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...nt. Baltimore gathered figs, raisins, almonds and juicy grapes from Spain. Wines and brandies from France; teas of various flavor, from China; and ric... ...when it was evident that all the whites had been served with the bread and wine, Brother Bonney— pious Brother Bonney—after a long pause, as if inquir... ...old; that, while we are reading, writing, and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, po...

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... in New En gland. The deacons of many a church have drunk the com munion wine with me; the selectmen of divers towns make me their chairman; and a m... ...s of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of T uscan wine. Giovanni, conceiving that men of science, in habitants of the same c... ... of lachryma.” Guasconti returned to his lodgings somewhat heated with the wine he had quaffed, and which caused his brain to swim with strange fantas... ...as about to fasten it in her bosom. But now, unless Giovanni’s draughts of wine had bewildered his senses, a singular inci dent occurred. A small ora... ..., in all observable respects, as ever partook of the consecrated bread and wine. He is one of those, perchance the most hopeless of all sinners, who p... ...in this mat 166 Mosses from an Old Manse ter of public interest that the merchants gruffly acknowl edged his merits on ‘Change; the nurse whispered...

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... the Rue Montorgueil—but a meal which reminds you of it! It is to find the wines of France, which out of France are to be regarded as myths, and as ra... ...ate with impunity: the sposo was as secret as the grave—so secret that the merchants of Genoa chose to regard the young Consul’s attitude as premedita...

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... if these words struck me: I instituted a hunt through all the M’Brair repositories; and at last hit upon that packet which (if you have had enough wi... ...at which was only policy in the father became black dissimulation in the son. The face of his behaviour was merely popular and wild: he sat late at wi... ...hree, and it was the husband who was shut out. It seems it was an old custom when the family were alone in Durrisdeer, that my lord should take his wi... ... which there is plenty at his service. I put in my first ex- tract here, so that it may stand in the place of what the Cheva- lier told us over our wi... ...ontorted face, and passing his hand repeatedly upon his brow. “We have some business,” he began at last; and there broke off, declared we must have wi... ...to be of paper. A dreadful solitude surrounded our steps; the land was quite dispeopled, there was no smoke of fires, and save for a single boat of me...

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...“ren- dezvous” in the bay for purposes of trade and dissipation. The Dutch merchants called those men English pedlars; some of them were undoubtedly g... ...at down. The coxswain of the steam launch came up carrying some bottles of wine. “Y ou will allow me to have this put upon the table?” said the lieute... ...e to have this put upon the table?” said the lieutenant to Almayer. “What! Wine! You are very kind. Certainly, I have none myself. Times are very hard... ...ng his throat. He reached for the gin bottle while they were uncorking the wine and swallowed a big gulp. The lieutenant, 92 Almayer’s Folly who was ... ... and her mode of life. Almayer pushed his plate away and drank his guest’s wine in gloomy silence. CHAPTER IX “CAN I BELIEVE what you tell me? It is l... ...ottles, trying one after another, grumbling to himself the while. “No more wine,” he muttered discontentedly. “Y ou have had enough, Almayer,” said th...

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...es me, but will suggest itself to everybody else here, where they make the wine.’ Eugene suggests ‘Day and Martin’ s.’ ‘No, not that place,’ returns t... ...they make the Port. My man comes from the country where they make the Cape Wine. But look here, old fellow; its not at all statistical and it’s rather... ... fortune, gets aboard ship, ultimately turns up on dry land among the Cape wine: small proprietor, farmer, grower— whatever you like to call it.’ At t... ...rom an unsightly silver plat- form in the centre of the table. Four silver wine-coolers, each furnished with four staring heads, each head obtrusively... ...in the way of restraining the company from speechless contemplation of the wine-cool- 135 Charles Dickens ers, it paid, and he was satisfied. And now... ...nated by a ray of hope.’ Chapter 13 TRACKING THE BIRD OF PREY THE TWO LIME MERCHANTS, with their escort, entered the do- minions of Miss Abbey Potters...

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...the progeny of those whom the last generation had purchased from the slave merchants. These people derived their stock chiefly from Cappadocia, Pontus... ...re also in many cases under ground, for the same reason as our ice-houses, wine-cellars, &c. He (and from him Pliny and Apollonaris Sidonius), calls t... ...most breakfast which men generally allowed themselves: some in- deed drank wine after it, but this was far from being a com- mon practice.* *There is,... ...ccasion, Marcia, agreeably to her cus- tom, presented him with a goblet of wine, medicated with poison. Of this wine, having just returned from the fa... ...leman (had an officer been billeted there) would have sold him a bottle of wine out of his cellar, or a billet of wood from his stack, or an egg from ... ...nly without scruple, but upon no other terms. It was as common as ordering wine at a tavern, to call the servant of any man’s establishment where we h...

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...name I will not record his evil genius he was be- guiled or bullied into a wine-shop, and while not himself was made the cat’s-paw of some insolent pr... ... biscuits, by what means I do not know, for my mother always locked up the wine. He was disap- pointed that Clarence would touch nothing, and declared... ...e had restored Mrs. Fordyce, and while pro- viding some of our guests with wine, and others with tea, we heard the story, only interrupted by Martyn’s... ...enthusiasm beside Ellen’s was ‘As moonlight is to sunlight, as water is to wine,’— a mere reflection of the tone of the period, compared with a real e... ...where my mother happened to be alone. She was much alarmed, but a glass of wine restored Clarence; and inspection showed that the thick trowser and wi... ...thought you might be contented with your station; but that is the worst of merchants,—they never know when to stop. I suppose your ambition is to make...

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...lors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs they belonged to, where they lived, wh... ...e as the women. The English colony certainly doesn’t provide one; artists, merchants, cultivated people— they are stupid, conventional, and flirtatiou... ...nd stopping here and there to enter into amorous talk. At the open windows merchants could be seen making up the day’s account, and older women liftin... ...nterchanged their views of the world as they walked, or gathered round the wine-tables at the street corner, where an old cripple was twanging his gui... ...ow had a silent hall to tick in, and an audience of four or five somnolent merchants. By degrees white figures with shady hats came in at the door, ad... ...invaded country, and round it they built barricades of baskets, set up the wine bottles in a rampart, made forti- fications of bread and dug fosses of... ...cussed in a whisper, lest one of the pouter pigeon ladies or resplen- dent merchants should overhear them, and proceed to demand that they should leav...

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...n we separated, moved, happy, aspiring and sober (there was no question of wine among us at such times) with a kind of sweet weariness in our souls … ... ...t Rudin spoke with little interest, but when he had drunk a few glasses of wine his blood grew warmer. At last the waiter took away the last dish, Lez... ... is some- thing magnificent. We struggled and struggled on, appeal- ing to merchants, writing letters and circulars. It ended in my spending my last f...

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...ial; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand money, or agriculture, or government, and n... ...g the rich) is it not better to make them pay a duty on the consumption of wine, which would not be more of- fensive than that on doors and windows an... ... tious hindrances an enormous revenue under three forms; namely, a duty on wine, on the cultivation of vineyards, and 20 Bureaucracy on licenses, whe... ...servants always received three francs on these occasions to buy themselves wine or coffee. This little circle looked upon Saillard and Baudoyer as tra...

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...nies, are peculiar to England. And in this respect the families of English merchants, as a class, far outrun the scale of expenditure prevalent, not o... ...e to eat. Even Mephistopheles found his pride relax under the influence of wine; and when loosened from this restraint, his kindness was not deficient... ...straint, his kindness was not deficient. T o me he showed it in press- ing wine upon me, without stint or measure. The elegances which he had observed... ...or the first time in my childish life, somewhat per- haps overcharged with wine, the bill was called for, the waiter paid in the lavish style of antiq... ...esent: rightly presuming that a haughty cavalier of eighteen, flushed with wine and youthful blood, would lis- ten with disgust to a picture too amiab... ... a trick as drawing the charge whilst one happened to be taking a glass of wine. Wine had unlocked his heart,—the prospect of the forest and the advan...

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...e, enor- mous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, spar- kling in b... ...e alive when my cook seized them, killing one with milk and the other with wine. You do not believe me, M. Danglars!” “I cannot help doubting,” answer... ...” Villefort, who had hitherto not tasted the three or four glasses of rare wine which were placed before him, here took one, and drank it off. Monte C... ...d staircase,” said Chateau-Renaud with a smile. “I do not know whether the wine of Chios produces melancholy, but certainly everything appears to me b... ...replied Haidee, “he did not dare to keep us, so we were sold to some slave-merchants who were going to Constantinople. We traversed Greece, and arrive... ...a glass of lemonade.” “Ah,” said Madame de Villefort, “why did he not take wine? Lem- onade was a very bad thing for him.” “Grandpapa’s bottle of lemo...

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...nd associated himself to the Second Summer caravan that goes to Kabul. The merchants are pleased because through superstition they imagine that such m... ...t of things?” “About the food the men ate; rotten figs and black beans and wine in a skin bag, passed from bench to bench.” “Was the ship built so lon... ...some desperate adventure of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in the ninth or tenth century. The battle in th...

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...house in the Latin Quarter; his people ate roast cockchafers and their own wine so as to send him a hundred francs every month. His father’s property ... ...us parent of the present Comte d’Aubrion), 13 Balzac and as much Bordeaux wine of Duberghe at the same time. Those three hundred thousand bottles whi... ...ngle department, and a very small one; he holds Govern- ment contracts for wines, wools, indigoes—anything, in short, on which any profit can be made.... ...where he found the same supreme de volaille, the same as- pics, and French wines; he heard French spoken wherever he went —in short, he never got away... ...I had carried in his firewood. At the end of dinner one ought to sip one’s wine slowly,—Well?” “Thou has said. The absorbed Godefroid became fully ac-... ...ack the same weight of woven tissue; now he made up his mind that the silk merchants were oppressing him; he put honesty out at the door and rubbed oi... ...ll nothing but ‘greased silk’; it is all that they can do. The most honest merchants tell you in the most candid way that ‘you must get out of a bad b...

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... which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden Sunshine as with wine;” and, happy in the companionship of his wife and their three children... ...e community, was to be made acceptable to the grosser sense by ale, cider, wine, and brandy, in copious effusion, and, as some authorities aver, by an... ... we shall be apt to suspect that he has taken a sip too much of his Canary wine, in his extreme deliberation which cask it were best to broach in hono... ...y of the guests had already been loosened by a surreptitious cup or two of wine or spirits. “Strange, forsooth!—very strange!” cried the lieutenant- g... ...ide of his ancestral residence. It was the custom of the time, indeed, for merchants to store their goods and transact business in their own dwellings... ...of the beau- 109 Hawthorne tiful. Anything in my house, —pictures, books, wine, luxu- ries of the table, —he may command them all! It would af- ford ... ... and, in this inclement weather, were de- serted by the ordinary throng of merchants, laborers, and sea- faring men; each wharf a solitude, with the v...

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...erhanging cliffs, with their picturesque vine-dressers’ huts and stores of wine maturing in their dark sides, till in the distance uprose the spire of... ...n in the district. A group had gathered in the yard of the wretched little wineshop at the end of the village (where the road forks to Nemours and Mor... ...hen the notables of Saint-Lange were drink- ing in the private room of the wineshop, the longest head among them declared that such depression could a... ... good news to his family, he had followed the ex- ample set by some French merchants in Havana, and em- barked with them on a Spanish vessel with a ca... ...e Saint- Ferdinand, and a cold chill ran through him. There stood the four merchants, pale and quaking for fear, while the crew gathered about some of... ...ashing sound, as several bodies were thrown overboard. He turned, the four merchants were no longer to be seen, but eight ferocious- looking gunners w... ...warrant still out against him, should seize a brig chartered by Bor- deaux merchants. And for that matter, have you never fired a shot or so too many ...

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...cally . ‘An expensive place, I dare say,’ thought Nicholas; ‘but a pint of wine and a biscuit are no great debauch wherever they are had. And yet I do... ...d attracted his attention. At length the two resumed their seats, and more wine being ordered, the party grew louder in their mirth. Still there was n... ...I should not have been so much surprised: but “little Kate Nickleby!”’ The wine coming at the moment prevented his finishing the sentence. He swallowe... ...hear more. What he heard need not be repeated here. Suffice it that as the wine went round he heard enough to acquaint him with the characters and des... ... mysterious stranger, upon my soul!’ exclaimed Sir Mul- berry, raising his wine-glass to his lips, and looking round upon his friends. ‘Will you step ... ...ere lying about, Nicholas supposed that the brothers Cheeryble were German merchants. Passing through a warehouse which presented every indica- tion o... ...he rumour was abroad in the city last night, and reached the ears of those merchants. Well, well!’ He strode violently up and down the room and stoppe...

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...rl of the last waltz still in his ears, and an intoxication due neither to wine nor waltzing in his brain. ‘Good man!’ shouted Deighton of the Horse B... ...rnment’s want of enterpnse?” “I should hesitate to say. Better consult the merchants and chambers of commerce in Cawnpore, Madras, Bombay, and Calcutt...

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..., and trained up many good scholars; among them, one of England’s princely merchants, Nicholas Randall, whose effigy knelt in a niche in the chancel w... ... crea- tures they want nourishing food. Slices of meat and bottles of port wine rain down on Abbotstoke.” A far more talkative journey than usual ensu... ...d eaten, and how the bride’s health had been drunk by the children in real wine, and how they had all played, Norman and all, and how Hector had made ... ... up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected, he next ...