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... with schools, with literature and religious organisation, with creeds and customs, with everything, in fact, that it lies within man’s power to alter... ...he ideal community of man’s past was one with a common belief, with common customs and common cer- emonies, common manners and common formulae; men of... ...d beautifully arranged in- ter-urban communications, swift trains or motor services or what not, to diffuse its population, and without some an- ticip... ...f house- holds and schools, teachers and doctors, and all such atten- dant services will flow up the mountain masses, and ebb again when the September... ...gratory a people, will need some handy symbol to check the distribution of services and com- modities. Almost certainly they will need to have money. ... ...o ask, first, what will be the Utopian marriage law, and then what sort of customs and opinions are likely to be superadded to that law? The trend of ... ...- geration of implication, that no one laughs at talk about 197 H G Wells Swedish painting or American literature. And I will confess and point out t...

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...lads was influenced by the oriental and sultanic 13 Balzac atmosphere and customs of the Palais-Royal. The Palais-Royal was an Eldorado of love where... ...y mother to advise my brother, who was employed in the imperial diplomatic service. My mother was to take me back with her, out of the way of dangers ... ...ming pleased to receive me as a guest. My father had formerly done devoted service to the Bourbons, and had played an important and perilous, though ... ...of the past, nor of the future of my family, I was unaware of this devoted service which the Comte de Mortsauf well remem- bered. Moreover, the antiqu... ...to which my own mother belonged, as quickly as a min- eralogist recognizes Swedish iron. Her language was that of the old court; she pronounced the “o... ...For the last four months you have made me re- flect deeply on the laws and customs which regulate our epoch. The conversations I have had with my aunt... ...ruit. Dear, the laws of society are not all written in a book; manners and customs create laws, the more important of which are often the least known....

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...r ladyship, and am ready to put on her colours and do all in reason in her service, so as I am free to attend to Master Phelim, that is M. l’Abbe, whe... ...or Le Chevalier Bourke, as the French called him, had no scruple in taking service in the armies of Louis XIV. Callaghan followed him everywhere, whil... ...on of unfairness or deception in this arrangement: it was only the natural service of the one to the other, and if it were perceived in the Fathers of... ...ould hear if the boy durst open his mouth, but our broad Scotch is so like Swedish that he will almost be an interpreter there.’ However hopeless Mada... ...d a wild inde- pendent race, following all those Ishmaelite traditions and customs that are innate in the blood of the Arab. 57 Yo n g e When Estelle... ... as he said to himself, as again and again he saw some allusion to Eastern customs illustrated. He was still more struck—when, after the various herds...

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...ty to repair a part of the wrong done to the other boy by doing a precious service for this one by undermining his foolish faith in his false gods. He... ...t. But take the case of servant tipping in Europe. You pay the hotel for service; you owe the servants nothing, yet you pay them besides. Doesn’t th... ...haps so. In case you ignored the custom would you get prompt and effective service from the servants? Y.M. Oh, hear yourself talk! Those European serv... ... stakes—with locality to help, of course. Although I am away off here in a Swedish village * and those stakes did not stand till the snow came, I can ... ...law courts; and all about sol diering, and sailoring, and the manners and customs and ways of royal courts and aristocratic society; and likewise acc... ... the law and his fa miliar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop talk of lawyers through being for a time the cleark of a ... ...ate knowledge of law, but that he was well acquainted with the manners and customs of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “Whi...

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...enty-five years old when he ‘hooked’ Anna Vassilyevna; he retired from the service and went into the country to manage the property. He was soon tired... ... in your life, and at home, Schelling will keep. It’s true he did you good service to-day; but you need not hurry for all that. Sing, if you can sing,... ...beforehand to congratulate him on his degree, and to consecrate him to the service of science. ‘I pass on the torch to you,’ he said to him two hours ... ...asian race; consequently we are bound to assume your acquaintance with the customs of so- ciety, yet you address a lady to whom you have not been intr... ... a red net, her dress of faded blue satin was too tight for her, and thick Swedish gloves reached up to her sharp elbows. Indeed, how could she, the d... ... S. George; high against the sky on the right shone the golden ball of the Customs House; and, decked like a bride, stood the loveliest of the churche...

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..., the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in details of manners and customs, a word- painter like Tacitus; the author of a language of his own,... ...n certain army appointments, he re- signed his commissim after five years’ service, and retired for a time to private life. Upon his return to Court, ... ...dly to adhere to a rule he had laid down—namely, that none who entered the service, except his illegitimate children, and the Princes of the blood roy... ...his siege, what with carrying fascines, furnishing guards, and other daily services, this increase of duty was given to it because the cavalry served ... ... this, payments hitherto most strictly made be- gan to cease. Those of the customs, those of the divers loans, the dividends upon the Hotel de Ville—i... ...u- thority and menaces, and hastened the Czar’s departure and his own. The Swedish minister, charged with protests from the principal T urkish chiefs,... ... with all the solidity and solemnity which could be desired from the laws, customs, and usages of Spain. It only remained for France to imitate him. F...

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... now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But ... ...daisies on a saffron ground. Newness and an obvious notion of neatness and service. Haydock & Simons. Haydock. She had met a Haydock at the station; H... ...ll spare woman with flaxen hair trotted from the house. She was twanging a Swedish patois—not in mono- tone, like English, but singing it, with a lyri... ...” “Don’t you find that some of the farmers think they pay too much for the services of the towns?” “Oh, of course there’s a lot of cranks among the fa... ... no matter what else I do.” The poorer houses of Gopher Prairie, where the services of Miles Bjornstam were a luxury—which included the shanty of Mile... ...ve to watch your step all the time, and live up to fool demands and social customs, and a lot of old tabbies always busy criticizing. Everybody’s free... ...ore sharply the vulgar detail of her husband’s having observed the ancient customs of the land by chewing tobacco. She would have preferred a prettier... ...rs, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips, and a Swedish advertisement of Axel Egge’s grocery, but also a thermometer and a ... ...d in less than a generation losing in the grayness whatever pleas- ant new customs they might have added to the life of the town. Their sons finished ...

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... Planche. The opening scene of this volume, representing the man- ners and customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no longer except ... ...ry, and the transition pe- riod of the vieille roche as it passed into the customs and ideas of the present century, is one of Balzac’s remark- able a... ... concerned with facts and dates than with the truer history of manners and customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the pe... ...rd that paper read. The three guns hanging to the walls had therefore seen service recently. The baron, who considered the enterprise useless, left th... ...ss, and the manner of a man ac- 32 Balzac customed to perform this little service. A knock at the outer gate given firmly in military fashion echoed ... ...int-Louis and a pension of two thousand francs, as the legal reward of his services, paid from the fund of the Invalides de la Marine. The slight hypo... ...oon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush to the c...

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... This idea of man going out into new things, leaving secu- rities, habits, customs, leaving his normal life altogether be- hind him, underlay all Benh... ...lot about Prothero’s ideas and the discussions of social reform and social service that went on in his rooms, for Billy read at unknown times, and was... ...erve. It enabled him to detect accessible moments, do inobtrusive friendly services, 50 The Research Magnificent and above all amuse his quarry . He ... ...say, “Of course,—ah, yes, I know him, I know him. Y es, I did him a little service— in ’96.” And something in his manner would suggest a satisfac- tio... ...about us, and for the new life our minds, our imaginations, our habits and customs are all unprepared…. “It is only now, after some years of study and... ...y condition that once justified the rules and imperatives, the manners and customs, the sen- timents, the morality, the laws and limitations which mak... ...l let’s set about making it accessible and harmless and have done with it. Swedish exercises. That sort of thing. If it isn’t, if it can be reduced an...

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...rposes, with no clear purpose but this of still trying to do His Majesty a service, Bouille waits; struggling what he can to keep his district loyal, ... ... all Con- stitutional men run to the same tenor. A solemn National funeral-service, for the Law-defenders slain at Nanci; is said and sung in the Cham... .... With such gradual mild levelling on the one side; as with solemn funeral-service, Cassolettes, Courts-Martial, National thanks,—all that Officiality... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul drag- ons,—if, alas, the ... ...nce? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings. ’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, will lead Coalised Arm... ...ss, at all moments! Thoughts are growing; forms of Speech are growing, and Customs and even Costumes; still more visibly are actions and transactions ...

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...e same time our ideal is the selfless world of equity. We continue to give service to the Selfless God, we wor- ship the great selfless oneness in the... ...ess God, we wor- ship the great selfless oneness in the spirit, oneness in service of the great humanity, that which is Not-Me. This selfless God is H... ...iger because I love mankind; out of love for other people, out of selfless service to that which is not me, I will even become a tiger.’ Which is absu... ...soul. But when one sees the perfect Ibsen, how one hates the Norwegian and Swedish nations! They are detestable. They seem to be fingering with the mi... ...al Ibsen: the same thing is in Strindberg and in most of the Norwegian and Swedish writings. It is with them a sort of phallic wor- ship also, but now... ...ld not be that they were real. Even when the boat put in to shore, and the customs officials came to look, the village remained re- mote in the romant... ...ary little Chiasso I drank coffee, and watched the come and go through the Customs. The Swiss and the Ital- ian Customs officials had their offices wi...

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... O.S.N.’s superintendent in Sulaco for the whole Costaguana section of the service was very proud of his Company’s standing. He resumed it in a saying... ...hom he had never set eyes in his life, was the other superintendent of the service, quar- tered some fifteen hundred miles away from Sulaco. “Don’t ta... ...e lives of a few Sulaco officials—the political chief, the director of the customs, and the head of police—belonging to an overturned government. Poor... ...the mother, and much of his affection had been expended in the worship and service of liberty. When quite a youth he had deserted from a ship trading ... ... I tell you! The political Gefe, the chief of the police, the chief of the customs, the 102 Nostromo general, all, all, are the officials of that Gou... ...ir faces their impres- sion that the general must have had too much punch (Swedish punch, imported in bottles by Anzani) at 142 Nostromo the Amarilla... ...ce; but he is a man of birth and education—at one time the director of the Customs of Cayta. That idiot-brute Gamacho fas- tened himself upon him with...

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... insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him. Chapter XXX BUT THE BED I made up for myself wa... ...ny time you want him he will be grate- ful for the opportunity of being of service to you. He has no ill-feeling towards you on account of anything th... ... the writer gratifies instincts deep- rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised world have forced back to the mys- terious recesses ... ...great deal of bustle, the unloading of the baggage, the examination of the customs; and everyone seems to smile at you. It is very hot. The colour daz... ...his arms, mounted a pulpit which was at the end of the room, and began the service which the wretched outcasts had to endure as the price of their lod... ...unters along the streets — Lascars off a P . and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japa- nese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Span- iards,...

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... seemed unable to find the right answer. Bab- bitt boomed on: “Pretty punk service the Company giving us on these car-lines. Nonsense to only run the ... ...on you and me that have to pay a seven-cent fare! Fact, there’s remarkable service on all their lines—considering.” “Well—” uneasily. “Darn fine morni... ...ellevue, and all East Side residential districts. Yours for service, P.S.—Just a hint of some plums we can pick for you— some genuine b... ...cy isn’t the word! It’s some kind of an anthropological report about—about Customs, in the South Seas, and what it doesn’t say! It’s a book you can’t ... ..., they were trudging off to lectures by authors and Hindu philosophers and Swedish lieutenants. “Gosh,” Babbitt wailed to his wife, as they walked hom...

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...ege and re- opened it under the old rules, with the habits, practices, and customs which gave this school a character with which I have seen nothing a... ...now remember of the poetical conversations we held together concerning the Swedish prophet, whose works I have since had the curiosity to read, may be... ...all unworthy, into a higher sphere, not only can he never un- derstand the customs and language there, but his mere pres- ence paralyzes the voice and... ...e law of custom in all schools, Thursday and Sunday were holidays; but the services, which we were made to attend very regularly, so completely filled... ...d by her grandfather, a Jew 69 Balzac named Salomon, who, contrary to the customs of his nation, had, in his old age, married a Christian and a Catho... ...anatics of the last century, a reli- gious mania which will some day be of service to the science of humanity. I would stand on Lambert’s chest, remai...

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...hese were in the same convulsive and transitionary state as the Marquesans of to-day. In both cases an alien authority enforced, the clans disarmed, t... ...Taipi-Kikino. An elegant guest at table, skilled in the use of knife and fork, a brave figure when he shouldered a gun and started for the woods after... ... regimen, admit that in those days life was not worth living. And yet even then there were exceptions. There were female chiefs and (I am assured) pri... ...le with- out his favourite diet. A few years ago a drought killed the breadfruit trees and the bananas in the district of Anaho; and from this calamit... ...trade; had made money and retired, supposing his active days quite over; and it was only when he found idleness dangerous that he placed his capital a... ...dillon to South America, and there educated by the fathers. His French is fluent, his talk sensible and spirited, and in his capacity of ganger-in-chi... ...ublic festival. The body was accordingly divided; and every man retired to his own house to consummate the rite in secret, carrying his proportion of ...

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...ch the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis. Brave men were ... ... with due precision She waited on her lady with the sun, Thought daily service was her only mission, Bringing warm water, wreathing her long t... ...re them, and fair slaves on every side; Gems, gold, and silver, form’d the service mostly, Mother of pearl and coral the less costly. The dinner... ...rcely could express ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small ob... ... at least In outward show, which is a saving clause) An outline of the customs of the East, With all their chaste integrity of laws, By wh... ...ride’s beauty. And now he rose; and after due ablutions Exacted by the customs of the East, And prayers and other pious evolutions, He dra... ... of surrender By mowing Christians down on every side, As obstinate as Swedish Charles at Bender. His five brave boys no less the foe defied; ...

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... in all, 34 Robert Louis Stevenson every stay being gratified with a stay-sail, a boat-boom sent aloft for a maintop-gallant yard, and the derrick of... ...good- humoured and honest, but inefficient, idle himself, the cause of idleness in others, grumbling, a self-excuser—all the faults in a bundle. He ow... ...y on the King; they have forgot they were in Samoa, or that such a thing as Samoans existed, and had eyes and some intelligence. The Chief Justice has... ...ight to republish as I choose. Had the same ar- rangement with Henley, Magazine of Art, and with Tulloch Fraser’s. —For any necessary note or preface,... ...roubles in Samoa. That is what we want; a man that knows and likes the natives, qui paye de sa personne, and is not afraid of hanging when necessary. ...

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...EK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BA... ...uck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most mis- erable plight. Too expens... ...es the Captain at his busy desk, hur- riedly making out his papers for the Customs—’Who’s there?’ Oh! how that harmless question mangles Jonah! For th... ...ave no doubt I shall soon learn. I’ve been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that—” “Merchant service be damned. Talk not that ling... ...ll take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of the marchant service to me again. Marchant service indeed! I suppose now ye feel conside...

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... Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Span... ...ruck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight. Too expensiv... ...ries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making out his papers for the Customs — ‘Who’s there?’ Oh! how that harmless question man gles Jonah! Fo... ...ave no doubt I shall soon learn. I’ve been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that—” “Marchant service be damned. Talk not that ling... ...ll take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of the marchant service to me again. Marchant service indeed! I suppose now ye feel conside...

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...it has no other means of persuasion, but to gain the favour of those whose service it requires. A puppy fawns upon its dam, and a spaniel endeavours, ... ...ant, nor they his cus- tomers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. In order to avoid the inconveniency of such sit... ...bout the streets with the tools of their respective trades, offering their services, and, as it were, begging employment. The poverty of the lower ran... ...t is quite otherwise, as I shall endeavour to shew by and by. The laws and customs of Europe, therefore, in order to qualify any person for exercising... ...e best in the country; but it arises in part from the peculiar manners and customs of the people, which oblige every master of a family to hire a whol... ...o the order of nature and of reason The inter- ests, prejudices, laws, and customs, which have given occasion to it, I shall endeavour to explain as f... ...still continues to take place in so many parts of Scot- land. Mr Kalm, the Swedish traveller, when he gives an account of the husbandry of some of the... ...orld. The Swedes established themselves in New Jersey; and the num- ber of Swedish families still to be found there sufficiently demon- 460 The Wealt...

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... officer. The impressions made upon Tolstoy during this pe riod of active service gave vivid reality to the battle scenes in “War and Peace,” and ar... ...ents of his tory, geography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The history of Tolstoy as a man of letters forms a separate... ... addition, a medium by which Tolstoy emphasised his abhorrence of military service, and prob ably for this reason its production is absolutely forbid... ...kolaevich had married at an earlier period, while still an official in the Customs. His wife, who belonged to an old noble family, was an orphan, and ... ... had another guest, a Swede. He talked of his work, his people, the latest Swedish novel. Some how, she herself did not know how that terrible fasci ... ...covered his senses he found himself in a small Leo Tolstoy 154 room – the customs office. The dead body of a man, with a thin grizzled beard, an aqui...

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...r many years, gloomy for ever, and broken by continual storms—was now by a Swedish trans- formation all at once bright, genial, heavenly. So sudden an... ...time availed to re-establish the child in conva- lescence. These practical services, and the messages of ma- ternal sympathy repeatedly conveyed from ... ... little contemplating either of these results, Agnes had done a prodigious service to the poor desolate mother by breaking the force of her misery, as... ...e qualification was of more summary importance to us—did us more ‘yeoman’s service’ at a crisis the most awful—than other qualities of greater name an... ... we produced the official paper nominating his son to a small place in the customs,—not yielding much, it was true, in the way of salary, but fortunat... ...s of life they were effectually reclaimed from roving, and from the savage customs connected with so unsettled a life. They gained also in political p... ...y but myself, he immediately gave us a summary account of their habits and customs; and told us by the way, that in the word Algiers, the g ought to b...

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...on the yards and held on with all my strength. I could not have been of much service, for I remember having been sick several times before I left the... ...ives, there can be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen.... .... This chafing gear consists of worming, parcelling, rounding, battens, and service of all kinds—both rope yarns, spun yarn, marline and seizing stuf... ... of it. As I had now become used to the vessel and to my duty, I was of some service - 11 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana on a yard, a... ...ck up a great deal of curious and useful information in seamanship, ship’s customs, foreign countries, etc., from their long yarns and equally long... ...ls every half hour through the night, as at sea. My watchmate was John, the Swedish sailor, and we stood from twelve to two, he walking the larboard ... ...nd getting everything ready for inspection. At eight, the officers of the customs, five in number, - 38 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry D...

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...h his own hand. A lively old teacher of Italian, called Giovinazzi, was of service to him in this work. The old man, moreover, did not sing badly, and... ...e intrusted for a time to some kind friends, who had already offered their services, and sent to a public school. This transition was rather unpleasan... ... without leading us back into past times, and informing us of the manners, customs, and feelings of those early ancestors who were so strangely made p... ...tunatus,” with the whole race down to “The Wandering Jew,” were all at our service, as often as we pre- 55 Goethe ferred the relish of these works to... ...er of time, and preserved with reverence, as a treasure of native laws and customs. The portraits of Frankforters, which existed in great number, were... ...bliging; and, even to the tenacity with which they clung to their peculiar customs, one could not refuse one’s respect. The girls, moreover, were pret... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g...

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...Mos- cow. The young man had not yet entered either the mili- tary or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educate... ...leav- ing the university and me, his old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a place and everything waiting for him in t... ...never forget what you have done for us.” “I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna,” said Prince V asili, arranging his lace... ...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N... ...uted his arguments, others defended them. Young Count Toll objected to the Swedish general’s views more warmly than anyone else, and in the course of ... ...p of the east, (2) that they should abandon all established traditions and customs, and (3) that during their military movement they should have at th... ... by step a group was 644 War & Peace formed of larger dimensions with new customs and tra- ditions, and a man was produced who would stand at the hea...

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...’s knowledge of the French language, obtained during several years’ heroic service, con- sisted for the most part in “Sar var,” “Sar marche,” and “Dee... ...also a veuve. How pleasantly they talk, of la guerre, of Paris, of the bad service; talk in agreeably modulated voices, lean- ing a little forward to ... ...that great port of the Mediterranean, where one has new colors and strange customs, and where the people sing when they talk. But how extraordinary to... ...e subjects. As I suspected, he had been not always a gendarme. He had seen service among the Arabs. He had always liked languages and had picked up Ar... ...ted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and English) at distances varying from 51 e e cumm... ...h us, tell- ing of his father and brother in Mexico, of the people, of the customs; and—when we were in the cour—wrote the entire conjugation of tengo... ...tments of two nations superficially somewhat unrelated—that is, as regards customs and language. I fear Bill didn’t appreciate the intrinsic useful- n...

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...es of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make ou... ...n spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrati... ...es in Stepan Arkadyevitch which had gained him this universal respect in the service consisted, in the first place, of his extreme indulgence for other... ...rman work man who pushed the carriage. Close by was standing a flaxen headed Swedish count, whom Kitty knew by name. Several invalids were lingering n... ...es; I’m used to it,” said Madame Stahl, and she introduced the prince to the Swedish count. 220 Anna Karenina “You are scarcely changed at all,” the ... ...om (the princess and Darya Alexandrovna insisted on strictly keeping all the customs), Levin did not see his betrothed, and dined at his hotel with th...

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...nce, cursorily; not dwelt on with minute near scrutiny. In a word, that no service the Notables could now do were so obliging as, in some handsome man... ...two of them: a bolt for D’Espremenil; a bolt for that busy Goeslard, whose service in the Second Twentieth and ‘strict valuation’ is not forgotten. Su... ...e for him! In these cases, not invitation but com- mand has usually proved serviceable.—The Queen stood, that evening, pensive, in a window, with her ... ...by the old laws of chivalry, her Knight? He will descend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the as... ...ance? From South to North! For actually it is ‘the common cause of Kings.’ Swedish Gustav, sworn Knight of the Queen of France, 314 The French Revolu... ...ss, at all moments! Thoughts are growing; forms of Speech are growing, and Customs and even Costumes; still more visibly are actions and transactions ... ... were perhaps edifying to remark, on the other side, what a singular thing Customs (in Latin, Mores) are; and how fitly the Virtue, Vir-tus, Manhood o... ...er, one the most authentic products of the Pit you would say, once give it Customs, becomes War, with Laws of War; and is Customary and Moral enough; ...

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...menmaa, the swampy re gion, of which Finland, or Fen land is said to be a Swedish translation,) is at present a Grand Duchy in the north west ern pa... ...nd Lays of the Finnish Nation). In another work edited in 1832, written in Swedish, entitled: Om Finnarues Magiska Medicin (On the Magic Medicine of t... ...neyings and difficulties faithfully in a paper published at Helsingfors in Swedish in 1834. He had the peculiar good luck to meet an old peasant, one ... ... with the Hungarian by Ferdinand Barna, and who, familiar with the habits, customs, and religious no tions of the Finns, has furnished much valuable ... ...soe’er thou willest. Well do I the day remember Where thou didst the eagle service, When thou didst the birds a favor. Thou didst leave the birch tree... ...on streamlet; Some one lives in yonder cottage, That perchance can do thee service.” Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel, Whips his courser to a gallop, Das... ...on streamlet; Some one lives in yonder cottage, That perchance can do thee service.” Wainamoinen, nothing daunted, Whips his racer to a gallop, Dashes... ... the mountain. “Thou must hence acquire new habits, Must forget thy former customs, Mother love must be forsaken, Thou must love thy husband’s mother,... ...st thou utter. “Thou must hence acquire new habits, Must forget thy former customs, Father love must be forsaken, Thou must love thy husband’s father,...

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...t be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon... ...ame hushed by blissful sucks of raw tallow), was surprised. Though he sold his services to them and agreed to travel even to the never opening ice, he... ... Eppingwell proposed the haz ardous undertaking and made him an offer for his services, he had shaken his head gravely; for it was an unknown journey... ... but he must have come far. He was badly travel worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south. We heard of ... ... three even decided to return to their homes by that route when their terms of service had expired, and they began to lay plans forthwith, looking for... ... unknown places. And they were without honor and respect, jeering the old time customs and laughing in the faces of chief and shamans. The League of ...