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......................................................................... 277 SHE CANNOT END. .............................................................. ...odlike woman hov’ring to and fro. In life I ne’er had seen a form so fair— She gazed at me, and still she hover’ d there. “Dost thou not know me?” wer... ... me, and still she hover’ d there. “Dost thou not know me?” were the words she said In tones where love and faith were sweetly bound; “Knowest thou no... ...s to mind with madden’d thought How over man her wiles prevail’d; T o take revenge on God she sought, And feels the vengeance it entail’ d. 336 Goeth... ... scarce more than a stripling:— (He was acquainted with life, and knew the wants of his hearers, Fully convinced of the worth of the Holy Scriptures, ... ...our troubles foreboding, gave me a bundle Ready prepared for relieving the wants of those who were naked.’ Then I loosen’d the knots of the cord, and ... ... man can have no heart, but a bosom of iron, Who no sympathy feels for the wants of unfortunate exiles; He has no sense in his head who, in times of s...

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...potency Together; to consider further that What his high hatred would effect wants not Henry VIII, Act I, scene i 8 A minister in his power. You know... ...I, Act I, scene i 8 A minister in his power. You know his nature, That he’s revengeful, and I know his sword Hath a sharp edge: it’s long and, ‘t may... ...oom for the Queen!’ Enter QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK: she kneels. KING HENRY VIII riseth from his state, takes her up, kisses a... ...rd him utter to his son in law, Lord Abergavenny; to whom by oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. CARDINAL WOLSEY : Pl... ...Viscount Rochford,—one of her highness’ women. KING HENRY VIII : By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart, I were unmannerly, to take you out, And ... ...rst Gentleman : ’Tis the cardinal; And merely to revenge him on the emperor For not bestowing on him, at his asking, The a... .... Second Gentleman : I think you have hit the mark: but is’t not cruel That she should feel the smart of this? The cardinal Will have his will, and s... ... have a suit which you must not deny me; That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism, You must be godfather, and answer for her. CRANMER: The g...

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... her confidence in his honour and love. Through the open gates of the chapel she looked down the narrow road that wound along the side of the hill; an... ...t poach among our partridges.” “Poach! not he,” said brother Michael: “if he wants your partridges, he will strike them under your nose (here’s to you... ...s is the lex talionis.” “Truly,” said Sir Ralph, “I am sorry for the damsel: she seems fond of this wild runagate.” “A mad girl, a mad girl,” said the... ...d girl,” said the little friar. “How a mad girl?” said brother Michael. “Has she not beauty, grace, wit, sense, discretion, dexterity, learning, and v... ... sheriff of Nottingham, though still sore with his bruises, was so intent on revenge, that he raised himself from his bed to attend the execution of W... ...erwards ducked in the moat and set again in the stocks to dry. John swore to revenge horribly this flagrant outrage on royal prerogative, and to obtai...

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...peace is attained; presumably they would lose their jobs. Nearly everybody wants peace; nearly everybody would be glad to wave a white flag with a dov... ...I believe, is going to be beaten, but not completely crushed, by this war; she is going to be left militarist and united with Austria and Hun- gary, a... ... league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing revenge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for... ...n court. Germany will have to pay on the nail for most of her Balkan help. She will have to put more into the Balkans than she takes out. Compared wit... ...ges of war-time, will be an immense and dangerous undertaking for Germany. She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjo... ...ligent enough and strong enough it can do without him. It can take what it wants, and tell him to go and hang himself. That is the melancholy ulti- ma... ...history. The next course of a nation in need is to tax and pay for what it wants, which is a fractional and more evenly distrib- uted method of taking...

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...ellishment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explana- tion—tha... ...al tale was a pure invention. Scorn and indignation flashed from her eyes. She regarded herself as one who had been hoaxed and swindled; begged me to ... ...l nun to a national interest. It is true that Kate had not taken the veil; she had stopped short of the deadliest crime known to the Inquisition; but ... ...why Lord Brougham failed to perceive this, or found the Saxon equal to his wants, is one which I shall not scruple to assign, inasmuch as it does not ... ...ened that the Zantiote, who made the discovery to Ali Pacha on a motion of revenge, was himself too slenderly and too vaguely acquainted with the fina... ...band’s baseness, and of stepping between her or her cattle until their own wants are fully supplied. This social consideration of the female sex, in r... ...thing of the coldest. Think you that none better could be had?” “As how?” “Revenge, par exemple; a little revenge. Might one not screw the neck of thi...

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...ndonment to death, do we all live, as the beasts live, glad, angry, sorry, revengeful, hopeful, weary, disgusted, forgetful, lustful, happy, excited, ... ... house on fire. None the less, right down to to-day, the heresy of God the Revengeful, God the Perse- cutor and Avenger, haunts religion. It is only i... ...ungenerous Eye. God Bogey is a great con- venience to the nursery-maid who wants to leave Fear to mind her charges and enforce her disciplines, while ... ...wants to leave Fear to mind her charges and enforce her disciplines, while she goes off upon her own aims. But indeed, the teaching of God Bogey is an... ...l cripples with this bogey God of the nursery-maid, with his black, insane revenges, still living like a horrible parasite in their hearts in the plac... ...lesiastic conversing with a Magdalen in terms of ordinary civility, unless she was in a very high social position indeed, or blending with disrepu- ta... ...ve should shape and dominate their lives instead of God. “He for God only; she for God in him,” phrases the idea of Milton and of ancient Islam; it is...

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... husband, with a few servants in a very solitary house, never rested until she had placed eighteen doors (so she told me, and, indeed, satisfied me by... ...y, in the long evenings, to the discretion of a young servant girl; and if she suffers herself to be beguiled by the pretence of a message from her mo... ...girl! had this outline sketch of Mr. Williams been filled in and realized, she would have seen something in the corpse-like face, and heard something ... ...o hostile wit- ness was to be removed, no extra booty to be gained, and no revenge to be gratified, it is clear that to hurry would be altogether to r... ... superiority to my readers, but as a companion adapting my services to the wants of those who need them. I am not addressing those already familiar wi... .... One sees no particular reason for bearing it, if one only knew how to be revenged on a river. But, of these metrical skirmishes, though full of impo...

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...ons of the Entente Allies give back to Germany the freedom of action which she reserved in her note addressed to the Government of the United States o... ...for which there is abundant American precedent. NOT CONTEMPLATING WAR, BUT WANTS TO BE READY It is devoutly to be hoped that it will not be necessary ... ...es as a nation. We must put excited feel- ing away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, bu... ...for the prin- ciples that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. V A STATE OF WAR T...

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...which refuse to be theoremed and diagramed; which Logic ought to know that she cannot speak of. Enough for us to discern, far in the uttermost distanc... ...ou torn that up, the world must have rushed to ruin! As for the Old Woman, she was Time, Old Age, Duration: with her what can wrestle? No man nor no g... ...ation: with her what can wrestle? No man nor no god with her; gods or men, she prevails over all! And then those three strokes you struck,— look at th... ... of the other cheek when the one has been smitten, is not here: you are to revenge yourself, but it is to be in measure, not overmuch, or beyond justi... ...y of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for most part! What we wants to get at is the thought the man had, if he had any: why should he tw... ...! Alas, no: it requires a kind of Hero to do that;— and one of the world’s wants, in this as in other senses, is for most part want of such. On the wh...

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...eamer V anderbilt, by many esteemed the finest merchant ship in the world. She has ever since been and still is doing valuable service to the gov- ern... ...that they shall be free. To the high honor of Kentucky, as I am informed, she is the owner of some slaves by escheat, and has sold none, but liberate... ... place in the Union as it was, barring the already broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mend... ...ovember 30, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, Saint Louis, Missouri: Frank Blair wants Manter’s Thirty-second, Curly’s Twenty seventh, Boyd’s Twenty-fourth ... ...tion of United States notes payable in coin and sufficiently large for the wants of the people can be permanently, usefully, and safely maintained. Is... ...re, then, any other mode in which the necessary provi- sion for the public wants can be made and the great advan- tages of a safe and uniform currency... ...at arrests, banishments, and assessments are made more for private malice, revenge, and pecuniary interest than for the public good. This morning I wa... ... Each man feels an impulse to kill his neighbor, lest he be killed by him. Revenge and retaliation follow. And all this, as before said, may be among ...

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...Bottoms, which was already twelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from Bestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreov... ...descended to it from Bestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an end house in one of the top blocks, and thus had only one neighb... ...our; on the other side an extra strip of garden. And, having an end house, she enjoyed a kind of aristoc- 6 Sons & Lovers racy among the other women ... ... yer life o’ that. I got it fra’ Bill Hodgkisson. ‘Bill,’ I says, ‘tha non wants them three nuts, does ter? Arena ter for gi’ein’ me one for my bit of... ...with him. “Nay,” said Morel, showing his hand, “look thee at it! Tha niver wants ter shake hands wi’ a hand like that, does ter? There’s too much pick... ...ing him coming, as if it were something she could not bear. He, taking his revenge, was nearly drunk. She kept her head bent over the child as he en- ... ... ‘old of another an’ rips his clothes off’n ‘is back,” Mrs. Anthony said, “wants showing something.” “Your Alfred’s as old as my William,” said Mrs. M... ...med to fall beneath him, and he loved it. Reck- lessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying... ... against her, and he left her in the lurch—seemed almost to have a sort of revenge upon her then. “Are you still at school?” asked Miriam of Beatrice....

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...e pause, and interrupt this painful strain, to say a word or two upon what she was—and how far worthy of a love more honorable to her (that was possib... ...e) and deeper (but that was not possible) than mine. When first I saw her, she—my Agnes—was merely a child, not much (if anything) above sixteen. But,... ... child, not much (if anything) above sixteen. But, as in perfect womanhood she retained a most childlike expression of countenance, so even then in ab... ...ers wantonness of malice;—his malice might now assume the nobler aspect of revenge. Thus far, in reporting the circumstances, Hannah had dal- lied—thu... ...Or how could it profit him to betray us?’ ‘That’s more than I can tell. He wants to get your money, and that he doesn’t know how to bring about withou... ... me, that I determined very seriously to review my half-formed purposes of revenge; and well it was that I did so: for in that same week an explosion ... ...n on the following day went into the hands of the hostile minister, and my revenge was perfect. 76 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers THE SP THE SP T...

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...usiness as if no Louis lay in danger. Dame Dubarry, indeed, might pray, if she had a talent for it; Duke d’Aiguillon too, Maupeou and the Parlement Ma... ...y nothing but a wonderfully dizened Scarlet-woman; and go on his way as if she were not. Intolerable: the source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pout... ... of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with... ... so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee in this hour? Thy foul Harem; the ... ...tburnt sensualities,’ does he live and digest. Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in ster... ...ed him? Disgust and edacity; laziness that can- not rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship:—O, within that carbuncled skin what a confusion o... ... as of a flame-girt Sinai, in this our waste Pilgrimage,—which thenceforth wants not its pillar of cloud by day, and pillar of fire by night! Somethin... ...e. But now let no mortal say henceforth that an august Na- tional Assembly wants riot: all it ever wanted was riot enough to balance Court-plotting; a... ...: all it ever wanted was riot enough to balance Court-plotting; all it now wants, of Heaven or of Earth, is to get its theory of defective verbs perfe...

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...usiness as if no Louis lay in danger. Dame Dubarry, indeed, might pray, if she had a talent for it; Duke d’Aiguillon too, Maupeou and the Parlement Ma... ...y nothing but a wonderfully dizened Scarlet-woman; and go on his way as if she were not. Intolerable: the source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pout... ... of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with... ... so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee in this hour? Thy foul Harem; the ... ...burnt sensualities, ’ does he live and digest. Sumptuosity and sordidness; revenge, life-weariness, ambition, darkness, putrescence; and, say, in ster... ...afed him? Disgust and edacity; laziness that cannot rest; futile ambition, revenge, non- admiralship:—O, within that carbuncled skin what a con- fusio... ... as of a flame-girt Sinai, in this our waste Pilgrimage,—which thenceforth wants not its pillar of cloud by day, and pillar of fire by night! Somethin...

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..., in relation to any of God’s attributes; suppose holiness or hap- piness, she feels, (though analytically she could not explain,) that God is not hol... ...wo generations back. France is too ready to fight for mere bubbles of what she calls glory. But neither in France nor England could a war now be under... ...hat means restored Rome for centuries,—not to the aspiring condition which she once held, but to an immunity from annual car- nage, and in other respe... ...n thus rendered into English according to the rigor of the Grecian letter, wants something to complete its sense— it wants an is. There is a subject, ... ... miracles as greater and more awful than man could even comprehend. All he wants is a sufficient motive for such transcendent agencies; but this is su... ...n a double impulse—viz. the original one of insurrection, and a new one of revenge. Vespasian was sensible of all this; and he himself remarked, that,... ...call out his foul-mouthed antagonist? On the con- trary, a far more genial revenge awaited him than any sword could have furnished. Pass but an hour, ... ...uent as his brilliant enemy, he is yet eloquent enough for the purposes of revenge—he is elo- quent enough to call Cicero ‘filth,’ ‘mud,’ carrion.’ No...

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......................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ................................................................ ...told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—it is not ... ...it is not his. Mark T wain 11 Y.M. But, anyway, he reared the plant after she watered the seed. O.M. No. outside influences reared it. At the comma... ...What Is Man and Other Essays 16 Y.M. What do you call Love, Hate, Charity, Revenge, Humanity, Magnanimity, Forgiveness? O.M. Different results of the ... ...gious complexion, you know what sort of reli gious books he reads when he wants some more light, and what sort of books he avoids, lest by accident h... ...d what sort of books he avoids, lest by accident he get more light than he wants. In America if you know which party collar a voter wears, you know w... ...eriment and see. Y.M. At any rate, he can make it stick to a subject if he wants to. O.M. Not if it find another that suits it better. As a rule it wi...

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...iminishing-glass. The little bride was perhaps a less beautiful child, but she had a splendid pair of black eyes, and a sweet little mouth, both set i... ... the King, as well as others of the spectators, laughed, and observed that she would get herself married to the boy in- stead of her cousin. There was... ...h her sex was announced, the King had promised the Baron de Ribaumont that she should be the wife of his young son, and that all the posses- sions of ... ...dded Sir Marmaduke, ‘and it is well that it should be the lady herself who wants first to be off with it, so that none can say he has played her a scu... ...w such pensionnaire airs, and that now he had caught her he would have his revenge, and win her rose- coloured break-knot. Another gentleman stood by,... ...’ She was sobbing by this time, and he exclaimed, ‘ Ah, would that I could revenge all! Never, never shall it be again! What blessed grace has guarded... ...ke her obtain the pearls from him.’ ‘Ah!’ sighed Diane, half shocked, half revengeful, as she thought how he had withheld them from her. ‘It is necess... ...e might. At last he said, ‘He was always beyond me. What think you? Now he wants me to turn French courtier and marry his daughter.’ ‘His daughter!’ e... ...plotter’s weaving, and that the Queen-mother acts in it at his request. He wants only to buy me off with his daughter’s estates from asserting my clai...

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...inly run away from my Master before my Time was out, and go to Sea; and if she would speak to my Father to let me go but one V oyage abroad, if I came... ...to recover that Time I had lost. This, put my Mother into a great Passion: She told me, she knew it would be to no Purpose to speak to my Father upon ... ...my Interest to give his Consent to any thing so much for my Hurt, and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after such a Discourse as ... ...that I have gotten out so many neces sary things as will either supply my Wants, or enable me to supply my self even as long as I live Upon the whole... ...of Time about it, I bestirr’d my self to see if possible how to supply two Wants: I had no Vessels to hold any Thing that was Liquid, except two Runle... ... use of, was, All that was valuable. I had enough to eat, and to supply my Wants, and, what was all the rest to me? If I kill’d more Flesh than I coul... ...miliar to me; and especially while my Mind was thus fill’d with Thoughts of Revenge, and of a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the Sword, as ... ...untry People what had happen’d, they would come over again by Thousands to revenge the Death of their Fellows, and I should only bring upon my self a ... ...kes it for an Affront, and sets all his other Business aside to pursue his Revenge; for he will have Satisfaction in Point of Honour; that is his first...

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...tisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order....

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...concile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman w... ...n into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Bless... ...ble,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition... ... everything. I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. He wants a companion—a companion, you know.” “It would be a great honor to any... ...t heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants. He was being uncon- sciously wrought upon by the charms of a nature ... ...dear, take warning. Y ou know the look of one now; when the next comes and wants to marry you, don’t you accept him.” “I’m sure I never should.” “No; ... ...ntrate all his terror on Bulstrode, imploringly deprecating his anger, his revenge on him by starvation, and declaring with strong oaths that he had n... ...sing him and declaring that Bulstrode wanted to starve him to death out of revenge for telling, when he never had told. Bulstrode’s native imperiousne...

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...concile self despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman w... ...wn into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Bless... ...ble,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition... ... everything. I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. He wants a companion—a companion, you know.” “It would be a great honor to any... ...t heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants. He was being unconsciously wrought upon by the charms of a nature wh... ... dear, take warning. You know the look of one now; when the next comes and wants to marry you, don’t you accept him.” “I’m sure I never should.” “No; ... ...ntrate all his terror on Bulstrode, imploringly deprecating his anger, his revenge on him by starvation, and declaring with strong oaths that he had n... ...sing him and declaring that Bulstrode wanted to starve him to death out of revenge for telling, when he never had told. Bulstrode’s native imperiousne...

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...August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a dete...

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...voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance... ... the sun rise at sea; but it will not compare with the sun rise on shore. It wants the accompaniments of the songs of birds, the awakening hum of me... ...n our larboard bow. I was very anxious, like every new sailor, to speak her. She came down to us, backed her main topsail, and the two vessels stood ‘... ... first vessel that I had seen near, and I was surprised to find out how much she rolled and pitched in so quiet a sea. She plunged her head into the s... ...er. A few rapid thoughts of my own situation, and of the prospect of future revenge, crossed my - 53 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana ... ...is chief feeling seemed to be anger; and he talked much of satisfaction and revenge, if he ever got back to Boston. But with the other, it was very ... ...ittle virtue, but then the jealousy of their husbands is extreme, and their revenge deadly and almost certain. A few inches of cold steel has been th... ... was owing, no doubt, in a great measure, to this fact. If the chief officer wants force, discipline slack- ens, everything gets out of joint, the ... ...he disagreeables of such a navigation to a common sailor. Fair or foul, he wants to have nothing to do with the ground, tackle between port and port...

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...lushing, for the first time remarked her. “A pretty grocer’s boy you are,” she cried, “with your applepiebomenos and your French and lingo. Am I to be... ...thine own? He deftly made up the packet, and placed it in the little hand. She paid for her small purchase, and with a farewell glance of her lustrous... ...d for her small purchase, and with a farewell glance of her lustrous eyes, she left him. She passed slowly through the portal, and in a moment was los... ...e when you have put your jasey in order.” I shall never forget the look of revenge which he cast at me, as I was thus turning him into ridicule before... ...nd by his slighted honor, by his broken ribs, by his roused fury, he swore revenge; and the Lady Fatima, who had come to the tourney as a queen, retur... ...nately at his wife, ‘but we have enough, love, have we not, for our humble wants? The rich and luxurious may go to Dillow’s or Gobiggin’s, but we can ... ...most intimate friend the English ambassador would move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well f... ...at the way in which that humblest of romance heroes, Signor Clown, when he wants anything in the Pantomime, straight- way finds it to his hand. How is... ...one of my own faith.” “She has turned Turk,” screamed out the ladies. “She wants to be a princess, and has turned Turk,” roared the rabbis. “Well, wel...

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...nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still looked young, and w... ...ch left me a widow ere I was a mother, that my dear mother’s health broke. She never recovered her terror and anxiety of those days which ended so fat... ...entures in Europe, I can well under- stand the extreme devotion with which she regarded him—a devotion so passionate and exclusive as to prevent her, ... ...nee, Harry Esmond took the rough hand of his benefactor and kissed it. “He wants to go to the ale-house—let him go,” cried my lady. “I’m d—d if he sha... ...inted cheeks and a tipsy retinue in the country town. Had she a mind to be revenged, Lady Castlewood could have found the way to her rival’s house eas... ...oved ball of all things, and would quickly come back to Castlewood for his revenge. After dinner they played bowls and drank punch in the green alley;... ... rattle in his throat. “My Lord Viscount,” says Mr. Atterbury, “Mr. Esmond wants no witnesses, and hath burned the paper.” “My dearest master!” Esmond... ...years before her son was old enough to compass it, declared she would have revenge of her husband’s murderer. So much and suddenly had grief, anger, a... ... natural than the fine gentlemen of the Court. But this is not enough. She wants a commander-in-chief, and not a colo- nel. Were a duke to ask her, sh...

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...to sickness; but familiarity has a cunning disenchantment; in a day or two she can steal all beauty from the mountain tops; and the most startling wor... ...e in them what- 14 Robert Louis Stevenson ever. ‘It was God’s will,’ said she. But he knew it was by God’s will that Joan of Arc was burnt at Rouen, ... ...onnected with propriety; and that only is the man’s which is proper to his wants and faculties. A youth, in choosing a career, must not be alarmed by ... ...self and not a merely specious life to society, how many luxuries he truly wants and to how many he merely submits as to a social propriety; and all t... ...himself, does what he wishes, and not what is thought proper, buys what he wants for himself, and not what is thought proper, works at what he believe... ...and active hands, mankind intrusts some of its hopes for the future; he or she is a possible well-spring of good acts and source of blessings to the r... ...me of the shorter pieces ‘Magick,’ ‘Friendship,’ ‘Imprisonment,’ ‘Anger,’ ‘Revenge,’ ‘Duells,’ ‘Cruelty,’ ‘A Defence of some of the Ceremonies of the ... ...e drums and blow the trumpets on their closing ears. Hideous refinement of revenge! Even the last words which drop from the lips of a dying man– words... ...e I’ll be upsides with them.’ ‘Ay,’ said the other, ‘we are all tempted to revenge.’ ‘You have lost money?’ asked Jonathan. ‘A great estate,’ said Arc...

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... daughter to Ross of Balneel, with whom he obtained a considerable estate. She was an able, politic, and high-minded woman, so successful in what she ... ... 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus narrated by the histor... ... thus narrated by the historian of her grandson, the great Earl of Stair: “She lived to a great age, and at her death desired that she might not be pu... ... That knows them not, at least in some degree, May brook the title, but he wants the thing, Is but a shadow scarce worth notic- ing. He learned the Fr... ...eel I must tear myself from the subject, or dwell on it too long. Amid his wants and struggles, Dick Tinto had recourse, like his brethren, to levying... ...e first burst of business, it more than sufficed for all Dick’s moder- ate wants; so that he occupied an apartment at the Wallace Inn, cracked his jes... ...yet, if he lives till a change of times, what follows? Restitution—perhaps revenge. I know Athole promised his interest to old Ravenswood, and here is... ... Ravenswood had received injuries sufficient to prompt him to that sort of revenge, which becomes a frequent though fearful consequence of the partial... ...do you call this monstrous pas- sion which you charge me with fostering?” “Revenge, my good sir—revenge; which, if it be as gentle manlike a sin as wi...

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...on to fresh achieve- ments, to a renewed and increased predominance, or is she falling into a secondary position among the peoples of the world? The a... ...observed it. It is interesting to ask, Is England really waking up? and if she is, what sort of awakening is she likely to have? It is possible, of co... ...il- able, that everywhere there must be English teaching. And everyone who wants to read science or history or philoso- phy, to come out of the villag... ...th such men that our insurgent modern Labour, with its vaguely apprehended wants, its large occasions and its rapid emotional reactions, comes into co... ...the com- paratively simple and trivial business of playing chess. No- body wants to be told to “rely wholly upon your pawns,” or “never, never move yo... ... masses of social disintegration. It spends its force very largely in mere revenges upon property as such, attacks simply destructive by reason of the... ...con- script army as France or Germany possesses in the next ten years than she is of covering her soil with a tropical forest, and, secondly, it is eq... ...act suffering. Divorce as it exists at present is not a readjustment but a revenge. It is the nasty exposure of a private wrong. In England a husband ... ...ake him the most combatant and destructive of animals, and in spite of the revenge Nature has attempted time after time for his rebel- lion against he...

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...er the edifice now standing on the same site be the identical one to which she referred, I am not antiquarian enough to know; nor would it be worth wh... ... as can well be conceived. Com- pelled to relinquish her first engagement, she had been united to a man of twice her own years, to whom she became an ... ...ce her own years, to whom she became an exemplary wife, and by whose death she was left in posses- sion of a splendid fortune. A southern gentleman, c... ...duct, in respect to them, was marked by brutal cruelty. The Quakers, whose revenge- ful feelings were not less deep because they were inactive, rememb... ...ar sorrows. She was naturally a woman of mighty pas- sions, and hatred and revenge now wrapped themselves in the garb of piety; the character of her s... ... receptacle in which the wealth of one century might be hoarded up for the wants of another. Peter Goldthwaite was inserting a key into the lock. “O T...

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...of another police-constable. It is not an act of revolt, and still less of revenge. Crainquebille is too old, too resigned, too weary, too guileless t... ...ible, my dear aunt. To-morrow I am expecting the gardener.” And the garden she glances at is a poor garden; it is a wild garden; its extent is insigni... ... the transparence of her evasion. But the lie is told, it is believed, and she sticks to it. When the masterful old aunt inquires, “What is the man’s ... .... When the masterful old aunt inquires, “What is the man’s name, my dear?” she answers brazenly, “His name is Putois.” “Where does he live?” “Oh, I do... ...t national temperament which is so completely free from aggressiveness and revenge. Therein lie the foundations of all hope. The success of renewed li... ...ariable answer was: “Whatever has happened, or is going to happen, whoever wants to make peace, you may be certain that England will not make it, not ...

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... pawns are Men. The Lover whispers his mistress that the coach is ready; and she, full of hope and fear, glides down, to fly with him over the borders:... ...thority in this last citadel of Teufelsdr¨ ockh; only some once in the month she half forcibly made her way thither, with broom and duster, and (Teufe... ...er; for Teufels REMINISCENCES 17 dr¨ ockh, and Teufelsdr¨ ockh only, would she serve or give heed to; and with him she seemed to communicate chiefly ... ...ns; if it were not rather by some secret divination that she guessed all his wants, and supplied them. Assiduous old dame! she scoured, and sorted, an... ...hurling it with deadly unerring skill. Nevertheless, the pains of Hunger and Revenge once satisfied, his next care was not Comfort but Decoration (Putz... ...her once and always. By degrees, however, I understood the new time, and its wants. If man’s Soul is indeed, as in the Finnish Language, and Utilitari... ...ng a continual Repair? Ut most satisfaction of our whole outward and inward Wants were but satisfaction for a space of Time; thus, whatso we have don...

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...agent, they had trouble understanding the standard security questions, and she had to go over them slowly until they gave the routine, reassuring answ... ...ace—that we can’t breathe—I don’t know , I think we’re getting hijacked. ” She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants. 30 At 8:21, on... ...ugh to the American Flight Services Office in Boston but was cut off after she reported someone was hurt aboard the flight.Three minutes later, Sweene... ..., though uncertain about how fast and how far to go. Crown Prince Abdullah wants the Kingdom to join the World Trade Organization to accelerate econom... ...n by U.S.-trained Mid- dle Eastern pilots. See Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—the Untold Story (HarperCollin... ...g the CIA’s covert action funding ceiling. NSC memo, McCarthy to CSG, “DCI Wants to Raise Funding Ceiling,” May 8, 2000; NSC memo, McCarthy to others ...

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...go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the...

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...red so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in pa... ... flirted with me from a win- dow and kept my wild heart flying; and once – she possibly remembers – the wise Eugenia followed me to that austere inclo... ...se simultaneously bidding for his choice, and he him- self knowing what he wants to do and (within the narrow limit of a man’s ability) able to do it.... ...at time somewhat engaged, and who did all that in her lay to break it; and she, with some tact, passed over the gift and my cherished contributions in... ...ear of death, but the instant, dwelling terror of the responsibilities and revenges of life. Their speech, indeed, is timid; they report lions in the ...