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... had left the bilious pills out for her man, all nicely covered with maple sugar just ready to take, Nathan had come in and swallowed them for all the... ...st the wall, and a cheerful fire, of the 93 James Fenimore Cooper hard or sugar maple, was burning on the hearth. The latter was the first object tha... ...d, rather angrily , to Richard: “How often have I forbidden the use of the sugar maple in my dwelling! The sight of that sap, as it exudes with the he... ...es and drinkables enough in the house for a body’s con- tent—a little more sugar, Benjamin, in the glass —for Squire Jones is an excellent provider. B... ...ng more or less about it. T ake enough, woman, to color the water. Here’ s sugar. It’s a sweet tooth, that fellow that you hold on upon yet, Mistress ... ...ters were closed, and candles were placed in various parts of the hall, as substitutes for departing daylight. The appearance of Benjamin, stagger- in... ...avorable times, utterly impassable for wheels, saddle- horses were used as substitutes for other conveyances. Mounted on small and sure-footed beasts,...

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... those already noticed in Mr. Inglis’s garden, and the breadfruit tree and sugar-cane, and a beauti- ful bright flower of scarlet colour, a convolvulu... ...rst half-mile we walked along the beach among cocoa-nut trees, bananas and sugar- canes, the sun, not yet above the horizon, tingeing the light clouds... ...ge Vanua Lava, Valua or Saddle Isle, a long narrow ridge of hills, Mota or Sugarloaf Island, an equally descriptive name; Star Island, and Santa Maria... ...as not possible to get into the one landing-place in the wall round Mota’s sugar-loaf, but there was an exchange of civilities with the Saddleites, an... ...h a most distressing difficulty of breathing. He proved to have a piece of sugar cane in his throat, which made every breath agony, and worked a small... ...an old bachelor should have pleasure in young things about him, ready-made substitutes for chil- dren of his own. I do like them. With English childre...

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...heir friends. But them Bidevor poachers, they’ve no hem to their garments. Sugar? My man he’ve digged a badger for yeou, my dearrs. ’Tis in the linhay... ...had “done each other proud.” As they swaggered woodenly be- hind the teams—substitutes do not rank as equals of hairy men—they passed a pony-carriage ... ...derate Bloomer did to Spraggon’s account of the Puffin’ton Hounds? We must sugar Mr. King’s milk for him,” said Stalky, all lighted from within by a d... ...Qui—quis —oh, it’s Quis multa gracilis, o’ course.” “Bring it along. We’ve sugared the milk here,” said Stalky, after a few minutes’ zealous toil. “Ne...

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...means of conciliation about her. The old woman then produced some wretched substitutes from the bottom of the heap of rags, which she turned up for th... ...ew marshy and unsettled. Then, there was noth- ing to be smelt but rum and sugar. Then, Captain Cuttle’s lodgings—at once a first floor and a top stor... ...f two withered atomies of tea-spoons, and an obsolete pair of knock-knee’d sugar-tongs; pulled up his immense double-cased silver watch from the depth... ...nature of the occasion, put down upon the table the two tea-spoons and the sugar-tongs, the silver watch, and the ready money; and asked Mr Brogley, t... ...ey & Son Solomon Gills, and returning the ready money , the teaspoons, the sugar-tongs, and the silver watch, to his pocket—with a view, as Walter tho... ... elbow, produced the silver watch, the ready money, the teaspoons, and the sugar-tongs; and piling them up into a heap that they might look as preciou...

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...is nose, in sign of caution. “The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a lin... ...he hands that gave them.” “Was it war, when the tired Indian rested at the sugartree to taste his corn! who filled the bushes with creeping enemies! w... ...avor. A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar hogs- heads! and then your twopenny marquisates. The thistle is the o... ...ot found so far north as the state of New York, where it has, however, two substitutes of inferior excellence, the catbird, so often named by the scou...

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...sly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love o’ Pete, quit pouring the whole sugar bowl on your corn flakes!” When Verona and Ted were gone and Tinka up... ...—were his symbols and proofs of excel- lence; at first the signs, then the substitutes, for joy and passion and wisdom. But none of these advertised t... ...vealed his boyhood to the children. He had, it seemed, been fond of barley-sugar; had worn the “loveliest little pink bow in his curls” and corrupted ...

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...egan to pour the tea. ‘What good things to eat!’ she cried. ‘Take your own sugar,’ he said. He handed her her cup. He had everything so nice, such pre... ... qualms. He arranged what pensions were necessary, he looked for efficient substitutes, and when these were found, he substi- tuted them for the old h... ... servant Tilly, who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink rose... ... form. It is not a picture of a friendly horse to which you give a lump of sugar, do you see—it is part of a work of art, it has no rela- tion to anyt...

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... game, Colleville, old Monsieur Saillard, and Bandoze, his son-in-law. The substitutes were Laudigeois and Dutocq. Mesdames Falleix, Baudoyer, Barniol... ...f all persons with a mania is like those boxes with compartments, in which sugarplums are kept in sorts: “suum cuique tribuere” is their motto; they m... ...en he tries to get out of a bargain; and this fashion of dangling a bit of sugar before us about getting your pam- phlet finished, doesn’t please me a... ...apers lash it! Here,” she added, giving Thuillier a small sheet printed on sugar-paper, in coarse type, and al- most illegible,—”here’s another, you d...

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...le. In the coco-nut shies there were no coco-nuts, but artificial war-time substitutes, which the lads declared were fastened into the irons. There wa... ...ess in his eyes, and quenched it. And with her long, fine hand she put the sugar in his coffee. But she could not control him as she thought she could...

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...in the middle of the coffee district, surrounded by rich soil on which the sugar-cane is produced, is blessed with a climate only moderately hot, and ... ...blic entertainment at which refreshment may be obtained, and beds, or fair substitutes for beds. But then by this route the traveller must take a long...

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...igh prices to which colonial prod- ucts rose under Napoleon. If the use of sugar and coffee was a luxury to our parents, with us it was the sign of se... ...g of the value of money, and what I cost them? Of what use were coffee and sugar to my education? Such conduct was the first step into all the vices.”... ... these things, there were dowries paid to enable lov- ing hearts to marry; substitutes bought for youths to whom the draft had brought despair, tender...

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...le that is Kops’. Those terrible Temperance Drinks, solutions of qualified sugar mixed with vast volumes of gas, as, for ex- 45 H G Wells ample, soda... ... needing care, unless they are in a position to employ qualified efficient substitutes to take care of their offspring. What differences from terrestr...

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...s the fire inwards, the portion in flames completely disappears like melting sugar, and the outline is lost to the eye. However, a hay or a wheat rick, ... ... had driven to town. The horse was put in, and on they trotted Bathsheba’s sugar, tea, and drapery parcels being packed behind, and expressing in some... ... upon the speciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of automatic substitutes for human limbs. By the aid of the Casterbridge aurora, and by ...

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...el never missed, had those winning qualities that prove very sufficient as substitutes. Leaving these two unsophisticated young people to become acqua... ...t night we stayed in the garrison I imag- ined I had a cabin in a grove of sugar maples, and at the root of every tree was a Mabel Dunham, while the b...

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...ze, in which were tallow candles, ten to the pound. A small stock of brown sugar, some white beans and split peas, and a few other com- modities of lo... ... the shelves, in equipments and uniform of modern cut; and there were some sugar figures, with no strong re- semblance to the humanity of any epoch, b... ...china bowl of currants, freshly gathered from the bushes, and crushed with sugar. These, with water,—but not from the fountain of ill omen, close at h... ... among their epochs to have tasted it! It drives away the heart- ache, and substitutes no head-ache! Could the Judge but quaff a glass, it might enabl...

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...hip rolled. Rude hammocks made out of old sails were in many cases used as substitutes for the demolished bunks; but the space they swung in was so co... ...ey are far from doing so; and the majority being unable to obtain European substitutes for many things before made by themselves, the inevitable conse... ... and packed off to Sydney. It was the same way with the cultivation of the sugar-cane, a plant indigenous to the island; peculiarly fitted to the soil... ... turnip, also; another of yams; and in one corner, a thrifty growth of the sugar-cane, just ripening. On the side of the inclosure next the sea was th... ...illage of Partoowye, a missionary station. In its vicinity is an extensive sugar plan- tation—the best in the South Seas, perhaps—worked by a person f... ...oing to sea in the whaler, or hiring ourselves out as day labourers in the sugar plantation, there were hopes to be entertained of being pro- moted to... ...te, it is exceedingly acrid; but boiled or baked, has the sweetness of the sugar-cane. After being subjected to the fire, macerated and reduced to a c...

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...g between the two. The empty bird-cage, swept and garnished, and with no trace of the old piping favourite, save where two wires had been pushed apart... ... though sick with over-work and under-feeding) supped off a single plate of some sort of bread-berry, some potatoes in their jackets, a small cup of c... ...as quite a ban- quet by comparison. We had some beefsteak, not so tender as it might have been, some of the potatoes, some cheese, an extra glass of t... ...ternoon, and not held meetings, and made collections, and had their names repeatedly printed in the local paper, to rig up a peal of brand-new, brazen...

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...this sting. As for taste, when we bear in mind the excesses of unmitigated sugar which de- light a youthful palate, “it is surely no very cynical aspe... ...urous story written in its lines. The pleasure of surprise is passed away; sugar-loaves and water-carts seem mighty tame to encoun- ter; and we walk t... ...he same end. Nothing can stagger a child’s faith; he accepts the clumsiest substitutes and can swallow the most staring incongruities. The chair he ha... ... prone in bed, we rouse many hot feelings for which we can find no outlet. Substitutes are not acceptable to the mature mind, which desires the thing ... ...urse 105 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers of the meal. He ate his with sugar, and explained it to be a country continually buried under snow. I to...

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... whereof shall furnish us For our affairs in hand: if that come short, Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters; Whereto, when they shall kno... ... miles, and makes them wearisome, And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. But I bethink me what a we...

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... Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise: By fair persuasions mix’d with sugar’d words We will entice the Duke of Burgundy To leave the Talbot and... ...d give me signs of future accidents. [Thunder.] You speedy helpers, that are substitutes Under the lordly monarch of the north, Appear and aid me in t...

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...etrayed him for cast-off cloth- ing, waistcoats, buckles, cotton socks and sugar-plums. The boy had no suspicion of the importance of his gossip. Viol... ...send you double passports in blank to be filled out. Provide yourself with substitutes; change your route and above all your carriage; let your substi...

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...utlandish instruments; or what he would think to see the 19 Robert Louis Stevenson brown faces grown so few and the white so many; and his father’s l... ...l also; it was at least a delicate business. The Government of George II. exiled many Highland magnates. 35 Robert Louis Stevenson It never occurred ... ...bals as upon an eccentricity rather absurd than horrible; seeking, I should say, to shame them from the practice by good-natured ridicule, as we shame...

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...means of conciliation about her. The old woman then produced some wretched substitutes from the bottom of the heap of rags, which she turned up for th... ...ew marshy and unsettled. Then, there was noth- ing to be smelt but rum and sugar. Then, Captain Cuttle’s lodgings—at once a first floor and a top stor... ...f two withered atomies of tea-spoons, and an obsolete pair of knock-knee’d sugar-tongs; pulled up his immense double-cased silver watch from the depth... ...nature of the occasion, put down upon the table the two tea-spoons and the sugar-tongs, the silver watch, and the ready money; and asked Mr Brogley, t... ...ey & Son Solomon Gills, and returning the ready money , the teaspoons, the sugar-tongs, and the silver watch, to his pocket—with a view, as Walter tho... ... elbow, produced the silver watch, the ready money, the teaspoons, and the sugar-tongs; and piling them up into a heap that they might look as preciou...

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...ime, resuscitate the dead, give mighty deeds to imaginary heroes, exchange substitutes for popular martyrs on the scaffold, and make the most stubborn... ...r, had long been dead, but I perfectly remember her. She used to give me a sugar-cake when I said ‘Bon soir, bonne maman,’ with the right accent, and ... ...hen I said ‘Bon soir, bonne maman,’ with the right accent, and no one made sugar-cake like hers. She always wore at her girdle a string of little yell...

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...of the best plum cake that can be got for 28 Bleak House – Vol. One money—sugar on the outside an inch thick, like fat on mut ton chops. Here’s a li... ...ain. “Those little Jellybys. Couldn’t you—didn’t you—now, if it had rained sugar plums, or three cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort!” ... ...pretty young bride, with a flower in her bodice, in the breakfast room. As substitutes, I had four angels, of Queen Anne’s reign, taking a complacent ... ...ke little puddings too; and I know how to buy neck of mutton, and tea, and sugar, and butter, and a good many housekeep ing things. I am not clever a... ...s, odd boots and shoes of children, firewood, wafers, saucepan lids, damp sugar in odds and ends of paper bags, footstools, blacklead brushes, bread,...

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...apers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons. “You have had your bottle, I perceive, Sydney.” “T wo to... ...e been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse veg etable substitutes for wheat. On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cul...

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... of the best plum cake that can be got for 28 Bleak House – Dickens money—sugar on the outside an inch thick, like fat on mut ton chops. Here’s a li... ...ain. “Those little Jellybys. Couldn’t you—didn’t you—now, if it had rained sugar plums, or three cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort!” ... ...pretty young bride, with a flower in her bodice, in the breakfast room. As substitutes, I had four angels, of Queen Anne’s reign, taking a complacent ... ...ke little puddings too; and I know how to buy neck of mutton, and tea, and sugar, and butter, and a good many housekeep ing things. I am not clever a... ...s, odd boots and shoes of children, firewood, wafers, saucepan lids, damp sugar in odds and ends of paper bags, footstools, blacklead brushes, bread,... ... basket, in which there was a piece of cold pickled pork, a little tea and sugar, and a brown loaf, “you ought to know it don’t. You ought to know it’...

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... be seen black coats— even as on a hot summer’s day flies revolve around a sugar loaf while the old housekeeper is cutting it into cubes before the op... ...an for that of show- ing themselves in public, of parading up and down the sugar loaf, of rubbing both their hindquarters and their fore against one a... ...—a man still in his prime, and possessed of a pair of eyes which, sweet as sugar, blinked whenever he laughed— find himself unable to make enough of h... ...but that amiability was a quality into which there entered too much of the sugary element, so that his 34 Dead Souls every gesture, his every attitud... ... only by a healthy man in whose head every tooth still remains as white as sugar. By this I mean the laugh of quivering cheeks, the laugh which causes... ...ome of them, however, Chichikov was altogether unacquainted, since certain substitutes and supernumeraries had to be pressed into the service from amo...

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...to personally enter the service are nevertheless anx- ious to pay and send substitutes, provided they can have as- surance that unwilling persons, sim... ... North; and when it is remembered how unhesitatingly we all use cotton and sugar and share the profits of dealing in them, it may not be quite safe to...

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...shillings a day for everything con- nected with meals, excepting only tea, sugar, milk, and wine. It is true that wealthier men, more expensive men, a... ...f endurance, and found their ingenuity more heavily taxed to find personal substitutes amongst the trades most closely connected with their own, than ... ...any commodity for which I might then exchange it, whether that were money, sugar, besoms, or anything whatsoever. But you tell me—no. And vice versa, ... ...y barouche at the end of five years obtained for me double the quantity of sugar, or besoms, or political economists, which it would now obtain, I sho...

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...rts of the coast of India; dried cod at Newfoundland; tobacco in Virginia; sugar in some of our West India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some ... ...ness. He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. He enters into every trade,... ... different years, produce very differ- ent quantities of corn, wine, hops, sugar tobacco, etc. The price of such commodities, therefore, varies not on... ...profits of the extraordinary stock which puts that labour into motion. The sugar colonies possessed by the European nations in the West Indies may be ... ... are commonly paid by any other produce. In Cochin China, the finest white sugar generally sells for three piastres the quintal, about thirteen shilli... ... any pretence, be accepted either by the sovereign, or by his bailiffs and substitutes, the judges. Those presents, it seems to have been supposed, co...

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...nder the sun. We had spirits of all kinds, (sold by the cask,) teas, coffee, sugars, spices, raisins, molasses, hardware, crockery ware, tinware, cu... ...olling back upon us. But the great- est trouble was with the large boxes of sugar. These, we had to place upon oars, and lifting them up rest the oar... ...r work; for our officer had been very wasteful of them, and the tea, flour, sugar, and molasses, were all gone. We suspected him of sending them up t... ...ided and kettle bottomed, after the latest fashion of south shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with... ...se of responsibility, and too often, even in men otherwise well disposed, substitutes a disregard for the rights and feelings of others. The lad ... ...the cabin is, of course, made in the usual way, in a tea pot, and drank with sugar. **I do not wish these remarks, so far as they relate to the saving...

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...dulges her show- monsters on such occasions, as she crams her parrots with sugar-plums, in order to make them talk before company. I cannot be tempted... ...passed unobserved, or, if they did not escape notice, it was to praise the substitutes which Caleb had contrived to supply the want of the usual accom... ...nd for yill, and tobacco, and a drap brandy to burn, and a wee pickle saft sugar; and be there deil, or nae deil, lass, we’ll hae a merry night o’t.” ...

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...cular movement, animal heat. Vice and virtue are products like vitriol and sugar.” When we read such proclamations of the intellect bent on show- ing ... ...ificance to consider its exaggerations and perversions its equivalents and substitutes and nearest relatives elsewhere. Not that we may thereby swamp ...

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...plished, sat with per- fect simplicity, like a child’s, munching a “barley-sugar kiss.” But when my aunt, having the canister open in her hands, propo... ... he interfered at once. I had had no Gregory; then I should have no barley-sugar kiss: so he decided with a touch of irritation. And just then the pha... ...ning corrections among the coxcombs of the young. The pill is disguised in sugar of wit; it is administered as a compliment – if you had not pleased, ... ...ter of impressions, all forcible but all discreet, which life presents, it substitutes a certain artificial series of impressions, all indeed most fee... ...mpotently striving, as in life, but towering above circumstance and acting substitutes for fate. And here I can imagine Mr. James, with his lucid sens...

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... him six shillings a year to be excus’d, which was suppos’d to be for hiring substitutes, but was, in reality, much more than was necessary for that p... ...s the waggons. They consisted of twenty parcels, each containing 6 lbs. loaf sugar. 1 Gloucester cheese. 6 lbs. good Muscovado do. 1 kegg co...