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... 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 58 Br... ... into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus ... ... did about poor Paul’s tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toast... ...oast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice island. The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest tope... ...utherner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his... ...m the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more ... ...suit, and descending into the bar room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarkin... ...and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth; and ‘vomited out Jonah... ...e yet lurked any ice of indifference towards mein the Pagan’s breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies. He ...

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...fe of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio 217 The fire that mounts the liquor til’t run ore, 218 In seeming to augment it, wasts i... ...02 Bran. Here is a warrant from 303 The King, t’ attach Lord Mountacute, and the Bodies 304 Of the Dukes Confessor, Iohn de la Car... ...him, and with one hand on his dagger, 558 Another spread on’s breast, mounting his eyes, 559 He did discharge a horrible Oath, whose tenor ... ...w vnhappily. 793 Card. I am glad 794 Your Grace is growne so pleasant. 795 Kin. My Lord Chamberlaine, 796 Prethee come hit... ...For all the mud in Egypt; haue you heard it? 1313 An. Come you are pleasant. 1314 Old.L. With your Theame, I could 1315 O’re- moun... ...are pleasant. 1314 Old.L. With your Theame, I could 1315 O’re- mount the Larke: The Marchionesse of Pembrooke? 1316 A thousand pounds... ...is Highnesse fauors, 1471 Gone slightly o’re lowe steppes, and now are mounted 1472 Where Powres are your Retainers, and your words 1473 (...

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...ly read it after his return to the inn. Also, he be- stowed upon a lady of pleasant exterior who, escorted by a footman laden with a bundle, happened ... ...rtain Paul Ivanovitch Chichikov, who is a Collegiate Councillor and a very pleasant fellow.” To this his spouse replied “Hm!” and then dealt him a hea... ...vening parties and dinners; wherefore he spent (as the saying goes) a very pleasant time. Finally he decided to extend his visits beyond the urban bou... ...g smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, “What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!” yet during the next moment or two... ...n the art of beating up such a couch, and, as the result, he had no sooner mounted it with the aid of a chair than it sank well-nigh to the floor, and... ...cend to the box-seat. Plac- ing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending higher, at... ... non-smoked; pipes wrapped in chamois leather and not so wrapped; an amber-mounted hookah (a stake won at cards) and a tobacco pouch (worked, it was a... ...chikov’s) glass over his plate. In time there came also to table a tart of mountain-ashberries—berries which the host de- clared to equal, in taste, r... ...Andrusha, take the head of the trace horse on the right, while Uncle Mitai mounts the shaft horse. Get up, Uncle Mitai.” Upon that the lean, 108 Dead...

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...cceeded the smiles of the siren shopwoman. For eight succeeding days Cesar mounted guard every evening before the Petit-Matelot, watching for a look a... ...of Brahma and its castes; brushing against piles of ivory in the rough, he mounts the backs of elephants; seated in a muslin cage, he makes love like ... ...e various societies in which he found himself. His ignoble face was rather pleasant at first sight; but later, on closer acquaintance, expressions wer... ...d hair; but his clear brow, his eyes the color of a grey-veined agate, his pleasant mouth, his fair complexion, the charm of his modest youth and the ... ...r!” she said. “Hey! my son, what’s there agreeable between us? Did we ever mount guard over kings and queens together?” 80 Rise and Fall of Cesar Bir... ...e’s appartement, thinking as he went that the old man must be very hale to mount them daily without complaining. He found a frock-coat and pair of tro... ...Raguet, the shop-boy, a new suit of clothes for the day of the ball, if he mounted guard faithfully and let no one enter. Birotteau, like the Emperor ... ...strained luxury. The car- pet, one of the rich products of Belgium, was as pleasant to the eye as to the foot which felt the soft thickness of its tex...

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...e to ride?” said Eglantine, with rather a consequential air. “Snaffle will mount you, and we can go one on each side of the ladies, if you like.” But ... ... that as Eglantine was going to ride Hemperor, Woolsey, at least, ought to mount too. But he was met by the same modest refusal on the tailor’s part, ... ...the same modest refusal on the tailor’s part, who stated that he had never mounted a horse yet, and preferred greatly the use of a coach. Eglantine’s ... ...broken for that. The ladies gladly made room for him in the clarence. Dick mounted “Emperor” and rode homewards. The drag, too, drove away, playing “O... ...o- nies, he kept a couple of smart maids and a groom foot-boy— in fact, he mounted just such a neat unpretending gentleman- 46 Men’s Wives like estab... ...istrate to whom the victualler subsequently came to com- plain passed many pleasantries on the occasion. He asked whether His Highness did not drink l... ...re the happiest days of Morgiana’s whole life. She had no cares except the pleasant one of attending on her husband, an easy smiling tem- perament whi... ...ry Saturday. Nay, no blushes, my dear sir; you are very wicked, but oh! SO pleasant. Well, Mr. Bludyer, I am glad to see you, sir, and hope you will h... ...ord Byron when he was a sulky slim young lad. She says Charles Fox was the pleasantest fellow she ever met with, and has not the slightest objection t...

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...nia State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 V ailima Letters Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ...OUNTAIN, APIA, SAMOA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1890 MY DEAR COLVIN,—This is a hard and interesting and beautiful life that we lead now. Our place is in a... ...ttle in his (Malietoa Laupepa’s) youth—the place which we have cleared the platform of his fort—the gulley of the stream full of dead bodies—the fight... ... intricate questions which spring up daily in the missionary path. Then off up the hill; Jack very fresh, the sun (close on noon) staring hot, the bre... ...rer like my neighbours?At times I thought the blows were echoes; at times I thought the laughter was from birds. For our birds are strangely hu- man i... ...e past; but now are we as belly-gods, enjoying all things. WEDNESDAY . (HIST. V AILIMA RESUMED. ) A gorgeous evening of after-glow in the great tree-... ...ng of Saturday to tell of one incident which will particularly interest my mother. I met Dr. D. from Savaii, and had an age-long talk about Edinburg... ... our Christmas party, it was so easily pleased and prettily behaved. In the morning I should say I had been to lunch at the German consulate, where I ... ...the virgin of Apia. Bride and brides- maids were all in the old high dress; the ladies were all native; the men, with the exception of Seumanu, all wh...

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...d oft assay To blot her with dishonor of so faire a pray. Yet should it be a pleasant tale, to tell The diuerse vsage and demeanure daint, That each t... ...n spight of both their prydes, But Scudamour himselfe did soone vprayse, And mounting light his foe for lying long vpbrayes. Who rolled on an heape la... ...iddle loosd, And left behind her in her secret bowre, On Acidalian mount, where many an howre She with the pleasant Graces wont to play... ...secret bowre, On Acidalian mount, where many an howre She with the pleasant Graces wont to play. There Florimell in her first ages flow... ... inuade. With such fell greedines he her assayled, That though she mounted were, yet he her made To giue him ground, (so much his force... ... his greedie pleasure spare: More hard for hungry steed t’abstaine from pleasant lare. But antique age yet in the infancie Of time, did... ...ones the Prince tooke downe those Ladies twaine From loftie steede, and mounting in their stead Came to that Squire, yet trembling euery vai... ...p. Streight forth issewd a Knight all arm’d to proofe, And brauely mounted to his most mishap: Who staying nought to question from aloo... ...Islands space; The which did seeme vnto my simple doome, The onely pleasant and delightfull place, That euer troden was of footings tra...

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...ng something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened the ... ...ver is, preternatural. This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that sw... ... what one might call unconscious art; altogether a perspicuous clear work, pleasant reading still: this is the Younger or Prose Edda. By these and the... ...ing Hammer flung from the hand of Thor: he urges his loud chariot over the mountain-tops,—that is the peal; wrath- ful he “blows in his red beard,”—th... ...f is notable; the fit habitation for such a race. Savage inaccessible rock-mountains, great grim deserts, alternating with beautiful strips of verdure... ...e; what is Death? What am I to believe? What am I to do? The grim rocks of Mount Hara, of Mount Sinai, the stern sandy solitudes answered not. The gre... ...nd natural and useful. Communing with his own heart, in the silence of the mountains; himself silent; open to the “small still voices:” it was a right... ...es.” There seems to me a great justness in this. Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is 66 Thomas Carlyle the reducing of ou... ...tism? The life of most else that one meets is a galvanic one merely,—not a pleasant, not a lasting sort of life! Popery can build new chapels; welcome...

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...her, And also of his mother, if you ‘d rather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen i... ...ce Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain; A better cavalier ne’er mounted horse, Or, being mounted, e’er got down again, Than Jose, w... ... world is damning us, Is philosophic in our former friends; ‘T is also pleasant to be deem’d magnanimous, The more so in obtaining our own e... ... was like th’ aerial bow, Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, Mounting at times to a transparent glow, As if her veins ran lightnin... ... common Preference, that we must feel upon occasion For people who are pleasanter than others, But then they only seem so many brothers. And... ... Are quite enough for me, so they but hold. Oh Pleasure! you are indeed a pleasant thing, Although one must be damn’d for you, no doubt: I ma... ... to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles bl... ...ans, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wi... ...am and roll, with strange convulsions rack’d, Drinking salt water like a mountain stream, Tearing, and grinning, howling, screeching, swearing, ...

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...ies that are sure to attend a historical tale; but the dream that has been pleasant to dream may be pleasant to listen to; and there can be no doubt t... ...ere minstrels and story-tellers gathering groups around them; here was the mountebank, clearing a stage in which to per- form feats of jugglery, tossi... ...y of hope, Richard advanced to a party of Breth- ren of St. John, who were mounting at the Abbey gate to return to their house at Spitalfields, and do... ...knight with a benevolent face, who was adjusting his scarlet cloak, before mounting a gray Arab steed looking as old and wor- thy as himself. “Ha! a y... ...d Father,” returned Richard, “but I am but a landless page, and the Prince mounts me. Said you this poor man had been wounded in the late wars?” “Ay, ... ... boot, in hopes of converting the Sultan of Babylon, or the Old Man of the Mountain, or what not, and there he will stay till the flower of his forces...

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...u be set at naught; And oft alone in nooks remote We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. 6 Poems in Two V olumes... ...and bleak; And when against the wind she strains, Oh! might I kiss the mountain rains That sparkle on her cheek. Take all that’s mine ‘beneath... ...immediately leaps out A Dog, and yelping runs about. The Dog is not of mountain breed; It’s motions, too, are wild and shy; ... ... Road or Dwelling, 1 A Tarn is a small Mere or Lake mostly high up in the mountains. 9 Wordsworth Pathway, or cultivated land; From trace of hum... ..., unassuming Spirit! Careless of thy neighbourhood, Thou dost shew thy pleasant face On the moor, and in the wood. In the lane—there’s not a p... ...Sir Eustace! He is come to claim his right: Ancient Castle, Woods, and Mountains Hear the challenge with delight. Hubert! though the blast be ... ...of Heaven have wings, And blasts of Heaven will aid their flight; They mount, how short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight! C... ... Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; And all the air is fill’d with pleasant noise of waters. All things that love the sun are out of doors; ... ...s, and distant waters, roar; Or heard them not, as happy as a Boy: The pleasant season did my heart employ: My old remembrances went from me who...

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...king five years older.” “Really! And pray what would come to pass, supposing the king were five years older than he is?” “As soon as ever the king com... ...ge!” “No, I was drunk. And yet, since the amusement seemed to me rather tame, I proposed to Chevalier de Rieux that we should be spectators instead of... ...e and passed, the day after, a week; I then wrote to the cardinal. The same day they came for me and took me to the Bastile. That was five years ago. ... ...e returning with monsieur.” D’Artagnan looked out and at the corner of Rue Montmartre saw the hostess coming along hanging to the arm of an enormous S... ...me in gazing at Bazin. Bazin wore his dress, it may be observed, with equal dig- nity and saintly propriety. It was not difficult to understand that h... ...ith! I neither know nor care. What I do care for now, is to make my way into the Jesuits’ convent; so to horse and let us knock at their door. Happen ... ...enough.” “Sir,” said Planchet when he saw D’Artagnan on the sum- mit of the ladder, “this way is easy for Monsieur Aramis and even for you; in case of... ...dge as their sovereign lord a pretty chateau, built about the be- ginning of the reign of Henry IV ., and surmounted by four stately, gilded weather-c... ...try this hare, which I had killed yesterday in one of my warrens.” “Zounds! what a flavor!” cried D’Artagnan; “ah! they are fed on thyme only, your ha...

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...owed him to see, and will assuredly report the creaking shoes and the silk-mounted surtout in quarters where such little facts will tell very little t... ... in homely Germany, are qualified by our own negligence and indulgence for mounting a Eu- ropean tribunal, from which they pronounce malicious edicts ... ...thedral in Ireland, had, in full canonicals, made himself into a regu- lar mountebank, for the sake of giving fuller effect, by the force of contrast,... ... one bred in crowded cit- ies, when first left alone in forests or amongst mountains, he is frightened at teir silence, their solitude, their magnitud... ...f spontaneously, like rain from the plumage of a pheasant, leaving him to ‘mount far up- wards with the swans of Thanes’—and, finally, let it not be f... ...e its pronuncia- tion. Lands in the diocese of Bath and Wells lying by the pleasant river Perret, and almost up to the gates of Bristol, constituted t... ...ed to women: doubtless, when sitting in a bower in the month of May, it is pleasant to hear from a lovely mouth—‘I put implicit confidence in your hon... ...ter’—‘a nice young lady,’ &c., meaning a letter or a young lady that it is pleasant to contemplate: but ‘a nice young lady’—means 198 The Note Book o...

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...THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...ics Series Publication The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ansmission, in any way. The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...45 4 TheGreatStone Face THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1882 1882 1882 1882 1882 INTR INTR INTR IN... ...t Stone Face: ‘The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae [freak of... ...t it could speak, for it looks so very kindly that its voice must needs be pleasant. If I were to See a man with such a face, I should love him dearly... ...with a gray precipice behind, the stern front of which was relieved by the pleasant foliage of many creeping plants that made a tap estry for the nak... ... this fire is the right thing!’ cried he; ‘especially when there is such a pleasant circle round it. I am quite benumbed; for the Notch is just like t... ...spect of comfortable quarters in a house which we were approaching, and of pleasant company in the guests who were assembled at the door. Our Evening ...

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... The house was so situated as to command an uninterrupted view of Greylock Mountain and the adjacent hills. Here Melville remained for thirteen years,... ...e in Putnam’s Monthly entitled ‘I and My Chimney,’ another called ‘October Mountain,’ and the introduction to the ‘Piazza Tales,’ present faithful pic... ...ower to take shelter in a narrow 10 Typee recess of the rocks of Monument Mountain. Two hours of this enforced intercourse settled the matter. They l... ...art, I wish I had Pegasus here at this moment,’ said the student. ‘I would mount him forthwith, and gallop about the country within a circumference of... ...onder, is Mr. James [G. P . R. James], conspicuous to all the world on his mountain-pile of history and romance. Longfellow, I believe, is not yet at ... ...as brief, and the interviewer could not help feeling although treated with pleasant courtesy, that more 15 Melville important matters were in hand th... ...path, and I am resolved to find out what it is.’ ‘I will tell you what, my pleasant fellow,’ rejoined Toby quickly, ‘if you are going to pry into ever... ...igs, which, if they did not afford us nourishment, were at least sweet and pleasant to the taste. Our progress along the steep watercourse was necessa... ...eived another visit from Mehevi. The noble savage seemed to be in the same pleasant mood, and was quite as cordial in his manner as before. After rema...

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... injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. Well may the court be dim,... ...he observed, “or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr. Blowers”—a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many ... ...nd looked at him with the greatest astonishment. But I thought that he had pleasant eyes, although he kept on muttering to himself in an angry manner ... ... gether seems the best of which the circumstances admit.” He dismissed us pleasantly, and we all went out, very much obliged to him for being so affa... ... cant look. I smiled in return, and we made the rest of the way back very pleasantly. In half an hour after our arrival, Mrs. Jellyby appeared; and i... ...at the garden gate and gone away to the remot est summits of the Himalaya Mountains sooner than I would have presented myself at this unseasonable ho... ...d internally pints of vinegar and lemon juice, which acids, they held, had mounted to the nose and tem per of the patient. With whichsoever of the ma... ...oyal family. He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into mountains and fighting some 239 Bleak House – Dickens body; and a bard wh... ...savoured neighbourhood, though one of its rising grounds bears the name of Mount Pleasant, the Elfin Smallweed, christened Bartholomew and known on th...

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... old woman with whom she may or may not agree. She herself can’t be a very pleasant bed-fellow, poor thing! with her shaking old limbs and cold feet. ... ...— an in- vestment, — pardon me, thou poor old thing, but I cannot help the pleasantry). And what do you think? Another pensionnaire of the establishme... ...sicut est mos, to indulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leader... ...of six inside; whilst his friends shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and se... ...ds and winks, and puts his hand in his waistcoat pocket.) “Y ou have had a pleasant week?” Bob. — “Haven’t I!” (And exit, anxious to know the amount ... ...arlequin Conqueror and the Field of Hastings,” at the other house, is very pleasant too. The irascible William is acted with great vigour by Snoxall, ... ...mime, pudding, and pie. One glorious, one delightful, one most unlucky and pleasant day, we drove in a brougham, with a famous horse, which carried us...

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...nd will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. 4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax... ...men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. ... ... your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. CHAPTER 4 B ut in t... ...he forest. CHAPTER 4 B ut in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mo... ... it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tea... ...at was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 8 And thou, O tower of the floc...

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...te of his bland and insinuating manner. His bass voice was by no means un- pleasant, and was in keeping with his boisterous laughter. He was always ob... ...and rain, and drought combined to make as dreary as an Asian steppe, was a pleasant shaded nook; the 17 Balzac gaunt yellow house, the musty odors of... ... wipe them continually , she considered him to be a very gentle- manly and pleasant-looking man. Moreover, the widow saw favorable indications of char... ...ant was one of the queens of fashion, that her house was thought to be the pleasantest in the Faubourg Saint-Germain. And not only so, she was, by rig... ...of you young men who aspire to that elevated position; that there are some mountebanks among you who would sell their family to screw their fortunes a... ...she did not resent it. The bit is in the horse’s mouth, and I have only to mount and ride;” and with that he went to pay his respects to Mme. de Beaus... ...and hurried to number 9, which happened to be the nearest gaming-house. He mounted the staircase, surrendered his hat, and asked the way to the rou- l... ...now,” Vautrin broke in. “You are still acting like a child. You are making mountains out of molehills at the outset.” T wo days later, Poiret and Mlle... ... the strongest reasons for get- ting this illicit hoard into its hands; it mounts up to some- thing considerable, by all that we can make out. T rompe...

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