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...nd faded, that the ship had gone out and come home again, and it was broad spring al ready in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool. I have not inquired among... ...arpet bag, high and dry, like a couple of coal—barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking glass, which is nailed to the ... ...down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea str... ...e vicinity had been announced very early in the disaster by a loud cry of ‘Breakers a head!’) and much backing of paddles, and heaving of the lead int... ...l influence on the spirits. We went on next morning, still by railroad, to Spring field. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a dis... ...ng with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs — all sorts of legs and no legs — what is this to him? And in w...

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...air every description of capacity but that which is alone useful and which springs from a knowledge of men’s natures. It chanced that one of Sewall’s ... ...s increased with the course of time and the experience of impunity. In the spring of the year, a very intelligent observer had occasion to visit many ... ...er skims there, on smooth, many-tinted shal- lows, between the wall of the breakers on the one hand, and on the other a succession of palm-tree capes ... ... case; some with broken limbs, others insensible from the drenching of the breakers. Later in the forenoon, certain valorous Samoans succeeded in reac...

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...mong ye; best of all. Dare say some seed has been shaken out; and won’t it spring though? And when it does spring, do you cut down the young thistles,... ...nd when it does spring, do you cut down the young thistles, and won’t they spring the more? It’s encouraging and coaxing ‘em. Now, when with my thistl... ... chair so all over bejointed, behinged, and bepadded, everyway so elastic, springy, and docile to the airiest touch, that in some one of its endlessly... ... Lascar boy from Bombay. Thug! I found him sucking the embryo life from my spring eggs. All rascals, sir, every soul of them; Cauca- sian or Mongol. A... ...y continued as follows: “Boys outgrow what is amiss in them? From bad boys spring good men? Sir, ‘the child is father of the man’; hence, as all boys ... ...steers through life by the advice of old Polonius will not steer among the breakers.” “No, no—I hope nobody affirms that,” rejoined the cos- mopolitan...

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...terest, an interest of ambition in its subversion. As matters stood in the spring of 1834, the patron of each benefice, acting under the severest rest... ...e under Sir Jacob Astley at 17 Thomas de Quincey Stow-in-the-walds in the spring of 1846. Any other fighting in that century belonged to mere insulat... ..., she began to find herself invaded or modified from within, by influences springing up from Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evi... ...presbyteries, as being the effectual electoral bodies, are really the main springs of the ecclesiastical administration. To govern them, was in effect... ...ion anticipating the more remote conse- quences yet to be expected. In the spring of 1834, as we have sufficiently explained, the General Assembly ven... ...s employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leading right amongst breakers. That hortus siccus of pet notions, which had won Pope’s fancy in ...

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... suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over p... ...‘It will never check hers, ’ said the old man looking steadily at me, ‘the springs are too deep. Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasu... ... passing so long upon your attention. Good night.’ ‘There’s one good thing springs out of all this,’ said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had rea... ...for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate th... ...—one of nature’s beacons, warn ing off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and ad monishi... ...er,’ said Short; ‘that’s where it is. We takes the East of Lon don in the spring and winter, and the West of England in the summer time. Many’s the h...

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...nt out walking in the afternoon, she closed her thin hand on my arm like a spring, to keep me back, while Steerforth and his mother went on out of hea... ...ing of her char- acter too, and a perception that it was, in its strongest springs, the same. She now observed to me, aloud, resuming her former restr... ...of this. Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, can- not be renewed. I speak, ... ...difice may be raised upon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring-time of your life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer? I became v... ... his hat was re- moved, like one of those obtrusive little figures made of springs, that fly out of fictitious snuff- boxes when the lid is taken off.... ...nd ev- ery sheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of little breakers setting heavily to- wards us. When we came within sight of the sea... ...esented, bore the expression of being swelled; and the height to which the breakers rose, and, looking over David Copperfield Vol. II 439 one anoth...

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...ue, thou art as well gilded as a snake when he casts his old slough in the spring time; but for all that, thou creepest not into my Eden. I will look ... ...your weak brain may imagine, because I name to you freely the engines, the springs, the screws, the tackle, and braces, by which great men rise in sti... ...“I once came on them by chance,” said the priest, “in the South wood, in a spring evening. Varney was muffled in a russet cloak, so that I saw not his... ...the purest gold—more like the last part- ing sunbeam of the softest day of spring.” “Why, you are a poet yourself, Master Varney,” said the Queen, smi... ...ll the peculiarities of his navigation, but which exhibits so many shoals, breakers, and reefs of rocks, that his anxious eye reaps little more from o... ...gs of the deerhound are stretched to gripe her, if she is strong enough to spring over a chasm. I am equal to every effort that may relieve me from th... ... self, “for once help a votary at a dead pinch, for my boat is amongst the breakers!” The Countess Amy, with her hair and her garments dishev- elled, ...

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...this discussion, Ellangowan was somewhat like a woodcock caught in his own springe. He turned his face alternately from the one spokesman to the other... ...ir haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring Or chasms of wat’ry depths— all these have vanish’d; They live no lo... ...and the pal- sied to labour. He detected poachers, black-fishers, orchard- breakers, and pigeon-shooters; had the applause of the bench for his reward... ...e other side, for uniformity’s sake, was a precautionary annuncia- tion of spring-guns and man-traps of such formidable pow- ers, that, said the rubri... ...es his rounds with a loaded fowling-piece. He mentioned even man-traps and spring-guns. I should be loath to affront my father’s old friend in his own... ...t liberty amid the grandest scenes of nature; while, during my winters and springs, I am not only cabined, cribbed, and confined in a miserable garret...

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...the subsequent edi- tions of my work. Its pedigree is extremely simple. It springs from a ten-line paragraph in a small pro- vincial paper published i... ...free, he says, and yelled back at him: ‘What do you say?’ “‘I think I hear breakers ahead, sir,’ howled the man, and came rushing aft with the rest of... ...ted out to the other, ‘Straight on, straight on!’ “Where on earth did they spring from, I wondered. Slowly I walked down the short pier. I saw the wom...

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...in, especially over little Thekla and Polly. But if George comes home this spring, and I go out to Queensland with him, perhaps I should have asked yo... ...out at their window, and saw that it was a beautiful morning, and that the spring sunshine glowed upon the purple summits of the hills. Agatha suppose... ...to one or other of them on week-days. It is too late to come back on these spring Sundays.” “I should not like to live among so many churches,” said M... ...y?” Neither girl seemed to have eyes for the lovely blue of the sea in the spring sunshine, nor the striking forms of ruddy peaks of rock that enclose... ...eling, which were the more excited when she saw her own chilliness of last spring carried further by the two young girls. So breakfast went off merril... ... heaved up in a fearful way, then down. It was tide, and we were near upon breakers; but there were answer- ing shouts, or so they said—I believe a li...

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...a louse you would be praying!” I was all as taut as a ship’s hawser or the spring of a watch, and as soon as he came within reach of me I had him by t... ...ve him the cold steel for all I was worth. His body kicked under me like a spring sofa; he gave a dreadful kind of a long moan, and lay still. “I wond... ...friends to the north coast of Molokai between the mighty cliff and the sea-breakers. But what was that to the case of the man Keawe, he who had met hi... ...she was as gay as a bird; only when she looked upon Keawe, the tears would spring in her eye, and she must run and kiss him. As for Keawe, a weight wa... ...e you were in earnest, when you offered to sell them for four centimes the spring of health and riches inexhaustible. It was necessary besides to expl...

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...log; and the gathered weight of crashes menaced monstrously from afar. The breakers flung out of the night with a ghostly light on their crests — the ... ...The chief’s arm, long like a tentacle, and straightening as if worked by a spring, went out to meet him, and deflected his rush into a spin towards th...

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...sion of repose for one of intense listening. “Already!” exclaimed the boy, springing to his feet, as Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy fo... ... secure your own pardon.” “Out, miscreant!” shouted Adam; and was about to spring at him again, but the powerful arm collared him, and he recognized a... ...the maintainer of the laws, and defender of the oppressed against covenant breakers; and when the appeal to arms was at length made, he saw the white ... ...n to exalt ourselves, but as a trust for the welfare of others. It was the spring of action that was with him through life.” “It was,” murmured Richar... ...er poor father!” “How is it with him then, Gammer?” demanded Sir Rob- ert, springing to the ground with the alacrity of a doctor anxious about his pat... ...m the ladies’ tent; adding, however, “But what’s the use of leaving a pert springald like thee in charge? Thou wilt sleep like a very dormouse, I’ll w...

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...l, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety , to recover the illusion of their spring. The wiser go their way with a decent grace. In their chastened smil... ... wining and George Road. We were all writers. It was a fine day , early in spring, and we were in a good humour. We talked about a hundred things. Mis... ...r their lives. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef. But here there was not a sound, and the air was scent... ...ellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook. Who can tell...

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...into absolute subjection; so, though Kalliope might have a presentiment of breakers ahead, she could say no more, and Gillian, feeling that she had be... ...Alexis and I would try to manage for Theodore after the examination in the spring.’ The Woodward schools were a new light to her, and she was eagerly ... ... invitation if they went to the south, as perhaps they should do that very spring. ‘ And,’ said Ada, ‘you are not to be expected to remain long in thi... ...Lord Rotherwood said, he had come to the right shop, since Rockquay in the spring was likely to afford a choice of clergy with weak chests, or better ... ...egan to give way under his feet, so that, being a slight and active man, a spring and bound forward had actu- ally carried him safely to the firm grou... ...rocks regularly inspected once a month, and once a fortnight in winter and spring, when the danger is greater. If they were ticklish, the place was ma...

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...ying woman, clasping her hands and praying. “Be silent!” exclaimed Joseph, springing at his brother and putting his hand before his mouth. “To the rig... ...coings. “You shall leave this room, or you shall kill me!” cried Jo- seph, springing on his brother with the fury of a lion. “My God! my God!” cried A... ...tation, which makes the wine detestable, when it might be a source of ever-springing wealth, and an industry for the community. Thanks to the bitterne... ...of the Spaniards to the French prisoners at Cabrera was very great. In the spring of 1811, H.M. brig “Minorca,” Cap- tain Wormeley, was sent by Admira... ...lieuten- ant-colonel in relation to Max, and in trying to guess what might spring from their antagonism, the whole town regarded the two men, from the... ...Bridau meant to do. You, my grandsons, the spies of such a man! You, house-breakers and marauders! Don’t you know that your worthy leader killed a poo...

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...ledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o?er the fatal truth, The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Philosophy and science, and the springs Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world....

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..., The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Philosophy and science, and the springs Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world, 4 Manfred – Lord Byron ... ...to kill; From thy own heart I then did wring The black blood in its blackest spring; From thy own smile I snatch’d the snake, For there it coil’d as i... ... were not meant for me – Earth! take these atoms! [As MANFRED is in act to spring from the cliff, the CHAMOIS HUNTER seizes and retains him with a s... ...’er the savage sea, The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which put on The aspect of a tumbling tempest’s foam, Frozen in... ...e Caesars dwelt, And dwell the tuneless birds of night, amidst A grove which springs through levell’d battlements, And twines its roots with the imper...

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... it till we were giddy with the sight and dizzy with the sound of bars and breakers, 47 Rudyard Kipling and when we reached land again we found a nak... ...ses, waving the tips of them as a cat waves the tip of her tail before she springs. ‘Now welcome—welcome, Sextus,’ sang Una, loading the catapult— ... ...Agricola at the Settle- ment. It’s not a bad little place for its size. In springtime violets grow down to the very beach. I’ve gathered sea-weeds for... ... destroy their bee-bloom in the sum- mer, and ruin their sheep-food in the spring. “‘T rue, quite true,” said Allo. “How can we make our holy heather-... ... And that was how we dealt with the Winged Hats that winter. ‘Early in the spring, when the East winds blow like skin- ning-knives, they gathered agai... ...was said and done. And, deep in the veins of Earth, And, fed by a thousand springs That comfort the market-place, Or sap the power of Kings, The Fifth...

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... windless swell. It was still dark, when they were alarmed by the sound of breakers, and an anchor was immediately let go. The peep of dawn discovered... ...earness. ‘You are not, I hope, neglecting, Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you pay the greatest attention to get the well s... ... in fine weather the seamless ocean joins over the reef, and at high-water springs it is buried sixteen feet. As the tide goes down, the higher reache... ...highest part of the Bell Rock began to show its sable head among the light breakers, which occasionally whitened with the foaming sea. The two boats b... ...g for all hands at half-past seven this morning. In the early state of the spring-tides the artificers went to the rock before breakfast, but as the t... ...difficulty that they reached the floating light. Had this gale happened in spring- tides when the current was strong we must have been driven to sea i... ...tch, to the height of from eight to twelve feet, or as high as the rise of spring-tides. A small flagstaff having also been erected to-day, a flag was...

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..................................................................... 140 THE SPRING RUNNING ............................................................... ...y might hurt the Man-cub. We must wait and see how the mohwa blooms.” That spring the mohwa tree, that Baloo was so fond of, never flowered. The green... ...der the yoke. So low was I brought that I think I should not have dared to spring if he had been loose. Wou!” Mowgli laughed. “Yes, we be great hunter... ... wish so, very greatly,” bleated a young fawn, who had only been born that spring, and did not at all like it. Wretched as the Jungle People were, eve... ...lazy. Each wished to eat where he lay, as sometimes we can do now when the spring rains are good. Tha, the First of the Elephants, was busy making new... ...rhead they could hear furious short yells that were drowned in a roar like breakers—the roar of the wings of the Little People of the Rocks. Some of t...