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...rom the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile ... ... in a person of his years, and, light and steady on his feet as a cat or a lizard, climbed from the table to the outstretched hands of Dantes, and fro... ...ith a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me. This idea was... ...ked the old man. “The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportuni... ...ions of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamo... ...d and rustled in the wind. At every step that Edmond took he disturbed the lizards glittering with the hues of the emerald; afar off he saw the wild g... ...e other as a woman of La Riccia. Four young men of the richest and noblest families of Rome accompanied them with that Italian freedom which has not i...

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...endozas, Gongora, were all 9 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. men of ancient families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of fami- lies that traced t... ...family tradition, his great-grandfather had a share. Both brothers founded families. The Cervantes branch had more tenacity; it sent offshoots in vari... ...om of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with some of the noblest families of the Peninsula and num- bered among them soldiers, magistrates, ... ...ances. It gives a point, too, to what he says in more than one place about families that have once been great and have tapered away until they have co... ...t and punish you; and I shall find you though you should lie closer than a lizard. And if you desire to know who it is lays this 67 Cervantes – Ormsb... ...ough modern, may furnish a source of gentle blood for the most illustrious families of the ages that are to come, and this let none dispute with me sa... ...re us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about i...

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...es of the ranches was proverbial. He practically supported some half-dozen families that lived in forgotten cabins, lost and all but inaccessible, in ... ...escended blanketwise and smothering, from the pale, scorched sky. Only the lizards—they lived in chinks of the crumbling adobe and in interstices of t... ...de. Guest after guest appeared in the doorway, singly or in couples, or in families, or in garrulous parties of five and six. Now it was Phelps and hi... ...eparted. Long since the musicians had disappeared. There only remained the families of the ranch owners involved in the meeting in the harness room. T... ...irs. The session was over. The men came out in groups, searching for their families. At once the homeward movement began. Every one was worn out. Some... ... life of the daytime drowsed and dozed. Not even the minute scuffling of a lizard over the warm, worn pave- ment of the colonnade disturbed the infini...

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...places at the Imperial court, and others made alliances with the up- start families. All those who cast in their lots with the Empire retrieved their ... ...e for the most part went to Paris and stayed there. But some eight or nine families still 12 The Collection of Antiquities remained true to the prosc... ...son with clean lettering, a flawless stamp, and high antiq- uity. Of these families, the Marquis d’Esgrignon was the ac- knowledged head. His house be... ...by Revo- lutionary legislation, his case was the hardest. Like other great families, the d’Esgrignons before 1789 derived the greater part of their in... ...the holdings in order to swell the amounts paid in quit-rents and heriots. Families in this position were hopelessly ruined. They were not af- fected ... ...l of the rarest flowers. Here were all kinds of color and scent, here were lizards on the walls, legions of little flower-pots standing out in the sun...

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...earth—to be placed face to face with these representatives of long extinct families? No; surely it cannot be! Yet the deep marks of conical teeth upon... ...“It is an enormous porpoise.” “Yes,” replied my uncle, “and there is a sea lizard of vast size.” “And farther on a monstrous crocodile. Look at its va... ...he other animals were taking part in the fray—the porpoise, the whale, the lizard, the tortoise. Every moment I seem to see one or other of them. I po... ...aken,” I cried. “No: the first of those monsters has a porpoise’s snout, a lizard’s head, a crocodile’s teeth; and hence our mistake. It is the ichthy... ...rocodile’s teeth; and hence our mistake. It is the ichthyosaurus (the fish lizard), the most terrible of the ancient monsters of the deep.” “And the o... ...nsters of the deep.” “And the other?” “The other is a plesiosaurus (almost lizard), a serpent, armoured with the carapace and the paddles of a turtle;...

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...had prevailed, he invited to a splendid banquet, in this pal ace, certain families, whole families, whom he sought to ex terminate. The utmost gaiet... ...y, by scores of lean cats, who roam about the garden for that purpose. The lizards, of course, nobody cares for; they play in the sun, and don’t bite.... ...they are sick; and to pry less than some other orders, into the secrets of families, for the purpose of establishing a baleful ascendency over their w... ...with its little harbour on the sea, hundreds of feet below the road; where families of mariners live, who, time out of mind, have owned coast ing ves... ...This is the haughty, or scornful model. As to Domestic Happiness, and Holy Families, they should come very cheap, for there are lumps of them, all up ... ...wild plain where nothing is now heard but the wind, and where the solitary lizards gam bol unmolested in the sun! The train of wine carts going into ...

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...ng, and abruptly there returned to Bab- bitt the doubts regarding life and families and business which had clawed at him when his dream-life and the s... ...te broker—as the servant of society in the department of finding homes for families and shops for distributors of food—were steadiness and diligence. ... ... Commerce ought to be forced to.” In nothing—as the expert on whose advice families moved to new neighborhoods to live there for a generation—was Babb... ...boosting, go- ahead game, and they’re bored by their wives and think their families are fools—at least when they come to forty or forty-five they’re b... ... with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bunch of lounge-lizards to dance with—but the Babbitts and the Rieslings are sure-enough go... ...ish family—in- deed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen- mill viscounts. The ... ...to be a real, decent, human being and not one of these sapheads and lounge-lizards, of course they all call me a grouch!” Throughout, with the eternal...

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... This sentiment has degenerated into a kind of reli- gious superstition in families to which cretins belong; but does it not spring from the most beau... ...ry nearly stoned to death in this village. It is empty to- day, but thirty families lived in it then.” Genestas’ face and gesture so plainly expressed... ...e sole remaining example of his species in the village. There were several families still living there; but though they were little better than idiots... ...understanding that he should live quite by himself, and that the remaining families in the vil- lage should cross the stream and come to live in the t... ...his bargain, however much it may have been to the advantage of the village families. The affec- tion which they have for their wretched hovels in coun... ...tion, all done to the life, and another curious thing too, any quantity of lizards. A confounded country where any one could have as many acres of lan...

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...san, that magnificent domain which gave a title to one of the most opulent families of the old parliament; hammers have demolished Montmorency, which ... ...out the heirs of the 15 Balzac singer, who never knew she had any. Eleven families of poor laborers living near Amiens, and sleeping in cotton sheets... ... which made the son of Captain du Plessis duke over the heads of the first families of the Conquest. All of which serves to prove that towns, like fam... ...stand- ing of twenty years had produced the closest intimacy be- tween the families of Gaubertin and Soudry. Both recipro- cally declared themselves, ... ...rt, our inward being rules us, no matter what we do. You may reconcile two families who have half-killed each other, as in Brittany and in La Vendee d... ...slowness of a tortoise when she is obliged to obey me, but she runs like a lizard when Justin asks for anything, she trembles like a leaf at the sound... ...ldier, but he was weak in presence of his vices and his desires. Lazy as a lizard, that is to say, active only when it suited him, without the slighte... ...atches on the water,—worlds where life was organizing; they pointed to the lizard playing in the sun and escaping at their approach,—behavior which ha...

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...t he had no right to notice the rafters in the eyes of others. Now, in all families people go to perdition, without noticing their neighbours, some at... ...the castle; this one, that the oven had been burned; that one that the two families have lost some- thing that night that they would never find again.... ...d and gold. This Arachne who has drawn out and sucked more marriages, more families in the seed, more hearts, more Christians then there are lepers in... ...ndant proofs of her evil do- ing, and of the calamity spread by her in all families. And if it were possible to put them here conformably with the cat... ...son. Considering that it is a question of the honour and secu- rity of our families, and that never before has been seen in this country a woman wild ... ...e were com- pelled to put a piece of wood in her mouth, which she bit as a lizard bites a stick. Then the executioner tied her to a stake to sustain h...

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...vats, laces, embroidered dresses,—in short, all the fine linen of the best families of the town. The chevalier assumed to know from the number of her ... ...kes place, to which they are not invited. But the chateau people, heads of families possessing great estates, in short, the highest personages in the ... ...ear of ridi- cule forbade her to marry a very young one. In the provinces, families marry their sons early to escape the conscription. In addition to ... ... a very considerable fortune in the provinces, she lived on a footing with families who were less rich. When she went to her country-place at Prebaude... ...g the Vicomte de T roisville. Mademoiselle, whose heart was beating like a lizard caught by a herdsman, sat heroically still on her sofa, beside the f...

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...s it was to regard the whole world, except married clergymen with enormous families, as “neurotic.” “Of course,” said Hickle, “it isn’t absolutely nec... ...ms …. Silent after the first babble was over. And after a little while the lizards came out and ran about again, as though nothing unusual was going o... ...rst about the beach, and then that ceased. Each time that happened all the lizards scuttled in and hid for a space. That was all the mischief done, ex...

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...silence and utter seclusion. The grape hyacinths flower in the cracks, the lizards run, this strange place hangs suspended and forgot- ten, forgotten ... ...t was—in the village. They were a whole colony of Italians, thirty or more families. They had all come at different times. Giuseppino had been longest... ... ‘Why should we have a Government? Here, in this village, there are thirty families of Italians. There is no government for them, no Italian Governmen...

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...Several intermarriages had, in the course of centuries, united the crowned families of Grunewald and Maritime Bohemia; and the last Prince of Grunewal... ...of truth. In private life a girl of this description embroils the peace of families, walks at- tended by a troop of scowling swains, and passes, once ... ... shadow; now aloft on the bare ridge among the rocks and birches, with the lizards and the snakes; and anon in the deep grove among sunless pillars. N...

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...she must be reserved for some great purpose if she survived so much. Great families with all their train used to move from one castle or manor to anot... ..., sir, and my father, and it was the desire of the good King that thus the families might be reconciled; but the contract went no farther, as the holy... ...ch their domestic apparatus and stock-in-trade were packed, with the dried lizard, who passed for a crocodile, sitting on the settle as if he were one...

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...d to the Catholic faith a young person, the daughter of one of the citizen families, who were the first upholders of Calvinism, and who, thanks to the... ... pretence of organiz- ing it on a better footing. In the eyes of the great families of Greece and Rome, Socrates and Jesus were criminals; to those an... ...young lady loved him, and he would be con- nected with several respectable families. In short, he was in full sail on the blue waters of hope. Madame ... ...ousand francs a year, and a house, and a wife connected with all the first families of the better middle class—a wife, in short, out of the Rue des Lo... ...ase, smoking a cigar after breakfast, his face beaming as he basked like a lizard in the sunshine, could not summon up courage enough to make herself ...

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...Gentiles di- vided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. 6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and P... ... the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. 19 And the border of the Canaanit... ...nto Sephar a mount of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, af- ter their nations. 32 Th... ...ter their tongues, in their lands, af- ter their nations. 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: an... ...em that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spo-... ...the tortoise after his kind, 30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 31 These are unclean to you among all ...

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... race of Monte Beni, beyond a doubt, was one of the oldest in Italy, where families appear to survive at least, if not to flourish, on their half-deca... ...ion sprang a vigorous progeny that took its place unquestioned among human families. In that age, how- ever, and long afterwards, it showed the ineffa... ...ound. Emerging from his hiding-place, he saw no living thing, save a brown lizard (it was of the tarantula species) rustling away through the sunshine... ...h blood; yet connected, through her father, with one of those few princely families of Southern Italy, which still retain great wealth and influence. ...

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...ll famous for military genius.” My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.” The Baron look... ...ion that rose in my mind—and, as usual, Bruno asked it for me. “What are its lizard bandages?’ “Well, this is one of them,” said the Professor. “When ... ...hich a goodly stream of worshipers, consisting mainly of fishermen and their families, was flowing. The service would have been pronounced by any mode... ...such dream suggestions in this book—one, my Lady’s remark, ‘it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does’, at p. 88; the other, Eric Lind...

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...ghteen, after an absence of nine years, to the bosom of one of the noblest families in the kingdom. I was tired by the journey as well as by all the e... ...t of man is for family life. A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure... ...itterness, “a man who would take for wife a daughter of one of our noblest families without a dowry and bestow one on her. If such a husband could be ... ...to hear the Mass for recovery from childbirth, as is the custom in the old families of Provence. I was supported on either side by the two grand- fath... ...in order to preserve the name and titles of the de Lenoncourt and de Givry families from extinction, is to confer these, to- gether with the armorial ... ...d. Being a poet, he has spent more time weaving day-dreams, and bask- ing, lizard-like, in the sun, than scribing in his dingy garret. Now, practical ...