...cceeded the smiles of the siren shopwoman. For eight succeeding days Cesar mounted guard every evening before the Petit-Matelot, watching for a look a... ...of Brahma and its castes; brushing against piles of ivory in the rough, he mounts the backs of elephants; seated in a muslin cage, he makes love like ... ...e various societies in which he found himself. His ignoble face was rather pleasant at first sight; but later, on closer acquaintance, expressions wer... ...d hair; but his clear brow, his eyes the color of a grey-veined agate, his pleasant mouth, his fair complexion, the charm of his modest youth and the ... ...r!” she said. “Hey! my son, what’s there agreeable between us? Did we ever mount guard over kings and queens together?” 80 Rise and Fall of Cesar Bir... ...e’s appartement, thinking as he went that the old man must be very hale to mount them daily without complaining. He found a frock-coat and pair of tro... ...Raguet, the shop-boy, a new suit of clothes for the day of the ball, if he mounted guard faithfully and let no one enter. Birotteau, like the Emperor ... ...strained luxury. The car- pet, one of the rich products of Belgium, was as pleasant to the eye as to the foot which felt the soft thickness of its tex...

...e to ride?” said Eglantine, with rather a consequential air. “Snaffle will mount you, and we can go one on each side of the ladies, if you like.” But ... ... that as Eglantine was going to ride Hemperor, Woolsey, at least, ought to mount too. But he was met by the same modest refusal on the tailor’s part, ... ...the same modest refusal on the tailor’s part, who stated that he had never mounted a horse yet, and preferred greatly the use of a coach. Eglantine’s ... ...broken for that. The ladies gladly made room for him in the clarence. Dick mounted “Emperor” and rode homewards. The drag, too, drove away, playing “O... ...o- nies, he kept a couple of smart maids and a groom foot-boy— in fact, he mounted just such a neat unpretending gentleman- 46 Men’s Wives like estab... ...istrate to whom the victualler subsequently came to com- plain passed many pleasantries on the occasion. He asked whether His Highness did not drink l... ...re the happiest days of Morgiana’s whole life. She had no cares except the pleasant one of attending on her husband, an easy smiling tem- perament whi... ...ry Saturday. Nay, no blushes, my dear sir; you are very wicked, but oh! SO pleasant. Well, Mr. Bludyer, I am glad to see you, sir, and hope you will h... ...ord Byron when he was a sulky slim young lad. She says Charles Fox was the pleasantest fellow she ever met with, and has not the slightest objection t...

...THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...ics Series Publication The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ansmission, in any way. The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...45 4 TheGreatStone Face THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1882 1882 1882 1882 1882 INTR INTR INTR IN... ...t Stone Face: ‘The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae [freak of... ...t it could speak, for it looks so very kindly that its voice must needs be pleasant. If I were to See a man with such a face, I should love him dearly... ...with a gray precipice behind, the stern front of which was relieved by the pleasant foliage of many creeping plants that made a tap estry for the nak... ... this fire is the right thing!’ cried he; ‘especially when there is such a pleasant circle round it. I am quite benumbed; for the Notch is just like t... ...spect of comfortable quarters in a house which we were approaching, and of pleasant company in the guests who were assembled at the door. Our Evening ...

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... old woman with whom she may or may not agree. She herself can’t be a very pleasant bed-fellow, poor thing! with her shaking old limbs and cold feet. ... ...— an in- vestment, — pardon me, thou poor old thing, but I cannot help the pleasantry). And what do you think? Another pensionnaire of the establishme... ...sicut est mos, to indulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leader... ...of six inside; whilst his friends shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and se... ...ds and winks, and puts his hand in his waistcoat pocket.) “Y ou have had a pleasant week?” Bob. — “Haven’t I!” (And exit, anxious to know the amount ... ...arlequin Conqueror and the Field of Hastings,” at the other house, is very pleasant too. The irascible William is acted with great vigour by Snoxall, ... ...mime, pudding, and pie. One glorious, one delightful, one most unlucky and pleasant day, we drove in a brougham, with a famous horse, which carried us...

...te of his bland and insinuating manner. His bass voice was by no means un- pleasant, and was in keeping with his boisterous laughter. He was always ob... ...and rain, and drought combined to make as dreary as an Asian steppe, was a pleasant shaded nook; the 17 Balzac gaunt yellow house, the musty odors of... ... wipe them continually , she considered him to be a very gentle- manly and pleasant-looking man. Moreover, the widow saw favorable indications of char... ...ant was one of the queens of fashion, that her house was thought to be the pleasantest in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. And not only so, she was, by rig... ...of you young men who aspire to that elevated position; that there are some mountebanks among you who would sell their family to screw their fortunes a... ...she did not resent it. The bit is in the horse’s mouth, and I have only to mount and ride;” and with that he went to pay his respects to Mme. de Beaus... ...and hurried to number 9, which happened to be the nearest gaming-house. He mounted the staircase, surrendered his hat, and asked the way to the rou- l... ...now,” Vautrin broke in. “You are still acting like a child. You are making mountains out of molehills at the outset.” T wo days later, Poiret and Mlle... ... the strongest reasons for get- ting this illicit hoard into its hands; it mounts up to some- thing considerable, by all that we can make out. T rompe...

...asions and contusions, pointed un- mistakably to the violent impact of the Mounting Beginner upon the bicycling saddle, and that the ruinous state of ... ...nsuccessful attempt, which, somehow, ter- minated on the green, Hoopdriver mounted, and with a stately and cautious restraint in his pace, and a digni... ...,” he said slowly, as Mr. Hoopdriver seized the handles and stood ready to mount as soon as the cart had passed. The indignation gathered slowly but s... ... and as he came under the railway arch and saw the inn in front of him, he mounted his ma- chine again and rode bravely up to the doorway. Burton and ... ...d her eyes upon him with admirable surprise. Mr. Hoopdriver tried to smile pleasantly, hold up his ma- chine, raise his cap, and bow gracefully. Indee... ... Hoopdriver. “Don’t men- tion it.” He hesitated and gripped his handles to mount. “It’s me,” he said, “ought to be sorry.” Should he say it? Was it an... ...ders, with a sudden, vivid dislike. The maid at the Unicorn is naturally a pleasant girl, but she is jaded by the incessant incidence of cyclists, and... ...he gentlemen who put them up, and its Guildhall is a T udor building, very pleasant to see, and in the afternoon the shops are busy and the people goi... ...o thickly that the pricks of fate scarce penetrate to him, or become but a pleasant titillation. And so, indeed, it is with all of us who go on living...

...e other end of the room, and sat singing to herself. Hope you have had a pleasant evening, ma am, said Peggotty, standing as stiff as a barrel in t... ...ou, Peggotty, returned my mother, in a cheerful voice, I have had a very pleasant evening. A stranger or so makes an agreeable change, suggested ... ...n the saddle before him if I would like the ride. The air was so clear and pleasant, and the horse seemed to like the idea of the ride so much him- se... ...s in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might inter- pose to st... ...ed. I am a lone lorn creetur , were Mrs. Gummidge s words, when that un- pleasant occurrence took place, and everythink goes contrary with me. Oh... ...st pay us, d ye hear? Come! Receiving no answer to these taunts, he would mount in his wrath to the words swindlers and robbers ; and these being ... ..., always exactly the same, and more like a gust of wind, which begins low, mounts up high, and falls again, than any other com- parison I can find for... ... up in Maidstone jail for child-steal- ing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais. The fly-dr... ...t in the bow-window gazing at the sea from behind the green fan, which was mounted on a kind of swivel, and turned any way. We dined soon after I awok...

...himself from the storm which he feared was coming. It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied by rou... ... warden’s party, and men and women arranging shawls and shoes declared how pleasant it had been; and Mrs Goodenough, the red-faced rector’s wife, pres... ...cket, felt that he had acquitted him- self with honour; and the archdeacon pleasantly jingled his gains; but the meagre doctor went off without much a... ...ive in hopes of finishing my work within 300 pages, and of completing that pleasant task—a novel in one volume; but some- thing had passed between the... ...ub, and shady nook that he knew so well. 117 Anthony Trollope CHAPTER XIV Mount Olympus Wretched in spirit, groaning under the feeling of insult, sel... ...e of all that is good, in this and other hemispheres. Who has not heard of Mount Olympus—that high abode 118 The Warden of all the powers of type, th... ...s there—and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it. So it is with Mount Olympus. Should a stranger make his way thither at dull noonday, or d... ...f this greatest of earthly potentates. To the outward and uninitiated eye, Mount Olympus is a somewhat humble spot, undistinguished, unadorned—nay, al... ... one would say, by quite unambitious people at the easiest rents. ‘Is this Mount Olympus?’ asks the unbelieving stranger. ‘Is it from these small, dar...

...and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. 3 And Solomon... ... them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a ... ...apter 3 T hen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord ap peared unto David his father, in the place... ...housand chosen men, being mighty men of valour. 4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam... ...and of Judah and Ben jamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch... ...or precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; 28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, an...

...vey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additio... ...young man thought of the little sister frisking over the Parthenon and the Mount of Olives and sharing for two years, the years of the school-room, th... ... Bonnycastle’s simply because he liked the lady, whose receptions were the pleasantest in Washington, and because if he didn’t go there he didn’t know... ...ld still have decided to go to Mrs. Bonnycastle’s. If her house wasn’t the pleasantest there it was at least difficult to say which was pleasanter; an... .... That’s a watery waste if you like, and a tempest there would have been a pleasant variety.” “Your parents seemed to me so peaceful!” her associate i... ...o consist of about twenty bright people, and they’d go down the Potomac to Mount Vernon. The Count an- swered that if Mrs. Steuben thought him bright ... ...em speculative and disinterested. They haunted him during the excursion to Mount Vernon, which took place according to traditions long established. Mr... ...feet from the edge of rotting wharves. Pandora was even more interested in Mount Vernon—when at last its wooded bluff began to command the river—than ... ...ix them quite above it with a medi- tative look and bring out some ancient pleasantry as if it were a sudden inspiration. He made a cheerful thing, an...

...nly fit for a policeman! Yonder was a youth toying with a cane exquisitely mounted; there, another with dainty gold studs in his wristbands. Yet anoth... ... wore clanking spurs and a tight-fitting jacket, evidently he was about to mount one of the two horses held by a hop- o’-my-thumb of a tiger. A young ... ...d to make the acquaintance of the spit, no fantastical fish to justify the mountebank’s remark, “I saw a fine carp to-day; I expect to buy it this day... ...taircase gradually became visible at the further end of a dark passage; he mounted to the fifth floor, and found d’Arthez’s room. A bookcase of dark-s... ...hen the first nervousness, caused by respect, wore off, it was unspeakably pleasant to make one of this elect company of youth. Familiarity did not ex... ...tress; they guessed that his stock of money was failing; and after all the pleasant evenings spent in friendly talk and deep medita- tions, after the ... ...of Lucien’s character deter- mined for the shorter way, and the apparently pleasanter way, and to snatch at the quickest and promptest means. At this ... ...cry rows of empty shelves with some difficulty. An urchin in a blue blouse mounts guard over the emptiness, and blows his fingers, and shuffles his fe... ...id Dauriat, looking daggers at this handsome young fellow, who was smiling pleasantly at him. “I do not publish books for amusement, nor risk two thou...

...n the pleached alley. “How do you like your work?” asked the doctor. “It’s pleasant, but sometimes I feel shut off from things—the steel stacks, and t... ...lous ankles above athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to a palisade of cliffs. Far down beneath it on the... ...ere on their way to Gopher Prairie after a wedding journey in the Colorado mountains. The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol. Sh... ...ey had lain side by side in a tent pitched among pines high up on a lonely mountain spur. His hand swallowed hers as he started from thoughts of the p... ... that they resembled the photographs. A mile from Gopher Prairie the track mounts a curving low ridge, and she could see the town as a whole. With a p... ..., the plates clev- erly bound at the edges with brass. The second story of pleasant tapestry brick. One window of excellent clothes for men, intersper... ...e seen me daring him to strip to his B. V. D. ’s and go swimming in an icy mountain brook.” She knew that they were thinking of becoming shocked, but ... ...eer at farm mongrels. The grays clattered out on the hard dirt road with a pleasant song of hoofs: “Ta ta ta rat! Ta ta ta rat!” It was early and fres... ...re served, and the party broke up with many expressions of pleasure at the pleasant affair. Among those present were Mesdames Kennicott, Elder— * ...

...ds, sole wit- nesses of their battle, betted dead against him. Richard had mounted the white cockade of the Feverels, and there was a 13 George Mered... ....” Adrian always made a point of feeding the fretful beast Impatience with pleasantries—a not congenial diet; and Aus- tin, the most patient of human ... ...l which, however, did not as yet generally disturb him. Life was made very pleasant to him at Raynham, as it was part of Sir Austin’s principle of edu... ...am was undesirable. In- stead of nursing offence, her sole thought was the mountain of prejudice she had to contend against. She bowed, and said, Clar... ... with Ripton, who has had the honour of an introduction to you, and a very pleasant time he spent with my young friend, whom he does not for- get. Rip... ...a race across the heaths and up the hills, till, at the farthest bourne of mounted east- ern cloud, the heralds of the sun lay rosy fingers and rest. ... ...ough the park to Lobourne. The moon had risen. The atmosphere was warm and pleasant. “Quite a lover’s night,” said Lady Blandish. “And I, who have non... ... effect on Richard. He dashed off a hasty letter by Tom to Belthorpe, and, mounting his horse, galloped to the Bellingham station. Sir Austin was sitt... ...lesh draws rivers of blood. But there is now in you another power. You are mounting to the table-land of life, where mimic battles are changed to real...

...my walks have been less loud and marked than they were wont to be; and it is pleasanter to imagine in them the rustling of silk brocade, and the light... ...iever, in my small way, of their distresses. And now I never walk abroad but pleasant recognitions and smiling faces wait on Master Humphrey. It was a... ...d down into plain Master Humphrey, which was understood to be the title most pleasant to my ear; and so completely a matter of course has it become, t... ...ay have been something in this tacit confidence in each other flattering and pleasant to us both, and it may have imparted in the beginning an additio... ...f these glittering clients there was one who always came alone. He was nobly mounted, and, having no at tendant, gave his horse in charge to Hugh whi... ...t were alive, he set himself to consider it in every possible direction, now mounting on a chair to look at the top, now going down upon his knees to ... ...nce to a whisper from the women, he consigned to Will, who, seeing that they mounted, mounted also. Then, without a word spoken, they rode on together... ...ppeared so suddenly that they seemed to have started from the earth. A fifth mounted the cart, and scarcely allowing Will time to snatch from it a lit... ...etween whiles. Having embraced his uncle and assured him of his safety, Will mounted on a table and told his story to the crowd. And surely they would...

... was not objectionable to Jacob; on the con- trary, the guineas clinked so pleasantly as they fell, that he wished for a repetition of the sound, and ... ...ot to steal any more, even from people who were fond of him: it was an un- pleasant way of making your fortune in a world where you were likely to sur... ...once get to the distant highroad, a coach would overtake them, David would mount it, having previously by some ingenious means secured his bundle, and... ...pay him a compliment. David groaned. The ways of thieving were not ways of pleasantness. Oh, why had he an idiot brother? Oh, why, in general, was the... ...nch of China- asters?), or, if new grocers were to fill their windows with mountains of currants and sugar, made seductive by contrast and tickets,—wh... ...e” could be anything considerable. On the other hand, even a small gain is pleasant, and the promise of it in this instance was so surpris- ing, that ... ... “He seems to say Freely’s his brother come back from th’ Indies.” “What a pleasant relation for us!” said Letitia, sarcastically. “I think he’s a goo... ... morning; for when Jacob, with a bag of sweets in his hand, was induced to mount the gig with his brother David, the in- habitants of the market-place...

...ouble staircase, saying to himself that the place was sweet and promised a pleasant visit, while he leaned on the balustrade of fine old ironwork whic... ...he manner of a woman able to trust him to understand and conscious that so pleasant an occasion would in every way speak for itself. She of- fered him... ...re of the mass, to preserve an interval between their noses and the glazed mounts of the pictures; while the central body, in the comparative gloom pr... ... young lady herself, commemorating with a brave breadth the sun- sets, the mountains, the temples and palaces of India. He sat an hour—more than an ho...

...ing the house. The autumn sun, rising over the — —shire hills, disclosed a pleasant country; woods brown and mellow varied the fields from which the h... ...ot so tall. As an animal, Edward excelled me far; should he prove as para- mount in mind as in person I must be a slave—for I must expect from him no ... ...wages, and was returning to my lodgings, possessed heart and soul with the pleasant feel- ing that the master who had paid me grudged every penny of t... ... the corner of a grate. On the table a shaded lamp diffused around a soft, pleasant, and equal light; the furniture was almost luxurious for a young b... ... to make of it! How well you like X——! Just at this moment how redolent of pleasant associations are its streets, its shops, its warehouses, its facto... ..., drawn on by hopes as bright as vague, I deemed such a lot no hardship. I mounted now the hill in shade; there were pebbles, inequalities, briars in ... ...t was my wont to do now; for I had found that in entering with aplomb, and mounting the estrade with emphasis, consisted the grand secret of ensuring ... ...towards the Porte de Louvain. V ery soon I was out of the city, and slowly mount- ing the hill, which ascends from the gate, I took my time; for the a... ...step as- cending the common stair, I wondered whether the “locataire,” now mounting to his apartments, were as unsettled in mind and condition as I wa...

...d some male officials at the hotel. Presently another open carriage brought the Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some... ... with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. The building seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the ... ...bout a mile from the hotel, and presently fell into a train of dreamy thought about animals which talk, and kobolds, and enchanted folk, and the rest ... ...ld, however, because he told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woo... ... where students are gathered together, these rise up and take off their caps, and invite the old gentleman to sit with them and partake. He accepts, a... ...with a party to the coming contest had the effect of giving me a kind of personal interest in it; I naturally wished he might win, and it was the reve... ...e fished out of his vest pocket a couple of little things which I carried to the light and ascertained to be pistols. They were single-barreled and si... ...r two, so tumultuous were his feelings; then he hoarsely whispered: “The weapon, the weapon! Quick! what is the weapon?” “This!” and I displayed that ... ... A Tramp Abroad of music that was fifteen minutes long—always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuous...

...r got married at St. Clement’s Danes, where I now have a sitting in a very pleasant pew with genteel company and my own hassock, and being partial to ... ... 21 Charles Dickens I used to fancy that next to what was taught upon the Mount she took most of all to His gentle compassion for us poor women and t... ... told (upon the whole) and sooth- ing for the temper and making everything pleasanter ex- cept when he grew old enough to drop his cap down Wozenham’s... ...ons and shall put a stop to them at two minutes’ notice. Or if I find them mounting to his head” I says, “or striking anyways cold to his stomach or l... ... strikingly remarkable boy, which my poor capacity regards as presenting a pleasant little picture of the dear boy’s mind. The picture may be interest... ...t hadn’t he overdone it, though!” cried Jemmy. “Well! And so then this boy mounted his horse, with his bride in his arms, and cantered away, and cante...

...torm of poli- tics, and in either case it is as good to fall as to rise—to mount a bubble on the crest of the wave, as to sink a stone to the bottom. ... ...corded by Wordsworth, what connection had the corner of Wood Street with a mountain ascending, a vision of trees, and a nest by the Dove? Why should t... ...in the days of boyhood; hence misty morali- ties, reflections, and sad and pleasant remembrances arise. He is the friend of the young especially. Have... ...popular; the plates are not carefully executed, but, being colored, have a pleasant, lively look. The same style was adopted in the once famous book c... ...e neverthe- less severe enough: but we must not venture upon any ill-timed pleasantries in presence of the disturbed King Arthur and the awful ghost o... ...in as many strange and fascinating ways; he has given a thou- sand new and pleasant thoughts to millions of people; he has never used his wit dishones...