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...as an undesirable acquaintance. Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness —... ...hey could hardly have fared worse. At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and Franc ¸ois were compelled to make their fire and ... ...the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark. Close in under the sheltering rock Buck made his nest. So snug and warm was it, that he was loath to ... ... cried in particular over each discarded thing. She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken heartedly. She averred she would not go a... ...e sitting on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bed rock three hundred feet below. John Thorn ton was sitting near the edg... ... off his master. At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Tho...

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... the senti- ment came home to each, ‘The Anchor’s Weighed’ was true for us. We were indeed ‘Rocked on the bosom of the stormy deep.’ How many of us co... ...oad leading downwards to the sea. Dunure lies close under the steep hill: a haven among the rocks, a breakwater in consummate disrepair, much apparatu... ... the tidemark. It was daubed on to the sills of the ruin: it roosted in the crannies of the rock like white sea-birds; even on outlying reefs there wo... ...xt. It was patchwork, but the patch- work of the poor; no glowing shreds of old brocade and Chinese silk, shaken together in the kaleidoscope of some ... ...own away; and there was Ailsa Craig, like a refraction, magnified and deformed, of the Bass Rock; and there were the chiselled mountain-tops of Arran,... ...tinais, where they border with the wooded hills of Fontainebleau. Here and there a few grey rocks creep out of the forest as if to sun themselves. Her...

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...re- turning to the precinct police station to make their night report, and Chinese market gardeners teetering past un- der their heavy baskets. The ca... ...he fell out. By damn! I thought she’d killed herself; struck her face on a rock and knocked out a front tooth. It’s a wonder she didn’t kill herself. ... ...iss Baker’s door. The little old lady was sitting close to the wall in her rocking- chair; her hands resting idly in her lap. “Now, Maria,” she said p... ...mical rush of the surf and the sonorous barking of the seals upon the seal rocks. The four dogs curled themselves down upon the sanded floor. “Here’s ... ...arcus would try and force the secret out of him; would rush blindly at the rock upon which the two must split, stirred by the very best of motives, wi... ...lats, at the fringe of the town, were the dump heaps, the figures of a few Chinese rag-pickers moving over them. Far to the left the view was shut off... ...he end of the table. “The light end should be rolled to a point.” “Ah, the Chinese cigar-makers,” cried Marcus, in a pas- sion, brandishing his fist. ... ...els; burnt umber for the chickens, zebras, and so on; then, last, a dot of Chinese white for the eyes, and there you are, all finished. They sell for ... ...talls, intent upon their day’s marketing. On rainy days their servants—the Chinese cooks or the second girls—took their places. These servants gave th...

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...ppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare v... ...height unexampled in the annals of mankind, and even English Editors, like Chinese Shopkeep- ers, must write on their door-lintels No cheating here,— ... ...o History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- known agen... ...n cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries, stoles, albs; chlamydes, togas, Chinese silks, Afghaun shawls, trunk-hose, leather breeches, Celtic hilibeg... ...despicable firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket-wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing natur... ...once only: for as your Congreve needs a new case or wrappage for every new rocket, so 99 Thomas Carlyle each human heart can properly exhibit but one... ...e arena of joyous or mournful experi- ences; if perhaps the cradle we were rocked in still stands there, if our Loving ones still dwell there, if our ... ... ing those of Constantinople and Samarcand: in most Col- leges, except the Chinese Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. ... ..., therefore, of Pope Pius, Emperor Tarakwang, and the “White Water-roses” (Chinese Carbonari) with their mysteries, no notice here! Of Napo- leon hims...

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...ng of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong... ...et down the boat into the sea, made a shift to get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able... ...ecame of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who es caped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were a... ...from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladi... ... about a mile on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky. I now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain my curios... ...t of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat. This I was afterwar... ...er the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit. The queen became so fond ... ...ight, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more eas ily than the Chinese. I could frequently distinguish the word Yahoo, which was repeat...

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...’s animation seemed entirely to have deserted her. She seated herself on a rock, and re mained there until Hollingsworth came up; and when he took he... ...myself, it grew to be a custom to spend the Sabbath afternoon at a certain rock. It was known to us under the name of Eliot’s pulpit, from a tradition... ...an scatter cheerfulness as it never could among the dark browed pines. The rock itself rose some twenty or thirty feet, a shattered granite bowlder, o... ..., but dwelt among damp mosses, though not akin to them. At the summit, the rock was overshadowed by the canopy of a birch tree, which served as a soun... ...lf perceptible glow of a transfiguration. I the more minutely describe the rock, and this little Sab bath solitude, because Hollingsworth, at our sol... ...e seen the diorama of Moscow or Bunker Hill, or the moving panorama of the Chinese wall. Here is displayed the museum of wax figures, illustrating the...

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...s A shadow on the wall in which my mind’s eye can discern some traces of a rocky sea coast, recalls to me a fearful story of travel derived from that ... ... East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a January night towards the rocks near Seacombe, on the island of Purbeck! The captain’s two dear daugh... ...ely made, might possibly have procured. ‘The ship continued to beat on the rocks; and soon bilg ing, fell with her broadside towards the shore. When ... ...commended that all should come to the side of the ship lying lowest on the rocks, and singly to take the opportunities which might then offer, of esca... ...ithout describing the place where it happened. The Haleswell struck on the rocks at a part of the shore where the cliff is of vast height, and rises a... ... think of it in a warm bath. Very like a small room that I remember in the Chinese baths upon the Boulevard, certainly; and, though I see it through t... ...pans nothing, growing out from the roots of the willow; and the three blue Chinese going over it into a blue temple, which has a fine crop of blue bus...

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...er the Americans at Breed’s Hill; for the peace in 1814, and the beautiful Chinese bridge in St James’s Park; for the coronation of his Majesty, whom ... ...-spirits rise in the air, and are whirled howling round the palace and the rocks. My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots fly hurtling through the air! A... ...d piteously asked us for Christmas alms. Those darling alligators on their rock winked at us in the most friendly way. The solemn eagles sat alone, an...

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...found God. But nowhere, save on this half-European, half- African ledge of rock could you find so many different har- monies, combining so to raise th... ... crags at the uttermost end of the island. On the side towards the sea the rock was once rent sheer away in some globe-cataclysm; it rises up a straig... ...rightly that here in the desert, 12 The Duchesse de Langeais on this bare rock in the sea, the nun had seized upon music as an outpouring of the pass... ...free. Antoinette de Navarreins was living, consumed by love, on a ledge of rock in the Mediterranean; but it was in the Pope’s power to dissolve Siste... ... of the island, a sheer block of granite, afforded even less hold than the rock of Capri. So it seemed at least to Montriveau, who had taken part in t... ...e the filaments which a certain species of spider weaves about a tree. The Chinese, an essentially imitative people, were the first to take a lesson f...

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...scorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic ... ... the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and... ...hel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo oop! S... ...ville in time—at least the neighborhood of it. We stuck hard and fast on the rocks in the middle of the river, and lay there four days. I was now begi... ...e it himself. Chapter 6 A Cub-pilot s Experience WHAT WITH LYING ON THE ROCKS four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old “Paul ... ...o double; in a moment or two the final warning came,—a simulta neous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, “All dat ain’t goin’, please to git asho’!”—...

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...e of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal. The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline... ...o traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. The night came li... ... well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain. This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use,... ... cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life th... ...me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly to- wards me. Then I saw the thing was really a mons... ...d of earthy crustacea creeping in and out among the green weed and the red rocks. And in the west- ward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new ...

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...o the Thinker and Prophet it forever is, preternatural. This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—tha... ...us reverence and must ever reverence Great Men: this is, to me, the living rock amid all rushings-down whatsoever;— the one fixed point in modern revo... ...he Giant 19 On Heroes Hymir’s Cows are Icebergs: this Hymir “looks at the rocks” with his devil-eye, and they split in the glance of it. Thunder was ... ...ting a world with him. His blood made the Sea; his flesh was the Land, the Rocks his bones; of his eyebrows they formed Asgard their Gods’-dwell- ing;... ...ke, with those of the Hindoos. The Cow Adumbla, “licking the rime from the rocks,” has a kind of Hindoo look. A Hindoo Cow, transported into frosty co... ...ill have to be possible. By far the most interesting fact I hear about the Chinese is one on which we cannot arrive at clearness, but which excites en...

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...an was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed with a rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, livi... ...en, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron ore and the promise of sword and spear; he froze to deat... ... out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their begi... ...ry; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of volcanoes like cricket balls and blowing pumice into foam, and... ... those Swiss villages which live under the perpetual threat of overhanging rocks and moun- tains go about their business—just as though the possible w... ... and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintain... ...g the inducive. Always before in the development of warfare the shells and rockets fired had been but momentarily explosive, they had 65 H G Wells go... ...the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. T...

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...” Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ... Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets flew self driven, To hang their momentary fires Amid the vault of hea... ...a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust health... ...its, especially of such a howling night, when this corner anchored old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf like table cover... ... Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day. And the women of New Bedford, th... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black tro... ... same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese... ...se comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Busines... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...

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... of Nemours as we approach it from Burgundy. We see it encircled with bare rocks, gray , black, white, fantastic in shape like those we find in the fo... ...ed trees, clearly de- fined against the sky, which give to this particular rock forma- tion the dilapidated look of a crumbling wall. Here ends the lo... ...ck which ex- tended from the salon towards the river, ending in a horrible Chinese pagoda. “Good! by building a roof to that greenhouse and laying a f... ...GODFATHER were sitting at dessert in the pretty dining-room decorated with Chinese designs in black and gold lacquer (the folly of Levrault-Levrault) ... ... and then, if she was in the way, her godfather would let her know it. The Chinese pa- 84 Ursula goda which the doctor made his study had outside bli... ... years in the paradise of the great world. Alas! he lived and moved like a rocket. He rose to the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse and fell to his native town... ...which she was present. “You haven’t powder enough, my boy, to blow up that rock,” said de Marsay, laughing. That young king of fashion, who did, out o... ...both sat down on a bench under the arch of climbing plants opposite to the Chinese pagoda. Ursula awaited the old man’s words, and the old man reflect... ...noret came home late from Rouvre. About nine o’clock he was sitting in the Chinese pagoda digesting his dinner be- side his wife, with whom he was mak...

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...el, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly ... ... patient work of countless ages. O.M. You could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You woul... ... the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built—but along with a ... ...gic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which nothing within the rock it self had either power to remove or any desire to remove. Will yo... ... Y.M. Y es. I have written it down; “Prejudices which noth ing within the rock itself had either power to remove or any desire to remove.” Go on. O.... ...lish, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame religions, every k...

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...me, when she can’t do nothin’ else, she opens ‘erself out like a cock-eyes Chinese lotus.’ ‘Exactly the case with my breeches, whoever you are,’ said ... ...mur of the Nile as it raced round a basalt-walled bend and foamed across a rock-ridge half a mile up- stream. It was as though the brown weight of the... ... all that time the Nile had never spared them. Rapid had fol- lowed rapid, rock rock, and island-group island-group, till the rank and file had long s... ...ou always draw like that?’ The young man produced more sketches. ‘Row on a Chinese pig-boat,’ said he, sententiously, showing them one after an- other... ...when the whale- boat in which they had found a berth chose to hit a hidden rock and rip out half her bottom-planks. Now they were sitting on the sand-... ...re in it. As swiftly as a reach of still water is crisped by the wind, the rock-strewn ridges and scrub-topped hills were troubled and alive with arme... ...s wanted it badly. Nothing will pay me for some of my life’s joys; on that Chinese pig-boat, for instance, when we ate bread and jam for every meal, b... ...The Light That Failed allow us anything better, and it all tasted of pig,— Chinese pig. I’ve worked for this, I’ve sweated and I’ve starved for this, ... ...ck, it’s no use arguing. You’re a fool.’ ‘Don’t see it. When I was on that Chinese pig-boat, our captain got credit for saving about twenty-five thous...

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...ows, but man departs,’ says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage ... ...ined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and mulberry in growth, and bearing a flower like a great yellow poppy with a m... ...nderstudy) would be fluting in the thickets overhead. A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence sp... ...lk languished on the beach. As for the cook (whose conscience was not clear), he never afterwards set foot on shore, and twice, when the Casco appeare... ...ther of two walks? There is no use talking,’ he added— ‘opium is the currency of this country.’ The man under prevention during my stay at Tai-o-hae l... ...evention during my stay at Tai-o-hae lost patience while the Chinese opium-seller was being ex- amined in his presence. ‘Of course he sold me opium!’ ... ...It was Captain Hart who had the misfortune to be the means of beginning it, at a time when his plantations flourished in the Marquesas, and he found a... ...he patentee is supposed to sell to Chinamen alone; equally of course, no one could afford to pay forty thousand francs for the privilege of supplying ... ...to be con- sidered: the vice has been gratuitously introduced. And no creature profits, save the Government at Papeete—the not very enviable gentlemen...

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... shanter. His face was yel low and wrinkled, like that of Fook Shing, the Chinese bootmaker in the bazar. His eyes turned up at the corners and looke... ...ke to the Curator of his own lamassery, the Such zen, opposite the Painted Rocks, four months’ march away. The Curator brought out a huge book of pho ... ...d strata. ‘Ay, ay!’ The lama mounted a pair of horn rimmed spec tacles of Chinese work. ‘Here is the little door through which we bring wood before w... ...ewildering mixture of Urdu and Tibetan. He had heard of the travels of the Chinese pil grims, Fu Hiouen and Hwen Tsiang, and was anxious to know if t... ...e. It is some thing old even as I am.’ It was a piece of ancient design, Chinese, of an iron that is not smelted these days; and the collector’s hea... ... borne by his own thoughts, slid into Tibetan and long droned texts from a Chinese book of the Buddha’s life. The gentle, toler ant folk looked on re... ...d broken down. A thin, high Kathiawar mare, with eyes and nostrils aflame, rocketed out of the jam, snorting and wincing as her rider bent her across ... ...tment; and that custom is spreading. But there are always those of the old rock who hold by the use of their forefa thers; and, above all, there are ... ...f the bold birches stopped. Above that, in scarps and blocks upheaved, the rocks strove to fight their heads above the white smother. Above these agai...

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... —Goldsmith to Johnson. “In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, ... ...Falconer’ s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the spires, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of ... ...coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedes- trian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust health... ...s, espe- cially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf- like table cover... ...Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day. And the women of New Bedford, t... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally in- vested him, with wide black t... ...same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese draw- ing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chine... ...partial seas; where to traditions no rocks furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still rolled on speechless and unspoken to, ...