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...ecca saw that his disen- gaged eye was working round in her direction, and shooting out bloodshot glances at her and George. She redoubled in cordiali... ...cky rallied him about it in a manner which rather hurt the feelings of the Guardsman. “Y ou don’t suppose I’m afraid, Becky, I should think,” he said,... ... “On the 26th of March—the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley, of the Life Guards Green—of a son and heir.” This event was copied into the London pape... ...pily and com- fortably at Paris. It was in this period that he quitted the Guards and sold out of the army. When we find him again, his mustachios and... ...d be cleared for her. As a first step she had made Crawley sell out of the Guards and go on half-pay. His function as aide-de-camp to General Tufto ha... ...de in the park. It pleased him to see his old quarters, and his old fellow-guardsmen at Knightsbridge: he had begun to think of his bachelorhood with ... ...r some threescore years. As the birds were pretty plentiful, and partridge shooting is as it were the duty of an English gentleman of statesmanlike 1... ...t sport himself and confines himself to a little harm- less duck- or snipe-shooting, or a little quiet trifling with the rats during the Christmas hol...

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...un- der of the knocker at some door, a Tricolor Commissioner with his blue Guards (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; bese... ...s (black-guards!) arriving. All Streets are vacant, says Peltier; beset by Guards at each end: all Citizens are ordered to be within doors. On the Riv... ...n them by frantic Patriots, who mount even on the carriage-steps; the very Guards hardly refraining. Pull up your carriage-blinds!—No! an- swers Patri... ...le, of the Tuileries and August Tenth). ‘They stationed me in a corner; my guards crossed their sabres on my breast. I looked on all sides for my Prov... ... sabres on my breast. I looked on all sides for my Provencal: two National Guards, one of them drunk, presented some appeal from the Section of Croix ... ... under-electric of Dantonist Moderates and Clemency-men,—these two masses, shooting bolts at one another, so to speak, have annihilated one another. ...

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...y; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he left the Court an... ... sir, if you please. When you address a gentle- man of his Majesty’s Horse Guards, be pleased not to be so familiar.” “I didn’t know, sir,” said the l... ...t, I wish Joseph Addison was here!” Though the troopers of the King’s Life-Guards were all gentlemen, yet the rest of the gentlemen seemed ignorant an... ...their laughter. All exercises of the body he could perform to perfec- tion—shooting at a mark and flying, breaking horses, riding at the ring, pitchin... ...she took it, and even courted it, when they were alone. The young lord was shooting up to be like his gallant father in look, though with his mother’s... ... old friend Dick the Scholar, who had got promotion, and was Cornet of the Guards, and had wrote a book called the “Chris- tian Hero,” and had all the... ...uards, and had wrote a book called the “Chris- tian Hero,” and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking t...

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...arders of Oechalia, sons of Eurytus the ruthless, Eurytus, to whom the Far shooting god gave his bow; but he had no joy of the gift; for of his own ch... ...it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother by her veil, T... ... and on the same day they rounded the distant headland of the Amazons that guards their harbour. (ll. 966 1001) Here once when Melanippe, daughter of... ...ight, and take with your oars the passage opposite to that which the enemy guards, for at dawn when they see their plight I deem that no word urging t... ... And the heroes she found by the ship taking their pastime with quoits and shooting of arrows; and she drew near and just touched the hand of Aeaeus’ ...

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...lcons upon a perch, the other a hunting-horn, which he blew with a careless note at twenty paces from the castle. Every one about this listless prince... ...anged his dress, and as Madame had not yet sent orders respecting breakfast, Monsieur stretched himself upon a chaise longue, and was soon as fast asl... ... write. Thence the thousand cries, the thousand railleries, the thousand laughs, one of which, more brilliant than the rest, had startled the birds in... ...n her arms and hands. “Montalais! Montalais!” said she at length, in a voice soft and caressing as a melody, “you laugh too loud — you laugh like a ma... ...hen Madame rings.” This admonition neither made the young girl called Montalais cease to laugh and gesticulate. She only replied: “Louise, you do not ... ... of it. D’Artagnan ate much, and drank but little. Aramis drank nothing, unless it was water. After the repast, — “Y ou offered me an arquebuse,” said... ...e back to dinner.” “Pardieu! the eating at your house is too good to make me think of not coming back.” And thereupon D’Artagnan quitted his host, bow...

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...lothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crackling of the chestnut leaves un... ... down by the hun- gry men. After a time, there was a report from the outer guards that the Gallic watch had been telling them that their leader would ... ... Philoxenus for a compliment; but the philosopher only turned round to the guards, and said dryly, ‘Carry me back to prison.’ This time Dionysius had ... ...bject, and on Ambrose’s return, he found the imperial procession, lictors, guards, and all, escorting the Emperor as usual to the Basilica or Justice ... ...o the city, and Genevieve in her homely gown and veil passed by Hilperik’s guards without being suspected of being more than an ordinary Gaulish villa... ...anima- tion. He was active and dexterous in all manly sports, espe- cially shooting and riding; he was a man of few words; and 246 A Book of Golden D...

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...ss that night. But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the c... ...palings and made himself understood. “Henderson,” he called, “you saw that shooting star last night?” “Well?” said Henderson. “It’s out on Horsell Com... ...ments of the troops; their idea was that a dispute had arisen at the Horse Guards. The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common... ... upon the chart. Steadily, incessantly, each black splash grew and spread, shooting out ramifications this way and that, now banking itself against ri... ... eager scrutiny of the Martian disk, and those fiery darts of the sky, the shooting stars, will bring with them as they fall an unavoidable apprehensi...

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...ares. The tunnel to the Scot- land Street Station, the sight of the trains shooting out of its dark maw with the two guards upon the brake, the though... ...Station, the sight of the trains shooting out of its dark maw with the two guards upon the brake, the thought of its length and the many ponderous edi...

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...LISBURY : Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall to the base earth from the firmament. Thy sun sets weepi... ...orious angel: then, if angels fight, Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right. [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY .] Welcome, my lord: how far off...

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...l. Ah Richard, with eyes of heauie mind, 1303 I see thy Glory, like a shooting Starre, 1304 Fall to the base Earth, from the Firmament: 1305... ...gell: then if Angels fight, 1417 Weake men must fall, for Heauen still guards the right. 1418 Enter Salisbury. 1419 Welcome my Lord, how ...

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...for the benefit of her son, aged thirty-six, an officer in the ex-Imperial Guards, whom the Marquis d’Espard has placed by his influence in the King’s... ...uards, whom the Marquis d’Espard has placed by his influence in the King’s Guards, as Major in the First Regiment of Cuiras- siers. These two persons,... ...nt was finding it hard to refuse his brother, who was anxious to go to the shooting-gallery for the first time, and who begged him to second his reque...

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...es below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle; Round many... ...s drum Booming from the sedgy shallow. Ruder sounds shall none be near, Guards nor warders challenge here, Here’s no war-steed’s neigh and champing... ...he loud pipes my bridal tell, The Links of Forth shall hear the knell, The guards shall start in Stirling’s porch; And when I light the nuptial torch,... ...om his coil, Like wolf that dashes through the toil, Like mountain-cat who guards her young, Full at Fitz-James’s throat he sprung; Received, but reck... ...t corresponding number of officers attached to his person. He had his body-guards, called Luichttach, picked from his clan for strength, activity, and... ...re all able men and waled [picked] men for all kind of games and pastimes, shooting, louping, running, wrestling, and casting of the stone, but they w...

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...erils of childbirth”; and the sparrows who had found their way through the guards behind the glass windows chirped above the faded gilt and alabaster ... ...ouring for vir- gin stuff. “Anything to finish the job!” said the badgered Guards. “Hang up, some of you, and make wax for these slack-jawed sisters.”... ..., and, worst of all, through the babies in their cradles, till the Sweeper Guards spent half their time tossing out useless little corpses. The lines ... ...-comb. “Down and out!” she called across the brown breadth of it. “Nurses, guards, fanners, sweepers—out! Never mind the babies. They’re better dead.—... ...isorderly neighbours when the storm ended as suddenly as it had be- gun. A shooting-star to northward filled the sky with the green blink of a meteori... ... weighed like lead. “God, He knows!” said Captain George soberly “That old shooting-star’s skin-friction has discharged the different lev- els. I’ve s...

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...n a crowd, broad, short, and tall together, with a little battery of their shooting imple- ments pointing down the cave. Three or four other arrows fo... ...this world. They may have all sorts of things inside here. Even with those shooting things they might make it bad for us…. “Yet after all,” I said, “e... ...eeping a welcome space about me marched a cordon of stolid, scuttle-headed guards, who had joined us on our leav- ing the boat in which we had come al... ...nking, that these wonderful beings did not carry in their heads!) Followed guards and porters, and then Phi-oo’s shivering brain borne also on a litte... ...and messen- gers, and then all down the countless steps of the throne were guards, and at the base, enormous, various, indistinct, vanishing at last i... ...st and greatest hall…. “My procession opened out like a fan. My ushers and guards went right and left, and the three litters bearing myself and Phi-oo...

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... Harran came up, Presley reached down into the pouches of the sun-bleached shooting coat he wore and drew out and handed him the packet of letters and... ...shifted his po- 36 The Octopus sition and, drawing from the pocket of his shooting coat his little tree-calf edition of the Odyssey, read far into th... ...sparks; its enormous eye, cyclopean, red, throwing a glare far in advance, shooting by in a sudden crash of confused thunder; filling the night with t... ...nster, the terror of steel and steam, with its single eye, cyclopean, red, shooting from horizon to horizon; but saw it now as the symbol of a vast po... ... galloping terror of steam and steel, with its single eye, cyclopean, red, shooting from horizon to hori- zon, symbol of a vast power, huge and terrib... ...it in pa- tience, to attempt no more violence. He informed them that armed guards of the League were, at that moment, patrolling Los Muertos, Broderso...

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... a great joker and a jolly companion, and made himself so popular with his guards that they pretended to know nothing about a long rope that was sent ... ... that was sent into his prison at the bottom of a deep flagon of wine. The guards took the wine, and Firebrand took the rope; with which, when they we... ... danger; and never lay down to sleep, even in his palace surrounded by his guards, without having a sword and buck ler at his bedside. To strengthen ... ...admitted to the presence of the Turkish Emir through long lines of Moorish guards, and that they found the Emir with his eyes seriously fixed on the p... ... death, and placed for safe custody in the Tower of London. He treated his guards to a quantity of wine into Charles Dickens 183 which he had put a s... ...pshot was, that he was left on board of one of them (in consequence of its shooting away from his own boat), with not more than about a dozen men, and... ...e the mutineers were sheltered, taking four hundred of them prisoners, and shooting a number of them by sentence of court martial. The soldiers soon f...

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...ve your condescension To tell you what we know Of marching in the Mulligan Guards To Sligo Port below! Here broke in the shrill tongued fifes: We shou... ...ly they did play, As we marched–marched– 76 Kim marched–with the Mulligan Guards! It was the band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for ... ...ery vil lage whose priest had tried to drug him; but the kind Heaven that guards lamas sent him at twilight through the crops, absorbed and unsuspici... ...ter snow melting’ – he shivered afresh – come two strangers under cover of shooting wild goats. They bear guns, but they bear also chains and levels a... ...ov 217 Rudyard Kipling ernment officials. No, they had not met any other shooting parties en route. They did for themselves. They had plenty of sup... ...d. In a little while rain will stop and we can then proceed. You have been shooting, eh? That is fine performance!’ He skipped nimbly from one kilta t... ...e, with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges, is else where, shooting musk deer for the market, and Yankling Sahib will learn next seaso...

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...thing in him. Privately, after a while, Tom organised a royal court! He was the prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lor... ...dream that ever … Sir William! dost hear? 48 Mark Twain Man, I did think me changed to a pauper, and … Ho there! Guards! Sir William! What! is there ... ... sheen of coloured lights; and constant explosions of fireworks filled the skies with an intricate commingling of shooting splendours and a thick rain... ...ade concerning the occasion of its movement. By the King’s command!” A few seconds later a long rank of the royal guards, cased in flashing steel, fil... ... spa- cious apartment, with gilded pillars and pilasters, and pictured walls and ceilings. At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed... ...rgotten episode, and perpetuated by habit. In an instant more she had torn her way out of the press, and past the guards, and was at his side. She emb...

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...ughed like a man. ‘I see! Hobden catches co- nies—rabbits—for himself, and guards your defences for you. Does he make a profit out of his coney-catchi... ...ple were there. The men showed their knives and told their tale. The sheep guards also had seen The Beast flying from us. The Beast went west across t... ... Bridport boat rounds to acrost our bows, intendin’ to stop us by means o’ shooting. ‘my Aunt looks over our rail. “George,” she says, “you fin- ish w... ...till De Aquila, as Lord of Pevensey, met our King and led him to the first shooting-stand—by the Mill on the edge of the forest. Hugh and I—it was no ... ...l gown (for, to shoot with strangers I count the same as war), they ceased shooting. So that was smoothed over, and we gave our beaters ale to wash do...

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...carried in the breast) designed to do its office noiselessly, and made for shooting men with poisoned darts. One press or case I saw, full of accursed... ...d, crazy and strong. T wining among a tangled lot of boats and barges, and shooting out at last into a Grand Canal! There, in the errant fancy of my d... ... hurrying to and fro of all the servants in it; and, now and then, a swift shooting across some doorway or balcony, of a straggling stranger in a fanc... ...ain. He has ob 153 Charles Dickens tained permission of the sentinel who guards him: who stands near, leaning against the wall and cracking nuts. Th... ...ents, bunches of keys found clenched in the grasp of skeletons, helmets of guards and warriors; little household bells, yet musical with their old dom...