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...tscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 26 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv... ...quires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 iv CONTENTS 27 Knights and Squires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 28 ... ...e whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26 Knights and Squires T he chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of... ... his. And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his Chapter 26 Knights and Squires 119 soul, much more did his far away domestic memories ... ...ul, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. 120 Chapter 26 Knights and Squires Men may seem detestable as joint stock companies and na... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this ... ...d, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commander Davies of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop of war Rattler on a whali...

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... lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights er rant of yore, —by single combat; but lchabod was too con sci... ...f those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men. The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefo... ...y of Doffue Martling, a large blue bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine pounder from a mud breastwork, only...

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...ant of Books and Men! 16. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which to the open Sea Of the world’s praise from dark an... ... good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shake... ...25. ANTICIPATION October, 1803. Shout, for a mighty Victory is won! On British ground the Invaders are laid low; The breath of Heaven has drifte...

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...we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires T HE CHIEF MATE of the Pequod was Starbuck, a na- tive ... ...st champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God! CHAPTER 27 Knights and Squires S TUBB WA S THE SECOND MATE. He was a native of Cape Co... ...atest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be your boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and... ... its concerns, the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland 146 Moby Dick Fishery, under the corrupted title of Spec... ...ld, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war r... ...enrolled in the most noble order of St. George. And therefore, let not the knights of that honourable company (none of whom, I ven- ture to say, have ... ...under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British gov- ernment was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whal...

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...enough to induce him to risk himself within the dangerous precincts of the British capital. This appears from Dr. King’s Anecdotes of His Own Times. ‘... ...fety and future for- tunes, from visiting England; every other part of the British dominions, and a tour, if I pleased, on the Continent, being left t... ...t; this is all which it is neces- sary for you at present to know.’ ‘Every British subject has a right to know why he suffers restraint,’ I replied; ‘... ...with only one single letter for Edinburgh, addressed to the manager of the British Linen Company.] ‘The tradesmen must have their goods,’ said Fairfor... ...ces, so awfully profound in genealogy, and so bitterly keen, poor lady, in British, politics, that I sometimes thought it pity that the Hanoverians, w... ... drawn from the garb of their masters, and, according to the custom of the knights of the rainbow, gave many hints that they were not people to serve ...

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...eme delicacy, made his bow and went away, proceeding with a characteristic British stride towards the street mentioned. M. de Boville was in his priva... ...d with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs fi... ...Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board, from which pawns, rooks, knights, and queens were to disappear, so that the king was checkmated — M....

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...e letter, and read the address, to ‘Antony Percival Fotheringham, Esquire, British Embassy, Constantinople.’ She started to find it was the surname of... ...the right quarter.’ ‘My agent tells me they are perfectly impracticable.’ ‘Knights of old liked something impracticable.’ She was almost ready to chec... ... lighted up. ‘My better angel!’ he said, ‘I will be content to toil as the knights of old, hopelessly, save that if you hear of me no longer as the id...

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...ll human civilization: is the mythic 12 disciples of Jesus, and the 12 mythic knights of King Arthur. The trouble with these groups is the unlucky ... ...e unlucky number of 13. There were 12 disciples plus one more; there were 12 Knights of the Round Table plus one more. Neither of these two mythic... ...c number of 12 + 1 has never existed except in myth of King Arthur and his 12 knights… and for one short, tiny span of time in history… when Jesus fi... ...ce. Which is exactly what this filthy culture consisted of in Feudal Europe. Knights and Lords became mixed up. Feudalism had been not only a priv... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ... sent over by England. As a gift. To commemorate America breaking free of a British Empire that no longer had any bad feelings about the U.S. being... ...ropean invading colonists in North America burned to the ground? Because the British Parliament…. which was rotten to the core with corruption did n...

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...ical document whose aim was to incite the colonists to revolt against the British.‖ --―I don‘t buy that Lee. We have always been a primarily Ch... ...s? ` ―I don‘t know any of the particulars of these studies, but the British Broadcasting Company in 2004 found that 10% of Americans didn‘t be... ...egiance‘ to its flag and its country in 1954 when the Catholic group, the Knights of Columbus, asked President Eisenhower to put it in the Pledge.‖ ... .... Were all German soldiers anti-Semitic? Was Churchill the genius that the British say he was? Did Roosevelt really know that the Japanese were going... ...Airlines is safer than flying on a transatlantic flight of an American or British airliner because of the terrorist threats? ―If the presi... ...have just enumerated are not mine alone. Roger Bacon, the 13 th . Century British philosopher said ‗There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ...

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...r and his wife in question were described as being of ‘the old order’ and British migrants. Snakelex received information updating him on the joys o... ...f a basket of goodies, including wine and beer, lovely of the woman. The Knights were not the only ones having showered the couple with goodies, wh... ...nd Anne’s waist, assisting her into the hotel. Karen mentally shifted the Knights to second place on her possessed list. 117 Having locked herself ...

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...d to Goneril. A Captain employed by Edmund Gentleman attendant on Cordelia A Herald Servants to Cornwall GONERIL: REGAN: daughters to Lear. CORDELIA: Knights of Lear?s train, Captains, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants...

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...ants to Cornwall GONERIL: REGAN: daughters to Lear. CORDELIA: Knights of Lear’s train, Captains, Messengers, Sol diers, and Attendants S... ... with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course, With reservation of an hundred knights, By you to be sustain’d, shall our abode Make with you by due turns... ...oss crime or other, 28 That sets us all at odds: I’ll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle. When he ret... ...ou. OSWALD: Well, madam. GONERIL: And let his knights have colder looks among you; What grows of it, no matter; advise yo... ... tower came, His word was still,—Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. [Exeunt.] SCENE V: Gloucester’s castle. [Enter CORNWALL and E... ... Messenger .] Messenger: News, madam; The British powers are marching hitherward. CORDELIA: ’Tis known before; our p... ... thou find’st about me To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out Upon the British party: O, untimely death! [Dies.] EDGAR: I know thee well: a ser... ... Messenger .] Messenger: News, madam; The British powers are marching hitherward. CORDELIA: ’Tis known before; our p... ... thou find’st about me To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out Upon the British party: O, untimely death! [Dies.] EDGAR: I know thee well: a ser...

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...the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights T emplars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a so... ...ht Brian de Bois-Guilbert, commander of the valiant and venerable order of Knights Templars, with a small retinue, requested hospitality and lodging f... ...lchre, can the palm be assigned among the champions of the Cross?” “To the Knights Hospitallers,” said the Abbot; “I have a brother of their order.” “... ...ith his merry Englishmen, and left the recovery of Jerusalem to those same Knights who had most to do with the loss of it.” “Were there, then, none in... ...y,” said the Lady Rowena, “whose names are worthy to be mentioned with the Knights of the Temple, and of St John?” “ Forgive me, lady,” replied De Boi... ... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

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...hts of the mystery of an organized conspiracy. They called themselves the “Knights of Idleness.” During the day these young scamps were youthful saint... ...ter the nights on which they had been playing their malicious pranks. The “Knights” began with mere commonplace tricks, such as unhooking and changing... ... to the Admiralty, was made the basis of a remonstrance on the part of the British government with Spain on the subject of its cruelties. Sir Charles ... ...ed faithful to Napoleon. By this time Gilet had become grand master of the Knights of Idleness, and was leading a life which lost him the good- will o... ...r, which was noised throughout Berry, set Max up definitely as a hero. The Knights of Idleness, who were all young, the eldest not more than twenty-fi... ...f mischief. Max, as a matter of honor, imposed certain conditions upon the Knights. Statutes were drawn up. These young demons grew as vigilant as the...

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...e given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet to- ward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth cen- ... ...ring and proselyting armies of the French Directory. 14 Billy Budd To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would ... ...d- the blue-jackets, to be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation tra... ...re- strains celebrating, among other things, the patriotic devotion of the British tar: “And as for my life, ’tis the King’s!” Such an episode in the ... ...m, a clumsy con- trivance, was, as is well known, scouted by no few of the knights as a base implement, good enough peradventure for weavers too crave... ...ashore, knightly valor, tho’ shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seas, though nowadays in encounters there a certain... ...ates as Don John of Austria, Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with t...

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... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...ffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of which latter you might read inscriptions to... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ... Bear in Piccadilly, and saw the dew rising up from the market- gardens of Knightsbridge—how Turnhamgreen, Brentwood, Bagshot, were passed—need not be... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...h the eminent men ordered. Captain Crawley of the Life Guards rode up from Knightsbridge Barracks the next day; his black charger pawed the straw befo... ...your own R. 153 Thackeray To Miss Eliza Styles, At Mr. Barnet’s, Saddler, Knightsbridge. And I trust there is no reader of this little story who has ...

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... the peace-maker, to reject the Saint of the Saxons, more civilly than the British bishops did. She must have managed most beautifully, so as to sat- ... ... chivalry, or rather of Christian perfec- tion. I am making a book of true knights. I copy their por- traits when I can find them, and write the names... ...rd of a climbing lily. But, Anne, do tell me whom you have in your book of knights. I know of a good many in the real heroic age, but tell me some of ... ... know 90 ABBEYCHURCH Canute’s old rhyme says, “Row to the shore, knights,” as if they were boatmen, and not gentlemen.’ ‘I do not think it c... ...he friar,’ said Rupert, ‘and this may have been a bad palmer. Think of the Knights Templars.’ ‘Besides,’ said Helen, ‘how could the squires see either... ...nd they had some question or other, whether King Arthur’s Round Table were knights or not, till at last Kate said something about the Institute, and t...

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...traints and the charities and the disciplined strength that is becoming in knights and rulers…. The education of Mr. Polly did not follow this picture... ... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...in his blood repeated that lesson. “You make me feel like one of those old knights,” he said, “who rode about the country looking for dragons and beau... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout...

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...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...and sixpence, according to size. These panoplies on cards are for juvenile knights-errant and very useful—shield of safety, sandals of swiftness, helm... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... .... The truth I dare not tell. I have consulted a number of law-books in the British Museum, and there is not the slightest doubt that I have connived a...

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...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ... they knew all the great dukes, lords, viscounts, mar- quesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, quite affectionately, and were beyond everything int... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a... ... acquainted with the great dukes, lords, viscounts, marquesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, in whom the people of those benighted countries had ... ...KES A PURCHASE. SOME ACCOUNT OF EDEN, AS IT APPEARED ON PAPER. ALSO OF THE BRITISH LION. ALSO OF THE KIND OF SYMPATHY PROFESSED AND ENTERTAINED BY THE... ...owever slantin’dicularly—at the subject in hand, I would say, sir, may the British Lion have his talons eradi- cated by the noble bill of the American... ...he Halls; or mutter in a lower tone yet darker legends of the cross-legged knights, whose marble effigies were in the church. With the first planting ...

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...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know. The beau...

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...made us soldiers of fortune, have the pleas- ant recollection, that in the British service, stop where we may upon our career, it is only for want of ... ...world of fiction, you always ad- mired the grand and the romantic—tales of knights, dwarfs, giants, and distressed damsels, soothsayers, visions, beck... ...d in Holland, and I know that this name, however un- couth it may sound in British ears—” Glossin, conscious that the prisoner was now about to en- te... ...m, which, her sex considered, might be termed gigan- tic. Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not re- coil with more terror from the appar...

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...is painful duty to bully him if he did, ‘that is known and honoured in the British possessions abroad. It is a name, Sir, that a man is proud to recog... ...od as incessantly leaving cards at Mr Dombey’s door. No taxgatherer in the British Dominions—that wide- spread territory on which the sun never sets, ... ...atural conjunction, and observant of it in their several expressions. Grim knights and warriors looked scowling on them. A churchman, with his hand up... ...s, and those who are desolate and oppressed, in very spite of aldermen and knights to boot: at whose sage nod—and how they nod!— the rolling world sta... ...at he is, in point of fact, what may be emphatically called a—a merchant—a British merchant—and a—and a man. And although I have been resi- dent abroa... ...o has a devilish warm admiration of his character, as, in point of fact, a British merchant and a devilish upright gentleman. My place in the country ...

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...they are as much at log- gerheads as pope and duke. Serfs, beggars, greed, knights, fools—pathos. At Vaprio, I sometimes ate with a farmer and his wi... ...while playing chess, I imagine there are no pawns; I imagine there are no knights; the good bishop has vanished; the castle has gone; there is no st... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...multaneously. We used to play chess, many of us, pawns, varlets, kings, knights, evenings, one play bastinadoed on another, Caesar against Titus, ... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson... ... The White House April 14, 1865 —rain— Mary invited Laura Keene, the British actress, to tea. She is in her forties— rather pretty. Dressed in d... ...nced in she made over him. He took to her, laughing hilari- ously over her British accent as she asked him to solve a riddle. “Say it again, pretty l...

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... White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solo... ...cial, and industrial organiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associate... ...oes, etc.: The Beginnings of the Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Cru...

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...nts, glittering minarets, frowning donjons, ponderous draw-bridges and armored knights, while tilting tournaments and furious engagements, with lance ... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations... ...glish flag, for during the expedition at least they were in the service of the British government. The effort was a signal success. Jamaica was taken,... ...ition to the extent of declining to allow Mansvelt to recruit his forces from British volunteers for the proposed raid on the Spanish territory. Sore... ...es, and the French historians record with pride any achievement done by these "Knights of the Ocean Wave" as a matter of national congratulation. Whil...

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...h, as if eager to demand tidings of the weary messenger. A goodly train of knights and ladies lodged one night within the abbey walls, and next day ro... ...nt laws of chivalry, which not only made it proper and lawful for all good knights to hear the praise of the ladies to whom they were devoted, but ren... ...ontemplate the boundless pros- pect of conquest and possession—achieved by British perse- verance and British valour—which is outspread before me, I c...

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...A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of British literature through the centuries, drawing together themes of pagan wizardry, the search for the Holy Grail, chivalry and of course romance....

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...is Government, and in its name, to accept the coffin from the hands of the British authori- ties, and that he and the other persons composing the Fren... ... Guizot was the worthy representative of the French good- will towards the British people; and the remark frequently made by our orators at public din... ...sus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British soldier of the line. The sword and pistol, however, had no doubt th... ...than all the politeness and high-breeding that ever wore red-heeled pumps, knights’ spurs, or Hoby’s boots, Titmarsh for one is never going to say you...

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...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...valry was more Quixotic, And revell’d in the fancies of the time, True knights, chaste dames, huge giants, kings despotic: But all these, save... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t... ... sections: First Ismail’s capture caught your fancy quite; Next of new knights, the fresh and glorious batch; And thirdly he who brought you t... ...a sort of doomsday scroll, Such as the conqueror William did repay His knights with, lotting others’ properties Into some sixty thousand new k... ...en a kind of a discussion, A sort of treaty or negotiation Between the British cabinet and Russian, Maintain’d with all the due prevaricatio... ...f the sea (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incon... ...ation. Good company ‘s a chess board—there are kings, Queens, bishops, knights, rooks, pawns; the world ‘s a game; Save that the puppets pull ...

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... a brush and dust-pan. She used in the old days to sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterl... ...e green things… “I sold the bones to a man named Winslow—a dealer near the British Museum, and he says he sold them to old Havers. It seems Havers did... ...e little map fluttered and the voices sank. A fine story for two, stranded British wastrels to hear! Evans’ dream shifted to the moment when he had Ch... ...ther, an eminent authority on postage stamps. She read a great deal in the British Museum. (A perfect pairing ground for liter- ary people, that Briti... ... remember rightly, I went off to see Wembly, and afterwards lunched at the British Museum with Delia. We actually spoke about our prospects, in the li... ...and sixpence, according to size. These panoplies on cards are for juvenile knights-errant and very useful—shield of safety, sandals of swiftness, helm...

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... it. Having had some time at my disposal when in Lon don, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library r... ... found was a great heap of gold in one corner, gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered ... ...s were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes. The room was,... ...nt at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is off to the British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old... ...Him. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards th...

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... a league off it savors of the gentleman. Thus spoke and acted the gallant knights of the time of Charlemagne, in whom every cavalier ought to seek hi... ...r. 468 The Three Musketeers It contained half a line, in a hand perfectly British, and with a conciseness as perfectly Spartan: ! ) D... ... the resolutions you so often expressed in Paris never to set your feet on British ground?” Milady replied to this question by another question. “To b...

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...s, they are not supposed to double in less than five hundred years. In the British colonies in North America, it has been found that they double in tw... ...labouring poor are fast decaying. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of... ...y methods of evading the law. The profits of trade, I have been assured by British merchants who had traded 80 The Wealth of Nations in both countrie... ...in France than in England; and it is no doubt upon this account, that many British subjects chuse rather to employ their capitals in a country where t... ... great fortunes so suddenly and so easily acquired in Bengal and the other British settlements in the East Indies, may satisfy us, that as the wages o... ...loor of his hall with clean hay or rushes in the season, in order that the knights and squires, who could not get seats, might not spoil their fine cl... ...hey not only main- tained almost the whole poor of every kingdom, but many knights and gentlemen had frequently no other means of subsistence than by ...

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...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...should be defined. Reticence in the matter was not within the power of the British government. It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare o... ...Hall, but would, I should think, make a very good House of Commons for the British nation. Fancy the feelings of a lady when she walks into such a roo... ...olonial House of Assembly may wish, but in accordance with the will of the British Commons. Both the houses in Canada—that, namely, of the Representa-... ...her to keep herself secluded? As many men as there are around her, so many knights has such a one, ready bucklered for her service, should occasion re...

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...mpty glories of our isle of Saints! You feel them, Pat. Phil’s all for his British army, his capabilities of British light cavalry. Write me the histo... ...end us diving into it. I like my comrades-in-arms, I like the character of British officers, and the men too—I get on well with them. I declare to you... ...‘The country hasn’t a port.’ ‘Round the Euxine and up the Danube, with the British flag at the stern. I could rather enjoy the adventure. And her prin... ...ng his attention as he makes his humble request to his own, these domestic knights) to right and left of the doorway and in front, hit straight out of... ...ighthood on the heads of men of brains—even literary brains. They shall be knights, an ornamental body. T o make them peers, and a legislative, has no... ...nobody she wouldn’t make use of. She has great notions of the power of the British Press and the British purse—each in turn as a key to the other. Now... ...anting them as a sure method to rally all Ireland to an ardent love of the British flag. But he praised names of Irish leaders whom she had heard Mr. ...

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...eav’d of life. When I had heard my sage instructor name Those dames and knights of antique days, o’erpower’d By pity, well nigh in amaze my mind ... ...unii fuisse felicem et non esse.” 1. 2. pr. 4 v. 124. Lancelot.] One of the Knights of the Round Table, and the lover of Ginevra, or Guinever, celebr... ...en printed in the original language. There is a fine manuscript of it in the British Museum, with an illuminated portrait of Brunetto in his study pr... ...llion against themselves, in order to satisfy the people, made choice of two knights, Frati Godenti (joyous friars) of Bologna, on whom they conferre... ...e Ghibelline party. It is to be remarked, that the Joyous Friars were called Knights of St. Mary, and became knights on taking that habit: their rob... ...tood, attir’d In tears and mourning. Round about them troop’d Full throng of knights, and overhead in gold The eagles floated, struggling with the win... ... who was behind them all, Was Moses. See No. 3459 of the Harl. MSS. in the British Museum. CANTO XXX v. 1. The polar light.] The seven candlestick...

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...Gods; and what resounds In Fable or ROMANCE of UTHERS Son 580 Begirt with BRITISH and ARMORIC Knights; And all who since, Baptiz’d or Infidel J... ...nds In Fable or ROMANCE of UTHERS Son 580 Begirt with BRITISH and ARMORIC Knights; And all who since, Baptiz’d or Infidel Jousted in ASPRAMONT ... ...es rush To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van 535 Pric forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir spears Till thickest Legions close; with feats ... ...eroic deem’d, chief maistrie to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabl’d Knights 30 In Battels feign’d; the better fortitude Of Patience and He... ...eses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds; 35 Bases and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights At Joust and Torneament; then marshal’d Feast Serv’d up in Ha...

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...d to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusio... ...and opportunity—to practise im- 116 Poe in Five V olumes posture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In paint- ing and gemmary, Fortunato, l...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ... by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. The mass of heads in the sq...

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...ene which has never yet been satisfactorily explained. The officers of the British army, and the loyal gentry of the prov- ince, most of whom were col... ...her from one of the London theatres, without a change of garments. Steeled knights of the Conquest, bearded statesmen of Queen Elizabeth, and high-ruf... ...lfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn at the sieg... ...n in- terview in the mock heroic style, between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief, was received with im- mense applause, which cam... ...ment with gay and lightsome melodies. The man was drum-major to one of the British regiments. “Dighton,” demanded the general, “what means this fool- ... ...our Excellency order out the guard?” whispered Lord Percy, who, with other British officers, had now as- sembled round the General. “There may be a pl...

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...vestryman. No doubt that literary knack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is ... ...nduct, whose power of attention and scope of interest, are measured by the British theatre as you know it to-day, can either handle this colossal task... ...culously provided with unlimited dividends, and eat gratuitously, like the knights in Don Quixote’s books of chivalry. The city papers prate of the co... ...ill not allow you or any man to treat me as if I were a mere member of the British public. I detest its prejudices; I scorn its narrowness; I demand t... ...m. On these points Hector is not quite convinced: he still thinks that the British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their... ...e thoughtfully provided by Provi- dence expressly for the amusement of the British race, and treats him normally with the indulgence due to an inferio...

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...xiliar Gods; and what resounds In Fable or ROMANCE of UTHERS Son Begirt with BRITISH and ARMORIC Knights; And all who since, Baptiz’d or Infidel Joust... ...t resounds In Fable or ROMANCE of UTHERS Son Begirt with BRITISH and ARMORIC Knights; And all who since, Baptiz’d or Infidel Jousted in ASPRAMONT or M... ...nd Armies rush To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van Pric forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir spears Till thickest Legions close; with feats of... ... Heroic deem’d, chief maistrie to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabl’d Knights In Battels feign’d; the better fortitude Of Patience and Heroic M... ...Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds; Bases and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights At Joust and Torneament; then marshal’d Feast Serv’d up in Hall w...

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...rtholomew’s, procured for the Prince of Or- ange, the Admiral Coligny, the British Queen Elizabeth, and the Protestant princes of Ger- many, supplies ... ...at Germany did on a larger scale. The great nobles and the ritter class or knights were chiefly evangelical, and in the cities the Protestants had a d... ...and to exclude the Catholics. Against the numerous order of the nobles and knights, and the deputies from the towns, the voice of a few prelates was p... ...is son to extort one religious concession after another. To the nobles and knights, Maximilian at last conceded the free exercise of their reli- gion,... ... addition they wished to erect others, it was permitted to the nobles, and knights, and the free cities to do so. This last clause in the Letter of Ma... ...is apart- ments, were in keeping with all the rest. Six barons and as many knights, were in constant attendance about his person, and ready to ex- ecu...

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...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...t 28, the CIA sent a request for information to a different service of the British government; this communication warned that Moussaoui might be expel... ... the end of August.The FBI office in London raised the matter briefly with British officials as an aside, after a meeting about a more urgent matter o... ...financed (even “one penny”) or trained by the United States. See Zawahiri,“Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner, ” Al Sharq al Awsat, Dec. 2, 2001. CIA ...