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...No. 5 in his varsity boat in an Eastern college that was not accustomed to athletic discomfiture. “I wonder what I’m going to do with myself until sup... ...ay barges and Italian whitehalls came and went at every turn. A Stock- ton River boat went by, her stern wheel churning along behind, like a huge net-... ...nd in the sweater—no longer iridescent. “What do you call it?” shouted the red man. “I want able seamen—I don’t figger on working this boat with danci... ...ne gray glove was slit to the button. In front of him towered the enormous red-faced man. A pungent reek of some kind of rancid fat or oil assailed hi... ... began to fade into the blue. Charlie went forward and set the side lights—red on the port rigging, green on the starboard. As he passed Wilbur, who w... ...lf-masculine girl in men’s clothes, 43 Frank Norris and the Chinaman. The conference was an angry one, Wilbur and Moran insisting that they be put ab... ...kfast, the strangely assorted trio—Charlie, Moran, and Wilbur—held another conference in the cabin. It was decided to move the schooner to the other s... ...th a long and lance-like cutting-in spade, watching and lis- tening to the conference of the chiefs. The moon, almost down, had flushed blood-red, vio... ...hands with a man whom two of their number old Yale grads, with memories of athletic triumphs yet in their minds—carried into that ball-room, borne hig...

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...se of duty. I heard Bensington also once—in the old days—at an educational conference in Bloomsbury. Like most eminent chemists and botanists, Mr. Ben... ...late colour (so far as her dress had any colour) slashed in one place with red flannel. She let him in and talked to him guardedly and peered at him r... ...xious.—Winkles, a frightful duffer … former pupil of mine … no good…. Mrs. Red- wood—unmitigated confidence in Winkles…. You know, man with a manner l... ... pursued by two others. You know that swinging stride of the emanci- pated athletic latter-day pullet! You know the keen insistence of the hungry hen!... ... a second monster shone wickedly. An- other—a mere dreadful blackness with red-lit eyes and flesh- coloured hands—clutched unsteadily on the wall copi... ...I II II He had his bad days. There was, for example, that trouble with the river. He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by wa... ...cidentally flooded Lady Wondershoot’s ice-house, and finally he dammed the river. He dammed it right across with a few vigorous doorfuls of earth—he m... ...e kitchen garden, and so by the green door into the lane and down into the riverbed again by Short’s ditch. Meanwhile, the Vicar, interrupted in conve... ...ered that he meant to parry that familiarity; he pitched the note of their conference from the outset, sure and clear, as a search for ex- pedients un...

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...ago. It was more like a scene in a romance than anything real—the fine old red sandstone house crumbling away in the exposed parts, the arched gateway... ...anned by sunshine and sea-breezes, into a fresh, hardy brown, glowing with red on the cheeks. ‘What use shall I make of him?’ proceeded Charles’ s tho... ...little less than laugh too, with his intelligent amber eyes, and black and red mouth. Charles began to find a new inter- est in his listless life in t... ...uy said he could not go to bed by daylight, called Bustle, and went to the river to bathe, and the rest crept upstairs to their rooms. And so ended Lo... ...ened 133 Yo n g e the dining-room door, on his return from bathing in the river, Mr. Edmonstone’s salutation only conveyed that hu- morous anger that... ...-head? How beauti- ful! Where did you get it? I didn’t know it grew in our river.’ ‘There is plenty of it in that reedy place beyond the turn. I thoug... ...me to say,’ he began, standing by the mantel-shelf, as was his wont in his conferences with Mrs. Edmonstone; and he repeated the same in substance as ... ... them in the dining-room, and it was not till nearly mid- night that their conference broke up, when Mr. Edmonstone found his wife sitting up by the d... ...crew; but at the last there was a moment’s pause, as if he doubted. A tall athletic young fisherman took advantage of it to press forward. ‘Please you...

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... of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pomp- ous in appear... ... pomp- ous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine in- fant, somewhat crushed a... ...ey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promis... ... Rover, he was a slow, quiet-spoken, thought- ful old fellow, with eyes as red as if they had been small suns looking at you through a fog; and a newl... ...rts and waggons, she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side, where there were a great many packages, casks, and boxes, strew... ..., perpetually in question, and concerning which divers secret councils and conferences were continually being held between the parties to that registe... ...were shin- ing overhead. His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river, which he knew was flowing through the great city; and now he thought... ...ttentively observed; for, like those Chi- nese sages who are said in their conferences to write certain learned words in the air that are wholly impos... ...aster who taught riding, a Cornish gentleman who was up to anything in the athletic line, and two or three other friends connected no less intimately ...

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...n a sleep or 4 The Mystery of Edwin Drood stupor; the last is blowing at a kind of pipe, to kindle it. And as she blows, and shading it with her lean... ...only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has... ... looking this way, and the one looking down into the High Street – drawing his own curtains now.’ ‘Well, well,’ says the Dean, with a sprightly air of... ...leasant air of patronage, the Dean as nearly cocks his quaint hat as a Dean in good spirits may, and directs his comely gaiters towards the ruddy dini... ...s half-conscious of having heard himself bolted and barred out, like a dangerous animal; and thinks what shall he do? 79 Charles Dickens Some wildly ... ... that 85 Charles Dickens Rumour, Ladies, had been represented by the bard of Avon - needless were it to mention the immortal Shakespeare, also called... ...n, white robes could be dimly seen, and one feeble voice, rising and falling in a cracked, monotonous mutter, could at intervals be faintly heard. In ... ...he would cherish unto the last stretch of possibility the idea, that he might have absconded of his own wild will. Now, it fell out that Mr. Crisparkl... ..., and Mr. Crisparkle sat in a waiting-room in the London chief offices of the Haven of Philanthropy, until he could have audience of Mr. Honeythunder....

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...humanity. The bricks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark red, but had grown yellow and discoloured like an old man’s skin; the sturd... ...pole? He means the great house—the Warren—naturally and of course. The old red brick house, sir, that stands in its own grounds—?’ ‘Aye,’ said the str... ...to his old compan ions, whose noses were brightly illuminated by the deep red glow from the bowls of their pipes; assured, by long experience, of the... ...s would be sought in vain. Fields were nigh at hand, through which the New River took its winding course, and where there was merry haymaking in the s... ...s muscular and handsome proportions. It was that of a young man, of a hale athletic figure, and a giant’s strength, whose sunburnt face and swarthy th... ... ges ture he had made—perhaps unconsciously—towards his sword, ‘is one of conference and peace, I hope?’ ‘I have come here,’ returned the other, ‘at ... ...ered she didn’t know she was no longer young. Apart from all these, on the river’s margin two or three couple of business talkers walked slowly up and... ...ke to lie before the fire, watching the prospects in the burning coals—the rivers, hills, and dells, in the deep, red sunset, and the wild faces. I am... ...f was inscribed in pretty large text these words: ‘A friend. Desiring of a conference. Immediate. Private. Burn it when you’ve read it.’ ‘Where in the...

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... that Valentine has not come with us, or that I dismissed Barrois, for our conference will be one 5 Alexandre Dumas which could not with propriety be... ...were the real intentions of the testator. Villefort and his wife both grew red, one from shame, the other from anger. “What have we all done, then, de... ... found himself stopped by a hedge, upon which green fruit had succeeded to red and white flowers. Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosur... ... provided with, — it had also a voice. The garden was crossed by a path of red gravel, edged by a border of thick box, of many years’ growth, and of a... ... nothing more easy. Each fish was brought over in a cask — one filled with river herbs and weeds, the other with rushes and lake plants; they were pla... ...tive; perhaps, on perceiving it was still alive, he had thrown it into the river.” “Impossible!” cried Madame Danglars: “a man may murder an- other ou... ...t the corner of some wood, on the brink of some abyss, on the bank of some river, I will put an end to my existence, as cer- tainly as I am the son of... ...rt and Chateau-Renaud. He had no longer any doubts as to the nature of the conference; he therefore quickly went to the gate in the clover-patch, prep... ...g to catch sight of his new guardian, approached the door again. He was an athletic, gigantic bandit, with large eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose; hi...

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...atives, comely, vivacious-looking youths, all gesture and exclamation; the red feathers in their head-bands perpetu- ally nodding. With them also came... ...lue shark was a mark indelible, which all the waters of Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Dam- 24 Omoo ascus, could never wash out. He was an Englishman, ... ...yes and expression, volunteered for a cruise. All the wages he asked was a red shirt, a pair of trousers, and a hat, which were to be put on there and... ...e ember rested for a moment on the rim of the ocean, and at last the blood-red sun stood full and round in the level East, and the long sea-day began.... ... and soon after the sleeper was missed: for there 38 Omoo was a whispered conference over the scuttle. Directly a shadow glided across the forecastle... ...ere my emotions, when I saw upon her stern the name of a small town on the river Hudson! She was from the noble stream on whose banks I was born; in w... ...d pas- times, are likewise interdicted. In old times, there were sev- eral athletic games practised, such as wrestling, foot-racing, throwing the jave... ..., then lies before you. You stand upon one side of what seems a deep green river, flow- ing through mountain passes to the sea. Right opposite a majes...

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... old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some ge... ...o, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci- de... ...was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a heroine; but her face blushed with rosy health, and her lips with... ...on (which took place as the coach rolled along lazily by the 13 Thackeray river side) that though Miss Rebecca Sharp has twice had occasion to thank ... ... bruisers of the “town.” He 93 Thackeray carried his taste for boxing and athletic exercises into private life; there was not a fight within twenty m... ...oughts sped away as if they were angels and had wings, and flying down the river to Chatham and Roch- ester, strove to peep into the barracks where Ge... ...gging of her father’s ships, and pointing them out to us as they go up the river: and Mrs. Kirk and her children will stop 270 V anity Fair here in B... ... and it was lucky for her that Lady Southdown’s multifarious business, her conferences with min- isters, and her correspondence with all the missionar... ...of that nature, of course, he said, there was but one issue, and after his conference with his brother, he was going away to make the necessary arrang...

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... of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pomp- ous in appear... ... pomp- ous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine in- fant, somewhat crushed a... ...ey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promis... ... Rover, he was a slow, quiet-spoken, thought- ful old fellow, with eyes as red as if they had been small suns looking at you through a fog; and a newl... ...rts and waggons, she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side, where there were a great many packages, casks, and boxes, strew... ..., perpetually in question, and concerning which divers secret councils and conferences were continually being held between the parties to that registe... ...were shin- ing overhead. His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river, which he knew was flowing through the great city; and now he thought... ...ttentively observed; for, like those Chi- nese sages who are said in their conferences to write certain learned words in the air that are wholly impos... ...aster who taught riding, a Cornish gentleman who was up to anything in the athletic line, and two or three other friends connected no less intimately ...

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...anch of it, through so many ages?” It is worthy of remark, that in all the conferences which M’Namara had with the prince on this occasion, the latter... ...l not abuse your patience by reminding you that it is built on the gallant river Nith, and that its churchyard, the highest place of the old town, com... ...privilege of inflicting upon you the whole history of Bruce poniarding the Red Comyn in the Church of the Dominicans at this place, and becoming a kin... ...orgeous jury of flies which I had assembled to destroy all the fish in the river. I was induced at last to lend the rod to the sneering scoundrel, to ... .... When after dinner the day cleared, and we at length sal- lied out to the river side, I found myself subjected to a new trick on the part of my accom... ...s, than to gallop down the pass, throwing me again on the shoulders of the athletic rider, who, sustaining no inconvenience by the circumstance, con- ... ...uples; but, on the contrary, assured me that this brook contained the real red trout, so highly es- teemed by all connoisseurs, and that, when eaten w... ...e coat, which seemed also to have been an article of male ap- parel, and a red petticoat. She was cleaner, in person and in clothes, than such itinera... ... limits, I dislike not boldness of expostulation. Y ou have, in this short conference, displayed more character and en- ergy than I was prepared to ex...

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...h he concealed his own secret regrets. Did not even Selina Clarkson, whose red cheeks, dark blue eyes, and jetty profusion of shining curls, were our ... ...t shine as Griff’s—enough to make us correct possible vanity by terming it red, though we were ready to fight any one else who presumed to do so. Inde... ...ely, though silently, proud of her in her white embroidered cambric frock, red sash and shoes, and coral necklace, almost an heirloom, for it had been... ...ion; and these were the moments that stung him into longing to flee to the river, and lose the sense of shame among common sailors: but there was alwa... ...HAT A RIDICULOUS old fellow that Chapman is,’ said Griff, coming in from a conference with the gaunt old man who acted as keeper to our not very exten... ...bout the state of the parish, and at last went over to Bath for a personal conference, but without much satisfaction. The Earlscombe people were prono... ...rrived. A raid was made on the cottages for buckets, a chain formed to the river, and at last the fire was got under, having made a wreck of everythin... ...en for that good woman, he would have been out of reach already out in the river before Mr. Castleford’s messenger had reached London! He might call h... ...t his features were handsome and refined, and his fig- ure well poised and athletic he lost something of dignity by easiness of gesture and carelessne...

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...ailty, and received the name of Melesigenes from having been born near the river Meles in Boeotia, whither Critheis had been transported in order to s... ...Mercury to Calypso, and Pallas immediately descends to Ithaca. She holds a conference with T elemachus, in the shape of Mantes, king of Taphians; in w... ...aving spoke, the nymph the table spread (Ambrosial cates, with nectar rosy red); Hermes the hospitable rite partook, Divine refection! then, recruited... ...us to the wind. To this calm port the glad Ulysses press’d, And hail’d the river, and its god address’d: “Whoe’er thou art, before whose stream unknow... ...the daughter of Alcinous, king of Phaeacia, commands her to descend to the river, and wash the robes of state, in preparation for her nup tials. Naus... ...Now from her rosy car Aurora shed The dawn, and all the orient flamed with red. Up rose the virgin with the morning light, Obedient to the vision of t... ...here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o’erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows; The branch here bends beneath the weighty p... ... of gain; Studious of freight, in naval trade well skill’d, But dreads the athletic labours of the field.” Incensed, Ulysses with a frown replies: “O ... ...“Let other realms the deathful gauntlet wield, Or boast the glories of the athletic field: We in the course unrivall’d speed display, Or through cerul...

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...at compound interest. 6 Bleak House – Dickens Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, whe... ... might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross bills, answers, rejoinders,... ...ay. The adjacent low lying ground for half a mile in breadth is a stagnant river with melancholy trees for islands in it and a surface punctured all o... ...erwards “Yes!” And then, taking off his eye glasses and folding them in a red case, and leaning back in his arm chair, turning the case about in his ... ...nd the fields all smooth and white with last night’s snow, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the ska... ...rry— and the natives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dickens Mr.... ...nciation. At last Mr. Guppy came back, looking something the worse for the conference. “My eye, miss,” he said in a low voice, “he’s a Tartar!” 125 B... ...might keep it faith fully. And I will! Adieu, mademoiselle!” So ended our conference, which I was very glad to bring to a close. I supposed she went ... ...here, too, the trooper is a frequent visitor, filling the doorway with his athletic figure and, from his superfluity of life and strength, seeming to ...

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... elder man, who, unconscious of observation, rested his eyes upon the rich red front of his dwelling. The house that rose beyond the lawn was a struct... ...sh picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long ga... ...r being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long gabled front of red brick, with the complexion of which time and the weather had played all... ...rich-coloured rugs, with the books and papers that lay upon the grass. The river was at some distance; where the ground began to slope the lawn, prope... ...ith an arched frame and wide side- lights, perched upon little “stoops” of red stone, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street. Th... ... was but the mea- sure of her gratified eagerness, they took a boat on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore... ...sm and give it up as vain. The marks of the Vicar of Lockleigh were a big, athletic figure, a candid, natural countenance, a capacious appetite and a ... ...ening; and after the Countess had left her Isabel had a rapid and decisive conference with her maid, who was discreet, devoted and active. After this ...

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...amily. There, in the wars of York and Lancaster, the last adherents of the Red Rose who dared to maintain her cause, carried on a harassing and predat... ...hose appearance hovered between that of an upper servant and gardener; his red nose and ruffed shirt belonging to the former profession; his hale and ... ...erley of the seven-league boots of the nursery fable. He was a tall, thin, athletic figure; old indeed, and grey-haired, but with every muscle rendere... ..., though it be a truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. [The learned in cookery dissent from the Baron of Bradw... ...e; while the view extended beyond them down a wooded glen, where the small river was sometimes visible, sometimes hid- den in copse. The eye might be ... ...ch was here beheld in all its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. T o the left were seen two or three cottages, a part of the village;... ...ing, when, issuing from the wood, he found himself on the banks of a large river or lake, where his conductor gave him to un- derstand they must sit d... ...rcise, and dignified by the habits of military discipline, had acquired an athletic and hardy character, which not only verified the Colonel’s narrati... ... Potatorium, drinking-cup. Powtering, rummaging. Prandium, a meal. Pretty, athletic. Primæ notæ, of the first quality. Princeps, chieftain. Procul a p...

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...of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classi... ...book reclining on it, if I may.’ Mr. Hawthorne, who was then living in the red cottage at Lenox, had a week at Arrow Head with his daughter Una the pr... ...-looking fellow, appropriately named the man-of-war’s-hawk, with his blood-red bill and raven plumage, would come sweeping round us in gradually dimin... ...chly decorated pipe; the slender reed forming its stem was coloured with a red pigment, and round it, as well as the idol-bowl, fluttered little strea... ...sive of some evil, I roused my comrade, and we were engaged in a whispered conference concerning the un- expected withdrawal of the natives when all a... ...urface. I remember upon one occasion plunging in among a par- cel of these river-nymphs, and counting vainly on my supe- rior strength, sought to drag... ...ch finer than those of T ypee; and every day bathed their glowing limbs in rivers of cocoanut oil. In that happy land there were plenty of plumes and ... ... islanders, be- tween whom and those who accompanied me ensued an animated conference. Impatient of the delay occasioned by this interruption, I was b... ...mercy. 275 Melville After a few breathless moments discerned Mow-Mow. The athletic islander, with his tomahawk between his teeth, was dashing the wat...

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...ay, anyhow.” 5 George Eliot The workmen all looked up; Jim Salt, a burly, red-haired man known as Sandy Jim, paused from his planing, and Adam said t... ...te on’t ‘Seth Bede, the Methody, his work.’ Here, Jim, lend’s hould o’ th’ red pot.” “Nonsense!” said Adam. “Let it alone, Ben Cranage. Y ou’ll mayhap... ...t’s often full o’ drink, and that’s worse.” Ben, however, had now got the “red pot” in his hand, and was about to begin writing his inscription, makin... ... the other days of her life had been. It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery... ...with a wife who waddles. Y es! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resi... ... what warm affection, what tender fluttering hopes, had their home in this athletic body with the broken finger-nails—in this rough man, who knew no b... ... doors, and go to hear her.’ And I said, ‘Nay, sir, you can’t do that, for Conference has forbid the women preaching, and she’s given it up, all but t... ... who could not repress a comment on this point, “and a sore pity it was o’ Conference; and if Dinah had seen as I did, we’d ha’ left the Wesleyans and...

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...ort and brushed up to a crest upon the middle of his head, a complexion of red and white that all the air of the downs and the sea failed to embrown, ... ...here true justice lay. And thus the much-perplexed Ambassador broke up the conference with his hot and angry young guest. ‘And Mistress Lucy—?’ sighed... ...the King had scattered his followers as much for the sake of an unobserved conference with Coligny as for the convenience of the lovers, and that lett... ...idst of the masque; there is a market-boat from Leurre to meet them on the river; his servants will be in it.’ ‘On Wednesday!’ Father and son looked a... ...or worse, of ridicule, balanced himself, pole in hand, in the midst of the river. To the right of the river was Elysium—a circular island revolving on... ...d to the fallen imp. A flush of shame rushed over Berenger’s face, already red with passion. He felt that he had 98 Yo n g e done wrong to use his st... ...nts, to drive him back within two tall barred gates, which, illuminated by red flames, were to form the ghastly prison of the vanquished. Perhaps fres... ...e. ‘M. l’Abbe, do you know where he is now? In the balcony overlooking the river, tak- ing aim at the fugitives! Take care! Even your soutane would no... ...st they might—Berenger courteously attentive recovered his health, and the athletic powers displayed by the two brothers when wrestling, fencing, or s...

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... study, and gave her his arm. The front door opened on a narrow sweep, the river cut- ting it off from the road, and crossed by two wooden bridges, be... ...landscape beyond, with villages, orchards, and farms, and the blue winding river Baye in the midst, woods rising on the opposite side under the soft h... ...up!—’ ‘Yes, it would be so much less damp. One might drain it off into the river, and then we should get rid of the fog.’ And she began actively to de... ...as proud of the notice of one who seemed to him a man, and an adept in all athletic games. It was a dangerous intimacy, and her heart sank as she foun... ...ad never heard what she said, and she knew that he so extremely disliked a conference with Pettilove, that he would consent to anything rather than ha... ... had come to ask pardon. Grandmamma was placable; Gilbert’s white face and red eyes were pleading enough, and she was distressed at Mrs. Kendal having... ...’ Gilbert wrung her fingers, and ventured to stoop down to kiss the little red forehead. The tears were running down his cheeks, and he could not spea... ...with the tutor, whom he 104 Yo n g e even begged to come to Bayford for a conference with Mrs. Kendal, and this was received by her as no small kindn... ...one pale, and casting anxious, imploring looks at her; the other with eyes red and swollen with crying, neither ven- turing near till she spoke to the...

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...bted that consubstantiality he himself had doubted at the beginning of the conference. It is quite clear that Constantine did not care who was damned ... ...reatures it has called into being. They look out for their little moments, red-eyed and fierce, full of greed, full of the passions of acquisition and... ...s negligible. It was left for the Alexandrians, for Alexander, for little, red- haired, busy, wire-pulling Athanasius to find out exactly what 25 H. ... ...rally finds that this kind of reasoning is merely a piece of controversial athletics or a thin excuse for idleness. People tell you that the conflict ... ...h they had after proper con- sideration agreed to send a subscription to a Red Cross Am- bulance or take part in a public demonstration against the Ar... ... direction, as the ships and houseboats swing round together in some great river with the uprush of the tide…. 102 God The Invisible King 3. CAN 3. C...

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...ould not be here by appointment; he would infallibly have worn some token, red, white, or green, such as notifies a happy meeting previ- ously agreed ... ...ent indifference. He looked at the furniture in the room; the paved floor, red, polished, and cold, was poorly covered with a shabby carpet worn to th... ...ted wood and old-fashioned shape, was hung with yellow cotton printed with red stars, one armchair and two small chairs, also of painted wood, and cov... ...takes no care of his person, a black wig look- ing rusty in the light. His athletic frame, his hands like an old soldier’s, his broad, strong shoulder... ...tter; he had not a sou; like me, when you rescued me, he was very near the river; this fellow would get up at night and go to the cupboard where the g... ...nc note, and did not even move. You might as well look for a needle in the river as for a woman in Paris, who is supposed to haunt Vincennes, and of w... ...e as far as her own rooms, to make sure that she should not overhear their conference. On his return, he took Europe by the hand and led her into his ... ...and on end? She is bathed in tears; she talks of throwing herself into the river— and she will do it.” “If I shall go to see her, dat is goot-bye to d... ...r to lift Esther on to the bed; he carried her with the ease that betrayed athletic strength. They had to procure all the chemist’s strongest stimulan...

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...e murmur ing of the wind through the strong mass of ivy holding to a high red wall, or in the low complaining of the weathercock, or in the barking o... ... Vholes—a sallow man with pinched lips that looked as if they were cold, a red eruption here and there upon his face, tall and thin, about fifty years... ...requested us to walk in. She was an old lady in a large cap, with rather a red nose and rather an unsteady eye, but smiling all over. Her close little... ...here, too, the trooper is a frequent visitor, filling the doorway with his athletic figure and, from his superfluity of life and strength, seeming to ... ...pon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, and on the river where the water meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles ... ...Temple invariably predict that when Mr. Bucket and that finger are in much conference, a ter rible avenger will be heard of before long. Otherwise mi... .... Having much enjoyed these strength ening matters and having held subtle conference with his familiar demon, he confidently instructs Mercury “just ... ...ves, in nooks of bridges, looking over; and in shadowed places down by the river’s level; and a dark, dark, shapeless object drifting with the tide, m... ...lost all idea where we were, except that we had crossed and re crossed the river, and still seemed to be traversing a low lying, waterside, dense neig...

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...ad not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of th... ...will endure on their surface the pressure of a horse’s foot, more than the Red Sea endured to sustain the advance of Pharaoh and his host.” “You speak... ...be three or four years under that period. His form was tall, powerful, and athletic, like that of a man whose strength might, in later life, become un... ...re security of the good father; for the cruel hand of your people has been red with the blood of the servants of the Lord, and therefore do we come hi... ...er sea of death, and neither man nor beast drinks of its waves, nor of the river which feeds without filling it, until this inhospitable desert be pas... ...m thou art come hither to visit.” “This!” said Sir Kenneth, looking at the athletic yet wasted figure before him—”this! Thou mockest, Saracen—this can... ...r to the wicked, deceitful, and ferocious race born on the other side of a river, or an imaginary line drawn through waste and wilderness; and he even... ... walk a space homeward with you towards the Queen’s pavilion. We must have conference to- gether ere the night has waned into morning.” The Queen and ... ...forces and civil discords. Richard remonstrated, but in vain; and when the conference ended he received with- out surprise a manifesto from the Duke o...

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...ble; it is in the same condition as that of the Cordova leather, but a few red flowers and the green foliage can be distinguished. Perhaps a thorough ... ...y is indiffer- ent, would grieve a poet. On the mantel-shelf, covered with red velvet, is a tall clock of tortoise-shell inlaid with brass, flanked on... ...on granite was made man. The baron had no longer any teeth. His lips, once red, now violet, and backed by hard gums only (with which he ate the bread ... ...ittle children, nor kill her slaves like Cleopatra, nor throw men into the river as the heroine of the T our de Nesle was falsely accused of doing; bu... ... characteristic of force. The neck itself presents at cer- tain moments an athletic magnificence. The spring of the arms from the shoulders, superb in... ...od?” Sabine would ask, in despair at seeing all the pains she had taken in conference with her cook thrown away. “I don’t say that, my angel,” replied... ..., with all the external symptoms of pro- found worship. A month before the conference of the duchess and her con- fessor, Madame Schontz had confided ... ...ess, his prestige with Madame Schontz, and the authority of his words in a conference which he intended to have on the bou- levard des Italiens with a...

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... place. Woe betide the six-foot hero who escorts Mrs Proudie to her pew in red plush breeches, if he slips away to the neighbouring beer-shop, instead... ...crate the church seat of a Chris- tian, than a book of prayer printed with red letters, and ornamented with a cross on the back. Most active clergy- m... ... spongy, porous appearance, as though it had been cleverly formed out of a red coloured cork. I never could endure to shake hands with Mr Slope. A col... ... small wooden bridge, or rather a plank with a rustic rail to it, over the river to the other side of the cathedral from that at which they had starte... ...tarted. They had thus walked round the bishop’s grounds, through which the river runs, and round the cathedral and adjacent fields, and it was past el... ...utifully studded with timber. In the im- mediate foreground ran the little river which afterwards skirted the city; and, just to the right of the cath... ...t to shut the door after her. Then followed a 238 Barchester Towers close conference between the new allies, to which was said much which it astonish... ...thout a stipulation. ‘About that hospital, ’ he said, in the middle of the conference. ‘I was never so troubled in my life;’ which was about the truth... ...d, they would decline riding at the quintain, or taking part in any of the athletic games which Miss Thorne had prepared with so much care. If the Lor...

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...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ... Haughty Lips, O Sea!.....527 Death of General Grant.....................528 Red Jacket (From Aloft)....................528 Washington’s Monument Febr... ...for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them... ...ith eidolons only. The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities, like eyesight, ... ...exican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or o... ...day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known, Arouse! for you must ju... ...nge glad and sublime, And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines. The red aborigines, Leaving natural breaths, sounds of ra... ...rker than the colorless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 43 O I perceive after all... ...beloved of me and America, The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Wh...

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...called the Asses’ Bridge.” Carey knew that the current at the mouth of the river did, at high tide, carry much drift to the base of this island, and s... ...w, and all crumpled up, and you can’t read it, but it has a bit of a great red seal hanging to it.’” “What, he had seen it?” “Y es, or a facsimile, an... ...lt as it were within a cres- cent, formed by low hills sloping down to the river; the Church, school, and other remnants of the old collegiate buildin... ...n-belled Solomon’s seal, sloping down to moister ground where was a golden river of king-cups, and above was a long glade between young birch-trees, t... ...think worth setting up?” asked Janet. “A big dahlia, I suppose, or a great red cactus?” “We have a beautiful garden,” said Jessie: “papa is very par- ... ...t declare her full delight in the wonderful blaze she had seen of banks of red, and flame coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would ... ...se into mother. I don’t want to waste my time on those stupid classics and athletics. I say, Janet, it’s time to see whether the precipitation has tak... ... you get no peace, and are nobody un- less you go in for all that stuff of athletics and sports. I hate it all, and don’t want to waste my time.” “I d... ...don’t think you are quite right as to there being no dis- tinction without athletics.” “Allen says it is so now.” “Allen may be a better judge of the ...

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...TENTS iii The Water Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 The Red One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 To the M... ...on Mifflin, 1900. 2 JACK LONDON life. You should have seen the chase, down the river and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the ... ...e. And well it might; for it was just midnight, and seventy five miles of rough river trail was not to be sneered at for a twelve hours’ run. The talk ... ...that ’s a stiff two hundred miles. Watch out for open water on the Thirty Mile River, and be sure you take the big cut off above Le Barge.” “How did y... ...rface was of a bloody black color, serrated by grievous cracks wherein the raw red flesh peeped forth. His skin garments were dirty and in tatters, and... ...ere hurried past, brief in time length and very close together. The trail was red now, and the clean stride of the great beast had grown short and sl... ... see beyond the next meal and the prize fight the following night at the Gaiety Athletic Club. It was while gathering material for “Women and Work” tha... ...wn Koolau could have picked off the last man. But he did not fire, and, after a conference, one of them took off a white undershirt and waved it as a fl...

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...ously in our mi- raculous Being, and name World.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by those outwa... ...he Abyss! Or consider that unutterable business of the Diamond Neck- lace. Red-hatted Cardinal Louis de Rohan; Sicilian jail-bird Balsamo Cagliostro; ... ...ation, be it for anger and menace; as a mild heavenly light it shone; as a red conflagration it shines: burning sulphurous blue, through darkest regio... ...ve the royal armories no thun- derbolt, that thou couldst, O Lomenie, with red right-hand, launch it among these Demosthenic theatrical thunder-bar- r... ...ardest winter seen since 1709; thermometer below zero of Fahrenheit, Seine River fro- zen over. (Marmontel, Memoires (London, 1805), iv. 33. Hist. Par... ...d-of-Peace’ message is not yet answered. The Three Orders shall again have conferences; under this Pa- triot Minister of theirs, somewhat may be heale... ...pro- posals, from such a tried friend, they answer with a stare. The tardy conferences speedily break up; the Third Estate, now ready and resolute, th... ...n levelled on him; ready to open, if need were, from the other side of the River. (Besenval, iii. 416.) Motionless sits he; ‘astonished, ’ one may fla... ...es are all ‘gigantic:’ energy flashes from his black brows, menaces in his athletic figure, rolls in the sound of his voice ‘reverberating from the do...

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...ense of humour, with a bright and inquiring dis- position, with a gift for athleticism or a quaintly-marked hide, has no sort of chance with him at al... ...avages of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives in great abundance. He infers from this that interfer... ...gements are simply an appeal to the par- ent. Light, dark, yellow, perhaps red and “other colours” seem to constitute the colour system of a very youn... ...ue and green not excepted; it should be able to distinguish pink from pale red and crimson from scarlet.* Many children through the neglect of those a... ...ion upon this classic. They propound a wanton and illogical canon. T rees, rivers, flowers, birds, stars—are, and have been for many centuries Nature—... ...all discuss later. The school also gives scope for physical train- ing and athletic exercises that are, under the crowded condi- tions of a modern tow... ..., controlling it from below. Limited in this way, property will resemble a river that once swamped a whole country-side, but has now been banked withi... ...nate preferences and powerful desires. This flow of sex comes like a great river athwart the plain of our personal and egoistic schemes, a great river... ... nations scarcely exists as yet—an examination which would take account of athletic development and moral influence (let us say provisionally by the v...

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...s 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics 241 8. “THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING RED” 254 8.1 The Summer of Threat 254 8.2 Late Leads—Mihdhar, Moussaoui, ... ... . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of ... ...ckers wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.The hijackers were wearing red bandanas, and they forced the passen- gers to the back of the aircraft.... ...rsonnel at headquarters had just begun discussing the apparent hijack on a conference call with the New England regional office. FAA headquarters bega... ...ike there were parallel decisionmaking processes going on; one was a voice conference orchestrated by the NMCC . . . and then there was the [White Hou... ...eet five and thin, Bin Ladin appeared to be ungainly but was in fact quite athletic, skilled as a horseman, runner, climber, and soccer player. He had... ...truction company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qaeda finance officers and top oper- atives us... ...sked to fly the Hudson Corridor, a low-altitude “hallway” along the Hudson River that passes New Y ork landmarks like the World Trade Center. Heavy tr... ...unicated on the Manhattan dis- patch channel by an FDNY boat on the Hudson River; but to our knowledge, no one at the site received this information, ...

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...pire. He rather choosed the fire from heaven to steal, To boats where were red herrings put to sale; Than to be calm ‘gainst those, who strive to brav... .... Well cacked, well sung! Come, let us drink: will you send nothing to the river? Here is one going to wash the tripes. I drink no more than a sponge.... ... transported himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red-muzzled beadles, and dragging after him five or six artless masters, al... ... hand in the air, wherein he held a book, crossing thus the breadth of the river of Seine with- out wetting it, and dragged along his cloak with his t... ...rapes, 96 Gargantua & Pantagruel especially the frail clusters, the great red grapes, the musca- dine, the verjuice grape, and the laskard, for those... ...ho is at Paris very assiduous and earnest at the study of good letters and athletical 105 Rabelais exercitations, and to the good old man Grangousier... ...hanked that you and your men are come safe and sound unto the banks of the river Tigris. But, said he, what doth that part of our army in the meantime... ...e soldiers, wrestlers, run- ners, throwers of the bar, and other such-like athletic champi- ons as are usually seen in a military circumvallation, do ... ...him several curiosities. Pantagruel, having perused the letter, had a long conference with the esquire Malicorne; insomuch that Panurge, at last inter...

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...ve. Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, to enter a drawing room and s... ..., brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting it escape from his hand- some mo... ...imes.” The second princess had just come from the sick- room with her eyes red from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a grac... ...oss the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his w... ...UZOV FELL BACK TOW ARD V IENNA, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian tr... ...nd Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian troops were cross- ing the river Enns. At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns... ...mitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red neck. It seeme... ...s to supply men and not spare ourselves... That is the least we can do!” A conference took place confined to the magnates sitting at the table. The wh...

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...among the sounds of conversation. A single tall window looked out upon the river and the embankment; and by the disposition of the lights they judged ... ...ould have sold his opportunity for a much more moderate sum. The whispered conference now came to an end. The holder of the ace of clubs left the room... ...s leave. There were only two who held their ground, Brackenbury and an old red-nosed cavalry Major; but these two preserved a nonchalant demeanour, an... ...d of me. I am Major O’Rooke.” And the veteran tendered his hand, which was red and tremulous, to the young Lieutenant. “Who has not?” answered Bracken... ... off with you!” sent the lad flying head foremost with a well-directed and athletic kick. When Harry gathered himself up, half-stunned and bleed- ing ... ...pt read- ing from end to end and over and over again, turned from white to red before his eyes; and when he cast a glance upon the stage, it seemed in... ...his mind, he turned his steps towards the small but elegant mansion on the river- side which had belonged for centuries to his royal family. The arms ... ...uildings on the starry sky, they might have been alone beside some country river. “An officer,” began Prince Florizel, “a man of courage and conduct, ... ...re for scenery, which was not at all true, being, on the contrary, only an athletic undergraduate pre- tension; but he had begun to suspect that Berth...

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...V oluntary Drivers, Sanitary Section 21, Ambulance Norton Harjes, American Red Cross, and at the moment which sub- sequent experience served to capita... ...ething to pledge her in. T-d was watching. My eyes fell on a huge glass of red pinard. “Yes, drink,” said my captor, with a smile. I raised my huge gl... ...ch name,” I told him fluently, “it used to be Comyn. A Scotchman named The Red Comyn was killed by Robert Bruce in a church. He was my ancestor and a ... ... with different fates had irrevocably failed. At the conclusion of a short conference I was told by Mon- sieur: “I am sorry for you, but due to your f... ...bing that rather beguiling incident. Conceive a tall, well-dressed, rather athletic, carefully kept, clean and neat, intelligent, not for a moment des... ...at one time, seen a bridge hastily constructed by les alliés over the Yser River, the ca- davers of the faithful and the enemy alike being thrown in h...