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... July in the same year, in the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company. But this extraordinary creature... ...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ...decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehensible.” “There is the... ...ive feet. The partitions had doors that were shut hermetically by means of india-rubber instruments, and they ensured the safety of the Nautilus in ca... ... portions: the Arctic or Frozen Ocean, the Antarctic, or Frozen Ocean, the Indian, the Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. The Pacific Ocean extends fro... ...d in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean. It is even probable that a sixth current existed at one time ...

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... Mar- garet Lovell, a widow. At seventeen she had gone with her husband to India, where Harry Lovell encountered the sword of a Sikh Sirdar, and tried... ... further bloodshed by quitting the regiment. She always said that she left India to save her complexion; “and people don’t know how very candid I am,”... ...sguise. Mrs. Lovell’s complexion was worth saving from the rav- ages of an Indian climate, and the persecution of claimants to her hand. She was golde... ...tricken. “Lovell!” he repeated, under his breath. “Lovell! Was she ever in India?” “I don’t know, indeed.” “Is she a widow?” “Ay; that I’ve heard.” “D... ...rd facing it, arose that day of the forlorn charge of English horse in the Indian jungle, the thunder and the dust, the fire and the dense knot of the... ...ention to become a colonist. He employed the luncheon hour in a visit to a colonial ship- ping office, and nearly ran straight upon Sedgett at the off... ...d an oppres- sion in his head, though it obscured the pretty prospect of a colonial but and horse, with Rhoda cooking for him, far from cares. He did ... ...tion to sternness from this display of alacrity. “I counsel you to try the Colonial Bar.” Edward read in the first sentence, that his income would be ... ...3 George Meredith “This,” pursued the orator, “is not the language for the Colonial Bar. I wish to show you that I shall understand the character of m...

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...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ..., just as a common horse halter hanging from Abraham’s bookshelf, betokens colonial life. Our rooms are quite large enough, bigger than my room at Fen... ...and books, is really fatiguing. Yester- day and to-day are just samples of colonial work. Thursday, 7.30, prayers in chapel; 10.30, Communion service ... ...of New Zealand, full in whose track it lay. The matter was referred to the Colonial Secretary, and in the meantime Bishop Selwyn adhered to his purpos... ...for the spurs, and tell him that I had a battle royal the other day with a colonial steed, which backed into the bush, and kicked, and played the fool... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ...egret or desire to call me home on your part, you would feel, I know, that colonial work does require, especially, an unconditional un- reserved surre... ...all be glad to read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.... ...ecially for the hea- then of Melanesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and th...

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...of pistols; chewing bits of glass so that the blood ran down his chin, and brandishing a dirk. I do not know if he had taken these manners from the In... ...d we were safer than we could have dared to hope. The town of Albany was at that time much concerned in contraband trade across the desert with the In... ...st, it was in the course of our revelry that we made the acquaintance of a spirited youth by the name of Chew. He was one of the most daring of the In... ... giddy to re- member. These paths were in ordinary times entirely desert; but the country was now up, the tribes on the war-path, the woods full of In... ... listen. But for my part I have always found such information highly tedious; and beyond the fact that we were now in the country of the Adirondack In... ...d some acquirements, Mountain was no fool, Hastie was an educated man; but even these had manifestly failed in life, and the rest were the dregs of co...

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...y, “and never very late. I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this b... ...leads up—” With a swift disclosing gesture he gave Ossipon a glimpse of an india-rubber tube, resembling a slender brown worm, issu- ing from the armh... ... keeping his hand in the left pocket of his trousers, grasping lightly the india-rubber ball, the supreme guarantee of his sinister freedom; but after... ... worldly point of view, but his wife formed an unfavourable opinion of the colonial climate on hearsay evi- dence. On the other hand, she had influent... ...about his mar- riage with a woman exceptionally sensitive in the matter of colonial climate, besides other limitations testifying to the deli- cacy of... ...ive chief in the distant colony whom it was a tradition for the successive Colonial Governors to trust and make much of as a firm friend and supporter...

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...d Skuytercliff, the great es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and o... ...enna George II plate were out; so was the van der Luyden “Lowestoft” (East India Company) and the Dagonet Crown Derby. Mrs. van der Luyden looked more... ...go to Naples on account of the fever. “But you must have three weeks to do India properly,” her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that h... ...epeated. “Ever so far? Where, for instance?” she asked. “Oh, I don’t know. India—or Japan.” She stood up, and as he sat with bent head, his chin propp... ...dapting Georgian types, and protesting at the meaningless use of the word “Colonial.” No- body nowadays had “Colonial” houses except the millionaire g...

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...ry other undertaking, it must be the “end” that will “crown the work.” The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid... ...ndeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras; while their companions w... ....” As he concluded, the uncle drew a hand from his bosom, touched the male Indian, who was standing near him, lightly on the shoulder, and pointed out... ...and the old seaman the intercourse had been friendly, but distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle with the officers of the diff... ...he soft tones that form so singular a contrast to its harsher cries in the Indian warrior’s voice, was barely audible; otherwise, he was undisturbed. ... ...avis! Our Scotch lassies are fair and pleasant; but it must be owned these colonials are of surpassing comeliness.” “Y ou will do well to recollect yo...

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...ou ought to be able to trace my journey hither. And my friend?” “He was in India.” The official is beginning to look per- plexed. “It seems to me,” I ... ...g. How did I get from Norway hither? Does my friend look like hopping from India to the Saint Gotthard at one hop? The situation is a little more diff... ...o negroes, put Polynesians into trousers, and train the teeming myriads of India to appreciate the exquisite lilt of The Lady of the Lake. There is al... ...nality, and into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of libe... ... into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of liberal proposi... ...governing class to the first crude applications of liberal propositions in India has found a voice of unparalleled penetration in Mr. Kipling, whose w...

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...affected. Above all was I struck by one of the carpenter’s. On a voyage to India, they had a fever aboard, which car- ried off nearly half the crew in... ...bound passage. In this way, his country- men frequently enter on board the colonial whaling vessels. There was a man among us who had sailed with the ... ...ous arm embossed with pugilistic bruises, and quaint with many a device in India ink. In the midst of a portentous silence, the consul unrolled his pa... ...like an old woman seeing the children to bed. A basket of baked “taro,” or Indian tur- nip, was brought in, and we were given a piece all round. Then ... ...d offered to give us, every day, a small quantity of baked bread-fruit and Indian turnip in exchange for the bread. This we agreed to; and every morni... ...e that it arises, in most cases, from the eating of unripe bread-fruit and Indian turnip. So far as I could find out, it is not hereditary. In no stag... ...orted to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statement of m... ...k cheek and black whiskers. According to his own ac- count, he had lost a colonial armed brig on the coast of New Zealand; and since then, had been l...

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...here was less apparent glory in ministering. A widespread district of very colonial 8 The Trial colonists, and the charge of a college for their uncu... ...that never has come. At last, in the height of that pestilential season in India, came a let- ter, warning me that my brother’s widow had got the mas-... ...ector and Harry were found deep in an argu- ment in which the lieutenant’s Indian reminiscences of the Naval Brigade were at issue with the captain’s ... ...f grace, crossed the room, and stood by the sailor, and holding up a great India-rubber ball as large as her own head, asked, ‘Uncle Harry, were you s... ...and sister at certain injunctions that were heard passing about the little India- rubber goloshes; but Henry had returned in high good- humour, was pl... ... tion tour. Oh, fancy old June a venerable archdeacon!’ ‘You don’t think a colonial archdeacon is like one of your great portly swells in a shovel hat... ...trimness to go to the early service at the Minster; but he was full of the colonial nil admirari principle, and was quite above being struck by the gr... ...sisted on ac- companying him, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Rivers rather amazed at colonial breeding. The first time Mr. Seaford could accomplish being alone ... ... Ella, whose tinge of Americanism formed an amusing contrast with Dickie’s colonial ease—especially when she began to detail the discomforts of Massis...

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...e sure. He s pretty well, too. Has he come home, sir? I inquired. From India? said the Doctor. Yes. Mr. Jack Maldon couldn t bear the climate, m... ...nd. It was Mr. Jack Maldon; and Mr. Jack Maldon was not at all improved by India, I thought. I was in a state of ferocious virtue, however, as to youn... ... his conduct to a cli- max, by taking it into his head that he would go to India. Why should he go to India, except to David Copperfield Vol. II 19... ...the world, and had a good deal to do with that part; being entirely in the India trade, whatever that was (I had floating dreams myself concerning gol... ...rtner. But this was nothing to me. However, it was so much to him that for India he was bound, and Julia with him; and Julia went into the country to ... ...bour, I believe, is sometimes diffi- cult to obtain in that portion of our colonial possessions where it will be our lot to combat with the teeming so... ...vedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular. Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his r...

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...In our days, the greatest occasional gatherings of the hu- man race are in India, especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar, in the northern part of... ...ere he lay indolently stretched amongst favorite ladies, “And like a naked Indian slept himself away.” He had also tables composed of the same delicat... ...ullest and amplest form upon their final discharge, viz. in the shape of a colonial estate—large enough to rear a family in com- fort, and seated in t... ...ictures. Whatever strange or rare animal could be drawn from the depths of India, from Siam and Pegu, or from the unvisited nooks of Ethiopia, were no... ...arus: it has been conjectured by some writers that they were engaged in an Indian war. Carus, it is certain, met with little resis- tance. He insisted...

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...m- parison. A traveller wearied with the rich aspects of Italy, Brazil, or India, returns to his own land and finds on his way a delightful little lak... ...rgeous as the Louvre. He was careful to show his gloves, well cleaned with india-rubber, as little as he could. His poor mother had put five francs in... ...des Lombards, the Maison Matifat, which made its fortune by that identical colonial product.” Baudoyer [entering]. “Monsieur Chazelle, I see, is not h...

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... She is in America. One little boy died when he was three. The other is in India, taking up the Mardipore power scheme again now that he is out of the... ...scientific men, load it up so far as Britain is concerned with muck of the colonial politi- cian type and tame labour representatives, balance with sh... ...ow I hate the Irish from Carson to the last Sinn Feiner! And I am bored by India and by Egypt. I am bored by Poland and by Islam. I am bored by anyone...

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... his state of semi- intoxication. “Is it pretty much the same out there in India?” he asked of the doctor, suddenly. The doctor started, and attended ... ...xclaimed Aaron Sisson. “How’s that?” “Why, because, in a way the people of India have an easier time even than the people of England. Because they hav... ...ade—and they would make a mess, if they governed themselves, the people of India. They would probably make the greatest muddle possible—and start kill... ...andlady’s face became yellow with passion and rage. “That little poisonous Indian viper,” she said aloud, at- tributing Aaron’s mood to the doctor. He... ...en at home. Of the others, one daughter was unhappily married, and away in India weeping herself thinner; another was nursing her babies in Streatham.... ...ancis came of a much more adventurous, loose, excitable family, he had the colonial newness and adaptability. He knew, for his own part, that class su...

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...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema... ... has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentleman from Indiana a question.” “The gentleman from Indiana gives permission.” “The ge... ... 33 members; Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till... ...an that of the Havana to the men of Cuba, or of Calcutta to the natives of India. It has been a repetition of the old story, told over and over again ... ...d colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old colonial charter. A union might be and no doubt was desirable; but it was t...

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...oint adventures and mishaps, the window they had broken with a catapult in India Place, the escalade of the castle rock, and many another inestimable ... ...a colony, and portraits signed ‘Van Tromp’ had celebrated the greatness of colonial governors and judges. In those days he had been married, and drive... ...felt it wiser to keep his convoy within sight. So they entered the yard in Indian file, like a tramp and his wife. The grooms eyebrows rose as he rece...

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...es there has put it in good order, and now that he is obliged to return to India, he would probably let us have it for thirty thousand francs.” “We sh... ...in profusion, buying absolutely nothing but butcher’s-meat, wines, and the colonial supplies required by their life of luxury. The poultry-maid baked ...

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...scriptive of a great whaleback steamer taking on grain for famine-stricken India should be written that day, and Rivers wanted his afternoon free in o... ...ed to flee, T ravis Bessemer fell under the charm of the little spectacled colonial, to whose song we all must listen and to whose pipe we all must da...

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...ghs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympa... ... would have af fected me with the same pleasure as when I used to pick up Indian arrow heads in the field near the Old Manse. But, one idle and rainy... ...se up from these dry bones an image of the old towns brighter aspect, when India was a new region, and only Salem knew the way thither—I chanced to la... ...orations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast. It seemed to me—the reader may... ...dox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man’s firewater had made riotous about the streets, ... ... highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the deliver... ...n the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was concer...