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...cast of character. He had distin- guished himself in encounters with slave ships, and in com- mand of a prize that he had had to conduct to Sierra Leo... ...ght out and put forward whenever a forbidden pleasure was to be enjoyed by stealth. These were his stimulants under a heavy bondage; he was teased and...

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... About the gates of Rye? O that was where the Northmen fled, When Alfred’s ships came by! See you our pastures wide and lone, Where the red oxen brows... ...ded. They were always landing in those days, or being driven back to their ships, and they always brought their Gods with them. England is a bad count... ...he knight. ‘That is Othere’s tale—even so I have heard the men in the Dane ships sing it. Not those same valiant words, but something like to them.’ ‘... ...d Witta said it was Spain, and we stood out to sea. That coast was full of ships busy in the Duke’s war against the Moors, and we feared to be hanged ... ... turn North, and with this honest treasure aboard I pray we meet no pirate ships.” ‘We did not laugh. We were careful. We were afraid lest we should l... ...prise Master Collins at his”—he thinks a moment—“at his good deeds done by stealth. Ye surprise him, I say, cruelly.” “‘T ruth, Sir John. If you had s... ...w came to be equal in England thy people may thank thee.” Then he went out stealthily, as men do who deal with Israel by night. I think he spent my gi...

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...will find the want of correspondence no such strange want in men’s friend- ships. There is, believe me, something noble in the metal which does not ru... ...e accom- plishment was kept secret like a piece of guilt. But whether this stealth was caused by a backward movement in public thought since the time ... ...arry: two years of activity, now in London; now at Birkenhead, fitting out ships, inventing new machinery for new purposes, and dipping into electrica... ...all, the excitement carries you through.’ – ‘I was running to and from the ships and warehouse through fierce gusts of rain and wind till near eleven,... ... she beheld a sight to her of the most novel beauty: four great, sea-going ships dressed out with flags. ‘How lovely!’ she cried. ‘What is it for?’ – ... ...of- the-way places, by the dockside or on the desert island or in populous ships, and remains quite unheard of in the coteries of London. And Fleeming... ...r knew that he was a possible rich man until the grave had closed over his stealthy benefactor. And however Fleeming chafed among material and busines...

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...ations of the Author’s brain; but are prompting every day (and oftenest by stealth) some munificent and generous deed in that town of which they are t... ...re peasants slunk to the gate after sunset, and did their errand there, by stealth. Once, a vassal was dispatched in haste to the abbey at dead of nig... ...ts, making towards the scene of their daily labour, and catching, as if by stealth, in their hurried walk, the only gasp of wholesome air and glimpse ... ... received pu- pils here. I imparted tuition to the daughter of a dealer in ships’ provision; but it afterwards appeared that she was in- sane when she... ...young lady to advance, and having placed a chair for her, retired; looking stealthily over his shoulder at Ralph as he limped slowly out. 365 Charles... ...alph rang his bell. Newman answered the summons, and Ralph raised his eyes stealthily to his face, as if he almost feared to read there, a knowledge o...

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...e deserted prospect before him; and now and then a rakish-looking cat runs stealthily across the road and descends his own area with as much caution a... ...e is much the same as elsewhere, with the addition of one or two models of ships, and some old prints of naval engagements in still older frames. In t... ...ng a lunch; but breaking off little bits in his pocket, and eating them by stealth. He knew too well 264 Sketches by Boz it was his dinner. When we f...

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...ations of the Author’s brain; but are prompting every day (and oftenest by stealth) some munificent and generous deed in that town of which they are t... ...re peasants slunk to the gate after sunset, and did their errand there, by stealth. Once, a vassal was dispatched in haste to the abbey at dead of nig... ...ts, making towards the scene of their daily labour, and catching, as if by stealth, in their hurried walk, the only gasp of wholesome air and glimpse ... ... received pu- pils here. I imparted tuition to the daughter of a dealer in ships’ provision; but it afterwards appeared that she was in- sane when she... ...young lady to advance, and having placed a chair for her, retired; looking stealthily over his shoulder at Ralph as he limped slowly out. 365 Charles... ...alph rang his bell. Newman answered the summons, and Ralph raised his eyes stealthily to his face, as if he almost feared to read there, a knowledge o...

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...t the married people of Lacedaemon should never enjoy one an- other but by stealth; and that it should be as great a shame to take them in bed togethe... ...and beaten them all out of their trenches, they pursued them even to their ships, and Octavius himself was fain to fly to Dyrrachium, where Pompey lay...

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...e deserted prospect before him; and now and then a rakish-looking cat runs stealthily across the road and descends his own area with as much caution a... ...e is much the same as elsewhere, with the addition of one or two models of ships, and some old prints of naval engagements in still older frames. In t... ...ng a lunch; but breaking off little bits in his pocket, and eating them by stealth. He knew too well 264 Sketches by Boz it was his dinner. When we f... ...me person at the end of the passage were con- 380 Sketches by Boz versing stealthily with another on the landing above. It was succeeded by the noise... ...rd, brushed a place that was not dusty, rubbed his hands very hard, walked stealthily to the door, and evaporated. There was, evidently, something in ...

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...wer him one question, and he’ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right ‘cross th’ meshes.” We always used that name for marshes, in o... ...ed that name for marshes, in our country. “I wonder who’ s put into prison-ships, and why they’re put there?” said I, in a general way, and with quiet... ...nd sometimes, when the tide was low, looking as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water. When- ever I w... ...as corroborated. They did not undertake to say when it had left the prison-ships to which it undoubtedly had once belonged; but they claimed to know f... ... churchyard, and were out on the marshes and began to see the sails of the ships as they sailed on, I began to combine Miss Havisham and Estella with ... ...ade her acquaintance. When I had begun to advance Herbert’s pros- pects by Stealth, I had been able to bear this with cheerful philosophy; he and his ...

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...r voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but have sailed off on a longer voyage. The hair of Towhead (Tete d’... ...f this same rose-stifled, beatified- Patriarch cannot get buried except by stealth. It is wholly a notable business; and France, without doubt, is big... ...Seas has her hands full? It is true, an impoverished Treasury cannot build ships; but the hint once given (which Beaumarchais says he gave), this and ... ...them. Goodly vessels bound into the waters; a Ville de Paris, Leviathan of ships. And now when gratuitous three-deckers dance there at anchor, with st... ... which one may call endless. Woe also for Ville de Paris, the Leviathan of ships! English Rodney has clutched it, and led it home, with the rest; so s... ... reapers amid peaceful woody fields; on old women spinning in cottages; on ships far out in the silent main; on Balls at the Orangerie of Versailles, ...

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...r voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but have sailed off on a longer voyage. The hair of Towhead (Tete d’... ...of this same rose-stifled, beatified-Patriarch cannot get buried except by stealth. It is wholly a notable business; and France, without doubt, is big... ...Seas has her hands full? It is true, an impoverished Treasury cannot build ships; but the hint once given (which Beaumarchais says he gave), this and ... ...em. Goodly ves- sels bound into the waters; a Ville de Paris, Leviathan of ships. And now when gratuitous three-deckers dance there at an- chor, with ... ... which one may call endless. Woe also for Ville de Paris, the Leviathan of ships! English Rodney has clutched it, and led it home, with the rest; so s... ...on is tenfold strength: let the concentred flash of your Patriotism strike stealthy Scoundrelism blind, paralytic, as with a coup de soleil. Under whi... ...he dark, invisible there;—or seen for moments, in pallid dubious twilight, stealth- ily vanishing thither! Preternatural Suspicion once more rules the... ...ble Robespierre is not wanting, now when the brunt of battle is past; in a stealthy way the seagreen man sits there, his feline eyes excellent in the ... ...d from brief slumber at Sedan, on that morning of the 29th of August; with stealthiness, with promptitude, audacity. Some three mornings after that, B...

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...,” etc. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import Quak- ers into the country. The Quakers who may be ... ... county before the State, the State before the Union. In New England town- ships were completely and definitively constituted as early as 1650. The in... ...l principles on which the political organization of the counties and town- ships of the United States rests, I have thought it expedient to choose one... ...; but if such an arrangement be necessary in general affairs, in the town- ships, where the legislative and administrative action of the government is... ...y, they were contented to assume the central power of the State. The town- ships of New England remained as they were before; and although they are no... ..., or in a profession which only al- lows them to taste occasionally and by stealth the pleasures of the mind. These pleasures, therefore, do not const... ...prevail. As its enemies remain mute, or only interchange their thoughts by stealth, 720 Democracy in America they are themselves unaware for a long p...

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...- nished them with matter to work upon. So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships, armies, battles in the firmament; Till steady eyes the exhalations s... ...all their dependents. 2. As merchandising was at a full stop, for very few ships ventured to come up the river and none at all went out, so all the ex... ...d all the labourers depending on such. 4. As navigation was at a stop, our ships neither coming in or going out as before, so the seamen were all out ... ... workmen belonging to and depending upon the build- ing and fitting out of ships, such as ship-carpenters, caulkers, ropemakers, dry coopers, sailmake... ...had a great mind to see how things were managed in the river and among the ships; and as I had some concern in shipping, I had a notion that it had be... ...s, much less to unlade. There was a report that one of our ships having by stealth delivered her cargo, among which was some bales of English cloth, c...

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... Their earthen bulwarks ‘gainst the ocean flood, The flood, elsewhere that ships and barks devours, But there drowns cities, countries, towns and towe... ...them well known before, Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships, coasting along the shore, Which for the camp might every day provide... ...m Scios came and Crete. LXXIX Great Neptune grieved underneath the load Of ships, hulks, galleys, barks and brigantines, In all the mid-earth seas was... ...canst them sustain? Whence comes thy store? whence thy provision made? Thy ships to bring it are, perchance, assigned, Oh, that you live so long as pl... ...d still her raging wave: But if our armed galleys be assigned To aid those ships which Turks and Persians have, Say then, what hope is left thy slende... ... she had sent The rest, on sleeveless errands from her side, And night her stealths brought to their wished end, Night, patroness of thieves, and love... ...hunger us to clothe and feed; These are my sons, their care preserves form stealth Their father’s flocks, nor servants more I need: Amid these groves ... ...ld thee!” cried, No hurt he proffered him, no blow he strake. Meanwhile by stealth the Pagan false him gave A sudden wound, threatening with speeches ... ... soul, still in his breast, my follies bold Ah, pardon love’s desires, and stealths forgive; Grant me from his pale mouth some kisses cold, Since deat...

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...ert Louis Stevenson down through the deepest of the heather with obtrusive stealth. He knew the dog; knew him for a clever, rising prac- titioner from... ...dhood with the sea. When, upon any Saturday, we made a party to behold the ships, we passed that corner; and since in those days I loved a ship as a m... ...esticulating villains, epileptic com- bats, bosky forests, palaces and war-ships, frowning fortresses and prison vaults – it was a giddy joy. That sho... ... of night, of any flowing water, of lighted cities, of the peep of day, of ships, of the open ocean, calls up in the mind an army of anonymous desires...

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... are of a sort that is really indifferent in art. If Shakespeare makes his ships cast anchor by some seaport of Bohemia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Ja... ... the hill-tops but in the factory; not only by the harbour full of stately ships, but in the magazine of the hope- lessly prosaic hatter. To show beau... ...the manners of overriding bar- barians, and the visit of big barbarian war ships: she was a country beleaguered. Thus the patriotism of Yoshida took a... ... that affords a fine figure of the imperishability of men’s acts, that the stealth of the private inquiry office can be car- ried so far back into the... ...sable out of holes and corners. Loud winds blow, speeding home deep- laden ships and sweeping rubbish from the earth; the light- ning leaps and cleans... ...preparing cordage; mathematics and accounting; the hull and the rigging of ships from a model; and “looking and improving himself of the (naval) store... ...onths on the benches of the galley Nostre Dame; now up the rivers, holding stealthy intercourse with other Scottish prisoners in the castle of Rouen; ...