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...emed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Pre... ..., and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to t... ...in whatever fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hard... ...the way, my brother may come down here—locate here, I mean—and go into the hop- raising business. He’s got an option on five hundred acres just back o... ... a while, his anger somewhat subsided. “My brother and I will take up this hop ranch. I’ve saved a good deal in the last ten years, and there ought to... ...ays? Ten thousand acres of wheat! Nothing but wheat from the Sierra to the Coast Range. I remember when De La Cuesta was married. He had never seen th... ...nd carried his coat over his shoulder; a hammer was thrust into one of his hip pockets. He was in execrable temper. The day’s work had fagged him out.... ... petticoats. On the row of chairs that went around three sides of the wall groups began to settle themselves. For a long time the guests huddled close... ...ittle longer, understand? And don’t let me see you make a move toward your hip or your friends will be asked to identify you at the morgue to- morrow ...

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.................................................................... 38 SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND .................................................... ............................................................ 189 THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN ................................................................... ...urs of fretful sloth, Weary with much delay, they hold discourse In sullen groups and cloudy masses, stirred With rage irresolute and whispering plot,... ...vered, He whispers often to the passing winds That blow toward the Asiatic coasts; For Crete has sent her bravest to the war, And multitudes pressed f... ...ll-top, Behold the first line of them skipping, like kangaroos seen on the hop. XX ‘“That sent me into a passion, to think of them spying our flight!”... ...aven’s croak. II Down the Prado strolled my seigneur, Arm at lordly bow on hip, Fingers trimming his moustachios, Eyes for pirate fellowship. III Home... ...! Every second man, unfellowed, Took the strokes of two, and gave. Bare as hop-stakes in November’s Mists they met our battle-flood: Hoary-red as Wint... ...he hushed mouths of all. It had resemblance to a death: and on, Against a coast where sapphire shattered white, The seasons rolled like troops of bil... ...’s club withheld the blow; A milky cloud went all to flame. And there were groups where silvery springs The ethereal forest showed begirt By companies...

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...eam Naviga- tion Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the prese... ...rd of July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary cre... ...to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me to- wards the coast of France. This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the se... ...me of their native town, Cape Horn. The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating the wa-... ...This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which ... ...of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand 94 20,000 Leag...

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... Some of them had already started and those that were left now set off, in groups of two or three. “You’d better come along with me, Carey,” said the ... ... Chinaman, with a yel- low face and an expansive smile, who was study- ing Western conditions at the University. He spoke so quickly , with a queer ac... ...- ward to eat a sandwich and drink a glass of beer . All round were little groups of students, talking and laughing; and here and there was a family ,... ...r an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West. Cacilie was flaunting and cynical. At last even the Frau Professor co... ... He had done the same thing for ten years. He took his whole fam- ily to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny’s home, and they spent three w... ... said: “I suppose you wouldn’t like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging.” “I wouldn’t mind,” sai... ...lf. He suggested that Philip should join him and his family in the Kentish hop-field to which he went every year; and to persuade him said various bea...

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...luable details. As a matter of fact in 1875 or ‘6, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were... ...so fresh, so surprising, so venturesome, so in- teresting; bits of strange coasts under the stars, shad- ows of hills in the sunshine, men’s passions ... ...ts antiquity— had never been commercially anything more impor- tant than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. The c... ...Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a great continent. Sky, land, and sea disappear together out ... ...into the wall above marble consoles, square spaces of carpet under the two groups of arm- chairs, each presided over by a deep sofa; smaller rugs scat... ...first light of the dawn, on the heads of cloaked fig- ures; Winchesters on hip; bridle hands protruding lean and brown from under the falling folds of... ...hecking the mare almost to a standstill now and then for children, for the groups of people from the distant Campo, who stared after him with admirati... ...ing off with his smart, lame walk, vanished utterly at the third or fourth hop in the direction of the railway track. Ar- rested between the two woode...

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... Greenland, A.D. 1671. Harris Coll. “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife). Anno 1652, one eighty foot in length of the whale bone kind c... ...hale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coasts, are the property of the king.” Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of de... ...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a wh... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the nee... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this an... ...lid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a nimble hop skip and jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of accelerating h... ...I must have partners! Sicilian sailor. Aye; girls and a green! — then I’ll hop with ye; yea, turn grasshopper! Long Island sailor. Well, well, ye sulk... ...acings of the limbs — lithe sway ings — coyings — flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come sa... ...ange, after all, on that account,” said Flask. “If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing. That would disable him; but he has...

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...o Greenland, A.D. 1671 Harris Coll. “Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind ca... ...hale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king.” —Blackstone. “Soon to the sport of de... ...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the ne... ... enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this... ...lid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a nimble hop- skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of accelerating ... ... I must have partners! Sicilian sailor. A ye; girls and a green!—then I’ll hop with ye; 172 Moby Dick yea, turn grasshopper! Long-island sailor. Well... ...interlacings of the limbs—lithe swayings—coyings— flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come sa... ...ange, after all, on that account,” said Flask. “If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a differ- ent thing. That would disable him; but he h...

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...ed that his departure from Lon- don would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and af- forde... ...roadstead. A number of fishing- 24 Around the World in 80 Days smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, ... ...e most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully. Then the ladies s... ... The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steamers is ... ...g, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which 42 Around the World in 80 Days... ...s of the glade, which was lit up by the torches. The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battl... ... where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, “Hurrah for Mandiboy! Hip, hip, hurrah!” It was a band of voters coming to the rescue of their al...

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... You will live qui- etly there till I come back from my next cruise to the westward. We shall see then what can be done for you. Never fear. I have no... ...irst in fight! Have I not stood behind him when his face was turned to the West? Have I not watched by his side ships with high masts burning in a str... ...a vagabond of the seas, a true Orang-Laut, living by rapine and plunder of coasts and ships in his prosperous days; earning his living by honest and i... ... es- cape, and their swift praus, in which they had so of- ten scoured the coast and the seas, now wedged to- 49 Joseph Conrad gether in the narrow c... ...sehold was reposing, Babalatchi and Lakamba passed silent amongst sleeping groups to the riverside, and, taking a canoe, paddled off stealthily on the... ...of laughter, a loud hail, a name or a joke sent out in a soft drawl. Small groups squatted round the little fires, and the monotonous undertone of tal... ...t closed firmly round the butt of his re- volver bulging his jacket on the hip, and he thought how soon and how quickly he could terminate his quarrel...

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...se when he struck he struck hard, he said. And he has a wound on the right hip and two fingers off his left hand; has bled for England, to show her wh... ...he hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a day of our breezy South-west, washed from the showery night, gives distantly a tower to view, and a... ...melt icicles in Greenland. He walked unthinkingly, right ahead, to the red West, as he discovered when pausing to consult his watch. Time was left to ... ... tors, bent upon scoring the country to the likeness of a child’s lines of hop-scotch in a gravel-yard. As with all invalids, the pleasure of living b... ...r 75 George Meredith housed safely. The packet of provision bulged on his hip, absurdly and blessedly to her sight, not unlike the man, in his combin... ...y Diana, little though she concentered her attention on any figures of the groups. She had the woman’s 120 Diana of the Crossways faculty (transientl... ... towns, the people-priests, dames, cavaliers, ur- chins, infants, shifting groups of supple southerners-flashed across the page like a web of silk, an... ...ters very slightly descriptive, dated from the Piraeus, the Bosphorus, the coasts of the Crimea, all more or less relating to the latest news of the j... ... landed from the Havre steamer at Caen and drove straightway for the sandy coast, past fields of colza to brine-blown meadows of coarse grass, and the...

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...d body of the tale it loomed up big amongst the glittering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding. There was nothing about it of a grim dere... ... much their country as the earth of their islands—has fallen a prey to the western race—the reward of superior strength if not of superior virtue. To-... ...f its arid heights. Separated by a narrow strip of water, Suroeton, to the west, shows a curved and ridged outline resembling the backbone of a stoopi... ...litude through the mind of that child of generations of fishermen from the coast of Devon, who like most of his class was dead to the subtle voices, a... ...ked the deck of his kingdom with a regular stride. He stepped out from the hip, swinging his arms with the free motion of a man starting out for a fif... ...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...western shore of the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses reflected in the water or seen above the wav- ing gr...

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... along that road are in the habit of rest- ing. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fant... ...ts, which reached to the hips only, a garment peculiar to the peasantry of western France. Beneath this jacket, which was worn open, a waistcoat of th... ...t sumptuous, dress of a few individuals dispersed here and there among the groups, where they shone like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of ... ... quartered at Mayenne. During these troublous times the inhabitants of the west of France called all the soldiers of the Republic “Blues.” This nickna... ...snon lay before it. Hulot with his two officers followed the troop slowly, hop- ing to get safely to Ernee where the wounded could be cared for. The f... ...he cried. “The brig- ands are making a false attack over there to keep the coast clear; but the two columns I sent to scour the environs be- tween Ant...

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...f more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of ladies and gentlemen, in the very highest state of enjoyment and ... ...even o’clock, or thereabouts; when the captain comes down again, in a sou’ wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot coat: making the ground wet whe... ..., and so gravely presented on a small scale, that it was like look ing at Westminster through the wrong end of a tele scope. The governor, as her Ma... ...elled, by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, into a continuous line of coast, can hardly be exaggerated. A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a... ...n full leaf, must be extremely picturesque. Even in the winter time, these groups of well grown trees, cluster ing among the busy streets and houses ... ...ld do instinctively, were the heather underneath my feet, or an iron bound coast beyond; but should often glance towards the distant and frequently re... ...in his right thigh. The shot entered on the outside, halfway be tween the hip and knee joints.’ ‘Brought to jail, John. Left ear cropt.’ ‘Taken up, a...

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... leaving the carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immed... ... army on his head. Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duch- Mark Twain 8 ess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-... ...oom. They are like long, narrow, high-ceiled bird-cages hung against the building. My room was a corner room, and had two of these things, a north one... ...e rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. I got up and went in... ...st try to overlook that, because I have never had any experience of such a swell duel as this before. I have had a good deal to do with duels on the P... ...ain 38 they would ever learn to perform their functions in such remote and unaccustomed localities. They then set my left arm in two places, pulled my... ...se if left to their own devices. This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of the wild islands ... ...ment the surgeon took a grip on the candidate’s tooth and began to lift, every one of those five hundred rascals would clap his hand to his jaw and be... ...n of a slouch hat, whose broken rim hung limp and ragged about his eyes and ears like a bug-eaten cabbage leaf, stared indifferently around, then lean...

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...e that a great deal of walking would ultimately bring me to St. Paul’ s or Westminster Abbey; to anything else I was indifferent. Toward sunset my fra... ...earth in perfect trust. We spoke of our old Sunday walks to St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey as of a day that had its charm. Our pew among a fashionab... ...estrains me. I am bound to convey the infor- mation to my brother that the coast is clear for him.’ ‘Well, then, fall light, and for’ard,’ said the sq... ...ys, and others, all bending to roses, to admire, smell, or pluck. Charming groups of ladies were here and there; and T emple whispered as we passed th... ...d like ana- grams. T o put it familiarly, they are like a child’s field of hop- scotch. You may have noticed the urchins at their game: a bit of tile,... ...it? We’ve all had a dozen apiece. You saw little Kiomi curled up under the hop and briony?’ ‘I took her for a dead jackdaw.’ ‘I took her for what she ... ... couple of pleas- ant smooth-sailing days, she consented to cruise off the coasts of France and England. Adieu to the sands. Throughout the cruise she... ... do you mean your wife—egad, it’d be a pretty scene, with your princess in hip-up petticoats, stiff as bottle-funnel top down’ards, airing a whole leg... ...e the first syllable of his name, while we consign him to oblivion, with a hip, hip, hip, hurrah for Richmond!’ The cheers responded thunderingly, and...

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... Nina. He absorbed himself in his dream of wealth and power away from this coast where he had dwelt for so many years, forgetting the bitter- ness of ... ..., he would forget the twenty-five years of heart-breaking struggle on this coast where he felt like a prisoner. All this was nearly 4 Almayer’s Folly... ...rope had swallowed up the Rajah Laut apparently, and Almayer looked vainly westward for a ray of light out of the gloom of his shattered hopes. Y ears... ...Almayer’s Folly CHAPTER IV THAT YEAR, towards the breaking up of the south-west mon- soon, disquieting rumours reached Sambir. Captain Ford, com- ing ... ...ic duties and disregarding the possibilities of domestic discontent, while groups of children brought up the rear, warbling joyously, in the delight o... ...rnal hand. The men strolled slowly after them in ever forming and changing groups that gradually dis- solved as they neared the settlement and every m...

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...quite, Especially when life is rather new: I recollect Great Britain’s coast looks white, But almost every other country ‘s blue, When gaz... ...d sent them this for their deliverance. The land appear’d a high and rocky coast, And higher grew the mountains as they drew, Set by a current... ... Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountai... ...t once withdrew. Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring; Though Wilberforce, at last, has... ... Like a backgammon board the place was dotted With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale, Though rather more irregularly spotted: So... ... or gold or diamond flings Great lustre, there is much to be forgiven; Groups of bad statues, tables, chairs, and pictures, On which I cannot ... ...lay on their backs, The readiest way of reasoning with Cossacques. One’s hip he slash’d, and split the other’s shoulder, And drove them with t...

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...‘strange defeatures’ in Scottish society. A vast capital has arisen in the west, on a level with the first-rate capitalists of the Continent—with Vien... ...with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Te... ...were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very early established amon... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ...f a spanselled horse, as in past days upon the Cornish and the South Irish coast it was employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leading rig...

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... Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the va... ...is always moving bodily sideways. At Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. As a result, the original site of t... ...e date 1542, standing by itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds pe... ...n a hundred and fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in ... ... law that was often broken. All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the bac... ...se for them to pursue, and they pursued it. They came forward in couples and groups, and proffered their twelve dollars and asked for membership. They... ...r was over, but carry freights; so straightway some genius from the Atlantic coast introduced the plan of towing a dozen steamer cargoes down to New O... ...and by. He was standing musing on a street corner, with his left hand on his hip, the thumb of his right supporting his chin, face bowed and frowning,...

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...the years 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in the thirties obtained a ... ...ears 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in the thirties obtained a certa... ... and almost immediately with the darkening of the ocean dusk fell upon the coasts of the young Republic. Above the gloom of the low- lands the snowy p... ...lusion that there must be some untrustworthy elements amongst the Lon- don groups. And I came over to see what could be done quietly. “My first step w... ...ody got ashore all right. Gale didn’t come on till next day, dead from the West, and broke up that brute in a surprisingly short time. It was as thoug... ...ut the band had broken up, and were entering the alley in small conversing groups. The Count sat up straight and tried to think calmly of what had hap...