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...l monsters have fixed their cold, dull eyes, and in which myriads of small fish have slept, seeking a refuge from the pursuit of their enemies.” Meanw... ...from Japan. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enor- mous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced ... ..., in breaking a horse that no one can ride. For example, you see these two fish; one brought fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagu... ...to see them both on the same table?” 43 Alexandre Dumas “What are the two fish?” asked Danglars. “M. Chateau-Renaud, who has lived in Russia, will te... ...upitor impossibilium; and that is what is amusing you at this moment. This fish, which seems so exquisite to you, is very likely no better than perch ... ...of the indictment was ended. “Accused,” said the president, “your name and surname?” An- drea arose. “Excuse me, Mr. President,” he said, in a clear v...

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...d her shoulders. “There is no need for you to know it. I think you know my surname. What more do you want? And why do you always keep on asking how I ... ...ny good,” he began again. “Not your man, Ivan, he has no more sense than a fish, but another one, Kirill, the butler.” (Kirill was known to be a confi... ...ho had formerly been dismissed from a club for dirtiness.) A nasty, greasy fish soup was prepared, various pates chauds and fricasses and, most import... ...o to dinner,” Golushkin ex- claimed. They partook of various kinds of salt fish to give them an appetite and sat down to the table. Directly after the... ...ich certain of the great Russian bureaucrats are celebrated for. After the fish, Valentina Mihailovna, who had been lavish- ing all her charms on Solo... ...a peasant?” “Why?” Nejdanov began. He certainly did look like some sort of fishmonger in that garb, was conscious of it himself, and was annoyed and e...

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...ybreak. 7 Melville CHAPTER II. Showing that Many Men have Many Minds “ODD FISH!” “Poor fellow!” “Who can he be?” “Casper Hauser.” “Bless my soul!” “U... ...g his umbrella under his arm, and diving down his hand into his pocket, he fished forth a purse, and, accidentally, along with it, his business card, ... ...t of her large, metal- lic eyes, which her enemies called cold as a cuttle-fish’s, but which by her were esteemed gazelle-like; for Goneril was not wi... ...ch- ing thirst?” The miser, a lean old man, whose flesh seemed salted cod- fish, dry as combustibles; head, like one whittled by an idiot out of a kno... ... replied: “Colonel John Moredock,” repeating the words abstractedly; “that surname recalls reminiscences. Pray,” with enlivened air, “was he any- way ... ... biography of an Indian-hater par excellence, any more than one of a sword-fish, or other deep-sea denizen; or, which is still less imaginable, one of...

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...ve times the year its course has born,” The wandering maid replied, “Since fishers on St. Bridget’s morn Drew nets on Campsie side. “St. Bridget sent ... ... was on St. Bridget’s morn, and twelve harvests before this time, that the fishermen of Campsie drew in their nets neither grilse nor salmon, but an i... ... pointing to the wind, and what hope could he have in an ordinary Highland fishing- boat to escape from them? If he made the latter choice, his chance... ...’s head, and carried the same to the Laird of M’Grigor, who, and the haill surname of M’Grigors, purposely conveined upon the Sunday yrafter, at the K... ...e of being have animals resembling those of another ele- ment, as there be fishes at sea resembling Monks of late or- der in all their hoods and dress...

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...el. I had to preside, too, over the entertainment, consisting of a dish of fish, a roast fowl, a sweetbread, veg etables, pudding, and Madeira; and i... ...een Caroline, several shells, a good many tea trays, two stuffed and dried fish in glass cases, and either a curious egg or a curious pumpkin (but I d... ...iss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex cuse me—lady’s name, Christian and surname both?” I gave them. “Married woman, I believe?” said Mr. Guppy. “Ma... ...servants’ hall to regale on cold meat pie and ale. This groom is the pilot fish before the nobler shark. Next evening, down come Sir Leicester and my ... ...ringing voice and the other keeping it in in such a cold blooded, gasping, fish like manner that I thought I never had seen two people so unmatched. “... ...r source of life half frozen and half thawed, twinkle gaspingly like fiery fish out of wa ter—as they are. The world, which has been rumbling over th...

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...a half faint. Facing us, the youth in knickerbockers remained as mute as a fish, and, till he jumped out with the latchkey, sat more still than I woul... ...called him Anarchisto de Barcelona, as if it were his Chris- tian name and surname. But the people in town had been reading in their papers about the ... ...ssion was not that of a man who “imagines” with facility. He did, however, fish out of the chaos of surmises the notion that his prospective mother-in... ...dea he might have gone back to Sorrento to his piano and his books and his fishing. He was great friends with all the boatmen, and fished a good deal ... ...her guard) the Waterbury fifty-franc thing he used to take with him on his fishing expe- ditions. Perceiving the nature of this booty, the well- dress...

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...ith a public rebuke, and would certainly have mulcted him both of soup and fish; as it was, that polite though partial gentleman only shook his head, ... ...fore sending away the first course, reserved for me a portion of the stock-fish of which it consisted. Dinner being over, the boys rushed out for thei... ... two English baptismal names, Frances and Evans, in addition to her French surname, also whence she derived her good ac- cent. I had forgotten both po...

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...n who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. But his role was altered, and he was now playing the bridegroom ... ...s of an impa- tient horse, the trick of a calculating boy, the senses of a fish, the fungus at the root of a garden flower, and the slime upon a sea-w... ...ords of the land. But out of a belated regard for her father she wrote the surname of some one else. Some day, when the rewards of literature permit t...

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...e places— a little village perched on a cliff of a promontory, and a small fishing hamlet within the bay, but these had become merged in one, since fa... ...so called each other Bill and Jack. She advised him to call himself by his surname, not to mention his father’s title if he could help it, and, above ... ...f any one called Maura but one of the Whites,’ said Gillian. ‘What was her surname?’ This V aletta could not tell, and at the moment Mrs. Mount came u... ...hero, but Master George was gone off in attendance on his brother, who was fishing, and there was nothing to relieve the polite circle of the drawing-... ...to Kalliope to go back with her, for when once Aunt Jane get into the very fishy hamlet of Tideshole, which lay beyond the quarries, there was no know... ...mself from being ignomini- 176 Charlotte M. Young ously stopped by an old fishwoman! He had, as Aunt Jane said, regularly dipped Gill back into child... ...rve, though your theory holds together, still it has rather an ancient and fish-like smell.’ ‘I only ask you to investigate, and make him do so. Liste...

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...rtual hint to Waymarsh to help him to enjoy the telling. He waited for his fish, he drank of his wine, he wiped his long moustache, he leaned back in ... ...y way of doing something—to say “Merci, Francois!” out quite loud when his fish was brought. Everything was there that he wanted, everything that coul... ...“and his name’s rather funny. It’s John Little Bilham, and he says his two surnames are, on account of his be- ing small, inevitably used together.” “... ...ch other, in their deep immersion, with the round impersonal eye of silent fish. It was practically produced between them that Waymarsh was giving him... ...here deep down; Maria Gostrey had caught glimpses of it; but how was he to fish it up, even if he desired, for Mrs. Pocock? This was then the spirit i...

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... Clydesdale, and shire of Lanark, with the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, fishings in the Clyde, woods, mosses, moors, and pasturages,” etc., etc. Th... ...that these were sometimes on the point of failing. At times his success in fishing and the chase was able to add something to her subsistence; but he ... ... preceded his proposed departure, Hamish walked down to the river with his fishing-rod, to practise in the Awe, for the last time, a sport in which he... ...o Skooroora. The lakes were broader and larger, and abounded not only with fish, but with the enchanted and amphibious animal which gives oil to the l... ...obin Oig’s father, Lachlan M’Combich (or son of my friend, his actual clan surname being M’Gregor), had been so called by the celebrated Rob Roy, beca...

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...in 1767—8, he wrote the second part of the Confessions. He had assumed the surname of Renou, and about this time he declared before two witnesses that... ...ed with sports and revelry, the rivers offered refreshing baths, delicious fish wantoned in these streams, and how delightful was it to ramble along t... ...onely country- house, a table every day furnished with sea and fresh-water fish, excellent game, and choice wines, served up with all the attention an... ...osition, and much afraid of his wife; for this reason he had given her the surname of Lieutenant Criminal, which Grimm, jocosely, afterwards transferr... ...nce that he could add to the value of the favor he was *I did not give the surname of Jongleur only to the latter until a long time after his enmity h...

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...urns” (such it seems was her name: the girls here were all called by their surnames, as boys are elsewhere), “Burns, you are standing on the side of y... ...ly to the kitchen. All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her cruci... ...tory—where it usually stood, sur- rounded by exotics, and tenanted by gold fish—and whence it must have been transported with some trouble, on account...

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...orn as to be ab 44 Bleak House – Dickens solute traps. We had a fine cod fish, a piece of roast beef, a dish of cutlets, and a pudding; an excellent... ...d into a vacant chair (there was no top or bottom in particular) after the fish was taken away and seemed passively to submit himself to Borriohoola ... ... in my stock. And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. And all’s fish that comes to my net. And I can’t abear to part with anything I once l... ...ith a young gentleman sitting on a bench outside the inn door who had some fishing tackle lying beside him. “That’s the housekeeper’s grandson, Mr. Ro... ... the mean while, he comes here pretty often for a day or two at a time to—fish. Ha ha ha ha!” “Are he and the pretty girl engaged, Mr. Boythorn?” ask... ...iss,” said Mr. Guppy. “Very full—er—ex cuse me—lady’s name, Christian and surname both?” I gave them. “Married woman, I believe?” said Mr. Guppy. “Ma...

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...im to rival the fame of the great scholar of Amsterdam. The schoolmaster’s surname led him as far into dissertation as his Christian appellative. He w... ... as a cobbler now occupies, having the front open, much in the manner of a fishmonger’s booth of the present day. A 158 Kenilworth little old smock-f... ...mined, saith, That he remembers having made the sauce to the said sturgeon-fish, after eating of which the said noble Lord was taken ill; “and he put ... ... of mine,” said W ayland; “she can sing and play o’ the lute would win the fish out o’ the stream.” “Let me hear her instantly,” said the boy, “I love... ...ember every line. As soon as I heard him blundering and floundering like a fish upon dry land, through the first verse, and perceived him at a stand, ... ...on shore, gave his dolphin a kick, and declared he would never meddle with fish again, except at dinner. At the same time that the Queen was about to ...

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...weeps strug gling and splashing in the water looked like some lum bering fish in pain. In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engage... ... she now held in her hand, proclaiming aloud with that quick perception of surnames peculiar to her class that it was for Mister Snivelling. Dick look... ...llection of The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 190 peg tops, balls, kites, fishing lines, marbles, half eaten apples, and other confiscated property o... ...rence,’ said Brass with a sigh, as he dived into one of Kit’s pockets, and fished up a miscellaneous collection of small articles; ‘very painful. Noth...

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...e this spring, but I fancy Captain Fitzhugh has inveigled him somewhere to fish. He never writes, so he may come any day. But what—is anything the mat... ...rtindale. He came to Wrangerton with another guardsman for the sake of the fishing, and has been drawn into an engagement with one of the daughters of... ... its legs for a pivot. ‘Fitzhugh would have me come down for a fortnight’s fishing to Wrangerton. There’s but one inn there fit to put a dog to sleep ... ...sses for ever; in- deed, we had to call on the old fellow to get leave for fishing in that water of Lord St. Erme’s. He has a very pretty sort of litt... ...se there are three older; but the day they came to speak to papa about the fishing, mamma and all the elder ones were out of the way, except Matilda. ... ... Esquire, British Embassy, Constantinople.’ She started to find it was the surname of that lost betrothed of whom she thought with an undefin- able re...

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...the Living Mammalia, by Mr. Waterhouse; of the Birds, by Mr. Gould; of the Fish, by the Rev. L. Jenyns; and of the Reptiles, by Mr. Bell. I have appen... ...Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Sin- gular Incrustations —Insects t... ...ted, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, thes... ...n of minute vesicles contain- ing variously coloured fluids.** This cuttle-fish displayed its chameleon-like power both during the act of swimming and... ... not think what it was, but afterwards I found out that it was this cuttle-fish, which, though concealed in a hole, thus often led me to its discovery... ...Charles Darwin the inhabitants of some of the islets retain their In- dian surnames. In the census of 1832, there were in Chiloe and its dependencies ... ... of these appear to be of mixed blood. Eleven thousand retain their Indian surnames, but it is probable that not nearly all of these are of a pure bre... ...of the inhabitants who are not included in the eleven thousand with Indian surnames, cannot be distin- guished by their appearance from Indians. Gomez...

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...nklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all over the kingdom), on a freehold of... ...it with the land to his only child, a daugh ter, who, with her husband, one Fisher, of Wellingborough, sold it to Mr. Isted, now lord of the manor th... ... of the mill pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire. My p... ...ood, and on this occasion consider’d, with my master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had, or ever coul... ...r. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the frying pan, it smelt admirably w... ... time between principle and inclination, till I recol lected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then th...

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...ECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson INTRODUCTION THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON F ROM THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY onwards, the name, under ... ... under their stern. There was in this place a hamlet of the inhabit- ants, fisher-folk and wreckers; their huts stood close about the head of the beac... ...sleepers. Door after door was opened, and in the grey light of the morning fisher after fisher was seen to come forth, yawning and stretch- ing himsel... ...as seen to come forth, yawning and stretch- ing himself, nightcap on head. Fisher after fisher, I wrote, and my pen tripped; for it should rather stan... ...ip is awakened by their peril; they will assist at a ship- wreck, like the fisher-folk of Lunga, as spectators, and when the fatal scene is over, and ... ...; and from the inclination and soil of the beach, from the weeds and shell-fish, from the configuration of the coast and the depth of soundings outsid...

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...r course. It’s wisdom, Aleck, solid wisdom, and sound as a nut. Who’s your fish? Have you nominated him yet?” No, she hadn’t. They must look the marke... ...r patience for those who treat her as a mere Rosy Melindi—who are al ways fishing for pretty complements—who are satisfied by the gossamer of Romance... ...unk, in the gutter one morning. A member of the Ladies’ T emperance Refuge fished him out, took him in hand, got up a subscription for him, kept him s... ...f verse. For instance, in a late Ledger I find the following (I change the surname): DIED Hawks.—On the 17th inst., Clara, the daughter of Ephraim and... ...edger of the same date I make the following ex tract, merely changing the surname, as before: Becket.—On Sunday morning, 19th inst., John P ., infant... ...t expression. In the same journal, of the same date, I find the following (surname suppressed, as before): Wagner.—On the 10th inst., Ferguson G., the... ...the Ledger (same copy referred to above) I find the fol lowing (I alter surname, as usual): Welch.—On the 5th inst., Mary C. Welch, wife of William... ...bale of calico, or the half bushel of brass rings, or the handful of steel fish hooks, or the house ful of black wives, or the zareba full of cattle,... ...me with the literary and journalistic craft; the publishing craft; the cod fishery craft; Standard Oil; U. S. Steel; the class A hotel—and the rest of...

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...apter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but... ...casion in his sleek official way, to make a philosophical reflection. ‘The Surname of Bien-aime (Well-beloved), ’ says he, ‘which Louis XV. bears, wil... ...ed by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashioned itself, a title higher still than all the r... ...e niche,—it still sticks there: still holding out an ineffectual light, of fish- oil; and has seen worlds wrecked, and says nothing. But to the eye of...

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...law of God, having sent his soldiers to seize upon the good old man Razis, surnamed in honour of his virtue the father of the Jews: the good man, seei... ...lf, nor satisfied with them. Whoever goes in quest of knowl- edge, let him fish for it where it is to be found; there is noth- ing I so little profess... ...st alive that I do not presently turn out again. Pythagoras bought them of fishermen and fowlers to do the same: “Primoque a caede ferarum, ... ...s; here shines the golden image of the sa- cred ape; here men venerate the fish of the river; there whole towns worship a dog.”—Juvenal, xv. 2.] And t... ...eed to others also; there are two families at Paris and Montpellier, whose surname is Montaigne, another in Brit- tany, and one in Xaintonge, De La Mo... ...ll partake of my discredit; and, moreover, my ancestors have formerly been surnamed, Eyquem,—[Eyquem was the patronymic.]—a name wherein a family well... ...s taught us defini- tions, divisions, and partitions of virtue, as so many surnames and branches of a genealogy, without any further care of es- tabli... ...laxas scombris saepe dabo tunicas;” [“Let not wrappers be wanting to tunny-fish, nor olives; and I shall supply loose coverings to mackerel.”—Martial,... ...hen, and all other offices. They refused, whereupon she put herself into a fisher-boat she hired on the spot, and in that manner followed him from Scl...

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...apter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but... ...casion in his sleek official way, to make a philosophical reflection. ‘The Surname of Bien- aime (Well-beloved),’ says he, ‘which Louis XV. bears, wil... ...ed by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashioned itself, a title higher still than all the re... ...e niche,—it still sticks there: still holding out an ineffectual light, of fish-oil; and has seen worlds wrecked, and says nothing. But to the eye of ... ...mpmartin, wayworn, in winter frost, probably with scant light of stars and fish-oil, still perorates from the Inn-window! This People is no longer cal... ...perhaps explore this strangest of Municipal procedures; and feel called to fish up what of the Biographies, creditable or discreditable, of these Five... ...inville for Attorney-General, and a Jury of such as Citizen Leroi, who has surnamed himself Dix-Aout, ‘Leroi August-Tenth,’ it will become the wonder ... ...re will follow me; I drag down Robespierre. O, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with governing of men.”—Camille’s young beautiful ... ...h prompt zeal, not without trouble, we gather these wretched Conspirators; fish up even Henriot and Augustin, bleeding and foul; pack them all, rudely...

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...f a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway boats) ha... ...y, and the Wick men stay indoors or wrangle on the quays with dissatisfied fish-cur- ers, knee-high in brine, mud, and herring refuse. The day when th... ...ost invariably justified by the fact. The streets are full of the Highland fishers, lubberly, stu- pid, inconceivably lazy and heavy to move. You brui... ...o the mouth and often forces them to abandon it. An emeute of disappointed fishers was feared, and two ships of war are in the bay to render assistanc... ...nd of him; the insult rankled in his mind; and he retired to rest. He is a fish- curer, a man over fifty, and pretty rich too. He’s as bad again to-da... ...s taken out, he got awfully ill; one of the men, Geordie Grant by name and surname, followed shoot with considerable eclat; but, wonderful to relate! ...

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... Gilliat is in pursuit of a crab when he is himself assaulted by the devil fish, and that this, in its way, is the last touch to the inner significanc... ...r of a family, a farmer, and an of- ficer of Excise, we shall find him out fishing in masquerade, with fox-skin cap, belted great-coat, and great High... ...oat; he would thrust his arm into a pool and bring forth a bright, panting fish, lying undismayed in the palm of his hand. There were few things that ... ...reau had simply dwelt in his house at Walden, a lover of trees, birds, and fishes, and the open air and virtue, a reader of wise books, an idle, selfi... ... accomplished in this direction is to be found in the passages relating to fish in the Week. These are remarkable for a vivid truth of impression and ... ...in of Saint Benoit-le-Betourne near the Sorbonne. From him he borrowed the surname by which he is known to posterity. It was most likely from his hous...

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...ems thus sacri- ficed were afterwards brought back to their hand by simple fishermen, who had recovered them in the intestines of fishes—a portentous ... ... prostitutes, felons, stood the description, at full length, Christian and surnames all properly registered, of my Agnes—of her whose very name had al... ...he greater part of their number was absent during the winter months at the fisheries upon the Caspian. Some who were liable to surprise at the most ex... ...e animals, is supposed, throughout all maritime Europe, to be a privileged fish; even in austere Scot- land, every child can point out the impression ... ...on of St. Peter’s thumb, by which from age to age it is distinguished from fishes having otherwise an external resemblance. All domes- ticated cattle,... ...st came Dr. Andrew Bell. We knew him. Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner; and his main idea, out of ...

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...bage of the church- yard. He shall also have and receive the tithes of all fish- ponds whatsoever, within the said parish, wheresoever made, or that h... ... by the river Itchen, a clear and beautiful trout stream, much esteemed by fisher- men. In the early years of Charles II. a canal was dug, beside the ... ...Thomas’s Bar- gain,” till one was used as a site for the Vicarage. Several surnames still extant in the parish are found in the register, Cox, Comley,... ... ditches crosses the meadows. Both river and canal, too, are excellent for fishermen, who in the season can find here and there a lusty trout, And her... ...moor- hens are swimming, and dipping on a glimpse of the specta- tor; when fish are rising, or sometimes taking a sudden “header” into the air and goi... ... by old labourers with a taste for sport, and the quaint little river cray-fish may be picked out of the banks of the “water-carriages.” Toads and fro...

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... longer. His death was caused, in the year 1135, by eating too much of the fish called lamprey, and he was buried in Reading Abbey. 26 Young Folk’s H... ...8 Young Folk’s History of England “Plantagenet;” and this became a kind of surname to the kings of England. Henry, called Fitz-empress—or “the Empress... .... So they re- fused, and Henry cut off the heads of two of the best—Bishop Fisher and Sir Thomas More—though they had been his great friends. Sir Thom... ...-book. But the first time the Service was read in a church at Edinburgh, a fishwoman, named Jenny Geddes, jumped up in a rage and threw a three-legged...

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...tween private men. L. Sylla, when he commanded Rome, raised Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla... ...t ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, laborers, smiths, carpenters, join ers, fishermen, fowlers, with some few apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bake... ...and other servile condi tions, they may be placed amongst the worst. As for fishing for testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, tes... ...e meant, of the Spanish fleet that came in ’88: for that the king of Spain’s surname, as they say, is Norway. The prediction of Regiomontanus, Octoge... ...er a fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square, but without fish, or slime, or mud. For the first, the ornaments of images gilt, or o...

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... and it’s a mercy you ain’t Bolted dead.” My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair: saying nothing more than the awful words, “Y ou c... ...echook: a large hard-breath- ing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so th... ...e the details divulged to him. And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his wai... ...u call him?” “Pip,” said Joe. “Christened Pip?” “No, not christened Pip.” “Surname Pip?” “No,” said Joe, “it’s a kind of family name what he gave hims... ...e look. Much as if one nostril was caught up with a horsehair and a little fish-hook. Yes, he came to the same end; quite the natural end here, I assu... ...on one side of him, while Startop sat on the other. It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally c... ...with Compeyson, as was called Arthur – not as being so chrisen’d, but as a surname. He was in a Decline, and was a shadow to look at. Him and Compeyso...

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..., running out into the sea, and inclosing one side of a bay, where a small fishing-village had recently expanded into a quiet watering-place, esteemed... ...h sad recognition of the esplanade, the pebbly beach, bathing machines and fishing boats, and pointing them out to her sons, who, on their side, would... ...e royal going on over an old lobster-pot—Conrade hand to hand with a stout fisher-boy, and Francis and sundry amphibious creatures of both sexes excha... ...xes exchanging a hail of stones, water-smoothed brick-bats, cockle-shells, fishes’ backbones, and other unsavoury mis- siles. Abstractedly, Rachel had... ... to the shore, running up the valley of the Avon; but it soon ceased to be fishy, and became agricultural, owning a few cottages of very humble gentil... ...n, he replied that Isabel was too romantic for southern ears, and that her surname being 240 The Clever Woman of the Family the same as his own, he w...

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...ic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames. Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to indiv... ...ying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.A better strategy has evolved since those early ...