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...credit, a depleted till, the most valiant resolves to keep smiling, could 7 H G Wells not prevail for ever against these insistent phenomena. One mig... ... through the grimy streets of Port Burdock with his eye on the first floor windows—looking for balconies. A ladder in the yard flooded his mind with r... ..., O’ Man; let’s have some more of it.” “Look at old Morrison’s dress-stuff windows! Tidy, taste- ful, correct, I grant you, but Bleak!” He let out the... ...walls he caught glimpses of level lawns and blazing flower beds; mullioned windows revealed shaded read- ing lamps and disciplined shelves of brown bo... ... for the shop yawned an oblong gap below, framed above by an iron girder; “windows and fittings to suit tenant,” a board at the end of the row promise... ... could not bring him- self to go out and run the gauntlet of the observant windows and the cold estranged eyes. One of his last friendships was with R...

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...atis- fied air. ‘There is one fault in that portrait,’ said his Lordship, 7 Thackeray who was a rigid disciplinarian; ‘and I wonder that my friend Mi... ...), Roundhand, who was very good-natured, asked me to dine, and advanced me 7£. 1S. 8D., a month’s salary. It was at Roundhand’s house, Myddelton Squar... ...forter round my neck, and bade my companion particularly to keep the coach windows shut: which injunction the grinning wretch promised to obey. Our jo... ...y those 91 Thackeray dismal houses, I think, without a shudder. The front windows are barred, and on the dingy pillar of the door was a shining brass... ...t lamps; the curtains were down too, and you could not see the bars at the windows; and Mr. B., Mr. Lock the Brighton of- ficer, Mr. Aminadab, and ano... ...dge Street, and then up Bridge Street, and staring at Alderman W aithman’s windows, and then at the black man who swept the crossing. I never gave him...

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... to all. At this honest business, happy are the robbers that they are not 7 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 hanged, but esteemed and beloved. But he is a trip... ...com- panions ate and drank immoderately, looking at the situa- tion of the windows, waiting the moment to decamp, but not getting the opportunity. Cur... ...e like a princely creature, gayly decked with pavilions and lace curtained windows, with fine weather-beaten sol- diers on her vanes, turning whicheve... ...t number of people were in the house. And he has sworn to have seen by the windows of the said dwellings, green buds of all kinds in the winter, grow-... ...she gaze upon the leaves of the trees and grass of the meadows through the windows of the church during the offices and times of prayer; and persisted... ...e of her steps, without breaking the door, forcing of locks, or opening of windows, nor any sign whatever of the manner of her passage; a frightful ad...

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..., there be knights here would do their power for to rescue your lady, but 7 Le Morte Darthur – Book VII because you will not tell her name, nor where... ...and pavilions, and they within the castle looked over the walls and out at windows. Then the Red Knight of the Red Launds armed him hastily, and two b...

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...night or day, When I was got, sir Robert was away! King John, Act I, scene i 7 QUEEN ELINOR : The very spirit of Plantagenet! I am thy grandam, Rich... ...r.] KING JOHN : Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow room; It would not out at windows nor at doors. There is so hot a summer in my bosom, That all my b...

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...s; A third thinks, without expense at all, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene i 7 By guileful fair words peace may be obtain’d. Awake, awake, English nob... ...ast at one another’s pate That many have their giddy brains knock’d out: Our windows are broke down in every street And we for fear compell’d to shut ...

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...ed God and the king to conduct their own affairs without putting of their 7 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 finger in the pie oftener than they could help, be... ...e saw the wax-candles lighted in the houses and suddenly the doors and the windows closed. Then he heard the blessed abbots or others jumping about, ... ... a conquest of the young priest who all day long had been in her head. The windows had been closed; Madame was decked out in a manner fit to do honour... ...outh. When quite little, he squeezed young ladies, turned the house out of windows, and played the devil with everything, when he was called upon to p... ...is is how. On entering the Rue des Marmouzets he saw several lights at the windows and night-capped heads thrust out, and good wenches, gay girls, hou... ...o entertain, even when to do so it were necessary to turn the house out of windows. We shall get back everything tomorrow in the cellars. Come, fall t...

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...ths later, the Baron died, worn out with grief. The Nouastres came of the 7 Balzac best blood in the province; Mlle. de Nouastre was a girl of two-an... ...ved courtyard in front, where the rose-bushes grew and clambered up to the windows of the upper story. Behind lay a little country garden, with its bo... ...ed openings in the opposite wall, as you entered, re- minded you of prison windows. Every passer-by could look in through the railings to see how the ... ...n. The din- ing-room on the other side of the great ante-chamber, with its windows also looking out into the garden, was exactly the same size as the ... ...s a plain-looking house, built of brick, with brick- work arches above the windows, and bright green Venetian shutters to make it gay. Through the gla... ...assage, and down the central alley in the garden beyond; while through the windows of the dining- room and drawing-room, which extended, like the pass...

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..., Marion, ’ cried her sister, ‘even in jest. There is not The Battle of Life 7 a truer heart than Alfred’s in the world!’ ‘No no,’ said Marion, raisi... ...earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voi... ... sweet briar, roses, The Battle of Life 50 wall flowers, the plants at the windows, and the leaves on the old tree, were in the beaming state of mod...

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...n of Cinq-Cygne. The village of Cinq-Cygne is at the end of the forest of 7 Balzac Nodesme (a corruption of Notre-Dame) which was reached through the... ...f the Comtesse de Cinq-Cygne, barricaded the doors, and stood guard at the windows, after 23 Balzac closing the wooden blinds, with the five men-serv... ...dish towers at either end, connected by a long main building with casement windows, the stone mullions of which, being roughly carved, bear some resem... ...d the whole building is surmounted by an immense roof bro- ken by casement windows with carved triangular pediments. Before the castle lies a vast gre... ...te brocade with green flow- ers, from the hotel de Simeuse, draped the six windows of the salon, in which the family were now assembled. The walls of ... ...he bed, Gothard was closing the blinds, when Marthe Michu coming under the windows flung a pebble on the glass and was seen at once. “Mademoiselle, he...

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...ith him, and brought down the most arrogant by a grave satiric way, which 7 Thackeray made persons exceedingly afraid of him. His courtesy was not pu... ...d house that was before them, with many gray towers and vanes on them, and windows flaming in the sun- shine; and a great army of rooks, wheeling over... ... in the manner of Queen Elizabeth’s time, with great 29 Thackeray stained windows at either end, and hangings of tapestry, which the sun shining thro... ...rn end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the painted windows surviving Edward the Sixth had been broke by the Commonwealthmen. I... ...arty of people came from the town, who would have broken Castlewood Chapel windows, but the village people turned out, and even old Sieveright, the re... ...et more? I know you will never betray me.” In the Chaplain’s room were two windows; the one looking into the court facing westwards to the fountain; t...

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... through his white beard, ‘Have mercy, good Lord, have mercy on the land. 7 Yo n g e Have mercy on my son,—and guard him when he goes out and when he... ...se. The bright new red and yellow tiles, and the stained glass of the tall windows high up, as well as the pan- els of the wainscot, were embellished ... ... the arms of the companies of Lon- don, supporting the tier of first-floor windows, and another row of brackets above supporting another overhanging s... ...n to the convent, where the quadrangle was full of horses and men, and the windows shone with lights. At the door of the refectory stood a figure whos... ...s the cry resounding on all sides. ‘Have at them! There’s the rogue at the windows. Out on the fellows! Burn 113 Yo n g e down the door! ’Tis Vaurus ... ...ot touched and held is but a vain and fleeting shadow— “solvitur in nube.” 7 ‘Negatur, it is denied!’ said Kennedy, fixing his eyes full upon him. ‘Th... ...eus, when both are poor and exiled, dis- miss boasting and six-foot words. 7 It is dispersed in a cloud. 237 Yo n g e gent grew weary of it, and bed...

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... bar ought to be—as here they are—mistily engaged in one of the ten thou 7 Bleak House – Dickens sand stages of an endless cause, tripping one anoth... ...hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well ma... ...kes a background for the falling rain. The view from my Lady Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The v... ...ked to that degree, in short, that we all sat coughing and crying with the windows open for half an hour, during which Mrs. Jellyby, with the same swe... ...G WAS RAW, and although the fog still seemed heavy—I say seemed, for the windows were so en crusted with dirt that they would have made midsummer s... ...assing and repassing, the busy prepa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in...

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...t most amused him. After a time the fellow suggested drinks. Wilbur hesi- 7 Frank Norris tated for a moment. It would be something to tell about, how... ..., her sails just showing above the waves, was a pilot-boat with the number 7 on her mainsail. The evening was closing in; the Farallones were in plain... ...thing has changed. You see that big sort of round wing, Moran, all full of windows? That’s the dining-room. And there’s the bathhouse and the bowling-...

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...low, and he is A man worth any woman, overbuys me Cymbeline Act I, scene i 7 Almost the sum he pays. CYMBELINE: What, art thou mad? IMOGEN: Almos... ...ld under peep her lids, To see the enclosed lights, now canopied Under these windows, white and azure laced With blue of heaven’s own tinct. But my de...

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... “They’re going to try it—and they’ll come out if it isn’t satisfactory.” 7 D. H. Lawrence “The butties won’t have it, I know,” she said. He gave a s... ...curious! May we look at it?” Josephine now turned the handle of the French windows, and stepped out. “Beautiful!” they heard her voice exclaim from ou... ...the fields. So he saw a curious succes- 39 D. H. Lawrence sion of lighted windows, between which jutted the interme- diary back premises, scullery an... ...k- shelves and the piano were two beds, with washstand by one of the large windows, the one through which Lilly had climbed. The policeman looked roun... ...he grass was already growing long. He stood and looked at the line of back windows, lighted once more. He smelled the scents of autumn, phlox and mois... ...were. He wanted his hat and coat, and did not know where to find them. The windows looked on to a terraced garden, the hill rising steeply behind the ...

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...Don Quixote always supposed to be at hand to record his deeds of prowess. 7 Yo n g e Next we are presented with the German impersonation of Satan as ... ...stry hangings to the wall, and cushions both to the carved chairs and deep windows, which looked out into the street, the whole storey projecting into... ...g at the far distance. Know you if it be indeed Ulm that we see from these windows?” “Ulm? That is where thou comest from?” said Ermentrude languidly.... ...ats and sausages of the household. In spite of all endeavours to guard the windows and keep up the fire, the cold withered the poor child like a fadin... ...card. It was a festival of brilliant joy. Wreaths of flowers hung from the windows; rich tapestries decked the Dome Kirk, and the relics were displaye... ... but to overcome evil with good. A temporary altar was erected between the windows, and hung with the silk and embroidery belonging to that in the cha...

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...s. Elec- tion to one of the five names is significant; it brings not only 7 Robert Louis Stevenson dignity but power, and the holder is secure, from ... ... tremulously expectant of the result. By seven the letter was received. By 7.30 Becker arrived in 35 Robert Louis Stevenson person, inquired for Laup... ...ge, fifty criminals were chained together, two and two, by the ankles. The windows were out of reach; and there was only one door, which was opened at... ...rain, and then went in “something with a house, drawn by horses, which had windows and many decks”; plainly an omnibus. Here (at Bremen or Bremerhaven...

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...mfort the oppressed, 210 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time 7 But like a thirsty wind to roam about Withering the oppressor; how Gust... ...ty season, when the sun 455 Was set, and visible for many a mile The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d, I heeded not the summons:—happy time... ...hen the chaise Rolled over the flat plains of Huntingdon And through the open windows first I saw The long backed chapel of King’s College rear His pinn... ... penury constrained, Bucer, Erasmus, or Melancthon, read Before the doors or windows of their cells 495 By moonshine through mere lack of taper light....

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... was his greatest torment: it was for our sakes he had so ardently longed 7 Anne Brontë to increase his fortune—it was our interest that had lent suc... ...ed, he would frequently give himself the trouble of watching them from the windows during their play; at times, he would follow them through the groun... ...ime we paused again, before the stately portico of a large house with long windows descending to the ground. I rose with some difficulty from under th... ...ad, with narrow slips of garden-ground before them, Venetian blinds to the windows, and a flight of steps leading to each trim, brass-handled door. In...