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...lock noon, all combine with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to sug- gest early Victorian commercial re... ...bench in the corner; places it between them; and sits down with a judicial air. They attend to him with extreme gravity. He ad- dresses himself first ... ...possible for me to accept your kind invitation to lunch. (He rises with an air of finality, and replaces the stool by the bench.) PHILIP (rising with ... ...due to me as your father? GLORIA. For instance—? CRAMPTON (rising as if to combat a monster). For instance! For instance!! For instance, duty, affecti... ... most dangerous man. Gloria: come here. (Gloria, wondering a little at the command, obeys, and stands, with drooping head, on her mother’s right hand,... ...n and respect when there is no dignity of char- acter on the other side to command it. VALENTINE (prosaically). How is a man to look dignified when he... ...r at the table.) I beg pardon, ma’am, I’m sure. A little giddiness— BOHUN (commandingly). You will excuse him, Mrs. Clandon, when I inform you that he...

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...end of June, and he found himself once more in the familiar and exhilarating air of the mountains, all his joyous creative powers revived, and in a no... ...d above him the sharp call of a bird. And behold! An eagle swept through the air in wide circles, and on it hung a serpent, not like a prey, but like ... ... the distinction of the slave. Let your dis- tinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying! To the good warrior soundeth “thou shalt” p... ...etzsche than “I will.” And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you. Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; a... ...of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of... ...your virtue. When ye are exalted above praise and blame, and your will would command all things, as a loving one’s will: there is the origin of your v... ...to preserve and to foster this profound hostility. What Nietzsche strives to combat and to overthrow is the modern democratic tendency which is slowly...

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...g at the glistening great rhu- barb leaves near the door. Then she got the air into her breast. She walked down the garden path, trembling in every li... ...sciousness. The tall white lilies were reeling in the moon- light, and the air was charged with their perfume, as with a presence. Mrs. Morel gasped s... ...ous- ness in the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air. After a time the child, too, melted with her in the mixing-pot of moon... ...e, and was looking in a sort of horror at his father. “Go out!” Mrs. Morel commanded her son. William had not the wit to move. Suddenly Morel clenched... ... the moment. “What!” She spun round to her son. “Go out of the house!” she commanded him in fury. The boy, as if hypnotised by her, turned suddenly an... ...ll ask a fly to love you! It’ll love settling on you—” “Now, say no more,” commanded Mrs. Morel. “If you 144 Sons & Lovers want to say these things, ... ... she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady. Now she began to combat him in his restless fretting. He still kept up his connection with M...

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..., with his fingers, when a noise made him turn round; it was his second in command, Captain Baron von Kelweinstein. The major was a giant, with broad ... ... a fringe of curly, bright, golden hair round the circle of bare skin. The commandant shook hands with him, and drank his cup of coffee (the sixth tha... ...hastity of that wretched hole. There was a knock at the door, and when the commandant said, “Come in,” one of their auto- matic soldiers appeared, and... ...who had gone into the room for a glass of cognac, went up to it. The moist air blew into the room, and brought a sort of spray with it, which powdered... .... The five men stood there together for some min- utes, inhaling the moist air, and at last, Lieutenant Fritz said, with a laugh: “The ladies will cer... ...cheon. In the afternoon, he disposed of offices all about town, having the air of knowing of an im- pending surprise. Many times he passed before the ... ...ealizable! “Nay, it seemed to me that there was also going on within her a combat, in which her heart struggled against an unknown force that she wish...

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...epted by the willing imaginations of the younger spectators as a desperate combat. The tragedy of love has been presented on the stage in the same way... ...EGORY. I can’t. I have no will. Something stronger than either of us is in command here. Nothing on earth or in heaven can part us now. You know that,... ...ill of Venus. He is a fussily ener- getic little man, who gives himself an air of gallantry by greas- ing the points of his moustaches and dressing ve...

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...ollows from the fact that it is cold; and not that a child who needs fresh air should remain at home,” he would add with extreme logic, as if punishin... ...duty, an officer who struck Prince Andrew by his humiliated and frightened air was admit- ted at that terrible door. This officer’s audience lasted a ... ... in 1809, here in Petersburg a vast civil conflict was in preparation, the commander in chief of which was a mysterious person he did not know, but wh... ... else, had acquired in his wife’s circle, which did not interest him, that air of unconcern, indifference, and benevolence toward all, which cannot be... ...p the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander in chief and had taken it to his commander. Just as he had done a... ...My com- rades are still nobodies, while I am only waiting for a vacancy to command a regiment, and have the happiness to be your husband.” (He rose an... ... approach of a fit of nervous depression and had made desperate efforts to combat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had...

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...lse. For, “Parents preserve your children,” is so far from an innate truth, that it is no truth at all: it being a command, and not a proposition, and... ...e use in human life: since it will amount to no more but this, viz. “That God is pleased with the doing of what he commands;”—which a man may certainl... ...he doing of what he commands;”—which a man may certainly know to be true, without knowing what it is that God doth command; and so be as far from any ... ...ses, leaning on borrowed or begged 86 Human Understanding foundations: or at least, if mine prove a castle in the air, I will endeavour it shall be a... ...at sides of two pieces of marble will more easily approach each other, between which there is nothing but water or air, than if there be a diamond bet... ...main between them, as the hardest that can be found or imagined. He that shall fill a yielding soft body well with air or water, will quickly find its... ...tentation of sounds; i.e. those who spend their lives in disputes and controversies. When I shall see any of those combatants strip all his terms of a... ...of the argu- ment, if not of the cause. But because by this means there was like to be no decision between skilful combat- ants, whilst one never fail...

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... they set their faces. The birds made Melody on branch, and melody in mid air. The damp hill-slopes were quickened into green, And the live green had... ...pward, and mast downward, in the heavens, And solid turrets topsy-turvy in air: And here is truth; but an it please thee not, Take thou the truth as t... ... ‘My name?’ she said— ‘Lynette my name; noble; my need, a knight To combat for my sister, Lyonors, A lady of high lineage, of great lands, And ... ...y charge Is an abounding pleasure to me. Knight, Thy life is thine at her command. Arise And quickly pass to Arthur’s hall, and say His kitchen-knav... ...lunder of our house All scattered through the houses of the town; And gave command that all which once was ours Should now be ours again: and yester-... ... He made a wrathful answer: ‘Did I wish Your warning or your silence? one command I laid upon you, not to speak to me, And thus ye keep it! Well the... ...er man. ’ And Enid stood aside to wait the event, Not dare to watch the combat, only breathe Short fits of prayer, at every stroke a breath. And he... ...t he sickens nigh to death; So fared it with Geraint, who being pricked In combat with the follower of Limours, Bled underneath his armour secretly, A... ... Then they reached a glade, Where under one long lane of cloudless air Before another wood, the royal crown Sparkled, and swaying upon a restl...

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...ng all things serve their purpose or their fancy without scruple. No chief commanded them; no one mem- ber could arrogate to himself that power. The m... ...aronne de Maulincour had a friend in the old Vidame de Pamiers, formerly a commander of the Knights of Malta. This was one of those undying friendship... ...their source and their element from the soul itself, the vibrations of the air, charged with passion, put our hearts so powerfully into communion, car... ...n though he might be drinking a glass of champagne, that dreamy look, that air 24 Ferragus of silently despising life, that nebulous expression which... ..., men of talent communicate their wit to fools, and fools communicate that air of enjoy- ment that characterizes them. By means of this exchange all i... ...hout danger initiate the vidame into the secrets of his situation. The old commander loved Auguste as a father loves his wife’s children; he was shrew... ... My reason casts gleams into my soul which my love rejects. It is an awful combat. Could I stay there, holding your head, and suspecting thoughts with...

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...o manifold and sometimes conflicting 7 construction. Few if any religious commands can be, or ever were, implicitly relied on without interpretation.... ..., but does even this furnish an infallible rule of conduct? Of course this commandment could not be meant to for- bid killing animals. Yet there are m... ...nsiderable minority has always held that both forms of killing violate the commandment. Neither can it be held to apply to accidental killings, or kil... ... country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the air there lighted with rays of the sun, and the earth itself bloom- ing wit... ...nished there and the angels who pun- ished them wore dark raiment like the air of the place. Certain persons there were hanging by the tongue. These w... ...ee the various manifestations of these instincts. Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation. Oth- ers are distinc... ...r who fill our prisons, asylums and almshouses. Every child needs the open air and the open life of the country. He needs, first of all, exercise whic... ...about under favorable conditions, is shown by the methods and virulence of combat during the vicious mas- sacre in the war just ended. Can the conclus...

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... tobacco-smoke stealing out past the window-seat into the tranquil October air. He could see the court too, and the col- lege cat teasing the college ... ...dly trying the Prelude to Rhinegold with his knee upon the soft pedal. The air was heavy with good tobacco-smoke and the pleasant warmth of tea, and a... ...ll the person to knock into a gutter, for though not in orders, he had the air of being on the verge of them, and his features, as well as his clothes... ...ed hair. His voice, which he did not transmit, was very suave, with a fine command of cynical intonation. By altering it ever so little he could make ... ...ns were trivial things to him, and life no decorous scheme, but a personal combat or a per- sonal truce. For the same reason ancestry also was trivial...

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... the running brooks,” and who has left in all he did some breathing of the air which stirs the heather. But however desirous to enlarge on his genius ... ...night, for years, of setting foot upon this shore, and breathing this pure air. And, trust me, gentlemen, that, if I had wandered here, unknowing and ... ...its spa cious halls I found stores of the wonders worked by nature in the air, in the forest, in the cavern, and in the sea—stores of the surpassing ... ...e hands of dust, are in their influence immortal. With such means at their command, so well directed, so cheaply shared, and so extensively diffused, ... ...occa sions. Speeches: Literary and Social 49 If, like the noble Lord, the Commander in Chief (Vis count Hardinge), he (Mr. Dickens) might venture to... ...ch are attached very large hilts, we predict that the affair will end in a combat. Carrying out the association of ideas, it may have occurred to some... ... But both combined have so greatly shaken the composure which I am used to command before an audience, that I hope you may observe in me some traces o...

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... his own heart; or, again, he may be compelled, like Seneca, by a tyrant’s command, to open his own veins – that is, to escape a greater evil by incur... ...s for dejection, and to glory therein, though all the time with a dejected air. These effects follow as necessarily from the said emotion, as it follo... .... Q.E.D. Corollary.– The free man is as courageous in timely retreat as in combat; or, a free man shows equal courage or presence of mind, whether he ...

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...e while he has no sure livelihood. (ll. 502-503) While it is yet midsummer command your slaves: ‘It will not always be summer, build barns.’ (ll. 504-... ...d round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright up- per air: the flashing glare of the thunder-stone and lightning blinded their ey... ...nt feet. So they (the Harpies) sped over the sea and through the fruitless air...’ Fragment #40 — Strabo, vii. p. 300: ‘The Aethiopians and Ligurians ... ..., blotted out the grave and memorial of Cycnus; for so Apollo, Leto’s son, commanded him, because he used to watch for and violently despoil the rich ... ...r deed of mine I have cheered your heart and spirit. Through the fruitless air I heard the thrilling cry of my daughter whom I bare, sweet scion of my... ...sent golden-winged Iris to call rich-haired Demeter, lovely in form. So he commanded. And she obeyed the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, and sped with swi... ...hiloctetes from Lemnos. Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the dead body is outraged by Menelaus...

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...abit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tum- bling in the air head over heels. The runt is a bird of great size, with long, massive b... ...finition of these terms has been generally accepted, is vainly to beat the air. Many of the cases of strongly-marked varieties or doubtful species wel... ... the water-beetle, the relation seems at first confined to the elements of air and water. Yet the advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stands in the clo... ...he young queens her daughters as soon as born, or to perish herself in the combat; for undoubtedly this is for the good of the community; and maternal... ...usca from another nest, and put them down on a bare spot near the place of combat; they were eagerly seized, and carried off by the tyrants, who perha... ...ho perhaps fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. 202 On the Origin of Species At the same time I laid on the same p... ...by Herbert’s great horticultural skill, and by his having hothouses at his command. Of his many important statements I will here give only a single on... ...numerable periods in the earth’s history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues? Do they believe that at ea...