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...his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes....

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...sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on t... ...putting his hands in his pockets, he watched his master with his head on one side. Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute. Then a good humored and ra... ...ne in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna’s chief ally) was on his side. “Well, what now?” he asked disconsolately. “Go to her, sir; own you... ...lic scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society. His chief object, to define the p... ...tate. But his relations with these people were confined to one clearly defined channel, and had a certain rou tine from which it was impossible to depa... ...ls had long dried up at the source, but its waters did their work in another channel. His father punished Seryozha by not letting him go to see Nadink... ...o the best of my ability.” “How have you defended me?” “Oh, according to the attacks made on you. But won’t you have some tea?” She rose and took up a... ...you like. I was very glad to hear of your intention. There have been so many attacks made on the volunteers, and a man like you raises them in public ...

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...r hand, though an obscure man, was stubborn in the defence of what he con- sidered his right; and, for several years, he succeeded in pro- tecting the... ...ts of glass, with which the woodwork of the walls was overspread. On every side the seven gables pointed sharply towards the sky, and presented the as... ...s of the day , had alighted from his horse, and assisted his lady from her side-saddle, and crossed the Colonel’s threshold, without other greeting th... ...stion, he had the blood of a petty huckster in his veins, through whatever channel it may have found its way there. 30 The House of the Seven Gables ... ...ay under the fence, through what we regret to call a gutter, rather than a channel. Nor must we forget to mention a hen-coop of very reverend antiquit... ... with Hamlet, he meant to eat a crocodile. In response to his more violent attacks, the bell gave, now and then, a moderate tinkle, but could not be s...

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...t surrounded 4 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY them on every side; while vehicles of all shapes and makes, mingled up together in one mo... ...rchyards for the buried—all these jumbled each with the other and flocking side by side, seemed to flit by in motley dance like the fantastic groups o... ...ravest mansion. Life and death went hand in hand; wealth and poverty stood side by side; repletion and starvation laid them down together. But it was ... ...f rapturous trance. ‘Everything—running away , sir—joining in bloodthirsty attacks upon his master—there’s nothing that’s bad that he hasn’t done. Oh,... ...ed by Nicholas; rudely stigmatised as a dotard and an idiot; and for these attacks upon his understanding, Mrs Nickleby was, in some sort, accountable... ...nterruption at all, would have diverted Mrs Nickleby’s thoughts into a new channel at any time. ‘Kate, my dear,’ said Mrs Nickleby; ‘I don’t know how ... ...oldness.’ ‘I say,’ interposed John Browdie, nettled by these accumu- lated attacks on his wife, ‘dra’ it mild, dra’ it mild.’ ‘You, Mr Browdie,’ said ...

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...what she was about, and the governess seemed annoyed. “Ethel does not con- sider,” said she. “I don’t think your mamma will be pleased.” “Why not?” sa... ... an open Bible before him, and a twisted pillar of Derbyshire spar on each side. He was the founder of thirteen almshouses, and had endowed two schola... ...like nothing but the full moon. And there he shone on them, by his mamma’s side, announcing in language few could understand, where he had been with p... ...t- edly continued her petition, though answered that she would attract the attacks of the quarrymen, who would take her for an attenuated owl. “I wish... ...nly laugh, and say it will spare him a great many of Mrs. Hoxton’s nervous attacks. He thinks of it nearly as I do, at the bottom, but I cannot get hi... ...tinual reproof!” As to the dullness, against which Ethel used to rail, the attacks upon it had made her erect it into a positive merit; she was always... ...nds lying idle.” Margaret was very glad that her thoughts were taking this channel, but it was not a promising one, for there seemed to be nothing pra...

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...’ was his answer. Patrick descended the terrace and strolled by the water- side, grieved at their having bad news, and vexed with him- self for being ... ...d before she perceived that though he responded naturally to her first sly attacks, his gross exaggerations upon them had not been the triumph of absu... ...r. Camminy bowed busily somewhere in the direction between Patrick and the sideboard. ‘Our lawyers have us inside out, like our physicians,’ Mr. Adist... ...not the same.’ ‘The same?’ said Caroline. ‘As this.’ He tapped on the left side. She did not under- stand it at all. ‘The bit of work done in Vienna,’... ...d bump- ing the pillow all night is not exactly wholesome. We’ll cross the Channel in a few days, and see the nest, and the mother, and the girls.’ ‘N... ... days, and see the nest, and the mother, and the girls.’ ‘Not St. George’s Channel. Mother would rather you would go to France and visit the De Reuils... ... will spring up harvest-thick in a single summer night across St. George’s Channel, ladies!… Indeed a goodly vision of strife and peace: but, politics...

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...ere are phases in the development of every science when an incautious out- sider may think himself almost necessary, when sketchiness ceases to be a s... ...ddition, it is particularly a business for some irresponsible writer, out- side the complications of practical politics, some man who, politically, “d... ... only the most accidental relationship, he will find others in partial lop-sided co-operation or unintelligently half helpful and half obstructive, an... ...o emphasize this purpose, public work of all sorts was dislocated, and the channels of public discussion clogged and choked. A discussion of the educa... ...e tradition through two distinct, though no doubt finally interdepen- dent channels. The first of these channels is the channel of changing economic n... ... print and publish for the derision of the world in general and the bitter attacks of the men he had omitted from the enterprise in particular, for re... ...that once swamped a whole country-side, but has now been banked within its channel. Even when these expedients have been exhaustively worked out, they... ...e round to the question of the Public Library. One is con- stantly reading attacks on these new and most promising institutions, and always these atta...

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.... . . . . . 314 The Mad Monk . . . . 316 Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...stood Shall dash thy mangled limbs with furious shock And stain its craggy sides with human blood. Yet not the Tempest, or the Whirlwind’s roar Eq... ...right: The impatient shout, that longs for closer war, Reaches from either side the distant shores; Whilst frighten’d at His streams ensanguin’d fa... ...s of Pindaric daring. I have three strong champions to defend me against the attacks of Criticism: the Novelty, the Difficulty, and the Utility of the... ...ing stream; Or where his wave with loud unquiet song Dash’d o’er the rocky channel froths along; Or where, his silver waters smooth’d to rest, The... ...er’d in a mystic urn each tear That ever on a Patriot’s furrow’d cheek Fit channel found; and she had drain’d the bowl In the mere wilfulness, and ... ...nce of the cloudless sky With mimic thunders deep. Dark reddening from the channell’d Isle (Where stands one solitary pile Unslated by the blast) ...

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... the necessities of the times, or by the instincts of political zeal. T wo channels especially lay open between the great central organ of the nationa... ...he scanty facts surviving when col- lated with each other. By his mother’s side, Shakspeare was an authentic gentle- man. By his father’s he would hav... ...all the undoubted facts of Shakspeare’s life should come to us through the channel of legal documents, which are better evidence even than imperial me... ...cene as one of no uncommon occurrence. A woman was in some provinces yoked side by side with an ass to the plough or the harrow; and M. Simond protest... ...no doubt because there was no room for wilfulness or waywardness on either side, when all was one placid scene of parental obedience and gentle filial... ...exa- tion, read the same tale, viz., that, in consequence of his recurring attacks and increasing misery, he was himself the victim of artifices among... ...h of Schiller was gradually undermined: his lungs had been long subject to attacks of disease; and the warning indications which constantly arose of s...

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... leave the city about that time and walk to Charing Cross on the left-hand side of the way; if there are any letters, come and meet me, and bring them... ...belligerents, and then there poured on to the platform, from a door at the side, a long line of gentlemen with their hats off, all looking behind them... ...her this be the reason or not, there they are, frowning upon you from each side of the gateway. The inn itself garnished with another Saracen’ s Head,... ...f rapturous trance. ‘Everything—running away , sir—joining in bloodthirsty attacks upon his master—there’ s nothing that’s bad that he hasn’t done. Oh... ...ed by Nicholas; rudely stigmatised as a dotard and an idiot; and for these attacks upon his understanding, Mrs Nickleby was, in some sort, accountable... ...nterruption at all, would have diverted Mrs Nickleby’s thoughts into a new channel at any time. ‘Kate, my dear,’ said Mrs Nickleby; ‘I don’ t know how... ...oldness.’ ‘I say,’ interposed John Browdie, nettled by these accumu- lated attacks on his wife, ‘dra’ it mild, dra’ it mild.’ ‘You, Mr Browdie,’ said ...

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...d on a beautiful prom- ontory, running out into the sea, and inclosing one side of a bay, where a small fishing-village had recently expanded into a q... ...r of boys in knickerbockers, a pair in petticoats, a pair in pelisses, be- sides the thing in arms. When the fly had been nearly crammed, the two knic... ...ye was always turning in search of her, he was ever ready to spring to her side to wait on her, to maintain her cause in rough championship, or to cla... ...lties, and she always awoke to attend to his wishes, as though he were the channel of her husband’s. This state of things ended with the birth of the ... ..., Alison was not seriously uneasy about Ermine’s health, for these nervous attacks were not without prece- 140 The Clever Woman of the Family dent, a... ...way with, and they feared that it might yet cost her a night’s rest. These attacks—absurd as they were—induced Rachel to take mea- sures for their con... ...ed to combat, and he seems less able than before to turn his mind into any channel but the one immediately before him. He is most loving when roused, ... ...pen his very wide. The loss of his sister went very deep, and those aguish attacks, though they become much slighter, make him look wretchedly ill. I ...

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...omes, I am ready and will go with him.’ There was boldness for you on both sides! All the town was laughing and betting on the event of the night in J... ...soon as the carriage was disengaged from the ruck two deep, walked on each side of it in the road all the way to Lord Cressett’s town house. No one th... ...own up the window of her carriage, she sprang out to a carriage on the off side, containing Kirby, and how she, this little French jade, sprang in to ... ..., and changed to various, indented, intricate, succinct in ridge, scar and channel; and they had all a look of watchfulness that made them one company... ...irst she beheld Old England’s shores, tossing in the packet-boat on a wild Channel sea, did say it and think it, for it is in the family that she did;... ...ithstanding intimations of the approach of ‘his visitor,’ as he called his attacks of gout. Riding home, however, the couple passed through a heavy ra... ...eniently spacious meadow. They were induced, on the contrary, to enter the channel of English humour, by hearing Chumley Potts exclaim: ‘His nob!’ and... ...anger of his country’s disintegration, from the incessant, becoming overt, attacks of a foreign priest- hood might—an indignant great lady’s precipita...

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...and he and his soldiers embarked, watch- ing the white cliffs on the other side of the sea grow higher and higher as he came nearer and nearer. When h... ... THERE WERE MANY MORE of the light-haired, blue-eyed people on the further side of the North Sea who worshiped Thor and Woden still, and thought that ... ...oyed for many years. Edgar was called the peaceable, because there were no attacks by the Danes at all through his reign. In fact, the Northmen and Da... ...how them how foolish and profane they were; “bring out my chair to the sea-side.” He was at Southampton at the time, close to the sea, and the tide wa... ...ght- ing Normans together, fitted out ships, and sailed across the English Channel to Dover. The figure-head of his own ship was a likeness of his sec... ..., they hunted and tormented the big Span- iards all the way up the English Channel; and, just as the Armada had passed the Straits of Dover, there cam... ...boats that Bonaparte had made ready to bring his troops across the English Channel. But no one had ships and sailors like the English; and, be- sides,...

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...old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a magnificent phaeton, doing homage the— Dubarry. ’ (La Vie et les ... ...has his unblushing Chateauroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up betwee... ...ny more forever. And yet withal has there not been realised somewhat? Con- sider (to go no further) these strong Stone-edifices, and what they hold! M... ...nal communion! Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually: on the racecourse of Vincennes or Sablons, b... ...at last, ‘De Grave, Mayor of Paris:’ whereupon he demits, returns over the Channel, to walk in Kensington Gardens; (Dumont, c. 19, 21.) and austere Se... ...bliged to press itself through a narrow bridge, and flow on in its bounded channel. Down the long street, all visible from our windows, there swelled ... ... pusillanimities: “these two years,” says he, “you have been whining about attacks, and plots, and danger from Paris; and you have not a scratch to sh...

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...he sunshine glimmered so pleasantly through the willow branches on the western side of the Old Manse. But now, should you go thither to seek him, you ... ...old repetition, the long extent from the front door of the Custom House to the side entrance, and back again. Great were the weari ness and annoyance... ..., at best, I saw much reason to con gratulate myself that I was on the losing side rather than the triumphant one. If, heretofore, l had been none of... ...d. Hester had schooled herself long and well; and she never responded to these attacks, save by a flush of crimson that rose irrepressibly over her pal... ...d?” And Pearl, overhearing the ejaculation, or aware through some more subtile channel, of those throbs of anguish, would turn her vivid and beautiful... ...s at some points; while, in its swifter and livelier passages there appeared a channel way of pebbles, and brown, sparkling sand. Letting the eyes fol...

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... full of the choice artistic curiosities of a man of cultivation, and pre- sided over by his mother, a woman of much the same bright, keen, alert swee... ...recall,” said Mrs. Brownlow, seeing a letter directed to Miss Allen on the side-table. “I will not give it to her to-night, poor little dear; I really... ...rey, but not a whit more careworn, and, if possible, even brighter. On one side of him sat a little figure, not quite so thin, some angles smoothed aw... ..., and half retracted immediately after. The brother and sister crossed the Channel at night, and arrived at Kenminster at noon, on a miserably wet day... ...eing the conversational man of the world, car- ried off the talk into safe channels. As Cecil was handing Mrs. Brownlow down to the dining- room, wick... ...ere he had dropped from. For Jock was in the midst of one of his cruellest attacks of the fever, and all she had been conscious of was a knock and sum...

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...long the road. He had, indeed, you see, been very fortunately, if not con- siderately, liberated by Miss Durham. He, as a man of honour, could not hav... ... plain lines, and I ask myself whether money and health and beauty on both sides have not been the mutual attraction. We tried it before; and that gir... ... mother of his children, his companion picture. Certainly they looked well side by side. In walking with her, in drooping to her, the whole man was ma... ...spise it, shut it out, that their love for one another may pour in a clear channel, and with all the force they have. They cannot enjoy the sense of s... ...he window-panes and sug- gested to Dr. Middleton shuddering visions of the Channel passage on board a steamer. “Corney shall see you: he is a sparklin... ...y it. “Is it intuitively or by their experience that our neighbours across Channel surpass us in the knowledge of your sex?” he said to Miss Dale, and... ...loughby,” Vernon said, hastily, to shield Clara from her father’s allusive attacks. He wished to convey to her that his interview with Willoughby had ...

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...London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the real message comes through: ?Bleriot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.?...

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...en in elfin tones the real message comes through: “Blériot has crossed the Channel.... An article ... about what it means.” I make a hasty promise and... ...se and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps upon the water, and the iris and tama- ri... ...le island. So long as one had to consider the navigable balloon the aerial side of warfare remained unimportant. A Zeppelin is little good for any pur... ...ning people? It is the vital riddle of our time. I look out upon the windy Channel and think of all those millions just over there, who seem to get bu... ...sn’t “kicking up ahind and afore” it would be heeling over to the lightest side wind. A sneeze might upset it. We contrasted our poor human equipment ... ... all the brightly detailed littleness of a town viewed from high up on the side of a great mountain. When Mr. Grahame-White told me we were going to p... ...resist the endless internal strains, the inevitable external pressures and attacks to which it must be subjected This is the primary question for Brit... .... It spends its force very largely in mere revenges upon property as such, attacks simply destructive by reason of the absence of any definite ulterio... ...crude socialistic spirit in the mass of the proletariat; merely vindictive attacks upon property, sabotage, and the general strike are the logi- cal a...

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...ring seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quota- tio... ... some birth and fortune, who knelt sud- denly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living... ...g, half ex- planatory. She had her pencil in her hand, and was making tiny side-plans on a margin. Celia colored, and looked very grave. “I think, dea... ...e. prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? All these things mi... ...ng more widely than usual, and leaving much uncertainty as to its ultimate channel, was heard to say in Mr. Hawley’s office that the article in questi... ... you one time after another, but to get things once for all into the right channel. Consider that, Josh—as between man and man—and with your poor moth... ... attendance more or less frequent from Mr. Gambit, and occasionally having attacks which required Dr. Minchin. “Does this Mr. Lydgate mean to say ther...

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...ring seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation f... ...and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor Middlemarch 5 by the side of a sick laborer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living... ... love with Celia: Sir James Chettam, for example, whom she constantly con sidered from Celia’s point of view, inwardly debating whether it would be g... ...e. prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicita tions? All these things m... ...ng more widely than usual, and leaving much uncertainty as to its ultimate channel, was heard to say in Mr. Hawley’s office that the article in questio... ... you one time after another, but to get things once for all into the right channel. Consider that, Josh—as between man and man—and with your poor moth... ...ttendance more or less frequent from Mr. Gambit, and occasion ally having attacks which required Dr. Minchin. “Does this Mr. Lydgate mean to say ther...

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...ressing onward, and locked and bound and hus- tling together in the narrow channel of Chepe. The imprecations of the charioteers were terrible. From t... ...but little idea of London some six or eight score years back. Thou pudding-sided old dandy of St. James’s Street, with thy lacquered boots, thy dyed w... ...n Affairs, and beckoning a suspicious-looking person who was drinking at a side-table, whispered to him something. Meantime who was he? where was he, ... ... more mad; and, having spurs on, I began digging them into Cambaceres’ fat sides as we rolled on the carpet, until the Marshal howled with rage and an... ...I ever read)— and, of course, you must turn your real genius to some other channel; and we may expect that your pen shall not be idle. “The original p... ...fortune instanta- neously to fall in love with her. We were not out of the Channel before I adored her, worshipped the deck which she trod upon, kisse... ...f King Richard had not been in such a rage at the repeated failures of his attacks upon the castle, that all sense of justice was blinded in the lion-...

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...of Islamist Terrorism 374 12.4 Protect against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks 383 13. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNME... ...he Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law 107-306, November 27, 2002). Our... ...ected us to investigate “facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ” includ- ing those relating to intelligence... ... thus inadvertently broad- cast their message over the air traffic control channel instead of the cabin public-address channel. Also at 8:25, and agai... ...f JFK en route to Washington D.C.” The NMCC reported a crash into the mall side of the Pentagon and requested that the Secretary of Defense be added t... ...ined in creating a “Bureau of Services” (Mektab al Khidmat, or MAK), which channeled recruits into Afghanistan. 22 The international environment for B... ...reports describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides’ hatred of the United States. But to date we have seen no evidence th... ...f the legal system to address the first World Trade Center bombing had the side effect of obscuring the need to examine the char- acter and extent of ... ...he State Department managed counterterrorism pol- icy. It was the official channel for communication with the governments pre- sumed to be behind the ...

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...as improper, and that they were naturally unequal to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for dispute’s sake. He was naturally more eloquent... ...fair and sent to him. He answered, and I replied. Three or four letters of a side had passed, when my father happened to find my papers and read them.... ...yself fixed till Tuesday should come. However, walking in the evening by the side of the river, a boat came by, which I found was going towards Philad... ...a pleasant one, as we had a great deal of bad weather. When we came into the Channel, the captain kept his word with me, and gave me an opportunity of... ...ong enough to wash away all the mud it meets with; but when divided into two channels, it is often too weak to cleanse either, and only makes the mud ... ...m with him to Halifax, where he stayed some time to exercise the men in sham attacks upon sham forts, then alter’d his mind as to besieging Louisburg,... ... notice of the enemy’s privateers, who often crus’d near the entrance of the channel. Accordingly, all the sail was set that we could possibly make, a...

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...ible solutions of the question, which created two distinct parties: on one side, those who were for a monster of colossal strength; on the other, thos... ...s have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success. Others have been drawn out, not without trouble, from... ...of this brilliant emanation was exhausted. Then it reappeared on the other side of the vessel, as if it had turned and slid under the hull. Any moment... ...emplation of these sublime subjects was not worth the loss of liberty. Be- sides, I trusted to the future to decide this grave ques- tion. So I conten... ... animals more to be feared might haunt these obscure depths, against whose attacks my diving-dress would not protect me. I had never thought of it bef... ...sembled on this shore, the Nautilus will have noth- ing to fear from their attacks.” The Captain’s fingers were then running over the keys 114 20,000... ...Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape ...

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...ocial revo- lution as an innovation to be resisted, nor to that which con- sidered political equality the universal panacea for the evils of humanity,... ...ls and their dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings ... ...edience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive. On one side was wealth, strength, and leisure, accompanied by the refinements of l... ...it, and it may exist without being perceived. When a judge in a given case attacks a law relat- ing to that case, he extends the circle of his customa... ...he remains within the ordinary limits of his functions. But if he directly attacks a general principle without having a par- ticular case in view, he ... ...ed, and its final destruction can only be accomplished by the reiter- ated attacks of judicial functionaries. It will readily be un- derstood that by ... ...unites the efforts of minds which have a tendency to diverge in one single channel, and urges them vigorously towards one single end which it points o... ...try, like two distinct currents flowing in contrary directions in the same channel. The Union has now existed for forty-five years, and in the course ... ...ommunication between America and Europe. When peace was concluded, and the channel of intercourse reopened by which the produce of Europe was transmit...