell, keeping his eye on the Rev- erend Mr. Hooper... ...ts summons. “But what has good Parson Hooper got upon his face?” cried the sexton in astonishment. 1 Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moo... ...ress, he mounted the green cart and rode out of town, under a discharge of artillery from the school-boys, who found plenty of ammunition in the neigh... ... knell of midnight from the steeple of the Old South, and with the roar of artillery, which announced that the beleaguering army of Washington had int...

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...chcraft said. VIII When Phoebus next unclosed his wakeful eye, Up rose the sexton of that place profane, And missed the image, where it used to lie, E... ...hat discourteous knight, His heart unworthy is, shootress divine, Of thine artillery to feel the might; To wreak thine ire behold me prest and fit, I ...