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... growled Sir Nigel. ‘Scoff and chafe, Baird, but look at his work. Look at Normandy, freed from misrule and exaction, in peace and order. Look at this... ...market-place and several large convents, with no great difficulty; but the upper city, on a rising ground above the river, was strongly fortified, wel... ...all within, that a haggard, wasted-look- ing deputation came down from the upper city to treat with the King. Henry was never severe with the inhabita... ...o answer; and seeing through the smoke a stair, he rushed up. There, in an upper room, on a bed, lay a senseless form, suffocated perhaps by the smoke... ...ves of the French river, and to its mighty victor: ‘Our King went forth to Normandye.’ Long and lengthily chanted was the triumphant song, with the La... ...d on, never daring to glance at the empty chair at 172 The Caged Lion the upper end. The only words that passed were occasional inquiries of, and ord... ...o age, as a raw lad, how would one or other by fraud or force have got the upper hand, so as I might never have won it back. No, I would not have fore...

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...s of solid wood that had been painted gray at some period in the past; the upper part con- sisted of a grating of yellowish spear-shaped bars. These d... ..., and of many other things; and no one should expect to have vines grow in Normandy. So no tasks can be more various than those of government, and its... ...e of the passage, and that the staircase was at the further end of it. The upper story, like the ground floor, evidently consisted of two rooms only. ... ...he heights above us, in heaven or on earth; and certainly in our times the upper classes have less faith in them than the mass of the people, who have... ... the light. The thick darkness and shadow that filled the roof and all the upper part of the barn seemed still further to diminish the light that fell... ...s usual, and everything goes down before the voice of Napoleon, who seizes Upper and Lower Egypt and Arabia, far and wide, till we came to the capital...

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...xistence were thus obtained, while our family was growing in the fields of Normandy. It happened that a distinguished astronomer se- lected a beautifu... ...made me careless, in this instance. Y our happiness and interests are ever uppermost in my mind, and sometimes they seem to conflict. What young man w... ...-handkerchief.” Now Mrs. Monson did keep a housekeeper; she was not a mere upper-servant in her own family, and Julia was gratified that, in this inst...

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...was inherited by his nephew, from whom is descended the present Marquis of Normandy. The noble Marquis is not aware, per haps, that the prosperity of... ...his edifice had hitherto been used by the merchants as an exchange. In the upper stories were the chambers of the judges, the representatives, and the...

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...s of lords were included, and as there is a law amongst regulations of the Upper House that no peer’s letters can be published without his consent, at... ...iam I. 42 ‘Himself denied a grave:’ the place of his interment at Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his in- heritance, the moment his se...

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...e it con- cerns your land, I will tell the tale. When our Duke came out of Normandy to take his England, great knights (have ye heard?) came and strov... ...sed them lands here, and small knights followed the great ones. My folk in Normandy were poor; but a great knight, Engerrard of the Eagle -Engenulf De... ...om them.’ ‘And that was here at home?’ said Una. ‘Yes, here. See! From the Upper Ford, Weland’s Ford, to the Lower Ford, by the Belle Allee, west and ... ...unger brother, had made himself King of England over the head of Robert of Normandy. This was the very thing that the Red King had done to Robert when... ...he Red King had done to Robert when our Great William died. Then Robert of Normandy, mad, as De Aquila said, at twice missing of this kingdom, had sen... ...orth,” said De Aquila. “But the sea is always open. If the Barons gain the upper hand Robert will send another army into England for sure, and this ti... ...d Fulke had joined the Barons/ but if this is true our King must be of the upper hand. No matter, all Fulkes are faith- less. Still, I would not have ... ... he read: “Upon the Feast of St Agatha, our Lord of Pevensey, lying in his upper chamber, being clothed in his second fur gown reversed with rabbit -”... ...eyes greedily at our good roast Sussex wheat-ears—we led him to the little upper chamber, whither Gilbert had already gone with the Manor- roll. I rem...

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..., in splendour glowing, Like choicest ruby stricken by the sun, For, in that upper clime, effulgence comes Of gladness, as here laughter: and below, A... ...ioneth With such effectual working, and the good Discern’d, accruing to this upper world From that below. But fully to content Thy wishes, all that in... ... Aosta, about 1034, and studied under Lanfrane at the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighborin...

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...ANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. The... ...ousand and two, he courted and married Emma, the sister of Richard Duke of Normandy; a lady who was called the Flower of Normandy. And now, a terrible... ...Dane. Then, all was over; and the King took refuge abroad with the Duke of Normandy, who had already given shelter to the King’s wife, once the Flower... ...innocent throats cut; but he was a kind man, and brought them up tenderly. Normandy ran much in Canute’s mind. In Normandy were the two children of th... ...ng looked his last upon her, he, who had so often thought distrustfully of Normandy, long ago, thought once more of the two exiled Princes in their un... ...missed. ‘The Normans,’ said these spies to Harold, ‘are not bearded on the upper lip as we English are, but are shorn. They are priests.’ ‘My men,’ re... ..., and to talk of yielding the castle up. The brave Countess retiring to an upper room and looking with great grief out to sea, where she expected reli... ...nt at law, was appointed president. The place was Westminster Hall. At the upper end, in a red velvet chair, sat the president, with his hat (lined wi... ...arl of Warwick, and he had made his son Richard one of the Members of the Upper House. He was very kind and loving to them all, being a good father a...

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...ndlords, good masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle of Normandy, Picardy, Gascony, and you cel- ebrate deeds of theirs. At home th... ...hed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging it down to prop it up! swamping i... ...g it impressed him forcibly. She had given him a peaceable two days on the Upper Thames, in an atmosphere of plain good sense and just-mindedness. He ... ... he has never been in any great scandals. He is Norman, and has estates in Normandy, Dauphiny, T ouraine; he is hospitable, luxurious. Renee will have... ... flying through the circles of the Inferno, and the babble of an ephemeral upper world simply affected him by its contrast with the overpowering horro... .... While the broad smooth waters rolled unlighted beneath that transfigured upper sphere, it was possible to think the scene might vanish like a view c... ...huge shoes. He stooped from his height to speak, or rather swing the stiff upper half of his body down to his hearer’s level and back again, like a sh... ...’ said she, and checked her course to the walk again. ‘I hope you like our Normandy, and my valley. You used to love France, Nevil; and Normandy, they... ...ay be in manners too. A Beauchamp never can feel that he is a foreigner in Normandy. We claim you half French. You have grander parks, they say. We ca...

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..., after a pause, 67 Balzac “comes from one of the first families of Lower Normandy. Her maiden name was Mademoiselle Barbe-Philiberte de Champignelle... ...position which this an- cient lineage properly gave him in the province of Normandy. This gentleman had doubly derogated from his rightful sta- tion; ... ...e’s character was well known in the Bessin,—that beautiful region of Lower Normandy near Bayeux, where the family lived. The old man, whose little est... ...nts of the Revolutionary tribunals of that period; he became the terror of Normandy, and was able to satisfy all his passions. Imprisoned in his turn ... ...for the benefit of his son’s children. He persuaded the widow to return to Normandy; where she completed the education of her daughter and purchased o... ...cene had pointed out must have come for the two impecunious authors on the upper floor. He walked slowly, lost in vague apprehensions; for, in spite o...

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...c temperament: he was lineally descended from the re doubtable Fierabras of Normandy, who came over to En gland with the Conqueror, and who, in the ... ...,” said Matilda. Maid Marian T. L. Peacock 22 “But I will lock you in an upper chamber,” said the baron. “But I will shred the tapestry,” said Mat... ...n they are well roasted and smoking under my nose? What title had William of Normandy to England, that Robin of Locksley has not to merry Sherwood? Wi... ...” “Excellent laws,” said the baron: “excellent, by the holy rood. William of Normandy, with my great great grandfa ther Fierabras at his elbow, could...

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...tinging word, partly in the spirit of diabolical malice, and to secure the upper hand or the right of turning the tables. The Baroness had an ardent a... ...hould live with their uncle Johann, and keep house for him, instead of the upper servant, who must cost him dear, Lisbeth replied that that was the ve... ...inuated compliments for his son’s ben- efit, and restored the child to the Normandy nurse who had charge of it. Celestine, on her part, gave the Baron... ...hings, /magna parens rerum/, holds in her fair white hands the keys of the upper worlds. In short, that grand and terrible exception deserves all the ... ... the woman is not merely the superior of the man—she almost always has the upper hand. Madame Olivier had long since made up her mind as to which side... ...ill per- haps not be lost on some artists. Intellectual work, labor in the upper regions of mental ef- fort, is one of the grandest achievements of ma... ...his is what I wish, my child. Your Duc d’Herouville has immense estates in Normandy, and I want to be his steward, under the name of Thoul. I have the... ...u are al- ways after the women, and you would be dancing attendance on the Normandy girls, who are splendid creatures, and get- ting your ribs cracked... ...enses of a dying man, and her beauty, worthy to hold its own with any that Normandy has ever supplied to the theatres of the capi- tal. The lines of t...

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..., on the dais near the fire, the other two ran the length of the hall. The upper one was furnished with tolerably clean napery and a few silver vessel... ... were sunburnt and freckled, a tawny down of young manhood was on the long upper lip, and the short-cut hair was red; but there was an intelligent and... ...cot- land, whereas the Beauforts were for peace. As a vigorous governor of Normandy, he had not commended him self to one whose sympathies were French... ... obliged to yield to the general voice, and, recalling his own nephew from Normandy, send the Duke of York to defend the remnant of the English conque... ...l have you and your lady safely conducted without ransom to the borders of Normandy or Brittany, as you may list.’ ‘And think you, sir,’ returned Elea... ...ttained to the dizzy crag above. A fairer but more solid face, with a long upper lip, appeared, mounting in its turn. She durst not believe her eyes, ...

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...wn to maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise. What would his wonder be, his rapt astonishm... ...lf like a man,—trusting imperturbably in the appointment and choice of the upper Powers; and, on the whole, not fear at all. Now and always, the compl... ... audacity, and of small fruit in the world, to some of them;—to Hrolf’s of Normandy, for instance! Hrolf, or Rollo Duke of Normandy, the wild Sea-king... ...y are very wonderful: Great clouds, he says, born in the deep bosom of the Upper Im- mensity, where do they come from! They hang there, the great blac... ...l enough with this Portrait and this Book. He was born at Florence, in the upper class of society, in the year 1265. His education was the best then g... ...l fire of the world; Shakspeare, wide, placid, far-seeing, as the Sun, the upper light of the world. Italy produced the one world-voice; we English ha...

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...r will shortly see. Surely the lawyers of France and Navarre, nay, even of Normandy herself, will not refuse Petit- Claud his meed of admiration and r... ...ran the article, “Brit- tany of producing a Chateaubriand and a Lammenais, Normandy of Casimir Delavigne, and Touraine of the au- thor of Eloa; Angoum... ...he lower town, which groaned under the tyr- anny of the aristocrats at the upper end. He was the first to see the danger of leaving the whole press of... ...of Lib- eralism. Mlle. de la Haye’s ambiguous position brought most of the upper town to the signing of the marriage contract. The comparative poverty...

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...the Loire, to gather green boughs and field-flowers. The whole city, not to be behind in this luxury of cleanliness, assumed its best toilette with th... ... these two couples filed nobles, ladies, pages and officers; the flambeaux gleamed over the whole court, like the moving reflections of a conflagratio... ... shoe our horses declared they had been shod in the north.” “How strange!” murmured Louis XIV. “I never heard anything of all that; I was only told of... ...ngs the luxury of individuals, a source of riches for the people. His majesty, by accepting the gift of these six incomparable horses, would stimulate... ...ble of piercing walls of consciences. “Humph!” said D’Artagnan, “my tenants are communicating. That, no doubt, now, is some amateur in hang- ing matte... ...d by the weight of fifty years, bonhomie in his features collectively, but some cunning in his look. 463 Dumas “One would say,” thought D’Artagnan, “... ...illages on the route. The weather was very fine. France is a beautiful country, especially along the route by which the proces- sion passed. Spring ca... ...h the iron-barred window, could be seen a handsome young man, short in stature, with closely cut hair, and a beard beginning to grow; he was sitting o...

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...e of prosecution against the ministers of the Crown. In both countries the Upper House may make use of all the existing penal laws of the nation to pu... ...ture age was made one of the conditions of the senatorial dignity, and the Upper House was chosen by an elected assembly of a limited number of member... ...a, separated by a distance of a thousand miles, more naturally united than Normandy and Brittany – War, the main peril of confederations – This proved... ... and that of Georgia is slighter than the difference between the habits of Normandy and those of Brittany. Maine and Georgia, which are placed at the ... ...e natural possession of more real inducements to form a confederation than Normandy and Brittany, which are only separated by a bridge. The geographic... ...is precisely what occurred in America; when the demo- cratic party got the upper hand, it took exclusive possession of the conduct of affairs, and fro... ...ily com- munication with the most learned and enlightened mem- bers of the upper classes, and becomes practically acquainted with the laws of his coun... ... it be difficult for an aristocracy to prevent the people from getting the upper hand in the theatre, it will readily be understood that the people wi...

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...cond. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as be- comes his age.” The “new fellow,” standing in the cor... ...ples that the country doc- tor saw now for the first time in his life. The upper part of her cheek was rose-coloured. She had, like a man, thrust in b... ... angelica, almonds, raisins, and quarters of oranges; and finally , on the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats... ...over the instep running obliquely towards the ankle, while the rest of the upper continued in a straight line as if stretched on a wooden foot. He sai... ...ced that many ladies had not put their gloves in their glasses. But at the upper end of the table, alone amongst all these women, bent over his full p... ...at flow beyond in the neighboring country . Here we are on the confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is ... ... impressed the clerk. As to the chemist’s spouse, she was the best wife in Normandy, gentle as a sheep, loving her children, her father, her mother, h... ...office, in order to get practice in his profession, which was different in Normandy and Paris. Then he inquired after Berthe, the Homais, Mere Lefranc... ..., lord of Varenne and of Brissac, grand marshal of Poitou, and governor of Normandy, who died at the battle of Montlhery on the 16th of July, 1465.” L...

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...iece of his country, just opposite to England, which was called after them Normandy. There they learned to talk French, and grew like Frenchmen, thoug... ... king into his hands, for Ethelred went off in the height of the danger to Normandy, where he had before sent his wife Emma, and her children, leaving... ... ward, one of those sons of Ethelred the Unready who had been sent away to Normandy. He was a very kind, good, pious man, who loved to do good. He beg... ...History of England of them rose out of the king—who had been brought up in Normandy—liking the Normans better than the English. They really were much ... ...old, the son of Earl Godwin, a brave, spirited man; but Edward sent him to Normandy, and there Duke William made him swear an oath not to do anything ... ... brothers, William and Henry, grew riotous, and poured water down from the upper windows on him and his friends. He flew into a passion, dashed up- st...

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...rrogated, and then bidden or forbidden to ascend. The ground floor and the upper floor of that battered house are alike deserted, and the inmates keep... ... her do what he wanted. At first it had been rather fun to let him get the upper hand. But it was galling to discover that he could not do otherwise. ... ...me here alone—all across Europe; no one knows it; my father thinks I am in Normandy—to spy on Mrs. Herriton. Don’t let’s argue!” for he had begun, al-... ...Answer me that. What’s she doing in Monteriano in August? Why isn’t she in Normandy? Answer that. She won’t. I can: she’s come to thwart us; she’s bet...

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...d the ground be- neath required both feet and hands. When we were upon the upper edge of the high bank on the open slope, “My Master,” said I, “what w... ...conte was the captain of the Aretines. Campaldino is a little plain in the upper valley of the Arno. 8 The convent of the Calmaldoli, founded by St. ... ...Dante And as I opened my eye there more and more, I saw him sitting on the upper step, such in his face that I endured it not. 10 And he had in his h... ...s brow. 13 The hill of San Miniato, above Florence. 14 Ironical. 15 The upper bridge at Florence across the Arno, named after Messer Rubaconte di M... ...he north-eastern promontory of Sicily. 4 The people of the Casentino, the upper valley of the Arno. 5 The Aretines. 54 Purgatory them disdainfully ... ... with force and with false- hood; and, after, for amends, 12 Ponthieu and Normandy it took, and Gascony; Charles 13 came to Italy, and, for amends, ...

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... the twelve Roman emperors in white marble, and a table of touchstone; the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which the water i... ...three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a…colour;* a little lower... ...wick, died a few years ago. Robert d’Evereux, Earl of Essex, and of Ewe in Normandy, created hereditary Marshal of England in 1598. Charles Howard, of...

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... tell me, who thou wast; That, for this wrong to do thee some amends, In the upper world (for thither to return Is granted him) thy fame he may revive... ... next to me that beats the sand, Is Aldobrandi, name deserving well, In the’ upper world, of honour; and myself The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 45 ... ...te Hell 47 Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear’d, His head and upper part expos’d on land, But laid not on the shore his bestial train. ... ...egan: “So may no time Filch your remembrance from the thoughts of men In th’ upper world, but after many suns Survive it, as ye tell me, who ye are, A... ...dy of Dante Hell 89 Therefore, nor scornfully distort thy lip. He in the upper world can yet bestow Renown on thee, for he doth live, and looks Fo... ...e Guascogna, instead of Ponti e Normandia prese e Guascogna Seiz’d Ponthieu, Normandy and Gascogny. Landino has “Potti,” and he is probably right for ... ...to the French crown by Philip IV. See Henault, Abrege Chron. A.D. l283, &c. Normandy had been united to it long before by Philip Augustus, a circums... ... Aosta, about 1034, and studied under Lanfrane at the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where he afterwards devoted himself to a religious life, in his...

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...rom the sea into beds of clay, diversified by gravel and sand, and with an upper deposit of peaty, boggy soil, all having been brought down by the riv... ...orman customs, afterwards intro- duced by the Conqueror, from the Duchy of Normandy. The reasons commonly assigned for the peculiar usage just mention... ... others, but with narrow leaves. Goldilocks (R. auricomus).—More delicate, upper leaves spear-shaped, lower pinnate. In the borders of the copse wood ... ...bushes. Pansy (V. tricolor).—Everywhere in fallow fields. In rich soil the upper petals become purple. Sundew -(Drosera rotundifolia) The curious, hai...

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...n go on accumulating. While hollow langour and va- cuity is the lot of the Upper, and want and stagnation of the Lower, and universal misery is very c... ...tempered by Epi- grams;’ and now, it would seem, the Epigrams have get the upper hand. Happy were a young ‘Louis the Desired’ to make France happy; if... ... if it were not a swell of the abating kind? There are swells that come of upper tempest and wind-gust. But again there are swells that come of subter... ...e;—and surely a coin or two (to buy fusees) were not unreasonable from the Upper Classes, friends of Liberty? In this manner it proceeds for days; in ... ...t each of them a volunteer sentry; pile the whinstones in window-sills and upper rooms. Have scalding pitch, at least boiling water ready, ye weak old... ...Mirabeau’s. Remark, on the other hand, how General Dumouriez has quit- ted Normandy and the Cherbourg Breakwater, to come— whither we may guess. It is... ...t Anglomania of these admired Noble- men. Duke de Liancourt offers, out of Normandy where he is Lord-Lieutenant, not only to receive his Majesty, thin...

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...soners a little taste of gymnastics; a minute wooden shed filled the right upper corner and served secondarily as a very partial shelter for the men a... ...ind that no one entered or exited by the gate 66 The Enormous Room in the upper fence without authority; to report any signs, words, tokens, or other... ...ng each paillasse to make sure it had an occupant. Crossed the room at the upper end. Started down on my side. The white circle was in my eyes. The pl... ...great care and very respectfully, upon one or the other of our beds at the upper end of The Enor- mous Room, and smoke a black small pipe, talking exc... ... In the impeccable and altogether admirable desolation of La Ferté and the Normandy Autumn Celina, easily and fiercely moving, was a kinesis. The Fren... ...een corralled by Judas, and was enjoying a special bed to our right at the upper end of The Enormous Room. At the canteen he had purchased a large num...

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...o, soon.” They worked on in silence for a long time. Andrews stared at the upper right-hand corner and smeared with soap each pane of the window in tu... ...men in peasant costume, like in the song, “When It’s Apple Blossom Time in Normandy.” Men in spiked helmets who looked like fire- men kept charging th... ...ot a damn sight more. Meat for the guns.” A little man lying in one of the upper bunks had spoken suddenly, contracting his sallow face into a curious... ...his jovial, domi- neering manner. It was the first time he had been in the upper part of the ship. It seemed a different world. The long corridors wit... ...d and laughed. The cousin was looking from one to the other enviously, her upper lip lifted away from her teeth in a smile. The old woman munched her ... ... light the window threw on the cobbles of the court. A light went on in an upper window, sending a faint glow over the disorderly tiles of the roof of...

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...ey. We shall meet with them by-and-by. They shall have won you Brit- tany, Normandy, Flanders, Hainault, Brabant, Artois, Hol- land, Zealand; they hav... ...f his head, cutting his scalp upon the temple-bones, and lifting up in the upper part of the skull the two triangulary bones called sincipital, or the... ... and according to the temperature and disposition of the weather had their upper coats of satin, damask, or velvet, and those either or- ange, tawny, ... ...ch are commonly friends. After the two chases are made, he that was in the upper end of the tennis-court goeth out, and the other cometh in. They beli... ...there were set a-work all the braziers of Somure in Anjou, of Villedieu in Normandy, and of Bramont in Lorraine. And they served in this whitepot-meat... ...e whereby the great French ship rides at anchor in the road of Newhaven in Normandy. But, on a certain time, a great bear, which his father had bred, ... ...ft hand, and in this posture made his teeth to sound very melodiously, the upper against the lower. With this Thaumast, with great toil and vexation o... ... we thought a little upon our business, and by what means we might get the upper hand of our enemies. That is well re- membered, said Pantagruel. Ther...

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...t it. This was the bourgeois empyrean which Pons called his “family,” that upper world in which he so painfully reserved his right to a knife and fork... ...estate; a chateau (as fine a relic of the past as you will find to- day in Normandy) standing in a hundred acres of park land, and a fine dependent fa... ...of Popinot; and the immense dowry. At the present price fetched by land in Normandy, at two per cent, the property represented nine hundred thou- sand... ..., scraps of gauze, and esparto grass lay scattered about. The walls of the upper stories were covered with apprentices’ ribald scrawls and caricatures...

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...hood was to the other; And even as bread through hunger is devoured, The uppermost on the other set his teeth, There where the brain is to the nap... ...And feet and hands the ground beneath required. When we were come upon the upper rim Of the high bank, out on the open slope, “My Master,” said I,... ...uneven stone, Cracked all asunder lengthwise and across. The third, that uppermost rests massively, Porphyry seemed to me, as flaming red As blo... ... and with force Its rapine; and thereafter, for amends, Took Ponthieu, Normandy, and Gascony. Charles came to Italy, and for amends A victim mad...

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...or manu- factures were cultivated and improved to any considerable degree. Upper Egypt extends itself nowhere above a few miles from the Nile; and in ... ...who possess that other territory to obstruct the communication between the upper country and the sea. The navigation of the Danube is of very little u... ..., where the land is fit for producing it: as in Burgundy, Guienne, and the Upper Languedoc. The numerous hands employed in the one species of cultivat... ...omes down to the banks of the rivers; in the wet season, it retires to the upper country. When such a nation goes to war, the war- riors will not trus... ...ovinces of the five great farms, and under which are comprehended Picardy, Normandy, and the greater part of the interior provinces of the kingdom; se...

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...ied an English lady, and had received the grant if the castle of Leurre in Normandy by way of compensation for his ancestral one of Ribaumont in Picar... ... off with his wife and the little bridal pair for his castle of Leurre, in Normandy, nor was he ever seen at court again. 10 Yo n g e CHAPTER II CHAP... ...at abbeys are no such securities in these days. Let yonder Admiral get the upper hand, and we shall see Mericour, the happy cadet of eight brothers an... ...f the tiger. ‘Do you remember Benoit?’ she said; ‘poor Benoit, who came to Normandy as my laquais? When I went back to Anjou he married a girl from Le... ...edy. He undertook to lead the chase as far as possible in the direction of Normandy, when the young 70 Yo n g e pair might ride on to an inn, meet fr... ...ther than the head; and thus, though the bullet had terribly shattered the upper jaw and roof of the mouth, and had passed out through the back of the... ... lay the hospitable abode. The build- ing had fallen, but the beams of the upper floor had fallen aslant, so as to shelter a portion of the lower room... ...red, and all air of luxury was reserved for the mullioned casements of the upper storey. The court was flagged, but grass shot up between the stones, ... ...Nid de Merle, whom he well knew by sight, with an infant in her arms at an upper window. He had called to her by name, and was about to send for a lad...

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...ws of them were full of people. Behind the vast plate glass windows of the upper floors of the house on the corner one glimpsed terraced masses of fin... ... good, the military cap was pretty good, the nose was bold and strong, the upper lip sharp, but not pretty, and there was a great goatee that shot str... ...injurious to health are cabolic acid gas which is impure blood. We have an upper and lower skin. The lower skin moves all the time and the upper skin ... ... is dead; Stephen, that bold and outrageous person, comes flying over from Normandy to steal the throne from Henry’s daughter. He accomplished his cri...

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... his personality in his work. Of De Maupassant we know that he was born in Normandy about 1850; that he was the favorite pupil, if one may so express ... ...arm— he went to the window. The rain was descending in torrents, a regular Normandy rain, which looked as if it were being poured out by some furious ... ... same time sensual and bad, with the lower lip too thick for the thin, dry upper lip. I had several times noticed that every time he planted a knife i... ... time I was twenty-five years old, and was making daubs along the coast of Normandy. I call ‘making daubs’ that wandering about, with a bag on one’s b... ...t of the door, and I commenced to gnaw with hunger the lean members of the Normandy chicken, to drink the clear cider, and to munch the hunk of white ... ...mn, and I de- termined to make, before winter came, an excur- sion through Normandy, a country with which I was unacquainted. I began my journey, in t... ...heir escape into the darkness. I saw immediately that they belonged to the upper classes, and, as I should have done in any case, I invited them to co...

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... putty. Y ou wouldn’t have a man, mon cher, bury himself in his chateau in Normandy, out of the hunting season? The Rugantino Palace stupefies me. Tho... ...TTERS. A LUCKY SPECULATOR. “CONSIDERABLE SENSATION has been excited in the upper and lower circles in the West End, by a startling piece of good fortu... ... of that month I had been wounded (a trifling scratch, cutting off my left upper eyelid, a bit of my cheek, and my under lip), and I was obliged to le... ...wo districts or towns: the lower Cotwal, inhabited by the natives, and the upper (which is fortified slightly, and has all along been called Futtyghur... ...f giving a dinner-party, had a splen- did entertainment made ready for the upper classes, the whole concluding with a tasteful display of fireworks. I... ...hen the lion- hearted Prince began to make war against the French King, in Normandy and Guienne, Sir Wilfrid pined like a true servant to be in compan... ...said, “My love, I was thinking of going over to pay his Majesty a visit in Normandy.” Upon which, laying down her muffin, (which, since the royal Alfr... ... pamphlets among the low ale-houses and peasantry of the department of the Upper Rhine (in which he lurks); and the Police have an easy means of track...

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...ng point of Burns’s early period. He began to be received into the unknown upper world. His fame soon spread from among his fellow- rebels on the benc... ... low wall, they entered without difficulty. All but T abary took off their upper garments; a ladder was found and applied to the high wall which separ... ...ess. Two years after the murder (March 1409), John the Fearless having the upper hand for the moment, a shameful and useless rec- onciliation took pla... ...nch in front of a great chimney; red and black ink are before him; and the upper end of the apartment is guarded by many halberdiers, with the red cro... ...d the duke sang, in a truly patriotic vein, the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy.* They were liberal of rhymes and largesse, and welcomed the prosp... ...ivial side. The duke perhaps cared less for the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy than for his own verses on the occasion; just as Dr. Russell’s cor... ...his behaviour. In 1407 and the following years, he had his father’s murder uppermost in his mind. During his English captivity, that thought was displ... ...ily exampled out of his own mouth. When Alencon stood accused of betraying Normandy into the hands of the English, Charles made a speech in his defenc... ...rds him; “yet did he give no great proof thereof, when he sought to betray Normandy; whereby he would have made me lose an estate of 100,000 livres a ...