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...people have nothing to do, except their bit of work—and talk perhaps about national rule, just for a pas- time.” 23 D. H. Lawrence “They have to earn... ...“Do you think they’ll make a stand against the govern- ment?” “What for?” “Nationalisation.” “They might, one day.” “Think they’d fight?” “Fight?” “Ye... ... crowd, shouting, becoming vicious. Over the shop-door hung a tricolour, a national flag. The shop was closed, but the men began to knock at the door.... ... a little pool, the thick wedge of the procession beyond, flecked with red flags. A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pa... ...frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery— a great overtone ... ...sion moved on. Almost every shop had a flag flying. And every one of these flags now disappeared, quickly or slowly, sooner or later, in obedience to ...

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...e kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk along the flags and up the steps into the parlour. How the floodgates were opened, an... ...shed to the churches, and crowded the chapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and steps. The dull sound of the cannon went on rolling, rolling. Pre... ...ered with swans, and barges containing ladies in hoops, and musicians with flags and penwigs. Indeed Raggles thought there was no such palace in all t... ...ing in the great old fire-place—a carpet was down over the chequered black flags—”It’s the old Turkey one that used to be in the Ladies’ Gallery,” tho... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...g—but a truce to this gossip—the fact is that these two women were the two flags of the French and the English party at Pumpernickel, and the society ... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos... ...son, F. Thomson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they...

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...nation, instead of the canonical appointment emanating from Durham, and as national feeling went with the Regent’s nomi- nee, it was by no means certa... ...at length opened into the old town of Thirsk, and here bells were ringing, flags 44 The Caged Lion flying from the steeple, music sounded, a mayor an... ...d at Dreux, yet whenever he was obliged to enforce anything unpopular, the national dis- like to the Scot was apt to show itself, and the whole army w... ... himself accounted for. He had heard a Scots tongue among his foes, though national feeling had made him ut- terly silent on that head to the Duke of ...

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...e at least of the others I possessed; and finding much entertainment in our commerce, I did not suffer my advantages to rust. I have never despised th... ...an air of an- gelic candour, yet of a high spirit; she stepped like a Diana, every movement was noble and free. One day there was a strong east wind; ... ...we the plea- sure of this visit? how did you recognise me? and how did you know I was here?’ Carefull separating his coat skirts, the lawyer took a se... ...ed. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘there is a point about them: they have a defect,—they are not to be trusted in a retreat. I have seen them behave very ill in a r... ...be trusted in a retreat. I have seen them behave very ill in a retreat.’ ‘I believe that is our national character,’ he said—God forgive him!—with an ... ...ikely that I should have recognised our visitors, than that they should have identified the modish gentleman with the miserable prisoner in the Castle...

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...gent and wide spread than it used to be; and the later development of our national literature has not, perhaps, so entirely exhausted 4 Doctor Grims... ...rs, founded on, and arising from, different institutions; and also certain national peculiarities, which may be intrinsically as good as English pecul... ... where Redclyffe had glimpses of their interior with its pavement of stone flags. Altogether it seemed a comfortable settlement enough. “Do you see th... ...he position of an old English gentleman, possibly to be a peer. You, whose nationality embraces that of all the world, cannot, I suppose, understand t... ...good Doctor’s opinion, it seemed desirable to devote a certain part of the national income; and not content with this, all public spir ited citizens ...

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... home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the ush... ... Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting... ... I look forward. I do hope good for the world. If at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without... ...otherwise with Mrs. Pagnell. She flung wild arms of a semaphore signalling national events. She sprang before Aminta to stop her retreat, and stamped ... ...humble speculations on the young schoolmaster’s grand project to bring the nationalities together, and teach Old England to the Continent—the Continen... ...r swish of leaves, the river darkened the patch of wrinkles, the bordering flags amid the reed-blades dipped and streamed. Surcharged with unassimilat...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...plies.” “But,” said Lord Menteith, “no judicious commander al- lows either flags of truce or neutrals to remain in his camp longer than is prudent; an... ...rom a contented people,—after all this, and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally ...

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...ing noiseless made an echoing sound Bleak House – Volume Two 30 upon the flags. Stopping to look at nothing, but seeing all I did see as I went, I w... ... in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ... ...rsons of a rest less disposition and never do anything anywhere. On these national occasions Sir Leicester finds the cous ins useful. A better man t... ...ock in to dinner, or even the privilege of her hand in the dance. On these national occasions dancing may be a patriotic service, and Volumnia is cons... ...s it. The day begins to break now; and in truth it might be better for the national glory even that the sun should sometimes set upon the British domi...

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...e Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain ... ...all that we imagine, age on age, Seems but a point, and the reluctant mind Flags wearily in its unending flight, _420 T... ..., and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci. This national and universal interest which the story pro- duces and has produced... ... _225 They are mines of poisonous mineral. Line 222 This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the da... ... Which, with its own internal lightning blind, _200 Flags wearily through darkness and despair— A cloud-encircled meteor of the... ... _460 They came, each troop emblazoning its merits On meteor flags; and many a proud pavilion Of the intertexture of the atmosphere They... ...ine 422 The favourite song, Stanco di pascolar le pecorelle, is a Brescian national air.—[Mrs. Shelley’s note.] 600 V olume One But the new Vision, a...

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...heir character from those intensely vulgar sentiments which are called the national character. Apart from any natural prepossession in my own favour, ... ...es, triangles, and what not, to the beating of drums, and the streaming of flags; and performed a vast number of complex evolutions, in all of which S... ...d of considerable extent. Here an immense multitude was collected, bearing flags of various kinds and sizes, but all of the same colour— blue, like th... ... which were thronged with spectators. ‘They have all turned out to see our flags and streamers? Eh, Barnaby? Why, Barnaby’s the greatest man of all th... ...if we are true to that noble gentleman—the best man in the world—carry our flags for a few days, and keep ‘em safe. That’s all we’ve got to do.’ ‘Is t... ...clear church bells. Whether he stood still, leaning with both hands on the flagstaff, or, bearing it upon his shoulder, paced slowly up and down, the ... ...h all men knew that if they were successfully effected, there must ensue a national bankruptcy and general ruin. It was said that they meant to throw ... ...the midsummer of the following year, an appeal to the commiseration of the National Assembly of France, which the English minister refused to sanction...

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...mantle. Her sa- rong, the kilt-like garment which both sexes wear, had the national check of grey and red, but she had not completed her attire by the... ...tion of ambitious men who played an occult but important part in all those national risings, religious distur- bances, and also in the organized pirat... ... little finger. The two praus are large and armed. They came up the creek, flags and streamers flying, beating drums and gongs, and entered the lagoon... ...gangway and listened to his orders. “Directly there is enough light to see flags by, make a signal to the schooner to heave short on her cable and loo...

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...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w... ...en,’ said Dacier. ‘The story adds, that blows were arrested; so confer the nationality as you please.’ Diana had often to divert him from a too intent... ... she brought her hand to paint it. ‘You would be offered up to the English national hang- man, Jehoiachim Sneer,’ interposed Arthur Rhodes, evidently ... ...of the common masculine craze to scale fortresses for the sake of lowering flags. Whilst under his impression of her character, he submitted honourabl...

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...eir great-great-grandfathers had not been the first to do it when they were children. The strokes of the bare feet had worn grooves inches deep in the... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...rists was very marked. I felt repaid for my trouble. Half of the summer horde in Switzerland is made up of English people; the other half is made up o... ...cans were not as numerous as I had expected they would be. The seven-thirty table d’ho^te at the great Schweitzerhof furnished a mighty array and vari...

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...be done in a little space through the panes of his Win- dow in Thrums. The National Observer was at the climax of its career of heroic insistence upon... ...cattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. No short story... ... and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she ha... ...ed arm once more. I heard the sound of a stick and a shambling step on the flags in the passage outside, and the door creaked on its hinges as a secon... ...would be a matter of bright uniforms and shouting charges and triumphs and flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew its food- supply from re... ... the promenaders put their feet down and walked their ways, the papers and flags began flapping, smiles passed into words, the winker finished his win...

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...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ...f the windows and balconies were hung with colored drapery; and there were flags, trum- pets, nosegays and flirtations of all shapes and sizes. The be...

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...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ... ...verley , the two Highlanders drew the boat into a little creek among thick flags and reeds, where it lay perfectly concealed. The oars they put in ano... ...erty; and the ideas and wishes which she chiefly fostered, respected great national events, and changes not to be brought round without both hazard an... ...ral league with their old enemies, the Jacobites, to oppose that important national measure. Since that time their num- bers have gradually diminished...

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...which evi- dently, from the ease and grace with which she wore it, was her national attire. Behind her, but in deep shadow, was the outline of a mascu... ... to give you credit for having hit upon a most capital idea.” “And quite a national one, too,” replied Albert with gratified pride. “A mere masque bor... ...ide; chairs were placed, scaffolds were raised, and windows were hung with flags. The masks could not appear; the carriages could not move about; but ... ...ty palaces, with their balconies hung with carpets, and their windows with flags. At these balconies are three hundred thousand spectators — Romans, I... ...s for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit. “My dear Albert,” he said, “i... ...per, and the terror of the French government, but of whom, in spite of his national celebrity, you perhaps have not heard in Italy, since his paper is... ...e, the worthy Abbe Adelmonte of Taormina, in Sicily, who has studied these national phenomena very profoundly.” “It is quite frightful, but deeply int...

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... of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. Also, to declare how astounded I have ... ...u were not prepared, sir ,’ said the gentle- man, ‘to behold such signs of National Prosperity as those?’ He pointed to the vessels lying at the wharv... ...abours to the prevailing taste, and of his being strictly and peculiarly a national feature of America. They walked a mile or more along a handsome st... ...bent in the midst of a fortification of luggage, apparently performing his national anthem for the gratification of a grey-haired black man, who sat o... ...nd possessed of all the birds he had got together. That many undertakings, national as well as individual—but especially the former—are held to be spe... ... him unconscious, for a moment, of the lightest sound. Any footstep on the flags without set him listening attentively and when it turned into that ho... ...gh it; that it passed like a smile from the grimy old houses, and the worn flagstones, and left them duller, darker, sterner than before; there is no ... ...ecious, blessed little foot into the cracked corner of an in- sensible old flagstone in the pavement; and be so very anxious to adjust it to a nicety!...

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...e temper and movements of man were lively and playful. Two little spotless flags were abroad, the one on a salient angle of the fort, and the other on... ...n bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer. The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of sum- mons, had occurred so often of late, ... ...rerogatory task of entering into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the ve...

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...nch mind, and the French habit of quick social intercourse, have made them nationally far richer in language. Let me add, individually as much poorer.... ...nd summoned its brethren of the band to give their various versions of the National Anthem. “Can’t they be stopped?” Emilia murmured, clenching her li... ... a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our national symbols, I proceed. The drum of Hillford entered the Brookfield gr... ...al expression was much like that seen when the popular ear is given to the national anthem. Wilfrid hung at the opening of the booth, a cynical specta... ...ish!” she whispered, smiling, with a sort of astonished discernment of the nationality, and swept through the door- way: thus conveying forcibly to Ar... ...hile its out-pushing brushwood below drooped under burdens of drowned reed-flags that caught the foam. Keen scent of hay, crossing the dark air, met E... ...sten to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-puzzles, or Euclid- puzzles in figures—sometimes about s...