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... cloth tables, which was the dining-room by day and the men’s sitting- and smoking-room after nine. Here Mr. Polly, who had been an only child, first ... ...of Mr. Polly “Lemme get my pipe on,” said Platt, who had recently taken to smoking with great ferocity. “Then I’m with you.” Pause and struggle. “Don’... ... anxious and reproachful face of Johnson, who had been sitting up for him, smoking and trying to read the odd volume of “Purchas his Pilgrimes,“—about... ...s prodding a vivisecting point of encouragement into him—with that strange passive cruelty which is natural to her sex and age. And Mr. Polly fell in ... ...er the way, and an elderly gentleman in a kind of embroidered fez appeared smoking a pipe with a quiet satisfied expression. He regarded Mr. Polly fo... ...nt better with the iced wedding cake in the middle. Mrs. Voules, still im- passive, stood by the window regarding these things with a faint approval. ... ...to anyone who might be listening, and dis- appear. Mr. Polly found himself smoking a cigarette and walking up and down outside in the company of Uncle...

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...y repair- ing of all three. He also did some of the repairing himself and, smoking a bull-dog pipe the while, which my mother would not allow him to d... ...s becoming a big and independent-spirited boy—and I began my experience of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of America... ...ed an effect of rather stuffy comfortableness that was soporific, and in a passive way I think she found these among her happy times. On such occasion... ...g our faces to do. We spoke of the intricate difficulties, the mon- strous passive resistances, the hostilities to such a development as we conceived ... ...ves, I fancy, as to the facts that he was suffer- ing for continuous cigar smoking, and being taken in hand by his adolescent daughters who had just r... ...group. Gertrude had been sipping admiration and was not disposed to play a passive part in the talk. “Socialism!” she cried, catching the word. “It’s ... ...gs… . 7 7 7 7 7 What a preposterous shindy that was! I sat with him in the smoking-room, propounding what I considered to be the most indisputable and... ...and moral, and I, I now realise, was never either of these things. She was passive, and I am active. She did not simply and naturally look for beauty ... ...out into the night and prowled for a long time through the narrow streets, smoking and think- ing. I returned and went and sat on the edge of her bed ...

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...the first cab having been fetched from the public house, where he had been smoking his first pipe, Mr. Pickwick and his portmanteau were thrown into t... ...een sparring with out cessation the whole time. The mob hitherto had been passive spectators of the scene, but as the intelligence of the Pickwickian... ...e streets must be exceedingly delicious to those who are extremely fond of smoking. A superficial traveller might object to the dirt, which is their l... ...nner, and have a very vague recollection of walking about the streets, and smoking a cigar afterwards. The fact is, I was very drunk;— I must have cha... ... silence en sued. Mr. Luffey retired a few paces behind the wicket of the passive Podder, and applied the ball to his right eye for several seconds. ... ...aid Rachael. ‘Never!’ was the valorous reply. ‘Oh, Rachael!’ He seized her passive hand, and the watering pot fell to the ground as he pressed it to h... ...es, which after a due show of struggling and resistance, she re ceived so passively, that there is no telling how many more Mr. T upman might have be... ...lusion of the election, with several other temporary inmates of the house, smoking and drinking. ‘Well, gents,’ said a stout, hale personage of about ... ...he guard himself, who, not cal culating upon so sudden a cessation of the passive resistance of the cod fish, experiences a very unexpected shock, to...

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...st the places of cheap delights, re- turning home late, sick with too much smoking and drinking—for company’s sake—with these men, who expected such a... ...ubt she will cry, she will lament, she will be helpless and frightened and passive as ever. And he would have to drag that limp weight on and on throu... ...eerfully to his gloomy companion, but when the meal was ended and they sat smoking in silence he felt an abrupt discouragement, a lassitude in all his... ...dulla’s lips move almost imperceptibly. Suddenly Willems seized the Arab’s passive hand and shook it. Babalatchi drew the long breath of relieved susp... ...radiating heat of the fire on either cheek in succession. He watched it in passive amazement, growing distinct, as if coming nearer to him, and the co... ...ull black point on the other. He felt an inward shock, which left his body passive in Aissa’s embrace, but filled his breast with a tumult of powerles... ... that head swaying on her shoulder, the lower jaw hanging down, collapsed, passive, meaningless, like the head of a corpse. Then after a while he hear...

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...west to cure an asthma, and retarding his recovery by incessantly chewing or smoking, and sometimes chewing and smoking together. I have never seen to... ...there another half seated with his head and shoulders on the bench. The most passive were continually and roughly shaken by the movement of the train;... ... from the most unfashionable spot in Europe, Barbizon. On his head he wore a smoking-cap of Indian work, the gold lace pitifully frayed and tarnished.... ...ar Dutch skipper who would sit all day in slippers on the break of the poop, smoking a long German pipe; Wemyss (pronounce Weems) with its bat-haunted... ...s. T o fit themselves for life, and with a special eye to acquire the art of smoking, it was even common for the boys to harbour there; and you might ...

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... rest of the night on board. There was really no opposition. The professor smoking a pipe, and very comfortable in an ulster buttoned over his tropica... ...hind her a loud peal of laughter, cynical and joyless, such as is heard in smoking-rooms at the end of a scandalous story. It made her feel positively... ...ten glass of beer stood at his elbow; the locality was a small respectable smoking-room of a small respectable hotel, and a taste for forming chance a... ...fian.” One rainy afternoon, oppressed by infinite boredom, I went into the smoking-room. He was sitting there in absolute immo- bility, which was real... ...larly about twelve. Sat in a corner like a good boy, reading the paper and smoking his pipe. So they go out… Model broth- ers, says Cloete—two love-bi... ...ds on the edge of the bed, rolled him over, snatched from under this stiff passive thing a sheet with which he cov- ered it over. Then he spread the c...

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...resses and comfort which in the minds of most women passes for it. It is a passive feeling capable of being roused for any object, as the vine can gro... ...heart- 138 The Moon and Sixpence less if I read, so I sat by the window , smoking a pipe, till he felt inclined to speak. “ Y ou’ve been very kind to... ...h the promenaders of the night before had thrown away . “I’ve tasted worse smoking mixtures in a pipe,” he added, with a philosophic shrug of his shou... ...r all, I’ve scored by it.” He puffed luxuriously at the long Corona he was smoking. “But if I weren’t personally concerned I should be sorry at the wa... ..., and in the evening, when it was dark, they sat together on the verandah, smoking and looking at the night. Then Ata had a baby , and the old woman w... ...ow natives love to herd together. There was a young man lying full length, smoking a cigarette, and he wore nothing but a pareo” The pareo is a long s...

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...breath of some huge sun-warmed animal. Charity had lain there a long time, passive and sun-warmed as the slope on which she lay, when there came betwe... ... in common with most of his fellow-citizens, had a way of accepting events passively, as if he had long since come to the conclusion that no one who l... ...nd the loud murmur of increasing crowds. 65 Edith Wharton He leaned back, smoking his cigar, patting the dog, and stir- ring the coffee that steamed ... ...his drinking-cup from a spring in the orchard; and now he sat at her feet, smoking a cigarette, and looking up at her without speaking. Outside, the a... ...o him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert. She had not seen Mr. Royall ... ... I’ll go in first,” he said, putting the reins in her hands. She took them passively, and sat staring straight ahead of her at the darkening scene whi... ... been getting into his coat again. He came up to Charity, who had remained passively kneeling by the rough mound of earth. “My child, you must come. I... ... not come back, and Mr. Royall and Charity sat alone at the table with the smoking coffee between them. He poured out a cup for her, and put a piece o...

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...n life or the doctrine of probabilities. Flinching travellers, who behold themselves coasting eternity at every corner, look with natural admiration a... ... rest of the afternoon, they poured one avalanche of stones after another, waking the echoes of the glen. Meantime we elders sat together on the platf... ...sheets of note-paper. One was then to be placed on the same cairn – a “mound of rocks” the notice put it; and the other to be lodged for registration....

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...st and dirt. Upon a sofa covered with red Utrecht velvet, by the side of a smoking hearth, the fire of which was buried in ashes, sat an old, poorly d... ...ith a slave whose obedience was as blind as the hangman’s. Nor was it this passive instrument upon whom his anger could fall. The mulatto whistled, th... ...risian popu- lace which begins its work before daybreak; then he went off, smoking his cigar, and putting his hands in his trousers’ pockets with a de...

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...n grinding his bread and butter slowly, gazing at the wall, the soup-plate smoking under his chin. He had returned late from the mar- ket, where he ha... ...one, to the left. Did you ever such a face? Oh, the funny brute!” Carlier, smoking native tobacco in a short wooden pipe, would swagger up twirling hi... ... white men made a somewhat better meal in the evening. Afterwards, Carlier smoking his pipe strolled over to the store; he stood for a long 92 Tales ... ...eant to carry that point without any pity. Why didn’t she speak? He feared passive resistance. She must. . . . Make her come. His frown deepened, and ... ... in the blankets and sat with his back against the reed wall of the house, smoking thoughtfully. Arsat came through the doorway with noiseless steps a...

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...a long time, down the languid cur- rent of reminiscence; she seemed to sit passive, letting him push his way back through the overgrown channels of th... ...ous of her presence. After a few words they lapsed into silence and he sat smoking with his eyes on the fire. It was not that he was unwilling to talk...

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...ould see that, manlike, he suffered from the present inability to act, the passive waiting, I said: “Nothing of this can be done till to- 38 Chance m... ...remained still, without indignation, without anger. She stood, a frail and passive vessel into which the other went on pouring all the accumulated dis... ...I don’t know him— not even by sight. It’s difficult to imagine a victim as passive as all that; but granting you the (I very nearly said: imbecility, ... ...m their importunities, insolence and exigencies. She lived amongst them, a passive victim, quiver- 120 Chance ing in every nerve, as if she were flay... ...not know whether to admire her for it or dismiss her from my thoughts as a passive butt of ferocious misfortune. Looking back at the occasion when we ... ...udy closely. I knew a man once who came to my rooms one evening, and while smoking a cigar confessed to me moodily that he was trying to discover some... ... have imagined my- self arrived on a desert island. In fact, as I reclined smoking a sense of absolute loneliness grew on me. And just as it had becom...

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...pt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady’s passive attitude. She had fancied at first that it would be easy to draw he... ... yet know. Sometimes she thought it was because Mrs. Peniston had been too passive, and again she feared it was because she herself had not been passi... ...had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the ciga- rette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was... ...as in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation. It had occurred to Lily, ho... ...mned bad taste, I call it—no, no cigar for me. Y ou can’t tell what you’re smoking in one of these new houses— likely as not the chef buys the cigars.... ...f such appliances in a draw- ing-room was not unusual in Lily’s set, where smoking and drinking were unrestricted by considerations of time and place,... ...and understand me, and save me from loathing myself?” Gerty stood cold and passive. She knew the hour of her probation had come, and her poor heart be... ...ifest disdain. What if she now chose to exert the power which, even in its passive state, he had felt so strongly? What if she made him marry her for ... ...ome escape from the empty noises of her life. She was weary of being swept passively along a current of pleasure and business in which she had no shar...

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...ons standing empty; the screeners and ore-breakers squatted on their heels smoking long cigars; the great wooden shoots slanting over the edge of the ... ... enough till another is wanted.” He lit it and let the match drop from his passive fingers. Giorgio Viola looked up, and said abruptly— “My son would ... ...ng thickened; the gui- tars tinkled louder; other horsemen sat motionless, smoking calmly above the heads of the crowd; it eddied and pushed before th... ...uption. We convulsed a continent for our in- dependence only to become the passive prey of a democratic parody, the helpless victims of scoun- drels a... ...ir boots off, as it were. Then he went away moodily to sit in an armchair, smoking a long, thin cigar, not very far from Don Jose, with whom, bending ... ...the door of his room, and saw his wife sit- ting in a big armchair—his own smoking armchair— thoughtful, contemplating her little shoes. And she did n... ...ng a revolution. The rouge and pearl powder fall off, to- gether with that passive attitude towards the outer 204 Nostromo world which education, tra... ...ents for which his scepticism as well as mine seems to entertain a sort of passive contempt. The only thing he seems to care for, as far as I have bee... ...nd put a bullet through your head.” The mere presence of a coward, however passive, brings an element of treachery into a dangerous situ- ation. Nostr...

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...ating chair at the bay win- dow, reading the paper, drinking his beer, and smoking his huge porcelain pipe while his food digested; crop-full, stupid,... ...n always tell a good cigar,” ob- served the agent to Marcus as the two sat smoking at the end of the table. “The light end should be rolled to a point... ...to Frenna’s one or two nights in the week. He spent a pleasant hour there, smoking his huge porcelain pipe and drinking his beer. He never joined any ... ...Germans sat opposite them, gulping their beer from time to time. Heise was smoking a cigar, but Marcus had before him his fourth whiskey cocktail. At ... ...the stone pug dog; he simply opposed her entreaties and persuasions with a passive, inert obstinacy that noth- ing could move. In the end Trina was ob... ...e. Trina was going over the inventory; McTeague, in his shirt sleeves, was smoking his pipe, looking stupidly out of the window. All at once there was...

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...tion. The form a little coiled up and turned away, as though it had turned its back on this world for ever; the uninter- ested face at once lead-colou... ...e us), and so over the park ladder, and through the wood, until we came to the Keeper’s lodge. Then, would, the Keeper be discoverable at his door, in... ...the prop and ornament—a house now a waste of shutters—I encountered that butler, also in his slippers, and in a shooting suit of one colour, and in a ... ...eased with me because I am pleased with her, claps her hands and laughs delightfully. We are in the inn yard. As the little woman’s bright eyes sparkl... ...es- ently. It is necessary to proceed according to rule. His toi- lette is not made all at a blow. He will be exposed in good time, gentlemen, in good... ...s very remarkable, when a new pressure all at once coming up from the street pinioned him ignomini- ously, and hurried him into the arms (now sleeved ... ...rity delights to hide her- self—and they were overgrown, and their legs (his legs at least, for I am modestly incompetent to speak of hers) were as mu...

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... home for you until ten o’clock.” Montriveau spent most of the next day in smoking an in- determinate quantity of cigars in his study window, and so g... ...t she had wrought upon his senses and his soul, she might submit her- self passively to his fierce caresses, but she had her nec plus ultra of passion... ...erest, most delicate proofs of a man’s love during seven months, nor yield passively to the slighter demands of passion, only to cheat love at the las... ...rmand de Montriveau’s eyes. He was sitting in his dressing-gown, qui- etly smoking a cigar in his armchair. “Do not cry out, Mme la Duchesse,” he said... ... utter inability to move; she felt as if she were turned to stone. She lay passive in the grip of fear. She thought she saw the light behind the curta... ...t weakness can commit against strength that suspected no evil; you tamed a passive victim, the better to gnaw his heart out; you lured him with caress... ...f the woman’s appointed lot; a man’s is the active part, a woman must wait passively when she loves. If a woman goes beyond her beloved, she makes a m...

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...of her little friends. By the end of the first month she had learned to be passive in her cousins’ house,—so much so that Rogron one day asked her if ... ..., keeping her thoughts within her own mind and sheltering herself behind a passive obedience. Her bril- liant colors began to fade. Sometimes she comp... ... new guests Madame and Mademoiselle de Chargeboeuf. He even refrained from smoking for two hours previous to his appearance in the Rogrons’ salon. His... ...eme her own, and carry it out. The lawyer found the colonel in the square, smoking a cigar while he waited for him. 105 Balzac “Halt!” said Gouraud; ...

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...d hills in the northern corner of the Quien Sabe ranch, read- ing, idling, smoking his pipe. But now he would do well if he arrived there by the middl... ...d an old yacht- ing cap of blue cloth, with a broken leather vizor. He was smoking a cheap cigar, very fat and black. But instantly he recognised Vana... ...able. At the time Annixter had his feet cocked on the window ledge and was smoking a cigar, but as soon as she entered the room he—without premeditati... ...his chair. Presley lounged on the sofa, in corduroys and high laced boots, smoking cigarettes. Broderson leaned on his folded arms at one corner of th... ...ng. Presley lighted another cigarette from the butt of the one he had been smoking, and the cat, Princess Nathalie, disturbed by his movement and by a... ...d there, leaning upon it, talking earnestly; Magnus tall, thin-lipped, im- passive, one hand in the breast of his frock coat, his head bare, his keen,...