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...hair! But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill! Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace A two-edge... ... MDCCVIII MDCCVIII 1 Descend, ye Nine! descend and sing; The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep th... ...sing; The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre; In a sadly-pleasing strain ... ...oss the harp a careless hand he flings, And boldly sinks into the sounding strings. The figured games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove sur... ...ame for ever fix’d, they sing; For Fame they raise the voice, and tune the string; With Time’s first birth began the heavenly lays, And last, eternal,... ...e kindred arts shall in their praise conspire, One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. 70 Yet should the Graces all thy figur... ...due use to people and to kings, Taught not to slack, nor strain its tender strings, 290 The less, or greater, set so justly true, That tou...

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...at of Akim. She was depicted in a white dress with a yellow shawl with six strings of big pearls round her neck, long earrings, and a ring on every fi... ...tar? Not that either? I can. I have a guitar set with perlenmutter but the strings are broken. I must buy some new ones. You will give me the money, w... ...yevitch was surprised: Emilie certainly had a guitar but it only had three strings: he had not yet bought her any new ones; besides, Emilie was not at... ...uished the same guttural sounds. Her swarthy fingers fairly raced over the strings, “like little spiders,” and she ended up this time with a jaunty sh... ...e further side of the table and running her fingers several times over the strings of the guitar and to the surprise of Kuzma Vassilyevitch, who was e... ...ron, copper, and metals of all sorts; he had provided himself with various instruments, and it was nothing for him to mend or even to make a screw, a ... ...red with morocco, yellow with age. David, as a connoisseur of all sorts of instruments, seized upon it at once. “It’s English,” he pronounced, putting...

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... do not think so—Anne, you who have every- thing about you, from your shoe-strings upwards, in the most complete order and elegant taste. But then, yo... ... that the beautiful work-box Uncle Edward sent you, was a case of surgical instruments for Mr. Turner, to shew his gratitude for his attendance upon R... ... and so put her more in the right than yourself?’ ‘You mean by turning her string of superlatives into a paragon of perfection,’ said Elizabeth; ‘I ce... ...e the most attractive object in the room; and whilst Helen was untying the strings of her portfolio, she went up to it. ‘What a beautiful little Bisho... .... ‘But when you were leading him, and it must have been you who let go his string,’ said Helen; ‘I cannot see how you can accuse Lucy of having been t... ...drives them off, oh! rarely, Then they shoot him with an arrow, From bow-strings greased with ear-wigs’ marrow, The feathers, moth-wings downy velv...

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...obbler, who also sold old second-hand ordinary bicycles, were stretching a string of union-jacks and royal ensigns (which had originally celebrated th... ...irts of Port Stowe. Beside him were the books, but now they were tied with string. The bundle had been abandoned in the pine-woods beyond Bramblehurst... ...ting-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents. Dr. Kemp’s s... ...ared and quiet, and a devilish hard thing to get out of—head away from the string. My dear Kemp, it’s no good your sitting glaring as though I was a m... ... me a thief next! Surely, Kemp, you’re not fool enough to dance on the old strings. Can’t you see my position?” “And his too,” said Kemp. The Invisibl... ...ng, that before nightfall an area of several hundred square miles was in a stringent state of siege. And before nightfall, too, a thrill of horror wen...

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...ver heard of you.” 17 Thackeray CHAPTER II I GO HOME, AND HARP ON THE OLD STRING. AFTER QUITTING MONS AND THE ARMY, and as he was waiting for a packe... ...and that he would turn wicked as soon as he broke from his mammy’s leading-strings. Oh, mother, you would not believe that the young scapegrace was pl... ...ll. Do you think I am going to live in a lodging, and turn the mutton at a string whilst your honor nurses the 31 Thackeray baby? Fiddlestick, and wh... ...re benefit besides the thousand we owe him,” cries Lady Esmond. “What is a string of diamond stones compared to that affection he hath given us—our de... ...rch-bishopric from James, I warrant me, gladly enough. Y our Duke hath the string of the whole matter in his hand,” the Secretary went on. “We have th... ..., I say that his party profited by it; and that three desperate and bloody instruments were found to effect that murder. As Esmond and the Dean walked...

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... we were driven through the long merry street of Belem, peopled by endless strings of mules,—by thousands of gallegos, with water-bar- rels on their s... ... reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then we wished... ...ops are only for the Christians. The children abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, and many wandering merchants were there selling figs (... ...he Koran? But the greatest sensation of all is when the camels come. Whole strings of real camels, better even than in the proces- sion of Blue Beard,... ...n singing out of his flat nose to the thrumming of a long guitar with wire strings. The instrument was not big- ger than a soup-ladle, with a long str... ...s of the planes; or grey forms of camels were seen stalking across it, the string preceded by the little donkey, who is always here their long-eared c...

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...mber- ing, dish-bottomed coal-barges where the machinery is tied up with a string and the plates are rivetted with putty. The way he told his tale was... ...t for the half of the boat away in the offing, there was neither stick nor string on the sea to show that the Hespa had been cut down.” ‘And what do y... ...he men would have taken no notice; but their nerves were fretted to fiddle-strings. They jumped up, and three or four clattered into the barrack-room ... ...an’ that leaves me another nineteen, an’ one for myself.’ He tugged at the string of the second packet of am- munition. Corporal Slane crawled out of ... ...nd that! You can’t mend it. Help me with this hateful bodice, I’ve run the string so, and I’ve run the string so, and I can’t make the fulness come ri... ...lt to keep a banjo to proper pitch. MRS. G. It’s the same with all musical instruments. What shall it be? CAPT. G. ‘Vanity,’ and let the hills hear. (...

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...ndeed, and see the modern town of Honolulu brisk with traffic, and the palace with its guards, and the great hotel, and Mr. Berger’s band with their u... ...clear enough. But here Tari went on to instance the new house of Toma and the house-warm- ing feast which was just then in preparation as instances in... ...ds, instead of the houseless, disembowelling paepaes of Nuka- hiva, populous houses turned out their inhabitants to cry ‘Kaoha!’ to the passers-by. Th... ...s lay to be loaded; when the tide was low, the boats took ground some half a mile away, and an endless series of natives descended the pier stair, tai... ...e characteristic female dress of the Gilberts no longer universal. The Ridi is its name: a cutty petticoat or fringe of the smoked fibre of cocoa-nut ... ...ent gathered close around the platform, we were lost in that round vault. The lessons were read antiphonally, the flock was catechised, a blind youth ... ...’s nos- trils; that if the king should by any chance be bludgeoned in a taro-patch, the philosophical and musical inhabitants of Equator Town might la...

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... scarce. This is a slack, kutcha country where all men work with imperfect instruments; and the wisest thing is to take no one and nothing in earnest,... ...ar, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, par... ... Won- der—John Fennil Wonder. The Viceroy possessed no name— nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alpha- 71 Rudyard Kipling bet aft... ...ou are interested in gold-washing in the sands of the Sutlej. You pull the string, and find that it wakes up half a dozen Departments, and fi- nally c... ...afferton cast about for a peg whereon to hang his earnest- ness, and for a string that would communicate with Pinecoffin. He found both. They were Pig... ...ce, fastened the Bisara of Pooree inside the necklace with a piece of shoe-string and thanked Heaven that he was rid of a danger. Remember, in case yo...

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...be dropping to pieces. And all day long, strange little narrow waggons, in strings of six or eight, bring ing cheese from Switzerland, and frequently... ...e heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty old, wan... ... frame. The sedans and lanthorns are the legitimate successors of the long strings of patient and much abused mules, that go jingling their little bel... ...hooting men with poisoned darts. One press or case I saw, full of accursed instruments of torture horribly contrived to cramp, and pinch, and grind an... ...el Popolo; which is one of its terminations. Accordingly, we fell into the string of coaches, and, for some time, jogged on quietly enough; now crawli... ...y of love, on the discovery of any particularly old lady at a window; long strings of Policinelli, laying about them with blown bladders at the ends o... ...ace—rusty 126 Pictures from Italy daggers, knives, pistols, clubs, divers instruments of violence and murder, brought here, fresh from use, and hung ... ...es; vessels for eating, drinking, and cook ing; workmen’s tools, surgical instruments, tickets for the theatre, pieces of money, personal ornaments, ...

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...sment in order to con- ceal its reality, and Ann Veronica went on to ask a string of questions about acting, and whether her sister would act, and was... ...Relaxation, perhaps. But are we any more free?” “Well?” “I mean we’ve long strings to tether us, but we are bound all the same. A woman isn’t much fre... ...an go away as a son does and earn her independent income, she’s still on a string. It may be a long string, long enough if you like to tangle up all s... ...force of that. He was a little impressed by Ann Veronica’s metaphor of the string, which, indeed, she owed to Hetty Widgett. “You wouldn’t like to be ... ...ike a sort of dummy that does things as it is told— that is to say, as the strings are pulled. I want to be a person by myself, and to pull my own str... ...a with its quivering violins, its methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores and shaded lights. She had never been ...

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...nd produce it—I would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of great good to the State, placing be- fore us at every step a... ...ng at, Sancho? curses on thee!” said Don Quixote; “for when thou takest to stringing proverbs and sayings together, no one can understand thee but Jud... ...n front of it. They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as... ...n separate bands, some dancing, others singing, others playing the various instruments already mentioned. In short, it seemed as though mirth and gaie... ...en if it were so, I desire you to hold your tongue and come along; for the instruments we heard last night are already beginning to enliven the valley... ...ut the world preaching fine sermons; but I say of him that, when he begins stringing maxims together and giving advice not only might he take a pulpit... ...lashes, and she calls me soul of a pitcher, and great untamed brute, and a string of foul names that the devil is welcome to. Is my flesh brass? or is... ...ping require brains.’” “That’s it, Sancho!” said Don Quixote; “pack, tack, string prov- erbs together; nobody is hindering thee! ‘My mother beats me, ... ...t say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar. “Whe...

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...ures. In digging his rows and shaping his patches he neglected the guiding string and trusted to his eye altogether too much, and the consequent obliq... ... from books, from theatres, from worldly conversation, from all the kindly instruments that mingle human sympathy. For only by isolating its flock can... ... The knife as I remember it was a particularly jolly one with all sorts of instruments in it, tweezers and a thing for getting a stone out of the hoof... ... . At the Baileys’ one always seemed to be getting one’s hands on the very strings that guided the world. You heard legisla- tion projected to affect ... ...conviction that the huge formless spirit of the world it was that held the strings and danced the puppets on the Bailey stage… . Under the lamps you w... ...romstead the place it is. Several of its overgrown villages have developed strings of factories and sidings along the railway lines, and there is an a... ...s—and I prayed! I remember the swirl of the tide upon the water, and how a string of barges presently came swinging and bumping round as high-water tu...

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...h I had been slipping to a couple of others that were near it, deeming two strings to my bow better than one, and taking care to test their strength b... ...ce more before me, and throwing himself into a sudden rage, poured forth a string of philippics, which I was at no loss to understand, from the freque... ...ently diverting the company at our expense, by bestowing upon themselves a string of absurd titles, of the humour of which 93 Melville we were of cou... ...e natives drew it forth laden with the poee-poee, which adhered in lengthy strings to every finger. So stubborn was its consistency, that in conveying... ...ctually endeavouring to persuade a surly porker to be conducted in leading strings, was obliged at last to seize the perverse animal in his arms, and ... ...might be the precursors, and not a little desirous to catch a sight of the instruments which produced the terrific noise, I accompa- nied the natives ... ...nd strips of native cloth flattened upon them here and there. Behind these instruments were built slight platforms, upon which stood a number of young... ...eating the tattoo upon the tympanum. Altogether the sight of these strange instruments recalled to mind that 241 Melville display of cruel-looking mo... ...NG AT FIRST HEAR- ING A SONG—A NEW DIGNITY CONFERRED ON THE AUTHOR—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE VALLEY—ADMIRATION OF THE SAVAGES AT BEHOLDING A PUGILIST...

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..., so close that Wilbur could hear the talk of the fishermen sitting on the stringpieces. He had just made up his mind that they were to make a landing... ... from rail to mast and from mast to rail again. The cordage sang like harp-strings, the schooner’s fore- foot crushed down into the heaving water with... ...a drinking-glass full of cigars. Over the lounge, however, was the rack of instruments, sex- tant, barometer, chronometer, glass, and the like, secure... ...said Kitchell, running his fingers lovingly over the polished brass of the instruments. “There’s a thousand dollars of stuff right here. The chronomet... ...lling through every beam of the schooner, vibrating each rope like a harp- string. It passed away; but before either Wilbur or Moran could comment upo... ... a strength they had not known before. His nerves, stretched tense as harp-strings, were vibrating to a new tune. His blood spun through his veins til...

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...n to which every man must come who remains tied too long to the same apron-string.” “So you think you will come upon a treasure here?” said Bianchon. ... ...ch; all kinds of industries combine to produce a noise which the number of instruments renders distracting. The general system of decoration in this p... ...lips, like those of all men who work, were puckered up like a bag with the strings drawn tight. His knitted brows seemed to bear the burden of all the...

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...family dwells, the dictionary may yet again help us to some idea. I find a string of verbs with the following senses: to deal leniently with, as in he... ...d level and overlooked by inland mountain-tops, the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is Mulinuu, the eastern, Matautu; an... ... will pass through Matafele, the one really town-like portion of this long string of villages, by German bars and stores and the German con- sulate; a... ...ese colossal ships, worked by mysterious powers, and laden with outlandish instruments of death. None would have dreamed of resist- ing those strange ... ...unheard of by the general reader, where obscure inhabitants paid for these instruments of death in money or in labour, misused them as it was known th... ...earned a character for lawlessness in other ports; and recourse was had to stringent and indeed extraordinary measures. The town was divided in two ca...

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...mself unable to invent any new form of poetry; his lyre did not have seven strings, it had one; and having played on that one string so long, the publ... ...s a phoenix. And why should I go in search of compliments only to pull the string of a shower-bath of horrid looks from some disillu- sioned female?” ... ...ng gaiety perhaps, an utter malignity, or an almost sublime goodness. Like instruments which the hand of art can never fully waken, these beings, high... ...ous phrases, the tin- sel of his promises; he chanted his love on the best strings of his lyre, I know he did. If, as soon as this noble lover finds o... ...analis,—a 191 Balzac man who thinks of himself only, whose ‘I’ is the one string to his lute, whose mind is so fixed on himself that he has hitherto ... ...reat man; he had not only torn off his mask, but he had made him untie the strings himself; and he laughed like an author over his own play,—that is t...

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...ng chair, his dental engine, and the movable rack on which he laid out his instruments. Three chairs, a bargain at the second-hand store, ranged thems... ...e with Trina in the “Dental Parlors,” silent, only for the scraping of the instruments and the pouring of bud-burrs in the engine, in the foul atmosph... ...his huge stockinged feet. All at once she pounced upon a sheaf of old hand instruments in a coverless cigar-box, pluggers, hard bits, and excavators. ... ...gue’s “Parlor,” knowing it should 31 Frank Norris be somewhere about. The instruments were of the finest tempered steel and really valuable. “Say, Do... ...ar off across the flats, at the edge of the town, an electric car went by, stringing out a long row of diamond sparks on the overhead wires. “Say, Mis... ...right to a girl in white satin. A King Charles spaniel, dragging a leading-string in the shape of a huge pink sash, followed the girl. Seven scarlet r... ...tune out of almost anything—glass 72 McTeague bottles, cigar-box fiddles, strings of sleigh-bells, even graduated brass tubes, which they rubbed with... ...ds littered the beds and chairs; wrapping paper, tissue paper, and bits of string strewed the floor; a pair of white satin slippers stood on a corner ... ...unken and withered, long wrinkles appeared running downward from the draw- string. It was a lamentable sight. Trina looked longingly at the ten broad ...

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...in an age essentially non-reading and non- writing, and when even suitable instruments and materials for the process are not obvious. Moreover, there ... ...ly hands. Pours the black wine, and sees the flames aspire; The youth with instruments surround the fire: The thighs thus sacrificed, and entrails dre... ... this each Grecian’s manly breast she warms, Swells their bold hearts, and strings their nervous arms, No more they sigh, inglorious, to return, But b... ...e his heavenly voice was heard to sing, His hand no more awaked the silver string. Where under high Cyllene, crown’d with wood, The shaded tomb of old... ...eapon whizzes on the wing; Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string. But thee, Atrides! in that dangerous hour The gods forget not, nor ... ...stroy This fury of the field, this dog of T roy.” He said, and twang’d the string. The weapon flies At Hector’s breast, and sings along the skies: He ... ...s the channel bone, The furious chief discharged the craggy stone: The bow-string burst beneath the ponderous blow, And his numb’d hand dismiss’d his ... ...oes, And stills the bellows, and (in order laid) Locks in their chests his instruments of trade. Then with a sponge the sooty workman dress’d His braw... ...he pile to rear; A charge consign’d to Merion’s faithful care. With proper instruments they take the road, Axes to cut, and ropes to sling the load. F...