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...nrietta, “I think, and Queen Bee thinks, that this perpetual staying on at Rocksand was more owing to her than to mamma. She imagined that mamma could... ...ime it was not so bad for her, but now she has no companion at all but me. Rocksand has all the loneliness of the country without its advantages.” “Th... ...nclusion, they en- tered the steep straggling street of the little town of Rocksand, and presently were within the gates of the sweep which led to the... ...use Beatrice was teasing Fred all the time about his defection? The church singers came up to the Hall, and the drawing-room door was set open for the... ...“O, it is just according to what you are brought up to,” said Beatrice. “A Turkish lady despises us for showing our faces: it is just as you think it....

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...cal pose, for all the world like a ballet-dancer, when she reclines upon a rock of paste-board. You should remember you have a perfect right to take a... ..., spending two years there, and learning his mother tongue over again. The Turkish Government persecuted him, and he was certainly exposed to great da... ...arov could not sing—but they did not keep together; at the third verse the singers were all wrong. Only Bersenyev tried to go on in the bass, ‘Nothing... ... away with a tuneful drip; the boat drifted on a little, then stood still, rocking lightly on the water like a swan. Zoya affected to refuse at first…... ...oak and was on the point of tears. Uvar Ivanovitch was snoring blissfully, rocking from side to side. The carriages came to a standstill at last. Two ... ...mong Russians, La Traviata. The season in Venice was over, and none of the singers rose above the level of me- diocrity; every one shouted to the best...

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...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ... ...encies the Prince and Princess of Peterwaradin, H. E. Papoosh Pa- sha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, drago- man of the mission), the ... ...Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. He led off the first charade. A Turkish officer with an im- mense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were su... ...the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke. The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. He c... ...ok into it ever so curiously. They look pretty enough when they sit upon a rock, twanging their harps and combing their hair, and sing, and beckon to ...

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...thetic expressions these letters contained were sufficient to have split a rock. In a word, I had the honor of her not being able to endure the pain o... ...anything when placed at a table, pen in hand; it must be walking among the rocks, or in the woods; it is at night in my bed, during my wakeful hours, ... ...oble habits of the canons, the chasubles of the priests, the mitres of the singers, the persons of the musicians; an old lame car- penter who played t... ...rman, Latin, or French, he had been obliged to have recourse to his Greek, Turkish Lingua Franca, which did not procure him much in the coun- try he w... ...is called Pas de l’Echelle. Above the main road, which is hewn through the rock, a small river runs and rushes into fearful chasms, which it appears t...

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...of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol. The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Men... ... that slopes in a thou- sand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies. It is September, hot, very dusty. There is no smug Pullman attache... ...knives. Chester Dashaway’s House Furnishing Emporium. A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row. Billy’s Lunch. Thick ha... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui... ... a se- rial—it was an awfully exciting story—it seems that this girl was a Turkish dancer (only she was really the daugh- ter of an American lady and ...

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...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...or a bath. I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more ... ...s a pretty picture: the beach; the bathing-women’s faces; the long line of rocks and building were blushing and bright in the sunshine. Rebecca wore a... ...s score; and Donald, the High- lander, billeted in the Flemish farm-house, rocked the baby’s cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the ... ...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ... ...encies the Prince and Princess of Peterwaradin, H. E. Papoosh Pa- sha, the Turkish Ambassador (attended by Kibob Bey, drago- man of the mission), the ... ...Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. He led off the first charade. A Turkish officer with an im- mense plume of feathers (the Janizaries were su... ...the sake of the ladies, only a fragrant pastille was allowed to smoke. The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. He c...

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...llantly and honestly. “The church of Christ, little Norah, is built upon a rock.” She made no answer. She moved her head very slightly so 33 H G Well... ...hat had gone with the rest of the world. He was seated on a slab of starry rock. This he knew quite clearly was the place of God. He was unable to dis... ...his case matters had been fa- cilitated by the Englishman’s command of the Turkish lan- guage. He was quite an exceptional Englishman. The Turk had ju... ...We must end this sort of thing—absolutely.” He glanced at the faces of the singers, and it became beyond all other things urgent, that he should lift ... ...e was finite. It were as reason- able to argue whether God was a frog or a rock or a tree. He had imagined God as a figure of youth and courage, had p...

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...o, unless hindered by 21 Balzac chance, was likely to strike on the first rock that lay hidden in his way. Like all unprotected boys, he loved the fi... ...tests where his own good sense would have suggested the swift justice of a Turkish cadi. During his whole period in office he contrived to use languag... ...dvances, slack- ens, sinks back, and slumbers. Our globe is perhaps only a rocket a little more continuing than the rest. History, re- cording the cau... ...enting Venus crouching, on a fine block of marble; a moquette car- pet, of Turkish design, harmonized this room with that of Cesarine, which opened ou... ..., by the exquisite taste of their dress and bearing,—just as three leading singers at an opera stand out in relief from the stolid array of their supe... ...was not to be recognized by any former comrade. The ball, like a brilliant rocket, was extinguished by five o’clock in the morning. At that hour only ... ...ug of ermine lay at the bedside, and contrasted with the purple tones of a Turkish carpet. The furniture and all the accessories were novel in shape, ...

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...burned red. All was scrupulously clean and perfect. A baby was cooing in a rocker-less wicker cradle by the hearth. The mother, a slim, neat woman wit... ...l we light them as we fix them,” asked Robert, “or save them for one grand rocket at the end?” “Oh, as we do them,” said Cyril Scott, who had lacerate... ...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d... ...ining. Fortunately the women had brought shoes. They slipped these on. Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist. At las... ...n he ushered Aaron and the big bag into a large, pillared hall, with thick Turkish carpet on the floor, and handsome appointments. It was spacious, co... ...hed he were having a bath, chiefly because of the wardrobe of mar- vellous Turkish towels. Then he clicked his way back to his bedroom, changed his sh...

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...lds. “Let us sit here,” Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily drop... ... the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb. 60 House of Mirth She sat quiet, her li... ...clasping his hands be- hind his head, which rested against the side of the rock. He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a... ...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through... ...oast yourself over the fire and try some of my new Egyp- tians—that little Turkish chap at the Embassy put me on to a brand that I want you to try, an... ...y at an end. As he leaned back, silently contemplating his filigree cup of Turkish coffee, he was trying to put some order in his thoughts, to tell hi...

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...ck of golden wool from a ram feeding in a valley closed in by inaccessible rocks; but this was procured for her by an eagle; and lastly, Venus, de- cl... ...campaigns, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled before Belgrade by a terrible wound... ...ster’s safety, and hailing as a kind of hopeful augury this verse from the singers— “At home, abroad, in peace, in war Thy God shal...

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...inces, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labor ben... ...rince of rivers, Po, Doth overswell, he breaks with hideous fall The mossy rocks and trees o’ergrown with age, Nor aught withstands his fury and his r... ...I “Y et still we sail while prosperous blows the wind, Till on some secret rock unwares we light, The sea of glory hath no banks assigned, They who ar... ...o throw; His cutlass by his thigh, short, hooked, fine, And braving in his Turkish pomp he shone, In purple robe, o’erfret with gold and stone. 222 J... ...floor did pore and tout: Thus with his lords and peers in counselling, The Turkish monarch sat with Juda’s king. 241 Torquato Tasso LVII Godfrey this... ... gilden port was opened, and forth stepped With all his soldiers bold, the Turkish king, Ready to aid the two his force he kept, When fortune should t... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale... ...calmed again 284 As an old rock, which age or stormy wind 418 As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, 364 “As diverse be their nations,” answe...

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...inces, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend From rock of Ignorance and Error’s wave, Y our gracious eyes upon this labor ben... ...rince of rivers, Po, Doth overswell, he breaks with hideous fall The mossy rocks and trees o’ergrown with age, Nor aught withstands his fury and his r... ...I “Y et still we sail while prosperous blows the wind, Till on some secret rock unwares we light, The sea of glory hath no banks assigned, They who ar... ...o throw; His cutlass by his thigh, short, hooked, fine, And braving in his Turkish pomp he shone, In purple robe, o’erfret with gold and stone. 222 J... ...floor did pore and tout: Thus with his lords and peers in counselling, The Turkish monarch sat with Juda’s king. 241 Torquato Tasso LVII Godfrey this... ... gilden port was opened, and forth stepped With all his soldiers bold, the Turkish king, Ready to aid the two his force he kept, When fortune should t... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale...

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...e recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of... ... a chap, after all.” He smiled at their eulogies, and passed on in search of a Turkish bath. It was the same old crowd upon the streets. Strange, they... ...irits speculated on desertion and the possibility of crossing the un explored Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining th... ...sh, the seal, and the otter; and our homes shouldered about one another on the rocky strip between the An Odyssey of the North 69 rim of the forest a... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w...

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...ck is the dragon; but the dragon will come before we’ve put Polly upon the rock.” “What! is Polly Andromeda—?” as a grey parrot’s stand was being tran... ...ontortions, rolled, kicked and tumbled him- self with extended jaws to the rock, alias stand, to which Polly was chained, she remarking in a hoarse, l... ...elysium at Kyve Clements, and are in raptures which they want us to share— rocks and waves and all.” 20 Magnum Bonum “And rooms?” “Yes, very good roo... ... Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, and coming to dance and sing in fron... ...ian verses have ‘Mount Joye St. Denys’ in the different lines, and all the Turkish ones ‘Lah billah,’ till Sir Gilbert comes in, and then his war-cry ...

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...ince-pie crust! On this defiance another figure appears: Here comes I, the Turkish knight Just come from Turkey land to fight; I’ll fight thee, St. Ge... ... on the ground shall fall. The two wooden swords clatter together till the Turkish knight falls, all doubled up, even his sword, with due regard to hi... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...Hursley. Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris).—This group of purple doves, or of Turkish slippers, does not here merit the term vulgaris, though, wherever i... ...ndsome pinnate leaf—lane at Brambridge, Standon, and in Hursley. Crucifera Rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia).—Seen at Brambridge. Charlock (Sinapis arven... ...times double in rich ground. Hairy Cardamine (C. hirsuta).—Hursley. Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris).—Road near Chandler’s Ford. Near bridge over Itc... ...gnonette (Reseda lutea).—Mignonette all but the perfume—chalk-pits. Dyer’s Rocket (R. luteola).—Slenderer and more spiked; more common. Rock Rose (Hel...

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...took the gentlemen into his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?”... ...ed in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from his father who had brought it fr... ...mes stop- ping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers. Look- ing at their boots he se... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...nty men ran to the front. A drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing his arm, began a long-drawn- out soldiers’ song, c... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...aters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic back... ...king into the nursery. Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rock- ing the baby. “Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” t... ...sandth time and lay down. But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and for- wards beneath him as if it were breathing heavil...

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...ny. In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky’s eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, and 294 A... ... of papers of various sorts. Sviazhsky took out the books, and sat down in a rocking chair. “What are you looking at there?” he said to Levin, who was... ...ent to it, took it from the wet nurse’s arms, and began walking up and down, rocking it. “You must ask the doctor to examine the wet nurse,” said Alex... ...as very nice indeed, papa,” said Seryozha, sitting sideways on his chair and rocking it, which was forbidden. “I saw Nadinka” (Nadinka was a niece of ... ...achine from abroad. What sort of views can any one have on such a subject?” “Turkish views, in general,” Veslovsky said, turning to Anna with a smile.... ...stuck to their master; the stout, good natured wife in a cap with lace and a Turkish shawl, petting her pretty grandchild, her daughter’s daughter; th...