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...om time to time to the common stock. Like sea-water in a little creek, the phrases which represent these ideas surge up daily, punctually obeying the ... ...aken to deliver, monsieur,” she said. “Can it be from—” With that terrible phrase Gaston understood, even more clearly than before, his own ridiculous... ...ght have said, things infinitely better and more moving than those stilted phrases of his, those accursed, sophisticated, preten- tious, fine-spun phr...

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...th our antagonist): that the spirit of an utterance may be better than the phrase. We have to discourage the cheap tricks of controversy, the retort, ... ... implications. Yet let me confess that I am greatly attracted by such fine phrases as the Will of God, the Hand of God, the Great 31 H. G . Wells Com... ...from the reality of the matter. But so departing a little, let me borrow a phrase from Herbart and identify myself more particularly with my mental 3... ...is belief. And naturally he recurs to and refreshes his belief. I write in phrases that the evangelical Christianity of my childhood made familiar to ... ... of my childhood made familiar to me, because they are the most expressive phrases I have ever met for the psychological facts 56 First and Last Thin... ...ows the Rule.” “Precisely—provided he follows the Rule.” “I have heard the phrase, ‘voluntary nobility.’” “That was the idea of our Founders. They mad... ...he metaphysical conceptions upon which differences are discussed, and in a phrase evolv- ing the collective mind, lies not only the cures of war and p... ...tant repetition leads to a mental and spiritual deadening, until beautiful phrases be- come unmeaning, eloquent statements inane and ridicu- lous,—mat... ...an atmosphere rich in the essential qual- ity of religion and abounding in phrases about the religious life, mellow from the use of centuries and almo...

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...ll think of it as if it were a kind of Chris- tianity. Some, catching at a phrase of Huxley’s, speak of it as Christianity without Theology. They do n... ...uggestion that God is truly a person; he is spo- ken of preferably by such phrases as the Purpose in Things, as the Racial Consciousness, as the Colle... ...d un- derstand and know better. That is as much as most children need. The phrases of religion put too early into their mouths may become a cant, some... ...ataract, a mere projection of inherent imperfections. If we do not use our phraseology with a certain courage, and take that of those who are trying t... ...y devotion nor be a whit self-forgetful nor generous. It is possible so to phrase things that the furtive craving of a man for another man’s wife may ... ...supernaturalism, and who does not shrink from the implications even of the phrase that thought is a secretion of the brain as bile is a secretion of t... ...f which I have already complained. Professor Murray has quoted Mr. Bevan’s phrase for God, “the Friend behind phenomena,” and he does not seem to real... ..., “the Friend behind phenomena,” and he does not seem to realise that that phrase carries with it no obligation whatever to believe that this Friend i... ...ul congregation, foists upon a trustful congregation, a misleading and ill-phrased Levantine creed. Such is the line of thought which will impose the ...

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...ess fever- fit; not as a poet in a five minutes’ frenzy—time to snatch his phrase and scribble his immortal stanza; but for days together, while the s... ...e led me at last to the church of San Lorenzo. Remembering poor Theobald’s phrase about Michael Angelo—”He did his best at a venture”—I went in and tu... ...Who put it into his head that I was made to live on holy thoughts and fine phrases? It was his own fancy, and it pleased him to think so.—Did he suffe...

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... branches of pride, are certainly the issues of want. For, to speak in the phrase of writers upon politics, we may observe in the republic of dogs, wh... ...d get her To know the world a little better. (To know the world ! a modern phrase For visits, ombre, balls, and plays.) Thus, to the world’s perpetual... ...e Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 81 in men’s hearts no deeper than phrases borrowed from re ligion, or founded upon no firmer principles? And... ...n danger? Because religion was nearest at hand to furnish a few convenient phrases, is our inven tion so barren we can find no other? Suppose, for ar... ...rse of our lives. Here first I observe how difficult it is to get rid of a phrase which the world has once grown fond of, though the occasion that fir... ... men who have only one stock of notions upon every subject, and one set of phrases to express them in, they swim upon the superfi cies, and offer the... ...nd of discourse, if it were not a little relieved by the uncouth terms and phrases, as well as accent and gesture peculiar to that coun try, would be...

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...a great deal at one gulp,’ and thought in flashes—a way with the makers of phrases. She wrote, she confessed, laboriously. The desire to prune, com- p... ...r youth, she never trifled with feeling; and if she did so with some showy phrases and occasionally proffered 12 Diana of the Crossways commonplaces ... ...t she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to the delight of ... ... Generally in her character of the feminine com- batant there is a turn of phrase, like a dimple near the lips showing her knowledge that she was utte... ...t.’ ‘I thank you with all my heart, Lady Dunstane.’ He was not a weaver of phrases in distress. His blunt re- serve was eloquent of it to her, and she... ...a wife who merely noted a characteristic. Inside his boundary, he had neat phrases, opinions in packets. Beyond it, apparently the world was void of a... ...gape, the horse-kneed ostlers. She touched them to the life in similes and phrases; and next she was aloft, derisively philosophiz- ing, but with a co... ...Danvers; and there was discernibly to Redworth, under the influence of her phrases, a likeness of the flaming ‘half-horse,’ with the animals all smoki... ...itterly surexcited; moreover he reminded himself of her many and memorable phrases of enthusiasm for England— Shakespeareland, as she would sometimes ...

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...nsible disappoint- ment when it is taken by some one else. I have used the phrase “high passion.” Well, I should say this was about as high a passion ... ...so charmingly comical, and so pat to the occasion, that I must quote a few phrases. “The young lady is in every sense formed to make one of your dispo... ...of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the phrase goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open our communica... ...elf most sharply smarted for your misdemeanours, or, in the old, plaintive phrase, that you were nobody’s enemy but your own. And then you have been m... ...or makes a false step; he employs some trivial, some ab- surd, some vulgar phrase; in the turn of a sentence he in- sults, by a side wind, those whom ... ...prevent my body from beginning to totter and decay. If I am spared (as the phrase runs) I shall doubtless outlive some trouble- some desires; but I am... ...may, upon consideration, find no great cause for personal vainglory in the phrase; for although tobacco is an admirable seda- tive, the qualities nece... ...evouring earthquake? The love of Life and the fear of Death are two famous phrases that grow harder to understand the more we think about them. It is ... ...zen boldness in the face of death! We confound ourselves with metaphysical phrases, which we import into daily talk with noble inappropriateness. We h...

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... some time be- fore; she may have been at sea, in the fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all that, as long as the coast she was about to ... ...ike ring? But the “cast-anchor” trick, with its affectation of being a sea-phrase—for why not write just as well “threw anchor,” “flung anchor,” or ‘s... ...e chief mate. He is the man who watches the growth of the cable—a sailor’s phrase which has all the force, precision, and imag- ery of technical langu... ...p-master aft will hail his chief mate on the forecastle in impressionistic phrase: “How does the cable grow?” Because “grow” is the 19 Joseph Conrad ... ...ke a voiceful awakening of the ship herself, till then, in the picturesque phrase of Dutch seamen, “lying asleep upon her iron.” For a ship with her s... ... performances; but, as far as any clear concep- tion goes, the descriptive phrase, so precise to the comprehension of a yachtsman, evokes no definite ... ...ion rather to reprove his officers for not carrying on quite enough—in his phrase “for not taking every ounce of advantage of a fair wind.” But there ... ...ossessed the lan- guage perfectly, seemed incapable of understand- ing any phrase pronounced in a tone of remonstrance or discontent. As to quarrellin... ...nd, the thing of mighty sound, is inarticulate. It is man who, in a chance phrase, interprets the elemental passion of his en- emy. Thus there is anot...

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...x’d, And offer poison long already mix’d. An orator of such set trash of phrase Ineffably — legitimately vile, That even its grossest flatte... ...nd line, For that same twining ‘transport and security’ Are twisted to a phrase of some obscurity. The poet meant, no doubt, and thus appeals ... ...ases, is enough; Silence is best, besides there is a tact (That modern phrase appears to me sad stuff, But it will serve to keep my verse co... ...st appearing such As but to lovers a true sense affords; Sweet playful phrases, which would seem absurd To those who have ceased to hear such,... ...ou blind Could I do justice to the full detail; So, luckily for both, my phrases fail. Thus much however I may add,— her years Were ripe, th... ...he cast, And merely saying, ‘Christian, canst thou love?’ Conceived that phrase was quite enough to move Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Five” 140 An... ... Prophetically, or that which one deems A ‘strange coincidence,’ to use a phrase By which such things are settled now a days. The damsels, who ... ...ut oh, thou grand legitimate Alexander! Her son’s son, let not this last phrase offend Thine ear, if it should reach — and now rhymes wander ... ...he went then upon his commission, Growling and grumbling in good Turkish phrase Against all women of whate’er condition, Especially sultanas...

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...nd her remaining days were packed with family obligations: getting, as she phrased it, “frocks and governesses” for her little girl, who had been left... ...the slender firm strokes of the pen, recalled the clear struc- ture of the phrases, and, by an abrupt association of ideas, remembered that, at that v... ... be good-bye, then,” she had said; and it occurred to him that her parting phrase had been the same as Sophy Viner’s. At the thought he jumped to his ... ...the place had then represented were still vividly present to her. The mere phrase “a French cha- teau” had called up to her youthful fancy a throng of... ...me, is here and now: on this bench, between you and me.” She caught at the phrase. “That’s what I meant: it’s here and now; we can’t get away from it.... ...t seemed to mean that they had really, in the truest sense of the ill-used phrase, been made for each other. Deeper still than all these satisfactions... ...fe” of her to all sorts of people. He draped these details in the handsome phrase “She’s a woman to be proud of”, and felt that this fact somehow just... ...ng Duch- esses when he was not negotiating Treaties. He heard again quaint phrases which romantic old ladies had used in his youth: “Brilliant diploma... ... house where I used to dine.” He loathed the slighting indifference of the phrase, but he had uttered it deliberately, had been secretly practising it...

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...way . But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage ... ...s time. I did not quite know now how to set about my mission. The eloquent phrases I had arranged, pathetic or indignant, seemed out of place on the A... ...ind worked; and you had to guess the in- tentions of his soul by hackneyed phrases, slang, and vague, unfinished gestures. But though he said nothing ... ... she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English. She made me trans- late what she could only express in ... ...ondered what strange emotion he got from those subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective nov- els of Gabori... ...st the bonds that hitherto had held him. He had found, not himself, as the phrase goes, but a new soul with unsuspected powers. It was not only the bo... ...her fish to fry. ” I could have wished that Strickland had used some other phrase to indicate his refusal. “He gave me the picture of Blanche.” I wond... ...r out of interjections, the expression of his face, gestures and hackneyed phrases. “ Y ou should have lived at a time when women were chattels and me... ...alist, and he had no gift for put- ting what he had to say in the striking phrase that the listener remembers. He had no wit. His humour , as will be ...

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...is description, dearest Amelia, “at the foot of the letter,” as the French phrase it, but you will here have a masterly exposition of the arguments fo... ... column was melted: it was the cannon was melted, not the column; but such phrases are often used by ora- tors when they wish to give a particular for... ...the Procession never moved an inch. There was evidently, to use an elegant phrase, a hitch somewhere. [Enter a fat priest who bustles up to the drum-m...

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...uneasy at the man’s obstinacy, and a good many persons explained it by the phrase, “Dumay is a Breton.” As for the cashier, he thought Madame and Made... ...UNSOLVED AN HOUR WENT BY in solemn stillness broken only by the cabalistic phrases of the whist-players: “Spades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?... ...ades!” “T rumped!” “Cut!” “How are honors?” “T wo to four.” “Whose deal?”— phrases which represent in these days the higher emotions of the European a... ...g men, specially true Parisians, would have settled the matter in a single phrase, “The girl is a little hussy.” But for a youth whose soul was noble ... ...e affec- tion that I never thought how my thoughtless use of that familiar phrase might be construed; but you must thank me for my little blunder, bec... ...ind of man is more or less of a Narcissus. Will he know how to love you? A phrase-maker, always busy in fitting words together, must be a bore. Mademo... ... those tricks of demeanor which actors call “balancoires,”—the picturesque phrase of an artistic people. Canalis had his imitators, and was in fact th... ...y dazzled by Modeste’s beauty, and in his sudden surprise he answered by a phrase that would have been sublime, had it been true. “He is my friend,” h... ...nown,” etc. This improvisation of modern commonplaces, clothed in sonorous phrases and newly invented words, and intended to prove that the Comte de C...

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...till, ex- cept that ever and again he whispered to himself some pre- cious phrase that had stuck in his mind. ‘If,’ he whispered, ‘if only we could pi... ...ons and emotions that all hu- manity might understand. He gives, in broken phrases and often single words, it is true, but none the less vividly for t... ...He added in his diary, ‘I had a sense of all this globe as that….’ By that phrase he meant a kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a w... ...the air. The last dread of flying vanished. As the journalists of the time phrased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aer... ... survive for the information of posterity, he betrays by a score of casual phrases that he was short, sturdy, inclined to be plump, with a ‘rather blo... ...n the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pretensions of war. I... ... day’s journey through the north of France and the Ardennes in a few vivid phrases. The country was browned by a warm summer, the trees a little touch... ...h of impossibility. It is a dream. Presently I shall wake up.” … ‘Then the phrase changed itself in my mind. “Presently mankind will wake up.” ‘I lay ... ...For a time neither spoke, and the king ate and turned over in his mind the phrases of the speech he intended to make to the conference. By virtue of t...

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...er to make her happy, is precisely the one who takes me for a fool.” These phrases, divided by eloquent pauses and delivered like shot, after the mann... ...lings, which he inherited from his mother,—a being who had, in T ourangian phrase, a “heart of gold.” Cesar received from the Ragons his food, six fra... ...speaking; all the more because he compiled a pro- spectus whose ridiculous phraseology was an element of suc- 30 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau ces... ...ey of commonplaces mixed with maxims and computations served up in flowing phrases mildly put forth, which sounded to the ears of superficial people l... ...e cut short Cesar’s eloquence just as he was about to formulate in flowing phrase, though modestly, the tale of his merits. “Tiens, Mimi, this is Mons... ...d face and quiet attitude, the old man had an inward calm not expressed in phrases nor by emphasis. His eye, the pupil of which was green, mingled wit... ...rine stimulated Birotteau’s eloquence, who allowed himself to expatiate in phrases which certainly were extremely wild for a bourgeois. “Be respectful... ...g away.” Though Cesar was a poor observer, and had, moreover, prepared his phrase as much to herald the creation of the house of A. Popinot and Compan... ...“Precisely.” “He is charming,” whispered Cesar to his uncle. “He pours out phrases, phrases, phrases,” said Pillerault, “enough to drown you.” “Possib...

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...al mea- sure. It was intolerable to think that he might overhear words and phrases. Mr. Stanley’s pace slackened. “You’ve no right to badger me like t... ...y, he felt, must be listening behind their papers. Of course, girls repeat phrases and opinions of which they cannot possibly understand the meaning. ... ...it very difficult to answer your letter.” But after that neither ideas nor phrases had come and she had fallen thinking of the events of the day. She ... ...ed intellectuals, neither man nor woman.” Ann Veronica meditated over that phrase. “That’s him,” said Ann Veronica, in sound, idiomatic English. “Poor... ... sister- woman to another.” She chilled Ann Veronica a little by that last phrase, and yet the magnetism of her fellowship and enthusiasm was very str... ...sistance, and when it meets again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has already slain, exposed and dissected an... ...gued badly and were egotistical in their manners and inconsistent in their phrases. There were mo- ments when she doubted whether the whole mass of mo... ...ith Miss Miniver. But Miss Miniver was highly unsatisfactory. She repeated phrases of Mrs. Goopes’s: “Advanced people,” she said, with an air of great... ...ugh swamps of nonsense, it doesn’t alter the fact that she is right.” That phrase about dragging the truth through swamps of nonsense she remembered f...

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...PISTOL: He hears with ears. SIR HUGH EVANS: The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, ‘He hears with ear’? why, it is affectations. The Merry Wiv... ...rest. PISTOL: ‘Convey, ’ the wise it call. ‘Steal!’ foh! a fico for the phrase! The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act I, scene iii 14 FALSTAFF: Well, ... ...ffice,—that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; ’tis not a soldier like phrase: but I say, love me. By me, ... ...gue, will ensconce your rags, your cat a mountain looks, your red lattice phrases, and your bold beating oaths, under the shelter of your honor! You ...

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... the dictionary. The business of life is not carried on by words, but in set phrases, each with a special and almost a slang signification. Some inter... ... me all over with great timidity, and then began to excuse himself in broken phrases. He didn’t know the young man, he said. The young man might be ve... ... coat, he was (I believe) a plumber by his trade and stood (in the mediaeval phrase) quite out of the danger of my father; but he had a painful interv... ...we drove over Magus Muir. My father had announced we were “to post,” and the phrase called up in my hopeful mind visions of top-boots and the pictures... ...d; but the end of Mr. Thomson was a thing quite by itself, and in the proper phrase, a manifest judgment. He had been at a friend’s house in Anstruthe... .... It was Whitman who stamped a kind of Birmingham sacredness upon the latter phrase; but Whitman knew very well, and showed very no- bly, that the ave... ...th really guileful craftsmanship. The conduct of both actors is (in the cant phrase) psychologically correct, and the emotion aptly graduated up to th... ... speech; he loved the exotic, the unexpected word; the moving ca- dence of a phrase; a vague sense of emotion (about nothing) in the very letters of t... ... old soldier was a humbug like the rest; his ragged boots were, in the stage phrase, prop- erties; whole boots were given him again and again, and al-...

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...put it to Mr. Pericles, in subdued impressive tones. She had to repeat her phrase; Mr. Pericles then echoing, with provoking monotony of tone, “Sol?”—... ...en a success. It justified the ladies in repeating a well-known Brookfield phrase: “We may be wrong in many things, but never in our judgement of the ... ...r having been submitted to his inspection. Mr. Pole had uttered mysterious phrases: “You don’t know what you’ve been doing:—You think the ship’ll go o... ...rect in itself; but you say, ‘He coins words’; and he certainly forces the phrase here and there, I must admit. The point to be considered is, whether... ...so to disorder their artistic contemplation of her open actions, choice of phrase, and by-play. Without communication or pre-arrange- ment, each knew ... ...ou see what has happened?” Lady Charlotte mur- mured to Wilfrid, between a phrase. He stumbled over a little piece of gallantry. “Excellent! But, say ... ...g to rob that organ of its native sobriety. So that when he spoke a cogent phrase, 100 Sandra Belloni she was silenced, and became aware of a strange... ... maintained the opera-stall posture of lan- guid attention, contesting his phrases simply with their eye- brows, and smiling. He was no match for them... ...fer under a constant repulsion. Pray, do not use 112 Sandra Belloni these phrases to me, Wilfrid. An accusation of coarseness cannot touch us.” “No, ...

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...the wrong card at such and such a point.” No, he always employed some such phrase as, “You permitted yourself to make a slip, and thus afforded me the... ...s situated at no great distance from the ground) chuck- led a short, sharp phrase. Probably it meant, in the bird’s alien tongue, “Good morning to you... ..., indeed, the language of the Russian popu- lace is always forcible in its phraseology. CHAPTER VI Chichikov’s amusement at the peasant’s outburst pre... ...oing the thing, and, after another glance round the room, decided that the phrase “benevolence and other rare qualities of spirit” might to advantage ... ...er he had to say—a feat which he performed with the aid of such by-the-way phrases as “my dear sir,” “my good So-and-So,” “you know,” “you understand,... ...imagine,” “relatively speaking,” “for instance,” and “et cetera”; of which phrases he would add sackfuls to his speech. He could also “embellish” his ... ...ogol cult for him to quit the town, seeing that, wherever he went, the one phrase dinned into his ears was “Stay an- other week with us, Paul Ivanovit... ...of N. were pre- eminently careful and refined in their choice of words and phrases. Never did a lady say, “I blew my nose,” or “I perspired,” or “I sp... ...o, not even a hint to such an effect was to be dropped. Rather, the proper phrase, in such a case, was “This glass, or this plate, is not behaving ver...