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...overing about her with the scis- sors for some moments, like a new kind of butterfly, bade her hide them under the bonnet and let no trace of them esc... ...he front parlour, which was never opened, Mrs Pipchin kept a collection of plants in pots, which im- parted an earthy flavour of their own to the esta... ...wn to the establishment. However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs Pipchin.... ...e the temperature at which the Doctor kept his hothouse, the owners of the plants were always ready to lend a helping hand at the bellows, and to stir... ...ch they seemed impelled by a desper- ate fascination, they never returned. Food for the hospitals, the churchyards, the prisons, the river, fever, mad... ...one!’ returned the other. ‘You have sat me by your fire; you have given me food and money; you have bestowed your 499 Charles Dickens compassion on m... ...hat while deference and conces- sion swell its evil qualities, and are the food it grows upon, resistance and a questioning of its exacting claims, fo...

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...ry marrow in my bones is cold, with wet and hunger. I must have warmth and food, and I will have them here.’ ‘You were the robber on the Chigwell road... ...utcast, to whom a roof above his head is often an uncommon luxury, and the food a beggar would reject is delicate fare. You live here at your ease. Do... ...away, and hurrying on. The wind has been blowing, and the rushes and young plants bowing and bending to it, lest it should do them harm, the cowards—a... ...es Dickens ‘I will pay you with all I have. I am just now past the want of food, God knows, and wish but to purchase shel ter. What companion have yo... ...ing nature, ma’am—from flower to flower—from sweet to sweet—but his is the butterfly time of life, and we must not be hard upon such trifling.’ He gla... ... labourers. He caught the fancy of the king, knelt down a grub, and rose a butterfly. John Chester, Esquire, was knighted and became Sir John. ‘I thou...

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...l and wanton sport, and eating them as lawful and grati- fying articles of food, after they were killed. On the latter point he had no scruples; but, ... ...ng me to the greenhouse, which was extensive, and filled with the choicest plants, she pointed out an aviary which occupied the farther end, where, sh... ...ntered front, gar- landed with long streamers of briers and other creeping plants, seemed a barrier between the quiet path which we trod, and the toil... ...ich can no more be suspected of breaking bounds, than an owl of catching a butterfly. But it was in vain that I have knitted my brows till I had the h... ...o much shrunk that it stood up on the very top of his head; above which he plants, when covered, an immense cocked hat, which, like the chieftain’s ba... ...sease, not by the hand of the butcher. In pastoral countries it is used as food with little scruple.] ‘He suffered then for his share in the insurrect... ...ion, gave to his looks a disordered appearance, and his inattention to the food which was placed before him, to- gether with his silence and absence o...

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...nt of his existence after making it deso late for a quarter of a century, plants himself in a good place and keeps an eye on the judge, ready to call... ...n the grate, and I saw no articles of clothing any where, nor any kind of food. Upon a shelf in an open cup board were a plate or two, a cup or two,... ...e blown about or of those seasons of inter est when there are sweet young plants to gnaw. The turkey in the poultry yard, always troubled with a clas... ...s head at me in a melancholy manner over the tray, “to be stationed behind food at such a moment. The soul recoils from food at such a moment, miss.” ... ...oodle and Sir Thomas Doodle— supposing it to be impossible for the Duke of Foodle to act with Goodle, which may be assumed to be the case in conse qu... ...o look at the housetops, and the blackened stack of chimneys, and the poor plants, and the birds in little cages belonging to the neighbours, when I f... ... then, to be bound to no particular chairs and tables, but to sport like a butterfly among all the furniture on hire, and to flit from rosewood to mah... ...t first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of...

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...es, where was a good, true woman—so they are, most, in Italy! She gave him food; maize-bread and wine, sometimes meat; sometimes a bottle of good wine... ... his chair, and only spoke to ask about meal-time, and we had no money for food, except by selling everything we had. Then my piano went. So then I sa... ...her com- plaints, when, as I drew out the potatoes to show her we had some food, there was a purse at the bottom of my pocket,— a beautiful green purs... ...y-educated class, into the atmosphere of which they pressed like dungeoned plants. The parasite completes the animal, and a dependent assures us of ou... ... it might be to one who knew his character and triumphs, the captain was a butterfly net- ted, and was on the highroad to an exhibition of himself pin...

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...room. A poor first-floor to us, but a bower to them. Very neat. Very airy. Plants you observe; hyacinths; books again; birds.’ These birds, by the bye... ...ere were two or three tea- chests out there, full of earth, with forgotten plants in them, like old walking-sticks. Whoever climbed to this observator... ...lsh people, and Scotch people there; all with their little store of coarse food and shabby clothes; and nearly all with their families of children. Th... ...was a solemn and an awful thing to see. Dyspeptic individuals bolted their food in wedges; feeding, not them- selves, but broods of nightmares, who we... ...r to bedroom, Mr Jonas, like a bee, skimming from post to pillar, like the butterfly; dipping her young beak into our currant wine, like the humming-b... ...l your doing, Mark!’ said Martin. ‘P’raps,’ pursued the agent, ‘them ain’t plants of Eden’s raising. No! P’raps that desk and stool ain’t made from Ed... ...full depression of the scene. But that, at certain periods, they swallowed food together from a common trough, it might have been old Charon’s boat, c...

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...verandah had glass shutters, which served the purpose of protecting tender plants, and also the windows, from the full blast of the winter storms. Mis... ...her own way, and only sent a card to Macrae to provide for meeting and for food, not even letting Miss Vincent know that she was coming. That feeling ... ...holidays,’ he observed, after making a vain dash with his hat at a sulphur butterfly, look- ing like a primrose flying away. ‘Mamma won’t allow any “k...

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...cessful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravi... ...e streets, has coiled up his chilly limbs in some paved comer, to dream of food and warmth. 50 Sketches by Boz The drunken, the dissipated, and the w... ...d drop the curtain. CHAPTER III—SHOPS AND THEIR TENANTS WHAT INEXHAUSTIBLE food for speculation, do the streets of London afford! We never were able t... ...f a low dingy public-house; long rows of broken and patched windows expose plants that may have flour- ished when ‘the Dials’ were built, in vessels a... ...ing trees, where the birds sang as he has never heard them since—where the butterfly fluttered far more gaily than he ever sees him now, in all his r... ...ome-looking heads thrust out of every window, and old red pans and stunted plants exposed on the tottering parapets, to the manifest haz- ard of the h...

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...cessful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravi... ...e streets, has coiled up his chilly limbs in some paved comer, to dream of food and warmth. 50 Sketches by Boz The drunken, the dissipated, and the w... ...d drop the curtain. CHAPTER III—SHOPS AND THEIR TENANTS WHAT INEXHAUSTIBLE food for speculation, do the streets of London afford! We never were able t... ...f a low dingy public-house; long rows of broken and patched windows expose plants that may have flour- ished when ‘the Dials’ were built, in vessels a... ...ing trees, where the birds sang as he has never heard them since—where the butterfly fluttered far more gaily than he ever sees him now, in all his r... ...ome-looking heads thrust out of every window, and old red pans and stunted plants exposed on the tottering parapets, to the manifest haz- ard of the h... ...d brick and stone front; a pretty spacious hall, ornamented with evergreen plants, terminates in a perspective view of the bar, and a glass case, in w...

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...Geometrical powers of increase — Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants —Nature of the checks to increase — Competition universal 5 Charles... ...tion from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature — Struggle for life most severe between individual... .... Natu- ralists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food, &c., as the only possible cause of variation. In one very limited sen... ...me probable that a careful study of domesticated animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this ob- scure problem. No... ...ndrew Knight, that this variability may be partly connected with excess of food. It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during seve... ...tion, we should attribute to the di- rect action of heat, moisture, light, food, &c., is most difficult: my impression is, that with animals such agen... ... pointer can no more know that he points to aid his master, than the white butterfly knows why she lays her eggs on the leaf of the cabbage,—I cannot ... ...anisation being higher or lower. But no one probably will dispute that the butterfly is higher than the caterpillar. In some cases, however, the matur...

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..................................................................... 60 Soul Food.......................................................................... ...itched his whiskers and wrinkled his nose. “Other rabbits have much better food to eat than I do.” At lunchtime he was angry because, having skipped b... ...day. Needlelike beaks poked down into the wet sand to pluck out tidbits of food. Then all would speed away before the next wave could douse them. Pipe... ...nd she followed it across the meadow and to the edge of a dark forest. The butterfly flitted high in the sky, and if she had chosen to spread her wing... ...b her, and every step she took was on boggy and acrid smelling ground. The butterfly was gone. She called out to it and was surprised to hear herself ... ...posture. Out of the corner of her eye she caught the reflection of a white butterfly. She jerked her head up just in time for the gossamer creature to... ... to find the file among his papers. “Here it is,” T arpon said. “I had the plants sent out on the first wave this morning. They should be sitting down... ...he Gardener man planted a garden and he filled it with dozens of flowering plants and trees. There were dogwood trees and cherry trees, sprays of wist... ...reat tree was too powerful. His unhappiness did not go unnoticed among the plants 96 LISA SUHAY TELL ME A STORY he tended. The rhododendron with its ...

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..................................................................... 60 Soul Food.......................................................................... ...itched his whiskers and wrinkled his nose. “Other rabbits have much better food to eat than I do.” At lunchtime he was angry because, having skipped b... ...day. Needlelike beaks poked down into the wet sand to pluck out tidbits of food. Then all would speed away before the next wave could douse them. Pipe... ...nd she followed it across the meadow and to the edge of a dark forest. The butterfly flitted high in the sky, and if she had chosen to spread her wing... ...b her, and every step she took was on boggy and acrid smelling ground. The butterfly was gone. She called out to it and was surprised to hear herself ... ...posture. Out of the corner of her eye she caught the reflection of a white butterfly. She jerked her head up just in time for the gossamer creature to... ... to find the file among his papers. “Here it is,” T arpon said. “I had the plants sent out on the first wave this morning. They should be sitting down... ...he Gardener man planted a garden and he filled it with dozens of flowering plants and trees. There were dogwood trees and cherry trees, sprays of wist... ...reat tree was too powerful. His unhappiness did not go unnoticed among the plants 96 LISA SUHAY TELL ME A STORY he tended. The rhododendron with its ...

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... were collected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, i... ...nsac- tions.’ The Reverend Professor Henslow has pub- lished a list of the plants collected by me at the Keel- ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Ber... ... ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants. I shall have the pleasure of acknowledging the great assistance whi... ... which somewhat resemble in form large prawns. The sealers call them whale-food. Whether whales feed on them I do not know; but terns, cor- morants, a... ...cent In- sects — Elater, springing powers of — Blue Haze — Noise made by a Butterfly — Entomology —Ants — Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical Spider —... ...ee in the evening, and fish with coffee for breakfast. All this, with good food for the horses, only cost 2s. 6d. per head. Yet the host of this venda... ...deer had been killed on each of the three previous days. This profusion of food showed itself at dinner, where, if the tables did not groan, the guest... ...ate regions. I was much surprised at the hab- its of Papilio feronia. This butterfly is not uncom- mon, and generally frequents the orange-groves. Alt... ...tead of being folded vertically, as is commonly the case. This is the only butterfly which I have ever seen, that uses its legs for running. Not being...

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...said nothing about. One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with”; and so he religi... ...ut it. To many creatures there is in this sense but one necessary of life, Food. To the bison of the Walden 11 prairie it is a few inches of palatabl... ... or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation re quires more than Food and Shelter. The necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accu... ... may rise in the same propor tion into the heavens above? nfor the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far... ...t of mankind. We don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without. Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes... ...ther it is insured or not. “But what shall I do with my furniture?”nMy gay butterfly is entangled in a spider’s web then. Even those who seem for a lo... ... Walden 71 benevolence, which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but ... ... than in that of larvae. The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly” content themselve... ...so, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. The very globe continually tran scends and translates itself, a...

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...ving to sleep on cabin floor, and finding absolutely nothing fit for human food in the whole filthy embarkation. We made up for lost time by sleeping ... ...e impossible; but the rooms are so cheery and bright and new, and then the food! I never, I think, so fully appreciated the phrase ‘the fat of the lan... ...ration about this story on an- other bit of paper. I am not very well; bad food, bad air, and hard work have brought me down. But the spirits keep goo... ...ate flat prairie upon all hands. Here and there a herd of cattle, a yellow butterfly or two; a patch of wild sun- flowers; a wooden house or two; then... ...t it out.’ – ‘Sir, I ha’e seen o’ them that rase as high as nettles; gran’ plants!’ – ‘What then? Were they as tall as alps, if still unsavoury and bl...

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...harmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants? Lo, I teach you the Superman! The Superman is the meaning of the ... ...say: “What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!” The hou... ...On the tree of the future build we our nest; eagles shall bring us lone ones food in their beaks! Verily, no food of which the impure could be fellow-... ...e in my pot. And only when it hath been quite cooked do I wel- come it as my food. And verily, many a chance came imperiously unto me: but still more ... ...he world:— My dream, a bold sailor, half-ship, half-hurricane, silent as the butterfly, impatient as the falcon: how had it the patience and leisure t... ...Thereby—hast thou also lost thy way! Thou poor rover and rambler, thou tired butterfly! wilt thou have a rest and a home this evening? Then go up to m... ...me supreme. It is the lion’s good to devour an antelope. It is the dead-leaf butterfly’s good to tell a foe a falsehood. For when the dead-leaf butter... ...stra eties occur. The appearance of varieties among animals and of “sporting plants” in the vegetable kingdom, is still shrouded in mystery, and the q...

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...y a series of suffixes to the names of human beings, birds, fishes, trees, plants, stones, metals, and even actions, events, and feelings, diminutives... ...Papa to Rangi. Of the minor deities of the earth, who severally govern the plants, such as trees, rye, flax, and barley, Wirokannas only is mentioned ... ...ury of Metsola, her husband’s abode, and her bountiful chest of honey, the food of all the forest deities, is earnestly sought for by all the weary hu... ...e graves of the dead, knives, hatchets, spears, bows, and arrows, kettles, food, clothing, sledges and snow shoes, thus bearing witness to their pract... ...many other nations. Ukkon koiva (Ukko’s dog) is the Finn ish name for the butterfly, and is looked upon as a messen ger of the Supreme Deity. It ma... ... coast bereft of verdure; On his knees he leaves the ocean, On the land he plants his right foot, On the solid ground his left foot, Quickly turns his... ...s to struggle for existence! Cannot know how I can prosper, How to find me food and shelter, In these cold and lifeless waters, In these days of dire ... ...pens And the birches on the mountains, Light and airy as the leaflet, As a butterfly in summer, Ruddy as a mountain berry, Beautiful as vernal flowers... ...’ ’ ’s dog). s dog). s dog). s dog). s dog). The messenger of Ukko; the butterfly. U’ U’ U’ U’ U’lap pa lap pa lap pa lap pa lap pa ’ ’ ’ ’ ’la. la...

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...u and me—nor shall our lot 13 Shelley Be as you counsel, without gifts or food, _220 To spend our lives in this obscure ab... ...len they were last night at set of sun, Of their soft beds and their sweet food bereft.— Now tell me, man born ere the world begun, Have you seen any ... ...at hollow Recesses in the rock—where many a nook Was filled with the sweet food immortals swallow, And mighty heaps of silver and of gold Were piled w... ... intricate wild wilderness of trees And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants, Leave me; the books you brought out of the house To me are ever bes... ...raves the frost Basks in the moonlight’s ineffectual glow, Shrank with the plants, and darkened with the night; 146 Volume 3 His chilled and narrow e... ...ve been found in the north of Siberia, and on the banks of the river Ohio. Plants have been found in the fossil state in the inte- rior of Germany, wh... ...d gathering purest nectar there, _125 A butterfly, whose million hues The dazzled eye of wonder views, Long lingeri...

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...p things the People of the Hills have never heard of—little buzzflies with butterfly wings and gauze petticoats, and shiny stars in their hair, and a ... ...at painty-winged, wand-waving, sugar-and-shake-your-head set of impostors? Butterfly wings, indeed! I’ve seen Sir Huon and a troop of his people setti... ...e driven five good miles inland before they could come head to wind again. Butterfly-wings! It was Magic—Magic as black as Merlin could make it, and t... ...es of Muscovy. We thought he was a devil. He crawled before us and brought food in a 42 Puck of Pook’s Hill silver dish which these sea-wolves had ro... ...rds she was married to him. My young brother, who was always interested in plants and roots, met the First Doc- tor of a Legion from the City of the L... ...er. We prowled in, and I found a cook asleep, and or- dered him to give us food. Then I climbed to the top of the Wall, and looked out over the Pict c... ...ngry again? It seems to be my destiny to feed you whenever we meet. I have food here. Allo shall cook it.” “‘No,” said Allo. “A Prince in his own land...

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...customed pride, if aught appear of which they are afraid, suddenly let the food alone, because they are assailed by a greater care, so I saw that fres... ...o your honor that that poor body should be buried, and not left cruelly as food for dogs.’ Then the Count, recognizing him, said astonished, ‘Go, your... ... valley has no barrier was a snake, perhaps such as gave to Eve the bitter food. Through the grass and the flowers came the evil trail, turning from t... ...ackward steps, are ye not aware that we are worms born to form the angelic butterfly which flies unto judgment without defence? Why doth your mind flo... ...the widowed trunk, and that which was of it 9 he left bound to it. As our plants, when the great light falls downward mingled with that which shines ... ...ets me go no further. I returned from the most holy wave, renovated as new plants renewed with new foliage, pure and disposed to mount unto the stars....