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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

... circumstances of a divorce between man and wife, all whose belongings and associations have for many years been in common. Their children, their mone... ...purchase of arms, horses, ammunition, or wagons; the forage of horses; the transport of troops, or any of those incidental expenses of warfare which a... ... then again: “The money appropriated by Congress to subsist and clothe and transport our armies was then, in utter contempt of all law and of the army... ...r any line at any hour, and can in this way secure the punctuality of mail transportation. Of course such interference on the part of a government off... ...for them in their rags. They were endeared to me by certain memo- ries and associations which I cannot define. But then what would those Americans thi...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...a wound received in 1797, and made a small private venture in the military transport service, an opening he owed to the favor of Hulot d’Ervy, who was... ...usin Betty culty of procuring food, and the dangers to which every form of transport is exposed. That is Algiers from the army contractor’s point of v... ...of Paris, in concert with the Arch- bishop, have formed various beneficent associations; they employ superintendents, very decently paid, whose busine... ..., the Hotel Crevel and eighty thousand francs a year. AMONG THE MANY noble associations founded in Paris by Catholic charity, there is one, originated...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...troubled her father in no degree), even there his Nataly lis- tened to the transports of the guests with benign indulgence. ‘Mama!’ said Nesta, ready ... ...for answer. Perhaps she did not feel so deeply? She was free of the horrid associations with the scent of Marechale. At any rate, she had comported he...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ur whole population of Ormersfield, except a few necessary retainers, were transported bodily from betwixt the wind and our nobility, located on a moo... ... do say Nanny Hodgekin, she as was one of the Blacketts, whose husband was transported, took in two ducks next morning to Northwold. Warren couldn’t m... ... came at last, all too soon for poor Louis, who suf- fered terribly in the transport, and gave few tokens of con- sciousness, except a cry now and the... ... than present the ivory clasp; and Mrs. Frost, who had no specially tender associations with it, was satisfied to find that they had anything worth of... ...ay he turned naturally as the person best able to enter into the countless associations of every scene; and Isabel, becoming aware of his amount of kn...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...raternal. Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which... ...sfield with spirits ready to feed on melan- choly remembrances, and tender associations, when her own fair self was before him, leaning on her brother... .... Thinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of you. Oh! that I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might unde... ... it was most tempting. To be finding herself, per- haps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it wou...

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Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...em down till after the lapse of all these years the tenderness inspired by associations of early days led to taking up once more the old characters in... ...oom. Do not you think the plane-tree there looks very inviting? Suppose we transport Emily’s drapery there, and I want to refresh my memory with Spens...

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Virgin Soil

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

... her first for herself, and then with a sense of those inherited primitive associations with her scenes and hid influences which still play upon us to... ...the earth!” Nejdanov exclaimed, his voice ringing with sudden emotion in a transport of gratitude. “To the ends of the earth!” At that moment he would...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ssible; and it was for this purpose that, before Isabel was fourteen, he had transported them three times across the Atlantic, giving them on each occ... ...country across the sea which he knew a good deal about; her antecedents, her associations were very CHAPTER 12 85 vague to his mind except in so far ... ...at when the need comes for such a course it is not discredited by irritating associations. “I hope you had a pleasant ride,” said Isabel, who observed... ...the scene too, and the effect of it has been to make me care more for my old associations than ever. It’s my belief that the sooner Isabel changes it ... ...ER 20 173 After selecting from among its furniture the objects she wished to transport to her other abode, she left the rest of its contents to be dis... ...he would have agreed; but they attached such different ideas, such different associations and desires, to the same formulas. Her notion of the aristoc...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...le; and it was for this purpose that, be- fore Isabel was fourteen, he had transported them three times across the Atlantic, giving them on each occas... ...untry across the sea which he knew a good deal about; her antecedents, her associations were very vague to his mind except in so far as they were gene... ... when the need comes for such a course it is not discredited by irritating associations. “I hope you had a pleasant ride,” said Isabel, who ob- served... ...e scene too, and the effect of it has been to make me care more for my old associations than ever. It’s my belief that the sooner Isabel changes it ba... ... house. After selecting from among its furniture the objects she wished to transport to her other abode, she left the rest of its contents to be dispo... ... would have agreed; but they attached such different ideas, such different associations and desires, to the same formulas. Her notion of the aristocra...

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David Copperfield Volume Two

By: Charles Dickens

...as, that she bought the property on tolerably easy terms, and Traddles was transported with pleasure. David Copperfield Vol. II 82 I am very much ... ...posal, no- body knows. It was like asking, as a favour, to be sentenced to transportation from Dora. To cancel your articles, Copperfield? Cancel? I... ...s the reward. Dora was the reward, and Dora must be won. I got into such a transport, that I felt quite sorry my coat was not a little shabby already.... ...y be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life. If, on the eve of such a de... ...adache. Called attention to J. as being beau- tifully sleek. D. fondled J. Associations thus awakened, opened floodgates of sorrow. Rush of grief admi... ...eham. When I was very young, said Annie, quite a little child, my first associations with knowledge of any kind were inseparable from a patient fri... ... same. You never can know what it was to be devoted to you, with those old associations; to find that anyone could be so hard as to suppose that the t... ...telligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported. Even then he couldn t be quiet, but was always writ- ing us le... ...ou say, you hard-hearted thing, that you were convinced I was worse than a transported page? Oh, what a dreadful opinion to have of me! Oh, my goodnes...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

...h a start. For a moment or two he looked about him like a man who had been transported to some strange country in his sleep, but soon recognising fami... ...d preserved throughout—even when he had seen his companion so tortured and transported by his passion that his whole frame was shaken—lay in his loung... ...he destruction by rude hands of every little household favourite which old associations made a dear and precious thing: all this taking place—not amon... ...ous mea sures, held a Common Council; passed a vote thanking the military associations who had tendered their aid to the civil authorities; accepted ... ...he had seen him spring, a free man, to his feet, and had given vent to the transport of delight which the sight awakened, he went to work upon his own... ...and of loving them, and being loved; with how many half remembered, dreamy associations of his mother’s grief and tears and widowhood; he watched and ... ...tely succeeded by a scuffle in the room without, and the clash of weapons. Transported with the hope that rescue had at length arrived, Emma and Dolly... ...ed into the chamber where they were confined. It was some check upon their transport to find in this person an entire stranger, but they appealed to h...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...am glad to think I wrote them. I like them, but I cannot tell how much the associations of old happinesses gives them a flavour for me. I make no clai... ...he pas- sage. “He can see his thumb!” the old gentleman said, in a perfect transport. He was struggling into his overcoat. “He can see his thumb, Bell... ...y was not too near. Insensibly their interest drifted from the won- derful associations about them to their more intimate and personal feelings. In a ... ...e quite unreadable to me—though my fam- ily, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to gene...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...corps who hastily fought their way to Parga. From that city they gradually transported themselves to Corfu, then occupied by the Russians. Into the se... ...ng beauty of the imperial house, on recovering themselves from their first transports, found no motives to any feeling of false shame, either in their... ... residence, naturally enough terminated in mellowing the sternness of such associations into a religious awe, not without its own peculiar attractions... ...to that misfortune had been indebted for his life; since the difficulty of transporting him on horseback, when unable to sit upright, had com- pelled ...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...relude to his being immediately ordered away for instant execution, or for transportation beyond the seas, during the whole term of his natural life, ... ...tch her. ‘This answer no sooner reached Britain, than the whole nation was transported with joy. Nothing was heard, on all sides, but the sounds of fe... ...er of an hour afterwards; which demonstration delighted all the scientific associations beyond measure, and caused him to be considered a light of sci... ...gs to take off the smell of the tobacco smoke, issued hast ily forth in a transport of pleasure and affection. ‘My dear aunt,’ exclaimed Mr. Ben Alle...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...in their present ill regulated state of mind, I should give them pain. The associations with me would be disagreeable. They might say, ‘This is the ma... ...was (of ficially) reported drowned, and assuredly went over the side of a transport ship at night in an Irish harbour within a few hours of her arriv...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...stinguish; or on Sardinia; or on the Island of Elba, with its histori- cal associations; or upon the almost imperceptible line that to the experienced... ...eaucaire and The Count of Monte Cristo 206 Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting boats for the cart and the stagecoach. And, ... ... her past life had returned to her. Mercedes seized Fernand’s hands with a transport which he took for love, but which was only joy at being no longer... ... elect, and there, says Marco Polo, gave them to eat a certain herb, which transported them to Paradise, in the midst of ever-blooming shrubs, ever-ri... ...ht Franz felt the perspi- ration start forth upon his brow. The prisoners, transported the pre- vious evening from the Carcere Nuovo to the little chu... ...hatred.” Chapter 57 In the Lucerne Patch. OUR READERS MUST NOW allow us to transport them again to the enclo- sure surrounding M. de Villefort’s house...

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Little Dorrit Book Two Riches

By: Charles Dickens

...y one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a pala- tial saloon with which it had no... ..., that he has already improved that chance occasion. He has returned quite transported with V enice.’ ‘Indeed?’ returned the careless Fanny. ‘Was he t... ... know not where to look,’ cried the little man, kissing Arthur’s hand in a transport. ‘I know not where to begin. I know not where to go. But, courage... ...h the empty room awakened in Clennam’s wounded breast, and to the crowding associations with the one good and gentle creature who had sanctified it. H... ...ch; for, although he found no property, he found so many debts and various associations of dis- credit with the proper name, which was the only word h...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e charge of a groom, and the consultations were endless about the means of transport, Mr. Edmonstone almost as eager about it as he was himself. He di... ...arcely knowing how to venture on advances to one to whom his name had such associations. However, they had gradually drawn together, and at length ent... ...and his birthday had been so sad a day for his grandfather, that he had no associations of pleasure connected with it. Markham understood the feeling,... ...be the beauty and extent of Redclyffe. Lady Mabel and Miss Edmonstone were transported; and the more Philip saw of the light and superficial way in wh...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

...sunk in an idle reverie, weaving a tissue of wayward fancies, in which old associations and the fair young hermit, now within those walls, bore a near... ...that moment. ‘Then you won’t go to London, Arthur?’ I said, when the first transport of tears and kisses had subsided. ‘No, love,—unless you will go w... ... as we slowly proceeded up the walk; and I suppose Milicent, by a train of associations, was led to think of her sister. 233 Anne Brontë ‘Helen,’ sai... ...present residence, and now, 324 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in all haste, transported back again. The old woman brought my supper and Arthur’s into t...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...dent of my own merit to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield... ...e of her solitary hours, which she fortu- nately finds always the means of transporting from castle to cottage, although she herself be sometimes obli... ...arge from among the sunburnt loiterers, saluted him with a sound cuff, and transported him back to his dungeon, the little white- headed varlet scream... ...atingly fond of music, deeply af- fected by that which was melancholy, and transported into extravagant gaiety by light and lively airs. He had in thi... ... the ancestors of some of those sturdy Gael, who have now the happiness to transport the belles of Edinburgh, in their sedan chairs, to ten routs in o... ... came music to his dreams, but not the voice of Selma. He imagined himself transported back to Tully-Veolan, and that he heard Davie Gellatley singing... ... NOTE 22.—CASTLE OF DOUNE This noble ruin is dear to my recollection, from associations which have been long and painfully broken. It holds a com- man...

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