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...tinct, in “The Wings of the Dove,” I become conscious of over- stepping my space without having brought the full quan- tity to light. The failure leav... ... nothing. They were in the open air, in an alley of the Gardens; the great space, which seemed to arch just then higher and spread wider for them, thr... ...he effect of closer growths of the stem, was to have had one’s small world-space both crowded and enlarged. Our couple had at all events effected an e... ...and almost alarmingly to do. It led somewhere, yet appar- ently quite into space, for the great side of the mountain appeared, from where she pulled u... ...ith the pulse of her going on she floated again, was restored to her great spaces. There was no evasion of any truth—so at least Susan Shepherd hoped—... ...since his arrival, at Palazzo Leporelli, where, as happened, a turn of bad weather on the second day had kept the whole party continuously at 333 Hen... ...idn’t you make it out, my dear?” Kate enquired. “What sort of a blundering weathercock then is he?” the young man went on in his wonder. “Oh don’t mak... ...mmediately sent for, with whom, for three rich minutes, protected from the weather, he was confronted in the gallery that led from the water-steps to ... ...as much between them as ever while Eugenio waited on him in the court. The weather, from early morning, had turned to storm, 389 Henry James the firs...

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... cliff and stared across the flats of Romney Marsh at the sea. In very wet weather the place is almost inaccessible, and I have heard that at times th... ...e and clear, sometimes they were faded and low, and often the drift of the weather took them clean out of sight. And all the nearer parts of the marsh... ...from that confounded play. Now and then things gleamed on me clearly for a space, only to vanish just when I thought I had hold of them. Sometimes my ... ... and flap- ping, came down again, rolled over and over on the ground for a space, struggled up and was lifted and borne forward at an enormous velocit... ...he copse, dashing from one tree to another and clinging to them, and for a space I sought him in vain. Then amidst a heap of smashed branches and fenc... ...aged at last to reach the shelter of as much roof as was left to me. For a space we sat in arm-chairs and panted. All the windows were broken, and the... ...ece of stuff now.” “Precisely,” he said. “A huge fountain “ “Spouting into space! Good heavens! Why, it would have squirted all the atmosphere of the ... ...ic-house near Elham, and startled the landlord by remarking apropos of the weather, “A man who leaves the world when days of this sort are about is a ... ... left me. I went on 136 The First Men in the Moon with my third egg. “The weather,” the fat little man remarked presently, “has been immense, has it ...

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...acity of his countenance, an expression of sly shrewdness to his ruddy and weather- stained visage which suggested wit. He was not without that facili... ...ent and fantastic glass sashes, a description of which would take too much space to allow of its being given here. The four-wheeled coach was surmount... ...which Pierrotin managed to poke six pas- 10 A Start in Life sengers; this space was inclosed by leather curtains. Pierrotin himself sat on an almost ... ...rt deliberation, which was ostensibly cov- ered by a few phrases as to the weather, the journey, and the stopping-places along the road, we will ourse... ...sixteenth century, the great seigneurs divided among themselves these vast spaces, once occupied by the gardens of the kings of France, as indicated b... ...“You will be sure to place the packages so that they cannot get wet if the weather should happen to change.” “I’ve a hood,” replied Pierrotin. “Beside... ...r to hear them or not hear them as he chose; his countenance was to be the weather-gauge by which the other young trav- eller could judge how much fun... ..., after the travellers were again boxed up. It was now eleven o’clock. The weather, which had been cloudy , cleared; the breeze swept off the mists, a...

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...e more. “But, Minna,” answered Seraphitus, “you look fearlessly at greater spaces far than that.” Then with raised finger, this strange being pointed ... ...apidity of a barb, that bird of the desert. Presently they reached an open space, carpeted with turf and moss and flowers, where no foot had ever trod... ...ts of earthly impressions disappear; stand- ing on this nature rarefied by space do you not feel within you something deeper far than mind, grander th... ...ge with which you strip from all things human the properties that time and space and form have given them, and consider them mathematically in the abs... ...rds of which a single one would shake the earth, but which are lost in the spaces of a world that hath neither east nor west. “Canst thou comprehend, ... ...did no despite. The single window which lighted the parlor during the fine weather was now carefully closed. An old tapestry, used for a curtain and f... ...enly regretting that my journey in this country was arrested by the winter weather and that I was forced to remain here. But during the last two month... ...f a storm. Fergus, who leads the flocks to the saeters, says that in rainy weather a circle of clear sky can be seen over the Swedish castle; and that...

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...od sits to feel the afternoon sun, I see it all; for, except Schlosskirche weather-cock, no bi- ped stands so high. Couriers arrive bestrapped and beb... ...e listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a space, and then take himself away. It was a strange apartment; full of book... ..., perhaps sufficiently distinguished in society by this fact, that, in dry weather or in wet, “they never appear without their umbrella.” Had we not k... ...cannot hide from me that such Drawing-room is simply a section of Infinite Space, where so many God-created Souls do for the time meet together.” To T... ... who shall speak? Neither in love of grace is comfort forgotten. In winter weather you behold the whole fair creation (that can afford it) in long man... ...naked Trooper introduces his head and neck; and so rides shielded from all weather, and in battle from many strokes (for he rolls it about his left ar... ... a universal HERE, an everlasting Now? Think well, thou too wilt find that Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there is no Space... ... DIVISION; and sees and fashions for himself a Universe, with azure Starry Spaces, and long Thousands of Years. Deep-hidden is he under that strange G... ... from me only by thin penetrable cur- 62 Sartor Resartus tains of earthly Space, wend to and fro among the crowd of the living? Or art thou hidden by...

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...aidest whist-player. She did not wish it the reverse, even when claiming a space for laughter: ‘the breath of her soul,’ as she called it, and as it m... ...hat solitariness is a common human fate and the one chance of growth, like space for timber.’ As to the sensations of women after the beating down of ... ...ced a fellow-Harrovian of old days, Mr. Thomas Redworth, to his wife. ‘Our weather-prophet, meteorologist,’ he remarked, to set them going; ‘you remem... ..., of the hundreds she anticipated, and she very tolerantly talked on: ‘The weather and women have some resemblance they say. Is it true that he who re... ...Oh! good!’ Mr. Redworth knitted his thick brows. ‘I beg pardon? Ah! women! Weather and women? No; the one point more vari- able in women makes all the... ...hair by the fire, ‘I would rather chat for half an hour.’ She spoke of the weather, frosty, but tonic; bad for the last days of hunting, good for the ... ... the middle.’ ‘I want a house, not a post!’ roared Redworth, spying a bare space. The old man despatched a finger travelling to his nob. ‘Naw, there’s... ...to be extinguished. Diana’s battle was fought shadowily behind her for the space of a week or so, with some advocates on behalf of the beaten man; the... ...ed at her lips by her marriage; quit her wintry bondage for warmth, light, space, the quick of simple being. And the strange pure ecstasy was not a tr...

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...side it might happen to be seen; for, as it was exposed to all eyes in all weathers, there should be no weak flank for envy or unneigh- borly criticis... ...” a cheap way , as he assured his cousin the Judge, of always keeping fair weather over his head. The platform, as well as the caves of the house, wer... ...ns actually left the super structure suspended in the air, leaving an open space of a foot between the base of the pillars and the stones on which the... ...amore. Let the reef out of your blanket, man, or your red hide will hardly weather the night with out a touch from the frost.” 84 The Pioneers CHAPTE... ...e assertion was true; for, although in- tended to answer the purposes of a weathercock, the fish was observed invariably to look with a longing eye in... ...e of the room immediately before the pulpit; amid a few benches lined this space, that were occupied by the principal person- ages of the village and ... ...Richard and his cousin advanced some distance from the house into the open space in the rear of the village, where, as may be gathered from the conver... ...nction with the simple arrangements for boiling, it was called, and a wide space of many acres was cleared, which might be likened 202 The Pioneers t... ... nimble enemies. The swivel was dragged by a horse into a part of the open space that the sheriff thought most eligible for planning a battery of the ...

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...irl, and she simply wanted to see what one could think of the ship, of the weather, of the appearance of England, from such a position as that; possib... ...ion of a secret vice, under the name of a leisure- class. When as the warm weather approached they opened both the wings of their house-door, it was b... ...he paintings, commemorative of the national annals, which occupy its lower spaces, and at the simu- lated sculptures, so touchingly characteristic of ... ...rence does it make?” He attempted to tell her what difference, but I’ve no space to follow him here. It’s known that when the Ger- man mind attempts t... ...nt Otto mainly felt it in the air. The boat was touching the wharf and the space between the pair in- considerable. “Department of State?” Pandora ver...

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...sad. If it is strange for me to look back from a distance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you ... ... hills. I said to myself there was something thundery and changeful in the weather, and little knew of what a vast im- portance that should prove to m... ...s naething. Man,” said he, “it was me that gave it ye!” Here I lay for the space of many days a close prisoner, and not only got my health again, but ... ...gether, and that a judgment would fall upon the ship. And as he spoke (the weather sliding-doors standing open) he tossed the bottle into the sea. Mr.... ...poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay, and by night too, for the matter of that.” “A coble’s not a s... ...ain. “But all this will cost money, sir.” “Well, sir” says Alan, “I am nae weathercock. Thirty guin- eas, if ye land me on the sea-side; and sixty, if... ...ome- times, indeed, none too soon; for one reef was so close on the brig’s weather board that when a sea burst upon it the lighter sprays fell upon he... ...llor’s) so that he should not starve in the meanwhile; and then we stood a space, and looked over at Edinburgh in silence. “Well, good-bye,” said Alan...

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... seaweed. A stranger, entering, felt at a loss. He looked at the bare wall-spaces of dark green, at the scanty furniture, and was assured of his unwel... ...ght of the market-hall. For himself, the sea and the sunlight opened great spaces tomorrow. The moon was full above the river. He looked at it as a ma... ...ark. He sat, overcome with weariness and trouble, staring blankly into the space. His own stifling roused him. Straightening his shoulders, he took a ... ...nd she rested her head against his shoulder, looking out west. There was a space of silence, while Siegmund dreamed on. ‘A Beethoven symphony—the one—... ...l-tracks drying in the sun. Her walk was one long lingering. More than the spaces, she loved the nooks, and fancy more than imagination. She wanted to... ...his surround- ings, the Siegmund whose coming had always changed the whole weather of her soul? Was that the Siegmund whose touch was keen with bliss ... ...ing up the sixpence and taking the form to the instrument. ‘What beautiful weather!’ she continued. ‘It will be making you sorry to leave us.’ 113 D....

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... it were summer time, or in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers row of venerable figures, sitting in old fashioned chairs, which w... ...is a pious consolation to me that, through my interfer ence, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices int... ...e, to behold the terrors that attended my advent, to see a furrowed cheek, weather beaten by half a century of storm, turn ashy pale at the glance of ... ...a Custom House officer. Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life. T... ...of subsequent pros perity destined never to be realized—contains far more space than its occupants know what to do with. This airy hall, therefore, o... ...ncy, like the convulsive throes of the chol era, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that fi nally, and in no long time, by some happy co... ...Mr. Surveyor Pue, came into play. Rusty through long idleness, some little space was requisite before my intellectual machinery could be brought to wo... ... after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect... ...r first hours of public ignominy. The same platform or scaffold, black and weather stained with the storm or sunshine of seven long years, and foot w...

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... moans were far more frequently for her nurse than for her, but after some space they ceased. The child became capable of opening first one eye, then ... ...my Lady Countess’s chamber.” “I know not that I can or may.” “Only for the space of one Ave,” reiterated Grisell. “My lady aunt would never—” “There—h... ...little goodwoman Hall, but that was no matter, and the Prioress had barely space to get in a word of thanks be- fore she went on: “I will keep her and... ...eparate castle, 40 Grisly Grisell walled round, enclosing a huge space, and with a great arched porter’s lodge, where various men-at-arms lo... ... The Earl stood talking with a tall brawny man, lean and strong, brown and weather-beaten, in a frayed suit of buff leather stained to all sorts of co... ...e loophole window devoid of glass, though a shutter could be closed in bad weather, the walls circular and of rough, untouched, unconcealed stone, a p... ...ight touch the sores that continually broke out, and he would sit for long spaces on her lap, sometimes stroking down the scar and pitying it with “Po... ... was unlikely that there would be any attack. So on a May morning the old, weather-beaten Dacre pen- non with its three crusading scallop-shells, was ... ...r have seen them more of the North Country yeoman type than of the regular weather-beaten men-at-arms whom wars always bred up; but their officer was ...

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...e stretched wide between me and the deserted “Rescue” like the smooth hazy spaces of a dreamy sea. Yet I never actually lost sight of that dark speck ... ... had miraculously blundered in the dark be- fore she took the ground. “The weather seems clear enough at sea,” he ob- served, finally, and stopped to ... ...of some immense creature, travelling across the 41 Joseph Conrad starless space, passed above the vertical and lofty spars of the motionless brig. It... ...s thrown headlong against the skylight, and Lingard, who had encircled the weather rail with his arm, felt the vessel under his feet dart forward smoo... ...the short flight of the stormy cloud. It was a return to life, a return to space; the earth coming out from under a pall to take its place in the rene... ...are.” A dull and inexpressive murmur was heard from the men. Over the high weather rail, a topping wave flung into their eyes a handful of heavy drops... ...r-away sea where the light breezes are as strong as the winds of the rainy weather here,” said Lingard; and there were low ex- clamations of wonder. “... ...s and with long-shafted lances, preserved an impassive aspect. Across open spaces men could be seen running to the waterside. A group of women standin... ...n a last salutation; and the distant gesture appeared sad, futile, lost in space, like a sign of distress made by castaways in the vain hope of an imp...

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...Birotteau knew all about it from experience. In spite of the sharp air the weather was beautiful. “Popinot, get your hat, put on your shoes, and call ... ...e, and manage to get a porter’s lodge beneath it.” “Beneath it?” “Yes, the space over which it rests—” “I understand, monsieur.” “As for your own appa... ... from above, with a pretty vestibule open- ing from the street, and in the space under the stairway—” “Must that be used?” “Don’t be worried—I will fi... ... draw kings at play, invent April-fools, stroll on the boulevards when the weather is fine, go to see the skating, and are always to be found on the t... ...as exhibited in her dress and habits. She wore mittens, and carried in all weathers a cane sunshade, like that used by Queen Marie-Antoinette at Trian... ...ar, and surrounded by high walls, to which perpetual dampness, even in dry weather, gave the look of being daubed with fresh plaster. Between the ston... ...le the staircase went up in two straight flights, and between them was the space which had given Cesar some uneasiness, and which was now converted in... ...rmonized with the grim facetiae of its neighbor. In one corner was a large space screened off by an oak balustrade, trellised with copper wire and fur... ...hed with a sliding cat-hole, within which was an enormous iron chest. This space, apparently given over to the rioting of rats, also contained an odd-...

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...my education. I was sent to Eton, where I remained ten years, during which space of time Edward and I never met. He, when he grew up, entered into tra... ...nxious business-air passed from her face, and she began chatting about the weather and the town, and asking in neighbourly wise after M. and Ma- dame ... ...d her “regard” was fierce and hungry; narrow as was her brow, it presented space enough for the legible graving of two words, 83 Charlotte Brontë Mut... ...n ten minutes more the dictation was complete, and, having allowed a brief space in which to correct it, I took their books; it was with a reluc- tant... ...of 103 Charlotte Brontë me no assistance, for a week to come; during that space of time I will neither speak to you nor help you.” The words were utt... ...r things, and try to keep some order?” Mdlle. Henri obeyed. “What splendid weather!” observed the directress cheerfully , glancing at the same time fr... ...s well have spared herself the trouble of giving that intimation about the weather (by-the-by her prediction was falsified by the event—it did not rai... ...my hand near hers too; but the margin of a copy-book is not an illimitable space—so, doubtless, the directress thought; and she took occasion to walk ... ...al interest in Mdlle. Henri’s welfare; I did not like her going out in all weathers; I thought it would be more advantageous for her to obtain a perma...

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...; but it was not sorrow brought visibly before him, and after the decorous space of commiseration, the smiles were bright again, and Mary heard how he... ...avement. All was quite still, and both he and Mary knelt on for some short space; then he arose in guarded stillness, hastily wiped away the tears tha... ...ould look again, the horses stopped, and close to her, under the beetling, weather-stained white cliff, was a low fence, and within it a verandah and ... ...e best of it is, that Blanche thinks it beautiful—delicious free air, open space, view over five counties, &c. Inside, one traces Flora’s presiding ge... ...et’s see these flies of yours.’ Their mysteries occupied the boys for some space; but Aubrey returned to the charge. ‘What is it that Hardy says you’l... ...t! you ought not to grieve for me!’ ‘I’m a fool,’ said Dr. May, after some space, fighting hard with himself. ‘Nonsense! we shall see you out of this!... ...ing, though they were hardly drops of laughter that Harry brushed from the weather-marked pucker in the comer of his eyes; and Dr. May gave a sigh of ... ...m the thin ill-built frame house, gaping in every seam with the effects of weather, and with damp oozing up be- tween every board of the floor, the pe... ...aden square, clinging with all her might to the 405 Yo n g e staff of the weathercock, and feeling as if the whole tower were rocking with her, absol...

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...rator or Kasir-i-Hind. Measured by the duration of human life it is a vast space of time between that first dynasty in Egypt and the coming of the aer... ...t a mass of speculations and calculations, and which suddenly became for a space an amazingly minute and human record of sensations and emotions that ... ... public footpaths through their premises in order to increase their window space. Barnet made his way along this night-scene rather appre- hensively s... ...tumbled surfaces of the vapour strata that hid the world below. Over great spaces those banks lay as even as a frozen lava-flow and almost as still, a... ... ing, was Berlin. The left finger of the steersman verified roads and open spaces below upon the mica-covered square of map that was fastened by his w... ...ntful days before the great catas- trophe. For that was the quality of the weather, hot and clear, with something of a breeze, and underfoot dry and a... ...e canals had been requisitioned for transport. In that clear, bright, warm weather, it would all have looked from above like some ex- travagant festiv... ...nese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. The weather was stormier than men had ever known it in those regions, with much...

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...ogically, volumes of Orr’s Cyclopaedia of the Sciences) and the cracks and spaces of the floor and the bare brown surround were the water channels and... ...e every 11 H G Wells gap in the oilcloth and make causeways over crumpled spaces (which I feigned to be morasses), and on a keel of whole bricks it w... ...midst and presently prevailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been ... ...efined horse-track to Do- ver, only passable by adventurous coaches in dry weather, became the Dover Road, and was presently the route first of one an... ...s essential to our situation that we should fail to understand. After this space of years I have come to realisations and attitudes that dissolve my e... ...ions mere interstices, giving glimpses of enig- matical lights and distant spaces between the woven threads of a school-boy’s career. School life bega... ..., with the clear intention of letting every one out into the garden if the weather held. The Seddons had a big old farmhouse modified to mod- ern idea...

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... foot, was supposed to insulate her from the material world, from time and space, and to endow her with many of the privileges of a disembodied spirit... ... remarked Silas, “you’ll be wishing yourselves back to town again, if this weather holds.” And, true enough, there was a look of gloom, as the twi li... ...or, rather,—judging from the ease with which he lifted her, and the little space which she seemed to fill in his arms, a slim and unsubstantial girl. ... ...lla! I repeated the name to myself three or four times; and in that little space, this quaint and prim cog nomen had so amalgamated itself with my id... ...ld not shake the casement of her little room. The sense of vast, undefined space, pressing from the outside against the black panes of our uncurtained... ...the critical vortex. Our great globe floated in the atmosphere of infinite space like an un substantial bubble. No sagacious man will long retain his... ...rted from the rocking chair, and looked out of the window. A gray sky; the weathercock of a steeple that rose beyond the opposite range of buildings, ... ...e, but without effecting any new discoveries. Late in the after noon, the weathercock on the church spire indicated a change of wind; the sun shone d...

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... the contrast between our poor and the Australian settlers, where food and space were plenty and the wages high. I was somewhat hurt at his way of vie... ....” “And if they be worthy, Lucy, your doing so is the best chance of their weathering the storm. See! is not that one of them? The grand-looking giant... ...the car- riage. I saw then what I shall never forget, across the wide open space round which the principal shows were arranged, and which was now enti... ...was not permanent in- sanity, but a passing effect of the injury; and they weathered that dreadful time till the frantic fits ceased, and there was on... ...ng man of seven or eight and twenty, with sandy hair, and an honest, open, weather-beaten face. He had a rather abrupt manner, but much more gentleman... ... lips. His eyes glistened and twinkled, but he said noth- ing for a little space, and then it was, “If any one like you had been out there—” I don’t t... ...hose soul was much set on experi- ments for which his lodgings gave him no space; but the very day when Harold opened his coffee-rooms, as he went dow... ...sir, I could not think of exposing you to a repeti- tion of such inclement weather as you have already encoun- tered. I am well supplied here, my youn... ...d on his being on the spot, but was himself help- ing the men to clear the space whence it would be easiest to see the action of the machinery. I made...