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...e Two occupy this France. Her old Speech and Thought, and Ac- tivity which springs from those, are all changing; ferment- ing towards unknown issues. ... ...nvent, one of our ‘superfluous edifices;’ and does therefrom now, in these spring months, begin shining out on an admiring Paris. And so, by degrees, ... ..., which was of Twenty-five Millions, not only claps hands, but does itself spring on the boards and passionately set to playing there. And being such,... ...ing: “Sire, these are your faithful Lorrainers.” Cheerier verily, in these holidays, is this ‘skyblue faced with red’ of a National Guardsman, than th... ...place, lionlike defending those Windward Isles, or, as with military tiger-spring, clutching Nevis and Montserrat from the English,—than here in this ... ...t we say, and yet not rightly lay to heart: The seed that is sown, it will spring! Given the summer’s blossoming, then there is also given the autum- ...

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...before him the follow- ing verses:— ‘What is the source of gentleness, The spring of human blessedness, Bringing the wounded spirit healing, The comfo... ...pity at the discovery that she had never before been in the country in the spring. ‘What,’ she cried, ‘have you never seen the tufts of red on the haz... ...irls as they walked on before them. ‘There are only thirty-six days to the holidays,’ said Phyllis; ‘Ada and I keep a paper in the nursery with the ac... ...mamma being from home so long, the elder boys had no settled place for the holidays; sometimes they stayed with one friend, some- 44 Scenes and Chara... ...l to his cost, The banished race of kings revered, And lost his land.’ THE HOLIDAYS ARRIVED, and with them the three brothers, for during the first fe... ... heard your voices, and begged to see you, because they never saw you last holidays.’ ‘More’s the pity they should see us now,’ said Maurice. ‘I shall... ...s name should one so sounding be —’Tis but a fly, though first-born of the spring, Bombylius Majus, dost thou call the thing?” IT WAS NOT TILL SUNDAY,... ... Claude. But I will tell you what I like best,’ exclaimed the little girl, springing up, ‘I do like it, when Orlando killed the lioness and the snake,... ... when I go to London, for we must not leave Mr. Weston in solitude another spring.’ ‘Perhaps I shall see you there,’ said Mr. Mohun. ‘I have some busi...

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...he was hers through her brother, what was she to him? The question did not spring clearly within her, though she was alive to every gradual change of ... ...et on board. She had peeped from her citadel too rashly. Nevil had time to spring the flood of crimson in her cheeks, bright as the awning she recline... ...is November, say October; he is still some distance removed from the plump Spring month. And we in our family have wits and passions. In fine, a bud o... ...ve for Renee to be disposed of in marriage early. Why rob her of her young springtime! ‘French girls,’ replied Roland, confused by the nature of the e... ...ing!’ ‘Oh! but my dear marquis, you have paid the compliment; you are like Spring thrusting in a bunch of lilac while the winds of winter blow. If you... ...k to no absolution of evil acts.’ The school was a hard one. It denied him holidays; it cut him off from dreams. It ran him in heavy harness on a roug...

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... morning air perfuming Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring; Y ou ask me why her breath is sweet and why her cheek is blooming, ... ...er for a moment doubting that the other would give way. But Rawdon Crawley springing out, seized him by the neckcloth, until Steyne, almost strangled,... ...which prevented us—she suffers under them a good deal, es- pecially in the spring—if we had come, and you had returned home, there would have been no ... ...de any movement to see the child. He went home to his aunt for Sundays and holidays; he soon knew every bird’s nest about Queen’s Crawley, and rode ou... ...oy (a young gentleman a year older than Georgy, and by chance home for the holidays from Dr. Tickleus’s at Ealing School) in Russell Square. George’s ... ...o many happy days of sacred youth. They all came back to her, the pleasant holidays, the kind faces, the careless, joyful past times, and the long pai... ...o H.S.H. the Duke, he speedily convinced Jos that the Pumpernickel mineral springs and the Doctor’s particular treatment would infallibly restore the ... ...ced vid Bar- oness Glauber at the end of two.” Jos’s mind was made up; the springs, the Doctor, the Court, and the Charge d’Affaires convinced him, an...

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...ne would have sufficed for the sup- pression of his letters. He spent such holidays as he could arrange in unsatisfactory interviews with the door-kee... ...in various sizes, and an immodest magic hat that shamelessly displayed its springs. On the floor were magic mirrors; one to draw you out long and thin... ...s manner. “Paper,” he said, and took a sheet out of the empty hat with the springs; “string,” and behold his mouth was a string-box, from which he dre... ...risky blade- drawing business. And suddenly came a doubt, a strange doubt, springing out of some chance thought of tortures, and destructive altogethe... ...provisions, over the side and put ashore on a rocky little is- land with a spring. Mr. Bingham came in the boat with him, giving him good advice all t... ...vita- tions for her to come to Steely Bank on a Visit during the Christmas holidays. She tried to think that he had told her to ask that, but it was t...

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...r- teen weeks of absence had been to me; how intensely I had longed for my holidays, how greatly I was disappointed at their curtailment. Yet she was ... ...ple by such ungentleness of tone and language. I remember one afternoon in spring, when, owing to the rain, they could not go out; but, by some amazin... ...laborate course of reasoning and persuasion. Happily, however, during that spring, they 39 Anne Brontë never, but once, got anything but empty nests,... ...rey wards the close of May, as I was rejoicing in the near approach of the holidays, and congratulating myself upon having made some progress with my ... ...stipulation I ventured to propose, was that I might be allowed two months’ holidays during the year to visit my friends, at Midsummer and Christ- mas.... ...talk about the ball; and to tell you that you positively must put off your holidays till it is over.’ ‘Why so?—I shall not be present at the ball.’ ‘N... ...wsing on its moist herbage already as- suming the freshness and verdure of spring—and go to the cottage of one Nancy Brown, a widow, whose son was at ... ... soon be married; and then there may be hope.’ Soon after her marriage the holidays would come; and when I returned from home, most likely, Mr. Weston... ...there was anything amiss, it would be gone as soon as the trying months of spring were over: when summer came I should be as strong and hearty as she ...

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...the same sort of impulse that had moved her to write to Basil Ransom, in the spring, after hearing accidentally that he had come to the North and inte... ...forms are usually discussed. She talked continually, in a voice of which the spring seemed broken, like that of an over worked bell wire; and when Mis... ...!’ Basil Ransom exclaimed, with gallantry. ‘i had a magnificent audience last spring in St. Louis,’ a fresh young voice announced, over the heads of th... ...ddresses?’ ‘Oh yes, she has had quite a career in the West. I heard her last spring at Topeka. They call it inspirational. I don’t know what it is—onl... ...on, like the glisten of a gem), and though she was not tall, she appeared to spring up, and carried her head as if it reached rather high. Ransom woul... ...e Astor 148 The Bostonians Library, where, in his spare hours and on chance holidays, he did an immense deal of suggestive reading. He took copious n...

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...dous gestures: “There once was a beast called an Ounce, Who went with a spring and a bounce. His head was as flat As the head of a cat, Thi... ...that they didn’t need me. Now I’ve got eleven dollars, and there are three holidays of perfect weather before us: to-day, to-morrow, and Monday. What ... ...irritation. The office boy was a mere incentive to profanity. There was no spring in Condy that morning, no elasticity, none of his natural buoyancy. ... ...n the instahnent plan, don’t you see? Reads the leading articles, and then springs ‘em on us. T o know things and talk about em, that’s her idea of be...

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...opposite, but I will call it the other parallel establishment down town. The world did have it that she showed a passion for attending my sales, when ... ...ng it to you. And I did so, on the supposition that you could not fail to be highly proud of it.’ Now, there are these two curious touches of human na... ... was a child no longer. Who should be her favourite, who should anticipate this or that small present, or do her this or that small service; who shoul... ...nch of keys from his pocket, singled out by the candle-light the key he wanted, and then, with a candle in his hand, went to a bureau or escritoire, u... ... it in its brightest aspect, has roused his spirits. Perhaps, the having done so with success, is followed by a revulsion. As the day closes in, and t... ...and (a brown one) appear among the flowers and leaves, and help her friend out of sight. The refection that Mr. Tartar produced in the Admiral’s Cabin... ...ce. It is hotel, boarding- house, or lodging-house, at its visitor’s option. It announces itself, in the new Railway Advertisers, as a novel enterpris...

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... com- paratively hurried and matter-of-fact. His boy’s return home for the holidays was always rather a stirring time for his pri- vate feelings, but ... ...he Balkans; the Balkans were getting to be too handy for Easter and summer holidays, and now that there were sev- eral good hotels in Servia and Monte... ...e worry and disorganization of Benham’s life and thoughts increased as the spring advanced. His need in some way to pull things together became overpo... ...follow in the footsteps of the Great Exemplars! A little while ago and the springtime freshness of T obias irradi- ated the page. Now see! it is Chris... ...—.” Indeed it looked extremely like Christian as Benham went up across the springy turf from Epsom Downs station to- wards the crest of the hill. Was ... ...rtings. He told them that London had suddenly become intoler- able—“In the spring sunshine.” “You live in London?” said Mrs. Wilder. Yes. And he had w... ...prose almost uncomfortably rhythmic, and brings all the freshness of every spring that ever was across the page, of the joyous exaltation of the happy...

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...f fact. Recently you sent papers showing your disposal of forces made last spring for the defense of Washington, and advising a re- turn to that plan.... ...paired, extended, and completed from Rolla to Lebanon, in the direction to Springfield, in the said State, the same being necessary to the successful ... ...d the completion of the railroad some distance farther in the direction of Springfield, Mo., be of any military advantage to you? Please answer. A. LI... ...TO S. B. MOODY EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON August 18, 1862 S. B. MOODY, Springfield, Ill.: Which do you prefer—commissary or quartermaster? If ap- ... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D.C., August 13.1862. 8 A.M. HON. R. Y ATES, Springfield, Ill.: I am pained to hear that you reject the service of an of... ...was an easier and pleasanter business than it is; but it does not admit of holidays. On Morgan’s command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depen...

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...of being loved by a Potentate!’ Here Silas is rather alarmed by Mr Venus’s springing to his feet in the hurry of his spirits, and haggardly confrontin... ...em—that don’t you think they overdo it? And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? And am I never to have change of air, becaus... ...arily objects to the match; but his consent has been dispensed with, and a spring- van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door, in ord... ...ays no jealousy of T wemlow’ s elevation. So, it has come to pass that the spring-van is strewing flow- ers on the rosy hours and on the staircase, an... ...ream through the summer and the Long V acation. It was not summer yet, but spring; and it was not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seas... ...s not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seasons, but nipping spring with an easterly wind, as in Johnson’s, Jackson’s, Dickson’s, Smith’... ...Holiday he blowed!’ said Fledgeby, entering. ‘What have you got to do with holidays? Shut the door.’ With his former action the old man obeyed. In the... ...ing forward to lay his hand upon the Lock-keeper’s shoulder. ‘These are my holidays.’ ‘Are they, by George!’ muttered Riderhood, with his eyes on the ... ...sion-wasted face. ‘Y our working days must be stiff ‘uns, if these is your holidays.’ ‘And I have never left him,’ pursued Bradley, waving the interru...

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...s. It was my friend Mr. 6 The Country of the Blind C.L. Hind who set that spring going. He urged me to write short stories for the Pall Mall Budget, ... ...pt into one’s mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and pres- ently one shivered and wanted to go indoors…It is... ...ldren in the public fountains. He would soak into the soil, to reappear in springs and wells at a thousand unex- pected places. Once start him at the ... ...just a common atoll about four miles round, with a few trees growing and a spring in one place, and the lagoon full of parrot-fish. I took the egg ash... ...about prospecting. It’s rum how dull an atoll is. As soon as I had found a spring all the interest seemed to vanish. When I was a kid I thought noth- ... ... some remote and dying version of that excite- ment during the last summer holidays. Lidgett, it would seem, did everything in his power to suppress a... ...vita- tions for her to come to Steely Bank on a visit during the Christmas holidays. She tried to think that he had told her to ask that, but it was t...

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...months and years; Walpole’s forged letter rankled in his bosom; and in the spring of 1767 he fled; first to Spalding, in Lincolnshire, and subsequentl... .... Monsieur de Girardin having offered him an asylum at Ermemonville in the spring of 1778, he and Therese went thither to reside, but for no long time... ...ny affinity; who would believe, for example, that one of the most vigorous springs of my soul was tempered in the identical source from whence luxury ... ...wers and the verdure; her charms seemed to me confounded with those of the spring; my heart, till now contracted, here found means to expand itself, a... ...ire of the bishop, that he might superin- tend the music during the Easter holidays, and that he pro- posed returning that way in a few days. T o supp... ...y. According to the information given to M. Reydelet, we passed our Easter holidays at Bellay, and though not expected there, were received by the mus... ...ith each other, and in concert with birds of various kinds to bid adieu to spring, and hail the approach of a beautiful summer’s 128 The Confessions ... ...isted by Canavas and the Abbe Palais, we had music in his apartment; or on holidays at his organ, and frequently dined with him; for, what was very as... ...the vintage, a social meet- ing with our neighbors; all these were so many holidays, in which Madam de Warrens took as much pleasure as myself. Solita...

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...trious, and did not fail in his school work, but when he came home for the holidays there was a cowed look about him, and private revelations were mad... ...ch, when he was well out of the way, used to be exhibited on high days and holidays. It seems now like the boundary mark of the golden days of our boy... ...deed I took care to let him see it. And Griffith’s return was like a fresh spring wind dispers- ing vapours. He had gained an excellent scholarship at... ...ll thou addest may be called his treasure.’ —George Herbert. IT WAS IN THE SPRING of 1829 that my father received a lawyer’s letter announcing the dea... ...f railways. We were unusually devoid of kindred on both sides, my father’s holidays were short, I was not a very movable commodity, and economy 37 Yo... ...d diversion, so that only the daggers in my mother’s eyes kept Martyn from springing up after him. What he beheld was an altar draped in black like a ... ... once seen a light in the garden by the ruin in winter-time, and once last spring it came along the passage, but that was just before the old Squire w... ...it to me the mo- 80 Chantry House ment it was free,’ he added, with tears springing to his eyes. He also said that before the court-martial he had, n... ...re our friends, after our depar- ture, in letting Martyn spend Sundays and holidays with them, play with Anne as before, say his Catechism with her to...

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...er aunt Alethea, poor little dear! Yes, that makes it all easy, for in the holidays I know the boys are sure of a welcome at the dear old home, or Hal... ...Alexis and I would try to manage for Theodore after the examination in the spring.’ The Woodward schools were a new light to her, and she was eagerly ... ...t is a beastly shame not to go to Beechcroft, and be poked up here all the holidays.’ ‘But you can’t when Primrose has got the whooping-cough.’ ‘Bothe... ... at Coalham, or come down to Rockstone with his sister for the rest of the holidays. Valetta must remain there, and it did not seem greatly to distres... ...hey had serious thoughts of taking her from the school altogether, but the holidays would not long be ended before her parents’ return. ‘I am sorry we... ... invitation if they went to the south, as perhaps they should do that very spring. ‘ And,’ said Ada, ‘you are not to be expected to remain long in thi... ...Lord Rotherwood said, he had come to the right shop, since Rockquay in the spring was likely to afford a choice of clergy with weak chests, or better ... ...egan to give way under his feet, so that, being a slight and active man, a spring and bound forward had actu- ally carried him safely to the firm grou... ...rocks regularly inspected once a month, and once a fortnight in winter and spring, when the danger is greater. If they were ticklish, the place was ma...

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...itish lion is Malta, four days further on in the Midland Sea, and ready to spring upon Egypt or pounce upon Syria, or roar so as to be heard at Marsei... ... great feet. O you fairy dreams of boyhood!O you sweet meditations of half-holidays, here you are realised for half-an-hour!The genius which presides ... ...ngdom established in Jerusa- lem than you that there would be a levee next spring at St. James’s. The little room in which we sat was padded with miss... ...you. It comes up to the walls of the city, and stops at some gardens which spring up all of a sudden at its edge. Y ou can see the first Station-house... ...tall houses of the quarter. The garden is full of green. A great palm-tree springs up in the midst, with plentiful shrub- beries, and a talking founta...

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...n the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would be thrown up, until the north-... ... be released from jail to-morrow. Witches pronounce T rampfoot ‘right there,’ when he deems it a trying distance for the old lady to walk; she shall b... ...rt- ment of the London Pantechnicon. I had a commission to buy it, for a friend who was going abroad; and the look and manner of the chariot, as I tri... ...hting attitude. T o suggest the pastoral and meditative nature of their peaceful calling, Mr. Heenan is represented on emerald sward, with primroses a... ... when, late one night, a step came up the stairs, and a hand passed over his door feeling for his knocker, and then one deep and solemn rap was rapped... ...o do with it. The porters of the Vintners’ Company, the draymen, and the butchers, are about the only people who wear distinctive dresses; and even th...

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...dventure; he was accustomed to spend the time allowed him by his uncle for holidays at his father’s house; but instead of indulging, after the manner ... ...ent visits from par- ents to their children. The rule of the House forbids holidays away from it. Once entered there, a pupil never leaves till his st... ...ssion obtained to play cards and devise theatrical performances during the holidays, such tricks and freedom as were necessitated by our seclusion; th... ...emicians were ex- pected to hold public meetings every Thursday during the holidays, and to read tales in verse or prose, epistles, essays, tragedies,... ... out Rochambeau as a reward for diligence. In 1812, towards the end of the spring, we were to go there for the first time. Our anxiety to see this fam... ...same source. The man holding a hazel rod when he 42 Louis Lambert found a spring of water was guided by some antipathy or sympathy of which he was un... ...e space which our in- ner vision allows us to perceive. This radiant idea, springing into existence like a will-o’-the-wisp, dies out never to return;... ...till-born blossom in the fields of the mind. Sometimes an idea, instead of spring- ing forcibly into life and dying unembodied, dawns gradu- ally, hov... ...How pure a memory for life! What a free blossoming of all the flowers that spring from the soul, which a mere trifle can blight, but which, at that mo...

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...nd I had twenty-one, five more than last year. But I am not surprised; the spring has been warm this year, and strawberries require heat, sir. This is... ...ear I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays.” “Holidays?” “Yes.” “When?” “When we have a fog.” “Ah, to be sure... ...” “Yes.” “When?” “When we have a fog.” “Ah, to be sure.” “Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the ... ...en pronounced; but then she became pale, and, ris- ing, as if touched by a spring, she stretched out her hands as though conjuring an apparition; she ... ...s; we thought it dead.” Madame Danglars moved rapidly, as though she would spring from her chair, but Villefort stopped, and clasped his hands as if t... ...supposes there is in the neighborhood of the house he has bought a mineral spring equal to those at Bagneres, Luchon, and Cauterets. He is going to tu... ...He has already dug up all the garden two or three times to find the famous spring, and, being unsuccessful, he will soon purchase all the contiguous h...