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...y, 11th, the weather appeared to moderate, and they put to sea, only to be driven by evening into Levenswick. There they lay, ‘rolling much,’ with bot... ...vits unshipped, high seas, strong gales from the south- ward, and the ship driven to refuge in Kirkwall or Deer Sound. I have many a passage before me... ...e expeditiously ashore. A gale immediately followed, and the Elizabeth was driven back to Orkney and lost with all hands. The second escape I have bee... ...ape Wrath; it will be long ere any char-a-banc, laden with tourists, shall drive up to Barra Head or Monach, the Island of the Monks. They are far- th... ...he -s exhibited. These two cold-hearted persons, not contented with having driven the daughter of the poor nervous woman from her father’s house, both... ...uring about seven feet in height and three feet in diameter at the middle, tapering to both ends, being what seamen term a nun-buoy, vaulted or sprung... ...ness, the walls being covered with green cloth formed into panels with red tape, and his bed festooned with curtains of yellow cotton-stuff. If, in sp...

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...led, grin- ning air. Perkins descended, and on being asked, “Vere ham I to drive the young ‘oman, sir?” I am sorry to say muttered something like an o... ...tood listlessly, for who would call a cab on such a night? Meanwhile their drivers, at the alehouse near, smoked the short pipe or quaffed the foaming... ...“Why, my intended has a couple of hundreds a year, and my clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office will be as much more.” “Clerkship—Tape and Seal... ...who starve that you may fatten in idleness. But take this clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office,” continued the patriot, his bosom heaving with... ...variety of sealing-wax, blotting-pa- per, envelopes, despatch-boxes, green tapers, etc. etc. An immense fire was blazing in the grate, an immense shee... ...mpton.) “When first, by your kindness, I was promised the clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office, my opinions were not formed as they are now; a... ...w coming up to town, and wants a place for him. There is one vacant in the Tape Office, he says: have you not a promise of it?” “I can’t—I can’t belie... ... has such a strange influence upon me, that the smallest false note almost drives me to distraction, and for that very reason I hardly ever go to a co...

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...r was filled with the noise of hooves, the rattle of 5 The Day’s Work the drivers’ sticks, and the swish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was ver... ...ets, death in every manner and shape, vio- lent and awful rage against red tape half frenzying a mind that knows it should be busy on other things; dr... ...bs—were all but in posi- tion. They needed just as many rivets as could be driven into them, for the flood would assuredly wash out their supports, an... ...eded only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper, to waft it kite-fashion to the bank. Thereafter—the boat spun... ...pise their fellows; Ganesh shall have his mahajuns, and Bhairon the donkey-drivers, the pilgrims, and the sellers of toys. Beloved, they will do no mo... ...n of Grandee. He has been handled 35 The Day’s Work since he was two, was driven in a light cart before he was three, and now ranks as an absolutely ... ...er jaw, and lungs. A very nice shot.” He whistled for Bukta as he drew the tape over the stiffening bulk. “T en—six—eight—by Jove! It’ s nearly eleven...

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...ot an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool. When my great great gr... ...ed up the joint stool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the... ...z.: I. That there shall be paid for each waggon, with four good horses and a driver, fifteen shillings per diem; and for each able horse with a pack s... ...ime of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall be demanded. 5. No drivers of waggons, or persons taking care of the hired horses, are on an... ...wanted, and compel as many persons into the service as would be necessary to drive and take The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 127 care of them. ... ... spare from the business of their plantations a waggon and four horses and a driver, may do it together, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two... ...ether, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two horses, and another the driver, and divide the pay propor tionately between you; but if you do n...

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...mselves!’). He would not say, that one burst of general indignation should drive them from the parish they polluted with their presence (‘Give it him!... ...ies, the greater portion of whom, owing to the captain’s impetuosity, were driven up to the poll and home again, before they recovered from their flur... ...eets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab-drivers and hackney- coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamen- t... ... hat on his head, and turns round to avoid the gust of wind and rain which drives against him at the street-corner, to be very far from congratulating... ...gratification of vanity, and an immodest love of self-display, rather than drive them to a last dreadful resource, which it would shock the delicate f... ...large, was obviated by their being firmly attached to her legs with strong tape sandals. Her head was ornamented with a profusion of artifi- cial flow... ...gloomy and mournful scenes that are passing within. The sudden moving of a taper as its feeble ray shoots from window to window, until its light gradu...

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...more novelty, and too much smartness to in- vite self-devotion. So we were driven from pillar to post till we settled down into this Mr. Touchett, as ... ...ance of children, only the two youngest boys outside with their maid. This drive brought more to light about Fanny’s past way of life and feelings tha... ...aded the boys, dreaded their fate, and dreaded the Major more. During this drive, Grace and Rachel had the care of the 33 Yo n g e elder boys, whom R... ...ur holiday will be short.” “Well, the less play the less anxiety. How many drives will the six young gentlemen be worth to you?” “I am afraid it will ... ...e me worse. She still wrote her note of refusal, and asked me to light the taper; I dashed down the match in a frenzy of temper and—” She paused for b... ...de her own to the sleepless night and the headache. The usual remedy was a drive in a wheeled chair, and Rose was so urgent to be al- lowed to go and ... ... strong box, she returned in a short space with a parcel tied up with, red tape, and labelled “Barnaby’s Bargain.” “I have been thinking,” she exclaim...

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...mselves!’). He would not say, that one burst of general indignation should drive them from the parish they polluted with their presence (‘Give it him!... ...ies, the greater portion of whom, owing to the captain’s impetuosity, were driven up to the poll and home again, before they recovered from their flur... ...eets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab-drivers and hackney- coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamen- t... ... hat on his head, and turns round to avoid the gust of wind and rain which drives against him at the street-corner, to be very far from congratulating... ...gratification of vanity, and an immodest love of self-display, rather than drive them to a last dreadful resource, which it would shock the delicate f... ...large, was obviated by their being firmly attached to her legs with strong tape sandals. Her head was ornamented with a profusion of artifi- cial flow... ...gloomy and mournful scenes that are passing within. The sudden moving of a taper as its feeble ray shoots from window to window, until its light gradu...

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...fore a wrought-iron gateway which stood half open and walked up a circular drive to the door of a large villa of a neglected appearance. The mistral h... ... her lips had awakened in me the visual perception of a dark-skinned, hard-driven lady’s maid with tarnished eyes; even of the tireless Rose handing m... ...the brave gentleman. That maid of my sister Rita was upstairs watching him drive away with her evil eyes, but I made a sign of the cross after the fia... ...had to stand in the middle of her room while Rose walked around her with a tape measure not- ing the figures down on a small piece of paper which was ... ... was over the edge, as though his eyes had been stilettos and he wanted to drive them home into my brain. It was only much later that I understood how... ...appeared! I couldn’t let him go on to make himself a worry and a nuisance, drive her out from a town in which she wished to be (for whatever reason) a...

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... to fly, with wet cheeks and flaming heart, from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shavelings? She hardly returned, when fever and shavel... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opin- ion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twi... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ...b. i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pictured her, there within the royal tapes- tries, in bright boudoirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Government? For Government is a thing that governs, 40 The F... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has constituted the Assembly. 144 The French Revolution: V o... ...esty’s Reposi- tory, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fight- ing-gear small ...

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...nd flaming heart, 14 The French Revolution from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shave- lings? She hardly returned, when fever and shav... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opinion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twitc... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ... i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pic- tured her, there within the royal tapestries, in bright bou- doirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Govern- ment? For Government is a thing that governs, that gu... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has con- stituted the Assembly. Experienced Mounier, not whol... ...ajesty’s Repository, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fighting-gear small st...

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...ugly; nor was it large enough for the congregation, some of whom were thus driven to the dissenting chapels, the Sions and Ebenezers, which had got th... ...her pretended ignorance un- der the veil of darkness. ‘And have you really driven over four-and-twenty miles of Barsetshire roads on such a day as thi... ...day’s figures, generally, I should say; or else by unrolling a ball of red tape. Well-docketed papers and statistical facts are his forte. ’ ‘And what... ... the sermon. ’ And he spoke very low in his friend’s ear. ‘Fancy having to drive ten miles after dusk, and ten miles back, to hear Harold Smith talk f... ... on the verge of the chase, the ladies were to go in carriages through the drives of the forest, and Mr Robarts was to escort them on horseback. Indee... ...ry as though they never could go quick enough; and then the coachmen would drive very fast also, though they did not know why, for a fast pace of move... ...aves did not yet hand heavy in masses, and the bend of every bough and the tapering curve of every twig were visible through light green covering. The...

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...had yet been ruminating for a long while over the bargain that he meant to drive with David. All that the father made, the son, of course, was bound t... ...e of the yard by a win- dow with leaded panes, and hung with the old-world tapes- try that decorated house fronts in provincial towns on Cor- pus Chri... ...valances and quilt of crimson serge, a couple of worm-eaten armchairs, two tapestry-covered chairs in walnut wood, an aged bureau, and a timepiece on ... ... another hundred years. So there you are.” A generous man is a bad bargain-driver. David’s nature was of the sensitive and affectionate type that shri... ...ll youthful figure and shapely, well placed contours beneath. With fingers tapering and well-kept, though somewhat too thin, Mme. de Bargeton amiably ... ..., small wonder that society, finding Marius seated among the ruins, should drive him forth in abhor- rence. All unconsciously Lucien stood with the pa... ...nce accused and fairly convicted of a liking for canaille, Louise would be driven from the place, her caste would shun her as men shunned a leper in t... ...omplacent laugh reinforced the smile; but he never vouchsafed a word until driven to the last extremity. A tete-a-tete put him in the one embarrass- m...

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...ng at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Pro fessor Owen, and driven Charles’s Wain like a locomotive HARD T IMES 10 engine driver. No l... ...cination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way abo... ...ath; and had not the Spartan mothers, oh my soon to be victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of their enemies’ swords? Then w... ... need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face... ...bility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute—drivelling, sir!—in a fifth floor, up a narrow da... ..., and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil. So James Hartho...

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...eping slowly towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...ed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings. As these people... ...wound folds of white cravat round his neck, as he wound and wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and col- lar w... ...ttle Dorrit on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another... ... his love had fretted and worrited him enough as it was, without his being driven to do himself a mischief, as nobody couldn’t say he wouldn’t be if h... ...at, let ME go. I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this.’ His trembling voice and unfeigned earnestness b... ..., or let me come to you. ‘ ‘Well!’ he replied. ‘I will come to-morrow as I drive by.’ Bar and Bishop had both been bystanders during this short dialog... ... of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyd...

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...y towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit – Book One their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...ed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings. As these people... ...wound folds of white cravat round his neck, as he wound and wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and col- lar w... ... – Book One on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another... ... his love had fretted and worrited him enough as it was, without his being driven to do himself a mischief, as nobody couldn’t say he wouldn’t be if h... ...at, let ME go. I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this.’ His trembling voice and unfeigned earnestness b... ..., or let me come to you. ‘ ‘Well!’ he replied. ‘I will come to-morrow as I drive by.’ Bar and Bishop had both been bystanders during this short dialog...

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...ld with the odd- wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven—or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly po... ... along happily enough. The factory had a homely feel. No one was rushed or driven. Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time,... ...nst the seared meadows and the thorn- trees. It was four and a half miles’ drive. Tiny buds on the hedges, vivid as copper-green, were opening into ro... ...t behind the rest, convulsed with shamed laughter. “How much will it be to drive to Brook Cottage?” said Mrs. Morel. “Two shillings.” “Why, how far is... ...in fear. And he knew, before he could kiss 222 Sons & Lovers her, he must drive something out of himself. And a touch of hate for her crept back agai... ...at her again, in fear, and went obedi- ently out of the room. Paul saw the tape of his garters 419 D.H. Lawrence swinging against his legs. After ano...

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...rugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still tries to save the hallow’d taper’s end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more... ...e six whores and make his lady weep? Or soft Adonis, so perfumed and fine, Drive to St James’s a whole herd of swine? Oh filthy check on all industrio... ..., 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling fro... ... that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts, Or back to life compels the wande... ...of the sky; But with a thicker night black Auster shrouds The heavens, and drives on heaps the rolling clouds, From whose dark womb a rattling tempest... ...far, The floods descending, and the watery war, 510 That, driven by storms, and pouring o’er the plain, Swept herds, and hinds, and h... ...ient will be left at night. ’Tis but a just and rational desire To light a taper at a neighbour’s fire. There’s danger too, you think, in rich array, ... ...frown’d, and ‘Use (he cried) those eyes So skilful, and those hands so taper; Do something exquisite and wise—’ She bow’d, obey’d him, and c... ...70 bends. Of these, twelve volumes, twelve of amplest size, Redeem’d from tapers and defrauded pies, Inspired he seizes: these an altar raise: An hec...

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...le’s broidered hammer-cloth, or the driving-seat of the common coach, each driver assailed the other with floods of ribald satire. The pavid matron wi... ...up a thousand pound note from a bundle on the piano, she lighted it at the taper and proceeded to re-illumine the extinguished chibouk of Lord Codling... ...ur troops returned from the sally in which your gallant storming party was driven back, you were found on the glacis, and I had you brought into the C... ...! he thought not of thee. It happened thus. Miss Amethyst being engaged to drive with her cousin the prince in his phaeton, her own carriage was sent ... ... tooned with Walanseens Lace, and lighted up of evenings with rose-colored tapers. Goold dressing-case and twilet of Dresding Cheny. My bed white and ... ...med to be a consperracy, too, between that Silvertop and Lady Hangelina to drive me to the same pint. ‘What a plucky fellow you were, Pluche,’ says he... ...d a stronger term) ‘are you, then?’ said Mr. Silvertop. ‘Are you Baggs and Tapewell, my uncle’s attorneys? If you are, you have come too late for the ... ...come too late for the fair.’ “I briefly explained that I was not Baggs and Tapewell, but that my name was J—ms, and that I was a gentleman con- nected... ...gate flew open! the organ went off in a fugue—the lights quivered over the tapers, and then went off towards the ceiling—the ghosts assembled rushed a...

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... of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to “pull the tape” of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back. 110... ...l there? New England Region:Y es, I am. Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that “we have planes.” Now, I don’... ...f the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA cente... ...1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document c... ...e accounts, he had been interested there in religious studies, inspired by tape recordings of fiery sermons by Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian and a dis... ...peals for jihad.At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, s... ...ricans from the Gulf region.T wo weeks after that, Bin Ladin gave a video- taped interview to ABC News with the same slogans, adding that “we do not d... ...iorities and assign personnel accordingly. 11 The office’s priorities were driven by two primary concerns. First, perform- ance in the Bureau was gene... ...ment ranks had little counterterrorism experience. Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on ...