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... seen me, and their faces were di- rected towards me. ‘Then I heard voices approaching me. Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the head... ...m the world I had known— even the flowers. The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted p... ...What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the a... ...t life. ‘I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief i... ...s ramifications. What so natu- ral, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Under- world that such work as was necessary to the comfort of t... ...ow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. That I could see clearly enough already. What had happened to... ...t them as loudly as I could. They started away, and then I could feel them approaching me again. They clutched at me more boldly, whispering odd sound... ... dawn came, pale at first, and then growing pink and warm. No Morlocks had approached us. Indeed, I had seen none upon the hill that night. And in the... ...hem cracked and smashed—which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit. Here I was more in my element, for ris- ing on either sid...

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... any part of it came to be so flat. But I reflected that Yarmouth might be situated at one of the poles; which would account for it. As we drew a litt... ...would have burst before I would have told him so. You have a good deal of intelligence for a little fellow, he said, with a grave smile that belonge... ...Miss Murdstone gave her a kind of peck on the cheek, which was her nearest approach to a kiss, and said: Now, Clara, my dear, I am come here, you kno... ...dness than all the cities of the earth, I need not stop here to relate. We approached it by degrees, and got, in due time, to the inn in the Whitechap... ...e most dis- mal sounds I have ever heard produced by any means, natural or artificial. I don t know what the tunes were if there were such things in t... ...t it curled. It was no other than Tommy Traddles who gave me this piece of intelligence. He was the first boy who returned. He introduced himself by i... ... said Mr. Omer. Yes. The baby s dead. My wounds broke out afresh at this intelligence. I left the scarcely-tasted breakfast, and went and rested my ... ... to wear, when she was dressed, one unchangeable cap, ornamented with some artificial flowers, and two artificial butterflies supposed to be hovering ... ...to the ears of Mrs. Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated at about the level of low-wa- ter mark, soothed in her slumbers by...

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... office was not controversy, but information. Y et somehow he hesitated to approach the subject. Solitary life makes a man reticent in respect of anyt... ...ed with a great wealth of hair. He had been about to rise, but her decided approach caused him to remain on the seat. He had not looked much at her th... ...r Arthur’ that the young lady looked well and happy, or some such cheerful intelligence. I dare say he wanted to be forgotten, but I shouldn’t think h... ... the old chap’s wife went up to the invalid. She brought down the scrap of intelligence I’ve told you of. He was already too far gone to be cross-exam... ... a young lady fresh from the thick twilight of four million people and the artificiality of several London seasons; he the man of definite conquering ... ...nd not knowing the immense joy in store for him to-morrow.” There was such artificiality in the wax-flower lady that noth- ing in this speech touched ... ...he mere excitement. But he was not a gambler. He had always disdained that artificial manner of challenging the fates. The bungalow came into view, br... ...ope to find such an inn anywhere, now. This one, the one of the title, was situated in Spain. That much I discovered only from internal evidence, beca... ...the sending of messengers inland was part of her service, either to obtain intelligence from or to transmit orders or advice to patriotic Spaniards, g...

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... her cousin. The box belonging to the First Gentleman of the Bedchamber is situated in one of the angles at the back of the house, so that its occupan... ...the Marquise’s forethought in having an apoth- ecary at hand to sustain an artificial life with drugs. In short, de Marsay brought a selection from th... ...stinguished Provincial at Paris and David, rose up before him at the least approach of an evil thought, putting him in mind of all the hopes that were... ...us is patience,’ as Buffon said. And patience after all is a man’s nearest approach to Nature’s processes of creation. What is Art, monsieur, but Natu... ...ly fail to reach the greatness to which you were born, aided as you are by intelligence almost divine in Daniel d’Arthez 70 A Distinguished Provincia... ...ourself by finding fault with the means? What! you appear to me to possess intelligence; you seem to be in a fair way to reach that freedom from preju... ...the management of the Gymnase with tack and discernment; will it do to say intelligence?” 182 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris “Yes, say intellige... ...t to Coralie’s dressing-room and brought back a box of 223 Balzac tumbled artificial flowers. The more incapable members of the party were grotesquel... ... should be glad to hear that you had adopted my political convictions; but situated as you are with regard to the Liberal Press, it is impossible for ...

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...ade between the Calasareigne and Jaros is- lands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and s... ...elena.” “For heaven’s sake, where is that?” asked the marquise. “An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues fr... ...give him an idea of the man he was about to interrogate. He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, a... ...n to the duke, “all the servants of his majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the Island of Elba. Bonaparte” — M. Dandre ... ... than human crime ever merited. Have pity on me, then, and ask for me, not intelligence, but a trial; not pardon, but a verdict — a trial, sir, I ask ... ...n nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, whi... ...w the Island of Monte Cristo; but Dantes knew it, and had often passed it, situated twenty-five miles from Pianosa, between Corsica and the Island of ... ...nfortunate inn- keeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhone from which it had its source and the post-road i... ...nding so low over his eyebrows as to leave it doubtful whether it were not artificial so little did its jetty glossiness assimilate with the deep wrin...

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...” “You haven’t learnt the refinements of it yet then,” said Raut, laughing artificially again. “By Jove! I’m black and blue.” Horrocks offered no apol... ...ks had grown larger and spread out with 22 The Country of the Blind their approach. They looked up to the blast furnaces now instead of down; the fur... ...t his exultation far ex- ceeded his fear. No Anarchist before him had ever approached this conception of his. Ravachol, Vaillant, all those distin- gu... ...my. And he spent his afternoons now with some regularity meditating on the approaching flower- ing of this strange plant. And at last the great thing ... ..., and it spat and went out. He cursed. He could not see where the door was situated. In his struggle he had quite lost his bearings. The strange beast... ...already flickered out. Every moment I was beginning to realise the immense intelligence of the plans of my enemy, to see more and more clearly the hop... ...of the individual and the generous emotions of the gregarious brute, naked intelligences, things of new-born wonder and thought, marvelling at the str... ...remely plausible… And where was this other world? On this, also, the alert intelligence of Mr. Wace speedily threw light. After sunset, the sky darken... ...te and wonderful grotesques bear- ing lights. The place was inundated with artificial light that shamed the newborn day. And as we went through the th...

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...t be nearly brother himself, yet was not quite, yet must be loved, yet not approached. He was her brother’s brother-in-arms, brother- in-heart, not he... ... of. The hills are lovely. Friend,’ she dropped her voice on the gondola’s approach, ‘we have conversed on common subjects.’ Nevil had her hand in his... ...s thinking—that is, in a way so unlike any other possible couple of men so situated—that the humour of the sight eclipsed all the pleasantries of Cap-... ...ith shouts. It hangs in the smoking-room. We throw open the curacoa to the intelligence and industry of the assembled guests; we carry the right of th... ... listen is something. They suffer like the men, and must de- pend on their intelligence to win their way out of it.’ Rosamund’s meditation was exclama... ...ing into brass and wood, ma’am, beat your bellows and your whifflers; your artificial choruses—crash, crash! your unanimous plebiscitums! Beat them? T... ...test going on over Dollikins. Mr. Algy Borolick was the first to give them intelligence of it, and he declared that Beauchamp had wrested Dollikins fr... ...f weak ones; and that the former may sink, the latter may rise—there is no artificial obstruction; and if it is difficult to rise, it is easy to sink.... ...tly desired to see him and advise him. Why not? Because she was one of the artificial creatures called women (with the accent) who dare not be spontan...

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... own house, were very serious and grave indeed; the more especially as the intelligence he had re- ceived from Messrs Tigg and Slyme touching the arri... ...ng them with her in the coach, and the impossibility of preserving them by artificial means until the family’s return, had set forth, in a couple of p... ...hat we purpose doing; will you?’ Mr Pinch, complying, at once imparted the intelligence to Mr Tigg, who shook him warmly by the hand in return, assuri... ...for whales. When he had communicated to Mr Pecksniff these pithy scraps of intelligence, he said, ‘That if it was 116 Martin Chuzzlewit all the same ... ...he coach stopped at the office in the city; and the street in which it was situated was already in a bustle, that fully bore out Mr Pecksniff’s words ... ... to think that you will be able to tell him how more than comfortably I am situated here, 132 Martin Chuzzlewit and how unnecessary it is that he sho... ...article more vigorously at every rep- 272 Martin Chuzzlewit etition. ‘The artificial barriers set up between man and man; the division of the human r... ...! ‘And so, Mr Pinch,’ said Martin, on the way, ‘you are very com- fortably situated here; are you?’ Tom answered, with even more than his usual enthus... ... starched points should also invade those organs, and afflict them with an artificial ophthalmia. His waistcoat and coat were next arranged; and as ev...

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...level, received the sewage of the city, and had a lake, has been raised by artificial accu- mulation to a height with the other hills, and Mount Savel... ...589, 1590, and 1591 in making fresh additions to his book; and even in the approaches of old age he might fairly anticipate many happy hours, when he ... ... in your power to put the business in good trim; and matters being so well situated, I beg you to excuse my absence for some little time longer, and I... ... Mauvesin came as far as Canteloup, and thence re- turned, having got some intelligence. I am in search of one Captain Rous, to whom . . . wrote, tryi... ...f very great consequence, which was this: the King, still to maintain some intelligence with Italy, out of which he had lately been driven, and par- t... ...pavor sapientiam omnem mihiex animo expectorat.” [“Then fear drove out all intelligence from my mind.”— Ennius, ap. Cicero, T usc., iv. 8.] Such as ha... ...nd not a viragoish, but a manly beauty, in comparison of a soft, delicate, artificial simpering, and affected form; the one in the habit of a heroic y... ...scular way of expressing a man’s self, short and pithy, not so elegant and artificial as prompt and vehement; “Haec demum sapiet dictio, qux f... ...r of those nations who have no manner of knowl- edge of clothing, some are situated under the same tempera- ture that we are, and some in much colder ...

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...e gipsy predic- tion in his childhood, allocating to a particular moon now approaching some unknown danger, and he should inquire earnestly, “Whither ... ... what deferential hurry, with what an obedient start, they fly open at our approach! Look at that long line of carts and carters ahead, audaciously us... ... as the dreadful blast of our horn reaches them with proclama- tion of our approach, see with what frenzy of trepidation they fly to their horses’ hea... ...d the multitude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmis- sion of intelligence, rarely did any unauthorised rumour steal away a prelibation f... ...d but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints— these might not be apparent through the mists of the... ... a hair’s-breadth where it was that Domrémy stood. These roads, so grandly situated, as great the name of Jack, though it does seem mysterious to call... ...hich Liverpool and Manchester, towns of recent and far greater growth, are situated. 44 (footnote) “Giraldus Cambrensis,” or Gerald de Barry (1146-122... ...sion of Germany, is the district in which Domrémy, Joan’s birth- place, is situated. 65 14 VAUCOULEURS: a town near Domrémy; cf. p. 70. 65 28 EN CONTU... ...sed to recall the hawk to its perch,—sometimes a dead pigeon, sometimes an artificial bird, with some meat attached. 68 6 ON THE MODEL OF LORD PERCY: ...

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...than, called a Common- wealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.” —opening sentence of Hobbe’ s Leviathan. “Silly Mansoul sw... ...me na- ture in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach.” —Uno von Troil’s Letters on Banks’s and Solander’ s V oyage to I... ...le space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit. Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty... ...ition, which in some organiza- tions seems rather to spring, somehow, from intelligence than from ignorance. Outward portents and inward presentiments... ... Slave. It is not the least among the strange things bred by the in- tense artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck some o... ...sperm or right, have been seen.” 196 Moby Dick stinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; conti... ...r that courtesy, the outward-bound ship would receive the lat- est whaling intelligence from the cruising-ground to which she may be destined, a thing... ...re permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering. “However recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us,”... ... and Jacob:—a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend u...

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...o other children were of very inferior value. Mary had ac- quired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove; but Anne, with an ... ...lly satisfied of being still quite as hand- some as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of b... ...d. He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, wi... ...h as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two year... ...n the house above twice in my life.” She received no other answer, than an artificial, assenting smile, followed by a contemptuous glance, as he turne... ...om his friend, Captain Harville, having found him out at last, had brought intelligence of Captain Harville’s being settled with his family at Lyme fo... ... the Crofts travelled with four horses, and whether they were likely to be situated in such a part of Bath as it might suit Miss Elliot and himself to... ...venture to present him and his wife in Laura Place?” “Oh, no! I think not. Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins, we ought to be very carefu... ...ine of conduct will be more direct. Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to guide hi...

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...hem from the first. The next morning I spoke to my nephew—I was delicately situated, as you see, but I deter- mined that no consideration should induc... ... years be- fore, when an express from Edinburgh brought him the ear- liest intelligence of the Burke-and-Hare revolution in the art, went mad upon the... ... but here and there until nature and imper- ishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; these might not be apparent through the mists of the... ... a hair’s breadth where it was that Domrémy stood. These roads, so grandly situated, as great trunk arteries between two mighty realms, 4 and haunted... ... to sweep round that odious man’s odious pigstye to the left. Things being situated as is here laid down, viz. in respect of the decussation, and in r... ...work, she wept; for she knew that, when her task was done, her end must be approaching. Her aspirations pointed only to a place, 71 which seemed to h... ...hing at all but the weakness of a genial nature shrinking from the instant approach of torment. And those will often pity that weakness most, who, in ... ...d the multi- tude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmission of intelligence, rarely did any unauthorized rumor steal away a prelibation fr... ...l the light began to fail. Here we see another effect from the scarcity of artificial light amongst the ancients. These magnificent shows went on by d...

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...ant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self surrender of devotion to have neither ... ...that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach, I shouted and beat the side of the caleche, hoping by the noise... ...been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of... ...rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches. When the invader was triumphant he found but littl... ... one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new es tate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and Chapter 2 31 Whitby on the York... ...PSTEAD HORROR ANOTHER CHILD INJURED THE “BLOOFER LADY” We have just received intelligence that another child, missed last night, was only discovered l... ... five o’clock that morning. He could not tell me where the place of work was situated, but he had a vague idea that it was some kind of a “new fangle...

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...er- vice, the reader is referred to the same periodical. Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shoot... ...e families any time these ten years. They went off to the piano, which was situated, as pianos usually are, in the back drawing-room; and as it was ra... ... II; look at poor Bute at the parsonage—is any one of them equal to you in intelligence or breeding? Equal to you—they are not even equal to poor dear... ...wley’s illness in after days—stories which made the lady blush through her artificial carnations. During the illness she was never out of temper; alwa... ...y was reading the French novel, and had given that old lady the astounding intelligence that Sir Pitt was on his knees, proposing to Miss Sharp. And i... ...ng herself at the newly crackling parlour fire, heard from Miss Briggs the intelligence of the clandestine marriage, she declared it was quite provide... ...ubmit her to the operation. Who has not admired the artifices and delicate approaches with which women “prepare” their friends for bad news? Miss Craw... ...as bright as it ever is in Coffin Court, where the Tapioca Coffee-house is situated: and Mr. Dobbin remembered that he had seen Mrs. Sedley himself on... ...ysterical tears. The last scene of her dismal V anity Fair comedy was fast approaching; the tawdry lamps were going out one by one; and the dark curta...

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...een to shine like dew-drops in a thicket, and their glances, full of human intelligence, caused fear rather than pleasure to those who met them. Their... ...t with stolid indifference. There seemed such a total absence of all human intelligence about the man that the officers compared him in turn to the ca... ...g a last prudence glance on the man whom he had taken for the herald of an approaching carnage, he suddenly noticed that the hair, the smock, and the ... ...The captain disappeared. The commander’s eye singled out four men on whose intelligence and quickness he knew he might rely, and he beckoned to them, ... ...ang into the woods to the right like a flock of birds taking flight at the approach of a man. “Fire on those scoundrels!” cried Hulot. The company fir... ...l- poised figure of medium height. Furious that the Blues should thus have approached him, he pulled his hat again over his face and sprang towards th... ...t busy in taking care of the wounded in the little village of La Pelerine, situated on the side of the mountain which looks toward the valley of Coues... ...and marked faces appeared among them, but even these were belittled by the artificiality and the etiquette of aristocracy. If Marie generously granted... ...t in misty curves, sometimes broad as ponds, in other places narrow as the artificial streamlets of a park. The steep bank, washed by its waters, lay ...

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...been talking, and who still remained at the window. D’Artagnan, seeing him approach, drew his sword a foot out of the scabbard. “This horse is decided... ... suited to the scantiness of his means. This chamber was a sort of garret, situated in the Rue des Fossoyeurs, near the Luxembourg. As soon as the ear... ... without a sou in his pocket, but with a fund of audacity, shrewdness, and intelligence which makes the poorest Gascon gentleman of- ten derive more i... ... latter. His was one of those rare organizations, endowed with an obedient intelligence like that of the dog; with a blind valor, a quick eye, and a p... ...ves, that of T reville was one of the most sought. The court of his hotel, situated in the Rue du Vieux- Colombier, resembled a camp from by six o’clo... ...ly called for had chanced to be in the hotel. He pushed through the crowd, approached Athos, still insen- sible, and as all this noise and commotion i... ...a party with Porthos and Aramis to play a game at tennis in a tennis court situated near the stables of the Lux- embourg. Athos invited D’Artagnan to ... ...ne stag hunting in the forest of St. Germain. M. de Treville required this intelligence to be re- 65 Alexandre Dumas peated to him twice, and each ti... ...lling up the ruts with mud. Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mor- tar, apostrophized them rather sharply. Athos wished to re-...

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...e hopes, audacities, activities, and general radiant vivacity of heart and intelligence, which made the presence of him an illu- mination and inspirat... ...my thoughts. A work which distinguishes itself by human piety and can- did intelligence; which, in all details, is careful, lucid, exact; and which of... ... and in his mature days regarded it, if with a little more recognition and intelligence, yet without more participation in any of its accents outward ... ...nated in another street, the principal one in the town of C——. In this was situated the school to which I daily wended. I cannot now recall to mind th... ...y to squall at the sight of a cur, and run valorously away from a casually approaching cow; the field close beside it, where I rolled about in summer ... ...ld plan, I will give you a sketch, from which you may perceive how we were situated:— [In print, a figure representing a floor-plan appears here] The ... ... miserable. There is, I suppose, as little as well can be of conscience or artificial cultivation of any kind; but there is not the af- fectation of a... ...ich command an excellent view of it. I never saw so beautiful an effect of artificial light. The evening was perfectly serene and clear; the principal... ...augh or weep with Falstaff and Macbeth: with how entire an oblivion of the artificial na- ture of the whole contrivance, which thus compels them to be...

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...ls the imagination. This is perhaps almost the first thing you feel as you approach the castle from the streets of the town. These little streets, as ... ...s 23 Henry James I., the reverse of the mass of building which you see on approaching the castle. This exquisite, this extravagant, this transcendent... ...ncircling the base. By the time I reached Cheverny, the clear twilight had approached. It was late to ask to be allowed to visit an inhabited house; b... ...very good position, as French cathedrals go, for they are not all so nobly situated as Chartres and Laon. On the side on which I approached it (the so... ...real, thanks to their affiliation to the great Balzac, who had invented an artificial reality which was as much bet- ter than the vulgar article as mo... ...al knowledge, and yet remaining essentially of the people, and showing his intelligence with a kind of ferocity, of defiance. Such a personage helps o... ...e name I for- get, who is described as having devoted all his time and his intelligence to collecting the objects by which the. visitor is surrounded....

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...ibility ment as certain, and looked forward to their marriage as rap- idly approaching. “In a few months, my dear Marianne.” said she, “Elinor will, i... ...is eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. And besides all this, I am afraid, Mamma, he has no real tast... ...as he a house at Allenham?” On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his o... ...le?” “No, not all,” answered Marianne; “we could not be more unfortunately situated.” “Marianne,” cried her sister, “how can you say so? How can you b... ...Colonel Brandon tell you of it! Surely you must be mistaken. T o give such intelligence to a person who could not be interested in it, even if it were... ...e of the streets near Portman Square. T owards this home, she began on the approach of January to turn her thoughts, and thither she one day abruptly,... ...feelings of her young companions. Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that par- ticular than she had expected, Elinor was very willin... ... they drove up to Cleveland. Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were t... ...s much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness—often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other. I am very sure myself, that h...