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... once in twenty-four hours, and all the people at the Hill-stations in the middle of their amuse- ments say, “Good gracious! why can’t the paper be sp... ...al and Bombay, and try to draw eye-teeth. Y ou can buy ponies, turquoises, Persian pussy-cats, saddle-bags, fat-tailed sheep, and musk in the Kumharse... ...e climbed up into it, behold, there was an Army in position waiting in the middle! “ ‘The runners have been very quick,’ says Billy Fish, with a littl... ... Out he goes, looking neither right nor left, and when he was plumb in the middle of those dizzy dancing ropes, ‘Cut you beggars,’ he 34 The Man Who ...

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...redulity which assumes the same possibility as existing for us in the very middle of the nine- teenth century? At a time when every week sees the town... ...y a crowd of admiring men, anxious to learn her rank and abode; whilst the middle sister, eminently handsome, levied no such visible tribute of admira... ...g—the surest, and the shortest. And hence, perhaps, it may be, that in the middle ages by the monkish word scholaris was meant indifferently he that l... ...ith him to England some Arabian horses, and amongst them a beautiful young Persian mare, called Sumroo, the gentlest of her race. Sumroo it was that h... ..., with the baronets (or elite of the gentry); with the landed esquires (or middle gentry); with the superior order of tradesmen (who, in Germany, are ... .... Alaric, in the opening of the fifth century [about 4l0]—Attila, near the middle [445]—already seemed prelu- sive earthquakes running before the fina... ... consequence of that event, were the Jews inoculated with this Babylonian, Persian, and Me- dian superstition. Now, if Eichhorn and others are right, ... ...racle of the Branchides, in Asia Minor. But this had been destroyed by the Persians, in retaliation of the Athenian out- rages at Sardis. 191 Thomas ...

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...ides of it, with heavy cur- tains of red rep; there was a big table in the middle; and at one end an imposing mahogany sideboard with a looking-glass ... ...or a dozen photographs. She was obliged to ask for a glass of water in the middle of the sitting; and the assistant, see- ing she was ill, suggested t... ...et Maugham in. She was a dark woman with black hair , neatly parted in the middle. She had curiously thick lips and a small round nose. Her eyes were ... ...lasses were known officially , on speech days and in re- ports, as upper , middle, and lower second. Philip was put in the last. The master , a red-fa... ...ushed noisily into the play- ground. The new boys were told to go into the middle, while the others stationed themselves along opposite walls. They be... ...edge to it, was point- ing out how the Greek ships were placed and how the Persian. 78 Of Human Bondage XVII PHILIP P ASSED the next two years with c... ...Philip. “Have you ever been to the Cluny, the mu- seum? There you will see Persian carpets of the most exquisite hue and of a pattern the beauti- ful ... ...ou were asking just now what was the meaning of life. Go and look at those Persian car - pets, and one of these days the answer will come to you.” “ Y... ...rishable masterpieces. He recollected Cronshaw’s whimsical metaphor of the Persian carpet; he had thought of it often; but Cronshaw with his faun-like...

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...e Queenite lancers were clattering along the road. I had got into the very middle of the road before I made this discovery, so that the fellows had a ... ...ued my narra- tive in nearly the following words:— “I left off in the very middle of the battle of Delhi, which ended, as everybody knows, in the comp... ...lephant, with the simple word ‘gujpuit’ written underneath in the Nagaree, Persian, and Sanscrit characters. I rode my black horse, and looked, by the... ...r columns of Indian horse, arriving and taking up their ground in the very middle of the open square or tank, round which the bungalows were built! “‘... ...ad a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the celebrated Persian matchlock-men: it was the feeding time of these royal brutes, and t... ...ime to see her. Spread me a couch here, and bring me supper here: a jar of Persian wine well cooled, a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, a pillaw of a...

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...quilly away. Ernest still dwelt in his native valley, and was now a man of middle age. By imperceptible degrees, he had become known among the people.... ... the moon and stars; he turned his face eastward, at sunrise, as duly as a Persian idolater; he made a pilgrimage to Rome, to witness the magnificent ... ...EMOR OM MEMOR Y Y Y Y Y The Notch of the White Mountains I T WAS NOW the middle of September. We had come since sunrise from Bartlett, passing up th... ... Crawford’s father, an old man of seventy five, with the unbroken frame of middle life. The two brides and the doctor’s wife held a whispered discussi...

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... them, and lo! they were in a lofty court, built all of marble, and in the middle of it a fountain playing, splashing silvery. Shibli Bagarag would ha... ...atched at the threshold of her tent for the com- ing of Ruark. When it was middle night, and the splendour of the moon 33 George Meredith was beaming... ...om, and held it, and got together a band of green weeds, and set it in the middle of the band, and tied the band on her brow, and lifted her countenan... ...nown to ye, O gabblers, aught of the punishment inflicted by Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder?—a punish- ment that, by Allah!’ Shibli Bag... ...th. 92 The Shaving of Shagpat AND THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT OF SHAHPESH, THE PERSIAN, ON KHIPIL, THE BUILDER THEY RELATE that Shahpesh, the Persian, com... ...e Wagging Tongue! And whoso is punished after the fashion of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil the Builder, is said to be one ‘in the Palace of the Wag... ...sin of the rock opening to the sea; and in 122 The Shaving of Shagpat the middle of the basin, lo! in stature like a maiden of the mountains, and one... ...lling me tender names, heaping endear- ments on me; and as the hour of the middle-night approached I was losing all suspicion in deep languor, and sig... ...ell, O lady of grace and bright wit! and now for the cap of Shiraz and the Persian robe, and my twenty slaves and seven to follow me to the mansion of...

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...a very unpromising posture, and for whose impending expedition against the Persians the weather had been by no means favourable all day. Mr W egg resu... ...pounds, to the Society for Granting Annuities to Unassuming Members of the Middle 210 Our Mutual Friend Classes, if twenty individuals will previousl... ...rey side of Westminster Bridge, and crossed the bridge, and made along the Middlesex shore towards Millbank. In this region are a certain little stree... ... Tippins is so surprised by seeing her dear Mrs V eneering so early—in the middle of the night, the pretty creature calls it—that her eyelids almost g... ... paved square court, with a raised bank of earth about breast high, in the middle, enclosed by iron rails. Here, con- veniently and heathfully elevate... ... his master’s affairs. He passed over London Bridge, and re- turned to the Middlesex shore by that of Westminster, and so, ever wading through the fog... ..., for he cried by way of answer, ‘Oh—h how I do smart!’ Miss Jenny got his Persian gown upon him, extinguished his eyes crookedly with his Persian cap...

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... for conjectural emendation; for the Alexandrines now and then left in the middle of stanzas in “The Revolt of Is- lam” must remain untouched, as proc... ...he had not completed his nine-and-twentieth year when he died. The calm of middle life did not add the seal of the virtues which adorn maturity to tho... ... erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alex- andrine in the middle of a stanza. But in this, as in every other respect, I have written ... ...t inexplicable thing, _100 With lead in the middle—I’m conjecturing How to make Henry understand; but no— I’ll leave, a... ...ed to have. Allow me now to recommend this dish— A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, Such as is served at the great King’s second table. The price... ...a catastrophe parallel to the return of Xerxes and the desola- tion of the Persians. I have, therefore, contented myself with exhibiting a series of l...

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...on Clothes. Additional particulars: of his age, which was of that standing middle sort you could only guess at; of his wide surtout; the color of his ... ...ns in the whole Vol- ume is that on Aprons. What though stout old Gao, the Persian Blacksmith, “whose Apron, now indeed hidden under jewels, because r... ...ur Professor, and more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Ages in Europe, and down to the end of the Seventeenth Century; the ... ...emselves together into one huge Arctic whirlpool: thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ea... ...e Philosopher, ’ says the wisest of this age, ‘must station himself in the middle:’ how true! The Philosopher is he to whom the Highest has descended,... ...lding, he deposited therefrom what seemed some Basket, overhung with green Persian silk; saying only: Ihr lieben Leute, hier bringe ein unschatzbares ... ...sdrockh. From the veil can nothing be inferred: a piece of now quite faded Persian silk, like thousands of others. On the Name I have many times medit... ...core years? With amazement I began to discover that Entepfuhl stood in the middle of a Country, of a World; that there was such a thing as History, as...

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..., was a circular iridescent patch slowly floating past with a straw in the middle of it. The straw and the patch swam again and again behind the tremu... ... Mournfully she gazed at the ship they were ap- proaching; anchored in the middle of the stream they could dimly read her name—Euphrosyne. Very dimly ... ...he shut stationary character of a room on shore. A table was rooted in the middle, and seats were stuck to the sides. Happily the tropical suns had bl... ...story, Greek, zoology, eco- nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he... ..., offi- cial women; and his ideal was a woman who could read Greek, if not Persian, was irreproachably fair in the face, and able to understand the sm... ...dy wrapped in furs, her head in veils, while Mr. Dalloway appeared to be a middle-sized man of sturdy build, dressed like a sportsman on an autumnal m... ...of houses. By nine o’clock the Euphrosyne had taken up her position in the middle of a great bay; she dropped her anchor; immediately, as if she were ... ...she said aloud. Would the trees make up for St. John Hirst? She would be a Persian princess far from civilisation, riding her horse upon the mountains...

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...paper article. It was writ- ten in December, 1915, and published about the middle of January. Some of it has passed from the quality of anticipa- tion... ...out meth- ods of their opponents. In the “Victorian” war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered their blow, they over-reached, th... ...and capable people. It is 43 H G Wells narrow for a high road, and in the middle of it one is checked by an awkward bend, by cross-roads that are not... ...nly an accidental parallelism with profounder fact; I do not know. But the middle of this high road is a frontier. The south side belongs to the urban... ... and uncertain things. This Braintree-Bocking boundary which runs down the middle of the road is to be found all over the world. You will find it in I... ...t of the Levant or, least probable and least desirable of all, through the Persian Gulf. The Constantinople route is the most natu- ral and least cont...

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...ards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. 29 And t... ...or the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward. 33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. 34 An... ... ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, whic... ...t were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trump... ... men. 37 And Gaal spake again, and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim... ...ecorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian. 614 Nehemiah 23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were ... ... a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more be... ...ound wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarle... ...the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which al- tereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing ...

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...ving the person and gesture of him that was to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, wher... ... was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him. He ac... ...y to make him under stand us. In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover” (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my b... ... these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly. Out of the... ..., and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who are not adorne... ...d to them. They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit. T...

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...ntinue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the grand symphony of Parisian uproar, ... ...er voice failed her. She remained sitting erect in the same posture in the middle of the alcove, both panels of which were wide open, her eyes staring... ...cried at last in a voice full of anguish. She then saw the perfumer in the middle of the next room, a yard-stick in his hand measuring the air, and so... ...out food they change their wants; marriage then becomes, to persons of the middle class, a fixed idea, for it is their only way of win- ning and appro... ...f a family, and looked at life according to the religious programme of the middle classes. Such a career suited her own ideas far better than the dang... ...h that of Cesarine, which opened out of it, and was coquettishly hung with Persian chintz. A piano, a pretty wardrobe with a mir- ror door, a chaste l...

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...“Con-found! Did you hide our pipes?” said Beetle. “Oh, no. Left ‘em in the middle of the hut, of course. What a blind ass you are, Beetle! D’you think... ...a heavy nickel plated banjo. “Yes, but I’m dead all this time. Bung in the middle of the stage, too,” said Abanazar. “Oh, that’ s Beetle’ s biznai,” s... ..., which dripped, via King’s papers and some choice books, greasily on to a Persian rug. There was much broken glass on the window-seat; the china bask... ...my arm and Beetle’s brolly. That must be about six feet. She’s bung in the middle of King’s big upper ten-bedder. Eligible central situ- ation, I call... ...f chairs or clinging to a book- shelf; laughed themselves limp. And in the middle of it Orrin entered on behalf of the house. “Don’t mind us, Orrin; s... ...hough.” “That’s all right.” Beetle waved the brush. “I’ll lather up to the middle—see? and you can burn off the rest.” The thin-haired first mustache ... ...zement from the Infant, for Abanazar resembled nothing so much as a fluffy Persian cat. “Yes—me,” said Abanazar. “’Twasn’t much, but after what you’ve...

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...ol.” Howard knew that his older sister’s decisions were as the laws of the Persians, and found means to finish his breakfast within the specified time... ...ng woman, thirty-one, good house- keeper, desires acquaintance respectable middle-aged gentleman. Object, matrimony. Address K. D. B., this office.’—H... ...lly a plain, matter-of-fact sort, quite conscientious, you know; generally middle-aged—or thirty-one; outgrown their youthful follies and illusions, a... ...other. Just see, K. D. B. is a good house- keeper, and wants a respectable middle-aged gentle- man. Captain Jack is a respectable middle-aged gentle- ... ...nd-Rod’ column in ‘The Press,’” he added with a flush of pride. Toward the middle of the afternoon Blix, who was 59 Frank Norris waiting at home, in ... ...tremor. Hitherto he had acted the role of a sane and sensible gentleman of middle age, master of himself and of the situation. The en- trance of K. D....

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...eface to return 115 Had left him vacant, and with speed was gon Up to the middle Region of thick Air, Where all his Potentates in Council sate; ... ...on As far as Indus East, Euphrates West, And oft beyond; to South the Persian Bay, And inaccessible the Arabian drouth: Here Ninevee, of ...

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...table, completed the furnishings of the room. The floor was covered with a Persian carpet, the richness of which proved the gallantry of the count; on... ...uch absolute immobility that he might have been taken for a statue. In the middle of the room the countess beheld a short, stout man, apparently out o... ...every feature. Long chestnut hair, smooth and very fine, was parted in the middle of his head into two bandeaus which curled at their extremity. His p... ...At least he lives!” said the old man, in a heartrending voice. Towards the middle of the day, the father, reduced to de- 50 The Hated Son spair, had ... ...ut one of these vases, decorated with animals in relief, on a table in the middle of the hall, and was filling it with flowers to enliven her grandmot... ...complexion, his beautiful hands, his languid smile, his hair parted in the middle into two straight bands, ending in curls on the lace of his large fl...

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...are the great show of San Fran- cisco. You take a train which pulls up the middle of the street (it killed two people the day before yesterday, being ... ...ound, carrying away each its appointed morsel of wheat. The elevator was a Persian well wheel—a wheel squashed out thin and cased in a pipe, a wheel d... ...urn-ing up the tickets on the wreaths and seeing who had sent them. In the middle of this I heard some one saying: “Please, oh, please!” be- hind me, ...

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...ously so as not to awake its adversary. It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be success- fully ... ...o ours! Was it the voice of another unfortunate creature, abandoned in the middle of the ocean, some other victim of the shock sustained by the vessel... ...oor. Conseil, going round the reverse way, met me, and we went back to the middle of the cabin, which measured about twenty feet by ten. As to its hei... ...ys under my eyes, and they indicate my position and exact direction in the middle of the ocean. Some are known to you, such as the thermometer, which ... ...rogen.” “Bravo, Captain! But how can the steersman follow the route in the middle of the waters?” “The steersman is placed in a glazed box, that is ra... ... between Arabia and the Indian Peninsula, which serves as an outlet to the Persian Gulf. It was evidently a block without any possible egress. Where w... ...s- ter Ned.” “His fancy cannot take us far, then,” said the Canadian. “The Persian Gulf has no outlet: and, if we do go in, it will not be long before... ...” “Very well, then, we will come out again, Master Land; and if, after the Persian Gulf, the Nautilus would like to visit the Red Sea, the Straits of ...