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...ut to the driver that she was sure he must have passed it and forgotten to set her down, was satis- fied at last. Nicholas engaged beds for himself an... ...eby!’ ‘Little Kate Nickleby ,’ cried the other three. And the glasses were set down empty. Keenly alive to the tone and manner of this slight and care... ... and notwithstanding, too, that the place of its consignment had been duly set forth, at full length, on the back of an old letter, and the boy en- jo... ... announced, led Tim Linkinwater’ s sister into the next room, where it was set forth with great preparation. Then, brother Ned took the head of the ta... ...e origi- nally intended, and that it was some half-hour after dusk when he set forth on his journey home. There was no likelihood of his losing his wa... ...ed on her neck, supporting, out- side her frock, a lonely cornelian heart, typical of her own disengaged affections—to have contemplated all these mut...
...d knocked at the door. A woman’s voice said “Come in,” and he en tered, and set his sack behind the stove in the parlour, say ing politely to the ol... ...ern: “What a strange thing it is! … And what a fortune for that kind man who set his bread afloat upon the waters! … If it had only been my husband th... ... no account, irreverent fisherman, hunter, boys’ friend, stray dogs’ friend, typical “Sam Lawson” of the town. The little mean, smirking, oily Pinkert... ...aving of his soul! That must be it. Yes, he could remember, now, how he once set him self the task of converting Goodson, and laboured at it as much ... ...to day.” An architect and builder from the next State had lately ventured to set up a small business in this unpromising village, and his sign had now... ...rateful a thing as to add those quite unnecessary fifteen words to his test?—set a trap for me?—expose me as a slan derer of my own town before my ow...
...with instructions to proceed overseas at once to accom- plish the purposes set forth in the message to General Farrell. The main party departed from H... ...ombs would be used. The approximate date for the first use of the bomb was set in the fall of 1942 after the Army had taken over the direction of and ... ...er, the area was congested by a dense collection of small wooden workshops set among Japanese houses; a few larger industrial plants lay near the outs... ...cts of Nagasaki, the resi- dences almost without exception were of flimsy, typical Japanese construction, consisting of wood or wood-frame buildings, ... ...nt as far as 6,000 feet from X were severely damaged; these buildings were typical of wartime mill construction in America and Great Britain, except t... ...lling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion; the flash burn is typically a surface ef- fect. In other words the surface of either a person... ...d wheel them to the hospital at whose entrance a dressing station has been set up. Here the wounded lie on the hard floor, row on row. Only the larges...
...rides and game stands. I dashed over to a large tent that had already been set up, which had a cow with two heads, a hairy woman, and other strange pi... ...fer- ent. Although Eminem and the Insane Clown Posse meet all the criteria set by the original rap M.C.s, they are as distinct as the Day and the Nigh... ..., perhaps equivalent to the size of the congregation that could fit into a typical Catholic cathedral. Looking back now, twelve years later, it seemed... ...nds” 1). Both Three Mile Island and Peach Bottom have passed the standards set by the NCR. Indian Point power plant has also been tested by the Nuclea... ...ve been treated appallingly at Bagram military base and many other prisons set up in and around Afghanistan (Harris and Wazir 1). The United States wa...
... knows everyone else, everyone even visits ev- eryone else. But this great set has its subdivisions. Anna Arkadyevna Karenina had friends and close ti... ... of this highest society. One circle was her husband’s government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the... ...of countess Kidia Ivanovna’s influence, and she avoided it. Another little set with which Anna was in close rela- tions was the one by means of which ... ...areer. The center of this circle was the Countess Lidia Ivanovna. It was a set made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women, and clever, lear... ..., and ambitious men. One of the clever 15 Tolstoy people belonging to the set had called it “the conscience of Petersburg society.” Alexey Alexandrov... ...n fashionable lady, which she was not—for the simple reason that she was a typical Russian gentle- woman; and so she was affected, which did not alto-...
...itrary, and high-tempered to the last bearable de- gree, and withal a very typical managing matron of the upper class, treated as a naughty child unti... ...for once, and tell me about this horrible business of my father wanting to set me aside for another son. LADY BRITOMART [amazed] Another son! I never ... ... conscience against impulses of inhuman ridicule and fierce impatience bas set up a chronic strain which has visibly wrecked his constitution. He is a... ...ildren; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant... ...LL. I know you. You’re the one that took away my girl. You’re the one that set er agen me. Well, I’m goin to av er out. Not that I care a curse for he... ...’ll stand up to any man alive, if he was ten Todger Fairmiles. But I don’t set up to be a perfessional. SHIRLEY [looking down on him with unfathomable...
...t chestnut paste out of a little 19 EM Forster shop, because it looked so typical. It tasted partly of the paper in which it was wrapped, partly of h... ...my Italy like a pair of cows. It’s very naughty of me, but I would like to set an ex- amination paper at Dover, and turn back every tour- ist who coul... ...’s legs had become as melting wax. Each time that old Mr. Emerson and Lucy set it erect it collapsed with a roar. Fortunately an Italian lady, who oug... ...ebe. “Poor Charlotte will be sopped,” was Lucy’s reply. The expedition was typical of Miss Bartlett, who would return cold, tired, hungry, and angelic... ...s soul.” Miss Lavish frowned. It is hard when a person you have classed as typically British speaks out of his character. He was not driving us well,”... ...rly demented.” “He may be killed!” cried the old man. “He may be killed!” “Typical behaviour,” said the chaplain, as he quit- ted the carriage. “In th... ...h, he’s like me—better detached.’ I couldn’t make him say any more, but it set me thinking. Since Cecil has come after Lucy he hasn’t been so pleasant... ...e blue, and demanded to be taken to St. Peter’s. That day she had seemed a typical tour- ist—shrill, crude, and gaunt with travel. But Italy worked so... ..., the semi-detached villas that have been run up opposite the church! I’ll set Mrs. Honeychurch after you.” “I’m shockingly stupid over local affairs,...
...ed: “I could eat an elephant.” Hereupon t-d lead me to the Kitchen Itself, set me to eat upon a stool, and admonished the cook in a fierce voice: “Giv... ...ly noticing what I did) I inspected the pile of straw, decided against it, set up my bed, disposed the roll on it, and began to examine my cell. I hav... ...I had washed and shaved. Then I nearly fell, staggered on a few steps, and set down the two loads. Perhaps it was the fault of a strictly vegetarian d... ...red. The other guard remained at the door, gun in readiness. The water was set down, and the enterer assumed a perpendicular position which I thought ... ...er it would be a novelty to me promener sans l50-odd pounds of baggage. We set out. As we walked easily and leisurely the by this time well peopled st... ...t to a section sanitaire? And my friend was with me? H-mmm-mm. A perfectly typical runt of a Paris bull eyed us. The older saluted him with infinite r... ...aned considerable information concerning the daily schedule of La Ferté. A typical day was divided by planton-cries as follows: “Café,” “Corvée d’eau,...
... arrangements of his imaginary town—although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does con- stitute an important f... ... by now, if we were to take Winesburg, Ohio as a social photograph of “the typical small town” (whatever that might be.) Anderson evokes a depressed l... ..., are all seen by Anderson as virtually a root condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit-... ...m’s hands is worth 20 Sherwood Anderson a book in itself. Sympathetically set forth it would tap many strange, beautiful qualities in obscure men. It... ...father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost e... ...o her mind and she went to a closet and brought out a small square box and set it on the table. The box contained material for make-up and had been le...
... shyly, the emotions of fear and love. To Margaret—I hope that it will not set the reader against her—the station of King’s Cross had always suggested... ...ou so far out of your way.” They had arrived at Wickham Place. The sun had set, and the backwater, in deep shadow, was filling with a gentle haze. To ... ... dining-room, at all events. Only the majolica plate—and that is so firmly set in the wall. I am really distressed that he had no tea.” For that littl... ...t, for Jacky said she thought she’d be going to bed. As she receded, a new set of interests possessed the boy, and he began to think of what had been ... ...ress? Margaret thought so, and feared that good Aunt Juley and Frieda were typical specimens of it. They might, by continual chatter, lead Helen into ... ...r woman would not be hurried. She refused to fit in with the Wickham Place set, or to reopen discussion of Helen and Paul, whom Margaret would have ut... ... out of their frames. His behaviour over Margaret’s visiting-card had been typical. His had scarcely been a tragic marriage. Where there is no money a... ...n voice reassured her. There could be nothing in it. The replies also were typical, and in the burr of conversation her fears vanished. “You needn’t g...
... there? That’s the Coliseum. That’s where you’ll be thrown to the lions or set to fight the gladiators pres- ently. Think of that; and it’ll help you ... ...ing a pinch of in- cense on the altar, after which the prisoner is at once set free. Under such circumstances you have only your own perverse folly to... ...ce ridden. Spintho, the blackguardly debauchee, is presented as one of the typical Christians of that period on the au- thority of St. Augustine, who ...
...id off. One sunny afternoon I felt a tug on my line. In my ex- citement, I set the hook. The fish fought val- iantly to save its life, but in the end ... ...r her best to ensure you that no such person exists and they are just your typical run of the mill employee. These next sequences are the most impo...
...took her right in and they talked to her. That’s what they do to you; they set you right down and they talk AT you. You’ve got to understand them; you... ...nd assured me, secretly, that he or she only is the real, the genuine, the typical Ameri- can. A type that has lost itself before it has been fixed— w...
...d him that he did not want war and would always love and honor him— yet he set off to join his army, and at every station gave fresh orders to acceler... ...finitely instructed Balashev to repeat them personally to Napoleon. Having set off in the small hours of the fourteenth, accompa- nied by a bugler and... ...man theorist-generals whom Prince Andrew had seen in 1805, but he was more typical than any of them. Prince Andrew had never yet seen a Ger- man theor... ...th prominent shoulder blades. His face was much wrinkled and his eyes deep set. His hair had evidently been hastily brushed smooth in front of the tem... ...th the things, and—now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it—set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasion... ...s” with Mary Hendrikhovna. They drew lots to settle who should make up her set. At Rostov’s suggestion it was agreed that whoever became “King” should...
...ng match, who, when fortune is low and backers scarce, will chiv- alrously set to, for the mere pleasure of the buffeting; and in one respect indeed t... ... that he is to be the hero of the work which we shall presently begin. T o set this point at rest, for once and for ever, we hasten to undeceive them,... ..., in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size. Mr Bonney elbowed his ... ...ted good humour. As he passed St Paul’s he stepped aside into a doorway to set his watch, and with his hand on the key and his eye on the cathedral di... ...dy, I am sure, can have better reason to feel that, than you.’ This appeal set the widow upon thinking that perhaps she might have made a more success... ...no thoroughfare, and a short and narrow neck—and in this respect it may be typical of the fate of some few among its more adventurous residents, who, ...
...gree. Introduction T he details of Mr. Washington’s early life, as frankly set down in “Up from Slavery,” do not give quite a whole view of his educat... ...ly cruel, for they were not, as compared with many others. I was born in a typical log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square. In this cabin I l... ...g house” at meal-times to fan the flies from the table by means of a large set of paper fans operated by a pulley. Naturally much of the conversation ... ...s, I had to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee. But my boyish heart was still set upon going to the day-school, and I let no op- portunity slip to push m... ...one seemed to think of himself. And the officers and teachers, what a rare set of human beings they were! They worked for the students night and day, ... ...life I do not recall that I ever became discour- aged over anything that I set out to accomplish. I have begun everything with the idea that I could s...
... evoked as does n’t permit him to rest till he has noted or recorded them, set up some semblance of them in his own other medium, by his own other art... ...this or that thing. They were to remain at the most small pictures of our “set” stage with the actors left out; and what was above all interesting was... ...uldn’t he be?” the girl had gaily enquired. It was this precisely that had set the Prince to think. The things, or many of them, that had made Mr. Ver... ...ledges—was in her pleasant person the force that Book I, Chapter 1 13 had set them successively in motion. She had made his marriage, quite as truly ... ...ss—these things, with an added amplitude of person on which middle age had set its seal, seemed to present her insistently as a daugh ter of the Sout... ...perfectly comprise the four or five persons—among them the very pretty, the typically Irish Miss Maddock, vaunted announced and now brought—from the co... ... solutely, during which her impression rose and rose, even as that of the typical charmed gazer, in the still museum, before the named and dated obje...