Excerpt Details
... Grave talk ------------ Don't talk of graves at your tender age Not until your rickety rack is a trembling wreck Till your white-film eyes are all but blind And your toothless head is utterly deaf Until each day blinks and the world is a ghost Till you're grimly emaciated, decrepitly thin Mind overthrown, no recollection of anything Wait...

Table of Contents Details
... 25 November, the beat 26 Man molests Molly 28 Met Winter 29 Lights out 30 Opening wine 31 Setting sights 32 A Luas cums into the Green 33 Chimney-pot puff 34 Malin head 35 Hunting happiness 36 The joke 37 Mundane tourist...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: [The curtain rises on a stage set for a Harlequinade, a merry black and white interior. Directly behind the footlights, and running parallel with them, is a long table, covered with a gay black and white cloth, on which is spread a banquet. At the opposite ends of this table, seated on delicate t...

Full Text Search Details
...e] [The curtain rises on a stage set for a Harlequinade, a merry black and white interior. Directly behind the footlights, and running parallel with t... ... running parallel with them, is a long table, covered with a gay black and white cloth, on which is spread a banquet. At the opposite ends of this tab... ... IERRO O O O OT T T T T: I thought it rather nice. Well, let us drink some wine and lose our heads And love each other. COL COL COL COL COLUMBINE UMBI... ... IERRO O O O OT T T T T: La, what a woman!—how should I know? Pour me some wine: I’ll tell you presently. COL COL COL COL COLUMBINE UMBINE UMBINE UMBI... ...ERR IERRO O O O OT T T T T: Oh, very well!—Anyway, I am tired Of black and white. At least, I think I am. [Exit C C C C COL OL OL OL OLUMBINE UMBINE U... ...wears its burdocks As if they were a garland,—have you noticed? Purple and white—and drinks the bitten grass As if it were a wine. 9 Edna St. Vincent... ... you noticed? Purple and white—and drinks the bitten grass As if it were a wine. 9 Edna St. Vincent Millay COR COR COR COR CORYDON YDON YDON YDON YDO... ...R COR COR COR CORYDON YDON YDON YDON YDON: And a green one—and a couple Of white ones, for a change. THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS THYRSIS: Maybe I ... ...ack confetti—into the pot which contained the flower and filled it up with wine from the punch-bowl on the floor. He comes to the wall at the same tim...

Full Text Search Details
...o large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless. Here, in the ... ...opographical interest. The Vale was known in former times as the Forest of White Hart, from a curious legend of King Henry III.’s reign, in which the ... ... reign, in which the killing by a certain Thomas de la Lynd of a beautiful white hart which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of... ...ood of some sort; and it walked still. The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May... ...en hedges and creeper laced house fronts; for, though the whole troop wore white garments, no two whites were alike among them. Some approached pure b... ...moonlight, and of Nature, seemed harmoniously to mingle with the spirit of wine. XI T he twain cantered along for some time without speech, Tess as sh... ...l walk out a little way.’ He quietly left the room, and the two glasses of wine that he had poured out for their supper — one for her, one for him — r... ...s; the spread supper table, whereon stood the two full glasses of untasted wine, now flat and filmy; her vacated seat and his own; the other articles of... ...soon returned, with food enough for half a dozen people and two bottles of wine — enough to last them for a day or more, should any emergency arise. T...

Full Text Search Details
...ill gotten goods t’ embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine. or worse. in war and wantonness The Compleat Angler — Walton 35 Let... ...ow let’s go to an honest ale house, where we may have a cup of good barley wine, and sing “ Old Rose,” and all of us rejoice together. Venator. Come, ... ...ise upon his tail, by a Pike or some other accident; and that looks like a white spot. That very Chub I mean to put into your hands presently; sit you... ...rial of my skill; there he is: that very Chub, that I showed you, with the white spot on his tail. And I’ll be as certain to make him a good dish of m... ... Then I may tell you, That a black snail, with his belly slit, to show his white, or a piece of soft cheese, will usually do as well. Nay, sometimes a... ...u will find in the same place, and in time will be a beetle; it is a short white worm, like to and bigger than a gentle; or a cod worm; or a case wor... ...n this and foreign nations. He may be justly said, as the old poet said of wine, and we English say of venison, to be a generous fish: a fish that is ... ...ut known by their different colour; and in their best season they cut very white: and none of these have been known to be caught with an angle, unless... ...hat other meat the house will afford; and give us some of your best barley wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did use to think of; the ...

Excerpt Details
...of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the ?Coach and Horses? more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. ?A fire,? he cried, ?in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!? He stamped and shook ...

Full Text Search Details
...se; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the “Coach and Hors... ...s she did so her visitor moved quickly, so that she got but a glimpse of a white object disappearing behind the table. It would seem he was picking 5... ...r. For a moment she stood gaping at him, too surprised to speak. He held a white cloth—it was a serviette he had brought with him—over the lower part ... ...was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of hi... ...ue glasses. “Leave the hat,” he said, speaking very distinctly through the white cloth. Her nerves began to recover from the shock they had re- ceived... ...ls, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles—putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on...

Full Text Search Details
... there are, else how would the world go on? Why, I’ve seen them by swarms, white or brown or black, running down to the shore as soon as the vessel ca... ...e black figures, faces, heads, and feet all black, but with an odd sort of white gar- ment round their waists, and some fine red and green feath- ers ... ...strange language, it sounded like English to Lucy. “Is that the way little white girl speaks to boy and girl that have come all the way from Isabel to... ...how that I am brave. When father comes home from the war he paints himself white.” “White?” “With lime made by burning coral, and he jumps and dances ... ...ucy, “it is horrid.” The boy laughed, but the little girl whispered, “Good white men say so. Some day Lavo will go and learn, and leave off fighting.”... ... and gentle- looking eyes, was waiting to be loaded with baskets. “T o the wine-press! to the press!” shouted the children, who were politeness itself... ...hildren, who were politeness itself and wanted to show her everything. The wine-press was a great marble trough with pipes lead- ing off into other ve...

Full Text Search Details
...her! What is the odds so long as the spirit is ex panded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!’ ‘You ... ...d only one behind, a bright check necker chief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to ... ...high crowned hat, a worn dark suit, a pair of capacious shoes, and a dirty white neckerchief sufficiently limp and crumpled to disclose the greater po... ...airs. ‘Here’s Nelly Trent, dear Mrs Quilp, ’ said her husband. ‘A glass of wine, my dear, and a biscuit, for she has had a long walk. She’ll sit with ... ...e sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.’ Mr Richard Swiveller’s apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury... ...he figu rative and poetical character of Mr Swiveller’s mind, as the rosy wine was in fact represented by one glass of cold gin and water, which was ... ... designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embelished by no orna ment but one blushing rose, received him on h... ...d as the air stirred among its leaves, it threw a rip pling shadow on the white wall. The old man sat watch ing the shadows as they trembled in this... ...eable habits, was gasp ing and growling with his mouth wide open, and the whites (or rather the dirty yellows) of his eyes distinctly visible. It was...

Full Text Search Details
...n eyes, faded perhaps by age, but whose pupils, contrasting with the pearl-white balls on which they floated, cast at times mag- netic glances of ange... ...such a head upon a lean and feeble body, surround it with lace of dazzling whiteness worked in meshes like a fish- slice, festoon the black velvet dou... ...breakfast. Come, both of you, to my house. I have some smoked ham and good wine. Hey! hey! in spite of the degenerate times we will talk painting; we ... ...e Frenhofer,” said Porbus, “could you order up a little of your good Rhine wine for me?” “T wo casks,” answered the host; “one to pay for the plea- su... ...our most illustrious painters have fallen into it. In my work you will see whiteness beneath the opacity of the broad- est shadow. Unlike the crowd of... ...the inexplicable curiosity of a true artist. The strange old man, with his white eyes fixed in stupor, became to the wondering youth something more th... ... neither pleasure nor instruction; while to the artistic soul itself,—that white-winged angel of sportive fancy,—epics, works of art, and visions rise...

Full Text Search Details
...ame. He wears a thick black coat, dark brown breeches, and top boots, very white in colour, or of a very dark mahogany, according to his taste. The hu... ...ow before us shall wear the old black coat, and the old black hat, and the white top boots, rather daubed in their whiteness; and he shall be the genu... ...ountry, and should my gentle reader by chance have taken a glass or two of wine above ordi- nary over night, the effect of which will possibly be a te... ...egards the upper man there can never be a difference. A chimney-pot hat, a white neckerchief, somewhat broad in its folds and strong with plentiful st...

Full Text Search Details
...women marrying indiscrimi- nately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, white-eyed boys, and men dwell in contentment with noisy scullions, or taki... ...en who work themselves into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these 58 Robert Louis Stevenso... ...- dow-panes at morning, the reluctant descent of the first flakes, and the white roofs relieved against the sombre sky. And yet the stuff of which the... ...r his feeble body; and the barrier-hills are as impassable as ever. Many a white town that sits far out 65 Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers on the... ...hour; but although we have some anticipation of good health, good weather, wine, active employment, love, and self-approval, the sum of these anticipa... ...n they draw in their chairs to dinner. Indeed, a good meal and a bottle of wine is an answer to most standard 74 Robert Louis Stevenson works upon th... ...fellow apparently; and it is related of him that he would chew and swallow wineglasses, by way of convivial levity, till the blood ran out of his mout... ...f political economy between Westminster and Birmingham. Greenville chewing wineglasses at table makes no very pleasant figure, any more than a thousan... ...question still hung in the balance; and I suppose their bones were already white, before the winds and the waves and the humour of Indian chiefs and S...

Full Text Search Details
...he arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.” Like wil... ...for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan’s splen did white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Ra... ...u now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacri fice.” 3... ... his own sport.” Abstain and enjoy. 37 Aesop’s Fables The Old Woman and the Wine Jar AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of pr... ... Jar AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. ... ...drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which con... ...able to find you, when the day of payment comes?’ Two blacks do not make one white. The Peacock and the Crane A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mo... ...eeing some Doves in a cote abundantly pro vided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance. The ... ...njoyed his supper. He replied, “Why, to tell you the truth, I drank so much wine that I remember nothing. I do not know how I got out of the house.” ...

Full Text Search Details
...eant to cozen him: but after ma-ny 1553 ceremonies done, hee calls for wine, a health quoth 1554 he, as if he had beene aboord carowsing to hi... ... strew’d, cobwebs swept, the seruingmen 1683 in their new fustian, the white stockings, and euery offi-cer 1684 his wedding garment on? Be the... ...o, 2327 Hast thou beheld a fresher Gentlewoman: 2328 Such warre of white and red within her cheekes: 2329 What stars do spangle heauen wit... ...but you two are sped. 2745 ’Twas I wonne the wager, though you hit the white, 2746 And being a winner, God giue you good night. 2747 Exit ...

Full Text Search Details
... was booted and spurred, as if he had dismounted from a long ride; he wore a white hat, which looked too large for him; he held his two hands behind h... ...large for him; he held his two hands behind him, and in one of them—a large, white, well shaped fist—was crumpled a pair of soiled dog skin gloves. His... ...ent and excited. She had seated herself and had put away the little dog; her white hands, in her lap, were folded upon her black dress; her head was e... ...ng been out of use but had never been removed. They were exactly alike—large white doors, with an arched frame and wide side lights, perched upon litt... ... extremely numerous, and were painted all over exactly alike, in a yellowish white which had grown sallow with time. On the third floor there was a sor... ... what are called cultivated tastes—an acquaintance with old china, with good wine, with the bindings of books, with the Almanach de Gotha, with the be... ...convictions I’m dreadful company for Pansy.” Osmond took a sip of a glass of wine; he looked perfectly good humoured. “My dear Amy,” he answered, smil...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ONE THING was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: --it was the black kitten?s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, consider...

Full Text Search Details
... . . . . 110 CHAPTER I Looking Glass House O NE THING was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: — it was the black kitten’s... ...had nothing to do with it: — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the las... ...y, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr — no doubt... ...at it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ”Go to sleep, darlings, till the summ... ...,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel — and ... ...on’ 89 Completed my design To keep the Menai bridge from rust By boiling it in wine. I thanked much for telling me The way he got his wealth, But chie... ...ing else that is pleasant to drink: Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine — And welcome Queen Alice with ninety times nine!’ ‘Ninety times n... ...all that trickled down their faces — others upset the decanters, and drank the wine as it ran off the edges of the table — and three of them (who look...

Full Text Search Details
...at he was a man who had a leaning towards pretty girls and bottles of good wine; and I should suppose that if the girl were kind and fairly winsome, h... ...nsisted that she should possess Helen’s beauty, that if the bottle of good wine were not forthcom- ing, he would have been very tolerant of a mug of g... ...by native shrewdness and acquired observation—that to look too much on the wine when it is red, or on the cards when they are parti-coloured, is ruino... ...r.” She then raised herself a little in her bed, and discovered one of the whitest necks that ever was seen; at which Joseph blushed. “La!” says she, ... ...the allurements of her na- tive charms, she had given him tea, sweetmeats, wine, and many other delicacies, of which, by keeping the keys, she had the... ...f sweetness as of fire; his nose a little inclined to the Roman; his teeth white and even; his lips full, red, and soft; his beard was only rough on h... ... in bed was a greater man than they took him for; for, besides the extreme whiteness of his skin, and the softness of his hands, she ob- served a very... ...nd for a bett,” cries the coachman, “I will match my spotted dog with your white bitch for a hundred, play or pay.”—“Done,” says the other: “and I’ll ... ...stly stocked with them, that really, unless they come out with the name of Whitefield or Wesley, or some other such great man, as a bishop, or those s...

Full Text Search Details
...ll his appearance odd was his great length and leanness of limb, his long, white neck, his blue, prominent eyes, and his ingenuous, unconscious absorp... ... one a sense of sentimental, arti- ficial gracefulness. She was dressed in white muslin very much puffed and filled, but a trifle the worse for wear, ... ...end to whom she had promised it; when I again looked across at the lady in white muslin, she was drawing in a very goodly pile of gold with her little... ...s scattered in couples. One of these fig- ures, I thought, was a lady in a white dress. I had no intention of letting Pickering go without re- minding... ...sense of liberation; it keeps ris- ing to my head like the fumes of strong wine. I find I am an active, sentient, intelligent creature, with desires, ... ...has been living these many years at Smyrna. Isabel has grown up there in a white-walled garden, in an or- ange grove, between her father and her gover...

Full Text Search Details
...ader. Apollo smiled in approval and the marble hall, with its gleaming pillars of white and gold, glowed in his radiance. When they turned to leave... ...sire, instantly yielded to him even without the assistance of Dionysus’ enchanted wine. Apollo nodded to her to begin. Raising her hands in the ai... .... Languidly, she moved in time to the music, allowing the silken folds of her long white garment to flow around her like soft ripples in a becalmed ... ... the water tumbling Dancing With Fate 13 down the mountainside in a frenzy of white froth, the spray catching the rays cast by Helios, making ... ...on a rock, his ever-present maenads fawning at his feet. He held out a goblet of wine. “You seem in poor spirits, sister. Have a drink; it will pu... ...etter humor.” “I’m fine, Dionysus. I’m about to go home. I don’t need any of your wine.” She turned her head away from the sight of the maenads dru... ... the vines around his neck to bounce and rustle. Again, he held out the goblet of wine. “Oh, we are ‘Miss Prim and Proper’ today, aren’t we? Go on,... ...ld mare, with a black mane and tail and four black stockings trotted up to her. A white star graced her forehead as she tossed back her forelock an... ... turned his face to her and kissed his brow. His eyes were closed, his skin deadly white. By Hades, her aim had not been good enough, had not staye...

Full Text Search Details
...ly 7 Dumas mantling cheeks; she passed across the paper a delicate hand, whose thinness announced her extreme youth. At each burst of laughter that p... ...which M. de Bragelonne had en- tered the castle. In the meantime the object of so much laudable curiosity continued his route, following the steps of ... ...ness of the country; some of them were acquainted with Raoul, and all knew that he came from Paris. It might be said that his arrival for a moment sus... ... did the same. As soon as he was fairly in the net he heard a loud cry, and, turning round, saw at two paces from him, with her hands clasped and her ... ...seated at a table cov- ered with papers and books; he was still the noble, hand- some gentleman of former days, but time had given to this nobleness a... ... man’s arm, and went out into the garden with him. Grimaud looked at Raoul with a melancholy air as the young man passed out; observing that his head ... ...Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 This was a man of scarcely thirty years of age, hand- some, tall, austere, or rather melancholy, in all his gestures and loo... ...Dinner has already been re- fused; this is affronting to the house of les Medici. Look, monsieur, the supper is on the table, and I venture to say tha... ... certain glance which not even habit gives unless that glance belongs to genius. Then, when all were placed, he chose as his headquar- ters the ante-c...

Excerpt Details
...hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: ?Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.?...

Table of Contents Details
................................................................................................................................................. 67 The White Seal ........................................................................................................................................................... 69 Lukannon .................................................

Full Text Search Details
...................................................................... 67 The White Seal ................................................................... ...d: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble chil- dren that they may never forget the hungry ... ...into the very mouth of the tiger. “Man!” said Father Wolf, showing all his white teeth. “Faugh! Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks th... ...reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and... ...e night with black lumps. And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered insid... ...hly enjoy- ing himself. That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed him- self three times over...

Table of Contents Details
..... 35 CHAPTER V. SPINNEY LAWN .................................................................................................... 44 CHAPTER VI. THE WHITE DOE?S WARNING ....................................................................... 51 CHAPTER VII. HUNTING............................................................................................................ 6...

Full Text Search Details
.......................................................... 44 CHAPTER VI. THE WHITE DOE’S WARNING .......................................................... ...en visited them, and was on friendly terms. When he found that there was a white woman living as a captive among them, he spared no effort to rescue h... ...yes, though she was scarcely pretty otherwise, and we used to call her the White Doe of Rylstone. T orwood was six or seven years older, and no one su... ...y young man I ever saw, with a hawk nose, a clear rosy skin, pure pink and white like a boy’s, curly little rings of white hair, blue eyes clear and b... ...n months! I came down so glad, and it was so pleasant to see Emily, in her white dress, leaning over my father while he had gone so happily into his o... ...down to dinner without them, and Torwood sent for some gravy soup and some wine for him. He went on talking—sometimes about us, but more often about p... ...d those brothers of mine, they actually grew compassionate; they ran after wine; they called us to bring salts, and help her. Emily shuddered, and put... ...hing! ’twasn’t that. Yes, he’s gone, out by the window.” He swallowed some wine and then sat up, leaning against me as I sat at the bottom of the stai...

Full Text Search Details
...r in search of stimu- lation, with excited faces, and revels that began in wine, to end shortly in the Seine. The passion is there in full mea- 5 Bal... ... peril and vice as a young priest handles the unconse- crated wafer in the white mass. One or two experts at the game, shrewd speculators, had placed ... ...d aside against the para- pet to allow a porter to pass, his coat had been whitened 11 Balzac somewhat by the contact, and he carefully brushed the d... ...ghtly raised as she stepped to the pavement, disclosing a daintily fitting white stocking over the delicate outlines beneath. The young lady went into... ... confused reflections of various hues, by the sharp contrast of blacks and whites. Broken cries seemed to reach the ear, unfinished dramas seized upon... ...n a long black velvet gown girded round him by a thick silk cord. His long white hair escaped on either side of his face from under a black velvet cap... ...ns, witty, unwarped by preju- dice, merry to the verge of madness! Let one wine succeed another, each more biting and perfumed than the last, and stro... ...h and heaven in the final embrace that is to kill me. Therefore, after the wine, I wish to hold high festival to Priapus, with songs that might rouse ... ..., the country of joy, liberty, wit, pretty women, mauvais sujets, and good wine; where the truncheon of authority never makes itself disagreeably felt...

Full Text Search Details
...thern Literary Messenger,” a monthly magazine, published by Mr. Thomas W . White, in the city of Richmond. He strongly advised me, among others, to pr... ...astonished in my life, not knowing what he intended, and thinking that the wines and liquors he had drunk had set him entirely beside himself. He proc... ...s hardly possible to conceive the extremity of my terror. The fumes of the wine lately taken had evaporated, leaving me doubly timid and irresolute. I... ...r were pressing heavily upon my bosom—his hot breath was in my ear—and his white and ghastly fangs were gleaming upon me through the gloom. Had a thou... ...hat I could not see my hand, however close I would hold it to my face. The white slip of paper could barely be discerned, and not even that when I loo... ...eived by the altered position of his eyes), and displayed the whole of his white fangs, which were easily dis- cernible. I took the remains of the ham... ...ping- place, living altogether in the cabin since the mutiny, drinking the wines and feasting on the sea-stores of Captain Barnard, and giving no more... ...while 61 V olume Three the face was shrunken, shrivelled, and of a chalky whiteness, except where relieved by two or three glaring red blotches like ... ...d our joy may be conceived when I say that it was found to be full of port wine. Giving thanks to God for this timely and cheering assistance, we imme...

Full Text Search Details
...thing on earth to please him. There is a picture of her in an immense flat white silk hat trimmed with pale blue, like a pavilion, the broadest brim e... ... of her in the Long Saloon of Cresset Castle, where she stands in blue and white, completely dressed, near a table support- ing a couple of holster pi... ...and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into action with the title of Kirby’s Ghost. But his heart ... ...dith of them, you may believe, like the lord of that table, with his great white beard and hair—not a lock of it shed—and his bronze lion-face, and a ... ...ace, and a resolute but a merry eye that he had. He was no deep drinker of wine, but when he did drink, and the wine champagne, he drank to show his d... ...ing for the mountains down in her native West country, covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a tall hat of her Welsh women-folk; an... ...Amazing Marriage and a plain dumpling, for their dinner, with ale and port wine, the merit of which he swore to; and he became so elate, that after th... ...st was he in everything he did. They say his limit was two bottles of port wine at a sitting, with his glass of hot grog to follow, and not a soul cou... ...he smell of rock-waters and roots of herb and moss grew keen; air became a wine that raised the breast high to breathe it; an uplifting coolness perva...

Full Text Search Details
..., spare man, wore a nut-brown spencer over a coat of uncertain green, with white metal buttons. A man in a spencer in the year 1844! it was as if Napo... ...e socks clean. The rusty tinge of his black breeches, like the cut and the white or shiny line of the creases, assigned the date of the purchase some ... ...ith thick lips and a sensual mouth; and when he smiled, displayed a set of white teeth which would have done credit to a shark. A shawl-waistcoat, lik... ...shark. A shawl-waistcoat, likewise of black cloth, was supple- mented by a white under-waistcoat, and yet again beneath this gleamed the edge of a red... ...nitted under-jacket, to put you in mind of Garat’s five waistcoats. A huge white muslin stock with a conspicuous bow, invented by some exquisite to ch... ...cadaverous complexion might have been contracted in the flask of spirit-of-wine in which sci- ence preserves some extraordinary foetus. Artist though ... ...tairs, and cried audibly, “Oh! here comes the sponger!” She stinted him of wine when she waited at dinner in the footman’s absence; she filled the wat... ... as her boarder Schmucke. “Lord love you,” said she, “for three francs and wine extra I can give you both such a dinner every day that you will be rea... ...s obliged to retrench at once; for dinner at forty-five francs a month and wine at thirty-five meant precisely eighty francs less to spend on bric-a-b...

Full Text Search Details
...ish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand be- tween the three centre piers stood squat cribs of railway-sl... ...ed and shrieked up and down the embankments, the piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards were unpinned, and wit... ...ters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, under direction, the bevies of... ... line, growing to a yell, half fear and half wonder: the face of the river whitened from bank to bank between the stone facings, and the faraway spurs... ...running from boat to boat in straight lines and angles—each rope a line of white fire. But there was one rope which was the master rope. He could see ... ..., slowly, “that to those fast- ing and unused, the opium is worse than any wine. Those who die in Gunga go to the Gods. Still, I have no desire to pre... ...ince!” said William, her chin on her hand, as she leaned forward among the wine~glasses. Her cheeks had fallen in, and the scar on her forehead was mo... ...he feast was some Madeira of the kind you can only come by if you know the wine and the man. A little maize-wrapped fig of clotted Ma- deira cigars we... ... man. A little maize-wrapped fig of clotted Ma- deira cigars went with the wine, and the rest was a pale blue smoky silence; Janet, in her splendour, ...

Excerpt Details
...e boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet “Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;     White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;         Fast fading violets cover’d up in leaves;             And mid-May’s eldest child,     The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,         The murmurous haunt of flies on su...

Table of Contents Details
...t to Solitude Epistle to George Felton Mathew To —— (Had I a Man's Fair Form...) To —— (Hadst Thou Liv'd in Days of Old...) I Am As Brisk Women, Wine, and Snuff Specimen of an Induction to a Poem Calidore To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's Eve To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses Happy Is England! I Could Be Content To My Bro...

Full Text Search Details
... Nationality: noun Argentine(s); adjec- tive Argentine Ethnic divisions: 85% white, 15% mestizo, Indian, or other nonwhite groups Religion: 90% nomina... ...ity: noun Bahamian(s); adjec- tive Bahamian Ethnic divisions: 85% black, 15% white Religion: Baptist 29%, Anglican 23%, Boman Catholic 22%, smaller gr... ...y: noun Bermudian(s); adjec- tive Bermudian Ethnic divisions: 61% black, 39% white and other Religion: 37% Anglican, 14% Roman Catholic, 10% African M... ... divisions: 95% Batswana; about 4% Kalanga, Basarwa, and Kgalagadi; about 1% white Religion: 50% indigenous beliefs, 50% Christian Language: English (... ...nic divisions: Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, black, Amerindian; 55% white, 38% mixed, 6% black, 1% other Religion: (1980) 89% Roman Catholic ... ...5); principal items food and beverages, including citrus, raisins, potatoes, wine; also cement and clothing; Turkish sector $48.8 million (f.o.b., 198... ...e's foremost producer; beef, dairy products, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; self- sufficient for most temperate zone food- stuffs; agric... ...orts: $47.8 million (1983); principally reexports of tobacco, petroleum, and wine Imports: $136.8 million (1983); principally manufactured goods, fuel... ...4) Natural resources: iron ore Agriculture: mixed farming, dairy prod- ucts, wine Major industries: banking, iron and steel, food processing, chemical...

Excerpt Details
...row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to reci...

Full Text Search Details
...cross the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwine... ...e harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple translucent form, which floated above the altar and t... ...at began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at his chest and then smoothly ent... ...looked out the window, which was 5 J.Cross/Artemis slightly ajar, at two white doves sitting on the ledge, cooing. “I have a special request. A... ...subtly and not so subtly, the most influential Cardinals. However, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pop... ... lunch. Probably, goat cheese, crusted bread, fresh fruit, and a glass of red wine. Antonio started up the steps just as his father saw him. "Anton... ... Antonio left the room and found his father on the front porch finishing his wine and cheese. "What do the doctors say, Papa?" "Doctors! What do ... ...onio entered the crowded cafe, late diners feasted on their favorite food and wine. They ate and talked while wildly waving their hands and arms, whi... ...turned to Antonio. "Antonio would you offer our friend of a glass of Sacristy wine." "Sacristy wine, Your Holiness?" Antonio said sounding shocked ...

Full Text Search Details
...y one watch is kept on deck at a time. The men are all dressed in their best white duck trowsers, and red or checked shirts, and have nothing to do bu... ...s unbroken, but a long, heavy swell was rolling, and we saw the fellow, all white, directly ahead of us, asleep upon the waves, with his head under h... ...or cottages, nearly an hundred in number, the best of them built of mud and whitewashed, but the greater part only Robinson Crusoe like—of posts and... ...each upon which they were to break, when their tops would curl over and turn white with foam, and, beginning at one extreme of the line, break rapidl... ...e of a mud color. The red tiles, too, on the roofs, contrasted well with the white plastered sides and with the extreme greenness of the lawn upon w... ...ake nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy bad wines made in Boston and brought round by us, at an immense price, and re... ...price, and retail it among themselves at a real (12 1/2 cents) by the small wine glass. Their hides, too, which they value at two dollars in money, t... ... they must have if they had nothing else, and beef and bread, and a hint for wine, if they had any, he went off to another building, across the court... ... few moments, with a couple of Indian boys, bearing dishes and a decanter of wine. The dishes contained baked meats, frijoles stewed with peppers and ...

Full Text Search Details
... WHEN YOU ARE OLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 THE WHITE BIRDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 A DREA... ...leth the rover Sorrow, All day and night.’ ‘What do you weave with wool so white?’ ‘I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light... ...s a flutter round me, the beech leaves old. I sat and mused and drank sweet wine; A herdsman came from inland valleys, Crying, the pirates drove his sw... ...ens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But ... ...iver my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But... ... hair, From the wives, and the cats, and the children, To the birds in the white of the air. The birds, for he opened their cages As he went up and do... ...ded about him And many a sweet thing said, And a young man brought him red wine And a young girl white bread. But Bridget drew him by the sleeve Away ... ... men playing at cards With a twinkling of ancient hands. The bread and the wine had a doom, For these were the host of the air; He sat and played in a... ...e day And whither the wise heart knows; And one has seen in the redness of wine The Incorruptible Rose, ‘That drowsily drops faint leaves on him And t...

Full Text Search Details
...portrait of Locke. He has the same deep eye-sockets.” “Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” 17 George Eliot “Oh, I dare say! when peo... ...d, having delivered it to his groom, ad- vanced towards her with something white on his arm, at which the two setters were barking in an excited manne... ... see if he will be approved before his petition is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s... ...ia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the “Pilgrim’s P... ...nouncement on Dorothea. It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare... ... the fine flavor in the name of Brooke if it were delivered casually, like wine without a seal? Certainly a man can only be cosmopoli- tan up to a cer... ...w—and young—young enough.’ These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic. However, if I were a ma... ... and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in t... ...m, including reckless cup- ping, nor, on the other hand, of incessant port wine and bark. He said “I think so” with an air of so much deference accom-...

Full Text Search Details
...portrait of Locke. He has the same deep eye sockets.” “Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain ... ...and, having delivered it to his groom, advanced towards her with something white on his arm, at which the two setters were barking in an excited manne... ... see if he will be approved before his petition is offered.” He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature’s... ...ia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink and white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the “Pilgrim’s Pr... ...nnouncement on Dorothea. It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare... ... the fine flavor in the name of Brooke if it were deliv ered casually, like wine without a seal? Certainly a man can only be cosmopolitan up to a certa... ...w—and young—young enough.’ These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic. However, if I were a ma... ... and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in t... ...tem, including reckless cupping, nor, on the other hand, of incessant port wine and bark. He said “I think so” with an air of so much def erence acco...

Full Text Search Details
...ch covered his head – bald but for one lock of hair not grey but yellowish-white – all his movements, which seemed performed, as it were, aimlessly, a... ... eldest daughter, a little German miss with flaxen curls, very much like a white mouse. The waltz was welcomed with pleasure. I used to go to Muller’s... ...y, in a low voice, almost a whisper. “I’m…not well,” she added, and turned white as a sheet. “You’d better go, Natasha. You wanted to just now and fet... ...ently at him, but her eyes grew dimmer and more fixed, and her face turned whiter and whiter. I fancied at last that she had sunk into a stupor and di... ...ring oil on the flames. “No, I haven’t!” he shouted, trembling and turning white. “I haven’t, for no one feels for me! For in my own house they’re all... ...he first place to sip the cup that cheers and to toss off a glass of birch wine, and another of orange bitters, then a Parfait amour, and anything els... ...“I’ve been run off my feet ever since yester- day. I ran to the Nevsky for wine, and here . . .” And she went out, slamming the door angrily. Natasha ... ... it savouries. There was game, fish of some sort, two bottles of excellent wine from Eliseyev. What were all these preparations for, I wondered. 193 ... ...o or three dishes. They were ex- pensive and so was the bottle of delicate wine which he or- dered. All this was beyond my means. I looked at the bill...

Excerpt Details
...tterance and every painting bought was scant consolation – especially as no one was buying! After an hour of eavesdropping among the usual crush of wine-sipping social scramblers, I wished I hadn’t. Stepping back, I collided with an elderly, shapeless little woman loosely wrapped in a sari decorated with mirrors. ‘Young man!’ she demanded as though I’d been caught spra...

Full Text Search Details
... each ornament as we put them on the tree. The ornament I like best is the white angel. My grandmother and I made it out of a thimble. This is one of ... ...uirements. 21 Volume 5 D RIVE CAREFULLY!” my dad yells out the l arge white door as I leave the house. I slowly walk toward my car and a feeling ... ...er to my house for a sleepover. We were make believe princesses, who drank wine from empty glasses. By now I should have learned that pretending was s... ...tending was safe, but the temptation was too strong. I found the bottle of wine in the kitchen; and somehow I managed to open it to treat my girlfrien... ...urgundy. I did not like it, but she did. After tossing down two glasses of wine, my eight-year-old girlfriend became drunk and sick. She missed two da... ...c, the servers are dressed in outfits from Fifties’ restaurants. They wear white uniforms with white paper hats, and usually have grease stains on the...