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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...l colour of a nondescript tertiary — marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder like holes at the knees, torn by kn... ... no alarm on that score, though her seat was precarious enough despite her tight hold of him. She begged him to slow the animal to a walk, which Alec ... ...at they seemed they were. The midnight airs and gusts, moaning amongst the tightly wrappped buds and bark of the winter twigs, were formulae of bitter... ...ubble. There was one wearing a pale pink coat, another in a cream coloured tight sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reapin... ...at she never courts it, though the other women often gaze around them. Her binding proceeds with clock like monotony. From the sheaf last finished she ... ...the entry, the sun slanting in by the window upon his back, as he held her tightly to his breast; upon her inclining face, upon the blue veins of her ... ...on in her now — The maiden’s mouth is cold . . . . . Fold over simple fold Binding her head. Inside this exterior, over which the eye might have roved...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... to fight to the death: I mean for the heritage of the past. I should hold it tight.” “I think one ought to be liberal,” Mildred argued gently. “We’ve ... ...d cultivated tastes—an acquaintance with old china, with good wine, with the bindings of books, with the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the b... ...ns. Don’t try so much to form your character—it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best, and your character will ... ...into the deeps of talk, and wondered a little what was the nature of the tie binding these superior spirits. She felt that Madame Merle’s ties always ... ...t no less anxious an eye upon her vaporous skirts; she held her bouquet very tight and counted over the flowers for the twentieth time. She made Isabel... ...wear a Roman scarf thrown over a pair of shoulders timorously bared of their tight black velvet (oh the old clothes! and a gold laurel wreath set upo... ... proceed safely. As she went on Isabel grew pale; she clasped her hands more tightly in her lap. It was not that her visitor had at last thought it th...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...ntleman of about his own stature, rolling in the mud together, locked in a tight embrace, and cuffing each other with mutual heartiness. ‘It’s Kit!’ c... ...s who had kept her head dur ing the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing o... ...ther, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night cap on his head, and a night gown very much too small for him ... ...skilful and experienced hands. Nothing daunted by this reception, he clung tight to his oppo nent, and bit and hammered away with such good will and ... ...stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad stools and tight sticking snails. To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with p... ...eedful re pairs in the stage arrangements, for one of them was engaged in binding together a small gallows with thread, while the other was intent up...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...f the lady, he is now openly pronounced barber by the jealous Winterset. A tight ensues, followed by social ostracism, ami even Lady ]Mary proves untr... ...in are bound in full black morocco, and 54 are covered with anscellaneoiis bindings. Many of these books are out of print and n number belong to origi... ...rance thtj book possesses the dignity of a serious volume. The blaok cloth binding is re- lieved by the purple and gold let- tering of its title, "Gul... ...ly guarded fioni infraction or possible forfeiture. As an agreement, it is binding upon the conscience of every man, and the affirmation is made upon ... ...play the score was 8 to 2 in favor of the sophomores, but then the juniors tightened up and Horrax again started their scoring by a long shot from mor... ...the oollego, fraternity and non I'rn- tornity men alike, whioli lias Ijeon binding on the college for the piiat tliroe years, will expire" next Friday... ...ONT. BstablUhtd 1832 Fine illustrated Editions In Leather, Cloth and Paper Bindings GEORGE M. HOPKINS Dealer in All Kinds of Studett Furniture Window ... ...sent an aggressive program. The policy of the Williams organization in the tight of recent developments can be characterized as one likely to engage u... ...be a leading card in the attack. A little later the authorities at Cornell tight- ened the bonds of college sport in a determined effort to purify ath...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...le Vicomte, what a pity it is the window looks upon a stone pavement, and that fifty paces below it.” Raoul glanced at the balcony in despair. Louise ... ...striking. When the king had returned, and the musketeer, who saw everything, had seen a corner of the tapestry over the cardinal’s window lifted up, h... ...ble.” “Ah! then it appears there will be an opposition, and the enterprise will be disputed?” “Oh, yes, Planchet, yes.” “I burn to know the details, m... ...receive.” “That is true; I was holding a council of officers.” “Will your honor give any orders respecting this gentle- man?” “Yes, let him be brought... ...that precious skin of M. d’Artagnan, which to him is worth more than all the houses and all the treasures of the world. That skin to which I cling abo... ...n the courtyard. Porthos mounted. Then Aramis himself took the horse by the bridle, and led him over some dung spread in the yard, with the evident in... ...nd D’Artagnan dressed himself. But, this time, he endeavored not to give to the costume of M. Agnan that bourgeoise and almost ecclesiastical rigidity...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ry. After that alteration it made a beautiful salting-machine, if you held tight, because there was nothing to catch your feet when you fell out, and ... ...hurt us any. We ain’t colts.” “Thet’s what you think Bimeby you git into a tight corner, ‘Lection day er Valley Fair, like’s not, daown-taown, when yo... ...ivets!” “Ease off! Ease off!” cried the bilge-stringers. “Don’t hold us so tight to the frames!” “Ease off!” grunted the deck-beams, as the Dimbula ro... ...y. “Ready, behind there! Here’s the father and mother of waves coming! Sit tight, rivets all!” A great sluicing comber thun- dered by, but through the... ...up! Pull in! Shove crossways! Mind the strain at the ends! Grip, now! Bite tight! Let the water get away from under— and there she goes!” The wave rac... ...enerations stood to his account, though his tastes in the matter of books, bindings, rugs, swords, bronzes, lacquer, pictures, plate, statuary, horses...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...y was a plump little beau of forty, at war with his fat and accounting his tight blue tail coat and brass buttons a victory. His tightness made his fa... ...e slopes, that the man inside pushed out an inquiring pate, the two grooms tightened arms across their chests. Her face 120 The Amazing Marriage was ... ...arn the business quickly, perhaps; a singularly cut- ting smile was on his tight lips, in memory of a desire he had as a boy to join hands with an Ama... ... when they are in- disposed to it. The voice of the girl Madge rang on the tight- ened chords of her breast. Madge had said she was praying: and to pr... ...rd addressed his own crab eyeballs. Lord Fleetwood heard and said coolly: ‘Tightstrung. I kept him fasting since he earned his breakfast. You don’t wi... ...d her. Women were an illegible manuscript, and ladies a closed book of the binding, to this raw philosopher, or he would not so coldly have judged the... ...and given to the anxious girl behind her gushed an image of the sisterhood binding women under the pangs they suffer from men. He craved a scourging t...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...n it...a release of my own guilt, I suppose.” Alex squeezed her arms a little tighter. “Now, look in my eyes and tell me I’m lying.” He said as since... ...id and kissed her again. Marian responded with her whole body, and held him tightly. “I’ve cried, I’ve prayed for this, Alex.” 28 J.Cross/Artem... ...at in that dress,” Marian said not wanting to answer the obvious. “A little tight, don’t you think?” Alex said and winked at his daughter. “Oh, D... ...the guilty would be slaughtered. He dropped to his knees, clasping the rosary tightly in his hands, and wept bitterly. He then prayed that the end w... ...mpled figure that had been rolled into a fetal position squirmed into an even tighter ball, and dug his head deeper under the pillow. "Michael...M... ...ng from his previous tone. "We abide by the same code. Our agreements were as binding and solemn, as the stars in the sky. But, this is a new time, ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...hen Mr. Grahame-White told me we were going to plane down I will confess I tightened my hold on the sides of the car and prepared for something like t... ... fall—into the hands of that dwindling and ad- venturous moiety which sits tight in one place from the cradle to the grave. No one has yet invented an... ...ment; stick to your legal rights, draw the net of re- pressive legislation tighter, then you will presently have to deal with Labour enraged. If the a... ...kind against the shoot- ing buds. And to-day, while we live in a period of tightening and extending social organisation, we live also in a period of a... ...nd it best to buy whole editions in sheets and bind them himself in strong bindings. And he would emerge from these negotiations in possession of a nu...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...aceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high a... ...oof, His ‘Morning’ and his ‘Night’ disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet ... ...ep an hour upon the clock. Such thought — such thought have I that hold it tight Till meditation master all its parts, Nothing can stay my glance Unti... ...nd rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There’s not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight. A WOMA... ... they stand, And they but famous old upholsteries Delightful to the touch; tighten that hand As though to draw them closer yet. Rammed full Of that mo... ...e, and years after years ’gan flow; Square leaves of the ivy moved over us, binding us down to our rest. And, man of the many white croziers, a century...

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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... man, too, and a brother.” Natasha listened, cried, and squeezed my hand tight by stealth under the table. The reading was over. She got up, her che... ...ome day)—then …” “Enough, V anya, stop!” she interrupted, pressing my hand tightly, and smiling through her tears. “Dear, kind Vanya! 39 Dostoevsky Y... ...he really has gone to her, V anya?” I did not answer. She squeezed my hand tight, and her eyes glittered. “He is with her,” she brought out, scarcely ... ... hand, a dirty , chapped little hand. In the other hand she held her books tightly. One could see that those books were very precious to her. As she r... ... just going out at the door she suddenly threw herself on my neck, held me tight in both arms and told me not to be angry with a lonely creature like ... ...heir former relations there was something else, some rather mysterious tie binding them together, something like a mutual obligation resting upon moti...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...” Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn it off. “It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie down and hang would suit you better,”... ...gged and easy to upset. It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery. A light bookcase c... ...ly unlike her own, kept in abeyance for the time her usual eagerness for a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict conn... ...an of family ties?” said Lydgate, conceiving that these might press rather tightly on Mr. Farebrother. “Not altogether. Of course they make many thing... ...al power of unpleasant surmise, when Mary returned to him. “He makes but a tight fit, I reckon. 236 Middlemarch Y ou’re of age now; you ought to be s... ...give way to that; I was always versatile. But a clergyman is tied a little tight. If they would make him a bishop, now!—he did a very good pamphlet fo... ... I am ready to narrow my own resources and the pros- pects of my family by binding myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life, and ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...” Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn it off. “It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie down and hang would suit you better,”... ...gged and easy to upset. It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery. A light bookcase c... ...ly unlike her own, kept in abeyance for the time her usual eagerness for a binding theory which could bring her own life and doctrine into strict conn... ...an of family ties?” said Lydgate, conceiving that these might press rather tightly on Mr. Farebrother. “Not altogether. Of course they make many thing... ...al power of unpleasant surmise, when Mary returned to him. “He makes but a tight fit, I reckon. You’re of age now; you ought to be saving for yourself.... ... I was always Middlemarch 231 versatile. But a clergyman is tied a little tight. If they would make him a bishop, now!—he did a very good pamphlet fo... ...n. I am ready to narrow my own resources and the prospects of my family by binding myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life, and t...

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Dieselpunk Epulp Showcase : Volume 1

By: John W. Picha; Grant Gardiner

...k then. Like the French film scholars who codified Film Noir as a genre years after the movies were in the theaters, I could see a similar thread binding the dieselpunk work together. Whether they realized it or not, these artists were creating work with eerily similar concepts. They were creating a future fueled by the spirit of the Jazz Age. In their world, they w...

... ‘entrepreneurs’ like ourselves. So we can make a little dosh on the side when we ain’t running booze for the gin joints.” Mickey clutched himself tighter against the cold. “I’m sure that ain’t it. Me old man explained it diff’rent. A lot diff’rent. It had something to do with the Great War and zeppelins and aether and... stuff.” “Well your old man don’t know his hea...

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