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...d to 33 Joseph Conrad me the news that Falk—Captain Falk—had declined—had absolutely declined—to tow my ship—to have anything to do with my ship—this... ...r a fat pig in a stye. Familiar and never unbending, the sergeant chucked —absolutely chucked—under the chin a horribly wrinkled and shrivelled old ha... ...for his ship a skipper would be justified in going to any length, short of absolute crime. He should put his pride in his pocket; he may accept confid... ...to live alone. Y es. He told me this in his low, careless voice, to such a pitch of confidence had we arrived at the end of half an hour. It took me j... ...cupied with respectability, quailed be- fore Schomberg’s tongue and seemed absolutely impervious to my protestations; and I went so far as to protest ... ... looks, gestures, invested it not only with an air of reality but with the absolute truth of primitive passion. “It is true just as much as you are ab... ...hink of despatching a cargo steamer to the Pacific. But he loaded her with pitch-pine deals and sent her off to hunt for her luck. Wellington was to b...

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...tinents whose wardship were intrusted to so reckless a guardian. Behold me pitched neck-and-crop from twenty days of the high seas into the whirl of C... ...e the lions of the place. No one volunteered any sort of conveyance. I was absolutely alone in this big city of white folk. By instinct I sought re- f... ... I took them one by one till I could go no further. San Francisco has been pitched down on the sand bunkers of the Bikaneer desert. About one fourth o... ...(it killed two people the day before yesterday, being un-braked and driven absolutely regardless of conse- quences), and you pull up somewhere at the ... ... sloe-eyed, black-browed, imperious maiden she. Item, a very small maiden, absolutely without reverence, who can in one swift sentence trample upon an... ....” In America the tow is soaked in a solution that makes it fire-proof, in absolute liberty and large knowledge; conse- quently, accidents do not exce... ...ose stupendous rainbow- washed slides. Seventeen hundred feet of steep-est pitch and rather more than seventeen hundred colors for log or bowlder to w... ...54 American Notes of swine, for whose behoof great lumps of ice were being pitched in at the window. That room was the mortuary cham- ber where the pi... ...e bond between the States is of an amazing tenuity. So long as they do not absolutely march into the District of Columbia, sit on the Washington statu...

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... I was a young girl: “If you want to interest the person you are talking to, pitch your voice so that only that one person will hear you.” That small ... ...ce to be paid for stay ing at home, and keeping one’s children with one (an absolute necessity to the passionately tender French parent), was perpetu... ...ica this woman, in the immense majority of cases, has roamed through life in absolute freedom of communion with young men until the day when the round...

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... throve. “Have you realized,” she asked one morning, “that we’ve been here absolutely alone for the last thirty-four days?” “Have you counted them?” h... ... missed our first real summer together. No thank you, me lord.” “But we’re absolutely alone.” “Isn’t that what I’m doing my best to remedy? Don’t you ... ...il that will never fall on any sea. Slow we must or we may break our back, pitch-poling. “Air’s a perfectly elastic fluid,” roars George above the tu-... ...here I swung shackled to a stanchion. “How can there be?” He laughed—as we pitched into a thousand foot blow-out— that red man laughed beneath his inf... ...d to the insurrection of the airs through which we tore our way, he lay in absolute peace. I saw the smoke of his pipe ascend untroubled ere his boat ... ...ssure layers, spirals, vortices, and readjustments for at least an hour. I pitched badly twice in an upward rush—solely due to these diaboli- cal thro... ... flux com- pounds to any other material for winter work nose-caps as being absolutely non-hygroscopic. (2) We cannot recommend any particular make. PU... ... “SKID” was to our forefathers on the ground, “PITCH” is to their sons in the air. The popularity of the larg... ...head starter for family and private planes up to twenty-five foot over all Absolutely Safe Hinks & Co.. Birmingham J. D. ARDAGH I AM NOT CONCERNED WIT...

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...aited at the corner until they WERE gone. “Good-day,” he said to the face; absolutely getting his hat clear off his head this time. “Good-day to you, ... ...ng across the Line, from the Up to the Down, or Wicer Warsaw, and begin to pitch the stale pastry into the plates, and chuck the sawdust sangwiches un... ...iquid, all as aforesaid, established in a country where the people air not absolute Loo-naticks, I am Extra Double Darned with a Nip and Frizzle to th...

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...for all thy living Is ‘mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast Lie in a pitch’d field. ALCIBIADES: Ay, defiled land, my lor... ...d ours, to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow’d with absolute power and thy good name Live with authority: so soon we shall d...

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...e now fresh into my Mind, and my Conscience, which was not yet come to the Pitch of Hardness to which it has been since, reproach’d me with the Contem... ...all. On the Flat of the Green, just before this hollow Plain I resolv’d to pitch my Tent: This Plain was not above an Hundred Yards broad, and about t... ...ards in its Diameter, from its Beginning and Ending. In this half Circle I pitch’d two Rows of strong Stakes, driving them into the Ground till they s... ...ly) as much as possibly I could. Having now fix’d my Habitation, I found it absolutely necessary to provide a Place to make a Fire in, and Fewel to bur... ...y Providence should thus compleatly ruine its Creature, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without Help abandon’d, so entirely depress’d, tha... ... enough, tho’ heavy; but the next thing was a Shovel or Spade, this was so absolutely nec essary, that indeed I could do nothing effectually without ... .... This Day I went to Work with it accordingly, and got two Shores or Posts pitch’d upright to the Top, with two Pieces of Boards a cross over each Pos... ...s was a great Undertaking for one Pair of Hands, yet as I saw there was an absolute Necessity of doing it, my first Piece of Work was to find out a prop... ...nce and Lord of the whole Island; I had the Lives of all my Subjects at my absolute Command. I could hang, draw, give Liberty, and take it away, and n...

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...iness, such as kicking his heels, stealing her odd little fringed parasol, pitching his books into the area, keeping her in misery with his antics dur... ... it; but there he still only saw the hazy light—though all was other- wise pitch dark, except the keyhole and the small gray patch 79 Yo n g e of sky... ...e appealed to Woodstock to prove the practicability of such feats; and her absolute conviction persuaded the maids (who had given warning en masse) th... ... of these offers in a grudging manner, the others viewed everything except absolute gifts as ‘me-an’ on our part, the principle of aid to self-help be... ...e gifts as ‘me-an’ on our part, the principle of aid to self-help being an absolute 85 Yo n g e novelty. When I look back to the notes in our journal... ...ar little thing! Martyn, who was as much her slave as was her grandfather, absolutely made her shed tears over his history of our accident, and then c... ...ost effectively the story of Die Weisse Frau, working herself up to such a pitch that she would have actually volunteered to spend a night in the room... ... feeling of not enhancing the obligations of the Fordyce fam- ily; but she absolutely kissed Clarence’s forehead as she bade him lie quiet till dinner... ...e results more than fulfilled his expectations, and raised the firm to the pitch of greatness and reputation which it has ever since preserved, and th...

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...he Anarchist. “You had better get in,” he said, still staring. Minnie felt absolutely convinced now that he was mad, and directed the cabman home on h... ...bones at the same time. We had a tent and provisions for four days, and we pitched on one of the firmer places. T o think of it brings that odd tarry ... ..., as I was. I suppose I read that blessed old Cape Argus twenty times. The pitch in the canoe simply reeked with the heat and rose up into big blister... ...g up as if they meant to eat me, and all the rest of the night as black as pitch. The air was simply yelling. The clouds seemed down on your head almo... ...idson’s eyes continued unabated. It was far worse than being blind. He was absolutely helpless, and had to be fed like a newly-hatched bird, and led a... ...thither in a manner that corresponded, about this dis- tant island. How is absolutely a mystery. That completes the remarkable story of Davidson’s eye... ...rough the open end of the shed seemed incredibly dim and remote. It seemed absolutely si- lent, too, since the riot of the machinery drowned every ex-... ...e Pawkins for dying. In the first place, it was a mean dodge to escape the absolute pulverisation Hapley had in hand for him, and in the second, it le... ... appearance of a rough map. By much folding it was creased and worn to the pitch of separation, and the second man held the discoloured fragments toge...

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...he “Bertha Millner” was by its very nature an extraordinary event; but the absolute indifference of these brown-suited Mongols, the blankness of their... ...grew warmer. The fifth day out from San Francisco it was actually hot. The pitch grew soft in the “Bertha Millner’s” deck seams, the masts sweated res... ...hell must not be shown that a girl was aboard the schooner on which he had absolute command, nor, setting the question of Moran’s sex aside, must Kitc... ...e trio had nothing to wish for in the way of table luxuries. The shore was absolutely deserted, as well as the back country—an unbroken wilderness of ... ...hout knowing why, and got up and stood listening. The “Bertha Millner” was absolutely quiet. The night was hot and still; the new moon, canted over li... ...urning her rye-hued hair to saffron. “Hoh!” she exclaimed, her heavy voice pitched even lower than usual. “Who could understand or share any of my ple... ...ll. Moran pulled off her boots and stretched herself upon her blanket with absolute unconcern, her hands clasped un- der her head. Wilbur rolled up hi... ... places, isn’t it?” said Wilbur at length. “Yes,” she said, her deep voice pitched even deeper than usual. “Mate, great things have happened there.” “... ...me; the jeans and blouse and boots were fouled with grease, with oil, with pitch, and all manner of the dirt of an uncared-for ship. And as the dancer...

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...de off into Dreamland on his machine, and was scarcely there before he was pitched back into the world of sense again.—Something—what was it ? “Never ... ...t was perfectly sound, if a little old-fashioned, but he was 17 H G Wells absolutely silent about its moral character. It may even have begun its car... ...ost violent emotions directly the Young Lady in Grey appeared. It began an absolutely unprecedented Wabble—unprec- edented so far as Hoopdriver’s expe... ...g?—It’s all of a piece!” He tossed his head with unspeakable self-disgust, pitched the lemon squash into his mouth, paid for it, and without any furth... ...ut it is doubtful whether our esteem is dictated so much by a sense of its absolute beauty as by the vitiating effect of a univer- sally prevalent fas... ... and carrying of life,—a great number of them certainly,—his real life was absolutely uninterest- ing, and if he had faced it as realistically as such... ...y the windings of the road he traversed. Of one general proposition he was absolutely convinced. “There’s something Juicy wrong with ‘em,” said he—onc... ... foot of the staircase, and passed out of sight. You conceive the backward pitch of that exceptionally shaped cranium? Incredulous eyes stared into on... ...alled by the visible array of public opinion against her excursion, to the pitch of tears. She was sitting with flushed cheeks and swimming eyes at th...

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... together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could pl...

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...s by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav- ing made me a participator in ... ...om as that day’s sun went down to his rest; for, had the success been less absolute, an opportunity would have offered for negotiation, and consequent... ...ed, considering the exquisite verisimilitude of the work meeting with such absolute inexperience in the reader, it was almost a duty to have made them... ...onfessions they were; and confessions that, when at length published, were absolutely mobbed and hustled by a gang of misbelieving (that is, miscreant... ...tifi- cation of poor Kate’s memoirs is now therefore to be under- stood as absolute, and without reserve. This being stated,—namely, such an attestati... ... CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III THE NIGHT WAS PITCH DARK, and Paulina felt a momentary terror creep over her as she looke... ...tion in Klosterheim, and had carried the public expectation to the highest pitch of anxiety, some time before the great evening arrived. Leisure had b...

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...seen Mrs. Hablot at the Italian class, and thought her a mere girl, and an absolute subject of Aunt Jane’s stum- bling pitifully, moreover, in a speec... ... be either so delicate that they are quite helpless, or so strong as to be absolutely weather-proof.’ Fortune, however, favoured Gillian when next she... ...ady, so that Gillian might perhaps rea- sonably object to put herself into absolute subjection; so, though Kalliope might have a presentiment of break... ...ated. She had no time, she said; she could not attend classes, and she was absolutely neces- sary at home in the evenings; but Gillian assured her tha... ...aturer judgment and the next move to decide how many of his specimens were absolutely worthless; it was only stipulated that he and Valetta should car... ...’ ‘Then you did not give him the letter?’ ‘No. I wouldn’t after the way he pitched into me. I didn’t know if he would give it. And he wouldn’t hear a ... ...d I must not tell sister; it would only vex her more to hear how every one pitches into us, right and left,’ he said, with trembling lip. ‘Is Theodore...

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... pneumatic cavities of birds. He devised an arrangement of contractile and absolutely closed balloons which when expanded could lift the actual flying... ...with enormous families, as “neurotic.” “Of course,” said Hickle, “it isn’t absolutely necessary for him to go up because he has invented—” “How could ... ... me. “Genuine,” he said, with his finger on the word, and added, “There is absolutely no deception, sir.” He seemed to be carrying out the joke pretty... ...aking, without a salutation. The little man was fatigued and shamed to the pitch of hopeless bitterness, and came to a stop at last, face to face with... ...equited me by making my club un- 42 Twelve Stories and a Dream endurable, absolutely unendurable, with his liquid appeal, with the perpetual “don’t t... ...t up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to generation— and none are absolutely plain sailing. But I found the one that I knew was there soon en... ...efface the first bad im- pression I had made and win his confidence to the pitch of voluntary speech. In that endeavour I had a social advan- tage. Be... ...nd jumped overboard, feet foremost—for we hadn’t a ladder. I left the boat pitching, and all of them staring down into the water after me, as my head ... ...st was stored. It was slow work hunting, feeling it was for the most part, pitchy dark, with confusing blue gleams down the compan- ion. And there wer...

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...ime dose myself with a certain patent medicine in which his own belief was absolute. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll buy you two bottles, out of my ... ... with my open palm. I wanted to know why he would keep harping on that, my absolutely private affair. It was exas- perating, really. Captain Giles sil... ...gacity, began to tell me a minute tale about a Harbour Office peon. It was absolutely pointless. A peon was seen walking that morning on the verandah ... ...hing distasteful in the notion of a reward. And now here I had my command, absolutely in my pocket, in a way undeniable indeed, but most unexpected; b... ...a quiet refuge in an appar- ently uninhabited wing of the building. Having absolutely noth- ing to do (for I had not unpacked my things), I sat down o... ...dignation. My expectation, mingled with fear, was wrought to its high- est pitch. How slow had been the days of the passage and how soon they were ove...

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...guish. Here, at a certain passage of the song, she gathered herself up and pitched a nervous note, so shrewdly triumphing, that, as her voice sank to ... ... accompaniment. Then the ladies stood together and talked of her, not with absolute enthusiasm. For, “Was it not divine?” said Adela; and Cornelia ask... ...rs of Harmony. Her voice grew unnerved. On a sudden she excited herself to pitch and give volume to that note which had been the enchantment of the ni... ...ive. “But I was pining to learn, and was obliged to keep them low. I could pitch any notes, and I was clear but I was always ornamenting, and what I w... ...sen, and was yawning with a desperate gri- mace. He bade her continue, and pitched back heavily into his seat. “When I reached home and could be alone... ...T ransatlantic slang happens to be tellingly true—something coined from an absolute experience; from a fight with the elements—we can- not resist it: ... ...ture, of which he had heard perplexing talk, excuse her and make her heart absolutely guiltless (what he called ‘innocent’), in trusting herself to an... ...as almost lost, in a certain awed sense of his being in the presence of an absolute fact: a thing real, though it was much talked about, and visible, ... ...d’s worse than shameful behaviour was a common rallying-point; and yet, so absolutely critical were they by nature, their blame of him was held men- t...

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...sufferings when he found himself in his bed. “ ‘Nel lago!’ Gina would have pitched me into the lake with a stone tied to my neck.” 35 Balzac Next day... ...t to Lucerne for the best surgeon there, and when he came, enjoined on him absolute secrecy, giving him to understand that his honor depended on it. L... ...ress my feelings, understand that my love is per- fect; it carries with it absolute obedience and respect.” She bowed as a woman satisfied, and said, ... ...e unlooked-for proof of affection, will carry the feeling to its supremest pitch. In short, to express this truth by an image which has been pre-emine... ... difficult task to fulfil; I did my utmost for the man, and my success was absolute and complete. My client was innocent; I very dra- matically secure... ... I took the only poetry in my soul, the only adven- ture in my memory, and pitched it in the key in which it would bear telling; nor did I ever cease ... ... kind as to tell me his idea, on finding that I was determined to preserve absolute silence on this point. If I had yielded to the temp- tation to reh... ...f T wo Brides The Member for Arcis Savaron de Savarus The Quest of the Absolute Savarus, Albert Savaron de The Quest of the Absolute Schinner, H...

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... Jansenist priests. Never were girls delivered over to their husbands more absolutely pure and virgin than they; their mother seemed to consider that ... ...a few ideas. Of their own tender graces and their personal value they were absolutely ignorant. They were ignorant, too, of their own innocence; how, ... ...the Christ in art, added to his ecstatic air a certain solemnity which was absolutely deceptive as to his real nature; for he was capable of committin... ... also know my life, and you will not be surprised to hear me say that I am absolutely ignorant of what a countess’s love may be like. I have often fel... ...their vivid fire without moving her head, without taking from her face its absolute immov- ability (a manoeuvre learned upon the stage), and the vivac... ...tself to be seen without disguise, and brought the countess to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. She believed she saw in Raoul one of the noblest spiri...

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...e no peace, poisoned the wells round every place where he and his dear one pitched their tent! But at last she had come to charity, as he could well b... ..., fell to work on the absent Miss Priscilla Graves and Mr. Pempton, with a pitchfork’s exaltation of the sacred 122 One of Our Conquerors attachment ... ...ell. The journey, pregnant at the start, exciting in the course of it, was absolutely blank at the ter- mination. French people had been very kind; he... ...ysically; so far subduing her mind, in consequence, as to keep the idea of absolute resistance obscure, though her bosom heaved with the breath; but w... ... strangely and deeply moved. The girl had a heart of many strings, of high pitch, open to be musical to simplest wandering airs or to the gales. This ... ...sely scanned. Let it be gratefully for their aid. So far the comparison is absolute, that Mr. Barmby passed: he was at liberty to pursue his quest. Vi... ...ould you not help to give him another chance, dear Victor?’—signifying her absolute trust in his ability to do that or more or anything, had actually ... ...as he calls the Rev. Doctor to his daughter, that he and Mr. Semhians have absolutely pushed forth upon this most mighty of enterprises naked of any b... ...nce of a tombstone lady beside her lord, in the aisle where horror kindles pitchy blackness with its legions at one move- ment. Verily it was the ghos...

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... dining-room of the snug old red-brick house where he is at present, ‘in residence’ with Mrs. Dean and Miss Dean. Mr. Crisparkle, Minor Canon, fair an... ... a dozen years ago, or so,’ Mr. Sapsea proceeds, ‘when I had enlarged my mind up to - I will not say to what it now is, for that might seem to aim at ... ...for Tony;’ clinking one key against another. (‘Take care of the wards, Mr. Jasper.’) ‘Or whether Stony stood for Stephen;’ clinking with a change of k... ...on, when thus relieved of it. ‘Just you give me my hammer out of that,’ says Durdles, ‘and I’ll show you.’ Clink, clink. And his hammer is handed him.... ..., which the cawing of the rooks, the echoing footsteps of rare passers, the sound of the Cathedral bell, or the roll of the Cathedral organ, seemed to... ...ows that I am taking this opportunity of speaking to you, both for her and for myself.’ Mr. Crisparkle looked in his face, with some incredulity; but ... ...lated observation on the part of the other sex. But it has not been quite so often remarked that this power (fallible, like every other human attribut... ...y of Edwin Drood come back before dinner?’ ‘I think not, as we dine early.’ Mr. Crisparkle gives him a bright nod and a cheerful good-bye; expressing ... ...ecame when he found himself in that unexpected position), Mr. 187 Charles Dickens Crisparkle bore his testimony to Mr. Jasper’s strict sense of justi...