...s; the golden light of the morn- ing sun illuminated the room; incense was floating through the air from the gorgeous flowers within and without the h... .... Her beautiful long auburn hair had escaped from its confinement, and was floating over the table and her own person. She took no notice of the distu... ...me reason that any other want of law, that any other anarchy is repulsive. Floating passively from action to action, as helplessly as a withered leaf ... ... to the raft. Now this, you know, though not flotsam, because it would not float, was certainly, by maritime law, ‘jetsom.’ It would be the idlest of ... ... brain was like that fluctuating silvery column which stands in scientific tubes sinking, rising, deepening, lightening, contracting, expanding; or li... ...e its skull wears what might be an Assyrian tiara, only ending behind in a floating train. This head rests upon a beautifully developed neck and throa... ...fine human intelligence cannot be a passive instrument—it cannot be a mere tube for conveying the words of inspiration: such an intelligence will inte... ...us Boughton. 278 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers organs. They were the tubes; and he forced through their wooden machinery his own Beethoven harmo...

...ok in hand. He once stood and looked on at the emptying of a cer- tain oil-tube; he did so watch in hand, and accurately timed the operation; and in s... ...er, flat-bottomed and rounded at the stem and stern, was purchased to be a float- ing lightship, and re-named the Pharos. By July 1807 she was overhau... ...omed to the sea, the writer being aware of the distressing trial which the floating light would necessarily inflict upon landsmen from her rolling mot... ...occasionally whitened with the foaming sea. The two boats belonging to the floating light attended the Smeaton, to carry the artificers to the rock, a... ...ater was now getting short, and some necessaries being also wanted for the floating light, the Smeaton was despatched for Arbroath; and the writer, wi... ...ith the artificers at the same time shifted their quarters from her to the floating light. Although the rock barely made its appearance at this pe- ri...

...till and steady as dreaming. I watched the widening dis- tance between our floats and the waves. It wasn’t by any means a windless day; there was a br... ...e de- velopment of which Mauretanias, aeroplanes, mile-a-minute expresses, tubes, motor-buses and motor cars are just the bright, remarkable points—is... ...on in it, are making no attempt what- ever to re-adapt this hugely growing floating population of delocalised people to the public service. As Mr. Mar... ...Here, then, is a curious prospect, the prospect of a new kind of people, a floating population going about the world, uprooted, delocalised, and even,... ...ing of the thrush upon the garden path, or the petal of apple-blossom that floats down into my coffee, is as 116 An Englishman Looks at the World rel...

...and the poorest serve for a cock shy – as when idle people, after picnics, float a bottle on a pond and have an hour’s diversion ere it sinks. Whichev... ...l Dorados that still haunt the ear of memory, and are still but names. The Floating Beacon – why was that denied me? or The Wreck Ashore? Sixteen-Stri... ...at, armed with a pen and a dictionary to depict the passions, armed with a tube of superior flake- white to paint the portrait of the insufferable sun...

...with garum, fried grasshoppers, and preserved dormice. Large pieces of fat floated in the midst of saffron in bowls of T amrapanni wood. Everything wa... ...e thought that they were at the vapour baths on account of the steam which floated around them, or else, catching sight of the foliage, imagined that ... ... blue pearls. Spendius recognised them, and restrained a cry. A large veil floated behind in the wind. CHAPTER II AT SICCA T wo days afterwards the Me... ...f palm; there were long, green lines of olive-trees; rose-coloured vapours floated in the gorges of the hills, while blue mountains reared them- selve... ...rried and deep, like the buzzing of bees, and with increasing sonorousness floated away into the night with the complaining of the waves, and the rust... ...dth of chest, went out with great clarions, and speaking through the brass tubes declared that henceforth there would be between Carthaginians and Bar... ...ard a great shout uttered by all the Barbarians simultaneously; the leaden-tubed trumpets pealed, and the great Paphlagonian horns bellowed like bulls... ...hung what looked like greenish strips; and the tears streaming through the tubercles on his cheeks gave to his face an expression of frightful sadness... ...lways made him rise. They dis- charged little drops of boiling oil through tubes at him; they strewed pieces of broken glass beneath his feet; still h...

... grooms, To thrust the flesh into the caldron down With flesh hooks, that it float not on the top. Me then my guide bespake: “Lest they descry, T... ...part the other chasm. Never ran water with such hurrying pace Adown the tube to turn a landmill’s wheel, When nearest it approaches to the spokes...

...z’d, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrou... ... they pursu’d The Sojourners of GOSHEN, who beheld From the safe shore their floating Carkases And broken Chariot Wheels, so thick bestrown Abject and... ...e which perhaps Astronomer in the Sun’s lucent Orbe Through his glaz’d Optic Tube yet never saw. The place he found beyond expression bright, Compar’d... ...ght; so stears the prudent Crane Her annual Voiage, born on Windes; the Aire Floats, as they pass, fann’d with unnumber’d plumes: From Branch to Branc... ...ith a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm Paradise Lost Milton 166 As DELOS floating once; the rest his look Bound with GORGONIAN rigor not to move, ... ...ush’d the Rain Impetuous, and continu’d till the Earth No more was seen; the floating Vessel swum Uplifted; and secure with beaked prow Rode tilting o...

...s other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large 195 Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstr... ...y pursu’d The Sojourners of GOSHEN, who beheld From the safe shore their floating Carkases 310 And broken Chariot Wheels, so thick bestrown Abj... ...ich perhaps Astronomer in the Sun’s lucent Orbe Through his glaz’d Optic Tube yet never saw. 590 The place he found beyond expression bright, C... ... stears the prudent Crane 430 Her annual Voiage, born on Windes; the Aire Floats, as they pass, fann’d with unnumber’d plumes: - 139 - BOOK VII. ... ...ic, cold and dry, As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm 295 As DELOS floating once; the rest his look Bound with GORGONIAN rigor not to move... ...he Rain Impetuous, and continu’d till the Earth 740 No more was seen; the floating Vessel swum Uplifted; and secure with beaked prow Rode tilti...

...n de deep blue, deep blue, Sinkin’ in de sea. O de women an’ de chilen a-floatin’ in de sea, O de women an’ de chilen a-floatin’ in de sea, Roun’ ... ...t trunk of a plane tree and the surface of the water where bits of oatmeal floated and coffee grounds,—and the garbage pails with their painted signs:... ... dirt-grimed faces among many other brown and dirt-grimed faces. The steam floated up tinged with yellow in the bright early morning air as the last c... ...e cumulus clouds, piled tier on tier like fantastic galleons in full sail, floated, changing slowly in a greenish sky . The reflection of clouds in th... ... glisten of the pond’s surface was broken by clumps of grasses and bits of floating weeds. They lay on their backs for some time before they started t... ...y?” he whispered cautiously. “I can smell a combination of dead horses and tube roses and banana oil and the ice cream we used to have at college and ... ...inbad, old Peterson’s a brick … . I’m supposed to be taking photographs of tubercular chil- dren at this minute … . The noblest of my professions is t... ...ack center. It hopped like a sparrow along the pavement, emitting a rubber tube from its back, which went up to a bulb in a man’s hand which the man p... ...tood in front of him, a rabbit dangling forgotten at the end of its rubber tube. “Et ca va bien? le commerce,” said Andrews. “Quietly, quietly,” said ...

... blew her up, fifteen miles from land: and so he got to shore swimming and floating alternately, and was called Old Sky-high by English sailors, any n... ...he. He was elected to lie beneath it also: and he beheld his heavenly lady floating on the lull of soft white cloud among her sister spheres. After th... ...ower: which now they are no more, but will have to be, if they are both to float and to fight. For I have, had quoted to me by a great admirer of the ... ...ure is not anchorage for vessels like men. If you loved the Book you would float in harbour. You played. I do trust you lost.’ ‘You have your wish, si... ..., fairly humane. For though he was an absentee sucking the earth through a tube, in Ottoman ease, he had never omitted the duty of personally attendin... ...parkled from the vision of the thing to wrath with it. ‘Ay, but while he’s floating, his people are edging on star- vation. And I’ve a personal grieva...

...ng a child’s copy-book, which he rolled up so as to serve for the darkened tube of an amateur. I fancy my expressions of en- thusiasm had not been in ... ...I must see that he gains no advantage of some turning tide which may again float him off. These memoranda, properly stated to the privy council, canno... ... me for the cause—there was as much wine drunk in this house as would have floated a pin- nace. There never was lack of wine at Wolf ’s Crag.” “Do fet... ... of a son-in-law, noble, brave, well-gifted, and highly connected; sure to float whenever the tide sets his way; strong, exactly where we are weak, in... ...lf an unwel- come guest, my visit is soon abridged.” With these suspicions floating on his mind, he left the ter- 215 Sir Walter Scott race, and walk... ...d the muzzle of the other to the ground—”choose if you will have this hall floated with blood, or if you will grant me the decisive interview with my ...

...se; truth and certainty (the things pretended) are not at all se- cured by them; but men are in the same uncertain float- ing estate with as without t... ... quiet in their minds without some foundation or principle to rest their thoughts on. There is scarcely any one so floating and superficial in his und... ...ch as we ourselves consider and comprehend of truth and reason, so much we possess of real and true knowledge. The floating of other men’s opinions in... ...rfect ideas of the greatest part of them all their lives. Be- cause, though they pass there continually, yet, like float- ing visions, they make not d... ...ithout either resistance or protrusion of anything. When the sucker in a pump is drawn, the space it filled in the tube is certainly the same whether ... ...eas, I do not see how they could discourse or argue with another. Here I must not be mistaken, to think that every floating imagination in men’s brain...

...es told by mothers and nurses. He fixed them finally by writing them down. Floating about vaguely as they were, he seized them, worked them up, gave t... ...n of some aerial gusts, are the huge rambarges, mighty galleons, the large floats, the Chiliander, the Myriander ships launched from their stations an... ...hips, galle- ons, galleys, brigantines, foists, frigates, crears, barques, floats, pinks, pinnaces, hoys, ketches, capers, and other vessels of his Th... ...pieces they threw his head and lyre into the river Hebrus, down which they floated to the Euxine sea as far as the is- land of Lesbos; the head contin... ...magazine of the conquering robbers of the universe. The fountain had three tubes or channels of right pearl, seated in three equilateral angles alread...

...cincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time round the head of the mournful statue, the guardi... ...n their ears. What a vast number of random ideas there must be perpetually floating about, regarding this same Snow Hill. The name is such a good one.... ...d dexterously over the doubtful eye; to say nothing of the blue sash which floated down her back, or the worked apron or the long gloves, or the green... ...ections, when the voice of Madame Mantalini, conveyed through the speaking-tube, ordered Miss Nickleby upstairs to assist in the arrangement of the sh... ...ressing-gown pocket, while Mr Mantalini’s eyes rolled wildly, and his hair floating in wild disorder, mingled with his whiskers. ‘ Alfred,’ cried his ...

...he base of this island, and she could understand how her two boys had been floated thither. Jock went on— “We had a boat-hook, and I pulled up to the ... ...h a bright scarlet cloaklet, which flew out and streamed back, beneath the floating locks of glis- tening gold that glinted in the sun, as with a hand... ...ter, and all behold- ers, seeming to catch inspiration from the music, and float- ing along with a wondrous swimming grace, as her dainty feet twinkle... ...morning greeting of Elvira and Barbara, girls of fourteen and eleven, with floating hair and short dresses, the one growing up into all the splendid b... ...he thought would come across Caroline at times, but not very often, as she floated along easily in the stream of life. Most of the business troubles o... ... in our establishment, and she may know where to find her.” And, through a tube, the photographer issued a summons, which resulted in the appearance o...

...cincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time round the head of the mournful statue, the guardi... ...n their ears. What a vast number of random ideas there must be perpetually floating about, regarding this same Snow Hill. The name is such a good one.... ...d dexterously over the doubtful eye; to say nothing of the blue sash which floated down her back, or the worked apron or the long gloves, or the green... ...ections, when the voice of Madame Mantalini, conveyed through the speaking-tube, ordered Miss Nickleby upstairs to assist in the arrangement of the sh... ...ressing-gown pocket, while Mr Mantalini’s eyes rolled wildly, and his hair floating in wild disorder, mingled with his whiskers. ‘ Alfred,’ cried his ... ...regular debtor and creditor account with Heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour. Whether this is a gratu- itous (the o...