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...tent movement upon the sand pits began, a move- ment that seemed to gather force as the stillness of the evening about the cylinder remained unbroken.... ...id stress on the gravitational difficulty. On the surface of the earth the force of gravity is three times what it is on the surface of Mars. A Martia... ...might have done, swerved aside, blundered on and collapsed with tremendous force into the river out of my sight. A violent explosion shook the air, an... ... driving straight into the loose gravel, whirling it this way and that and lifting again; of a long suspense, and then of the four carrying the debris... ...reet: “London in danger of suffocation! The Kingston and Richmond defences forced! Fearful massacres in the Thames Valley!” And all about him—in the r... ...go on! I can’t go on!” My brother woke from his torpor of astonishment and lifted her up, speaking gently to her, and carried her to Miss Elphinstone.... ... one was in the traces. My brother saw dimly through the dust that two men lifted out something on a white stretcher and 86 The War of the Worlds put... ... strengthened the walls of the cylinder. These, as it extracted them, were lifted out and deposited upon a level surface of earth behind it. Its motio... ...lthy or unhealthy liv- ers, or sound gastric glands. But the Martians were lifted above all these organic fluctuations of mood and emotion. Their unde...

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...for intelligence (as we un educated Anglo Saxons sometimes do) no woman can force her way into the talk by mere weight of book learning. She has no p... ...ll pruriency; and that they have too great a faith in the fundamen tal life forces, and too much tenderness for the young mother suckling her baby, f... ...corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture. III The very significance—the note of ridicule and s... ...surdly in succeeding generations. The French gentleman does not uncover in a lift or in FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 55 a museum, because he conside... ...provokingly unprogressive. But when you have summed up the whole you will be forced to conclude that as long as enriching life is more than preserving...

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...Since, by the favour of God, there was no hope of proceeding against me by force, some of the more noted of their number were sent to me, and begged m... ... me, upon whom, together with ourselves, may God at length have mercy, and lift up the light of His countenance upon them, that we may know His way up...

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...sided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are ... ...annot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance. I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agen- cies; I do... ...if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, ga... ... to prepare him for his terrible part. And when he is ready so too are the forces. The invasion pushes eastward and reaches its final goal— Moscow. Th... ... “Y es, yes.” And Nicholas, taking his little daughter in his strong hand, lifted her high, placed her on his shoulder, held her by the legs, and pace... ...he child too soon, and she glanced round. The nurse with raised elbows was lifting the infant over the rail of his cot. 40 War and Peace – Epilogues ... ...cious of it except as free. Y ou say: I am not and am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical re... ...ion is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body. I lift my arm and let it fall. My action seems to me free; but asking myself ... ...or it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed. Can I lift my 102 War and Peace – Epilogues arm? I lift it, but ask myself: coul...

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...er four miles without eating.” “W asn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! Y ou just sit still and are drawn along.” “And here, friend, the peo... ...mself that all eyes were fixed on him, he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious object above his head and, holding it t... ...n German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thou- sand men with which to attack and defeat the... ... lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful ally. We shall therefore confidently await the m... ...azing at those in the room as if asking, “Why do they look at me?” Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as if he intended to say some- thing, b... ...de with his small, white, turned-up fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eye- brows gave it to the waiter. “Please be quick,” he said. T... ... slip- ping it into the pocket of his riding breeches, with his eye- brows lifted and his mouth slightly open, as if to say, “Y es, yes, I am putting ... ... Rus- sian army, and Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an... ...ost unattainable aim re- maining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had...

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... flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me, I will lift what has too long kept down those smoldering fires, I will give them... ...ss, and cannot be shaken away. 8 The little one sleeps in its cradle, I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with m... ...’e’yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor lifters, The ring of alarm bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift str... ...ther hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What i... ... the side of their prepared graves, How the silent old faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp lipp’d unshaved men; All this I swallow, it ta... ...eaves of Grass –Whitman 77 They have clear’d the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth. I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush... ...nt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also. Earth! you seem to look for something at ... ...ndous breath, I buoy you up, Every room of the house do I fill with an arm’d force, Lovers of me, bafflers of graves. Sleep—I and they keep guard all ... ...rous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employ’d to complete and delight me, Now on thi...

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... had done a prodigious service to the poor desolate mother by breaking the force of her misery, as well as by arming the active agencies of indignatio... ...lood to halt in its current; and then and there I recognised in myself the force and living truth of that Scriptural description of a heart consciousl... ... spirit of the rule, I foresaw it would be answered, applied with especial force to cases like the present. Mere human feelings of pity, sympathy with... ...her crowd of realities, and has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler... ...n a moment had all cleared the wall, traversed the waste ground beyond it, lifted Agnes over the low railing, shaken hands with our benefactor Ratclif... .... The postilions were mounted; each door had the steps let down: Agnes was lifted in: Hannah and I followed: Pierpoint mounted his horse; and at the w... ...s the restoration of a warm bed was now most likely to be successful, they lifted the helpless stranger upon a horse, walking on each side with suppor... ...a railroad generation, that should have faith in the miracles of velocity, lifts up its hands with an ‘Incredulus odi!’ we know that Dr. Nichol speaks... ...tions of many orders, is the mighty town below! How serene, how quiet, how lifted above the confusion and the roar, how liberated confirmed, as indica...

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... king taking to flight with a single ship; the rest were captured by Onund’s force, along with much booty. They stayed there for the winter, and spent... ...ous for an opportunity of distinguishing themselves, so they joined Thorir’s forces, and declared that they would be in the thickest part of the battl... ...e battle. They met King Harald in a fjord in Rogaland called Hafrsfjord. The forces on each side were very large, and the battle was one of the greate... ...lthy and his kindred very powerful. Geirmund answered that Harald had such a force that there was little hope of gaining any honour by fighting when t... ...iefs halted at Sledaass before they parted company. It was then that Grettir lifted a stone lying in the grass, which is still known as Grettishaf. Ma... ...erwards to see this stone and were astounded that so young a man should have lifted such a mountain. Grettir rode home to Bjarg and told his father ab... ... called Grettishaf lies; he struggled a long time with that stone, trying to lift it, and delayed his journey thereby until Kormak’s party came up. Gr... ...g when Vermund was away. She came up to where the crowd was gathered and was lifted from her horse; the bondis saluted her respectfully. She said: “Wh... ...ithout letting himself be seen. The first Thorir knew of it was when Grettir lifted him up over his head and dashed him down with such violence that t...

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...uld be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see her as a distant beauty far ... ...Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at table seemed to... ...ctly. “Y ou thought!… Rascals! Blackgaurds!… I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and would have hit Alpatych, the overseer, ha... ...ntinued to shout: “Blackgaurds!… Throw the snow back on the road!” did not lift his stick again but hurried into the house. Before dinner, Princess Ma... ...al and animated, thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over her white teeth. She met Prince V asili with that playful manne... ..., as if also conscious of the Emperor’s eye upon him, passed splen- didly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful action, as if flying through the ... ...uture but in the past. All the advantages were on our side. Our enor- mous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place,... ...ave been at the outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are situated,” said Prince Andrew. He wished to explain to Dolgoruko... ...nothing could be seen of what was going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by i...

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...nd the recognition was mutual. A sweeping introduction and a mug of punch were forced upon him before he could explain his errand. “How long since tha... ...t the run from Dawson in ten hours and the dogs being played out. Malemute Kid forced a mug of punch upon him; then he turned for the door, ordering t... ...raction of an inch being a certain precursor of disaster, the snowshoe must be lifted till the surface is cleared; then forward, down, and the other f... ... merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accom panied by a forced, audible respiration, the “Huh!” “Huh!” of the woodsman. At last... ...e law, are not to be trusted. Sitka Charley knew this; and this was why he had forced them to abandon their rifles with the rest of the camp outfit ten ... ... a conscious pride in his wisdom of the trail; and between the twain they ever lifted the sinking hearts of their comrades. * * * * * * * The faces of... ... knives that they drew from the sheaths. A pitiful spec tacle, three weak men lifting their puny strength in the face of the mighty vastness; but the... ...ck, with a hitch to his skin trousers, and began to sing a chanty, such as men lift when they swing around the capstan circle and the sea snorts in th... ...lent sea we saw no man till we were ready to come away. Then, one day, the fog lifted on the edge of a heavy wind, and there jammed down upon us a sch...

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...l these veins, And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust, But I will lift the down trod Mortimer As high in the air as this unthankful king, As ... ...thou canst hear the tread of travellers. FALSTAFF: Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down? ‘Sblood, I’ll not bear mine own flesh so far ... ...orth, to morrow you. Will this content you, Kate? LADY PERCY : It must of force. [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE IV: The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap. [Ente... ...my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: ’Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. GLENDOWER: Come, you shall have Trent turn... ... by which account, Our business valued, some twelve days hence Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet. Our hands are full of business: let’s aw... ...der what you have to do Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue, Can lift your blood up with persuasion. [Enter a Messenger.] Messenger: My lor...

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...would have been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound- up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. “Don’t teas... ...licate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she occasiona... ...inish its effect. “How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by some- thing ext... ...- suited to her careworn face. Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the princ... ...equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon has retained in full force.” “Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at l... ... had convinced herself that it was impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in a vigorous attack on the orator. “But, my ... ...small white hands. Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. “That a... ...but feebly wags its drooping tail. “Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one hand she went up to her husband and kissed him o... ... Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand to bal...

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...d or pistol; and then he walked down to the boy’s home in Staffordshire to force him to fight; and the father of the boy made him offer an apology. Th... ... It was human language to hear him, Chillon. He lay in the yard, trying to lift his eyes when I came to him, they were so heavy; and he had not streng... ...eir journey refreshed. Walking was now high enjoyment, notwithstanding the force of the sun, for they were a hardy couple, requiring no more than suff... ... were associated in the inventions. They had an improved rocket that would force military chiefs to change their tac- tics: they had a new powder, a r... ...f civilization and the ambitions of men, had not a contest with earth been forced on him from time to time to keep the heel of his right foot, dug in ... ... did not ask for hues. She had come to love of the dark land with the warm lifting wind, the big trees and the hedges, and the stately houses, and peo... ...and the innumerable images the thought of her painted for him, he owed the lift which withdrew him from contemplation of himself in a very disturbing ... ...emed as if life’s ending shook the curtains on our stage and were about to lift. An old friend in the reader of the letter would need no excuse for it... ... Love had eyes, love had a voice that night,-love was the explicable magic lifting terres- trial to seraphic. Though, true, she had not Henrietta’s go...

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...asleep on the chest. Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of clo... ... ran to her. When they met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jac... ...one had withdrawn his column unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous as his own. What also conduced to Bagration’s being... ...how the Russians had been over- whelmed by flying Austrians and had had to force their way through them with bayonets. V aluev was confidentially tell... ...n the Emperor’s health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his glass. “What are you about?” shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ... ...stions addressed to him. But on en- tering Moscow he suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostov, who was sitting beside him, b... ...ot admit it to myself. And now there’s Dolokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced b... ... waist. Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained lifted in childlike happiness. Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid ...

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...no more unto me of this matter. 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and east ward, ... ...ness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, ... ...s multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out o... ...words of this law and these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandme... ...own by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a... ...ong you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.... ...ed and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deuteronomy 33:24 34:7 78 8 And the children of Israel we...

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...ght. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to these same qu... ...putting his legs down from the bed, bent forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. “I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my d... ...ke to help you as far as lies in my power.” “Oh, yes!” said Pierre, with a forced smile. “I am very grateful to you. Where are you traveling from?” Th... ...n. General Buxhowden was all but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. ... ...shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recogniz... ...nce Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek and looked at him clo... ...ttention to the new- comers. Those who were conscious raised themselves or lifted their thin yellow faces, and all looked intently at Rostov with the ... ...” said the little man. “Tushin, Tushin, don’t you remember, who gave you a lift at Schon Grabern? And I’ve had a bit cut off, you see…” he went on wit... ...is heart at the thought. “I will fall at his feet and beseech him. He will lift me up, will listen, and will even thank me. ‘I am happy when I can do ...

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...iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it—a loose-ended, sag- ging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amou... ...onderful lingua franca, half Portuguese and half Malay, ran out and he was forced to take string and show the knots that he would recommend. He contro... ... first down-stream plunge there came no more walls of water, but the river lifted herself bodily, as a snake when she drinks in midsummer, plucking an... ...r back upon the bridge. Once thou wast strong in Lanka, Hanuman. Stoop and lift my bed.” “Who gives life can take life.” The Ape scratched in the mud ... ...ve sons rely on themselves an’ their native sires. Y es, sir.” Then Tweezy lifted up his wise and polite old head. His affliction makes him bashful as... ...span here.” Rod, the off-horse of the pair, had been standing with one hip lifted, like a tired cow; and you could only tell by the quick flutter of t... ...ly the sides of the ravine were crowned with the heads of Bukta’s people—a force that could have blown the ribs out of the beast had Chinn’s shot fail... ... Colonel. “I don’t know yet whether we’re a piece of a brigade or a police force. However, I think we’ll call ourselves a police force. How did you ma... ... teeth under the knife. The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances th...

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...still plunged in dark- ness. A light mist floated in the air; presently it lifted, and the shores of the Dead Sea became visible. The sun, rising behi... ...thine! The first of the Maccabees drove thy people out of Hebron; Hyrcanus forced them to be circum- cised!” Then, with all the contempt of the patric... ...ecks, they looked at him with a gaze like that of inquiring children. From force of habit, he emitted a raucous cry, which excited them; they pranced ... ... obey , fearing that the Jews would discover his secret. His reluctance to lift the cover made Vitellius impatient. “Break it in!” he cried to his lic... ...rs were wont to gather. At the bidding of Gen- tiles, thy maidens shall be forced to cease their lamentations and to make music upon the zither, and t... ... disappeared. An elderly female attendant passed quietly through the room, lifted the portiere, and went out. A sudden recollec- tion pierced the memo... ...s shrugged their shoulders. Jonathas, opening wide his little eyes, gave a forced, buffoon-like laugh. Noth- ing could be more absurd, said he, than t...

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...tronger, as though this feeling of his was subject to the law by which the force of attraction is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.... ...e garden path, arched his back and, rushing headlong toward the porch with lifted tail, began rubbing himself against his legs. “O-hoy!” came at that ... ...rst three hounds and they could be heard in full cry, with that pe- culiar lift in the note that indicates that they are after a wolf. The whippers-in... ...ing the enemies exchanging friendly greetings, she rode up to them. Ilagin lifted his beaver cap still higher to Natasha and said, with a pleasant smi... ...e to receive the guests and the visitors. The serfs all dispersed. “Uncle” lifted Natasha off her horse and taking her hand led her up the rickety woo... ...!” said Natasha, with glittering eyes and no sign of a smile. The countess lifted her head and looked attentively at her daughter. “Don’t look at me, ... ...as, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the l...

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...s chanting recital of the rosary until the light brightened into an intrusive force, causing his eyes to open. Startled, he watched with curious ast... ...alvi, he had immediately left his office feeling like a great weight had been lifted from him. He felt like a new man; a man with a purpose. He knew ... ... Alex said, trying to calm her fears. “I’ve got access to the Army, Navy, Air Force, hell, I’ve got a whole damn Marine Corp.” “You’re going to sta... ...waist, and then ran down the steps to greet him. His father hugged him nearly lifting him off his feet. The force of the hug caused Antonio's small s... ...teps to greet him. His father hugged him nearly lifting him off his feet. The force of the hug caused Antonio's small suitcase to tumble down. "It's... ...tly, Gallucci lunged across the room and hit Antonio in the face with all his force. "Have you gone crazy, Antonio? I should kill you for speaking th... ...e man who had fired, and instantly snapped its jaws around the man's head and lifted him high into the air. His body jerked in great spasms as sharp... ...gh him in a torrent of emotion. McCully reached down, and with his big hands, lifted him and held him like a baby, and carried him out of the forest.... ...le Mastronini commanded the head of the table. "We toast," the old man said, lifting his goblet. The rest of the table did the same. "We toast to a...