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... collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the...

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...7' W. On January the Fifth, 1888—that is eleven months and four days after—my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentle- man, who certainly went aboard... ...est for publication. The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble’s Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabi... ...aft. There’s a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance cov- ered with freckles and surrounded with red hair st... ...thing dimly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth. His eyes were blood-sh... ... about changes that had taken place. He spoke like a man who had loved his life there, and had been suddenly and irrevocably cut off from it. I gossip... ...en. This man, it seemed to me, had come out of Immensity merely to save my life. To-morrow he would drop over the side, and vanish again out of my exi... ... old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near ... ...ull pinkish-drab colour, such as I had seen in no savages before. They had fat, heavy, chinless faces, retreating fore- heads, and a scant bristly hai...

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...of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the...

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... diaries and let- ters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more... ...ore. To explain all, I must go back to a time long before the morning when my father astonished us all by exclaiming, ‘Poor old James Winslow! So Chan... ...have no recollection of the disaster, which, at four years old, altered my life. The catastrophe, as others have described it, was that we three boys ... ...ght back at once the little crib, or the watered blue moreen canopy of the big four- poster to which I was sometimes lifted for a change; even the scr... ...eal table for the meals (and very plain meals they were), and two or three big presses painted white for our clothes, and one cupboard for our toys. I... ...- descending to tease him when the young lady married Sir Henry Peacock, a fat vulgar old man who had made his for- tune in the commissariat, and purc... ... to Clarence and me, indeed they were thought worth being copied into that fat clasped MS. book in the study. Writing them must have been a real solac... ... cheerful, getting up a sewing class in the village, resuming the study of Greek, grappling with the natural sys- tem in botany, all of which had been... ...y a good deal of vague, weary depression, and sense of monotony into those Greek cho- ruses: but to us she was always a sunbeam, with her ever ready a...

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...ou know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand...

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...torm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s fo... ...ainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man; And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began. — Big Barn Stories. 4 The Light Tha... ...man; And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began. — Big Barn Stories. 4 The Light That Failed ‘WHAT do you think she’d do if s... ...n on their way to test. Revolvers did not lie in the scheme of their daily life as decreed for them by the guardian who was incorrectly supposed to st... ... thing,’ he said. ‘I’ll do no business till I’ve seen Torpenhow. There’s a big deal coming.’ So he de- 28 The Light That Failed parted, making no pro... ... want more,—heaps more. The lean years have passed, and I approve of these fat ones.’ ‘Be careful, old man. That way lies bad work.’ Torpenhow was spr... ...ey have no arenas now, but they must have special correspondents. You’re a fat gladiator who comes up through a trap-door and talks of what he’s seen.... ...rs the Channel.’ ‘Is it a wreck?’ said Maisie, to whom these words were as Greek. 78 The Light That Failed Dick’s eyes were turned to the sea. ‘Wreck... .... The boat comes to Suakin in four days. There will go with thee George, a Greek muleteer. Another bribe of ten pounds. I will pay; they must not know...

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................................................................................................................................................. 15 THE BIG DRUNK DRAF? .......................................................................................................................................................... 22 THE WRECK OF THE VISIGOTH ............................

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...................................................................... 15 THE BIG DRUNK DRAF’ .............................................................. ...two sentries at the door of the room to hold the trays of programme-cards. My friend, Private Mulvaney, was one of the sentries, because he was the ta... ...a pate-de- foie-gras, and two magnums of champagne, sitting on the roof of my carriage. As I came up I heard him saying— ‘Praise be a danst doesn’t co... ...g afore he was as bright as a button again. He hed a way o’ flyin’ at them big yaller pariah dogs as if he was a harrow offan a bow, an’ though his we... ... who thrades in jute!’ ‘Let alone me/ sticks in Orth’ris, ‘but that’s like life. Them wot’s really fitted to decorate society get no show while a blun... ...een in your mortial life. How does a draf’ get dhrunk? How does a frog get fat? They suk ut in through their shkins. ‘There was Peg Barney sittin’ on ... ...d it looked so human when it chattered. Losson used to sit, swing- ing his fat legs, on the side of the cot, and ask the parrot what it thought of Sim... ...lun’s little white room was always large and talked more than before. ‘The Greeks,’ said Wali Dad who had been borrowing my books, ‘the inhabitants of... ... of the heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it g...

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...PID?S ARROWS ....................................................................................................................... 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.................................................................................................................. 47 WATCHES OF THE NIGHT .....................................................................................

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............................................................ 43 HIS CHANCE IN LIFE.......................................................................... ...re these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold ... ...is worth traveling fifty miles over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She... ...peth put it down on the sofa, and said simply: 7 Rudyard Kipling “This is my husband. I found him on the Bagi Road. He has hurt himself. We will nurs... ... —Punjabi Proverb. AFTER MARRIAGE arrives a reaction, sometimes a big, some- times a little one; but it comes sooner or later, and must be ti... ...ain knowledge. She was a little, brown, thin, al- most skinny, woman, with big, rolling, violet-blue eyes, and the sweetest manners in the world. You ... ...ad seen an earlier generation of his stamp bud and blossom, and decay into fat Captains and tubby Majors. At a moderate estimate there were about thre... ...is cigar into the powder, which began to smoke like a volcano, and send up fat, greasy wreaths of copper-colored smoke. In five seconds the room was f... ... swing of the verse with a bedstead-leg. But he did most of his ravings in Greek or German. The man’s mind was a perfect rag-bag of useless things. On...

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...late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief. This sys- tem—which has of... ...Section 6. I may observe that this Life has been paraphrased in English by my learned young friend Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, and appended to my prose t... ... talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continued the author, “the inhabit- ants showed the place where h... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...drink the blood of an enemy, and the like, yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it. It is the sentimen... ...res. If e’er with wreaths I hung thy sacred fane, 9 Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain; God of the silver bow! thy shafts employ, Avenge thy ser... ...envy our successful wars. On that great day, when first the martial train, Big with the fate of Ilion, plough’d the main, Jove, on the right, a prospe... ...rom every part, From the cleft wood the crackling flames aspires While the fat victims feed the sacred fire. The thighs thus sacrificed, and entrails ...

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...on, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps corroded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewise, is seen a symbol (as apt at this moment as it was two thousand y...

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...e, and still shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perha... ...derous remembrances; a perception of such weight and den- sity in a bygone life, of which this spot was the centre, that the present moment is pressed... ...am so bitterly that Hilda’s quiet eyes were somewhat startled. “Donatello, my dear friend,” said Kenyon, in Italian, “pray gratify us all by taking th... ...iriam, “do not leave us in this perplexity! Shake aside those brown curls, my friend, and let us see whether this marvellous resemblance extends to th... ... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... .... The scene reminded the sculptor of our New England vin- tages, where the big piles of golden and rosy apples lie under the orchard trees, in the mil... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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...late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief. This sys tem—which has of... ... talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continues the author, “the inhabitants showed the place where he ... ...g to their usual habit. Whereupon Homer addressed Glaucus thus: O Glaucus, my friend, prythee attend to my behest. First give the dogs their supper at... ... as must be indispensably sup posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...p wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...e and grief he frown’d, And dash’d the imperial sceptre to the ground. The big round tear hung trembling in his eye: The synod grieved, and gave a pit... ...e, with cares oppress’d, And chilling horrors freeze in every breast, Till big with knowledge of approaching woes, The prince of augurs, Halitherses, ... ...ung increase adorn: The shepherd swains, with sure abundance blest, On the fat flock and rural dainties feast; Nor want of herbage makes the dairy fai... ... wing the missile dart; The bounteous gods afford a copious prey, And nine fat goats each vessel bears away: The royal bark had ten. Our ships complet...

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...uch to thank the man whose science once saved me as to honor the friend of my daily life. De Balzac. 4 The Lily of the Valley THE LILY OF THE VALLEY ... ...ank the man whose science once saved me as to honor the friend of my daily life. De Balzac. 4 The Lily of the Valley THE LILY OF THE VALLEY ENVOI Fel... ... overcome! We shed our blood, we risk our future! You exact the history of my past life; here it is. But re- member this, Natalie; in obeying you I cr... ...e! We shed our blood, we risk our future! You exact the history of my past life; here it is. But re- member this, Natalie; in obeying you I crush unde... ...cked their lips as they talked of them—scraps of pork pressed in their own fat and looking like cooked truffles; they inspected my lunch-bas- ket, and... ...her gave me no money; I was to be fed, clothed, and stuffed with Latin and Greek, for a sum agreed on. During my school life I came in contact with ov... ...sieur Lepitre as he got into the coach,—a difficult process, for he was as fat as Louis XVIII. and club-footed,—well, can you believe it, my mother ar... ... again and again and hum about it without ever getting into it, like those big flies which weary our ears as they buzz upon the glass. Henriette was s... ... child. Moreover my servants torment me; blockheads who take my French for Greek! When our fortune was finally remade inch by inch, and I had some rel...

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...t I suspect that no poet ever put into words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “... ...e, that grati- tude, and that respect, with which I shall always esteem it my GREATEST HONOUR to be, Sir, Your most obliged, and most obedient humble ... ...n. And, indeed, if there should be any such defect in a constitution which my Lord Coke long ago told us “the wisdom of all the wise men in the world,... ...ffair was under an entire suspension till his return. “Amelia, who was now big with child, had often expressed the deepest concern at her apprehension... ...fy any the least unnecessary expence. Simply to be poor, says my favourite Greek historian, was not held scandal- ous by the wise Athenians, but highl... ... these attractive charms to the eye. Her person was short and immoderately fat; her features were none of the most regular; and her com- plexion (if i... ... Fielding familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty... ... trial equal to my first. It was very hard, my lord, to leave a young wife big with her first child, and so affected with my absence, that I had the u... ... to doat on her (though now very disagreeable in her person, and immensely fat) to such a degree, that he submits to be treated by her in the most tyr...

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...of magic–such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue and white Jadoo Gher–the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge... ...hall remember. A Red Bull and a Colo nel on a horse will come, but first, my father said, will come the two men making ready the ground for these mat... ...ll come the two men making ready the ground for these matters. That is how my father said they always did; and it is always so when men work magic.’ I... ...ves stranger than anything Haroun al Raschid dreamed of; and he lived in a life wild as that of the Arabian Nights, but missionaries and secretaries o... ...o the native policeman on guard over rows of shoes at the Museum door. The big Punjabi grinned toler antly: he knew Kim of old. So did the water carr... ... identified on the blurred stone, puzzled here and there by the unfamiliar Greek convention, but delighted as a child at each new trove. Where the seq... ...n near the window sniffed behind her head drapery. ‘Enter! Enter!’ cried a fat Hindu money lender, his folded account book in a cloth under his arm. W... ...isance before the lama–only the child was 53 Rudyard Kipling so short and fat that it toppled over sideways, and Kim laughed at the sprawling, chubby... ... gained by due attention to Latin and Wordsworth’s Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in C...

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...RT II TO THE COUNT OF LEMOS: These days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared in print before being shown on the stage, I sai... ...is college. I asked the bearer if His Majesty had afforded a sum in aid of my travel expenses. He answered, “No, not even in thought.” “Then, brother,... ...om the famous interlude of “The Perendenga,” I say in answer to him, “Long life to my lord the Veintiquatro, and Christ be with us all.” Long life to ... ...und philosophy, to deduce their features, com- plexion, and stature.” “How big, in your worship’s opinion, may the giant Morgante have been, Senor Don... ... the truth, shows us that there were, when it gives us the history of that big Philistine, Goliath, who was seven cubits and a half in height, which i... ...ose that are born in the ditches,” said Sancho, “not of those who have the fat of an old Christian four fingers deep on their souls, as I have. Nay, o... ...o them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a po... ...at I can well believe,” replied the bachelor, “for they are so good and so fat, and so well-bred, that they would not say one thing for another, thoug... ...eighteen years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek, and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found...

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...ery is al- most unexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudib... ...idelity is prac- ticable, faithful to the spirit so far as he can make it. My purpose here is not to dogmatise on the rules of translation, but to ind... ...n, but to indicate those I have followed, or at least tried to the best of my ability to follow, in the present instance. One which, it seems to me, c... ...ff in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower dropping tears as big as walnuts. Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regi... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...rther if at that mo- ment the landlord had not come out, who, being a very fat man, was a very peaceful one. He, seeing this grotesque figure clad in ... ... in, the house- keeper with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housek... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go... ...ose that are born in the ditches,” said Sancho, “not of those who have the fat of an old Christian four fingers deep on their souls, as I have. Nay, o...

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...e you assure me that the cargo — “ “Is all safe and sound, M. Morrel, take my word for it; and I advise you not to take 25,000 francs for the profits ... ...rds!” “You see,” said Danglars, “he fancies himself captain already , upon my word.” “And so, in fact, he is,” said the owner. “Except your signature ... ...e understand once for all that you are trifling with my happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of bein... ...who sees the woman he loves stolen from under his nose and takes on like a big baby. Yet this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful... ...e vengeful Span- iards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow. Unquestionably, Edmond’s star is in ... ...perfect specimen of manly beauty could scarcely be imagined. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing e... ...exceedingly disquieted, sire.” “Really, have you had a vision of the seven fat kine and the seven lean kine?” “No, sire, for that would only betoken f... ... astonish- ing. He used to weep, he now laughs; he grew thin, he now grows fat. You had better see him, for his madness is amusing.” The Count of Mon... ...ay, Ger- man, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek — I don’t speak it so well as I could wish, bu...

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...acter turning upon points more adapted to poetry than to the prose of real life. Their prince, young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising dange... ...ing’s Anecdotes of His Own Times. ‘September, 1750.—I received a note from my Lady Prim- rose, who desired to see me immediately. As soon as I waited ... ...nted your miserable hack to return to your law drudg- ery, still sounds in my ears. It seemed to say, ‘Happy dog! you can ramble at pleasure over hill... ...a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander, in a bobwig, supporting a glass of ... ...st which the Barmecide served up to Alnaschar; and we cannot expect to get fat upon such diet. But then, neither is there repletion nor nausea, which ... ...e same table, in an ample easy-chair covered with black leather, reposed a fat personage, about fifty years old, who either was actually a country jus... ...- auld colt. All the hills were spinning round with me, like so many great big humming-tops. But there was nae time to think of that neither; more esp... ...the captain of the Jumping Jenny; ‘my handful of Latin, and small pinch of Greek, were as use- less as old junk, to be sure; but my reading, writing a... ...corched. AE, one. AFFLATUS, breath, inspiration. AIRT, direct. ALCANDER, a Greek soothsayer. ALDEBORONTIPHOSCOPHORNIO, a courtier in H. Carey’s burles...

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...occu- pied his mind, and the look by which he gave expression to his inner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveller sees by night... ... assiduity, it was seldom that, in the ordinary transactions of every- day life, she failed to anticipate the wishes of the living, thinking mind, or ... ...ralytic closed his eyes in token of assent. “Who has displeased you? Is it my father?” “No.” “Madame de Villefort?” “No.” “Me?” The former sign was re... ...t then? May I go and ask them, that I may have the oppor- tunity of making my peace with you?” “No, no,” said Noirtier’s look. “Ah, you frighten me. W... ...rom M. Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, tele, graphein. It is the insect with black claws, and the awf... ...nius,” said the count. “Really? They can’t be nice, though they do say `as fat as a dor- mouse.’ It is not a wonder they are fat, sleeping all day, an... ...h things have been.” “That there should be a famine!” “Recollect the seven fat and the seven lean kine.” “Or, that the sea should become dry, as in th... ...- ful to conceal it from every one. After the battle of Navarino, when the Greek government was consolidated, he asked of King Otho a mining grant for... ... shameful? — must ‘a been jealous, to tear such clothes!” “He looks like a big-bug,” said another; “dresses in fine style. And, then, to be here so yo...

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...es of writings, of which—disregarding certain earlier disconnected essays— my Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to ... ...Anticipations was the beginning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginativ... ...t about Utopias, a manuscript he holds in two hands that are just a little fat at the wrist. The curtain rises upon him so. But afterwards, if the dev... ...h while,” to designing upon the sheet of our imaginations the picture of a life conceivably pos- sible, and yet better worth living than our own. That... ...f thing—” “I see now. Yes. Yes, it’s certainly an odd-looking affair…. And big, you know! Handsome! I wonder—” That would interrupt our Utopian specul... ...proprietary eye of the man who knows his constellations down to the little Greek letters. I imagine his exclamation. He would at first doubt his eyes.... ... be there, coming and going, and the swift great passen- ger vessels, very big and steady, doing thirty knots an hour or more, will trace long wakes a... ... he deadens rather than stimulates.** An infinitude of nonsense about the Greek mind would never have been writ- ten if the distinctive intellectual ... ...eets seems to be not only in good health but in training; one rarely meets fat people, bald people, or bent or grey. People who would be obese or bent...

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...BLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 15... ... 20 God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may y over the earth under the rmament of heaven.... ...to a woman: and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and esh of my esh; she shall be called woman, because she was t... ... 6 Book of Genesis 12 And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the Lord God said ... ...to the Lord. 4 Abel also o ered of the rstlings of his ock, and of their fat: and the Lord had respect to Abel, and to his o erings. 5 But to Cain a... ...nd when he wept with a loud cry, 39 Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above, 40 Shall thy blessin... ..., thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt. 25 But when ... ...Israel forty years. 19 And his daughter in law, the wife of Phi- nees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God... ...the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the rst ...

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...e dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimenta... ...academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing har- ness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-corner... ...s an hour. A black servant, who 5 Thackeray reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up oppos... ...pot.” “Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, ’tis more genteel.” “Well, a booky as big almost as a haystack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower wate... ...een presents—to make fourteen solemn promises of writing every week: “Send my letters under cover to my grandpapa, the Earl of Dexter,” said Miss Salt... ...young lady and the old one, and the latter was worsted. “Heaven bless you, my child,” said she, embracing Amelia, and scowl- ing the while over the gi... ...ed out on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did h... ... Hawky. Either of these young ladies is perfectly qualified to instruct in Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in S... ... Bute followed the track of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where por- traits...

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...e freely confess, that I should rather excuse myself, than censure others, my own discourse being liable to so many exceptions; against which you, Sir... ...ea sonable times, yet the whole Discourse is, or rather was, a picture of my own disposition, especially in such days and times as I have laid aside ... ...for the generality, three or four flies neat and rightly made, and not too big, serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer: and for winter fly f... ...tures that have their dwelling within the waters, every creature that hath life in its nostrils, stands in need of my element. The waters cannot prese... ...n to The Compleat Angler — Walton 12 Man himself; that air, or breath of life, with which God at first inspired mankind, he, if he wants it, dies pr... ...ervable, not only that there are fish, as namely the Whale, three times as big as the mighty Elephant, that is so fierce in battle, but that the might... ...bserved of the Trout, that he is like the Buck or the Ox, that will not be fat in many months, though he go in the very same pastures that horses do, ... ...nths, though he go in the very same pastures that horses do, which will be fat in one month: and so you may observe, That The Compleat Angler — Walto... ... years before he was last taken, as by the inscription in that ring, being Greek, was interpreted by the then Bishop of Worms. But of this no more; bu...