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..., all, except the last, of fami- lies that traced their origin to the same mountain district in the North of Spain. The family of Cervantes is commonl... ...s, because “he was lord of the solar of Cervatos in the Mon- tana,” as the mountain region extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was always call... ...ut Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua, when Carloto left him wounded on the mountain side, a story known by heart by the children, not forgotten by the... ...ip in hand, on their pal- freys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to mountain and valley to valley—for, if it were not for some ruff... ...hion and over the head, that—even so good a shield proving useless—as if a mountain had fallen on him, he began to bleed from nose, mouth, and ears, r... ...ars to avoid being driven on shore; but it was our good fortune to reach a creek that lies on one side of a small promontory or cape, called by the Mo...

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...May 26, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN: Can you not cut the Alula Creek railroad? Also, what impres- sion have you as to intrenched works for... ...take up a stronger position. I expect a great deal from the battery on the mountain, having three 9 inch Dahlgren bearing directly on the enemy’s appr... ...rstandings. Early in March last, when I assigned you to the command of the Mountain Department, I did tell you I would give you all the force I could,... ...igned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general. The troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under com- mand of General Fremont, shall c... ... those mentioned, I have not, outside of your army, 75,000 men east of the mountains. Thus the idea of sending you 50,000, or any other considerable f... ... to exceed 80,000 disciplined troops, properly so called, this side of the mountains; and most of them, with many of the new regiments, are now close ... ...g; and you see how turnpikes, railroads, and finally the Potomac, by Aquia Creek, meet you at all points from Washington; the same, only the lines len... ...JOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Falmouth, Virginia: If I should be in boat off Aquia Creek at dark tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, could you, without inconvenienc... ...HOOKER: Our plan is to pass Saturday night on the boat, go over from Aquia Creek to your camp Sunday morning, remain with you till Tuesday morning, an...

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...U OBSERVATORY THE OBSERVATORY AT AVU, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. T o the north rises the old crater, black at night against the un... ...wall was a dark pool. The door was open, and he saw the grey summit of the mountain against a brilliant background of blue sky. “Pah!” said Woodhouse.... ...se to the beach. Far beyond, dim and almost cloudlike in texture, rose the mountains, like suddenly frozen waves. The sea was still save for an almost... ...rinking, and, running the 90 The Country of the Blind canoe into a little creek, were about to land among the thick growth that overhung the water. “... ...through the night and people going aboard ships and people fleeing towards mountainous country, that the whole world was already in a terror because o... ...- edented. In Manitoba was a thaw and devastating floods. And upon all the mountains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all t... ...ny places down the river he had been manifestly driven back, this deserted creek or that preserved the name of a casa, and here and there ruinous whit...

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.... A little Norman sailing vessel was moored two evenings after in a lonely creek on the coast, and into it stepped M. de Ribaumont, with his Bible, Ma... ...; stoop down, Ribaumont; a word with you. Y our mat- ters have gone up the mountains, as the Italians say, with mine. But never fear. Keep silence, an... ...first bring word to Master Philip that the young lord and lady were in the creek. Philip gave his pony no rest, between the lock-out on the downs and ... ...his pony no rest, between the lock-out on the downs and the borders of the creek; but day after day passed, and still the smacks from Jersey held no p... ...ter Hobbs, without taking his gaze off the coast, ‘but by yonder banks and creeks this should be the Sables d’Olonne; and I do not see the steeple of ... ... daughter, her infant, and a donkey, had been found bewildered between the creeks on a sandbank, where they stood still and patient, like a picture of... ...nd pined for him as she kept her flock, made the rivulets, the brooks, the mountains re-echo with her sighs and plaints, and had wandered through the ... ...fter some years more, it was entirely destroyed. The grounds of the Auriol Mountain Monastery have been desolate down to the present day, when they ha... ...e washed, declaring that they put him in mind of his old hardy days on the mountains of Bearn. He insisted on hearing all Rayonette’s adventure in det...

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...ke the witch of Thalaba, ‘still his speech was song,’— The Knight’s to the mountain His bugle to wind; The Lady’s to greenwood Her garland to bind. Th... ...h a profu- sion of hair of paley gold, and a skin like the snow of her own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had not a pallid or pensive cast of counten... ...afety an excursion into the neighbouring Highlands, whose dusky barrier of mountains had already excited his wish to penetrate beyond them. The Baron ... ... it was, he started at the sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, ... ...d Edward to accompany him on a short walk of ten or fifteen miles into the mountains, and see the place where the cattle were conveyed to; adding, ‘If... ... after landing W averley , the two Highlanders drew the boat into a little creek among thick flags and reeds, where it lay perfectly concealed. The oa...

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...ing in Dauphine is quite the reverse of that in Provence or Languedoc. The mountaineers are Bonapartists, sire.” “Then,” murmured Louis, “he was well ... ...antes, who had al- ways imagined, from seeing the sun rise from behind the mountains and set in the Mediterranean, that it moved, and not the earth. A... ...may amount to nearly two mil... will find on raising the twen- tieth ro... creek to the east in a right line. Two open... in these caves; the treasure... ...ns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line. Two open...ings have been made in these ... ...ced the marks along the rocks, and he had noticed that they led to a small creek. which was hidden like the bath of some ancient nymph. This creek was... ...nal Spada, anxious not to Alexandre Dumas 193 be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, fol- lowed the line marked by the notch... ...ed his efforts; he seemed like one of the ancient Titans, who uprooted the mountains to hurl The Count of Monte Cristo 194 against the father of the ... ... own part, guided his regiment by paths known to himself alone through the mountain gorges which were held by the royalists, and, in fact, ren- dered ... ...teen miles of Monte Cristo when the sun began to set behind Corsica, whose mountains appeared against the sky, showing their rugged peaks in bold reli...

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...he Great Saint Bernard! I have lived in Switzerland, and rambled among the mountains; but, why I should go there now, and why up the Great Saint Berna... ...es along; and why does this thing stalk into my mind on the top of a Swiss mountain! It is a figure that I once saw, just after dark, chalked upon a d... ...Reprinted Pieces came tearing down from the house tops as if they had been mountain tops. Mrs. Parkins, my laundress—wife of Parkins the porter, then ... ... and pitched heavily, and at intervals long slants and flaws of light made mountain steeps of communication between the ocean and the sky. A walk of t... ... ‘when I come to think of it, not a few. From the Niagara, downward to the mountain rivers of Italy, which are like the national spirit—very tame, or ... ...he Thames Police Force, whose dis trict extends from Battersea to Barking Creek, ninety eight men, eight duty boats, and two supervision boats; and t...

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... to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles bl... ...am and roll, with strange convulsions rack’d, Drinking salt water like a mountain stream, Tearing, and grinning, howling, screeching, swearing, ... ...verance. The land appear’d a high and rocky coast, And higher grew the mountains as they drew, Set by a current, toward it: they were lost ... ... And ‘t is, no doubt, a sight to see when breaks Bright Phoebus, while the mountains still are wet With mist, and every bird with him awakes, ... ... From heart to cheek is curb’d into a blush, Like to a torrent which a mountain’s base, That overpowers some Alpine river’s rush, Checks t... ...hore, Guarded by shoals and rocks as by an host, With here and there a creek, whose aspect wore A better welcome to the tempest tossed; An... ...tence, Wondering what next, till the caique was brought Up in a little creek below a wall O’ertopp’d with cypresses, dark green and tall. He...

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...holds for us. Not before 1770, (1) Viking (Ice. “Vikingr”; “vik”, a bay or creek, “ingr”, beloning to, (or men of) freebooters. 6 The V olsunga Saga ... ...The V olsunga Saga brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each ... ... 70 The V olsunga Saga CHAPTER XX Of Sigurd’s Meeting with Brynhild on the Mountain B Y LONG ROADS rides Sigurd, till he comes at the last up on to Hi... ...uch a deed might Sigurd alone have done, with whom I plighted troth on the mountain; and he is my first troth-plight, and my well-beloved.” Heimir sai... ...r the King.” And therewith she call to mind how they met, they two, on the mountain, and swore oath each to each. “But now is all changed and I will n...

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...l were supposed to approach was, during my sojourn, always guarded by vast mountains of flour barrels. Looking up at the windows of the building, I pe... ...commands a magnificent view of one of the valleys into which the Alleghany Mountains is broken. Harrisburg is immediately under the range, probably at... ...scribe the manner in which I accomplished the descent. In running down the mountains to Pittsburg an acci- dent occurred which in any other country wo... ...s scenery it is beautifully situ- ated, being at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains, and at the juncture of the two rivers Monongahela and Alleghany.... ... Ohio. Nothing can be more picturesque than the site, for the spurs of the mountains come down close round the town, and the rivers are broad and swif... ...ce had been the opponent of poor General Lyons, who was killed at Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield, and of General Fremont, who during his hundred day... ...at Eleutheria, but hearing of an opening for a Baptist preacher at Big Mud Creek moves himself off with his wife and three children at a week’s notice...

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...a fishing village, a few mat huts erected on piles be- tween a muddy tidal creek and a miry pathway that went writhing into a tangled wilderness witho... ...hort on the apex of a small bridge spanning steeply the bed of a canalized creek with granite shores. Moored between the square blocks a sea-going Mal... ..., the bearings of the crossing-place had to be taken from the shape of the mountains in- land. The guidance of a form flattened and uneven at the top ... ...d still all over the ship, she seemed to butt full tilt into the side of a mountain. It was low water along the north side of the strait. Mr. Massy ha... ... been for Sterne, whom he met one day on the quay near the bridge over the creek, almost on the very spot where Captain Whalley, to 142 End of the Te...

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...ey to pay his rent. He succeeded in his purpose, but returning through the mountains of Cheviot, he was benighted and lost his way. “A light, glimmeri... ...at height,—and advance with extreme rapidity. Others were intersected with creeks and small inlets, which it was only safe to pass at particular times... ...power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring Or chasms of wat’ry ... ... were of a sterner character, and, at still greater distance, swelled into mountains of dark heath, bordering the horizon with a screen which gave a d... ...ghbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings... ...ou I had deemed it conve- nient to make a few days’ tour on foot among the mountains of Westmoreland, with Dudley, a young English artist, with whom I...

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...ck from the shore. On the eastern horizon, leagues distant, blue masses of mountain striated with mirages swam in the scorching air. The sand was like... ... put them beyond all fear for the present. “There’s plenty of water up the creek,” he said, “and we can snare all the quail we want; and then there’s ... ...f opalescence. Behind them, sullen purples marked the horizon, hooded with mountain crests, and after a long while the moon shrugged a gleaming should... ...” “Since before sunrise,” she said; “I’ve had a bath in the cove where the creek runs down. I saw a jack-rabbit.” “Seen anything of Charlie and the ot... ...nd Wilbur saw a small boat put off from the junk and make a landing by the creek. The beach-combers were taking on water. The boat made three trips be... ...mpted Moran. Then to Wilbur: “You remember—about a hundred yards north the creek?” 78 Moran of the Lady Letty Wilbur, Moran and Charlie had drawn off... ...ssed. At times when they halted they began to hear the faint murmur of the creek, just beyond which was the broken and crumbling shanty, relic of an o...

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...fortunes at home. Having bad weather in his journey, and traveling through mountainous countries, and the inhabitants stop- ping the way, and demandin... ...by Sylla, finding Julius unassail- able, sat down short at the foot of the mountains in perplex- ity. But a certain Calpurnius, surnamed Lanarius, hav... ...ompeting incessantly with the swift attacks and retreats of a set of fleet mountaineers, or to endure hunger and thirst, and live exposed like them to... ...ose who were the strongest and swiftest of foot, and sent them through the mountains, with order that when they had delivered the water, they should c... ...aecias, pre- vailing most in those parts, coming up out of moist plains or mountains covered with snow, at this particular time, in the heat of summer... ...riends, wept, in an old man’s manner, and deplored the misfortune of those Creeks whom death had deprived of the satisfaction of see- ing Alexander se...

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...nte-Adresse and two or three other Saint-somethings) together with several creeks which mur- mur and flow with the tides of the sea. These half-desert... ...ure, amused herself by making truth more interesting than fiction; just as mountain torrents de- scribe curves which are beyond the skill of painters ... ...would hear her and accomplish her desires. “Faith,” she thought, “can move mountains; Christ has said so. The Saviour led his apostle upon the waters ... ...g of this letter, swallowed like a drop of water in the desert, lifted the mountain which weighed heavily on Modeste’s heart: then she saw the mistake... ...like Canalis, an adventure of this kind is swept away like a harebell by a mountain torrent, but in the more unoccupied life of the young secretary, t... ...hers re- tain the inherent politeness of their vanished grandeur, like the mountain-tops still gilded by the sun when all is twilight in the valley. E...

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...orning, stricken with pity, leaning hard against the wind, their breath and vision often failing as the sleet and spray rushed at them from the ever f... ... light, of healthy people and healthy things? Whether this young woman, brooding like this in the summer season, ever thinks that somewhere there are ... ... himself deaf in whole years of competition, and had won so many tea-trays that he went about the country with his carriage full of them, like a glori... ...rried me down fast, and I came, on an exquis- itely clear day, to the Lausanne shore of the Lake of Geneva, where I stood looking at the bright blue w... ...fog and space, but tiers of winding-sheets. The ground at my feet where, when last there, I had seen the peasantry of Naples dancing among the vines, ... ... wild again, its screaming parrots would darken the sun with a cloud of many flaming colours if a gun were fired there, no face is ever reflected in t...

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...owever, some- thing had caused me to forget; and when next I saw the young mountaineer, I forgot that I had forgotten it. Consequently, at first I was... ... those countries, and in the neighborhood of a river-system so awful, of a mountain-system so unheard-of in Europe, there would probably, by blind, un... ...cts for contemplation: one, bright as Aurora—that radi- ant Koh-i-noor, or mountain of light—the eight hundred thousand pounds; the other, sad, fuscou... ...ays. In fact, one week’s pedestrian travelling amongst the Caernarvonshire mountains effected a revolution in my health such as left me nothing to com... ...e fourteen companies (or capitanerias) settled by imperial diplomas in the mountains of Olympus, Othryx, Pindus, and Œta; and distinct appropria- tion... ... courted attack, seems never to have been fully rooted out from the little creeks and naval fastnesses of the Morea, and of some of the Egean islands....

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...g as of old we walk’d Beside the river’s wooded reach, The fortress, and the mountain ridge, The cataract flashing from the bridge, 15 The breaker brea... .... XCVI. 107 XCVI. MY love has talk’d with rocks and trees; He finds on misty mountain ground His own vast shadow glory crown’d; He sees himself in all... ...haunts of hern and crake; Or into silver arrows break 15 The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blo... ... lighted town, The white faced halls, the glancing rills, And catch at every mountain head, And o’er the friths that branch and spread 115 Their sleep...

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...ck friend, a shoulder clapper, one that countermands The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands; A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot ... ...air, give us gold: methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, I could find in my hear...

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...began by sending his wife with the little girl across the Pequeña range of mountains, on the frontier of Mendoza. XI “NOW CARRERAS, under the guise of... ...othing. I would get her back if she were hid- den in the very heart of the mountain.’ He amazed me by adding, with an effort: “I carried her off in my... ... as if for another assault. Their lines stood ranged in the shadows of the mountains. On the plain in front of the fort gate I saw a group of men sway... ... the steam- launch, one day, as we strolled on the path by the side of the creek. The man’s head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were... ...eph Conrad “I call him Crocodile because he lives half in, half out of the creek. Amphibious—see? There’s nothing else amphibious living on the island... ...saddle with excitement. The launch had been lying disabled and idle in the creek for three weeks. My duty to the company was clear. He noticed my star...