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...pecimen, made solely for Mme. de Pompadour’—and so on, till my man, all on fire for his what-not, forgets the fan, and lets me have it for a mere trif... ... house of his kinsman, Pons no longer counted as a man; he was a digestive apparatus. 37 Balzac In the course of a long tirade, Mme. Camusot de Marvi... ... as the indirect cause of all his misfortunes, refused him bread and salt, fire, lodging, and tobacco—the force of the paternal malediction in a Germa... ...of breaking up the best cemented alliances. “I have set La Cibot nicely on fire,” Remonencq told his sister, when she came to take up her position aga... ...an to treat me so,” wept La Cibot, now released,—”me that would go through fire and water for you both! Ah! well, well, they say that that is the way ... ...an, in the conceptions of the inventor, or the soldier’s toils of war; the fire within is apt to flash out in gleams of marvelously vivid light, like ...

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...e hills have no large trees upon them, they having been all burnt by a great fire which swept them off about a dozen years before, and they had not ye... ...hem off about a dozen years before, and they had not yet grown up again. The fire was described to me by an inhabitant, as having been a very terrib... ...es; furniture; and in fact, everything that can be imagined, from Chinese fire works to English cart wheels—of which we had a dozen pairs with thei... ...ass, and representing some miracle or martyrdom. They have no chimneys or fire places in the houses, the climate being such as to make a fire unne... ...e our anchor up, set our topsails, ran the stars and stripes up to the peak, fired a gun, which was returned from the Presidio, and left the little to... ...t, a small, low building, with one room, containing a fire place, cooking apparatus, etc., and the rest of it unfinished, and used as a place to s... ... little time they would have for laying and clearing away a table with its apparatus, and the room it would take up in a forecastle, as well as the...

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...twenty-three: there was nothing in her appearance or manner to suggest the fire of youth. All her life had been spent at Sawston 18 Where Angels Fear... ... margin. She gave a shriek and flung the card into the grate. Of course no fire was alight in July, and Irma only had to run and pick it out again. “H... ...he shall be instantly slain, either by bows or by cross- bows, or by Greek fire. Beware, however, of the back bedroom windows. For they are menaced by... ... beyond the walls olive-trees in the starlight and white winding roads and fireflies and untroubled dust; and here in the middle of it all, Miss Abbot... ...self had been trivial. Now the baby had gone, but there remained this vast apparatus of pride and pity and love. For the dead, who seemed to take away...

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...houlder to the tail, including the hind- legs, we perhaps see traces of an apparatus origi- nally constructed for gliding through the air rather than ... ...r I do not know which view is now gener- ally held, a part of the auditory apparatus has been worked in as a complement to the swimbladder. All 175 C... ... an ancient prototype, of which we know nothing, furnished with a floating apparatus or swimbladder. We can thus, as I infer from Profes- sor Owen’s i... ...ely been shown that Rays have an organ closely analo- gous to the electric apparatus, and yet do not, as Matteuchi asserts, discharge any electricity,... ...with their parasitic habits; for they do not possess the pollen-collecting apparatus which would be necessary if they had to store food for their own ... ...th America suffered under an Arctic climate. The ruins of a house burnt by fire do not tell their tale more plainly, than do the mountains of Scotland...

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...it, would it not?” he answered coolly. Then, leaning forward once more, he fired at me: “Why did you write to an official so high?” 21 e e cummings A... ... arrival. The French government didn’t keep people like me in prison.—They fired some ques- tions about America at me, to which I imaginatively replie... ... veux bien.” And collapsed on the mattress. “Pas de quart, vous?” the face fired at me. “Comprends pas,” I replied, wondering what on earth the words ... ...hout much ado on B.’s bed— which groaned ominously in protest—and hungrily fired questions at me. The bear meanwhile, looking as if nothing had happen... ...- pable of caring whether, as a tool of the Devil, he will find the bright firelight of Hell too warm for him or no. Beneath the Surveillant were the ... ...d. We had a wood-burning stove in the middle of the room, which antiquated apparatus was kept going all day to the vast discomfort of eyes and noses n...

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...’ ‘Oh no, he doesn’t live by it. That is, he has a great many irons in the fire. ’ ‘I do not mind a young man owning a horse, if he can afford the exp... .... ’ Hereupon the father got up from his chair and turned round, facing the fire, with his back to his son. He was becoming very angry, but endeavoured... ...hough well of him.’ The Duke uttered a deep sigh, and turned round to the fire. ‘I al- ways told him you would never consent. ’ 57 Anthony Trollope ... ...verbridge. When the ladies were gone the old Earl turned himself round the fire, having filled his glass and pushed the bottles away from him, as thou... ...she likes it, I suppose. She doesn’t tumble into love as she does into the fire. It would not suit me to marry a poor man, and so I don’t mean to fall... ...d regions with a stout old lady who was really interested with the cooking apparatus and the washhouses. The bedrooms one after another became te- dio...

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...ges and philoso phers. They are remarkable, too, in the excellence of their apparatus for impressing, as far as possible, the best wisdom they posses... ...When this industrious and enterprising tribe, the descendants of the Persian fire-worshippers, flying from their native country before the Caliphs, ar...

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...itics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And ... ..., that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be le... ...ihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable as th... ... on sacrilegious despoilers of the temple. In theory, and upon paper, this apparatus of powers seems amply sufficient for all general purposes. In sev... ...ional defense. In the kingdom of Great Britain, where all the ostentatious apparatus of monarchy is to be provided for, not above a fif- teenth part o...