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...crets, Carlo. Take heed of it, my boy. We shall have queens when kings are fossils, mark me!” Ammiani muttered a courtly phrase, whereat Corte yawned ... ...ces of the tale, O ye grave Signori Tedeschi? The sources are partly to be traced to a neat little French vaudeville, very sparkling—Camille, or the H... ... that ‘garritrice magrezza,’ whom you call ‘la Lazzeruola?’ Speak. Can you trace it to her hand? Who put the plague-mark upon you?’ Vittoria looked st... ...pursuing, Colonel Zofel said that he was sparing no efforts to come on his traces; he supposed, from what he had heard in the Ultenthal, that Guidasca... ...soldiers are all round us. They know that Angelo is in the ring. They have traced him all over from the Valtellina to this Ultenthal, and only cannot ... ...ed his eyelids dur- ing the perusal of his book; he had taken a pencil and traced lines on it from memory, and dotted points here and there; he had le...

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...y set off by the periodic visits of my father with a large bag of battered fossils to lecture to us upon geology. I was one of those fortunate youngst... ...early piety” lusciously described, or stories of condemned crimi- nals who traced their final ruin unerringly to early laxities of the kind that leads... ...ADOLESCENCE ADOLESCENCE ADOLESCENCE 1 1 1 1 1 I FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT to trace how form was added to form and interpretation followed interpretation... ... is hard to measure these things in receding perspective, and now I cannot trace, so closely has mood succeeded and overlaid and obliterated mood, the... ...nient places! the General Post Office at St. Martin’s-le-Grand! … I cannot trace the development of my ideas at Cambridge, but I believe the mere phys... ...n inaccurate abundant habit of topographical reference; he made me see and trace and see again the Roman Empire sweep up these winding valleys, and th...

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...ds as now existing in Britain, India, and Persia, we can, I think, clearly trace the stages through which they have insensibly passed, and come to dif... ...al it is in a flock of white sheep to destroy every lamb with the faintest trace of black. In plants the down on the fruit and the colour of the flesh... ...ow known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the nat... ...ed in the natural scale. These anomalous forms may almost be called living fossils; they have endured to the present day, from having inhabited a conf... ...en with a double shoulder-stripe. The hemionus has no shoulder-stripe; but traces of it, as stated by Mr. Blyth and others, occasionally appear: and I... ...: a faint shoulder-stripe may sometimes be seen in duns, and I have seen a trace in a bay horse. My son made a careful examination and sketch for me o... ... top of the shoulder to the tail, including the hind- legs, we perhaps see traces of an apparatus origi- nally constructed for gliding through the air... ... formed. I am convinced that all our ancient formations, which are rich in fossils, have thus been formed dur- ing subsidence. Since publishing my vie... ...se oscillations have affected wide spaces. Consequently formations rich in fossils and sufficiently thick and extensive to resist subsequent degradati...

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...gard embodi- ment of the passion reduced to its simplest terms. There were traces of past anguish in its wrinkles. He supported life on the glutinous ... ...loves. If the very croupier and the waiters shuddered, it was because some traces of the spell of innocence yet hung about his meagre, delicately-shap... ... its natural curls. He looked only about twenty-five years of age, and any trace of vice in his face seemed to be there by accident. A young constitut... ...gals, who have run through mil- lions to perish in garrets, had left their traces here in this vast bazar of human follies. Here, beside a writing des... ...n a cage. Intimate friends began to fight. Animal likenesses, so curiously traced by physiologists in human faces, came out in gestures and behavior. ... ...named and classified in genera, sub-genera, and families; into crustaceae, fossils, saurians, infusoria, or whatever it is,—then, my dear fellow, it w...

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...solute unison, that cloud, though it may disperse, leaves in those souls a trace of its passage. Either love gains a stronger life, as the earth after... ...sion of that scene, both cruel and beneficent, could not fail to leave its traces in their souls; both were eager to make those traces disappear, each... ...uncal the same Ferragus whom the police declared dead, I have put upon his traces an intelligent man. As I returned that night I remembered, by a fort... ...deously gaping, like those of idiots or vicious men killed by excesses. No trace of intelligence remained upon that brow, nor in any feature; nor was ... ...out of their coffins. At any rate, they have reached the condition of semi-fossils. One of these Parisian Melmoths had come within a few days into a n...

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...ay be. The geologists tell us that it took one hundred years to prove that fossils are organic, and one hundred and fifty more, to prove that they are... ...st vestige of authority for these things. They have not left so distinct a trace as the delicate flower of a remote geological period on the coal in m... ...les to Massachusetts, and thence east thirty five miles to the sea. I have traced its stream from where it bubbles out of the rocks of the White Mount... ...its true and main stream, flowing by an iron channel farther south, may be traced by a long line of vapor amid the hills, which no morn ing wind ever... ...as in heaven. They already seem ancient, and in some measure have lost the traces of their modern birth. Here are they who “ask for that which is ou... ...e nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the hea then. But why these stones, ...

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... THE LONG VACATION BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that smiling angel-band, Gone, for ever gone, and in thei... ...tt have said, or even Felix?” “It is his doing,” said Lance, “the lines he traced out.” “My father says it is the writing with a conscience,” said Ger... ...he introduction; and the next sound that was heard was, “Have you any good fossils about you?” in a tone as if he doubted whether so small a boy knew ... ... collection might be arranged as a sample of the specimens of minerals and fossils of Rockquay at the long-talked-of sale of work. 48 The Long Vacati... ....” 55 Yo n g e “The science of larks?” “Oh dear, no. Fergus is wild after fossils, and has made Adrian the same, and he really knows an immense deal.... ...drian the same, and he really knows an immense deal. They are always after fossils and stones when they are out of school.” “The precious darling!” “M... ...y turned out to be somebody else’s son, and married the daughter.” “If you trace ‘The Tempest’ through that version you are clever,” said Gerald. “I t... ...ald. A circus is not such a microscopical object but that it can be easily traced. A policeman has prom- ised to find out where, and meanwhile we must... ...Weren’t you run down?” seeing even as she spoke that not a drop of wet was traceable. “Me! What! did you think I was going to peril my life in a ‘long...

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...ea when the white shelly bed was lying at the bottom. It is interesting to trace the changes produced by the heat of the overlying lava, on the friabl... ...ends shone with St. Elmo’s light; and the form of the vane could almost be traced, as if it had been rubbed with phos- phorus. The sea was so highly l... .... Four sets entered the sand perpen- dicularly: by working with my hands I traced one of them two feet deep; and some fragments which evi- dently had ... ...however small, compared to those of the tubes from Drigg, one of which was traced to a depth of not less than thirty feet. The internal surface is com... ...ine of its main course. Besides the four tubes which I found vertical, and traced beneath the sur- face, there were several other groups of fragments,... ... Animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation — Southern Africa —Siberian Fossils — Two Species of Ostrich — Habits of Oven-bird — Armadilloes — Veno... ...aneously with the other remains; for I was not then aware that amongst the fossils from Bahia Blanca there was a horse’s tooth hidden in the ma- trix:... ...mi- nants, the elephant, mastodon, horse, and three gen- *Cuvier. Ossemens Fossils, tom. i. p. 158. **This is the geographical division followed by Li... ...result from slow and gradual changes. It appears from the character of the fossils in Europe, Asia, Australia, and in North and South America, that th...

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...lleys filled with clay , and both alike favourable to the growth of woods. Fossils of belemnite, cockles (cardium), and lamp- shells (terebratula) hav... ...the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be traced at Hursley, and fragments of another leading to Clausentum (Southamp... ...6 John Kemble’s Parishes The masters of the world have left us few traces of their possession, and in fact the whole district was probably sca... ...ntly been the four Cherubic figures, though only the Winged Ox was clearly traceable. Within the quatrefoil was a seated Figure, with something like s... ... where once there had been a Roman encamp- ment. So far as his work can be traced, the first thing he would do would be to have a similar embankment t... ...tions of the tower and the position of the ditches can still be distinctly traced). Supposing, further, that it be- came impossible to hold the tower,...

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...ock. The room was silent, all dusky and shadowed; the win- dow-frames were traced on the blinds by the gas freshly lighted outside, and moving in the ... ...u are doing it, my own dear Joe.” “It seems I am not worthy to do it,” was traced by his fingers. “It is not developed enough to be listened to by any... ...ears, looking at his brother, and at first unable to read the one word Joe traced for him—for writing had become a great effort—“Carey.” “We will do o... ... ers, and the choice and graceful nicknacks round it were such as might be traced to a London life in the artist world, and among grateful patients. B... ...ust have been carried off by the servants as perquisites, for she found no traces of the former occupant till she came to a little bed-side table. The... ... Square, whose mauve plate-glass windows and link-extinguish- ers are like fossils of a past era of civilisation, three riding horses were being walke...

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...rvant who knows more than his masters. The conception of Mendoza Limited I trace back to a certain West Indian colonial secre- tary, who, at a period ... ...later; and so we find the world full of a magnifi- cent debris of artistic fossils, with the matter-of-fact cred- ibility gone clean out of them, but ... ...end that there are any modern ideas in it, whereas your academic copier of fossils offers them to you as the latest outpouring of the human spirit, an... ...mistakes by being too clever than by being too good [she sits down, with a trace of contempt for the whole male sex in the elegant carriage of her sho... ...league steps and hidden the day with cloud vast wings. Where are they now? Fossils in museums, and so few and imperfect at that, that a knuckle bone o...

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...ple’s Messenger” my idea was to break up this ring of self-opinionated old fossils who had got hold of all the influence. Dr. Stockmann. But you know ... ... the menag- erie. But that is always the way, as long as a man retains the traces of common origin and has not worked his way up to intellectual disti...

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... for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead with- out a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of t... ... for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. Something of that sort happened to Lydgate... ...of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the suppressed transitions which unite all contrasts, Rome may s... ... some Ariel were touching them with a new charm, and banishing forever the traces of moodiness. The reflection of that smile could not but have a litt... ...rew like a small fresh vegetation with its population of in- sects on huge fossils. Will would be happy to conduct them— not to anything wearisome, on... ...ntention: there was to be a new Parergon, a small monograph on some lately traced indica- tions concerning the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain as- ...

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...nd for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of t... ...r for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. Something of that sort happened to Lydgate... ...of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the sup pressed transitions which unite all contrasts, Rome may... ... some Ariel were touching them with a new charm, and banishing forever the traces of moodiness. The reflection of that smile could not but have a littl... ... grew like a small fresh vegetation with its population of insects on huge fossils. Will would be happy to conduct them—not to anything wearisome, onl... ...ntention: there was to be a new Parergon, a small monograph on some lately traced indications concern ing the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain asse...

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...ience; so that we no longer study it in quest of the Guaith Voeths, but to trace out some of the secrets of descent and destiny; and as we study, we t... ...in his members had begun thus early by a victory for what was best. We can trace the family from one country place to another in the south of Scotland... ...he mark of his strong clutch. Of ancient times when Crete was Crete, not a trace remains; save perhaps in the full, well-cut nostril and firm tread of... ...Mrs. Fossil, and Jack will be Jack Fossil, and all the boys will be little fossils, and then we shall be a collection.’ There was no fear more chimeri...

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...e r’porta comme perdu. 58 Under the Deodars On se r’noncait … rtrouver sa trace, Quand un matin subitement, On le vit r’paraŒtre sur la place, L’Colo... ...e few hun- dred Englishmen in my service become un- reasonable, prejudiced fossils, while you and your newer friends alone remain bright and open-mind... ...um. bleness, said he had a petition to make. Orde’s face suddenly lost all trace of ex- pression. “Speak on, Bishen Singh,” said he, and the carver in...

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...te an instrument for that novel unprecedented under- taking, I discover no trace. In my capacity of devil’s advocate pleading against national over-co... ...ns in precisely its old form. The surplus forces have always produced some traceable change; the rhythm is a little altered. As between the Gallic pea... ...esting and critical analy- sis of that. For documents and monuments he had fossils and anatomical structures and germinating eggs too inno- cent to li... ..., indeed, it is impossible to isolate com- plete communities of men, or to trace any but rude general resemblances between group and group. These alle...

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... made in the productive powers of labour; and it would be to no purpose to trace further what might have been its effects upon the recompence or wages... ...rnamentally, in building, dress, equipage, or household furniture; for the fossils and minerals contained in the bowels of the earth, the precious met... ...rt and industry advance, the materials of clothing and lodging, the useful fossils and materials of the earth, the precious metals and the precious st... ...ther sorts of rude produce, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, the useful fossils and minerals of the earth, etc. naturally grow dearer, as the socie... ...ly per- ish in the very instant of their performance, and seldom leave any trace of value behind them, for which an equal quantity of service could af... ...t might not be worth all that it cost, would always be worth something. No trace or vestige of the expense of the latter would remain, and the effects...