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...d Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways re markable. Consi... ... astronomical measure ments, and cataloguing the colors by their scientific names;— as a result, you get the bald fact of the sunset, but you don’t L... ...rd and fire; in England, Henry VIII. had suppressed the monaster ies, burnt Fisher and another bishop or two, and was getting his English reformation... ...ream, through a solitude unrelieved by the faintest trace of man.’ A big cat fish collided with Marquette’s canoe, and startled him; and reasonably en... ...ould engulf them in the abyss where he dwelt.’ I have seen a Mississippi cat fish that was more than six feet long, and weighed two hundred and fifty ... ...ther’s faces, and whooping and jawing like Injuns; then Bob called the Child names, and the Child called him names back again: next, Bob called him a... ... the Child called him names back again: next, Bob called him a heap rougher names and the Child come back at him with the very worst kind of language... ...and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf. Assembled there, the people fasten their eyes u... ...oat technicalities in his talk, as if he were so used to them that he forgot common people could not understand them. He would speak of the “labboard”...

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...a mixed lot,” said Dravot, reflectively; “and it won’t help us to know the names of their tribes. The more tribes the more they’ll fight, and the bett... ...multiply,’ which they did, though they didn’t understand. Then we asks the names of things in their lingo—bread and water and fire and idols and such;... ...lp me!’ and he brings forward that same Chief that I left at Bashkai—Billy Fish we called him afterward, because he was so like Billy Fish that drove ... ...ds with him,’ says Dravot; and I shook hands and nearly dropped, for Billy Fish gave me the Grip. I said nothing, but tried him with the Fellow-craft ... ...haking hands with old 24 The Man Who W ould Be King friends. We gave them names according as they was like men we had known in India—Billy Fish, Holl... ...gave them names according as they was like men we had known in India—Billy Fish, Holly Dilworth, Pikky Kergan, that was Bazaar-master when I was at Mh... ...won’t cheat me, because you’re white people—sons of Alexander—and not like common black Mohammedans. You are my people, and, by God,’ says he, running...

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...s de Ganis, Sir Launcelot of the Lake, Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the Table Round — and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded a... ... turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter — “You know about transmigration of souls; do you know abou... ...ast of prodi gies and adventures, breathed in the fragrance of its obsolete names, and dreamed again. Midnight being come at length, I read another t... ...E MOMENT I GOT A CHANCE I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confident... ...due course of custom I would be flung into a dungeon and left there on scant commons until my friends ransomed me — unless I chanced to rot, first. I... ...d not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fish hook with; but you didn’t seem to mind that, after a little, becaus... ...er expressive of extravagant derision — “Sir Kay, forsooth! Oh, call me pet names, dearest, call me a marine! In twice a thousand years shall the un... ...as a bird. We had several of his chromos; one was his “Miraculous Draught of Fishes,” where he puts in a miracle of his own — puts three men into a ca... ...you toss your shirt onto the floor, it slumps into a pile like a peck of wet fish net; it is very heavy and is nearly the uncomfortablest material in ...

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...hat there is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume; but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein de... ... political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our common country by their genius, learning and eloquence. The characteristics... ...dd a keen and accurate insight into men and things; an original breadth of common sense which enabled him to see, and weigh, and compare whatever pass... ...y meeting. He was about the age when the younger Pitt entered the House of Commons; like Pitt, too, he stood up a born orator. William Lloyd Garrison,... ...its most distinguished men—the movers of public opinion—he will find their names mentioned, and their movements chronicled, under the head of “BY MAG-... ...— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GRANDPARENTS—THEIR POSITION— GRANDMOTHER ESPECIALLY ESTEEMED— “BOR... ... the nets, but was also somewhat famous for her good fortune in taking the fishes referred to. I have known her to be in the water half the day. Grand... ...with my pinhook, and thread line, I could get nibbles, if I could catch no fish. But, in all my sports and plays, and in spite of them, there would, o... ...f Col. L.’s plantation. It was just a place to my boyish taste. There were fish to be caught in the creek, if one only had a hook and line; and crabs,...

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...Drunkenness, riot and brawling were the order, there, every night and nearly all night long. Broken heads were as common as hunger in that place. Yet ... ...ried out— “The loving-cup, the loving-cup! make the sour knave drink the loving-cup, else will we feed him to the fishes.” So a huge loving-cup was br... ...a lower table the Court grandees and other guests of noble degree were seated, with the magnates of the city; the commoners took places at a multitude... ...ished listener. When he had finished, Miles said to himself— “Lo, what an imagination he hath! Verily, this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, i... ...at hath nor brains nor hands to help itself withal. I remember me of a small house that standeth over against the fish-market, by Billingsgate—” A sha... ...s,” said Tom. “But mind it not—I mend apace— a little clue doth often serve to bring me back again the things and names which had escaped me. (And not... ...g drew near, he made an attempt at another farmhouse; but here he fared worse than before; for he was called hard names and was promised arrest as a v... ... was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods.” The crowd closed around, threatening the King and calling him names; a brawny blacksmith in leathe...

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...ent me up to Highgate, on the box of the stage-coach, think- ing about the Commons, and what Mr. Spenlow had said about touching the Commons and bring... ...he world in a better school. That I am sure of, she answered, with un- common fervour. If I am sure of anything, of course, you know, I am sure o... ...imes, to those whom they concerned. I began to think there was more in the Commons than I had supposed. I examined the will with the deepest attention... ... constitutional objection to spies, intruders, and informers. She named no names, she said; let them the cap fitted, wear it; but spies, in- truders, ... ...man was the victim of spies, intruders, and informers (but still naming no names), that was his own pleasure. He had a right to please himself; so let... ...be. First, she lost in the mining way, and then she lost in the diving way fishing up treasure, or some such Tom Tiddler nonsense, explained my aunt,... ... in common-form business, and got it done by real proctors, who lent their names in consideration of a share in the spoil; and there were a good many ... ...as I have liked you! All this time he was squeezing my hand with his damp fishy fingers, while I made every ef- fort I decently could to get it away.... ...you draw me like a corkscrew! Well, I don t mind telling you, putting his fish-like hand on mine, I m not a lady s man in general, sir, and I never ...

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...tty, when I tell you over and over again, you cruel thing, that beyond the commonest civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I ... ...ding up her hands. Then there s the sea; and the boats and ships; and the fish- ermen; and the beach; and Am to play with Peggotty meant her nephe... ...When we got into the street (which was strange enough to me) and smelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailors walk- ing about, a... ...d a teapot that were grouped around the book. On the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture sub- jects; such ... ...ne thing I particularly noticed in this delightful house, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when I took out my pocket-handkerchief t... ...couldn t help thinking 42 David Copperfield Vol. I his face had this in common with the lobsters, crabs, and crawfish, that it went into the hot wa... ... she says miserable sinners , as if she were calling all the congregation names. Again, I catch rare glimpses of my mother, mov- ing her lips timidly... ...d door in this playground, on which the boys had a custom of carving their names. It was completely covered with such in- scriptions. In my dread of t... ...ed, a little shrinking creature, at that door, until the owners of all the names there were five-and-forty of them in the school then, Mr. Mell said ...

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...sat in the leathern armchair, on 4 the left-hand side of the fire, in the common room of the Wallace Inn, winter and summer, for every evening in my ... ...t rather to have conjured me, by all the tender ties of our friendship and common pursuits, to have care- fully revised, altered, and augmented, at my... ...ars. He expressed disgust at the idea, of his remains being mixed with the common rubbish, as he called it, of the churchyard, and selected with his u... ...f his domestics. This was usually employed by the young men in hunting and fishing; and the spirit of adventure, which formerly led to raids and foray... ...isible, or to give audience to 43 any one whomsoever. Earnscliff had been fishing in a small river at some dis- tance. He had his rod in his hand, an... ...your ordinary business; better to exercise idle and wanton cruelty on mute fishes than on your fellow-creatures. Yet why should I say so? Why should n... ...trange faces which appear and disappear without being an- nounced by their names, from the collecting and cleaning of arms, and the anxious gloom and ... ...le of a’ your kith, kin, and allies, as if there was a charm in their braw names to do us good; the grandees hae forgotten us, and those of our ain de... ...of the castle afforded. Shouts of applause followed their retreat; and the names of V ere, Langley, and, above all, of Mareschal, were thundered forth...

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...d the stranger’s likeness to Prince Charles, whom he recog- nized from the common busts. The occasion taken for breaking up the Stuart interest we sha... ...e sense of friendship as Darsie Latimer, and will not regard our purses as common, as well as our sentiments? I am alone in the world; my only guardia... ...eal situation than he thinks proper to mention, I thought I would hazard a fishing observation. ‘I did not see,’ I said, ‘how the Scottish law would b... ...o his imagination. [Of Rob Roy we have had more than enough. Alan Cameron, commonly called Sergeant Mhor, a freeboo- ter of the same period, was equal... ...t, and the gorgeous jury of flies which I had assembled to destroy all the fish in the river. I was induced at last to lend the rod to the sneering sc... ...a new trick on the part of my accomplished preceptor. Apparently, he liked fishing himself better than the trouble of instruct- ing an awkward novice ... ...te for flowers, and for horticulture. But instead of murdering bo- tanical names, I will rather conduct you to the policy, or plea- sure-garden, which... ...Some mistake, madam, I presume, betwixt my father and myself—our Christian names have the same initials, though the terminations are different. I—I—I ... ...said Mr. Saunders; ‘now, or never, Peter, do me a good turn. Yonder’s your namesake, Peter Peebles, will drive the swine through our bonny hanks of ya...

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...ry one overladen with packages or children, and yet un- der the necessity of fishing out his ticket by the way; but it ended at length for me, and I f... ... a fixed sense of calamity, and to judge by conduct, the same persuasion was common to us all. A panic selfishness, like that produced by fear, presid... ...d as I saw, one after another, pleasant villages, carts upon the highway and fish- ers by the stream, and heard cockcrows and cheery voices in the dis... ... for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, p... ...burb to stately and primeval Memphis; there they have their seat, translated names of cities, where the Missis- sippi runs by T ennessee and Arkansas;... ...ike an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The names of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus of sweet an... ...crossing the Atlantic. They were mostly lumpish fellows, silent and noisy, a common combination; somewhat sad, I should say, with an extraordinary poo... ... the train, like the talk I heard on the steamer, ran upon hard times, short commons, and hope that moves ever westward. I thought of my shipful from ... ...TEREY has been compared by no less a per- son than General Sherman to a bent fishing-hook; and the comparison, if less important than the march throug...

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...as got more moods, and more different kinds of feelings than other creatures; and, mind you, whatever a bluejay feels, he can put into language. And n... ...old. Nobody finds fault or feels outraged; no harm has been done. It seemed to be a part of corps etiquette to keep a dog or so, too. I mean a corps d... ...sident calls for volunteers from among the membership to offer battle; three or more respond—but there must not be less than three; the president lays... ...d of array, and that this predilection often keeps him out when expo- sure to rain or sun is a positive danger for him. Newly ban- daged students are ... ...n his pockets—pocket after pocket, and he had plenty of them—muttering all the while, “Now, what could I have done with them?” At last he was successf... ...alert, she could not sit still a mo- ment. She was an enchanting study. Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure ... ...e word or two concerning them.” Several bent and tottering men and women came nearer and answered his questions about each former friend as he mention... ...n 94 the others were attitudinizing, for the benefit of the long rank of young ladies who were promenading on the bank, and so they lost it. But I hel... ...see, the alpenstock is his trophy; his name is burned upon it; and if he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he h...

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...ld get in one of those objectionable shilling text-books that were then so common…. Quite ordinary persons you perceive, both of them, out- side their... ...chase. “Stop, you wretch!” cried the curate, as though giant hens were the commonest facts in life. And then, finding he could not possibly intercept ... ...would like to put it side by side with the gnawed scapulae of a few of the commoner domestic ani- mals before I admitted its humanity. And where were ... ...could be an extension. “He shall play with this first, sing to it and give names to the notes,” said Redwood, “and afterwards—?” He stared up at the w... ...n conversation with the blacksmith, was amazed to see distressful stranded fish leap- ing out of a few residual pools, and heaped green weed in the be... ...and then it was time to go to the station and take the London train. Their names and the per- sonal things they had to talk of do not matter to our st... ...a begin- ning. The insect world will rise on us, the plant world, the very fishes in the sea, will swamp and drown our ships. T re- mendous growths wi... ...ignified nothing to him that torn posters in red and white bearing various names flapped from every wall and barn; he knew nothing of the electoral re...

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...sfactory, and so was the condition of our youth. We could row and ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and... ...ed nothing, so long as he brooded on the images of signal Englishmen whose names were historic for daring, and the strong arm, and artfulness, all giv... ... seeing as far as the pillar. Earl and town fought the fight of Barons and Commons in epitome. The Earl gave way; the Barons gave way. Mighty men may ... ...rent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: ‘Dragging it down to prop it up! swamping it to keep it swimmin... ...rtheless a vehement supporter of that House. He stood for King, Lords, and Commons, in spite of his personal grievances, harping the triad as vigorous... ...ean properties and titles.’ ‘Deuce you don’t,’ said his uncle. ‘I mean our names, our histories; I mean our duties. As for titles, the way to defend t... ...and I wouldn’t yield an inch of ground. It’s no use calling things by fine names—the country’s ru- ined by cowardice. Poursuivez! I cry. Haro! at them... ...n the expe- dition mentioned in her note. Roland had hired a big Chioggian fishing-boat to sail into the gulf at night, and return at dawn, and have s... ...e, bumping to right and left in the midst of volleys and countervolleys of fishy V enetian, Chioggian, and Dalmatian, quite as strong as anything ever...

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...the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and cont... ... once severed mankind are low- ered, property is divided, power is held in common, the light 19 Tocqueville of intelligence spreads, and the capaciti... ... the sciences may be less perfectly cultivated, but ignorance will be less common; the impetuosity of the feelings will be re- pressed, and the habits... ...er must necessarily believeme upon my word. I could frequently have quoted names which are either known to him, or which deserve to be so, in proof of... ...726) that the water of the Caribbean Sea is so transparent that corals and fish are dis- cernible at a depth of sixty fathoms. The ship seemed to floa... ... crystal flood, and beheld submarine gardens, or beds of shells, or gilded fishes gliding among tufts and thick- ets of seaweed. *See Appendix, B. 30... ...es believed in the existence of a better world, and adored under different names, God, the creator of the universe. Their notions on the great intelle... ...o completely disappeared from the earth that the remembrance of their very names is effaced; their languages are lost; their glory is vanished like a ... ...6) that the water of the Carib- bean Sea is so transparent that corals and fish are discernible at a depth of sixty fathoms. The ship seemed to float ...

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...n into the calm distance as he had passed yesterday. Riderhood knew when a fish leaped, by his starting and glancing round. ‘Lock ho! Lock!’ at interv... ...and reproachful, as enjoining penance. What a dinner! Specimens of all the fishes that swim in the sea, surely had swum their way to it, and if sample... ...at swim in the sea, surely had swum their way to it, and if samples of the fishes of divers colours that made a speech in the Arabian Nights (quite a ... ...sound he heard, and of every face he saw, but was under a spell which very commonly falls upon the shed- der of blood, and had no suspicion of the rea... ...unate boy. He was very, very ill sometimes. And I called him a quantity of names;’ shaking her head over her work, and dropping tears. ‘I don’t know t... ... of that, godmother. If I had been patient, I should never have called him names. But I hope I did it for his good. And be- sides, I felt my responsib... ...d others, how that, before Veneering retired from Parliament, the House of Commons was composed of himself and the six hundred and fifty-seven dearest... ...position in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact. Therefore, I note here, though it may not be...

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...ounty. No matter what county. Enough that you may hunt there, shoot there, fish there, traverse long grass-grown Ro- man roads there, open ancient bar... ...quarrel with his social nature—not to go so far as to say, to renounce his common human decency, for that is an extreme case; or who can teach him tha... ...er pupils are gone to bed, they even call one an- other by their christian names in the quiet little parlour. For, once upon a time on a thunderous af... ... something like that. Miss Linx hazarded a guess that he might be House of Commons, or Money Market, or Court Circu- lar, or Fashionable Movements; wh... ...n a state of dejection at an open window, rumi- nating over a bowl of gold fish, the pupil-mind has settled that the bowl was presented by G, and that...

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...s and cares, That he descride, and shonned still his slight: The fish that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. Nath’lesse th’En... ... Palmer (quoth he) death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common Inne of rest; But after death the tryall is to come, When ... ... sit, as yet ashamd, how rude Pan did her dight. So long as Guyon with her commoned, Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye, And euer and anone with ... ...t, Ne can deuized be of mortall wit; Some daily seene, and knowen by their names, Such as in idle fantasies doe flit: Infernall Hags, Centaurs, feende... ..., And named it Albion. But later day Finding in it fit ports for fishers trade, Gan more the same frequent, and further to inuade. ... ... Gathered the Princes of the people loose, To taken counsell of their common cares; Who with his wisedom won, him streight did choose T... ...of vile Reproch, A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles ho...

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...s pretty,” says he. I saw one coming on the other side alone. She had been fishing; all she wore was a chemise, and it was wetted through. 8 Robert L... ...r a negro is counted a white man, and so is a Chinese! a strange idea, but common in the islands. It was a board house with a strip of rickety veranda... ..., but had something to communicate, and I listened the harder. I heard the names of Adams and Case and of Randall – Randall the oftenest – and the wor... ...French quirk, which was another reason we had for think- ing him above the common. 19 Island Nights’ Entertainments “Yes, I have seen him,” I says. “... ...n pebbles of the floor. I was just a hair put out by the excitement of the commons, but the quiet civil appearance of the chiefs reassured me, all the... ...ted on devils and spoke of them so free, which is not common, I had better fish for a little information about myself and Uma. “You think me one devil... ...shoot you here, on this open beach?” said he. “Because I don’t. Folks come fishing every day. There may be a score of them up the val- ley now, making...

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...r a good many years of married life with a licensed victualler of the more common sort, she provided for the years of widow- hood by letting furnished... ...d in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: the air common to men who live on the vices, the follies, or the baser fears of man... ...ces, the follies, or the baser fears of mankind; the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; to private detec... ... a certain amount of insincerity—that sort of insincerity which, under the names of skill, prudence, discretion, turns up at one point or another in m... ...ow irri- tated he is by the attacks on his Bill for the Nationalisation of Fisheries. They call it the beginning of social revolution. Of course, it i... ...every day. He does it all himself. Seems unable to trust anyone with these Fisheries.” “And yet he’s given a whole half hour to the consideration of m... ...erwork.” The sympathetic Toodles welcomed this opening for a chuckle. “The Fisheries won’t kill me. I am used to late hours,” he declared, with ingenu... ...much sincerity. She favoured her daughter by an exhaustive answer, full of names and enriched by side comments upon the ravages of time as observed in... ...e ravages of time as observed in the alteration of human countenances. The names were principally the names of licensed victuallers—“poor daddy’s frie...

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...US: I am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope Of better dee... ...hat which is to approach. CHARMIAN: Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have? Soothsayer: If eve... ... vice to hate Our great competitor: from Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-lik... ...an, ne er loved till ne er worth love, Comes dear d by being lack d. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lac... ...to the river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them u... ...as merry when You wager d on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. CLEOPATRA: ... ... MECAENAS: This in the public eye? OCTAVIUS CAESAR: I the common show-place, where they exercise. His sons he there proclaim d the ki...