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...s in Eastern waters. He was still out there, but settled down, and middle-aged; I imagined him--grown portly in figure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being specially beloved by the gods, get knocked on the head early. The letter was of the reminiscent ?do you remember? kind--a wistful letter of backward glance...

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...ed; I imagined him—grown portly in fig- ure and domestic in his habits; in short, overtaken by the fate common to all except to those who, being speci... ... of casting side glances without mov- ing his head, which was set low on a short, round neck. A thick, round trunk in a dark undress jacket with gold ... ...the main rigging of the white and warlike brig, waved his hat in response. Shortly afterwards we parted, I to the northward and Jasper heading east wi... ...ied shades, and amongst them the swarthy, arrogant, black-haired Dutchman, shorter nearly by a head, and so much thicker than any of them that he seem... ...My mate left me suddenly. Had to. And as there’s no- body to be found at a short notice I am going to take Schultz with me. The notorious Schultz! Why... ..., mysterious, but by no means tragic existence as a mild-eyed, inoffensive beach- comber on the fringe of native life. There are occasions when the ir...

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................................................................................................................................................ 142 THE SHORT LAY OF SIGURD.............................................................................................................................. 142 THE HELL-RIDE OF BRYNHILD ....................................................

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..................................................................... 142 THE SHORT LA Y OF SIGURD ......................................................... ...wind and wave until they came ashore. The piece of land which lay next the beach they were flung upon was then viewed from the nearest hill-summit, an... ...ces existing of those from which the Sagaman told his tale. Except for the short snatch on p. 24 (1) of our translation, nothing is now left of these ... ...nd slays the sons of Hunding: this lay is known as the “Lay of Regin”. The short chap. xvi. is abbreviated from a long poem called the “Prophecy of Gr... ...s are alluded to in other poems. Chap. xxx. is met by the poem called the “Short Lay of Sigurd”, which, fragmentary apparently at the beginning, gives... ...hese, the “Greenland Lay of Atli”, is followed closely by the Sagaman; the Shorter one we have translated. The end of Gudrun, of her daughter by Sigur... ...r they made land; then came Sigrun, daughter of King Hogni, down on to the beach with a great army, and turned them away thence to a good haven called...

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...between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; these are often commingled in men whom Nature has favored and who, like Caesar, like Newton, like ...

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...esh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two... .... Human life has glorious moments. Together we walked in silence along the beach. The sky was cloudless, the sea without a ripple; others might have t... ...d him to watch before the door, and warn him of any noise on either of the beaches,—that of Croisic, or that of Guerande. Then he loaded a gun, and pl... ...d with relief the puny veg- etation which sprouted through the sand of the beach. As we crossed, we saw the island on which the Cambremers had lived; ...

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...ter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only....

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...were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its nois... ...anions. In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short no tice, for anybody on the road might be a robber or in league with... ...top of Shooter’s yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you! “ The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most de cided negative, made a decided scramble for... ...gs, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted in the sunlight far at sea. A fac... ...When Mr. Lorry had finished his breakfast, he went out for a stroll on the beach. The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the be... ... beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and th... ...er straw travelling hat by its ribbon in her hand. As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue e... ... from one of our customers to another in the course of my business day; in short, I have no feelings; I am a mere machine. T o go on…” “But this is my... ...arm bells ringing, drums beating, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attack began. Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone wal...

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...whether of man or beast, in all that quarter of the is- land. Winged by her own impetus and the dying breeze, the Casco skimmed under cliffs, opened o... ...der cliffs, opened out a cove, showed us a beach and some green trees, and flitted by again, bow- ing to the swell. The trees, from our distance, migh... ...began to slide into the bay of Anaho. The cocoa-palm, that giraffe of vegetables, so graceful, so un- gainly, to the European eye so foreign, was to b... ...ght have approached a hundred islands and not found their parallel. It was longer ere we spied the native village, standing (in the universal fashion)... ...or, of the cherubs in the cor- ners, of the scapegoat gargoyles, or the quaint and spirited 45 Robert Louis Stevenson relief, where St. Michael (the ... ... umbrella upright in the road, he sketched the steps and gestures. All his criticisms of the present, all his regrets for the past, struck me as tempe... ...e paid me a visit in the Casco, and there enter- tained me with a tale of one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hi... .... It stood just beyond the church in an oblong patch of cultivation. More than three hundred sacks of soil were imported from Tahiti for the Residency... ...bourhood, to be extremes of Polynesian diversity. The Marquesan is cer- tainly the most beautiful of human races, and one of the tallest—the Paumotuan...

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... and seasons doth suffice. VI – A VISIT FROM THE SEA Far from the loud sea beaches Where he goes fishing and crying, Here in the inland garden Why is ... ... To list at noon for nightingales, to grow 20 Underwoods A dweller on the beach till Argo come That came long since, a lingerer by the pool Where tha... ...arliest smoke into the air upbreathes And the rough hazels climb along the beach. To the tugg’d oar the distant echo speaks. The ship lies resting, wh... ...the reader through that labyrinth! But in Scots it dodges usually from the short I, as in grin, to the open E, as in mere. Find the blind, I may remar... ...gang 51 E Even in the bluest noonday of July, 16 F Far from the loud sea beaches 12 Far ‘yont amang the years to be 38 For love of lovely words, a...

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.... He nodded, then added, “Or he wouldn’t be keepin’ up such a clip.” He gave a short chuckle. “They’re gettin’ anxious up there.” I glanced up. The ca... ...over the face of the dream, for a dream told myself it must be. My rhythm grew shorter and shorter. I was jerked from swing to counter swing with irri... ... pair of pale blue, washed out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil ... ...lemental stuff itself out of which the many forms of life have been molded; in short, that which writhes in the body of a snake when the head is cut o... ...had the poor taste to die at the beginning of the voyage and leave Wolf Larsen short handed. It should be unnecessary to state, at least to my friends... ...gets you! You know damn well he won’t. Can’t afford to. No shipping masters or beach combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants... ...cted his spot well. The Ghost lay half a mile beyond the surf line of a lonely beach. Here debouched a deep gorge, with precipitous, volcanic walls wh... ...himself, — Leach and Johnson filled the small casks and rolled them down to the beach. They had no chance to make a break for liberty in one of the boa... ...ea Wolf carrying a single cask each trip. Just before dinner, starting for the beach with an empty barrel, they altered their course and bore away to ...

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...) Now when he had left the well built streets of the city, he came to the beach of Pagasae, where his comrades greeted him as they stayed together ne... ...and draw lots for the benches for row ing. Meantime let us build upon the beach an altar to Apollo Embasius * who by an oracle promised to point out ... ...rth the ship, spreading on high the broad sail. And even now men call that beach Aphetae * of Argo. (ll. 592 608) Thence going forward they ran past ... .... 592 608) Thence going forward they ran past Meliboea, escaping a stormy beach and surf line. And in the morning they saw Homole close at hand lean ... ...ith eddies. (ll. 936 960) There is a lofty island inside the Propontis, a short distance from the Phrygian mainland with its rich cornfields, sloping... ... his destiny thereafter to sail any fur ther. But him there on the spot a short sickness laid to rest far from his native land, when the company had ... ...in my halls, how have ye come returning back to Aea? Did some calamity cut short your escape in the midst? Y e did not listen when I set before you th... ...rthwith destroy them together with the strangers. Slumbering just now in a short lived sleep such a ghastly dream did I see—may some god forbid its fu... ...But now what should we do, held back by the winds to stay here, if ever so short a time? How deso late looms before us the edge of the limitless land...

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...natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of- Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here ... ...t sentimental. But just as he was go- ing to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhi- noceros with a horn... ... took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe. In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons and... ...nto the water and blew bubbles through his nose, leav- ing his skin on the beach. Presently the Parsee came by and found the skin, and he smiled one s... ...is ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind),... ...there for three days waiting for his nose to shrink. But it never grew any shorter, and, besides, it made him squint. For, O Best Beloved, you will se... ...was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he... ...lga; he ran through the long grass; he ran 31 Rudyard Kipling through the short grass; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; he ran til... ...ot-forward-in-a-hurry’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short. And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-wh...

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...wont of a wife, Serving the lad for eyes and living herself in his life. Alone from the sea and the fishing came Tamatea the fair, Urging his boat to ... ...d is the sluggardly foot and marked the niggardly hand, The hours and the miles are counted, the tributes numbered and weighed, And woe to him that co... ...d, The hours and the miles are counted, the tributes numbered and weighed, And woe to him that comes short, and woe to him that delayed!” So spoke on ... ...ht, sometimes prevailed; more of- ten, without doubt, he fell. But whatever body was found, the bearers indifferently took up. Ballads 5 So spake on ... ... must not be touched, nor a place that was tapu visited. Ballads 15 And cast overboard of their plenty; and lo! at the Tevas feet The surf on all of ... ...re the favourite head adornment of the Marquesans, as the hair of women formed their most costly girdle. The former, among this gen- erally beardless ... ... the roar of the sea in his head; There was never a foot on the floor, there was never a whisper of speech; Only the leering tikis stared on the blind...

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... “The Lagoon,” the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speak- ing, the end of m... ...public existence. I have much to thank “The Lagoon” for. My next effort in short-story writing was a depar- ture—I mean a departure from the Malay Arc... ...ns which ended in the production of “The Nigger” that I turned to my third short story in the order of time, the first in this volume: “Karain: A Memo... ...s in the Eastern Archipelago. Sun- shine gleams between the lines of those short para- graphs—sunshine and the glitter of the sea. A strange name wake... ...- ing stretches of open water; a line of white surf thun- ders on an empty beach, the shallow water foams on the reefs; and green islets scattered thr... ...ial; and we seem to feel the touch of friendly brown hands that, after one short grasp, return to rest on a chased hilt. They were Karain’s people—a d... ...t. They dimin- ished in the distance; the song ceased; they swarmed on the beach in the long shadows of the western hills. The sunlight lingered on th... ...ds; the swelling rumour of animated talk subsided like a wave on a sloping beach. The chief is pensive. And above the spread- ing whisper of lowered v... ... bay, fierce and pale, as if at white heat. Nothing moved on the land. The beach was empty, the villages seemed deserted; the trees far off stood in u...

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... to seaward. The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, hi... ...me of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won’t ki... ...you’ll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don’t break off short, you’ll die—do you understand that?—die, and go to your own place, li... ...s a comrade of the captain’s was enough to frighten them to death. And the short and the long of the matter was, that while we could get several who w... ...it up, I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message: “You have till ten to- night.” “He had till ten, Mother,” sa... ...re. “So there we go, boys,” said Mr. Dance. This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount, but ran with Dogger’s stirrup-leather to the lodge ... ... of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre-cut cheek, and his old brass telescope... ...surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thun- dering on the steep beach—at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds ... ...oving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside. A peculiar stagnant smell hung over ...

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...im to the gallows. As the characteristic I want most to impress upon these short Author’s Notes prepared for my first Collected Edition is that of abs... ...elf, when through the open skylight the hail “On deck there!” arrested him short, attentive, and with a sudden change to amiability in the expression ... ...ld wire. His mouth was lost in the heavy moustache; his nose was straight, short, slightly blunted at the end; a broad band of deeper red stretched un... ...d to him of the “all there” kind. Of Lingard, with whom he had only been a short time—having been picked up in Madras Roads out of a home ship, which ... ...g a boat’s crew from the Frenchman’s ship found the girl lying dead on the beach. That put an end to our plans. She was out of her trouble anyhow, and... ... broke the Frenchman up altogether. He began to mope, did no business, and shortly afterward sailed away. I cleared a good many pence out of that trip... ...seph Conrad Two figures, noiseless like two shadows, moved slowly over the beach of a rocky islet, and stopped side by side on the very edge of the wa... ...d by a grass rope to the shaft of a long spear planted firmly on the white beach, and the incoming tide lapped monotonously against its stern. The gir... ... anchored almost exactly where he had judged her to be, off a narrow white beach near the mouth of a river. He could see on the shore a high cluster o...

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...alking about. It gives you an idea of the Majesty of God, who could in one short second turn it all into confu- sion. There is nothing to me more beau... ...al merits; and I thank God if I shall be found not to have fallen entirely short in the use of 47 Yo n g e those talents which He has entrusted to me... ...ers. We must all look onwards: we must try to think of this world as but a short moment in our exist- ence; our real life and home is beyond the grave... ... all this grief, the parting till death, the work broken off, the life cut short midway, the profusion of needs at home for able ministers, is it to b... ...he voyage of 1853 he became so ill that his baptism was has- tened, and he shortly after died in the Bishop’s arms. T wo more boys, cousins, from Lifu... ... the shore, and refreshing it is to look at it; but as yet we have seen no beach; the rock runs right into the sea. Such bustle and excitement on boar... ... wealth; rude warehouses, &c., being mixed up with pri- vate houses on the beach. The town already extends to a distance of perhaps half a mile on eac... ...ting), said I as I shook hands with them one by one. We walked up from the beach to the house. Roses in full flower, and mimosa with a delicate golden... ...tinues:— ‘Lugged down boxes, big empty ones, from the Judge’s house to the beach. Went with the Bishop to the old ship, packed up books, brought away ...

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...in. The Captain had given him two minutes in which to change. The time was short enough, but even at that Wilbur changed more than his clothes during ... ...show him the use of the sextant and how to take an observation in the fake short and easy coasting style of navigation. Furthermore, he showed him how... ...’s ours. I’m out for anything that there’s stuff in. I guess I’m more of a beach-comber by nature 28 Moran of the Lady Letty than anything else. If s... ...she’s abandoned she belongs to us. T o ‘ll with this coolie game. We’ll go beach-combin’, you and I. We’ll board that bark and work her into the near-... ...re’s thirty thousand to be had for the asking I guess I’m a ‘na’chel bawn’ beach- comber myself.” “Now, nothing about this to the coolies.” “But how w... ...!” exclaimed Kitchell. “I ain’t a skipper of no oil-boat any longer. I’m a beach-comber.” He fixed the wallowing bark with glistening eyes. “Gawd stri... ... taxpayer, was a weakling in comparison with Kitchell, the free-booter and beach-comber in sight of his prize. “Son,” said the Captain, making a bundl... ...ght o’clock the routine of the day was at an end. So the time passed. In a short time Wilbur could not have said whether the day was Wednesday or Sund... ...he party came over the side. “Oh, my!” said Miss Herrick blankly, stopping short. The decks, masts, and rails of the schooner were shiny with a black ...

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...n six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with convenience even for short distances, but it insured me plenty of clothing, and the va- lise w... ...out and shed but a dying glimmer even while they burned. The benches are too short for anything but a young child. Where there is scarce elbow-room fo... ...alk in the train, like the talk I heard on the steamer, ran upon hard times, short commons, and hope that moves ever westward. I thought of my shipful... ...mount. But how about an odd bit? The nearest coin to it is a dime, which is, short by a fifth. That, then, is called a short bit. If you have one, you... ...led a long bit, and lost two and a half cents, or even, by comparison with a short bit, five cents. In country places all over the Pacific coast, noth... ...k and rear with never-dying surf. In front of the town, the long line of sea-beach trends north and north-west, and then westward to enclose the bay. ... ...r the coast and the adjacent coun- try like smoke above a battle. These long beaches are enticing to the idle man. It would be hard to find a walk mor... ... uproar, that runs, waxing and waning, up and down the long key-board of the beach. The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of... ...lly salt by this Homeric deep. Inshore, a tract of sand-hills borders on the beach. Here and there a lagoon, more or less brackish, attracts the birds...

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...of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth enough about it to keep it from lying horizontally on the water, had slipped a little from the land—... ... aground certain yards outside her; these are rendered bootless questions by the darkness of that night and the darkness of death. Here she went down.... ...heltered themselves, and where they had kept Christmas-day with rum and roast beef, to the de- struction of their frail chimney. Cast up among the sto... ...ched and iron rusted, and even these objects did no violence to the prevail- ing air the whole scene wore, of having been exactly the same for years a... ...d, saw from the ladder’s elevation as he looked down by chance towards the shore, some dark troubled object close in with the land. And he and the oth... ...s sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him when the ship stopped at Queenstown, when he was in the highes... ...a House, thinking in my idle manner of Tippoo-Sahib and Charles Lamb, and had got past my little wooden midshipman, after affection- ately patting him... ...t to speak at all. Infi- nitely better, to read the New T estament well, and to let that speak. In this congregation there is indubitably one pulse; b... ... the Liverpool police force, that I might have a look at the various unlawful traps which are every night set for Jack. As my term of service in that ...

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...s own among the boiling breakers of the Roost. A mermaid had once met a piper on Sandag beach, and there sang to him a long, bright midsummer’s night,... ... age, to make so rough a passage, and land on such a ticklish coast, was surely not far short of the miraculous. It was to him, or to some of his monk... ...ke the crossing. ‘He will be waiting for the right man,’ said Rorie. Mary met me on the beach, and led me up the brae and into the house of Aros. Outs... ... great vehemence, as though angry; and perhaps I was not very willing to be put down so shortly, for young men are disputatious. At least I remember I... ...I was eager to be alone with Mary; yet it was not till after supper, and then but for a short while, that I could have a word with her. I lost no time... ... two a little abaft the foremast – though indeed she had none, both masts having broken short in her disaster; and as the pitch of the beach was very ... ...d she had none, both masts having broken short in her disaster; and as the pitch of the beach was very sharp and sudden, and the bows lay many feet be... ...itheatre of lower hill- ocks sloping towards the sea, and beyond that the yellow arc of beach and the whole extent of Sandag Bay. It was a scene on wh... ...yet high, but gusty and unsteady to the point; the rain, on the other hand, had ceased. Short as was the interval, the sea already ran vastly higher t...

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...rth, nearer, and nearer, and nearer, till it ended in a shriek snapped off short. The other three answered, till even Mowgli could have vowed that the... ...a horse, as the saying is. What did thy woman do?” “She fired at me with a short gun of a kind I have never seen before or since. Five times, one afte... ... out their woolly buds, a tiny stonecrop or so makes believe to blos- som, beaches of fine gravel and rounded stones run down to the open sea, and pol... ... skins, and snared the sea-birds, or speared the young seal basking on the beaches. Later, they would go south into Baffin Land after the reindeer, an... ...ed one shoulder a little, and crossed the hut 107 Rudyard Kipling for his short stabbing-harpoon. The big dog looked at him, howled again, and slunk ... ...the eight-legged, limping Thing had led them to— some granite-tipped, sand-beached islet off the coast, shod and sheathed and masked with ice so that ... ...danger, of course, that some heavily squeezed ice-field might shoot up the beach, and plane off the top of the islet bodily; but that did not trouble ... ... the body of a dhole whirled down-stream. Overhead they could hear furious short yells that were drowned in a roar like breakers—the roar of the wings... ... to roll over on the black rubbish-heaps. There were dholes who had leaped short into the trees on the cliffs, and the bees blotted out their shapes; ...

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... ‘but when he’s in it, we bears him up werry tight, and takes him in werry short, so as he can’t werry well fall down; and we’ve got a pair o’ preciou... ...the days of swallow tails, but had evidently in those times adorned a much shorter man than the stranger, for the soiled and faded sleeves scarcely re... ...cent assistance. ‘Never mind,’ said the stranger, cutting the address very short, ‘said enough—no more; smart chap that cabman— handled his fives well... ..., it is truly gratifying.’ Punctual to five o’clock came the stranger, and shortly af terwards the dinner. He had divested himself of his brown paper... ...atural brilliancy, then sank so low as to be scarcely discernible; after a short interval, he had burst out again, to enlighten for a moment; then fli... ...he ruined wall, broken in many places, and in some, overhanging the narrow beach below in rude and heavy masses. Huge knots of seaweed The Pickwick P... ...oceeded. ‘The tale told itself at once: some scattered garments lay on the beach; a human head was just visible above the waves Charles Dickens 283 a...