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... is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then tu... ...ed in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks. Their banks are flat, and rise but a few feet 27 Tocqueville above the level of ... ...isplays an inexhaustible fer- tility; in proportion as you recede from its banks, the powers of vegetation languish, the soil becomes poor, and the pl... ...ive-trees, and laurels. Beyond this outer belt lay the thick shades of the central forest, where the largest trees which are produced in the two hemis... ... Tocqueville formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently ... ...t side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at this day, tumuli raised by t... ...ed in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks. Their banks are flat, and rise but a few feet above the level of their waters; ea... ...ive-trees, and laurels. Beyond this outer belt lay the thick shades of the central forest, where the largest trees which are produced in the two hemis... ...t side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at this day, tumuli raised by t...

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...to the wise old Latin cities—Paris, Lyons, Bor deaux, Florence —their river banks were already firmly and beautifully built up, and the factory chimne... ...nd beauty of composition of a certain building with curved wings and a small central dome that looks across the Seine at the gardens of the Louvre and... ...men of the dawn have been found on the walls and caves and grottoes all over central and southern France, throughout the very region where our America... ... The traces of a very ancient culture discovered in the United States and in Central America prove the far off existence of an artistic and civic deve... ...ic period, must have swept away the astounding race who adorned the caves of central and south western France with drawings matching those of the Japa... ...inuity of her social life. By her geographic position she seemed destined to centralise and cherish the scattered fires of these old societies. What is... ... tanning and working and hoarding, in the same valleys and on the same river banks as their immemorially remote predecessors. Could anything be in gre...

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... him, wondering whether, after all, it would not be better to use him as a central figure in a good farce and let all this other stuff slide. And then... ... opened a window moonward, and we saw that we were dropping towards a huge central crater with a number of minor craters grouped in a sort of cross ab... ...isordered escarpment of drab and gray- ish rock, lined here and there with banks and crevices of snow. This was perhaps a dozen miles away, but at fir... ... slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebound- ing from banks, faster and faster, westward into the white- hot boiling tumult of th... ...t had been hidden from us, but not from the quickening sun, over reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was... ...And still around this stirring jungle, wherever there was shadow, lingered banks of bluish snow. And to have the pic- ture of our impression complete,... ...s.” He stretched out his hand for his blanket, thrust his head through its central hole, and wrapped it about him. He sat down on the edge of the manh... ...o not think we can judge the Selenites by what we have seen of them. Their central world, their civilised world will be far below in the profounder ca... ...and more popu- lous as one descends. Assuredly. Right down at the last the central sea that washes round the core of the moon. Think of its inky water...

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...he tide ran out nearly two miles on that coast, and the many- coloured mud-banks, touched by the sun, sent up a lamentable smell of dead weed. It was ... ...ling fouled revolver kicked wildly in his hand, ‘we’ll get another pistol,—central fire,—that will carry farther.’ ‘There won’t b any next holidays fo... ...thing for the whale-boats to over- pass. The desert ran down almost to the banks, where, among gray, red, and black hillocks, a camel- corps was encam... ...man in the flannel shirt, the black-browed Torpenhow. He rep- resented the Central Southern Syndicate in the cam- paign, as he had represented it in t... ...ive!’ In the evening Torpenhow was able to announce to his friend that the Central Southern Agency was will- ing to take him on trial, paying expenses... ...d I’ll send ‘em along.’ To himself he said, ‘That’s the best bar- gain the Central southern has ever made; and they got me cheaply enough.’ So it came... ...was to Torpenhow that Dick turned by instinct. The repre- sentative of the Central Southern Syndicate had shaken himself clear of his enemy, and rose,... ...est! — Blue Roses. THE SEA had not changed. Its waters were low on the mud-banks, and the Marazion Bell-buoy clanked and swung in the tide-way. On the... ...f silver showed where a ripple of the rising tide was turning over the mud-banks. The wind had dropped, and in the intense stillness they could hear a...

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...assed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. Commander Farragut thought, and with reason,... ...tilus, then it stopped. “We have arrived,” said the Captain. I went to the central staircase which opened on to the platform, clambered up the iron st... ...ace of the ocean to renew our supply of oxygen. I directed my steps to the central stair- case, and mounted the platform. 73 Jules Verne It was six o... .... “Hardly.” “Well, come and you will see.” I directed my steps towards the central staircase. There Ned Land and Conseil were slyly watching some of t... ...isoner? Quite free. I opened the door, went to the half- deck, went up the central stairs. The panels, shut the evening before, were open. I went on t... ...t common way is to lay the oysters on mats of the seaweed which covers the banks. Thus they die in the open air; and at the end of ten days they are i... .... At about seven o’clock we found ourselves at last sur- veying the oyster-banks on which the pearl-oysters are reproduced by millions. Captain Nemo p... ... a splendid fur of green variety of sites and landscapes along these sand- banks and algae and fuci. What an indescribable spec- tacle, and what varie... ... Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world! It is upon these banks, and on these waters, says Michelet, that man is renewed in one of th...

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...ich thy crescent would have grown; I see thee sitting crown’d with good, 5 A central warmth diffusing bliss In glance and smile, and clasp and kiss, O... ...ood below; 20 And on by many a level mead, And shadowing bluff that made the banks, We glided winding under ranks Of iris, and the golden reed; And st... ...move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, 20 But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hi... ...thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow 5 From form to form, and...

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...nd to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable cli- mate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, some- times floods the country around ... ... about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France,— “son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et cour... ...e. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the fl... ...ir. Every inch of this structure, of its balconies, its pillars, its great central columns, is wrought over with lovely images, strange and ingenious ... ...fection. A light, sweet mansion stood looking over a wide green lawn, over banks of flowers and groups of trees. It had a striking character of elegan... ...y feebly kindled by the records of the luxurious pastimes organized on the banks of the Cher by the terrible daughter of the Medici, whose appreciatio... ...y. Loches is certainly one of the greatest impressions of the traveller in central France,— the largest cluster of curious things that presents itself... ...ed portals, all in a row, each surmounted with a gable; the gable over the central door being exception- ally high. Above the porches, which give the ... ...mission which lengthens the vista, so that from my place near the door the central jewelled 61 Henry James window in the depths of the perpendicular ...

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...om this conversation the bishop had made his way to the vicarage of Mogham Banks. The vicar of Mogham Banks was a sacerdotal socialist of the most adv... ...he bishop did his best not to know too exactly what was going on at Mogham Banks. Sooner or later he felt he would be forced to do something—and the l... ... a big wall paint- ing rather in the manner of Puvis de Chavannes. And the central figure had been the bishop of Princhester himself. He had been stan... ...ance besieged him. Chief of this was his distress for Eleanor. She was the central figure in this new sense of illusion in familiar and trusted things... ... in the matter of infant confession, and generally bright- ening up Mogham Banks; next, a popular preacher in Wombash, published a book under the exas... ...hurchman would mean a very complete collapse of church influence in Mogham Banks, where people were now thoroughly accustomed to a highly ornate servi... ...he whole Church. It was—as some atheist or other put it the other day —the central heating of the soul. But never mind that point now. Consider the es... ...there at all, not in anything between west-end and suburb, but yourself as central as your mind, in a kind of clergy house that will be part of the bu... ...is to be this little simple chapel we proposed, then wasn’t our idea to be central?” “But if the’ isn’ t ‘oem! “she said—conclusively . “ And isn’ t t...

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...uth) are dead ahead of us; for we keep the Southern Winter Route. Coventry Central, the pivot of the English system, stabs upward once in ten seconds ... ... sinking like a log,” says Captain Purnall in an un- dertone. “Call up the Banks Mark Boat, George.” Our dip- dial shows that we, keeping abreast the ... ...ptain Hodgson watches the General Communicator. He has called up the North Banks Mark Boat, a few hundred miles west, and is reporting the case. “I’ll... ...e is the strength and direction of “162,” through whatever may befall. The Banks Mark Boat is reeling out pages of A. B. .C. Directions to the traffic... ...ery far to the west an elongated blur of red, low down, shows us the North Banks Mark Boat. There are specks of fire round her rising and falling—bewi... ...g mate on the c. p. while George fans her along over the white blur of the Banks in beautiful upward curves of fifty miles each. The dip-dial translat... ...are permitted both fore and aft, as in the old type, but the water-ballast central tank is rendered obligatory. These things work, if not for perfec- ... ... M. R. The Rectory, Gray’s Barton, Wilts. COMMERCIAL DIG, CENTRAL and Southern Europe. A smart, active man for a L. M. T. Dig. Night ... ...eve.” “Hooray! Haven’t talked Punjabi for three months—and a Punjabi from Central Africa ought to be amusin’.” We heard the chuff of the motor in the...

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...eet the steamer. Soon her gigantic hull appeared passing along between the banks, and eleven o’clock struck as she anchored in the road. She brought a... ... com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for th... ...y breakfast and started off for Assurghur, after skirting for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, nea... ...ly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they pe... ...the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which stil... ...ing the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders? The panorama passed befo... ...acific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, be... ...a. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its start- ing-point, extends eastwa...

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...o had played undistinguished parts or no parts at all in the affair, and a central group of heated and distressed principals. A young man with an inqu... ...e taken and guarded against. There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which termi- nated in the engine and propeller, and the me... ...er the hesitating Emperor to the scheme. Prince Karl Albert was indeed the central figure of the world drama. He was the darling of the Imperialist sp... ... of architectural beauty, of exquisite ascendant lines, and long after the central congestion had been relieved by tunnels under the sea, four colossa... ...est model attached to string became a seri- ous check to the pedestrian in Central Park. And amidst scenes of indescribable emotion the Albany legisla... ... A tornado of realisation swept through every stock exchange in the world; banks stopped payment, business shrank and ceased, factories ran on for a d... ... silver sort of went off. Gold you ‘couldn’t get for love or—anything. The banks in London ‘ad got it, and the banks was all smashed up. Everybody wen... ... fightin’ and shootin’ down, and burnin’ and plundering. They broke up the banks up in London and got the gold, But they couldn’t make food out of gol...

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... the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was found... ...ing in the States. San Jose, the capital of the republic of Costa Rica, in Central America, has been pre- pared and arranged as a new city in the same... ...be- hind him. But Washington, when he resolved to found his capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He di... ... will stand something higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have vanished, and her wealth wil... ...and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they are the worst of all. An American wo... ... a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy days of pea... ...re, as the result of their labor, stands a fair great city on the southern banks of the Ohio. Here General Buell held his headquarters, but his army l... ...down and perish in its mud. Cairo is the southern terminus of the Illinois Central Railway. There is but one daily arrival there, namely, at half-past... ... the United States. They see to what Mexico has come, and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of even that degradation is less bitter t...

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...en o’clock. “ Ain’t there?” says Tom; “ you look at the north sides of the banks, and see how you’d like it.” Some one makes an uncivil remark as to t... ...’d like it.” Some one makes an uncivil remark as to the north sides of the banks, and wants to know when old Jorrocks is coming. “ The squire ‘ll be h... ... with other patient long-suffering, mindful men at some corner, or at some central point amidst the rides, biding your time, consoling yourself with c...

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...ity amongst the rafters. The front wall was cut in two by the doorway of a central passage closed by a red curtain. The women’s room opened into that ... ... cal night she could see at each flash of lightning the forest lining both banks up the river, bending before the furious blast of the coming tempest,... ...e two branches of the Pantai. Up both branches, in the houses built on the banks and over the water, the lights twinkled already, reflected in the sti... ...he white man the Malay chief preferred to make his way quietly through the central passage of the house, and would come out into the garden at the bac... ...and passed into a large room she shared with her mother on the left of the central passage. Entering, she saw that Mrs. Almayer had deserted the pile ... ...to the current, and bore it off silently and rapidly between the invisible banks. And once more Dain, at the feet of Nina, forgot the world, felt hims... ...h of leaping fish to disturb the serene repose of all living things on the banks of the great river. Earth, river, and sky were wrapped up in a deep s... ...yellow rays shot upwards from behind the black curtain of trees lining the banks of the Pantai. The stars went out; the little black clouds at the zen...

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...unning beside her’—he made a small spot beside the mark that stood for the central star of what we call the Bear’s Tail. ‘I never saw that!’ ‘No, ’tis... ...rally of the party opposite to that which they intended to rob. But on the banks of the Derwent, not far from its fall into the sea, Sir Lancelot had ... ...CHAPTER CHAPTER VII VII VII VII VII ON DER ON DER ON DER ON DER ON DERWENT BANKS WENT BANKS WENT BANKS WENT BANKS WENT BANKS When under cloud of fear ... ...s, watch the lights and shadows on the wondrous mountains, or dream on the banks of the river, by which he could make his way to the seashore, a place... ... this time (longer in narrative than in reality) led them, not through the central field of slaughter, but somewhat to the left, among the heath—where...

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...ertainty of its end. T o be sure, only too often the waters overflow their banks and run far afield in alien chan- nels. Yet, when great power over th... ...selected for this mail service; 4thly, through the conscious presence of a central intellect, that, in the midst of vast distances* —of storms, of dar... ...es than finally to France, our enemy, and to the nations of all western or central Eu- rope, through whose pusillanimity it was that the French domina... ...ions, to be executed in Bath, which had gathered to her own residence as a central rendezvous for converging them. The mail-coachman who drove the Bat... ...with the plans of our enemy, but still more from its keeping alive through central Europe the sense of a deep- seated vulnerability in France. Even to... ...elieve, in fields of air travers- ing the total gulf between earth and the central heavens. Still, in the confidence of children that tread without fe... ...e ‘profanum vulgus,’ the tag-rag and bob-tail, who veg- etate on the sedgy banks of Camus.” This use is in De Quincey’s mind. Later, in the strikes of...

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...orms, or stepping from one to another down the steps, or swarming over the central space, was an innumerable and wonderfully diversified mul- titude o... ...ll more thickly. He saw pointing fingers. He perceived that the motionless central area of this huge arcade just op- posite to the balcony was densely... ...thers. More and more faces were turned to him. At the intervals along this central area Graham noted openings, pits, apparently the heads of staircase... ...sing away bare. With incredible swiftness a vast crowd had gathered in the central space before his eyes; a dense swaying mass of people, and the shou... ...im, shouting strange, unintelligible things, and ran back obliquely to the central way. One thing he distin- guished: “It is indeed the Sleeper. It is... ...urpation of the world was so dexter- ously performed—a proteus—hundreds of banks, compa- nies, syndicates, masked the Council’s operations—that it was...

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...oad; but at the elbow mead ows spread out, and huge trees which lined the banks of the Morelle covered the extremity of the valley with lordly shade.... ...ying its wounds with a sad air. Five buckets were shattered to pieces; the central framework was riddled. He thrust his fingers in the bullet holes to...

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...ended to stay a few days at Bellaggio, which, as all the world knows, is a central spot on the lake of Como, and a favourite resting-place for travell... ...f Como and the Lago Maggiore, put out their passengers at the towns on the banks of the water by means of small rowing-boats, and the persons who are ...

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...try shrouds again: And mountain dark, and flooded mead, Bid us forsake the banks of T weed. Earlier than wont along the sky, Mixed with the rack, the ... ...nd murmurs at the cross. And then her heritage;—it goes Along the banks of Tame; Deep fields of grain the reaper mows, In meadows rich ... ...s in time of strife: Thus have I ranged my power: Myself will rule this central host, Stout Stanley fronts their right, My sons command the vawa... ...udden, as he spoke, From the sharp ridges of the hill, All downward to the banks of Till, Was wreathed in sable smoke. Volumed and fast, and rollin... ... of fire – With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland’s central host, 191 Sir Walter Scott Or victory and England’s lost. Mu...