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...-ruin in the park, Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time; And on the tables every clime and age Jumbled together; celts and calumets, Claymore a... ...find my bride) Went forth again with both my friends. We rode Many a long league back to the North. At last From hills, that looked across a land of... ...tion crabbed and gnarled. Better to clear prime forests, heave and thump A league of street in summer solstice down, Than hammer at this reverend gent... ... day.’ She spake With kindled eyes; we rode a league beyond, And, o’er a bridge of pinewood crossing, came On flowery lev... ...other’s fame, Full of weak poison, turnspits for the clown, The drunkard’s football, laughing-stocks of Time, Whose brains are in their hands and in t...

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...en when Mr Chick seemed beaten, he would sud- denly make a start, turn the tables, clatter them about the ears of Mrs Chick, and carry all before him.... ...imself on the ground floor. Accord- ingly , mysterious shapes were made of tables and chairs, heaped together in the middle of rooms, and covered over... ...coloured card-boards and paper, seemed to decorate the chim- ney-piece and tables; that a plant or two had suddenly sprung up in the windows; that Mis... ...s two rows of teeth bristling as if he would have bitten him, ‘what is the league between you and this young man, in virtue of which I am haunted and ... ...ways been estranged. She had crossed him every way and everywhere. She was leagued against him now. Her very beauty softened natures that were obdu- r... ...her what Edith was, and bade her follow her, since they had always been in league. She did not sink down at his feet; she did not shut out the sight o... ...ing and extending his influence, until the business and its owner were his football; and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day; and was quite...

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...as proclaimed chief of his tribe. All the neighboring tribes joined in the league against the common enemy, and tidings were brought to Caesar that th... ..., and asked him what he could do. ‘I can dress whatever is eaten at lordly tables,’ replied Leo. ‘I am afraid of no rival; I only tell thee the truth ... ...where the tolls had been particularly vexatious, and of admitting to their league the cities of Sempach and Richensee. Leopold and all the neighboring... ...ning had been more than usually gay, and had been spent in games at chess, tables, or backgammon, reading ro- mances of chivalry, harping, and singing... ...nces of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn off our heads like footballs, but it will not be long ere her head will take the same dance.’ ...

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...y bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a pretty voracious appetite for miscellaneous reading w... ...I rolled over and sat up to discover them all making off, a ragged flight, footballing my cap, my City Merchants’ cap, amongst them. I leapt to my fee... ...hieved it, and he declared he began the replace- ment of the hacked wooden tables, at which the boys had worked since T udor days, by sloping desks wi... ...st Pinky Dinky style, and pretended to be in earnest about nothing but our football and cricket, to mourn the abolition of “water,” and find a shudder... ...nd princes were usurpers and knew it, religious teachers were impostors in league with power, the economic system was an elaborate plot on the part of... ... and saucer and looked away from us into the fire, and we all sat about on tables and chair-arms and windowsills and boxes and anywhere except upon ch... ...e new reorganisation!” We planned half in earnest and half Utopianising, a League of Social Service. We talked of the splendid world of men that might... ...ne encountered in the tracks, in the chance fellow travellers at the hotel tables. “Confound it!” said I, and talked all the more zealously of that gr... ...er? … We have wasted four days in that hot close place. When we found that League of Social Service we were talking about,” he said with a de- termine...

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...easant plott of ground, enclosed round with an earthen wall, wherein they were wont to play football, but now at the Gowff and byasse- bowls. The hous... ...re taken shape in some significant and dramatic situation. It was hence that Gruise and his leaguers led Charles the Ninth a prisoner to Paris. Here, ... ...he first tureen of soup. And immediately the com- pany begins to settle down about the long tables in the din- ing-room, framed all round with sketche... ...s, and waved it glo- riously in the air. ‘This comes from America,’ he cried, ‘six thousand leagues away!’ And the wine-shop audience looked upon it w... ... of the neighbourhood, a Corot and a Claude or two. The room is very spacious, and the five tables and two chairs are but as islands. One table is for... ...The whole loft of the house from end to end makes one undivided chamber; here are set forth tables on which to model imaginary or actual countries in ...

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... is found some times, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing rooms, concerning... ..., and we can make it fashionable.” “If you want to get this print upon the tables of my high connexion, sir,” says Mr. Sladdery, the librarian, “or if... ...ouse – Vol. One room, which was not half lighted, and at the shabby, dusty tables, and at the piles of writings, and at a bookcase full of the most in... ...re the fire telling Richard how fond he used to be, in his school time, of football. He was a little bright creature with a rather large head, but a d... ... Charles the First—I mean, of course, in the wicked days of the rebels who leagued themselves against that excellent king—Sir Morbury Dedlock was the ... ...s and cross avenues of wintry trees! And, when next beheld, let it be some leagues away, with the Gate of the Star a white speck glittering in the sun... ...Smallweed inquires, slowly rubbing his legs. “Pretty much as usual. Like a football.” He is a swarthy brown man of fifty, well made, and good looking,...

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... is found some times, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing rooms, concerning... ..., and we can make it fashionable.” “If you want to get this print upon the tables of my high connexion, sir,” says Mr. Sladdery, the librarian, “or if... ...House – Dickens room, which was not half lighted, and at the shabby, dusty tables, and at the piles of writings, and at a bookcase full of the most in... ...re the fire telling Richard how fond he used to be, in his school time, of football. He was a little bright creature with a rather large head, but a d... ... Charles the First—I mean, of course, in the wicked days of the rebels who leagued themselves against that excellent king—Sir Morbury Dedlock was the ... ...s and cross avenues of wintry trees! And, when next beheld, let it be some leagues away, with the Gate of the Star a white speck glittering in the sun... ...Smallweed inquires, slowly rubbing his legs. “Pretty much as usual. Like a football.” He is a swarthy brown man of fifty, well made, and good looking,...

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... 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Ste...

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.... . . . 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . ... ...sians the message of Baptiste the Red, in whose country there was no god. The League of the Old Men 8 A T THE Barracks a man was being tried for his ... ...uscle; and Dickensen remembered the man who once sat upright on a sled in The League of the Old Men 119 the main street where men passed to and fro. ... ...a rough hewn, oblong box. Whereupon the gamblers moved their roulette and faro tables into the mission house, and the 148 JACK LONDON click of chips ... ...e one drawback to Freddie Drummond was his inhibition. He never unbent. In his football days, the higher the tension of the game, the cooler he grew. ... ... tell you something funny. There’s about a dozen high grade girls that set the tables in the big dining room. Some times when they’re done ahead of t...

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...t, well-worn bridle. “My word!” said Who’s Who. “We must give ‘em a little football. These gentlemen need a rubbing down.” “No biting,” said The Malte... ...” The Archangels came down like a wolf on the fold, for they were tired of football, and they wanted polo. They got it more and more. Just after the g... ...re clearly over- matched. After this they gave the Archangels five-minuted football; and an expensive fast pony hates football because it rumples his ... ...or exactly twenty-four hours. Then the engineers’ mess— where the oilcloth tables are—joyfully took him to its bo- som, and for the rest of the voyage... ...rtment now speeding Plymouthward. Yet I was, in spirit at least, a million leagues removed from that unhappy man of another nationality, who had chose... ...lings, where a mob of stony white people, all unfriendly, sat at breakfast-tables covered with roses, and separated Georgie from his companion, while ... ...ded with gardens, all moist and dripping; and in one room, reached through leagues of whitewashed passages, a Sick Thing lay in bed. Now the least noi... ...rough the Railway Waiting-room where the roses lay on the spread breakfast-tables; and returned, by the ford and the city they had once burned for spo...

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...ly gentleman in crimson velvet and gold is sipping chocolate at one of the tables, in earnest converse with a friend whose suit is likewise embroidere... ... his blade between my teeth—I breathed a prayer, and shut my eyes—when the tables were turned—the butt-end of Lanty Clancy’s musket knocked the sword ... ...ders and fringes; a light blue Haxminster Carpit, embroydered with tulips; tables, secritaires, cunsoles, &c., as handsome as goold can make them, and... ...e, and I have good cause to know his power. Gujputi is an enchanter: he is leagued with devils; he is invulnerable. Look,” said I, unsheathing my dagg... ...in and ran—the whole host ran as one man: their screams might be heard for leagues. “Tomasha, tomasha,” they cried, “it is enchantment!” A way they fl... ...ne out by the result. His good steed, which could trot at a pinch fourteen leagues in the hour, brought him to this famous castle, just as the warder ... ...sty from the Queen after he came in from the assault, came spinning like a football out of the royal tent just as Ivanhoe entered it. “Send me my drum...

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... is no want of books; and there are games of skill and chance set forth on tables—fantastic chessmen, dice, backgammon, cards, and bil- liards. And ye... ...ways been estranged. She had crossed him every way and everywhere. She was leagued against him now. Her very beauty softened natures that were obdu- r... ...her what Edith was, and bade her follow her, since they had always been in league. She did not sink down at his feet; she did not shut out the sight o... ...ing and extending his influence, until the business and its owner were his football; and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day; and was quite... ...Modern Household Fur- niture, &c., is on view. Then there is a palisade of tables made in the best drawing- room; and on the capital, french-polished,... ... french-polished, extending, tele- scopic range of Spanish mahogany dining-tables with turned legs, the pulpit of the Auctioneer is erected; and the h...

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...retch from the Lizard to the last few poor pul- monary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching bre... ...s in a character; so that a fair pan of a book outstripping thou- sands of leagues when unrolled may he compassed in one comic sitting. For verily, sa... ... but cherish your reverence. Young Willoughby made a kind of shock-head or football hero of his gallant distant cousin, and wondered occasionally that... ...general said of his ammunition and transport, there’s the army!—but it was leagues in the rear. Like the footman who went to sleep after smelling fire... ...unged into the arms of Sir Willoughby. “One has to catch the fellow like a football,” exclaimed the injured gentleman, doubled across the boy and hold... ...s the little when he cannot have the much, and would rather stalk from the tables clean-picked than suffer ruin to be tickled by driblets of the glori...