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.... Pet was about twenty. A fair girl with rich brown hair hang- ing free in natural ringlets. A lovely girl, with a frank face, and wonderful eyes; so ... ...‘has been correcting my belief in many respects, for some years. It is our natural progress, I have heard.’ ‘W ell, well! But it’s not natural to bear... ...s if it, of all books! were a fortification against sweet- ness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse. There was the resentful Sunday o... ...was also frequently to be seen there; in alighting from and entering which vehicle, Miss Fanny fluttered the Marshal’s daughters by the display of ina... ... young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea ... ...baggage, and as much as it could carry of the mud and dust which the other vehicles left behind. These equipages adorned the yard of the hotel at Mart... ...coming towards them. If he had seen it by itself, under such conditions of gas-lamp, mist, and distance, he might not have known it at first sight, bu... ...ntwinch. The diggers dug all through the short night by flar- ing pipes of gas, and on a level with the early sun, and deeper and deeper below it as i...

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...ght—and what greater force can be expected from human speech? But it is in naturalness that this declaration is perfectly delightful, for there is not... ...that this declaration is perfectly delightful, for there is noth- ing more natural than for a grave City Father to for- get what the books he has read... ...and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’est un art TROP difficile.” It is natural that the novelist should doubt his abil- ity to cope with his task.... ...ty of its millions streamed East and West in a bril- liant flow of lighted vehicles. In Liverpool Street, as usual too, through the double gates, a co... ...o’clock in the afternoon, but the day was gloomy. By the light of a single gas-jet depending from the smoked ceiling I saw an elderly man, in a long c... ...t for all the effect they produced on me they might have been so many land-vehicles of an eccentric design. So I said to Commander O., who very kindly... ...ld have made no difference? If scientific men can invent an air cushion, a gas cushion, or even an electricity cushion (with wires or without), to fit...

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...l dusky and shadowed; the win- dow-frames were traced on the blinds by the gas freshly lighted outside, and moving in the breeze with a monoto- nous d... ...w and the post office laboured to call it; the Folly, as came so much more naturally to everyone’s lips. It had been the work of the one eccentric man... ...t’s a wasting of good gifts to make jam of these, for jam is nothing but a vehicle for sugar.” “Then the grocer’s cart is jam,” promptly retorted Armi... ... “If I tell her I left them about in the boys’ way, she will arrive at the natural conclusion.” “Do they call those things magnum bonum?” asked Janet,... ...so that if she is romancing, like Armine and Babie, she does it uncommonly naturally.” They saw no more of this mysterious little being, and the famil... ...ine. “Poor old monk! Swiss air always makes me feel like a balloon full of gas. I could go on, up and up, for ever!” “Well, keep to the path, and don’... ...d to their fly, and driven, through raindrops and splashes flashing in the gas, to a door where the faithful Emma awaited them, and conveyed them to a... ... and the three anxious ladies stood in the window gazing vainly at endless vehicles, when the door opened and they beheld sun- dry figures entering. S...

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...ible by the shaded candlelight, in the death chamber of the old clergyman. Natural connec- tions he had none. But there was the decorously grave, thou... ...iron hearts had been softened and again grew hard, affirmed that no merely natural cause could have so worked upon them. Their antipathy to the poor i... ... and from thence the step was short to her own pe- culiar sorrows. She was naturally a woman of mighty pas- sions, and hatred and revenge now wrapped ... ...ide awake, and passed to and fro, afoot, on horseback, and in all sorts of vehicles, along the sunny road by his bedchamber. Some looked neither to th... ... the Fountain of Youth. It was apparently impregnated with an effervescent gas, for little bubbles were continually ascending from the depths of the g... ...most a gale of wind, which whistled along Washington Street, caus- ing the gas-lights to flare and flicker within the lamps. As I hurried onward, my f... ...ndows, would form a sombre contrast to the street as I beheld it, with the gas-lights blazing from corner to cor- ner, flaming within the shops, and t... ...t the sun, dashed rapidly down the street, whirl- ing in and out among the vehicles that obstructed its pas- sage. Now came, round a corner, the simil... ...ter-drops, the gleaming snow, the cheerful multitude, the variety of rapid vehicles, and the jingle jangle of merry bells which made the heart dance t...

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...d walked away, with such a look of sadness on his face, as might have been natural if he had just heard of the death of all his relations. He came up ... ... had to draw on her capital, she was hardly pained, consid- ering it quite natural and even good that wild oats should be sown at an early age and in ... ...ave the girl a licking; what could be simpler? Well, then he’s sorry—quite naturally. ‘There, never mind, ’ says he; ‘take this. ’ Why, I heard them s... .... The window opened into a garden. It was a moonlit, quiet, fresh night; a vehicle rattled past, and then all was still. The shadow of a tall poplar f... ...ew and peculiar light on his return. He came back in the evening, when the gas was lit, and drove from the railway station to his house, where the roo... ...n mixed with horror and compassion. Those who drove past leaned out of the vehicles and followed the prisoners with their eyes. Those on foot stopped ... ...ose that were waiting on the bank on board. The whole raft was filled with vehicles and horses shuffling at the sight of the water. The broad, swift r...

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...rd across the prospect from south to north, a huge stone stands on it in a naturally impossible place, as if it had been tossed up there by a giant. O... ... GB Shaw brogue which is the jocular assumption of a gentleman and not the natural speech of a peasant. THE MAN. An is that yourself, Misther Grasshop... ...unting car, black and dilapidated, one of the last survivors of the public vehicles known to earlier generations as Beeyankiny cars, the Irish having ... ...ected amid the laurels. Such statues, though apparently works of art, grow naturally in Irish gardens. Their germina- tion is a mystery to the oldest ... .... Arra musha he’s good enough for parliament what is there to do there but gas a bit, an chivy the Goverment, an vote wi dh Irish party? CORNELIUS [ru...

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...f initiating action. This category com- prises a large number and range of natural objects and phe- nomena. Such a distinction between the inert and t... ... and it still profoundly affects the prevalent theory of human life and of natural processes; but it does not pervade our daily life to the extent or ... ...on of the appearance of thrift. So, a predilection for the rustic and the “natural” in parks and grounds makes its appearance on these higher social a... .... Candlelight is now softer, less distressing to well-bred eyes, than oil, gas, or electric light. The same could not have been said thirty years ago,... ...ok-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech. So far as regards the superior aesthetic value o... ...ogy or deprecation of the office of the leisure class as an expo- nent and vehicle of conservatism or reversion in social struc- ture. The inhibition ... ...ct to both it seems to be true that they are not so much the source as the vehicle, or at the most they are the instrument of commutation, by which th...

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...nounce what the air holds of the red aborigines. The red aborigines, Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals ... ...d, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce, See, the many cylinder’d steam printing press—se... ... Grass –Whitman 55 19 This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger, It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make a... ...se when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert, The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv’d neck and th... ...the inter transportation of the world, Steam power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable... ...g things in the houses, and see you the money shops opening, And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods; These, ah these... ...ith sail power or steam power, fetching and carrying cargoes, Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you, Running up...

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...V olume Two endeavoured to cut them down.”’* * “One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in Texas is a petrified forest, near the head of Pasign... ...e trees, now growing, are partly petrified. This is a star- tling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify the existing theory of ... ...n Egyptian donkey can scarcely thread its way through amongst them, and so natural that, were it in Scot- land or Ireland, it might pass without remar... ... for example, a metal, a piece of wood, a drop of water, the atmosphere, a gas, caloric, electricity, the luminiferous ether. Now we call all these th... ...elow, even to the passage of a Virginian mountain wagon— the most aspiring vehicle, I take it, of its kind. The road, how- ever, except in being open ...

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...“That is very disappointing,” said the lady, contracting her brows. “It is natural that you should feel disappointed,” replied the doctor. “I would my... ...n pun- ished. I set a high value on a mother’s influence for softening the natural roughness of boys.” “I don’t think he minds what I say to him in th... ... indeed, having a prejudice to the effect that actresses were deficient in natural feeling, he doubted the use of daring. He also feared that the subj... ...College, with three hun- dred and fifty pounds a year, a house, coals, and gas. In the course of time I shall undoubtedly succeed to the head mas- ter... ...dred and fifty pounds a year.” “With a house: remember that; and coals and gas! You are becoming very prudent, now that you live with Miss Whatshernam... ...es—that she will go by train to Victoria, and from thence home in a common vehicle instead of embark- ing in a great shell and being drawn by swans to... ...iddle-aged gentle- man, evidently neither a professor nor an artist. “Ab’n’gas is a very clever man,” the gentleman was saying. “I am sorry I didn’t h... ...ly his fare, with a groan of mingled rage and fear, sprang from the moving vehicle, rushed up the steps of the man- sion, and rang the bell violently....

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...thing you please.’ ‘Bother The Mussuck! I mean an intellectual Power not a gas-power. Polly, I’m going to start a salon.’ Mrs. Mallowe turned lazily o... ...s an hour to meet a girl who will be prop- erly surprised to meet him, you naturally ap- prove of that young man, and wish him Staff appointments, and... ...oking, but spoilt by pre- tending to be so grave.’ And yet her gravity was natural. It was not her habit to smile. She merely went through life, looki... ...use of her un- dying love for him for him to save his child, and all Simla naturally believes this.’ ‘But Mrs. Bent ‘ ‘Mrs. Bent believes it more than... ..., come to talk about ac- counts, I suppose.” 116 Under the Deodars As the vehicle drove up under the porch Pagett also rose, saying with the trained ...

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...ject even in Saint Mary Axe—which is not a very lively spot—with a sobbing gas- light in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog cr... ... of her own heart.’ ‘She took to one of the chaps then?’ ‘Sir, it was only natural that she should incline towards him, for he had many and great adva... ... it out of the way , watches with terrified interest all that goes on. Her natural woman’s aptitude soon renders her able to give a little help. Antic... ...then, that how can she resist it, poor thing! And now he begins to breathe naturally, and he stirs, and the doctor declares him to have come back from... ... the roadway , and as often staggering back again, oppressed by terrors of vehicles that were a long way off or were nowhere, the streets could not ha...

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...dmiralty. As I feel that the opportunities which I enjoyed of studying the Natural History of the different coun- tries we visited, have been wholly d... ... Journal, a history of our voyage, and a sketch of those obser- vations in Natural History and Geology, which I think will possess some interest for t... ...der to render the volume more fitted for popular reading; but I trust that naturalists will re- member, that they must refer for details to the larger... ...ipal lines of road in Brazil; yet it was in so bad a state that no wheeled vehicle, excepting the clumsy bul- lock-wagon, could pass along. In our who... ...he whole of which betrays the action of heat. A con- siderable quantity of gas is continually escaping from the same orifices with the water. Though t...

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...hem as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university. But he had never connected the... ...d to answer the professor, and at the same time to comprehend the simple and natural point of view from which the question was put, smiled and said: “... ..., in all this fuss and bustle; the surroundings of bronzes, looking glasses, gas, and waiters—all of it was offensive to him. He was afraid of sullyin... ...ut in this case it does not happen every time, and so it follows it is not a natural phenomenon.” Feeling probably that the conversation was taking a ... ...duly naked as she moved forward towards the footlights into the light of the gas, and the sight of all eyes. Vronsky drove to the French theater, wher... ...In the very doorway Vronsky almost ran up against Alexey Alexandrovitch. The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the blac... ... ladies that they should get into the char ` a banc. “And I’ll get into this vehicle,” he said. “The horse is quiet, and the princess drives capitally... ...upon her. Dolly was embarrassed because after Sviazhsky’s phrase about “this vehicle,” she could not help feeling ashamed of the dirty old carriage in...

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...ut it into the form of a word that looked to me like “sulks.” Therefore, I naturally pointed to Mrs. Joe, and put my mouth into the form of saying “he... ... often thought since, that she must have looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust. “He calls the knaves, J... ...omebody 75 Charles Dickens else’ s enemy ,” said the gentleman; “far more natural.” “Cousin Raymond,” observed another lady , “we are to love our nei... ...ail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about, sm... ...e dinner in Gerrard-street, if we had not then come into a sudden glare of gas. It seemed, while it lasted, to be all alight and alive with that inexp... ...not Geographical – and wore out the time in dozing over crumbs, staring at gas, and baking in a hot blast of dinners. By-and-by, I roused myself and w...

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...country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter. Then ... ...rfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women we... ...ciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was quite natural and justifiable that she should have asked that question, and she r... ...enness of eye and the same high natural color. In fact, if that convenient vehicle had existed in the days of the Seven Sages, one of them would doubt... ...ferent tissues, acted necessarily on medi- cal questions as the turning of gas-light would act on a dim, oil-lit street, showing new connections and h... ...riendship or enmity. What he really cared for was a medium for his work, a vehicle for his ideas; and after all, was he not bound to prefer the object... ...oad. I never was much of a walker, or rider either. What I like is a smart vehicle and a spirited cob. I was always a little heavy in the saddle. What...

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...untry house, and at tending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter. Then ... ...rfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women we... ...ciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was quite natural and justifiable that she should have asked that question, and she re... ...enness of eye and the same high natural color. In fact, if that convenient vehicle had existed in the days of the Seven Sages, one of them would doubt... ...ferent tissues, acted nec essarily on medical questions as the turning of gas light would act on a dim, oil lit street, showing new connections and h... ...riendship or enmity. What he really cared for was a medium for his work, a vehicle for his ideas; and after all, was he not bound to prefer the Middl... ...oad. I never was much of a walker, or rider either. What I like is a smart vehicle and a spirited cob. I was always a little heavy in the saddle. What...

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...! You all have just as much affection for me, from beginning to end, as is natural, and what’s the use of think- ing about it? No, no, Margaret, don’t... ... it? No, no, Margaret, don’t go and protest that you love me, more than is natural,” as Margaret looked inclined to say something very eager, “that wo... ...g very eager, “that would be in the style of Regan and Goneril. It will be natural by-and-by that you should, some of you, love some one else better, ... ...matter as Meta imagined. The larger carriage had been broken, and the only vehicle held only the doctor—his charioteer—and in a very minute appendage ... ...The idea of a search enchanted the young ladies. “It was the right sort of vehicle, evidently,” said Norman, looking at Harry, who had been particular... ...rriage, so that Meta had to come in and wait for her governess. Before the vehicle had disgorged half its contents, Harry had rushed out to meet them.... ...ed towards his brother. And as Harry continued to gaze out on the stars of gas on the opposite side of the park, he was able to add a few of the parti... ...ot Tom confess”—”not he; it was all in private. He thought it was laughing-gas, or the reaction of being fried all the morning, holding forth in that ...