Full Text Search Details
...ock of Sarpedon, near the river Erginus, he wrapped her in dark clouds and forced her to his will. There they were making their dusky wings quiver upo... ...ks might be well com pacted by the bolts and might withstand the opposing force of the surge. And they quickly dug a trench as wide as the space the ... ...n himself with indignant cry restrained the contending chiefs; and Orpheus lifted his lyre in his left hand and made essay to sing. (ll. 496 511) He ... ...ons they were just then laying in eager haste. Zethus on his shoulders was lifting the peak of a steep moun tain, like a man toiling hard, and Amphio... ...t marvel to the neighbours to behold; for each one has six mighty hands to lift up, two from his sturdy shoul ders, and four below, fitting close to ... ...and wrenches a ship’s mast from its stays, wedges and all; so did Heracles lift the pine. And at the same time he took up his bow and arrows, his lion... ...hus he spake; and towards him the aged sire opened his sightless eyes, and lifted them up and replied with these words: (ll. 256 261) “Be silent, sto... ...pon the topmost sprays; but at night he rushed upon the sea with monstrous force, and with his shriek ing blasts uplifted the surge; and a dark mist ... ...fear of a horrible doom, were borne along by the waves helplessly. And the force of the wind had snatched away their sails and shattered in twain the ...

Full Text Search Details
...indeed, with the Night they were uttered in, are to be forever remembered. Lifting his huge tumbler 12 Sartor Resartus of Gukguk,* and for a moment l... ...readed worse than the pestilence; nevertheless, to such length he had been forced to com- ply. Glad would he have been to sit here philosophizing fore... ...easand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart,”—the force of that rapt earnestness may be felt, and here and there an arrow of ... ...he matter; and there not only hits the nail on the head, but with crushing force smites it home, and buries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to a... ...ling: what will the last do? Achieve the final undisputed pros- tration of Force under Thought, of Animal courage under Spiritual. A simple invention ... ...thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward Force, the ‘phantasy of our Dream;’ or what the Earth-Spirit in Faust names... ... as- tonished couple, now with lit candle, hastily turned their attention. Lifting the green veil, to see what invaluable it hid, they descried there,... ..., if not arson itself? Nowise so does Teufelsdrockh deport him. He quietly lifts his Pilgerstab (Pilgrim-staff), “old business being soon wound up;” a... ...not to be accomplished on horseback. Arrived aloft, he finds himself again lifted into the evening 110 Sartor Resartus sunset light; and cannot but p...

Full Text Search Details
... of men to appear to maintain them. It was I, the other time, who had been forced into the breach, standing up there for an odious lamplit moment to e... ...nt reason for his having left her to starve. “He doesn’t seem to have much force of character,” said my young lady; at which I laughed out so loud tha... ...adn’t often made it my- self. The difference was that on Gravener’s part a force attached to it that could never attach to it on mine. He was ABLE to ... ...rge Gravener could stand straight enough be- fore any other combination of forces. It amused me to think that the combination he had succumbed to had ... ...- less, yet superficial some surrender to youth and beauty and passion, to force and grace and fortune, happy acci- dents and easy contacts. They migh... ...d it enabled her to go on: “What can one do when a person has given such a lift to one’s interest in life?” “Yes, what can one do?” If I struck her as... ...late murmur—”Poor George 51 Henry James Gravener!” What had become of the lift HE had given that interest? Later on I made up my mind that she was so... ...h it. Then, as for his alienation, he didn’t, pardonably enough, grasp the lift Frank Saltram had given her interest in life. If a mere spectator coul...

Full Text Search Details
...mato vines and “jimpson” weeds that consti tuted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted: “Y o... ...rs “showed off” — bending sweetly over pupils that were lately being boxed, lifting pretty warning fingers at bad little boys and patting good ones l... ...t stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judi cial one’s altitude, and the school h... ...always called upon to read poetry; and when he was through, the ladies would lift up their hands and let them fall helplessly in their laps, and “wall... ...ary of captivity, sighing for change. He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged. He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it f... ...that troubled the dead stillness. Tom’s reflections grew oppressive. He must force some talk. So he said in a whisper: “Hucky, do you believe the dead... ...why shouldn’t they? What right had the friendless to complain? Yes, they had forced him to it at last: he would lead a life of crime. There was no cho... ..., never hear that old familiar sound any more — it was very hard, but it was forced on him; since he was driven out into the cold world, he must submi... ... distinct note of. But now this mysterious sound became more pronounced, and forced a recognition. The boys started, glanced at each other, and then e...

Full Text Search Details
... Single you thither then this dainty Doe, 681 And strike her home by force, if not by words: 682 This way or not at all, stand you in hope.... ...ill haue his soule blacke like his face. Exit. 1354 Ti. O heere I lift this one hand vp to heauen, 1355 And bow this feeble ruine to the ... ...ueale the damn’d contriuer of this deed. 1580 What booke? 1581 Why lifts she vp her armes in sequence thus? 1582 Mar. I thinke she mea...

Full Text Search Details
...tals On the side of me which you in the village could see. From the dust I lift a voice of protest: My flowering side you never saw! Y e living ones, ... ...s, ye are fools indeed Who do not know the ways of the wind And the unseen forces That govern the processes of life. Amanda Barker HENRY got me with c... ... mighty shade here who sings Of one named Beatrice; And I see now that the force that made him great Drove me to the dregs of life. Homer Clapp OFTEN ... ...l the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. ... ...poke of the giant strength Of Willard Shafer, and of his wonderful feat Of lifting a traction engine out of the ditch One time at Georgie Kirby’s. So ... ...In truth you are only looking around the interior of your tub. Y ou cannot lift yourself to its rim And see the outer world of things, And at the same... ...ight too bright for eyes, And woke to face a Truth with bloody brow: Steel forceps fumbled by a doctor’s hand Against my boy’s head as he entered life... ... audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers,... ... on the steps of a marble temple. Great multitudes passed in front of her, Lifting their faces to her imploringly. In her left hand she held a sword. ...

Full Text Search Details
...irt sleeves at the door of his very clean little tavern waiting for me. He lifted off his hat with both hands when he saw me coming, and carrying it s... ...nderstand how such a nature as my guardian’s, experienced in the world and forced to contemplate the miserable evasions and conten tions of the famil... ... to be, takes off his close black gloves as if he were skinning his hands, lifts off his tight hat as if he were scalping himself, and sits down at hi... ...roperty, Mr. Weevle? That’s well, that’s well. Ha! Ha! We should have been forced to sell you up, sir, to pay your warehouse room if you had left it h... ...lf so, pray!” Bleak House – Volume Two 75 As they go upstairs, Mr. Guppy lifts his eyebrows inquir ingly and looks at T ony. T ony shakes his head.... ...is this? ‘Lady Dedlock.’ Ha! A very good likeness in its way, but it wants force of character. Good day to you, gentlemen; good day!” When he has walk... ...entive curiosity, as he watches the struggle in her breast, “The power and force of this woman are astonishing!” “Sir,” she says, for the moment oblig... ...thing”; but he has scarcely laid his fingers on the wounded place when she lifts it up to the light. “Aye! A bad bruise, and the skin sadly broken. Th... ...orry to say I have known them cruel to their wives too.” The woman hastily lifts up her eyes as if she would deny that her injury is referable to such...

Full Text Search Details
...appearance which her labour lent to the house, was worn through by the en- forced confession of there being poverty in the household. The ragged elbow... ...ion. It was done, and bitter reproaches were cast upon Anthony for the en- forced necessity to do it. On the occasion of his sister’s death, Anthony i... ... ious, but a trifle perplexed, and nodded his head as Anthony occasionally lifted his, to enforce certain points in some halt- ing explanation. You wo... ...le amount. Now that Anthony himself furnished the incitement, he was quite lifted from the earth. He had, be- sides, taken more of the strong mixture ... ...the mind, like sun- light on the ceiling cast from a morning tea-cup, if a forced simile will aid the conception. The farmer struck on thirty thousand... ...he soul; it was by a natural action of her reason that she transferred and forced them upon him who had chanced to make them visible. 33 George Mered... ...ecame neces- sary to call a cabman, for whom, as he did her the service to lift her box, Rhoda felt a gracious respect, until a quarrel ensued between... ...her gaze on her father. William Fleeting relaxed the knot of his brows and lifted the letter. 53 George Meredith “Listen all! This is from a daughter... ...vell gazed down at it, and 62 Rhoda Fleming then at him, ghastly pale. He lifted it by one corner, and the diminutive folded squares came out, reveal...

Full Text Search Details
... playing at discoveries. In spite of his crank-like appearance there was a force about him that made that impossible. Whatever it was, it was a thing ... ...alked with an air of being extremely lucid about the “ether” and “tubes of force,” and “gravitational poten- tial,” and things like that, and I sat in... ... I tried I came on miracles and revolutions. For example, if one wanted to lift a weight, however enormous, one had only to get a sheet of this sub- s... ... one had only to get a sheet of this sub- stance beneath it, and one might lift it with a straw My first natural impulse was to apply this principle t... ...gain, rolled over and over on the ground for a space, struggled up and was lifted and borne forward at an enormous velocity, vanishing at last among t... ... all about the Cavorite crushed in upon the air above it with irresistible force. The air above the Cavorite was forced upward violently, the air that... ... apply that idea of spring blinds—Cavorite blinds in strong steel cases—to lifting weights?” “It wouldn’t work,” he insisted. “After all, to go into o... ...nsion, a tran- sient conviction that my feet were pressing downward with a force of countless tons. It lasted for an infinitesimal time. But it stirre... ...this all?” “If you can stand it.” By way of answer I went on unscrewing. I lifted the circu- lar operculum from its place and laid it carefully on the...

Full Text Search Details
... the binnacle. There he stopped again, exhausted and bored. From under the lifted glass panes of the cabin skylight near by came the feeble chirp of a... ...otionless as if made of wood and built into the ship’s frame. Thus, with a forced and tense watchfulness, Haji Wasub, serang of the brig Lightning, ke... ...like a pistol-shot. Carter stepped back. “Do you mean you would keep me by force?” he asked, startled. “Force,” repeated Lingard. “It rests with you. ... ...ht that he might have been knocked on the head by anybody strong enough to lift a crow-bar. He felt strangely irritated. He said loudly, aiming his wo... ...note to this threatening mur- mur of the winds. A long and slow undulation lifted the level of the waters, as if the sea had drawn a deep breath of an... ...r lips, seemed surprised. A large dog put his fore- paws on the rail, and, lifting up his big, black head, sent out three loud and plaintive barks, th... ...from a dream. The sudden silence struck Lingard as amazing. He broke it by lifting his voice in a stentorian shout, which arrested the pursuit of his ... ...reatness of significance, as if it had been the embodiment of some natural force, of a force forever masterful and undying. “And even now my life is u... ...k, somebody strong and whom he could trust, 95 Joseph Conrad some outside force that would awe the unruly, that would inspire their ignorance with fe...

Full Text Search Details
...that is nothing. I don’t care for that. Now and then I go away quietly and lift a bar of silver. I must get rich slowly—you un- derstand.” There was a... ...erate in its impulses, he is a Man of the People, their very own unenvious force, disdaining to lead but ruling from within. Years afterwards, grown o... ...ate; he by his legendary and daring feat, she, like a woman, simply by the force of what she is: the only being capable of inspiring a sincere passion... ...teeth was enough for them. They quailed be- fore him, sir. That’s what the force of character will do for you.” It could very well be said that it was... ... man was a saint. It was enough to look once at his face to see the divine force of faith in him and his great pity for all that was poor, suffer- ing... ... road; the trudging files of burdened Indians taking off their hats, would lift sad, mute eyes to the cavalcade raising the dust of the crumbling cami... ...lance; and the figure of the lately negotiated loan came into his mind. He lifted his glass. “I drink to the health of the man who brings us a million... ...The engine-driver, run- ning past the Casa Viola with the salute of an up- lifted arm, checked his speed smartly before enter- ing the yard; and when ... ...ignation ran high in the knot of deputies behind Jose Avellanos. Don Jose, lifting up his voice, cried out to them over the high back of his chair, 1...

Full Text Search Details
...invitation to the trusty and well-beloved Sir Reginald Lynwood to join the forces 12 The Lances of Lynwood which the Duke of Lancaster was assembling... ... Advancing immediately, at the end of three days they came in sight of the forces encamped around that town. Glorious was the scene before them, the g... ...n his camp of Navaretta, and allow hunger to do its work with the invading force, but this prudent plan was pre- vented by the folly of Don Tello, bro... ...ner, or to seize the pennon which Eustace held. The two Squires stood with lifted swords before their fallen master, but it cost only another of those... ...ee Lances, all of whose weapons were turned upon his opponent. A sword was lifted over the enemy’s head from behind, and would the next moment have de... ...t his eyes were still closed, and the wound ghastly, for such had been the force of the blow, that the shoulder was well-nigh severed from the collarb... ...d, leant heavily against the young Knight, and was obliged to submit to be lifted to the saddle; but neither pain, grief, nor faintness could check hi... ...turned to see them raised. Gaston, who had of late become more silent, was lifted from his mule, and assisted into the tent, where he was laid on his ... ...the Baron. Eustace, at the same moment, raised his nephew in his arms, and lifted him up into the embrasure of one of the high windows. Sir Philip Ash...

Full Text Search Details
...their father’s house and him, and were at least commanders of what- soever forces they could summon for the task. It may be seen that they were sentim... ... ears that Arabella had to repeat to him all her questions, and as it were force a way for her voice through the hide. This was provoking, since it no... ...for Arabella was about to do duty at the pi- ano. During a pause, Mr. Pole lifting his white waistcoat with the effort, sent a word abroad, loudly and... ... surprise that his heart dropped under some burden, as if he had no longer force to sustain it. By-and-by some of the members of the company issued fo... ...I “MY FATHER is one of the most wonderful men in the whole world!” Wilfrid lifted an eyelid. “He is one of the first-violins at the Italian Opera!” Th... ...man! And I don’t wonder at that: he has reason to be proud.” Again Wilfrid lifted an eyelid, and there is no knowing but that ideas of a connection wi... ...gs. We must preserve our great names. I speak against my own interest.” He lifted Adela’s chin on his forefinger. She kept her eyes demurely downward,... ...“Undoubtedly.” “We retire and retire,” Adela remarked. “We waste the royal forces. But, dear me, that makes us insurgents!” She laughed, being slightl... ... He assured her that she looked a charming boy, and she said, “Do I?” just lifting her chin. A gardener was shaving the lawn. “Please, spare those dai...

Full Text Search Details
...grey. She drifted forward as if scarcely conscious, her long blanched face lifted up, not to see the world. She was rich. She wore a dress of silky, f... ... jeer, yet for some reason silenced. Her long, pale face, that she carried lifted up, somewhat in the Rossetti fashion, seemed almost drugged, as if a... ... ity. But you can’t trust him.’ ‘Yes,’ said Ursula vaguely. She was always forced to assent to Gudrun’s pronouncements, even when she was not in ac- c... ...ace, the face of an almost demo- niacal ecstatic. Feeling him looking, she lifted her face and sought his eyes, her own beautiful grey eyes flaring hi... ...r?’ she asked sharply. ‘Not many people are anything at all,’ he answered, forced to go deeper than he wanted to. ‘They jingle and giggle. It would be... ... a resistance to authority, than liberty. Gerald had some command, by mere force of personality, not because of any granted position. There was a qual... ...ence was so quiet, almost like a vacancy in the corporate air. Suddenly he lifted his face to her, and her heart quickened at the flicker of his voice... ...ly. His voice was brutal, scornful, cruel. Hermione remained with her face lifted up, abstracted. He hung silent in irritation. ‘I don’t know,’ she re... ...ire, as with a subtle friction of electricity. But the great centre of his force held steady, a magnificent pride to him, at the base of his spine. Th...

Full Text Search Details
...of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever s... ..., the disorderly raging of the billows—every chance, in short, which might force the Mongolia to slacken her speed, and thus interrupt his journey. Bu... ...Passepartout, who was mounted on the beast’s back, and received the direct force of each concussion as he trod along, he was very careful, in accordan... ... were watching within. The Parsee, now convinced that it was impossible to force 55 Jules Verne an entrance to the temple, advanced no farther, but l... ...h instant terror, lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy. The inanimate victim was borne a... ... satisfaction, and, clasping Passepartout around the waist with his trunk, lifted him as high as his head. Passepartout, not in the least alarmed, ca-... ...composed as if the judgment did not in the least concern him, did not even lift his eyebrows while it was being pronounced. Just as the clerk was call... ...n them towards eight o’clock. With but its bit of sail, the T ankadere was lifted like a feather by a wind, an idea of whose violence can scarcely be ... ... him was as follows: Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had lifted the unconscious Passepartout, and had carried him to the bed reserve...

Full Text Search Details
...actors, dancers,” replied Bixiou. “Only the lowest depths of poverty could force a child to subject her feet and joints to positive torture, to keep h... ...glory of France that every-day monument called the Opera, an assemblage of forces, wills, and forms of genius, nowhere collected as in Paris. “I have ... ...ant premeditation at so great a distance from the arts that persons may be forced to say to him: “You have raised the construction of hats to the heig... ...them. Our toilers fight 27 Balzac against the toilers of the continent by force of misery, as Napoleon fought Europe by force of regiments.” “Here we... ...r friend, to prove the sincerity of the constitu- tional government we are forced to tell the most frightful lies with incredible self-possession. But... ...avour of your suit.” “Maybe, but it is useless now, cousin,” said Gazonal, lift- ing a melancholy eye to his two friends. “I’ve become a re- publican....

Full Text Search Details
...oduced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick without straw, should have recourse largely to conject... ...cclesiastic and a compa- triot, informed the Dey of the plot. Cervantes by force of character, by his self-devotion, by his untiring energy and his ex... ...e went at once and gave himself up to the Dey. As before, the Dey tried to force him to name his accomplices. Everything was made ready for his immedi... ...e perplexity of his master, upon whose perception the incongruity has just forced itself. This is Sancho’s mission throughout the book; he is an un- c... ..., with these words and others to the same purpose, dropping his buckler he lifted his lance with both hands and with it smote such a blow on the carri... ...r imploring aid from anyone, once more dropped his buck- ler and once more lifted his lance, and without actually breaking the second carrier’s head i... ...ions to your beauty, finds himself in this extreme peril.” To say this, to lift his sword, to shelter himself well behind his buckler, and to assail t... ...Sancho was turning him into ridi- cule, was so mortified and vexed that he lifted up his pike and smote him two such blows that if, instead of catchin... ...ch on, for we have had quite enough of this entertainment.” The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for his threats, but Don Qui...

Full Text Search Details
... held with toil; His sire had fallen in such turmoil, And he, God wot, was forced to stand Oft for his right with blade in hand. This morning with Lor... ... judgment speak the doom of fate; So still, as if no breeze might dare T o lift one lock of hoary hair; So still, as life itself were fled In the last... ...lotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tid... ...se, That far to seaward finds his source, And flings to shore his mustered force, Burst with loud roar their answer hoarse, ‘Woe to the traitor, woe!’... ...or dear Might rouse her Duncan from his bier. But faded soon that borrowed force; Grief claimed his right, and tears their course. XIX. Benledi saw th... ... The crowd’s wild fury sunk again In tears, as tempests melt in rain. With lifted hands and eyes, they prayed For blessings on his generous head Who f... ...derick brooked his minstrelsy: At first, the Chieftain, to the chime, With lifted hand kept feeble time; That motion ceased,—yet feeling strong Varied... ...ve known Are taught to prize them when they ‘re gone. But sudden, see, she lifts her head; The window seeks with cautious tread. What distant music ha... ...ran to the brook for water, and after stooping to drink, was surprised, on lifting his head again, by the appearance of a brown dwarf, who stood on a ...

Full Text Search Details
...ional life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper- weight had been lifted from people’s ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about ... ...tly what was going on at Mogham Banks. Sooner or later he felt he would be forced to do something—and the longer he could put that off the better. But... ...alt it. T rivialities and exasperations seemed swept out of existence. Men lifted up their eyes from disputes that had seemed in- curable and wranglin... ...d and disconnected war jobs, and trying to get all the new appearances and forces and urgencies of the war into relations with himself. One thing beca... ...derbund. “I’ve been glad of this talk,” said the bishop. “Very glad.” `She lifted her soft abundant skirts and trotted briskly across the still dewy l... ...s. 11 11 11 11 11 The thoughts and sensations of the bishop seemed to have lifted for a time clean away from the condition of time, and then through a... ...ther ex- 86 The Soul of a Bishop planations. Then perhaps this inhibitory force would give way. It did not, however, give way. His mind sat down for ... ...ve all you profess,” he said, and remained for a moment or so rallying his forces. “Your vision—if it was a vision—I put it to you, was just some sing... ...and the task that is required of you.” 6 6 6 6 6 And as the Angel spoke he lifted up his hands with the palms upward, and there appeared above them a ...

Full Text Search Details
...road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended freedom. She lifted her arms, she leaned back against the wind, her skirt dipped and fla... ...en don’t think they’re common!” “You’re right! I apologize!” Carol’s brows lifted in the astonishment of emotion, in a glory of abasement. Her eyes mo... ...dy linen, with bands of pink skull apparent between the tresses, anxiously lifts her bag, opens it, peers in, closes it, puts it under the seat, and h... ...amn cat. I wouldn’t give her a chance to criticize me.” “My poor effort to lift up the party! Was I wrong to try to amuse them?” “No! No! Honey, I did... ...t to be wanted! You must tolerate my frivolousness. You’re all I have!” He lifted her, carried her into the house, and with her arms about his neck sh... ..., known as “Raymie,” professional bachelor, manager and one half the sales-force in the shoe-department of the Bon Ton Store. “You will enjoy Gopher P... ...personal thought. Even the dancers were gradually crushed by the invisible force of fifty perfectly pure and well-behaved and negative minds; and they... ...uch he was suffering she ran to him, kissed his forehead, cried, “You poor forced tube-rose that wants to be a decent turnip!” “Look here now, that ai... ...l ‘bout catching cold—wonder if the coal will last through?” The expanding forces of life within her choked the desire for reforming. She trotted thro...