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... him, at every new zizgag and wriggle of the path. And at last, in an open space, at the very center of the labyrinth, he did discern the hideous crea... ...heavy thun der storm. Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, t... ... was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty seven feet square. One of their most eloquent orator... ...lips, and sounded a tremendous and ear shattering blast, so that the whole space, just now so quiet and solitary, rever berated with the clash and cl... ...to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro,” said another comrade. “What a domestic, househo... ...to be making gestures of welcome. The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman’s song, and... ... that she has perished from the face of the earth, I will not allow myself space even to grieve.” The dismal Hecate did not much like the idea of goin...

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...rich with gold, Surround her feet: with these sublime she sails The aerial space, and mounts the winged gales; O’er earth and ocean wide prepared to s... ...holy vow: the favouring goddess heard. Then, slowly rising, o’er the sandy space Precedes the father, follow’d by his race, (A long procession) timely... ... mourn’d When T roy was ruin’d, had the chief return’d, No Greek an equal space had ere possess’d, Of dear affection, in my grateful breast. I, to co... ...e she with work and song the time divides, And through the loom the golden shuttle guides. Without the grot a various sylvan scene Appear’d around, an... ...ut ride the storms, So large he built the raft; then ribb’d it strong From space to space, and nail’d the planks along; These form’d the sides: the de... ...s: The footsteps of the duty he treads, And secret moves along the crowded space, Unseen of all the rude Phaeacian race. (So Pallas order’d, Pallas to... ...the naval toil, Than works of female skill their women’s pride, The flying shuttle through the threads to guide: Pallas to these her double gifts impa...

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... it), and James’s neck, which is the more immediate.” He was silent for a breathing-space, and then, “My man,” said he, “you’ll never be allowed to gi... ...ch stuck in my throat. I stood and looked murder at the old lady for a 49 Catriona space, then bowed and turned away. “Here! Hoots! The callant’s in ... ...ish, wi’ a kind of a holy smile that gart me scunner. The hand of him aye cawed the shuttle, but his een was steeked. We cried to him by his name, we ... ...m by the shou’ther. Nae mainner o’ service! There he sat on his dowp, an’ cawed the shuttle and smiled like creish. “God be guid to us,” says Tam Dale... ...the folk waitin’ us. It seems they had fund Lapraik in ane of his dwams, cawing the shuttle and smiling. Ae lad they sent to hoist the flag, and the r... ...or nane cared to pray out loud) and looking on thon awe- some thing as it cawed the shuttle. Syne, upon a suddenty, and wi’ the ae dreidfu’ skelloch, ...

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...veless chasms of his life. Silas’s hand satisfied itself with throwing the shuttle, and his eye with seeing the little squares in the cloth complete t... ... of fin- gers, which had apparently been careful to spread it over a given space. It was near the treddles of the loom. In an instant Dunstan darted t... ... not passing and feminine toilettes going for- ward, in various stages, in space made scanty by extra beds spread upon the floor; and Miss Nancy, as s... ...ick in Mrs. Crackenthorp’s yead? Is there a little hole for it, like in my shuttle-cock?” “Hush, lad, hush; that’s the way the ladies dress theirselve... ...len him, rushed out, calling “Eppie!” and ran eagerly about the unenclosed space, exploring the dry cavities into which she might have fallen, and the... ... the stone cottage. There was no bed now in the living-room, and the small space was well filled with decent furniture, all bright and clean enough to...

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...oveless chasms of his life. Silas’s hand satisfied itself with throwing the shuttle, and his eye with seeing the little squares in the cloth complete t... ...rks of fingers, which had apparently been careful to spread it over a given space. It was near the treadles of the loom. In an instant Dunstan darted t... ...were not passing and feminine toilets going forward, in various stages, in space made scanty by extra beds spread upon the floor; and Miss Nancy, as sh... ...ick in Mrs. Crackenthorp’s yead? Is there a little hole for it, like in my shuttle cock?” “Hush, lad, hush; that’s the way the ladies dress theirselve... ...len him, rushed out, calling “Eppie!” and ran eagerly about the unenclosed space, exploring the dry cavities into which she might have fallen, and the... ...the stone cottage. There was no bed now in the living room, and the small space was well filled with decent furniture, all bright and 114 SILAS MARNE...

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...vests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea. We have followed you, Sir Insolenc... ...t down upon the ground; and the hosts were near to one another with a little space between them. Hector sent two messengers to the city to bring the l... ...nd Achæans they left the chariot, and with mea sured pace advanced into the space between the hosts. Agamemnon and Ulysses both rose to meet them. Th... ... armed, each amid his own people, they strode fierce of aspect into the open space, and both Trojans and Achæans were struck with awe as they beheld t... ...their own with the immortals.” The son of T ydeus then gave way for a little space, to avoid the anger of the god, while Apollo took Æneas out of the ... .... She heard the cry coming as from the wall, and trembled in every limb; the shuttle fell from her hands, and again she spoke to her waiting women. “T... ...son of Oileus took the lead at once, with Ulysses as close behind him as the shuttle is to a woman’s bosom when she throws the woof across the warp an...

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...ice; and has a wide web, of threads and gossamers, upon his loom, and many shuttles flying, in this world. By the Marquis of Bute’s appointment he had... ...own. The fifth time he, and the Negro we first saw, reached the house. The space they had to traverse was not above twenty yards of level ground, if s... ...e name of God, is the conception of a formless Infinite whether in time or space; of a high inscrutable Necessity, which it is the chief wisdom and vi... ...t of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. I do not think I shall take your advice as to learning Portuguese. I... ...rse; and now, in reading the poor little Poem over again, after ten years’ space, I find it, with a touching mixture of pleasure and repentance, consi... ...dled in his library; and there, twice or thrice a week, for a three-hours’ space, he launched his bolts, which next morning were to shake the high pla...

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... of them were rented to traders, as we rent the arches of a via duct; the space between pillar and pillar being bricked or boarded off into rooms, wh... ...ry strictly kept to separate carriages. ‘Oh, mother of my son, we can make space,’ said the blueturbaned husband. ‘Pick up the child. It is a holy man... ...in utes. Then the lama raised his head, and looked forth across them into space and emptiness. ‘And I am a Follower of the Way,’ he said bitterly. ‘T... ...ents were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room, leaving a clear space only round the rickety deal table, where Lurgan Sahib worked. ‘Those ... ...he would be left to the wrath of Lurgan Sahib and Mahbub Ali–for the short space of life that would remain to him. ‘So I should lose Delhi for the sak... ...o far and far into the North playing the Great Game. Truly, it runs like a shuttle throughout all Hind. And my share and my joy’–he smiled to the dark...

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...ther’s throes, To Fates averse, and nursed for future woes? 25 So short a space the light of heaven to view! So short a space! and fill’d with sorrow... ...mbat stand, The Greeks and T rojans seat on either hand; Then let a midway space our hosts divide, And, on that stage of war, the cause be tried: By P... ...On either side the meeting hosts are seen With lances fix’d, and close the space between. T wo heralds now, despatch’d to T roy, invite The Phrygian m... ...ront assign’d, The foot (the strength of war) he ranged behind; The middle space suspected troops supply, Inclosed by both, nor left the power to fly;... ... on high, 117 O’er the wide main extends his boundless eye, Through such a space of air, with thundering sound, At every leap the immortal coursers bo... ... And all her members shake with sudden fear: Forth from her ivory hand the shuttle falls, 407 Pope And thus, astonish’d, to her maids she calls: “Ah ...

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...e, and manage to get a porter’s lodge beneath it.” “Beneath it?” “Yes, the space over which it rests—” “I understand, monsieur.” “As for your own appa... ... from above, with a pretty vestibule open- ing from the street, and in the space under the stairway—” “Must that be used?” “Don’t be worried—I will fi... ...le the staircase went up in two straight flights, and between them was the space which had given Cesar some uneasiness, and which was now converted in... ... perceiving that the bankers were tossing him from one to the other like a shuttle-cock; but Constance had already guessed that credit was unattainabl... ...rmonized with the grim facetiae of its neighbor. In one corner was a large space screened off by an oak balustrade, trellised with copper wire and fur... ...hed with a sliding cat-hole, within which was an enormous iron chest. This space, apparently given over to the rioting of rats, also contained an odd-...

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...e good with their lives an hour’s diversion, that the king might have that space for es- cape, ‘ And, God help her,’ would Mrs. Rachel continue, fix- ... ...on. He asked him- self in vain, why his eye could not judge of distance or space so well as those of his companions; why his head was not always succe... ...long the top by a stone para- pet with a heavy balustrade, ornamented from space to space with huge grotesque figures of animals seated upon their hau... ...y unsafe, that it was necessary to spring from one hillock to another, the space between being incapable of bearing the human weight. This was an easy... ...his vassals to enter by rotation into his company, and serve for a certain space of time, which gave them all in turn a general notion of military dis... ...air in heraldry as the water-Buckets, waggons, cart- wheels, plough-socks, shuttles, candlesticks, and other ordinar- ies, conveying ideas of anything...

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...n deep soiled Phthia, the nurse of men; seeing there lieth between us long space of shadowy mountains and sounding sea; but thee, thou shameless one, ... ...these they laid upon the earth each close to each, and there was but small space between. And Hector sent two heralds to the city will all speed, to b... ...in to Ilios; and Hector son of Priam and goodly Odysseus first meted out a space, and then they took the lots, and shook them in a bronze bound helmet... ...greaved Achaians. Then took they their stand near together in the measured space, brandishing their spears in wrath each against other. First Alexandr... ... of men that walk upon the earth.” So said he, and Tydeides shrank a short space backwards, to avoid the wrath of Apollo the Far darter. Then Apollo s... ...ard shrieks and groans from the battlements, and her limbs reeled, and the shuttle fell from her hands to earth. Then again among her goodly haired ma...

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...build ings. I had his majesty’s permission to step over this wall; and, the space being so wide between that and the palace, I could easily view it o... ...other in my hand; this I lifted over the roof, and gently set it down on the space between the first and second court, which was eight feet wide. I th... ...rse; but it was im possible for me to compute their number, considering the space of ground they took up. A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might... ... I could do, but plainly per ceived my closet to be moved along; and in the space of an hour, or better, that side of the box where the staples were,... ...depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver’s shuttle. It is in length six yards, and in the thickest part at least thr... ... three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty one and a half; so that the ...

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... not only worlds, but whole clusters of worlds turning about each other in the midst of space. We do not know what there may be in any of them; perhap... ... ungrate- ful effort. But while I admired, I wondered what had called forth in a lad so shuttle-witted this enduring sense of duty. How was it sustain... ...dent life and yearns to join us; we are drawn together as the stars are turned about in space, or as the tides ebb and flow, by things older and great... ...eigh-bells of the fairy queen. From their station on the slope the eye embraced a large space of poplar’d plain upon the one hand, the waving hill-top...

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...der the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began. As there were no men in the company the girls danced ... ... each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver’s shuttle, as Mrs. Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all ... ...father, “your heart is enclosed all round there, and all round there; this space is still open,” ’a says. “As soon as it do meet, so,”’ — Mrs. Durbeyfi... ...house. A gaunt four post bedstead which stood in the room afforded sitting space for several persons gathered round three of its sides; a couple more ... ...ecame the sigh of some immense sad soul, conterminous with the universe in space, and with history in time. Then, examining the mesh of events in her ... ...ogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile. In the afternoon several young girls of Marlott, fo...

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... the contrast between our poor and the Australian settlers, where food and space were plenty and the wages high. I was somewhat hurt at his way of vie... ...the car- riage. I saw then what I shall never forget, across the wide open space round which the principal shows were arranged, and which was now enti... ... lips. His eyes glistened and twinkled, but he said noth- ing for a little space, and then it was, “If any one like you had been out there—” I don’t t... ...hose soul was much set on experi- ments for which his lodgings gave him no space; but the very day when Harold opened his coffee-rooms, as he went dow... ...stened with a smile, took a plaid and a cap and sallied forth. I played at shuttle-cock for a good while with Dora, and then at billiards with Eustace... ...d on his being on the spot, but was himself help- ing the men to clear the space whence it would be easiest to see the action of the machinery. I made...

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...tree, from which several coats and shawls already depended; the rest offered space for certain lateral demonstra tions on Miss Birdseye’s part. She s... ...n indulgent attention on Miss Chancellor; the latter compressed into a small space, to be near her, and sitting with clasped hands and a concentration... ...an extraordinary pair of wings, and carried her through the dizzying void of space. Verena liked it, for the most part; liked to shoot upward without ... ... light; it suggested an exemp tion from official criticism. I have not taken space to mention certain episodes of the more recent intercourse of these... ..., dormitories, libraries, halls—which, scattered among slender trees, over a space reserved by means of a low rustic fence, rather than inclosed (for ... ...up and down the long, straight, maddening city, like a bucket in a well or a shuttle in a loom. He lit his cigar in the office of the hotel—a small roo...

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...st, though I profess I was not conscious of the burthen; being swal- lowed up in the monstrosity of this return, and my mind flying like a weaver’s sh... ...ly when I reached the place! One of the candlesticks was overthrown, and that taper quenched. The other burned steadily by itself, and made a broad sp... ...front, and to recognise the tones of my lord and Mr. Alexander. I pushed ahead, and came presently into their view. They stood together in the open sp... ...er matters, even while I rallied my enemy; and chiefly as to how I should communicate secretly and quickly with my lord. T o this, in the breathing-sp... ...a week, when we encamped for a night at a place where the river ran among considerable mountains clothed in wood. The fires were lighted on a level sp...

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...th “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accu... ...n the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all... ...in began, dur- ing which the schoolroom was in a glorious tumult; for that space of time it seemed to be permitted to talk loud and more freely, and t... ... a covered veran- dah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were as- signed as gar... ...her responses will possess some degree of interest; therefore I now pass a space of eight years almost in silence: a few lines only are necessary to k... ... meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while she played with Pilot and her shuttle- cock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue within s... ...will esteem but straw and rotten wood.” Adele here ran before him with her shuttlecock. “ Away!” he cried harshly; “keep at a distance, child; or go i... ...Adele and Pi- lot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. When we went in, and I had removed her bon- net and coat, I to...

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...e arbour, where the fat boy would leave her to enjoy the fresh air for the space of half an hour; at the expiration of which time he would return and ... ...probably to commence its journey that morning, was drawn out into the open space. A double tier of bed room galleries, with old Clumsy balustrades, r... ...the utmost affability to the troubled sea of heads that inundated the open space in front; and from whence arose a storm of groans, and shouts, and ye... ... master by the arm. ‘You just come away,’ said Mr. Weller. ‘Battledore and shuttlecock’s a wery good game, vhen you ain’t the shuttle cock and two la... ...u have an opportunity of visiting the fairest spots of earth—for I suppose space is nothing to you—you should always return exactly to the very places... ...irst shock, it springs up in his bosom, and flour ishes there for a brief space, until it droops beneath the blight of disappointment and neglect. Ho... ...D IMPARTIAL Mr. NUPKINS WAS; AND HOW Mr. WELLER RETURNED Mr. JOB TROTTER’S SHUTTLECOCK AS HEAVILY AS IT CAME—WITH ANOTHER MATTER, WHICH WILL BE FOUND ...