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... dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood soubrettes and ballet dancers from beating down the door to get at my majordomo. Gilbert finall... ...clubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a woman with two ... .... We were introduced vaguely as potential patrons, and I watched the young dancers flirt madly with Gilbert. He was obviously flustered at the att... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...ich gave a blurred version of this other part of humanity; and of course the dancers, who were rather boring after a few minutes of seeing the ends of... ...oul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but contained in a theatre. He th... ...t there is nothing we can do about it. Anyhow, two cheers for Burger King. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!" She laughed, more amused and intereste... ...donﾁOt like. Three cheers for men not liking me and going their merry ways. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!" "I think you are strange... ...retch out like steamers of confetti until silence broke like an old womanﾁOs hip. He said, "I might get this one. It would be on a temporary basis ﾁN... ...ise originated. Inside all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of nor empty ...

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... more than 4.1 million people in the United States. It afflicts 10 percent of Americans over 65 years of age and as many as 50 percent of those over... ...g to a report published in the October 22, 1977 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Ginkgo biloba extract can stabiliz... ...d obsessive-compulsive tendencies. The latter may affect as many as 7 million Americans. Home remedies for anxiety offer the best approach to comple... ...body. Bed sores commonly occur around the buttocks, heels, lower back and the hip bone area among bed ridden individuals while spine, ankles, knees,... ...cess blood loss during menopause. • Uterine tonic; relieves pain in the back, hip and pelvis. 10. Witch liazel-Hamamehs virginiana • Apply to wound... ...ul appearance are where we are most likely to find bulimiacs (models, actors, dancers, ballet dancers). By her own admission, Princess Diane is a bul... ...uted horse gram (Kulthi) taken regularly helps to get sleep and cures Insomnia.Hop calms nerves, relieves tension, and helps in cases of insomnia cau... ...lts. 6. Water treatment is extremely beneficial in curing leucorrhoea. A cold hip bath taken twice a day, for ten minutes at a time, will help relie...

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...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...s. And the rich taxed them even more, and got even richer Then it was just a hop, skip, and a jump to the poorest peasant secretly practicing outrig... ...Greek males strutting openly together in public? And Spanish male and female dancers strutting around in public? They barely move their bodies…they... ...their inner auras. They do not pick out the best mathematicians, or the best dancers, or the superficially pretties girls, or the superficially pret...

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...olt with Flynn tailin’ close behind.” Barbara Scott 10 One hand on her hip, she picked up a hairbrush and stabbed the air with it to drive home ... ...bout making the arrangements already. We believe if you were married to an American citizen— “ He exploded. “Married? You must be mad. I’ve bar... ...t been?” “My name is Falkner. And I’ve been here long enough to know how Americans treat intruders.” The man was as tall as Daniel, and block s... ...ere and the adjustment of a gusset there. Helene must have been slimmer of hip and smaller breasted than Morgan, but their waists seemed about the ... ...fat.” His hand slid slowly over the curves of her, tracing the rise of her hip and down the outside of her thigh and up again, coming to rest where... ...enthusiastic applause of the audience, he stepped aside to make room for the dancers. With whispers and giggles, the pairs bustled to their places... ...y realistic look to them. At the same time, they call to mind a distinctly American spirit.” “It must have cost a fortune.” “It did. But worth ...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ...landers -- Concerning their domestic customs 428- 435 CHAPTER XLII. The Female Dancers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costu... ...cers of Bolabola. -- A unique and pleasurable entertainment -- Costumes of the dancers -- First conflict with New Zealanders -- Killing of a chief -- ... ...and boxers -- An extraordinary dance -- A band of bamboo players -- The female dancers punished for a false step 469- 480 CHAPTER XLVII. Reception by ... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs...

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...’s all gone to pot. Coloured people everywhere, girls dressing like belly-dancers. Even the beer doesn’t taste like it used to.’ Theo wasn’t surprise... ...t expect much in the way of gratitude, but he found it a bit off that the dancers of light hadn’t even paused to thank him. Worn out, Bozo felt enti... ...unrolled the carpet she’d been carrying with a f ourish. ‘Come on, boys – hop on!’ Theo and Bozo stepped on to the carpet uncertainly. ‘Now what?’ Th... ...emen, this is your captain speaking once more. We have a request from the American authorities for Mr Amir and Prakash Vishal to come to the front o... ... been recovered in New York, the showcase for Freedom, De- mocracy and the American Way. He hoped that voters would remember that when it came to his...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lo... ...d in unison. The music sped up and the faster pace widened our circle of dancers. Our bare feet kicked blossoms thrown by boys. We ate and danced,... ...ias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait, through the days ahead, how could I oc- c... ...At the ball, boxers fought in an arena, sawdust-floored; there were Swiss dancers and yodelers; sword swallowers performed: they are the rage now. ...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lo... ...d in unison. The music sped up and the faster pace widened our circle of dancers. Our bare feet kicked blossoms thrown by boys. We ate and danced,... ...ias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait, through the days ahead, how could I oc- c...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...represented a fete champetre—a lady with a guitar, singing, and a group of dancers round a garlanded Hermes. “We go out so little, murmured the marqui... ...to attach no meaning. Then the young man stood there, with his hand on his hip, and with a conscious grin, staring askance at Miss Noemie. Suddenly an...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...e delight of all the rest, who grin from ear to ear incessantly. Among the dancers are two young mulatto girls, with large, black, drooping eyes, and ... ...oth and nail; there is new energy in the tambou rine; new laughter in the dancers; new smiles in the landlady; new confidence in the landlord; new br... ...in his right thigh. The shot entered on the outside, halfway be tween the hip and knee joints.’ ‘Brought to jail, John. Left ear cropt.’ ‘Taken up, a...

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...the way, my brother may come down here—locate here, I mean—and go into the hop- raising business. He’s got an option on five hundred acres just back o... ... a while, his anger somewhat subsided. “My brother and I will take up this hop ranch. I’ve saved a good deal in the last ten years, and there ought to... ...d into the road which turned abruptly northward and led onward through the hop-fields and the Quien Sabe ranch toward the Mission of San Juan. The Hom... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ...nd carried his coat over his shoulder; a hammer was thrust into one of his hip pockets. He was in execrable temper. The day’s work had fagged him out.... ...ittle longer, understand? And don’t let me see you make a move toward your hip or your friends will be asked to identify you at the morgue to- morrow ... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ...t coat, vest or collar, his blue silk suspenders hung in loops over either hip, his hair was disordered, the crown lock stiffer than ever. “Glad to se...

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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...d; I cut his head off.” “You shot him?” “No, somebody else shot him in the hip. When I came, he put up his hands, and cried: ‘Don’t kill me; I am a Ma... ... his ap- proach) waved from his path by his armed guards. He sum- mons his dancers by the note of a bugle. He sits nightly at home before a semicircle...

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...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...red through the streets, lit by vari- coloured lanterns, looking on at the dancers, who were ex- ecuting skilful steps and boundings, and the astrolog... ... where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, “Hurrah for Mandiboy! Hip, hip, hurrah!” It was a band of voters coming to the rescue of their al...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...first light of the dawn, on the heads of cloaked fig- ures; Winchesters on hip; bridle hands protruding lean and brown from under the falling folds of... ...b of an Indian gombo pulsating steadily through the shrill choruses of the dancers. Charles Gould said presently— “All this piece of land belongs now ... ...ing off with his smart, lame walk, vanished utterly at the third or fourth hop in the direction of the railway track. Ar- rested between the two woode...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...main, if there were spirit to support or to revive them. At the last feast of the Bastille, Stanislao Moanatini shed tears when he beheld the inani- m... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...ly errand; but, in the time of the feast, the clan trooped to the high place in a body, and each had his appointed seat. There were places for the chi... ...wenty strong, and some of them twelve feet high—con- tinuously throbbed in time. In time the singers kept up their long-drawn, lugubrious, ululating s... ...pplied the wherewithal, he who superintended the cooking, he who asked grace at table, and when the king’s health was proposed, he also started the ch...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...nge a wilderness like this was fifty years ago. But already, why, they can hop into the Ford or the Overland and get in to the movies on Saturday even... ... to run onto a small covey.” He fussed over his hunting-kit. He pulled his hip boots out to full length and examined them for holes. He fever- ishly c... ...ost the power of play as well as the power of impersonal thought. Even the dancers were gradually crushed by the invisible force of fifty perfectly pu... ... movie because it shows a few legs! Why, you’re always touting these Greek dancers, or whatever they are, that don’t even wear a shimmy!” “But, dear, ... ...ol had heard the story rather often. She fled back to 214 Main Street the dancers, and at Dave Dyer’s masterstroke of dropping an icicle down Mrs. Mc...

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...snon lay before it. Hulot with his two officers followed the troop slowly, hop- ing to get safely to Ernee where the wounded could be cared for. The f... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...ed to do the honors of the ball, endeavored to quiet the impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuni... ...s talked with the count and other persons, he heard the remarks of all the dancers who from time to time in the mazes of the quadrille took the place ...

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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...der-shirt yesterday (it was the only one I could find) that barely came under my trousers; and just below it, a fine healthy rheumatism has now settle... ... O, it’s a good picture, but if you ask me, you know, I believe, stoutly believe, that mankind, including you, are going mad, I am not in the midst wi...

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...with red sashes and tight clothes, looking on superbly, with a hand on the hip and a cigar in the mouth. These must be the chief critics at the great ... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...hose wool was as white as that of a sheep in Florian’s pastorals. To these dancers a couple of fellows were playing on a drum and a little banjo. They...

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...denationalized that those one took for Russians generally turned out to be American, and those one was inclined to ascribe to New York proved to have ... ...appreciation of its value. Even she and Lansing, in spite of their unmixed Americanism, their substantial background of old-fashioned cousinships in N... ...s touts at an International Exhibition. If they were usually recognized as Americans it was only be- cause they spoke French so well, and because Nick... ... Carolingian art; but the Manager has sent up word that the two new Creole dancers from Paris have arrived, and her Serene Highness wants to pop down ... ...disguise them. As she held up her long eye-glass to glance absently at the dancers he was struck by the large beauty of her arm and the careless assur...

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...mons—went back to release his son and Celestine from their duties. All the dancers, for the most part strangers, had taken possession of the territory... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... T uileries, she is supposed to be airing herself from one till four. But, hop, skip, and jump, and she is here. You know your Moliere? Well, Baron, t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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... anxious, and won dering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the pare... ...y d´ ebris of peat and hay, mixed with the perspirations and warmth of the dancers, and forming to gether a sort of vegeto human pollen, the muted fid... ...re or less similar to Tess’s, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one plac... ...ryman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding... ...lk, led her to support herself while she waited by resting her hand on her hip, and her elbow against the wall of the porch. The wind was so nipping t... ...om the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South American Continent towards the coast. His experiences of this strange land ...

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...lena Bay at about the turn of the tide. Moran swung herself over the side, hip deep in the wa- ter, and, wading ashore with a line, made fast to the h... ...d his knuckles squarely between her eyes where her frown was knotted hard, hop- ing to stun her and end the fight once and for all. But the blow did n... ... yet retained, he thrust her down and from him, until at length, using his hip as a pivot, he swung her off her feet, threw her fairly on her back, an... ...ere’s plenty of turtle and abalone to be had for the catching. Some of the American men-of- war, I believe, come down to this bay for target-practice ... ...-chop coffin—savvy? Silver heap much—costum big money. You gib my money to Hop Sing Association, topside Ming Yen temple. You savvy Hop Sing?—one Six ... ...ng Yen temple. You savvy Hop Sing?—one Six Companies.” “Yes, yes.” “Tellum Hop Sing I want funeral—four-piecee horse. You no flogettee horse?” he adde... ... with pitch, and all manner of the dirt of an uncared-for ship. And as the dancers of the cotillon pressed about, and a hundred kid-gloved hands stret...

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...e aim- ing to shock and yet it had its standards, but here it was that the dancers and actresses and forgiven divorcees came in — and the bishops as a... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur...

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...Wasn’t it Wilde who discovered the fact that nature makes no allowance for hip-bones?” enquired Hughling Elliot. He knew by this time exactly what sch... ... stream, and went round and round in the eddies. The rhythmic swish of the dancers sounded like a swirling pool. By degrees the room grew perceptibly ... ...ossibility, and cutting, moreover, into the circular progress of the other dancers. “Shall we stop?” said Hirst. Rachel gathered from his expression t... ...not attempt to answer her platitude. He sat quite silent, star- ing at the dancers. After three minutes the silence be- came so intolerable to Rachel ... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...taire.” “An author? all atheists.” “Let’s put him down, papa; we want more dancers. Be- sides, he wrote the beautiful prospectus for the oil.” “He bel... ...ir coffee. A few hack- ney-coaches had already brought the first impatient dancers. An hour later the rooms were full, and the ball took the char- act... ...tch the oscillating bouquet of flowers formed by the circling heads of the dancers in the moulinet. The expression of his face was that of a true phil...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...interlaced, like—like conjuring tricks. All about the great circle for the dancers there were beautiful figures, strange dragons, and intricate and wo...

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...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...re- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out of love...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...uring the second act, there was quite a commotion in the box where the two dancers were sitting, caused by the undoubted identity of the unknown fair ... ... than if she were alone. Philippe Bridau hurried back to the box where the dancers were sitting, and informed them of the state of affairs. “Oh! so it... ...aying, Esther accepted T ullia, Florentine, Fanny Beaupre, and Florine—two dancers and two actresses —besides Madame du V al-Noble. Nothing can be mor...

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...nt, As a father to his father going takes his children along with him. THE S HIP S TARTING Lo, the unbounded sea, On its breast a ship starting, sprea... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...piece, His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip band, His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his ... ... The bugle calls in the ball room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar roof’d garre... ...go. If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we... ...n loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers, The echoes ring with our indecent ca... ... toilers, Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore, Dancers at wedding dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children,...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ...ll agreed with something said months before, he was sure to have you on the hip. In fact, I always felt, when with him, that I was with no common man... ... and chil- dren—collected and crowded together, leaving barely room for the dancers; for on these occasions no invitations are given, but every one...

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...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...n his eyes, and the hand which was under slipping slow toward the knife at his hip. But I took it from him, smiling close in his face. Even then he di... ... came against her. Then, sudden, the hate flamed in her eye, her hand was at my hip. And once, twice, she passed the knife. “‘Dog!’ she sneered, as she... ...save the gold in an empty baking powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip pocket. So engrossed was he in his toil that he did not notice the ... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...nce, while Fred die Drummond condemned shirking as vicious, criminal, and un American, and devoted whole chapters to condemnation of the vice. Fredd... ... woman whose sightless eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love cry, ever the dancers danced of love in the warm night, and ever the calabashes went ... ...e. But the woman’s love cry broke midway, the calabashes were lowered, and the dancers ceased, as all gazed into the abyss above the sea, where a rock... ...e came always with his wife and her women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants...

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...y on the accustomed ear; When eunuchs sing, and fools buffoonery make, And dancers writhe their harlot-limbs in vain; Then War and all its dread vi... ...u will see my hexameters hopping before you. This is a galloping measure; a hop, and a trot, and a gallop! All my hexameters fly, like stags pursued... ...oralist prates, ’Tis the keystone and cement of civilized States. Those American Reps! And i’ faith, they were serious! It shock’d us at Paris,... ...to a smile, The gay maid on the garden-stile Mimics the hunter’s shout. ‘‘Hip! Florian, hip! To horse, to horse! Go, bring the palfrey out. - 438...

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... haymaking during harvest, ran about in the woods, played 8 Madame Bovary hop-scotch under the church porch on rainy days, and at great fetes begged ... ...ding her by the tips of the fingers, she took her place in a line with the dancers, and waited for the first note to start. But her emotion soon vanis... ...ifteen or so), of twenty-five to forty, scattered here and there among the dancers or talking at the doorways, distinguished themselves from the crowd... ...eth. A waltz immediately began and on the organ, in a little drawing room, dancers the size of a fin- ger, women in pink turbans, T yrolians in jacket... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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...white; and Tweezy, who comes from Kentucky, with an affliction of his left hip, which makes him a little uncertain how his hind legs are moving. He an... ...in’? I assuah you, gentlemen, there was a time befo’ I was afflicted in my hip, if you’ll pardon me, Miss T uck, when I was quite 43 The Day’s Work c... ...any 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 ... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...niforms blazed, and the spurs clinked, and the new frocks and four hundred dancers went round and round till the draped 149 The Day’s Work flags on t... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei...

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...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ... and pecu- liarities of life with the most wonderful exactitude. The rope- dancers, for example, are inimitable. When the clown laughs, his lips, his ...

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ...e Russian entertainments the prince liked best French ac tresses and ballet dancers and white seal champagne. Vronsky was used to princes, but, eithe... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...