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...and turned their prows southward. They plowed through the fields of floating ice, past the mouth of the Missouri; past the mouth of the Ohio, by and b... ... leather cushions and a back to the high bench where visiting pilots sit, to spin yarns and “look at the river”; bright, fanciful “cuspadores” instead... ...Snatch her! snatch her!” He seized the other side of the wheel and helped to spin it around until it was hard down, and then we held it so. The boat r... ... willing. I haven’t got another drop of perspiration left in me. I have been spin ning around and around the wheel like a squirrel. It is so dark I c... ...rted to port be fore I would see new dangers on that side, and away I would spin to the other; only to find perils accumulating to star board, and b... ...than usual emphasis; countless processions of freight barrels and boxes were spinning athwart the levee and flying aboard the stage planks, belated pa... ... stupefied by this frantic assault. “What you standing there for? T ake that ice pitcher down to the texas tender come, move along, and don’t you be a... ... naturally tributary to her. And like Vicksburg and New Orleans, she has her ice factory: she makes thirty tons of ice a day. In Vicksburg and Natche... ...y: she makes thirty tons of ice a day. In Vicksburg and Natchez, in my time, ice was jewelry; none but the rich could wear it. But anybody and everybo...

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... Sand-Pillars rush whirling from this side and from that, like so many mad Spinning-Der- vishes, of a hundred feet in stature; and dance their huge De... ...e knot of the crisis, when salvation or destruction hangs in the hour! The Ice-Tower of Avignon was noised of sufficiently, and lives in all memories;... ...f the everlasting Abyss, this black-spot, looking up as water through thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Girond... ...tee of Salut; civilly alive: not to live always. So giddy-swift whirls and spins this immeasurable tormentum of a Revolution; wild-booming; not to be ... ...he Cities of the South; no more sit judging, with pipes and brandy, in the Ice-tower of Avignon. The all-hiding Earth has received him, the bloated Ti... ...bare of breeches, neck and breast naked, stockings down, went whirling and spinning, like those Dust-vortexes, forerunners of Tempest and Destruction.... ...ently intro- duced a vein of satire, of irreverent banter, not against the Spinster alone, but obliquely against her Regenerative Man! Barrere’s light... ... and cloaks of bass-mat,’ how they overrun Holland, like a demon-host, the ice having bridged all waters; and rush shouting from victory to victory! S...

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...ing himself in the condemnation of his coun- trymen. But Russia was soon to be changed; the ice of the Neva was softening under the sun of civilisatio... ...ttention; and one night, in the midst of his famous performance of ‘Billy Keogh,’ I saw him spin half round in a pirouette and throw an audacious wink... ...pses of green fields. The road underfoot was wet and heavy— 95 Robert Louis Stevenson part ice, part snow, part water, and any one I met greeted me, ... ...the woods, as they might take a walking- stick as an excuse to bathe. With quick ears, long spines, and 103 Robert Louis Stevenson bandy legs, or per... ...pired, that dream all day on their own reflections in the Rhine or Danube. You may pass the spinal cord of Europe and go down from Alpine glaciers to ... ...hese grassy plateaux. Here and there a little private flock was being tended by a girl, one spinning with a distaff, another seated on a wall and inte... ...g curd; add a few score invalids marching to and fro upon the snowy road, or skating on the ice-rinks, possibly to music, or sit- ting under sunshades... ...a vicious effort; for by this time your wooden steed is speeding like the wind, and you are spinning round a corner, and the whole glitter- ing valley...

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...id know. He hadn’t a stray sixpence of an idea to fumble for; so we didn’t spin it very fine—we confined ourselves to ques- tions of leather and even ...

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...ered, more and more, Brown strings towards strings of gray, with bristling spines, All migrants from green fields, intent on mire. Those that were gra... ...s in their shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens. 19 Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive Halted ...

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...y leaping on to his seat, both feet tucked under him, with the action of a spinster who de- tects a mouse, as the draught struck at his ankles. Drawn ... ...u really dread most for your ship, Captain Richards?’ expecting him to say ice- bergs, or derelicts, or fog, or something of that sort. Not a bit of i... ...rcles—I don’t see them,” Hewet con- tinued. “I see a thing like a teetotum spinning in and out—knocking into things—dashing from side to side— collect... ...ld days.” “No young man likes to have it said that he resembles an elderly spinster,” said Mr. Thornbury. “On the contrary,” said Mr. Hewet, “I always... ... to ride in advance alone, for the path when it began to ascend one of the spines of the hill became narrow and scattered with stones. The cav- alcade... ... so surly as to prefer sedentary occu- pations on the night in question to spinning and watch- ing others spin, the drawing-room and billiard-room wer... ... the bath, Alice.” “In the stable-yard,” said Mrs. Flushing. “Covered with ice in winter. We had to get in; if we didn’t, we were whipped. The strong ... ...nd stood upright, holding on to the brass ball at the end of the bedstead. Ice-cold at first, it soon became as hot as the palm of her hand, and as th... ...d him in the same weary, unnatural, but determined voice to fetch her more ice, and to have the jug outside filled with fresh milk. When he had done t...

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...he bracing air, the crisply curling water, the thin white crust of morning ice upon the decks which crackled with a sharp and cheerful sound beneath t... ...ommissioners at the notion of these seats having arms and backs; but small spines being of older date than their occupation of the Board room at Somer... ...but in the Highlands of Scotland. The river was full of floating blocks of ice, which were constantly American Notes – Dickens 78 crunching and crac... ...ome refresh ment from the heat, in the sight of the great blocks of clean ice which are being carried into shops and bar rooms; and the pine—apples ... ...s, pretty full. Hark! to the clinking sound of ham mers breaking lumps of ice, and to the cool gurgling of the pounded bits, as, in the process of mi... ...his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels like nothing but the man’s fingers on ... ...its, champagne, sherry; lemons and sugar for punch; and abundance of rough ice. The meal was delicious, and American Notes – Dickens 193 the enterta...

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...orth as freedom, wisdom as to wit, Fearless — because no feeling dwells in ice, Its very courage stagnates to a vice. Where shall I turn me not ... ... therefore I shall open with a line (Although it cost me half an hour in spinning) Narrating somewhat of Don Juan’s father, And also of his mo... ...h men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning! I said the small pox has gone out of late; Perhaps it may b... ... The greater part of these were ready spread With viands and sherbets in ice—and wine Kept for all comers at all hours to dine. Of all the dr... ...ghts are equal, but not so the days; The Parcae then cut short the further spinning Of seamen’s fates, and the loud tempests raise The waters,... ...ur snow less pure than our morality; The sun, which yearly melts the polar ice, Has quite the contrary effect on vice. Thus in the East they are... ... And dig, and sweat, and turn themselves about, And plant, and reap, and spin, and grind, and sow, Till all the arts at length are brought about... ...rch’s seat of honour; gay Damsels, and dances, revels, ready money, Made ice seem paradise, and winter sunny. The favour of the empress was agre... ...ive. Perhaps he long’d in bitter frosts for climes In which the Neva’s ice would cease to live Before May day: perhaps, despite his duty, In...

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...e pleased? What shall you do, Fergus? and Val? and Mysie?’ ‘I shall get to spin my peg-top so as it will never tumble down, and will turn an engine fo... ...ired Primrose, ‘what will you do? Mine is a copy-book, and Fergus’s is the spinning-top-engines, and rule of three; and Val’s is a crewel battle cushi... ...it will act. The string of the humming-top moves the pump handle, and that spins. Oh!’ ‘Master Fergus! Oh—h, you bad boy!’ The shriek was caused by th... ... the front, so as to behold, on the landing between the two, the boys, one spinning the top, the other working the pump which stood in its own trough ... ...oung officers always look so exactly alike—at least in the eyes of elderly spin- sters.’ ‘Jane!’ ‘Let us hope so, now that it is all over. This same D... ... you will like mine much better—that old buffer skating into a hole in the ice. I don’t mind being here, for though Harry and Davy get up frightfully ... ...make light of it, but not too light, thought Miss Mohun, and she broke the ice by saying, ‘Poor foolish boy—’ ‘Oh, Aunt Jane, what shall I do?’ ‘Let i... ...ut in his reckoning.”’ ‘So far so good; but it is not fair.’ ‘However, the ice is broken. What’s that? Is the house com- ing down?’ No; but Gillian an...

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...re of the edge of Plover Lake had the air of an etching: lustrous slide of ice, snow in the crevices of a boggy bank, the mound of a muskrat house, re... ... it be to skate there for a couple of hours, or go zinging along on a fast ice-boat, and skip back home for coffee and some hot wienies?” he demanded.... ...be a gentleman friend taking you to the movies and buying you a strawberry ice cream soda! Bea trudged back. “Vell? You lak it?” said Tina. “Ya. Ay la... ... certain that it was all wrong. She wished alternately that she had worn a spinsterish high-necked dress, and that she had dared to shock them with a ... ...e `Old Sweetheart of Mine,’ for us,” demanded Sam. Miss Ella Stowbody, the spinster daughter of the Ionic bank, scratched her dry palms and blushed. “... ...selves. They fell upon the food—chicken sandwiches, maple cake, drug-store ice cream. Even when the food was gone they remained cheerful. They could g... ...giving her an allow- ance. His mother had never had one! As a wage-earning spinster Carol had asserted to her fellow librarians that when she was marr... ...hoo away the storm. Carol felt guilty. She devoted herself to admiring the spinsterish Miss Villets—and immediately committed an- other offense agains... ...been `a tower of strength and legal wisdom’ which some day a preacher will spin over my lean dry body.” He looked down at his table-desk, fingering th...

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... goaded beyond the normal round, suddenly flipping from the circumference, spinning off at a tangent, out into the void, where all things seemed possi... ... her; wouldn’t know her for the same little girl; and the beer had been on ice since morn- ing. Presley and Vanamee could not well refuse. They climbe... ...f the parlor. The two men were presented and the beer was had from off the ice. “Mother,” said Dyke, as he wiped the froth from his great blond beard,... ..., Buck. At- tention now! I’ll give you the key.” He “fanned” his revolver, spinning it about his index finger by the trigger-guard with incredible swi... ... and chicken. At the end the paper caps were brought on, together with the ice cream. All up and down the tables the pulled “crackers” snapped continu... ...the fierce outburst of wrath, the hasty organising of the League, all went spinning confusedly through his recollection. But he was exhausted. Time en... ...prolonged, even gallop that it would hold for the better part of the week, spinning out the miles as a cotton spinner spins thread. It was already dar... ... and time-table whenever there was a stop; twice he rose to get a drink of ice water, and between whiles was forever sitting up in the narrow berth, s... ... female figures against the multi-coloured, new wall-paper; the inadequate spindle chairs of white and gold; the sphere of tissue pa- per hanging from...

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... other loves may come and go And long years sever us below, Shall the thin ice that grows above Freeze the deep centre-well of love? No, still below l... ..., Your hand lay fast in mine: We saw the shifting crowd dispart, The level ice-reach shine. I swear by yon swan-travelled lake, By yon calm hill above... ...all the voiceful countryside. Through all the land her tale she tells; She spins, she tosses, she compels The kites, the clouds, the windmill sails An... ...eam. Hark! in your dreams do you hear? Snow has filled the drifted forest; Ice has bound the … stream. Frost has bound our flowing river; Snow has whi...

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...ength aroused, upon a nature over which depravity had laid a sheet of foul ice now thawed in the sunshine of faith. “Why did I not die!” was the only ... ...c for nothing—” “Georches, I shall be dying of despair. I hafe cold—I hafe ice on mein heart—no more of Esther, my good friend.” Georges was always th... ...y were cold. This scene of scalding tears shed on the Baron’s head, and of ice-cold feet that he tried to warm, lasted from midnight till two in the m... ..., the child of very poor parents, had been sent at seven years of age to a spin- ning factory, where the demands of modern industry had impaired her p... ...ndsomer than she was six years ago.” “Perhaps she has preserved herself in ice like Madame d’Espard and Madame Zayonchek,” said the Comte de Brambourg... ...o disastrous to him. The Duke and Duchess would not admit him. He felt the spinal marrow freezing in the core of his vertebral col- umn, and a sickly ... ... this kind of dessert has delicate preserved fruits laid on the top of the ice, which is served in a little glass, not heaped above the rim. These ice...

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...upward and twirling its features into a diabolical grin of triumphant mal- ice, which it flung right in Judith’s face. On her part, she had the startl... ...A PRECIP THE EDGE OF A PRECIP THE EDGE OF A PRECIP THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE ICE ICE ICE ICE “LET US SETTLE IT,” said Kenyon, stamping his foot firmly d... ...ible throb of the heart. His hand, by an instantaneous change, became like ice within hers, which likewise grew so icy that their insensible fingers m... ...rnaments of this strange architecture are represented by the joints of the spine, and the more deli- cate tracery by the Smaller bones of the human fr... ...ey followed the vagrant steps of their charge, these venerable ladies kept spin- ning yarn with that elsewhere forgotten contrivance, the dis- taff; a... ...nd stern looking were they, that you might have taken them for the Parcae, spinning the threads of human destiny. In contrast with their great-grandmo... ...t glance towards him, to see whether he were pale and agitated, or calm as ice. Only, she knew that the mo- ments were fleetly lapsing away, and that ...

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...ey followed the vagrant steps of their charge, these venerable ladies kept spin- ning yarn with that elsewhere forgotten contrivance, the dis- taff; a... ...nd stern looking were they, that you might have taken them for the Parcae, spinning the threads of human destiny. In contrast with their great-grandmo... ...t glance towards him, to see whether he were pale and agitated, or calm as ice. Only, she knew that the mo- ments were fleetly lapsing away, and that ...

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...t we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over. Laziness, coward- ice, he says.’ ‘Oh, be hanged!’ interrupted Fenellan. ‘As much of the forme... ... my cousins, the Duvidney ladies. Then we can say, that those two good old spinsters are less narrow than the Dreightons. I have to confess I rather t... ...of ladies like Miss Graves, not allowed to remain too long on the stalk of spinsterhood. Her age might count twenty-eight: too long! She should be tau... ...mand of them. Glancing at congregated women, he had a chill. The Wives and Spinsters in ghostly judicial assembly: that is, the phantom of the offende... ...apping in comforters instead of trusting 168 One of Our Conquerors to the spin of the blood. ‘She played poor Dartrey pranks before he buried—he, beh... ...er the waves of bach- elors and (by present conditions mostly constrained) spin- sters—and another outlook, midnight upon Phlegethon to the thoughts o... ...feeling, as from a wind striking upon soft sum- mer weather off regions of ice, that she was in her parents’ way. How? The feeling was irrational; it ... ...womanly; I must tell you now: I am naked and can’t disguise. I see you are ice—feel: and if you were different, I might be. You won’t be hurt by heari... ... daughter! Nataly drank the poison distilled from her exclamations and was ice. She had denied herself to Nesta’s redoubled pe- tition. Nesta knocking...

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... for bread, a large wooden dipper, a bucket and some earthen milk- pans, a spinning-wheel on the top of the bread-hutch, and a few wicker mats for dra... ...ning at harvest- time, and in winter we pick up firewood. Then at night we spin. Ah! we never want to see another winter like this last one, that is c... ... first who went down into the Beresina had his leg taken off by a block of ice, and the man himself was washed away; but you will better understand th... ...oked after the little gardens, made the soup, mended the clothes, they did spinning in the eve- nings, and gathered firewood in the daytime; while the... ...ife who will make good soup and take it out to him in the fields, who will spin and make his shirts and mend his clothes. Such a thing had not happene... ... do you feel, my little man?” “Quite comfortable, sir.” A table, with four spindle legs, stood in the room; the doc- tor drew it up to the bed, found ...

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...would be free to call the devil to your aid with impunity if even his mal- ice were not defeated by such a blind darkness. The shores on the gulf are ... ...he Little Isabel an old ragged palm, with a thick bulging trunk rough with spines, a very witch amongst palm trees, rustles a dismal bunch of dead lea... ...the cafe with a broom of palm- leaves to let a gentle shudder run down his spine. His languishing almond eyes would remain closed for a long time. Thi... ...ried so far, though there was enough ardour in his tone to melt a heart of ice. Antonia turned away abruptly, as if to carry his whispered assurance i... ...e were engaged?” she exclaimed, mentally, with horror. Her heart turned to ice, while her cheeks flamed up as if scorched by the blaze of a funeral py... ...ough the head.” Captain Mitchell stopped for a while. “Begad, sir! I could spin you a yarn for hours. But it’s time we started off to Rincon. It would... ...things. Suddenly he seized the oars, and with one movement made the dinghy spin round, head-on to the Great Isabel. But before he began to pull he ben...

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...t the Council of Princes and determine the fate of empires—but like a nov- ice, who, stumbling upon a conjuration in his master’s book 129 Sir Walter... ...the insult and injury with which it seemed he had been visited by the mal- ice, or, at best, by the idle humour of Queen Berengaria (for he already co... ...nthusiasts, “dance, or we will scourge thee with our bow-strings till thou spin as never top did under schoolboy’s lash.” Thus shouted the reckless wa... ...stall. “I tell thee, man, that this flagon of Cyprus will set his brains a-spinning, just in the opposite direction that they went whirling in the dan... ...porcelain, and intermixed with large mazers of sherbet, cooled in snow and ice from the caverns of Mount Lebanon. A magnificent pile of cushions at th... ...ing with a smile, “The brave cavalier Ilderim knew not of the formation of ice, but the munificent Soldan cools his sherbet with snow.” “Wouldst thou ...

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...tue: for then she need not be washed and scoured. SPEED: Item: She can spin. LAUNCE: Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for h... ...obtaining her. DUKE: This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour s heat Dissolves to water and doth lose his form. A...