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...here without success—public fountain in the great square sud denly ceased playing—weeks elapsed—still a stoppage— workmen employed to clean it—water ... ...e, with a full confession in his right boot—took him out, and the fountain played away again, as well as ever.’ Charles Dickens 15 ‘Will you allow me... ...refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder. And y... ...nd he called his companions’ attention to the large gilt button which dis played a bust of Mr. Pickwick in the centre, and the letters ‘P . C.’ on ei... ...snuff with everybody, chatted with everybody, laughed, danced, made jokes, played whist, did everything, and was everywhere. T o these pursuits, multi... ...t, and gazed from one to the other, with a counte nance expressive of the extremities of horror and surprise. This certainly was, to all appearance, ...

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...ty was easily so far en- gaged as to induce him to make the experiment. He played Harlequin barefaced, but was considered on all hands as hav- ing mad... ...audacity which a sense of incognito bestowed, and with it all the reckless play of raillery which gave vivacity to his original acting. He cursed his ... ... artist to paint sign-posts. (Loud laugh- ter.) But you could not send the player adrift; for if he can- not play Hamlet, he must play Guildenstern. W... ...ho disliked the theatre, but of meekness: “Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the... ...s and se- crets of their hearts. He was a man of obscure origin, and, as a player, limited in his acquirements; but he was born evi- dently with a uni... ...o devise and arms to execute bold enterprises. I have, as it were, the two extremities of the moral world at my threshold. From the front door a few m...

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...eir dependence irritates while it humiliates them. This state of mind dis- plays itself in their manners and language; they are at once insolent and s... ...eir dependence irritates while it humiliates them. This state of mind dis- plays itself in their manners and language; they are at once insolent and s... ...nce of govern- ment and the advanced theory of legislation which they dis- play. The ideas there formed of the duties of society towards its members a... ...elf, but it affects the minds of the heirs, and brings their passions into play. These indirect consequences tend powerfully to the destruction of lar... ...and those of Brittany. Maine and Georgia, which are placed at the opposite extremities of a great empire, are consequently in the natural possession o... ...rect to have said, that absolute convictions are to be met with at the two extremities, and that doubt lies in the middle; for the human intellect may... ...sometimes met with. The advancing col- umn then halts for a while; its two extremities fall back upon themselves, and as soon as they are reunited the... ...h are the changes which have taken place, that it now stands at one of the extremities; and the delegates of the most remote Western States are alread... ...sometimes met with. The advancing col- umn then halts for a while; its two extremities fall back upon themselves, and as soon as they are reunited the...

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...nks. Accident, or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once w... ...ers fill’d The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dash’d, and rivulets play’d, And fountains spouted in the shade.” —Bryant LEAVING THE UNSUSPECTI... ...ence that was only interrupted by the rippling of the water, as its eddies played around them, or the low dash made by their own cautious footsteps. H... ...tal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind playing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard th... ...t air of the hiding-place for the cool and in- vigorating atmosphere which played around the whirlpools and pitches of the cataract. A heavy evening b... ... of brush was scattered to the winds, the cav- ern was entered at both its extremities, and he and his com- panions were dragged from their shelter an... ...he very accident which Hawkeye had foreseen occurred. Tired of keeping the extremities of his long person so near together, the singer gradually suffe...

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...ed Roman generals then living, by a series of defeats, was reduced to such extremities, that Lucius Manlius came to his assistance out of Gallia Narbo... ...d any town, he presently appeared and besieged them again, and put them to extremities for want of necessaries. And thus he so wearied out the Roman a... ...pent his own money 25 Plutarch’s Lives in the defense of Italy. T o these extremities, the chiefest and the most powerful commanders of the age were ... ...at had been taken up for Eumenes, Hephaestion assigned to Euius, the flute-player. Upon which, in great anger, Eumenes and Mentor came to Alexander, a... ...g that the way to be regarded was to throw away their arms, and turn flute-play- ers or tragedians; so much so that Alexander took their part and chid... ...presence; but the goodness of his humor, and his constant cheerfulness and playfulness of tem- per, always free from anything of moroseness or haughti... ...n Susa and Ecbatana; not willing to let the monarch sit idle in his chair, playing umpire in the conflicts of the Greeks, and bribing their popular le... ...come over to them, he presently applied himself to make them feel the last extremities of war. The Thebans indeed defended them- selves with a zeal an... ... supply the city with provisions. By which means they were reduced to such extremities, that a bushel of salt sold for forty drachmas, and a peck of w...

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...rousse, “you have deceived me — the trick you spoke of last night has been played; but I cannot suffer a poor old man or an innocent girl to die of gr... ... had any opinions. I am hardly nineteen; I know nothing; I have no part to play. If I obtain the situation I desire, I shall owe it to M. Morrel. Thus... ...terfere with my successes?” Suddenly a light passed over his face, a smile played round his set mouth, and his haggard eyes were fixed in thought. “Th... ...” “Let us visit them,” said the inspector with an air of fatigue. “We must play the farce to the end. Let us see the dungeons.” “Let us first send for... ... saw myriads of lights dancing before them like the will-o’-the-wisps that play about the marshes. It was the twilight of that mysterious country call... ...s hand. The two men, approaching the ends of the bed, took the sack by its extremities. “He’s heavy though for an old and thin man,” said one, as he r...

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...unday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place it would be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with another boy coming up the st... ...ok unmoved. A great wind rises, and the summer is gone in a moment. We are playing in the winter twi- light, dancing about the parlour. When my mother... ...o bed after this talk, and she came to bid me good night. She kneeled down playfully by the side of the bed, and laying her chin upon her hands, and l... ...ea; and the boats and ships; and the fish- ermen; and the beach; and Am to play with Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, mentioned in my first chapter; ... ... if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. I told Em ly I adored her, and that un- less she confessed she adored... ...any human subject who is al- ways in torment from tight boots. I think the extremities require to be at peace before the stomach will conduct itself w...

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...over the mounds of iron fragments to find her; for she spent her childhood playing with the wreck of ancient castles heaped in the depths of that old ... ...in the depths of that old shop. There were other days on which she went to play in the street or with the neighboring children; but even then her moth... ...eputy, to whom the place of the procureur-general was said to be promised, played a leading part. In all provincial towns a man who rises a trifle abo... ...able men in Limoges, to meet in the evenings at Madame Graslin’s house and play whist. At this time Ma- dame Graslin was at home five evenings in the ... ...this suggestion there grew up in the minds of the profound politicians who played their whist at the hotel Graslin a belief that the viscount and the ... ...rominent, his knees knocked together. The body, too much developed for the extremities, gave him the look of a hump- backed man without a hump. In sho...

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...strings. You have been to the theatre, and you have seen one of the wiolin-players screw up his wiolin, after listening to it as if it had been whispe... ...nocker for the postman; and here’s half-a-dozen dinner plates that you may play the cym- bals with to charm baby when it’s fractious. Stop! I’ll thr... ... He was a languid young man, which I attribute to the distance betwixt his extremities. He had a little head and less in it, he had weak eyes and wea... ..., I say, anticipate. This same book took up all my spare time. It was no play to get the other articles together in the general miscellaneous lot, b...

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...then. I’m a going on one of these here railroads when they comes into full play.’ As he added in one of his hoarse whispers, ‘We means to bring up lit... ...ood for making children lively and cheerful, Sir, as seeing other children playing about ‘em,’ ob- served Polly , taking courage. ‘I think I mentioned... ...even upon the natural grace and freedom of her actions. As she sported and played about her baby brother that night, her manner was seldom so win- 38... ...el that you might be weighed, measured, magnified, electrified, polarized, played the very devil with: and never know how.’ Nothing short of the wonde... ... a great deal of exercise in the course of the day ,’ returned Mrs Chick, ‘playing about little Paul so much.’ ‘She is a curious child,’ said Miss T o... ...the first taste of it had struck a sensation as of cold lead to Mr Chick’s extremities. Mr Dombey alone remained unmoved. He might have been hung up f...

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... faitour late befell Me for to meet, that seemed ill bested, And playnd of grieuous outrage, which he red A knight had wrought against ... ...eane waues with purple gore did ray; Als in her lap a louely babe did play His cruell sport, in stead of sorrow dew; For in her streami... ...nds may not be clensd, the face of golden Meane. Her sisters two Extremities: striue her to banish cleane. Thus when Sir Guyon wit... ...goodly carriage: With equall measure she did moderate The strong extremities of their outrage; That forward paire she euer would asswag... ...rple beames Disperst the shadowes of the mistie night, And Titan playing on the eastern streames, cleare the deawy ayre with springing ... ... she her selfe would grace, But with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, She could them ni... ...aded darts, wherewith she queld The saluage beastes in her victorious play, Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay Athwart her sn... ...re. Therewith she sweetly smyld. They though full bent, To proue extremities of bloudie fight, Yet at her speach their rages gan relent...

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...e forms of striving to be made the adumbration of a higher one, the shadow-play that should direct our minds to the true immortality beyond this world... ...se with a motherless child, dwelling in an uncheerful house, with no other playmates than a decrepit old man and a kitten, and no better atmosphere wi... ...mnant of life might have been as cheaply and cheerily enjoyed as the early playtime of the kitten and the child. Old Dr. Dolliver and his great-grand-... ...e to over- whelm the tiny figure of Pansie) had met one another at the two extremities of the life-circle: her sunrise served him for a sunset, illumi... ...e from his own gen- eration, and bound to stray further onward as the sole play- mate and protector of a child! As Dr. Dolliver, in spite of his advan... ...e true name by which the child’s guardian angel would know it,—a name with playfulness and love in it, that we often observe to supersede, in the prac...

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...fect in ficti- tious description. Much may also be gained by a lively dis- play of a modern fete, such as we have daily recorded in that part of a new... ...en that object any passable pro- portion of personal charms, he can easily play the jeweller and Dervise in the Oriental tale, [See Hoppner’s tale of ... ...scended by three several flights of steps, placed in its centre and at the extremities, into what might be called the garden proper, and was fenced al... ...ome taste, a fragment of an old Scottish ditty:— False love, and hast thou played me thus In summer among the flowers? I will repay thee back again In... ...er supported him till his death, which happened before he was nineteen. He played beautifully on the flute, and was supposed to have a great turn for ... ...the vicinity, who were no conjurers themselves. My father went to see fair play between the witch and the clergy; for the witch had been born on his e...

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...end of events in the next decade or so. Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a... ...n attempt to retain conflict and limit its intensity; it is like trying to play hockey on the understanding that the ball shall never travel faster th... ...e resuscitation of dying hatreds; the British and Russian diplomatists may play annoying tricks upon one another by sheer force of habit. There may be... ...liminary exploration of one of the great questions with which I propose to play in these ar- ticles. The possibility I have sketched is the one that m... ...that would completely discourage all aggression. He concluded that war was played out. His book was very carefully studied in Germany. As a humble dis... ...n give that consent they will both carry the war to at present undreamt-of extremities. Belgium must be restored; her neutrality must be replaced by a...

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...illefort, in answer to his wife, “you know I have never been accustomed to play the patriarch in my family, nor have I ever considered that the fate o... ...ng chrysalis more closely, and to endeavor to under- stand the secret part played by these insect-actors when they occupy themselves simply with pulli... ...ard-table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth. One chamber alone had been 36... ...w it to you, and then we will take coffee in the garden. After dinner, the play.” Monte Cristo looked inquiringly at his guests. Madame de Villefort r... ...ound him, and then his hand fell instantly into his pocket, where it began playing with a pistol. But, mean- while, Caderousse, who had never taken hi... ...being ready to start from their sockets; his head fell back, and the lower extremities of the body began to stiffen. Valentine uttered a cry of horror...

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.... We were scarcely clear of the place, when we heard “God save the Queen,” played by the equestrian band, the sig- nal that all was over. Our companio... ...funny fellow that actor was who performed Dicky Green in that scene in the play!); and now we are at a private party, at 17 Some Roundabout Papers wh... ... you must confess) with Corinthian Kate, whilst Bob Logic, the Oxonian, is playing on the piano! “After,” the text says, “the Oxonian had played sever... ...gs are battered by this time; and whose pink cotton (or silk is it?) lower extremities are all dingy and dusty. Y et but a few days, Bob, and flakes o...

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..., ’tis gone, ’tis gone, 595 You are welcome Gentlemen, come Musitians play: 596 Musicke plaies: and they dance. 597 A Hall, Hall, giue ... ... But passion lends them Power, time, meanes to meete, 746 Temp’ring extremities with extreame sweete. 747 Enter Romeo alone. 748 ... ...ily. 1335 If good thou sham’st the musicke of sweet newes, 1336 By playing it to me, with so sower a face. 1337 Nur. I am a weary, giu... ...ods bread, it makes me mad: 2223 Day, night, houre, ride, time, worke, play, 2224 Alone in companie, still my care hath bin 2225 To haue h... ...ehold 2357 Twixt my extreames and me, this bloody knife 2358 Shall play the vmpeere, arbitrating that, 2359 Which the commission of thy ye... ...decke vp her, 2471 Ile not to bed to night, let me alone: 2472 Ile play the huswife for this once. What ho? 2473 They are all forth, well ...

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...he amusement passes into an impassioned interest. Some pa- pers are merely playful; but others have a mixed character. These present Autobiographic S... ...rliest weeks, in a rural seclusion. With three innocent little sisters for playmates, sleeping always amongst them, and shut up forever in a si- lent ... ... passed away from earth one of those three sisters that made up my nursery playmates; and so did my acquaintance (if such it could be called) commence... ...ance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn remembrances that... ...the Greek language, merits a momentary notice; and for this reason—that it plays a part not at all less conspicuous or less delicate in the Latin. Her... ... which sought to make the rebels desperate, by tempting them into the last extremities of guilt, but, unhappily, too much countenanced as to their gen... ...experience. Conceive a state of communication be- tween the centre and the extremities of a great people, kept up with a uniformity of reciprocation s...

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...jet from his fountain falling in pearly drops upon a slab of limestone; he played on his own bil- liard-table; he gathered his own flowers. Sylvie, on... ...he most of his folly, advised him to start a journal, intending herself to play the part of Egeria. For the last two years, therefore, Julliard, posse... ... Sylvie applied herself to learn boston. Rogron, in- 29 Balzac capable of playing a game, twirled his thumbs and had noth- ing to say except to disco... ...essed by a silly, unconcealed ambition, Rogron and his sister were bent on playing a part in the society of a little town already in possession of a c... ... disagreeable scene occurred between herself and old Madame Julliard while playing boston, apropos of a trick which Sylvie declared the old lady had m... ... of the child; her voice is gentle; she does not raise it unless driven to extremities, or when the child is much in fault. But here, in this great ma...

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... strong breezes of the ocean. They become the prey of capricious airs that play with them for thirty hours at a stretch sometimes. Before them the hea... ...over, expired under him at the end of the Alameda, where the military band plays sometimes in the eve- nings between the revolutions. “Sir,” Captain M... ...movements of the animated scene were like the passages of a vio- lent game played upon the plain by dwarfs mounted and on foot, yelling with tiny thro... ...ch to his wife seemed a puerile and bloodthirsty game of murder and rapine played with terrible earnest- ness by depraved children. In the early days ... ...s being robbed by the grotesque and murderous 55 Joseph Conrad bands that played their game of governments and revolutions after the death of Guzman ... ...n Hirsch, felt an inexplicable reluctance at the no- tion of proceeding to extremities. He felt a reluctance—part of that unfathomable dread that crep...