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...l resigned, Blessing, while he kissed the rod, His Redeemer and his God. —Southey CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I IN IN IN IN IN TH... ...n that there was a black cloud, like snow, coming up over the fells to the south-west. ‘But I must fare back to Greystone!’ said the damsel. ‘They wil... ...ny; and Hal declared that it proved that the convent must have been to the south of the spot of her fall; but his astronomy, though eagerly demonstrat... ...n came out with bright slanting beams before his setting, there was a soft south wind; and Hob, when he came in, growled out that the thaw had set in,... ...ou down—you know nothing about what honour requires of you! Y ou are but a south country maid, and have no notion of what is due to them one came from... ...oved thither as soon as might be expedient, and therefore the house on the Yorkshire moor had been broken up. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER ... ...be meditating insurrection. Encouraged by this there was a great rising in Yorkshire of the peasants under Robin of Redesdale, and a message was broug... ..., and the first fresh tidings that they met were that Edward had landed in Yorkshire, but his fleet had been dis- persed by storms, and the people did... ...ce from the Vescis, where he and Anne were able to live in Barden Tower in Yorkshire, not far from Bolton Ab- bey. So Hal’s shepherd days were over, t...

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...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...tellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the... ...dation school that rose, a long and delicately beautiful facade, along the South Bank of the Thames opposite the ancient dignity of Somerset House. Su... ...ant filthi- ness still astonish the visitors to the museum of machinery at South Kensington. He mentions running over a dog and com- plains of the rui... ...ted that with such a motor barge as ours it would be possible to reach the Yorkshire coast within four-and- twenty hours. But this idea I overruled be...

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...him Gibraltar or Malta, or com- mand of one of our military districts. The South-eastern ‘ll be vacant soon. He’d like to be Constable of the Castle, ... ... pursuit of thoughts while they enfold. They were large dark eyes, eyes of southern night. They sped no shot; they rolled forth an envelopment. A chil... ... was the glorious day to follow, with a cleansing bath of a walk along the south- ern hills; homely English scenery to show to a German friend, one of... ...d on the mat- ter, without garnish of scorn. Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south- western of the Hamp... ...ndant supplies, well able to breathe within earthworks extending along the southern hills, was clearly shown to stand the loss of two big battles on t... ...rees of kinship of his relatives, the exact amount of the rent-roll of his Yorkshire estates, of his funded property. Silly man! but not contemptible.... ...56 Lord Ormont and His Aminta chisement by plotting the collision, for his Yorkshire rev- enues are immense, and he is, you know, skilful in the use o... ...d the wildness of a plot that had previously appeared to him as one of the Yorkshire Morsfields’ moves to win an object. T ra- ditionally they stopped... ...cal toady squire of Morsfield’s did it for him. Morsfield was just up from Yorkshire. He said he was expecting a summons else- where, bound to await i...

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...ides, Downward to Tilmouth cell. Nor long was his abiding there, For southward did the saint repair; Chester-le-Street, and Rippon, saw His holy... ...ith headlong force, Down from that strength had spurred their horse, Their southern rapine to renew, Far in the distant Cheviots blue, And, home retur... ...isplayed; And onward still the Scottish Lion bore, And still the scattered Southron fled before. Still, with vain fondness, could I trace, Anew, ea... ...The rampart seek, whose circling crown Crests the ascent of yonder down: A southern entrance shalt thou find; There halt, and there thy bugle wind, An... ...ed to the four points of heaven, By four deep gaps are entrance given. The southernmost our monarch passed, Halted, and blew a gallant blast; And on t... ... in its halls King James should come; But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire-men are stern of mood; Northumbrian prickers wild and rude. On De...

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...tinction survives there between Kentish women and women of Kent, as a true South-eastern dame will let you know, if it is her fortune to belong to tha... ...smelt of cream-bowls and wheaten loaves; the firs on the beacon-ridge, far south- ward, over Fenhurst and Helm villages, were transported nearer to se... ...hem into the track of the omnibuses run- ning toward Dahlia’s abode in the Southwest, and Mary Ann Wicklow, who had a burning desire in her bosom to b... ...nce. He vindicated the honour of W arbeach by drink- ing a match against a Yorkshire skipper till four o’clock in the morning, when it was a gallant s... ...rm with the new-fallen snow, though the stars sparkled coldly . A fleet of South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due ... ...rge Meredith CHAPTER XXIV WHEN THE SUN takes to shining in winter, and the South- west to blowing, the corners of the earth cannot hide from him—the m... ...oil was a perpetual study, but he knew some- thing of horses and dogs, and Yorkshiremen were like Jews in the trouble they took to over-reach in a bar... ...our blood, like sheep-ticks.” In fine, Jonathan spoke sensibly, and abused Yorkshire, without hesi- tating to confess that a certain Yorkshireman, aga... ...ing the jockey, now the owner of Templemore. The Manchester party, and the Yorkshire party, and their diverse villanous tricks, came under review. Sev...

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...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...vailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-tr... ...come to the very borders of the High Street were broken up north, west and south, by new roads. This enterprising person and then that began to “run u... ...me was a place where I slept and read, and the mooning explorations of the south-eastern 51 H G Wells postal district which occupied the restless eve... ...e not his ways. Also he hated particularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford... ...ord woman who took a first that year. She spent the summer in Scotland and Yorkshire, writing to me continually of all she now meant to do, and stirri...

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... on the 5 Thackeray 22nd of August, the “Lady Mary Wood” was sailing from Southampton with the “subject of the present memoir,” quite astonished to f... ...e box of wood and iron, across Channel, Biscay Bay, and the Atlantic, from Southampton Water to Gibraltar Straits. CHAPTER IV: GIBRALTAR SUPPOSE ALL T... ... well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”?What is the reason that blundering Yorkshire squires, young dandies from Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from s... ...over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Morai. The histories which they are called upon to reverence are ... ... an establishment as large and comfortable as most of the best inns of the South of France. As a hundred Christian people, or more, come from England ...

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...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ...-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and... ...of Forest Hills on Long Island. Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sun- light. The Arab village of Djeddah—an i... ...send me up a team. Guess snow’s too thick for a machine. Going eight miles south. All right. Huh? The hell I will! Don’t you go back to sleep. Huh? We... ...s farmers’ line.” He turned to Carol. “Adolph Morgenroth, farmer ten miles southwest of town, got his arm crushed-fixing his cow- shed and a post cave...

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...carlatina, so we can’t go to Horton Bishop. The choice seems to be between South Beach and Monks Horton.’ ‘That’s no harm,’ cried Nuttie; ‘Mrs. Greenl... ...rm,’ cried Nuttie; ‘Mrs. Greenleaf is so patronising!’ ‘ And both that and South Beach are so stale,’ said the youth. ‘ As if the dear sea could ever ... ...t of Ursula’s life. She was almost wild with the novelty and beauty of the South at first, but except for what she could thus see, there was little va... ...the poor Ninon, that she meant to settle in a place with an aw- fully long Yorkshire name.’ ‘Micklethwayte; yes, we lived there, and got on very well.... ... seen the boy?’ he asked. ‘Yes; they are walking him up and down under the south wall,’ said Nuttie, thankful that she had peeped under the many wraps...

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... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ... 342 Dombey & Son governing inclination towards the north, east, west, or south, but inclined to all four quarters of the compass, and to every point...

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...so in good faith, even after the largest half of my life had been spent in Yorkshire.’ ‘ And what brought it to a crisis? Did they go on neglecting yo... ...nd to enable Mr. Ferrars to plan with freedom. A new drawing-room, looking southwards, with bedrooms over it, was the matter of necessity; and Albinia... ...rt with his brother and sister, that he persuaded them to accompany him to Southampton for embarkation. They all felt that these last days, precious n... ...tesies of two rival companies whose lines met at the same station, and the southern train was only in time to hear the parting snort of the engine tha... ...oon bring him home to you. Or you might bring the others to join us in the south of France. Y ou will all need change.’ The decision was made, and her...

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...Excerpt: Hart-Leap Well. Hart-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askrigg. Its name is derived from a remarkable chase, the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem,...

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...rt-Leap Well is a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond in Yorkshire, and near the side of the road which leads from Richmond to Askri... ...Was never man in such a joyful case, Sir Walter walk’d all round, north, south and west, And gaz’d, and gaz’d upon that darling place. And turni... ...and many months, And many years ensuing, 4 The Kirtle is a River in the Southern part of Scotland, on whose banks the events here related took plac... ...n— The thaw-wind with the breath of June Breath’d gently from the warm South-west; When in a voice sedate with age This Oak, half giant and ha... ...let flowers, which are scattered with such profusion over the Hills in the Southern parts of North America is frequently mentioned by Bartram in his T... ...elers methinks I can see him put forth To the East and the West, and the South and the North, But he finds neither guide-post nor guide. See! hi...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many ...

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...P of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pre... ...f his quick, dark countenance seemed to have undergone a change from sunny south to stormy north in the few moments since his first appearance. After ... ...ns to his father. At the end of a couple of years he was sent to reside in South America; and his part- ing words to his mother were—’When you see me ... ...later, intervals of tranquillity and repose. After fourteen years spent in South America, how many threads she had to take up again! She had been as a... ...d site for the cottages, a waste strip fronting a parish lane, open to the south, and looking full of capabilities, all of which she pointed out after... ...rs, who recommended sea air, and James suggested a secluded village on the Yorkshire coast, where some friends had been reading in the last long vacat...

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..., hares, and foxes, and sometimes of birds. At nine o’clock at night, on a Yorkshire moor, a cheerful burst from our horn, and a welcome sound of talk... ... En- gland, where I was haunted by the ghost of a tremendous pie. It was a Yorkshire pie, like a fort,—an abandoned fort with nothing in it; but the w... ...ng the materials so temptingly at hand) the Athol brose. Once was I coming south from the Scottish Highlands in hot haste, hoping to change quickly at...

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... each year leads her daisies back, Recording briefly, “Lost.” But when the south wind stirs the pools And struggles in the lanes, Her heart misgives h... ...y, But overlooked my father’s house, Just quartering a tree. XXXVIII SOUTH winds jostle them, Bumblebees come, Hover, hesitate, Drink, and are g... ...thy chamber is,— I ’m knocking everywhere. Thou stirrest earthquake in the South, And maelstrom in the sea; Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Hast thou n... ...er latitudes, Quietly did the same. But differed in returning; Since Yorkshire hills are green, Yet not in all the nests I meet Can nightingal... ...is not here. While I state—the solemn petals Far as North and East, Far as South and West expanding, Culminate in rest. And the Mountain to the Evenin... ...ican exuberance And Asiatic Rest. CXIX VOLCANOES be in Sicily And South America, I judge from my geography. V olcanoes nearer here, A lava st...

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...ssenger : Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset, ’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms. Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace, The B... ...bring I to your grace, The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest: Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks If t... ...ch well I am assured I have not done, His regiment lies half a mile at least South from the mighty power of the king. RICHMOND: If without peril it b...

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... for the Roman campaign. Geoffrey, after saying simply that Arthur went to Southampton, where the wind was fair, passes at once to the dream that came... ...eanor, who was the ardent propagator in En gland of the courtly ideals of southern France. Accordingly Wace, perhaps partly because of his own milieu... ...orne. The pagans fought starkly and grimly. Well they knew 1 Conisburg in Yorkshire. 43 Wace not one would escape with his life, if they did not kee... ...n a good hour they crossed the sea, coming with a fair wind to the port of Southampton. Arthur welcomed them with great joy, showing them the honour w... ...hem the honour which it became him to offer. They made no long tarrying at Southampton, nor wasted the day in fair words and idle courtesies. The king... ...s hostages straightway. He dared tarry no longer in Scotland, but hastened south, leav ing Hoel of Brittany lying sick at Dumbarton, I know not of wh...

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... mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met... ...) iden- tified in an instant an old friend of mine whom I had known in the south for some years as the most masterly of mail- coachmen. He was the man... ...s and the Summer Assizes. 47 Thomas De Quincey rolled northwards from the southern quarter of the county that for a fortnight at least it occupied th... ...igh-born* thoughts. The county was my own native county—upon which, in its southern section, more than upon any equal area known to man past or presen... ... the conjurer’s legerdemain, such as may be seen every day for a shilling. Southey’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking... ...Tradi- tion says the white hart has been caught on Rothwell Hay Common, in Yorkshire, and in Windsor Forest. This reference I owe indirectly to Profes...

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...e space to suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, mus... ...at least nine-tenths of them. Indeed, saying that I know the church of old Gower’s tomb (he lies in effigy with his head upon his books) to be the chu... ...d churches in the City of London? It is twenty minutes short of eleven on a Sunday morning, when I stroll down one of the many narrow hilly streets in... ...; but whose intellectual quali- ties in association with dramatic fiction, I cannot rate high. Indeed, he is too honest for the profession he has ente... ...etely equipped for the Hampstead ponds, with a pickle-jar and wide-mouthed bottle, unless he is with them and barking tremendously. There is a dog res... ...bedstead, washing-stand, and towel-horse-making trade), who are always trying to get in at the door of a chapel. Whether the old lady, under a delusio...

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...arried one Finch, a mi- serly old rogue, that scraped up a huge fortune in South America, and is come home old enough for her grandfather. What should... ...ht to have congratulated you on the friend’s capture. A gold- finch of the South American breed is a rare bird.’ Theodora drew up her head, and impetu... ...‘a great heavy fellow.’ ‘Exactly so; it was the case with all of them. The Yorkshire farmer showed in all their ways, and poor Lord George was so asha... ...ate mi- mosa, the scaly Himalaya pines, the feathery gigantic ferns of the southern hemisphere. Violet stood gazing in a silent trance till Arthur’s s... ...odora went up-stairs, she saw her eldest brother 61 Yonge standing at the south window of the gallery. He called to her, saying, ‘Here’s a pretty pic... ...ting beyond me. If you wanted to know the cost of lodgings in Italy or the south of France, I could help you; but, after all, experience is better bou... ... that it was a good match for Miss Gardner, as he was heir to an estate in Yorkshire.’ ‘Worthbourne! Then I am afraid it must be too true. The author,...