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...e. “Your name is Hammond?” begins the Doctor, with his usual sparseness of ornamental courtesy. 4 The stranger bowed. “An Englishman, I perceive,” co... ...o the slab; but this device was wrought in a much more clumsy way than the ornamented border, and evidently by an unskilful hand. Beneath was an inscr... ...ere,—that visionary hall in England, with its surround ing woods and fine lawns, and the beckoning shadows at the ancient windows, and that fearful t... ...the marble sarcophagus of the old Greeks. It has, too, a lock, elaborately ornamented and in laid with silver. What else; only the spider’s webs spin... ... elled chamber that seemed to belong rather to his dream. The panels were ornamented, here and there, with antique carving, representing over and ove... ...e was a cloistered walk, under echoing arches, and in the midst a spacious lawn of the greenest and loveliest grass, such as England only can show, an... ...r ludicrously 140 Doctor Grimshawe s Secret fond, on their little bits of lawn, and in building a miniature castle of oyster shells, where were seen ... ...winter from the 147 Hawthorne hand of man, and in summer reposed upon his lawns. This seemed the last touch of that delightful conquered and regu la... ...room in which he sat,—or from a corridor, while he smoked his cigar on the lawn. A great part, if not the whole of this, he imputed to his knowledge o...

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... one might expect from an aunt, that I used as Nero used his Christians to ornament my public buildings; and I finally melted some into fratricidal bu... ...hat wrecked my preparation work for school next day. My father dug up both lawns, and trenched and manured in spasms of immense vigour alternating wit... ...uch a proceeding. The family occupied a large villa in Newcastle, with big lawns before it and behind, a shrubbery with quite a lot of shrubs, a coach... ...erton, with an orchard that had been rather pleasantly subdued from use to ornament. It had rich blossoming cherry and apple trees. Large patches of g... ... mown grass, which was as it were grass path with an occasional lapse into lawn or glade. And Margaret, hatless, with the fair hair above her thin, de... ...ups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a large lawn with an oak tree and a red Georgian house with a verandah and open Fre... ...e without involv- ing herself, and then stood beside me on the edge of the lawn while the others played. We watched silently for a moment. “I hate tha... ...ps and patches, with curtains of cretonne closing the window, and a tawdry ornament of paper in the grate. I sit on a bed beside a weary-eyed, fair-ha...

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... sang the most fascinating duets, and accompanied themselves on gui- tars, ornamented with bits of ethereal blue ribbon. Mr. Simpson put on a pink wai... ...r, as if it were ashamed of itself. The back of the epistle was pleasingly ornamented with a large red wafer, which, with the addition of divers ink-s... ...ould be quiet; ‘did it never occur to you, that you pay for these precious ornaments of society?’ ‘It certainly has occurred to me, ’ said Wisbottle, ... ...high-lows, who, after hanging his hat on one of the dozen brass pegs which ornamented the pas- sage, denominated by courtesy ‘The Hall,’ ushered him i... ... drew up before a cardboard-looking house with disguised chim- neys, and a lawn like a large sheet of green letter-paper, he certainly had never light... ...or the bell had not yet done tolling. ‘Here I am, ’ shouted a voice on the lawn,—and there was Mr. Gabriel Parsons in a flannel jacket, running back- ... ...lacently paced up and down the fourteen feet of gravel which bordered the ‘lawn,’ on the Saturday morning which had been fixed upon for the Beulah Spa... ...rightened the horse. ‘There’s Fanny and your intended walking about on the lawn,’ said Gabriel, as they approached the house. 188 Sketches by Boz ‘Mi... ...rightened the horse. ‘There’s Fanny and your intended walking about on the lawn,’ said Gabriel, as they approached the house. ‘Mind your eye, Tottle. ...

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...noon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before ... ..., in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves wer... ...pering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George t... ...e serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion. It was three store... ... a rookery , whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separat... ...s discovery, a little girl, followed by her attendant, came running up the lawn. I looked at my pupil, who did not at first appear to notice me: she w... ...th which glowed in rich contrast crim- son couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale 106 Jane Eyre Pariain mantelpiece were of sparkling ... ...sions. “You want a brooch,” said Mrs. Fairfax. I had a single little pearl ornament which Miss T emple gave me as a parting keep- sake: I put it on, a... ... leading me by the hand round the room, showing me the beautiful books and ornaments on the con- soles and chiffonnieres. We obeyed, as in duty bound;...

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...and he laughed slightly up to an arresting cough, and made the mantelpiece ornaments pass muster. General Ople was the hero to champion a lady whose a... ...but Lady Camper disliked sitting alone in a room. She was on the square of lawn as the General stole along the walk. Had she kept her back to him, he ... ... and the handful of paddock, the stables and coach-house, then back to the lawn. ‘It is the home for a young couple,’ she said. ‘I am no longer young,... ...ss from the pursuing bite of the gadfly, handed about at Mrs. Pollington’s lawn-party. Some have said, that he should not have betrayed his daughter; ... ...d that she hoped he would not forget his engagement to go to Mrs. Baerens’ lawn-party. The General jumped away from the glass, shouting at the absent ... ... to the rector, who greeted him, in advance of the ladies, on Mr. Baerens’ lawn. He said it smilingly, but wanting some show of sympathy, instead of t...

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...the age appear as my sub- scribers, and the most distinguished patrons and ornaments of learning as my chief encouragers? Among these it is a par- tic... ... Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn; When Jove convened the senate of the skies, Where high Olympus’ cloud... ... helpless tremble for themselves, and fly. So when a lion ranging o’er the lawns. Finds, on some grassy lair, the couching fawns, Their bones he crack... ...mbrius remains the fierce Ajaces’ prize. As two grim lions bear across the lawn, Snatch’d from devouring hounds, a slaughter’d fawn. In their fell jaw... ...land; With their rich belts their captive arms restrains (Late their proud ornaments, but now their chains). These his attendants to the ships convey’... ...mpetuous from the cleaving skies. As through the forest, o’er the vale and lawn, The well-breath’d beagle drives the flying fawn, In vain he tries the... ...eyes: She faints, she falls; her breath, her colour flies. Her hair’s fair ornaments, the braids that bound, The net that held them, and the wreath th... .... Soon as Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre streak’d the dewy lawn, Again the mournful crowds surround the pyre, And quench with wine the... ...eems indeed probable, from the manner in which he dwells on their metallic ornaments that the higher beauty of proportion was but little required or u...

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...ent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect mid... ...ar votaries of the ceremony I have mentioned. The shadows on the per- fect lawn were straight and angular; they were the shad- ows of an old man sitti... ...es upon the rich red front of his dwelling. The house that rose beyond the lawn was a structure to repay such consideration and was the most character... ...- rial tricks, only, however, to improve and refine it, pre- sented to the lawn its patches of ivy, its clustered chim- neys, its windows smothered in... ...le. 21 Henry James The front of the house overlooking that portion of the lawn with which we are concerned was not the entrance- front; this was in q... ...er it will suffice that she was indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable W... ...hrough the long gallery in his society, while he pointed out its principal ornaments and mentioned the 103 Henry James painters and subjects. Miss St... ...not sure that she doesn’t think them rather a pretentious 107 Henry James ornament. She thinks one’s door should stand ajar. But I persist in liking ... ...hin sight of the house, beneath a spreading beech, where, in a white dress ornamented with black ribbons, she formed among the flickering shadows a gr...

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...t the gleams pro- ceeded from some of those farm-houses which occasionally ornamented the surface of the extensive bog. At length, to complete his per... ... At thy undoing; but had tacit possession Of all thy ancient most domestic ornaments. Otway. EARLY NEXT MORNING, Mannering mounted his horse, and, acc... ...shrouded the house upon the north and east; the front looked upon a little lawn bordered by a grove of old trees; beyond were some arable fields, exte... ... our lonely walks to haunted ruins—And I should have had, in exchange, the lawns and shrubs, and greenhouses, and conservatories, of Pine Park, with y... ...ed, and each lead- ing a spare horse loaded with packages, appeared on the lawn, and, without keeping upon the road, which makes a small sweep, pushed... ...ed and came nearer, and at length thirty horsemen and more rushed upon the lawn. You never saw such horrid wretches! Notwithstanding the severity of t... ...eman, that it he, and the scoundrels who are with him, do not ride off the lawn this instant, I will fire upon them without ceremony.” So saying, my f... ...mighty base, and that rank, which forms, as it were, its highest grace and ornament, is mingled and confused with the viler parts of the architecture....

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...y, and Lucy went on talking, show- ing off the room, the chiffonieres, the ornaments, and some pretty Indian ivory carvings. There was a great ottoman... ...e grey outline of trees and shrubs, obscured by the heavy mist; and on the lawn below, a thick cloud that seemed to hang over a dark space which she s... ... a test of the healthiness of a local- ity. What could she think of Willow Lawn? It was with a strong effort that she brought her attention back to Hi... ...th knicknacks and cush- ions, like a repository of every species of female ornamental handiwork in vogue for the last half century, and the lun- cheon... ...al’s house was for more gentility called 21 The Young Step-Mother ‘Willow Lawn.’ Gilbert was not to be found; but at four o’clock the whole party met... ... Instead of taking her to the front door he conducted her across a sloping lawn towards a French window open to the bright afternoon sunshine. ‘Here s... ...‘there would never be any fun again without Miss Ferrars,’ came out on the lawn with the girls, in hopes of setting them to enjoy themselves. But they... ...ing the swallows assem- bling for departure sitting in long ranks, like an ornament along the roof of a neighbouring barn. Long, long it was before Mr... ...tairs, with the holly leaves and berries glistening in her hair, the first ornament she had ever worn there. ‘It was Sophy’s doing,’ she said. ‘Naught...

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...rising above some old elms in the park; and before them, in the midst of a lawn, and some outhouses, an old red house with tall chimneys covered with ... ...rs to understand that, if she chose to be Mrs. Glauber, she was welcome to ornament the sur- gery! I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and morta... ... sur- gery! I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a coun- try surgeon’s wife... ...fragrant and blooming tenderly in quiet shady places; and there are garden-ornaments, as big as brass warming-pans, that are fit to stare the sun itse... ...e his friends and sisters, and mingle in society when in town (he, such an ornament to every society!); and when he is with the regiment, he is too ti... ...amond shirt-pin (which she had not known him to wear before) the prettiest ornament ever seen. The observant reader, who has marked our young Lieutena...

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...on as composed, I had got over any such taste as I might once have had for ornamented and redundant composition, and come to prefer what was plain and... ...the grounds surrounding it sufficiently spacious. I paused a moment on the lawn in front, and lean- ing my back against a tall tree which rose in the ... ...n stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pen- dent from the centre of t... ... bordered by enormous old fruit trees down the middle; there was a sort of lawn, a parterre of rose-trees, some flower-bor- ders, and, on the far side... ...her, for she gives instruction in lace-mending, and in little varieties of ornamental needle-work. She very prop- erly proposes to qualify herself for... ...anged in smooth bands on her temples, and in a large Grecian plait behind: ornaments she had none—neither brooch, ring, nor ribbon; she did well enoug... ..., looking like an arch of roses and ivy. The garden is chiefly laid out in lawn, formed of the sod of the hills, with herbage short and soft as moss, ... ... sloping garden there is a wicket, which opens upon a lane as green as the lawn, very long, shady, and little fre- quented; on the turf of this lane g... ... air. Frances proposed to me, an hour or two since, to take tea out on the lawn; I see the round table, loaded with china, placed under a certain beec...

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...ccording to the fashion of her youth. She wore a black dress, and her only ornament was a gold chain, from which hung a cross. She had a shy manner an... ...to Tercanbury , and from the dining-room one saw a semicircu- lar strip of lawn and then as far as the horizon green fields. Sheep were grazing in the... ...of it. On the fourth side was an iron railing through which you saw a vast lawn and beyond this some of the buildings of King’s School. One small boy ... ...n what he saw from the window of the Fourth Form room. It looked on to old lawns, carefully tended, and fine trees with foliage dense and rich. It gav... ...Wilkinson used to take rugs and cushions there after dinner and lie on the lawn in the shade of a tall hedge of roses. They talked and read all the af... ...e two roses in her waistband. She sat in a garden chair by the side of the lawn, holding a red parasol over herself, and the light on her face 179 W.... ...comfortable. The only other piece of furniture was a bargueno, elaborately ornamented with gilt iron-work, on a stand of ecclesiastical design roughly... ...taken the trouble to tear pages out of the unbound French ones. The little ornaments on the chimney-piece lay on the hearth in bits. Everything that i...

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...egetable garden stretching away to the oak copse. And then away beyond the lawns and rose trees of the house-garden went the track across a shaggy, wi... ...he chimneys and the outhouses. But inside the hedge, a pleasant garden and lawn sloped down to a willow pool, which had once supplied the works. The P... ...air-rods, while Cousin Matilda was in the kitchen washing the drawing-room ornaments in a lather, her sleeves rolled back on her thin arms, and her he... ...hairs to watch. Be- yond the dark holly-bushes that separated the strip of lawn from the highroad, they could see a cavalcade of shire horses swinging...

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...we often see in the country where land is cheap enough to be sacrificed to ornament. The air 4 An Historical Mystery was so pure, the atmosphere so t... ...one of those vast roofs with four sides, a ridgepole decorated with leaden ornaments, and a round projecting window on each side, such as Mansart very... ...n railing without char- acter, evidently modern. T o right and left of the lawn, which is divided in two by a paved road-way, are the stables, cow- sh... ...oping of a horse was heard upon the road and then upon the pavement by the lawn; but most horrible of all was the fall and sighing of the animal, whic... ... to the two spies, who walked up and down the garden, the courtyard or the lawn, returning every now and then to the salon. At half-past two the lieut... ...th them. The whole household, made aware of the good news, gathered on the lawn to wit- ness the departure of the happy cavalcade. The four young men ... ...“Children,” said the old marquis, taking them by the hand and going to the lawn, then covered by a slight fall of snow; “you will be angry at the prud... ...as the original of that portrait by Lefebvre which is the chief and sacred ornament of her salon. Her face has the maturity of fruits that have ripene...

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... that gentleman would most likely be lounging among the most distinguished ornaments of the legal profession, whispering sugges tions in his counsel’... .... The preacher already sat in the pulpit, which was raised on pillars, and ornamented behind him with painted drapery of a lively and somewhat theatri... ...e are of rural Ameri American Notes – Dickens 76 cans. The well trimmed lawns and green meadows of home are not there; and the grass, compared with... ... and green meadows of home are not there; and the grass, compared with our ornamental plots and pastures, is rank, and rough, and wild: but delicate s... ... ports) are planted with rows of grand old elm trees; and the same natural ornaments surround Yale College, an establishment of considerable eminence ... ...! A buxom fat mulatto woman, with sparkling eyes, whose head is dain tily ornamented with a handkerchief of many colours. Nor is the landlord much be...

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...ortrait. The timepiece was a gift from the Marechal de Saxe, and the china ornaments on the mantelpiece came from the Marechal de Richelieu. My grandm... ...I told him I was not aged enough to have reached the middle, or to need an ornament to freshen me up! The nose is slender, and the well-cut nostrils a... ...and not particularly intelligent, easily to be bought off with gewgaws and ornaments, and with little turn for reflection.” “Y ou are complimentary to... ...? After seeing you, I return to my study, and the glitter of its Saracenic ornaments sinks to nothing before the brightness of your portrait, when I o... ...ch, and therefore the idea occurred to me of a special luncheon ser- vice, ornamented with figures of babies. If you approve of this, let me know at o... ... and embosom the chalet in flowers, of which we are passionately fond. Our lawns are always green, our shrubberies as well tended as those of a millio...

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... back under a cap which was set at the top of her head, exposed to view an ornament of which she was much prouder than of her red cheeks— namely, a pa... ...heeks— namely, a pair of large round ear-rings with false garnets in them, ornaments condemned not only by the Methodists, but by her own cousin and n... ...k I shall have a lofty throne for you, Godmamma, or rather two, one on the lawn and another in the ballroom, that you may sit and look down upon us li... ...ng the red brick into terms of friendly com- panionship with the limestone ornaments surrounding the three gables, the windows, and the door-place. Bu... ...s, for the oak table was usually turned up like a screen, and was more for ornament than for use; and she could see herself sometimes in the great rou... ...of which she was less tolerant than feminine vanity, and the preference of ornament to utility. The family likeness between her and her niece Dinah Mo... ... the great trees, but not out of view of the house-front, with its sloping lawn and flower-beds, or of the pretty striped marquee at the edge of the l... ... the tenants. There was a sunk fence in front of the marquee, dividing the lawn from the park, but a temporary bridge had been made for the passage of... ...ne outside the house: the farmers and their families were moving about the lawn, among the flowers and shrubs, or along the broad straight road leadin...

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...very late appliance, were as dignified as Chapels of Ease. On the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent, its door being towards her. Simple Tess Durb... ...iance, were as dignified as Chapels of Ease. On the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent, its door being towards her. Simple Tess Durbeyfield stood a... ...s pressing, and she consented to accompany him. He conducted her about the lawns, and flower beds, and conservatories; and thence to the fruit garden a... ...and I’ll see what grub I can find.’ Stoke d’Urberville took her back to the lawn and into the tent, where he left her, soon reappearing with a basket o... ...about losing her. What should he do about his skimming? Who would make the ornamental butter pats for the Angelbury and Sandbourne ladies? Mrs. Crick ... ...ecklace, with pendant, bracelets, and ear rings; and also some other small ornaments. Tess seemed afraid to touch them at first, but her eyes sparkled ... ...of keeping with such a conjectured career in the storing up of these showy ornaments for his wife and the wives of her descendants. They gleamed somew... ...hat might favour her, but nothing favoured her. The shrubs on the Vicarage lawn rustled uncomfortably in the frosty breeze; she could not feel by any ... ...the dining room — and looked out through the spring curtains at the little lawn, and the rhododendrons and other shrubs upon it. Obviously her positio...

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...evertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the dist... ...pose of Clothes, as our Professor imagines, was not warmth or decency, but ornament. “Miserable indeed,” says he, “was the condition of the Aboriginal... ...—to the length of sixpence.—Clothes too, which began in foolishest love of Ornament, what have they not become! Increased Security and pleasurable Hea... ...ss? Was it on the hand of Herr Towgood; or of the Gnadige Frau, who, as an ornamental Artist, might some- times like to promote flirtation, especially... ...Mansion! There stoodest thou, in deep Mountain Amphitheatre, on umbrageous lawns, in thy serene soli- tude; stately, massive, all of granite; glitteri... ...es that stood sheltered in these Mountain hollows; with their green flower-lawns, and white dames and damosels, lovely enough: or better still, the st... ...ck me not with the name of Free, ‘when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons. ’”—Or what will any member of the Peace Society make o...

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...s tall; her dress was of some quiet color, with old yellow-tinted lace for ornament, to which the spark of an ancient jewel gave its one red gleam. De... ...iled, and replacing the malacca cane on the rack, he drew a sword from its ornamental sheath. “That belonged to Clive, so we say,” said Katharine, tak... ...ation improved upon that, Katharine? I can see them now, sweeping over the lawns at Melbury House, in their flounces and furbelows, so calm and statel... ...d cautiously and exactly as the feet of a Persian cat stepping among China ornaments. For the second time that day Mary felt herself baffled by someth... ...s surrounded by a garden, in which the Rector took considerable pride. The lawn, which fronted the drawing-room windows, was a rich and uni- form gree... ...and limited, perhaps, but not dull. Edward, she perceived, was rolling the lawn, for the sake of exer- cise; and the sight of him, with pink cheeks, b... ...ancing round, she thought that the bills stuck upon a skewer and stood for ornament upon the mantelpiece were astonishingly like Katharine, There wasn... ...d along a mantelpiece ranged with bronze chariots, silver vases, and china ornaments that were either facetious or eccentric. She did not apply her ju...