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...he sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was qu...

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...face had a faded nobleness, tem- pered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing ... ...ence, something she was not to repeat, that she was in appearance the very image of the lady in Chester Square. The motive that prompted this declarat...

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...only impelling power; we have no other. Without it we should be mere inert images, corpses; no one would do anything, there would be no progress, the ... ...or they remain. Here are three of them: ( The original text re fers to an image not available—ed. ). The first one is a haystack—below it a rattlesna... ... wide apart stakes almost with your eyes shut. ( The original refers to an image not available—ed. ) That isn’t the shape of the road—I have bunched i... ...memory with anything but dynamite. I will make a sample for you to copy: ( Image not available—ed. ). I have got his chin up too high, but that is no ... ...irteen pieces of blue paper, each two inches square, and do William II. ( Image not available—ed. ) Make him spout his water forward instead of backw... ...hment. In the sustained exhibi tion of certain great qualities—clearness, compression, ver bal exactness, and unforced and seemingly unconscious fel... ...ities of construction, its graces of expres sion, its pemmican quality of compression, and all that? Born to him, no doubt. All in shining good order... ...r abbreviations of them, such as the shorthand writer uses in order to get compression and speed. No, I would spell every word out . I will insert th...

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...ntial an ornament were they deemed, that in the idolatrous times, even the images of their false gods were not considered becomingly attired without t... ...tonishment, that the foolish women of his time should bear to inflict such compression upon their tender feet. Even as early as the times of Herodotus... ...it. The reason lurks here:—In the word theatre, is contained an evanescent image of a great audience—of a populous mul- titude. Now, this image—half w... ...ul collision with the silence of hills— with the solitude of forests; each image, from reciprocal con- tradiction, brightens and vivifies the other. T... ...from reciprocal con- tradiction, brightens and vivifies the other. The two images act, and react, by strong repulsion and antagonism. This principle w... ...lates the sense of its utter solitude and remotion from men or cities. The images of architectural splendor, suddenly raised in the very centre of Par...

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... brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- sion of the portly dames. There is ... ...axen tapers, carefully tended by writers on the Press, light-up mysterious images of our national selves for admiration. Something surely we do, or we... ...orm is reached, of the art of setting them beneath the flambeau of a final image, before thrusting them inside to be rivetted on their pedestals, have... ...lent chance of doing the same, let but the provident narrators direct that image to paint the thing a moth-like humanity desires, in the thing it shri... ..., it moved him to a curious contempt of the youth. He had to conjure-up an image of the young man in person, to correct the sentiment:—and it remained... ...and the gentleman was taught to feel that a never so slightly length- ened compression of the hand female shoots within us both straight and far and r... ...n he derided Dudley; but Victor was at war with the picture of her, in her compression of a cruel laugh, while her eyelids were hard shut, as if to ex...

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...was represented by his son: a grisly urchin of twelve, who was his express image. People understood that Tellson’s, in a stately way, tolerated the od... ...inutely in it. “Do you particularly like the man?” he muttered, at his own image; “why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is ... ...erwise, was very slightly pinched at the top of each nostril. In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, r... ...ities – Dickens 173 into the freedom beyond the fortress. I have seen her image in the moonlight often, as I now see you; except that I never held he... ...hat that was not the child I am speaking of?” “The figure was not; the the image; the fancy?” “No. That was another thing. It stood before my disturbe... ...hey could tear. There was a change in the appearance of Saint Antoine; the image had been hammer ing into this for hundreds of years, and the last fi... ... pow erful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desperate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe. Th...

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...the dis- tributive forces of nations gathered themselves, under the strong compression of the sword, into mighty aggregates— denominated Universal Emp... ...ed that it was the weak- ness of Cæsar; for the dreams were noble in their imagery, and Cæsarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, f... ...ght hand of Jove. It would seem that perhaps some obscure and half- formed image floated in his mind, of the eagle, as the king of birds; secondly, as... ...tonness of mischief. Ovid accordingly notices, as one amongst the familiar images of daybreak, the half-burnt torch of the traveller; and, apparently,... ...p of real life, in short, is represented by the ancients under the uniform image of heat, and by the moderns under that of cold. the violence of the w... ...iers and at all the military stations, of renewing as much as possible the image of distant Rome by the erection of long colonnades and piazzas—single...

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...s of Brookfield heard that their Pole, Polar, and North Pole, the splendid image of themselves, had been transformed by the Tinleys, and defiled by th... ...a confided the fact to Cornelia, who, with a similar mental and muscu- lar compression, said instantly, “Manoeuvre her.” Adela re- marked, “If you tel... ...completely cut him off from his cronies; and the sense of restriction, and compression, and that his own house was fast becoming alien territory to hi... ... his not commonly brilliant brain. In truth, that little episode showed an image of nature weak with the burden of new love. I do not charge the young... ...ve. I do not charge the young cavalry officer with the power of perceiving images. He saw no more than that she could not sing because of what was in ... ...eed!” A sad irony, which told that much gold-leaf had peeled away from her image in his heart. Wilfrid was a gallant fellow, with good stuff in him. B... ...er pecu- liar charms of feature, were all conjured up to combat the dismal images suggested by that fatal, dragging-down smell. It was vain. Horrible ... ...n. He might have spoken it in a ballroom. To Cornelia, who exulted in self-compression, after the Roman method, it was more dangerous than a tremulous...

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...e Crossways than the paragraphs of Perry Wilkinson, a gossip presenting an image of perpetual chatter, like the waxen-faced street advertizements of l... ...ration and her essence. You have to teach your imagination of the feminine image you have set up to bend your civilized knees to, that it must temper ... ...h to an ideal of the heroical feminine type for the worship of mankind, an image as yet in poetic outline only, on our upper skies. ‘So well do we kno... ...desiring to witness the sentimental fit, she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of t... ... getting that idea from the pe- rusal of romances. ‘Yes, our lives require compression, like romances, to be interesting, and we object to the process... ... looked in the glass and mused on uttering the word, ‘Liar!’ to the lovely image, her senses were refreshed, her mind somewhat re- lieved, the face ap...

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...t liberty to dispose of what would be his. Then he turned to his wife. “My image,” said he (for so he often called her, there being some sort of relat... ...he power of groans and tears, to yield to the sole reverence of the sacred image of Valour, this can be no other than the effect of a strong and infle... ...of water the trembling beams of light, reflected from the sun, or from the image of the radi- ant moon, swiftly float over every place around, and now... ...y im- portant and worthy to be followed. Every one finds in him- self some image of such agitations, of a prompt, vehement, and fortuitous opinion; an... ...Egyptians after their feasts were wont to present the company with a great image of death, by one that cried out to them, “Drink and be merry, for suc... ...ls that serve to discharge the belly have their own proper dilatations and compressions, without and beyond our concurrence, as 147 Montaigne well as...

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...e was packed with guests by a proprietor editor who, before all understood compression. And about five o’clock, if not before, Filmer left his room an... ...t he tossed it carelessly behind a counter. No doubt the thing was only an image of twisted indiarubber, but for the moment—! And his gesture was ex- ... ...my arms about a lot, and then very slowly and ceremoni- ously turned their image over on its side and sat down on it. I wanted to sit down badly, for ... ...he cost of sitting up stiff and stern, as much like those sitting Egyptian images one sees as I could manage, for pretty nearly twelve hours, I should... ...ith enquiries in a manner that suggested to Helen’s mind the rather vulgar image of hens with a piece of bacon peel, until at last he went into hiding... ...ed with flowers; thousands danced about the great circle beneath the white images of the ancient gods, and glorious processions of youths and maidens ...

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...pectator is to observe the man from bout where that flag is, and he must observe the tower itself from the ground. This harmonizes the seeming discrep... ...dder to get into it, no doubt. We visited the principal church, also—a curious old struc- ture, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of gro- ... ...cess of irritation, I said I would leave without the sock; so I rose up and made straight for the door—as I supposed—and suddenly confronted my dim sp... ... I think it is a haystack or a woman. This study was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1879, but did not take any medal; they do not give medals for stu... ... the old- fashioned towing industry is on its death-bed. A second steam- boat began work in the Neckar three months after the first one was put in ser... ...way at a steep slant to unknown deeps, for its course was lost in darkness. What a place that was to be in—especially if that leather belt should brea...

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... a traditionary wonderment to gather over them both; and, especially, this image of the spider dangles down to us from the dusky ceil ing of the Past... ...wn with his hands on his knees, look ing straight into the fire, as if it imaged the seething element of his inner man, where burned hot projects, sm... ...like the faint gray shadows of our thoughts, brooding in age over youthful images of joy and love. Nevertheless, the chamber, though so difficult to s... ...were giving up a riddle, the solution of which he could not find, “have an image and echo some where in my memory. It is all an entanglement. I will ... ...” said the old man, quietly. “From the first,” said Edward, “although your image took the fantastic aspect of the bewilderment in which I then was; an... ...ow over the sides of the coffer, and rise in large abundance from the long compression. Into this—by a miracle of natural production which was known l...

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...ty woman, too young to preach”; no cast- ing up or down of the eyelids, no compression of the lips, no attitude of the arms that said, “But you must t... ...ar Mr. Wesley, who has been taken from us?...He was the Son of God—’in the image of the Father,’ the Bible says; that means, just like God, who is the... ...ng; the sound was so peculiar that the moment he heard it it called up the image of the willow wand striking the door. He could not help a little shud... ... to Adam, the conception of the future was so inseparable from the painful image of his father that the fear of any fatal accident to him was excluded... ...’t you remember how it was with Juno’s last pups? One of them was the very image of its mother, but it had two or three of its father’s tricks notwith... ...a meditative way, as she knitted her grey worsted stocking. “Y ou look th’ image o’ your Aunt Judith, Dinah, when you sit a-sewing. I could almost fan...

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...ersons for whom such pictures are not without charm will have an imperfect image of the magic scene which delighted the still impressionable souls of ... ...the charms of youth and distinguished manners, made this emigre a graceful image of the French noblesse. He presented a strong contrast to Hulot, who,... ...g contrast to Hulot, who, ten feet distant from him, was quite as vivid an image of the vigorous Re- public for which the old soldier was fighting; hi... ...which agitated him. The graceful curve of his lips was lost in their close compression, and his skin turned yellow under the struggle of his stormy th... ...the soldiers of the escort; by thus presenting to his mind triumphantly an image of his danger she made him feel that his life depended on a word from... ...schists, must have been seen in order to understand how vividly a spectral image was suggested by the empty and gloomy carcass of the building. Its di...

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...w the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sake give me the young man who has bra... ...e rendered for you exactly the fixed look in the eyes, and the unconscious compression of the mouth, that befit and signify an effort of the kind. The... ...t of explanation, nicknamed science; and demand in- stead some palpitating image of our estate, that shall rep- 118 Robert Louis Stevenson resent the... ... hieroglyph many square miles in extent; and when, to borrow and debase an image, all the evening street-lamps burst together into song! Such is the s...

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...tiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. The image as a whole was that of a small Noah’s Ark on a small Ararat, allow ... ...ance take the form of an attitude threatening a possible enclosure, if not compression, of her person, she edged off round the bush. ‘Why, Farmer Oak,... ...ustworthy still. The young dog, George’s son, might possibly have been the image of his mother, for there was not much resemblance between him and Geo... ... elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water. All this Oak saw a... ...ost vividly, and through the slow hours of shadow he tenderly regarded her image now. It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensa... ...To think of her was to get good humoured; to speak of her was to raise the image of a dried Normandy pippin. ‘Stop your scrubbing a moment,’ said Bath... ...thrown over on the shears, and his head balanced sideways, with a critical compression of the lips and contraction of the eyelids to crown the attitud... ...as coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertio...

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...s to the eye in one enclosure, round one courtyard, a complete and perfect image of that grand pre- sentation of the manners and customs and life of n... ...sixteenth century have contended against the naive cut- 73 Balzac ters of images who fifty years earlier had carved the key-stones of Louis XII.’s tw... ...- ligent beholders. “Well, well! did you come here to study the carving of images?” cried Pardaillan, as Christophe stopped before the charming sculpt... ...as punished by death. It pre- sents one of the most startling and infernal images of hatred that humanity could invent; it pictures admirably the mag-... ... a hideous old woman,—toothless, humpbacked, twisted, bent, like a Chinese image, only worse. She was wrinkled as a withered apple; her skin was saffr... ...enzo. ‘This morning Bernard Palissy told me that metals were the result of compression, and that fire, which divides all, also unites all; fire has th...

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...arlour door in time to receive in full the shock of Karl Y undt’s eloquent imagery. The sheet of pa- per covered with circles dropped out of his finge... ...ection that a higher official, even when “fired out” (this was the precise image), has still the time as he flies through the door to launch a nasty k... ...f glass, and was struck by his foreign appearance. He contemplated his own image with a melan- choly and inquisitive gaze, then by sudden inspiration ... ...cumstances had not been pushed very far. She had checked them by a visible compression of the lips and some display of an emotion determined to be elo... ...ent claim on her de- votion no longer existed. Mrs V erloc, who thought in images, was not troubled now by visions, because she did not think at all. ... ...ce with the young butcher 199 Joseph Conrad survived, tenacious, like the image of a glimpsed ideal in that heart quailing before the fear of the gal...

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...verflow with a bitter jealousy. The noise of the trumpets excited him — the popular acclamations deafened him: for a moment he allowed his reason to b... ...nquer with these five hundred gentle- men, sire, and all the honor will be yours.’ Now, that is what he said, or to that purpose, was it not? — turnin... ...alf a crown worth of resolution! Parole d’honneur! I would lay a wager he does not speak at all!” The king continued to walk about, casting from time ... ...as preparing to get into a hired carriage, and told the coachman to stop at Vincennes. He had be- fore him a large hamper filled with bottles, which h... ...et with the sign of “L ’Image-de- Notre-Dame.” “Eh, but! that is V atel! my maitre d’hotel!” said Fouquet to Gourville. “Y es, monseigneur,” replied t... ... good news to you.” Colbert, minus grandeur of person, less largeness of heart, resembled Fouquet in many points. He had the same pen- etration, the s...

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...ughts in store She must not own, but cherish’d more the while For that compression in its burning core; Even innocence itself has many a wil... ...settled wind; My heart is feminine, nor can forget— To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As ... ... to air, Sooner shall earth resolve itself to sea, Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair! Or think of any thing excepting thee; A mind di... ... downcast eyes beneath the Almighty dove— What though ‘t is but a pictured image?—strike— That painting is no idol,— ‘t is too like. Some kinder... ...passions as they pass, Acquire the deep and bitter power to give Their images again as in a glass, And in such colours that they seem to liv... ...ike the fawn, which, in the lake display’d, Beholds her own shy, shadowy image pass, When first she starts, and then returns to peep, Admiring...