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...he Provencal would doubtless have admired the grace of the animal, and the vig- orous contrasts of vivid color which gave her robe an impe- rial splen...

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... as one of them had phrased it, face to face. Dr. Macfarlane was alert and vig- orous. His white hair set off his pale and placid, although energetic,...

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...t ease hisself a bit—‘e—” But Mr. Hoopdriver heard no more. He was hopping vig- orously along the road, in a spasmodic attempt to remount.He missed th...

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...of me, I dreamt again and again of that bitter, furious creature rising so vig- orous and active out of the unknown sea. It was the most active and ma...

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...l part forever.” “Part? never!” he cried, electrified by the tones of that vig- orous soul which seemed to be fighting against some over- whelming tho...

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...(an affair which had long fed the gossip of the markets), had originally a vig- orous and enticing beauty, now lost however in a vast embonpoint. She ...

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...o bed early, for we wanted to make an early start, so as to take advantage of the cool of the morning. We were out of bed at break of day, feeling fre...

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...e presently perceived that he was rapping on wood. He then rubbed the spot vig- orously with his handkerchief, and beneath the thick layer of dust and...

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...e eighty or one hun- dred Melanesians. We are fencing, planting, &c., &c., vig- orously, and the soil here repays our labours well. The yam and sweet ...

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... “They know we are here.” Then the firing continued, growing more and more vig orous, between the French soldiers posted around the mill and the Prus...

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...s a veritable com- munism, by reason of the insurgent individualism of its vig- 57 H G Wells orous sons. More, too, denied privacy and ruled an absol...

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...her light than as a paymaster? Blasphemy against nature! Every good, true, vig- orous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conc...

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...wit was great, but was always subservient to his wickedness. He was small, vig- orous, and thin, with a lozenge-shaped face, a long aquiline nose—fine...

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... as my own doing, and not be disappointed. I had rather see you a healthy, vig- orous, useful man, than a poor puling nervous wretch of a scholar, if ...

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...uired the count, smiling graciously on the gratified Mrs. Leo Hunter, ‘Pig Vig or Big Vig—what you call—lawyer—eh? I see—that is it. Big Vig’— and the...

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... His blood was strong even to coarseness. But that only made the home more vig- 7 England, My England orous, more robust and Christmassy. There was a...

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...y here! I am stifled!” The Canadian was evidently losing all patience. His vig- orous nature could not stand this prolonged imprison- ment. His face a...

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... is a soldier with grey hair—But!—’ a very decided rest indeed, and a very vig- orous play from side to side of the back-handed forefin- ger—’he is al... ...as noticeable that she had already more than once struck her clenched hand vig- 343 Little Dorrit – Book Two orously upon the table, and that when sh...

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... have been done, even had his time been longer.—He had stayed on, however, vig- orously, day after day—till this very morning’s post had con- veyed th...