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... placard on the granite post like a large thimble, that stood between us. I asked this apparition what it called the place? Unto which, it replied, wi... ...lp her, gives herself up then and drops like a coach-horse from the moon? I hardly knew whether the voices of infant children, pen- etrating into so h... ...ion as if it were a Fever Hospital; the result is, that it is sweet and healthful. It has been constructed from the ground to the roof, with a careful... ... very decent appearance, who had many children with them. Among our dresses there were most kinds of shabby and greasy wear, and much fustian and cord... ...o, if they would embrace this blessed book—which I must say it did some violence to my own feelings of reverence, to see held out at arm’s length at f... ...ght, we came to another parlour up a step or two from the street, which was very cleanly, neatly, even tastefully, kept, and in which, set forth on a ... ...peare’s works, to prove that his uncle by the mother’s side lived for some years at Stoke Newington, before they were brought-to by a Miscellaneous Co...

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...mplaining who have gone to Sabrina beneath the tides. He was unhurt, quite sound, merely as- tonished, he remarked, in reply to the inquiries of the f... ...o had no deep knowledge of him and his lightning arithmetic for measuring, sounding, and deciding. Naturally he was among the happiest of human creatu... ...a fifth corner.’ ‘I don’t blame them for making the price prohibitive. And sound as ever!’ Mr. Radnor watched the deliberate constant ascent of bubble... ...the world down, if we’re loudly praised.’ Benjamin waited to hear approval sounded on the lips un- certain as a woman is a wine of ticklish age. The g... ...ss: my first experience in the City was, that the power to drink—keeping a sound head—conduces to the doing of business.’ ‘It’s a pleasant way of inst... ...ely; and on his knowledge of the country of the campaign, roads, morasses, masking hills, dividing rivers. He had mapped for himself mentally the batt...

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... misunderstanding this is the only course to take. Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and personal note, a note that tends at times ... ...s inevitable, each word clearly distinguishable from ev- ery other word in sound as well as spelling. That, at any rate, is the sort of thing one hear... ...suredly Utopia will be temper- ate, not only drinking, but eating with the soundest discre- tion. Yet I do not think wine and good ale will be altoget... ...be as perfect as mortal laws can possibly be made. Caveat vendor will be a sound qualifi- cation of Caveat emptor in the beautifully codified Utopian ... ...hate each other and can’t get away from each other.” “I know,” I said. “It sounds absurd.” “It is.” “Why can’t they get away? What is there to keep th... ...m all temptation, the defective citizen will be schooled. There will be no masking of the lesson; “which do you value most, the wide world of humanity...

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...seen, if she could not sleep in the stifling, smoky atmo- sphere, amid the sounds of carousal among her father and his fellows. The great hound came u... ... the legend of the saint of the day, and contrasted it with the rude gruff sounds of revelry that found their way up the turret stairs, she could hard... ...n, and telling her beads alike for murdered and murderers, till, after the sounds of welcome and exultation, she heard Sir Eberhard’s heavy tread, as ... ...soner.” No wonder that all this time Christina cowered at the dis- cordant sounds below, trembled, and prayed while she waited on her poor young charg... ... first kneel and then sit in the little lonely church, hearing the various sounds without, and imagining that her father had forgotten her, and that h... ...t my name is Theurdank! Are you foes to all the world save Theurdank?” “No masking,” said Heinz, sternly. “T ell your true name as an honest man, and ...

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...h they came into a forrest wyde, Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full griesly seem’d: therein they long did ryde, Yet trac... ...ered nest, Where through long watch, & late dayes weary toile, She soundly slept, & carefull thoughts did quite assoile. Now whenas all... ...all his armour seem’d of antique mould, But wondrous massie and assured sound, And round about yfretted all with gold, In which there w... ...e and labour them constraines: And oftentimes loud strokes, and ringing sounds From vnder that deepe Rocke most horribly rebounds. The Faeri... ...rt thigh to him recur’d againe, But hurt his hart, the which before was sound, Through an vnwary dart, which did rebound From her faire... ...r paines in loue, or punishments in hell; All which disguized marcht in masking wise, About the chamber with that Damozell, And then re...

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...s no trouble on that score. The whole was not accomplished till a horn was sounded as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the en... ...to be donned on entering the good town of Berwick-upon-T weed. Not without sounding of bugle and sending out a pursuivant to examine into the intentio... ...rease, But with her abideth eternally.’ Stiff, quaint, and awkward sounds old Bokenham’s transla- tion of the ‘Golden Legend,’ but to Eleanor ... ...r and his sword in the other, looking defiant. ‘If he be a young gentleman masking, I am not bound to know it,’ said Suffolk impatiently to Drummond; ... ...d champions of the tilt-yard. Moreover, he was not a knight as yet, and on sounding Sir Patrick it was elicited that he was likely to deem it high tre... ...dies in the guest-chamber of the nunnery began to bestir themselves at the sound of one of the many convent bells. ‘They are at Toul, and we shall mee...

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...y an oak that grew thereby, Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady’s sighs, That issue... ...ds, moderate in his reckonings, prompt in his payments, having a cellar of sound liquor, a ready wit, and a pretty daughter. Since the days of old Har... ...ed every night betwixt Hounslow and Lon- don; when in fact he may be found sound asleep on his feather- bed, with a candle placed beside him on one si... ... so far recalled him to his better self, that he retired to his bed, slept sound, and awoke a new man in the morning. 31 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER III... ...e the scream issued, followed by Michael Lambourne. But to account for the sounds which interrupted their conversation, it is neces- sary to recede a ... ...around the cottages, wearing their buckram suits in order to protect their masking dresses, having their light cart for transporting their scenery, an... ...rief absence. The mock fight was over, but the men, still habited in their masking suits, stood together in groups, like the in- habitants of a city w...

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...s so “lone- some” herself. He and she, face to face in that sad house, had sounded the depths of isolation; and though she felt no par- ticular affect... ..., burdocks and tall swamp-weeds over which big blue-bottles hummed. At the sound of wheels a child with a tow-head and pale eyes like Liff Hyatt’s pee... ... up to her room. She heard Mr. Royall cross the passage, and presently the sounds below her win- dow showed that he had returned to the porch. She sea... ...t be surprised into taking her as girls like Julia Hawes were taken.... No sound came from the sleeping village, and in the deep darkness of the garde... ...had expected a retort in kind, and it startled her to hear her exclamation sounding on through silence. “Y es, I know,” Mr. Royall said slowly. “But t... ...e other end of the first row of seats was cut off by the screen of foliage masking the harmonium. The effort to see Harney around the corner of the sc...

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...est. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darw... ...t as is, so you could make any changes you felt were necessary.” Kennicott sounded doubtful for the first time since he had come back to his own. “It’... ...spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block. A Ford, in reverse, sounded as though it were shaking to pieces, 37 Sinclair Lewis then recove... ... whine of a peanut-roaster, and the oily smell of nuts. There was no other sound nor sign of life. She wanted to run, fleeing from the encroaching pra... ...oolbuilding in its cindery grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, ... ...them and mixed with them, the houses, meek cottages or large, comfortable, soundly uninteresting sym- bols of prosperity. In all the town not one buil...

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...ypocrite. It has not yet been taught to appreciate a quality certifying to sound citizenship as authoritatively as acres of land in fee simple, or cof... ... may assume that he would have heard if she had any whiff of a brogue. Her sounding of the letter R a trifle scru- pulously is noticed by Lady Pennon:... ...and fife as gallant interpreters of popular appetite, and going or gone to soundlessness and the icy shades. Touches inward are not absent: ‘To have t... ...n asterisks ‘as she was now nightly an Ariadne in heaven through her God,’ sounds to us a roundabout, with wit some- where and fun nowhere. Sitting at... ...the readiness for more, declared by physicians to be the state inducing to sound di- gestion. Some one spied the figure of the hero at the window and ... ...rself to swallow the repulsive truth. O self! self! self! are we eternally masking in a domino that reveals your hideous old face when we could be mos... ...peration. Avowedly Tony had accepted him without being in love. Or was she masking the passion? No: had it been a case of love, she would have written...

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...aunt was rather grand about a grammar-school; she said even a curacy would sound better, and she must talk it over with Isabel. I gave your letter, co... ...ing mine.’ She held it out proudly; and Mr. Manaell, making an un- willing sound between his teeth, took it from her; but, as he read, his countenance... ...hat anticipation is worse than reality. Where there was true affection and sound trust, she could not, would not, and did not fear for those she loved... ... words blew off at once the whole mists of nonsense and fancy. Tom was the sound, good, reli- gious man to whom her heart and her troth were given; th... ...ame in, vexing him at first merely as an additional delay, but presently a sound of dissatisfaction at- tracted his notice to the foreign air of two e... ...enture back to Peru, under Fitzjocelyn’s protection, and assist him in un- masking the treacherous Robson! To this he readily agreed, catching at the ...

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...n Anne’s Farm, was the wife of a yeoman-farmer of the county. Both were of sound Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its n... ...t the age of fifteen, was distracted by it, owing to her sister’s habit of masking her own dismal internal forebodings on the sub- ject, under the gui... ...to advertise for an assistant, who would pay a small sum of money to learn sound farming, and hear arguments in favour of the Corn Laws. To please her... ...he expenses of the funeral, stating the limit of the cost. It is unfair to sound any man’s springs of action critically while he is being tried by a s... ...so good, marm.” Mrs. Sumfit, fretted as she was, was not impervious to the sound sense of the remark, as well as to the compliment. “I don’t want to h... ...s every tongue. Master Gammon ate and the kettle hummed. Twice Mrs. Sumfit sounded a despairing, “Oh, deary me!” but it was useless. No human power ha...

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...might think, on the practice of that Oriental Cham, who daily proclaims by sound of trumpet to the kings in the four cor- ners of the earth—that they ... ...an alarming accident; but, by the blessing of Heaven, had escaped safe and sound, and was now on her road to mingle congratulations with her affection... ...ens, consume the flying moments, until at length his ears caught the fatal sounds or echoes from a body of horsemen riding up to the villa. These were... ...nd even the current of their thoughts is frost-bound by fear. Suddenly the sound of a fiddle or a viol is caught from a distance—it swells upon the ea... ...pon the imperial house, except by one solitary quality. This bears a harsh sound; but it has the effect of a sudden redemption for his memory, when we... ...erors should have arisen with martial propensities, and talents capable of masking, for many years, by specious but transitory conquests, the causes t... ...t once (for the boy Gordian was probably associated to them only by way of masking their experiment), had made it evi- dent that their purpose was to ...

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...fter! BANQUO: Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? I’ the name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Whi... ...il. When Duncan is asleep— Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so con... ...t be my oracles as well, And set me up in hope? But hush! no more. [Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lor... ...elf struck down; and thence it is, That I to your assistance do make love, Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons. Macbet... ...s sprites, And show the best of our delights: I’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round: That this great king may kindly ... ...ars despise my tongue for ever, Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound That ever yet they heard. MACDUFF: Hum! I guess at it....

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...if it will make you any happier I’ll arrange to see him less often ….” She sounded the lowest depths of subservience in returning Ursula’s tearful kis... ...ome: she was due last Monday.” Her companion laughed, and something in the sound of his laugh suggested that he probably knew as much of Ellie’s movem... ...all out sooner, or else you ought to chuck thinking of it at all,” was the sound but ineffectual advice he gave himself on the day after Gillow’s arri... ...r health.” She paused, hating herself for the ironic note she had tried to sound. “Well—?” he questioned, from the depths of the chair into which he h... ...m which she occasionally glanced down at an open manual. As Lansing’s step sounded on the pavement, the young lady, turning, revealed herself as Miss ... ...hat, so discreetly conspicu- ous, so negligent and so studied, with a veil masking her paint, and gloves hiding her rings, she looked younger, simpler...

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... alarum of a tocsin will frighten him. Con- sequently the tocsin has to be sounded; and the effect is woeful 7 George Meredith past measure: his hugg... ...er lifted finger. ‘You are composing a love-letter, Nevil!’ The accusation sounded like irony. ‘No,’ said he, puffing; ‘I wish I were! ‘What can it be... ... gov- erned and led by the belly. The head and the legs of the country are sound still; I don’t guarantee it for long, but the middle’s rapacious and ... ...cience and deserve the thanks of the country.’ Nevil listened gravely. The soundness of the head and legs of the country he took for granted. The infl... ...He thrilled surprisingly under the charm of feminine beauty. ‘The fellow’s sound at bottom,’ his uncle said, hearing of his having really been seen wa... ...blow to his House the direr from all he supposed himself to have gained by masking it hitherto. The young life he looked to for renewal swallowed him:...

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...ht as never to wake with a start. One night she was strangely aroused by a sound of sobbing. The baronet stood beside the cot in his long black cloak ... ...orton of Poer Hall and Austin Wentworth stepping towards them. A truce was sounded, jackets were caught up, guns shoul- dered, and off they trotted in... ...ee.—Where is the fortress that has not one weak gate? where the man who is sound at each particular angle? Ay, meditates the recumbent cynic, more or ... ...e seemed inevitably ap- 33 George Meredith proaching when the dinner-bell sounded. There the talk was all of Farmer Blaize. If it dropped, Adrian rev... ... presentable. “Where’s your friend?” Austin began. “Gone!” was the answer, sounding cavernous from behind hair and fingers. An explanation presently f... ... in the period of what he termed his own ordeal. How had he borne that? By masking his face. And he prepared the ordeal for his son by doing the same....

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.... Good Sir, why doe you start, and seeme to feare 152 Things that doe sound so faire? i’th’ name of truth 153 Are ye fantasticall, or that i... ...sleepe, 543 (Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney 544 Soundly inuite him) his two Chamberlaines 545 Will I with Wine, and Wa... ...as well, 991 And set me vp in hope. But hush, no more. 992 Senit sounded. Enter Macbeth as King, Lady Lenox, 993 Rosse, Lords, and Atte... ...d thence it is, 1127 That I to your assistance doe make loue, 1128 Masking the Businesse from the common Eye, 1129 For sundry weightie Rea... ... And shew the best of our delights. 1676 Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound, 1677 While you performe your Antique round: 1678 That this g... ...e my tongue for euer, 2047 Which shall possesse them with the heauiest sound 2048 that euer yet they heard. 2049 Macd. Humh: I guesse ...

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...en, after some moments of irresolu- tion, during which he struck his chest soundingly and gazed down, talked alternately to himself and the boy, and c... ...ighty, but smooth immense broad waves, and tore thing from thing without a sound or a hurt. 14 The Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER II AN ADVENTU... ... Italian organ-men and milk- men paraded the street regularly, and made it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people,... ...all this with such a veritable matter-of- fact air, and such liveliness—he sounded the chase and its cries, and showed King Lear tottering, and Hamlet... ...orld beyond the hills; I this one, where a slow full river flowed from the sounding mill under our garden wall, through long meadows. In Winter the wi... ...longings for society. Prince Ernest was kind enough to quit me without un- masking. I had not to learn that the simplest visits and ob- servations of ...

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...be determined after having read this work. Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present my- 10 The Confessions self before the sovereign jud... ...t a priest in his surplice, and never did I hear the bells of a procession sound without shuddering with horror; these sen- sations soon wore off in g... ...re alternately; all these were not necessary to fascinate a youth whom the sound of the most simple instrument, provided it was just, transported with... ...ve been useful to me through life, lessons of pure morality, and maxims of sound judgment. In the successive order of my inclinations and ideas, I had... ...st glance of Madam de Warrens banished all my fears—my heart leaped at the sound of her voice; I threw myself at her feet, and in transports of the mo... ...minds, which vice never attacks openly; it finds means to surprise them by masking itself with sophisms, and not unfrequently with a virtue. Guilty wi...

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...hurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut the narrative from that of Geoffrey’s high sounding Latin prose. W ace, moreover, was Norman born and Norman bred, and... ...phraseology, he shows the influence of earlier Anglo Saxon literature. The sound of the Ode on Athelstane’s Victory and of Beowulf is in our ears a... ...rs of evil tidings. “Why all this noise and coil?” cried he “I am safe and sound, thank God, as you may see by looking on my face. These tidings are n... ... marvelled greatly at these wonders told him by the king. Then Arthur bade sound his horns, his clarions and trum pets to call his meinie to himself.... ...ppings of a tale. Thus to make a delectable tune to your ear, history goes masking as fable. Hear then how, because of his valour, the counsel of his ... ...t be heard the voice of viols and harp and flutes. In every place rose the sound of lyre and drum and shepherd’s pipe, bagpipe, psaltery, cymbals, mon...

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...el alternations of hope and fear; all three ran to the window at the least sound, and gave way to every sort of conjecture. While the family were thus... ... women fond of good eating, was grow- ing heavy; her step on the staircase sounded like the chop- ping of logs; she might die at any moment; with her ... ..., was expecting her grandson Bixiou, whom Desroches had gone to fetch, the sound of Philippe’s step and cane resounded on the staircase. “There he is!... ...with horror; you have every vice. My God! is this my son?” A hollow rattle sounded in Madame Descoings’s throat, increasing Agathe’s anger. “I love yo... ...for the occasion, Agathe, fearing to betray her presence, mingled the soft sound of her tears with the conversation of the two brothers. Philippe pose... ...r of the Emperor was to lead a movement in Paris solely for the purpose of masking the real conspiracy and occupy- ing the mind of the government at i...

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...re that melancholy and inscrutable look which ’twas always im- possible to sound. When the time came for the supper, of which we were ad- 102 Henry E... ...and Castlewood looked at each other at this compliment, neither liking the sound of it. “The Prince uncovered,” Beatrix continued, “and I saw the Quee... ...many of them spent in hiding their feelings, in cajoling their tyrants, in masking over with fond smiles and artful gay- ety, their doubt, or their gr... ... above him; under which that unquiet spirit is for ever at peace. WITH THE SOUND OF KING GEORGE’S TRUMPETS, all the vain hopes of the weak and foolish...

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... of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thames the tide All sing the festive lay. With mirthful dance they beat the ground, Their shouts of joy the hills resound And catch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh The...

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...at swiftly rattling o’er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thames the tide All sing the f... ...urse of Hymeneal joys he rounds, The fair one’s eyes danc’d pleasure at the sounds. Nought now remain’d but ‘‘Noes’’ — how little meant! And the sw... ...idnight Lamp I’d love to pore, I’d seek with care fair Learning’s depths to sound, And gather scientific Lore: Or to mature the embryo thoughts inc... ...It gave them to their friends and children dear — Awaked by lordly Insult’s sound To all the doubled horrors round, Oft shrunk they from Oppression... ...in, Enraptur’st Angels with thy strain, — Grant me, like thee, the lyre to sound, Like thee, with fire divine to glow — But ah! when rage the Wave... ...ng blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends, Masking his birth-name, wont to character His wild-wood fancy and impetu...

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...accent, ‘Well, sir,’ he would say, ‘what depth of water have ye? Well now, sound; and ye’ll just find so or so many fathoms,’ as the case might be; an... ...tice, in their boyishness of tone, to the profound effect produced. At the sound of these songs and shot of cannon, the boy’s mind awoke. He dated his... ...ose on January 23 without fear. About the middle of the day they heard the sound of musketry, and the next morning they were wakened by the cannonade.... ...alking together. As we reached the Rue de Clichy, the report of the cannon sounded close to our ears and made our hearts sick, I assure you. The fight... ...e people disappeared; when better, the doors half opened and you heard the sound of men again. From the upper windows we could see each discharge from... ...nd the hut all wrapped up in sails, on a sand hill, looking on the sea and masking those confounded marshes at the back. One would have thought the Ca...

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...children’s souls one can hardly bear to look; for here we find pious fraud masking the violation of the body by obscene cruelty. Any parent or school ... ...ildren never stopped and where it was never heard, all the goodnatured and sound people would prefer the in- cessant noise to the incessant silence. B... ...ness are left out of account, children can stand with indifference sights, sounds, smells, and dis- orders that would make an adult of fifty utterly m... ...y evolving the instinct of docility. Children are very docile: they have a sound intuition that they must do what they are told or per- ish. And adult... ...t do what they are told or per- ish. And adults have an intuition, equally sound, that they must take advantage of this docility to teach children how... ...is is what makes it so important that the established practice should be a sound one, and so useless for clever individuals to disparage it unless the...

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...how came Davenant, how came Rowe, or Pope, by their intense (if not always sound) admiration for Shakspeare, unless they had found it fuming upwards l... ...ury his books, his science, and his secrets, “Deeper than did ever plummet sound.” Nay, it is even ominous, that in this play, and from the voice of P... ...nd how did he surmount this un- happy self-distrust? Paradoxical as it may sound, we will ven- ture to say, that, with the innumerable aids for interp... ... his sudden sensi- bility to Pope’s anathema, with which the world had re- sounded for twenty years? Pope had now established his reputation with the ... ...n infor- mation of it) was found in his pocket; and the young satirist was soundly whipped, and kept a prisoner to his room for seven days; whereupon ... ...- pose; whereas the presence of the English armies did but furnish a plea, masking itself in patriotism, for gatherings everywhere of lawless marauder...

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...e huts on the hill-top, a quarter of a mile distant, spoke of having heard sounds of firing while they were at break- fast, and a little boy named Tom... ...se bare walls, these loud floors, chill rooms, dull windows, and the vault-sound- ing of the ghostly house, everywhere the absence of the faces in the... ...rs, if they were good walkers to march with the army; and, as evidently it sounded witless to him, she added, to seem reasonable: ‘You have not told m... ...carol ringingly above. His heart and all his fancies were in motion at the sound. He leaned on an elbow to listen; the slide threatened him, and he re... .... Anton pressed a hand at his ankle and made him wince, but the bones were sound, leg and hip not worse than badly bruised. He was advised by Anton to... ... of the scene at the Gardens, Livia and Henrietta went through the ordeal, masking any signs that they were stripped for a flagellation. Only, the fai...

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...voice of praise in the mouths of his creditors, the dead man’s requiem was sounded. 10 Evan Harrington CHAPTER II THE HERITAGE OF THE SON TOWARD EVEN... ... ou must absolutely give yourself for what you hope to get. Dreadful as it sounds to philosophic ears, you must marry. This, having danced with Caroli... ...ng an instant to catch the import of this cavernous gasp upon the brink of sound, the girl said: ‘Part? what do you mean?’ Apparently it required a ye... ...The doleful look, the superhuman indifference, were repeated in due order: sound, a little more distinct, ut- tered the words: ‘We cannot be as we hav... ...pparel, than to walk with dignity totally unadorned. This simply tries the soundness of 56 Evan Harrington our faculties: that tempts them in erratic... ...o have one more promenade, saying, with characteris- tic cleverness in the masking of his real thoughts: ‘It gives us an appetite, you know.’ In Evan’... ... an internal groan, the outward aspect of which she had vast difficulty in masking, she said: ‘You are right—he has no head. Easily cajoled!’ Old Tom ...

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...nd fence into one of the lanes of her short winter walks. “All’s well, all sound, never better, only a scratch!” the gentleman had said, as he reeled ... ...d noticed the wit. The corrupted hearing of people required a collision of sounds, V ernon supposed. For his part, to prove their excellence, he recol... ...ical air. “All of us must go! our time is short.” “Very,” she assented. It sounded like want of feeling. 47 George Meredith “If you lose me, Clara!” ... ...manlike even for a lover (who is allowed a softer dialect), set her vainly sound- ing for the source and drift of it. She was glad of not having to en... ...steries?” He poured a little runlet of half laughter over her head, of the sound assumed by genial compassion. It is irritating to hear that when we i... ...ion they had achieved 295 George Meredith through sorrow. He succeeded in masking himself from her, owing to her awe of the circumstances. She reproa...

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...ntastic and haughty, in her ways; and whose praises Dr. Tusher, the Vicar, sounded loudly amongst his flock. As for my lord, he gave no great trouble,... ...f their own. Poor ladies their life was far harder than the page’s. He was sound asleep, tucked up in his little bed, whilst they were sitting by her ... ...o the cupboard, my lady from her bed called out, with a voice that did not sound like that of a very sick woman, “Is it your commission to insult ladi... ...fountain, which was bubbling audibly. ’Tis strange how that scene, and the sound of that fountain, remain fixed on the memory of a man who has beheld ... ...n by grief and misfortune ever so severe but some night he begins to sleep sound, and some day when dinner-time comes to feel hungry for a beefsteak. ... ...many of them spent in hiding their feelings, in cajoling their tyrants, in masking over with fond smiles and artful gay- ety, their doubt, or their gr...