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...tments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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...n elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. “Mr. Coverdale,” said he softly, “can I speak with you a moment?” A... ...dual furnace— heat. But towards noon there had come snow, driven along the street by a northeasterly blast, and whitening the roofs and sidewalks with... ...identally delayed, and set forth at a later hour alone. As we threaded the streets, I remember how the buildings on either side seemed to press too cl... ...?—laborers, who have planted themselves hereabouts. This is your forest of Arden; and you are either the banished Duke in person, or one of the chief ... ...w up its feathery jet through the counter, and sparkled down again into an oval basin, or lakelet, containing several goldfishes. There was a bed of b... ...uttered I. The moon, that night, though past the full, was still large and oval, and having risen between eight and nine o’clock, now shone aslantwise...

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...edly, about half a mile from my house, walking down the middle of a public street, attended by a pretty large crowd, and spontaneously exhibiting the ... ...d for some debts of his, and she, with two small children, turned into the streets a begging. It is a circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was v... ...an was hanged for the comfort and satisfaction of shop keepers in Ludgate Street. When brought to receive sen tence, she behaved in such a frantic m... ...rds he stood upon the defensive. ‘I am not what you take me for, Gabriel V arden,’ replied the other. ‘Then what and who are you?’ returned the locksm... ...‘Y ou have better eyes for that than you had for your horse, then,’ said V arden, descending nimbly from his chaise; ‘who are you? Let me see your fac... ...icks,’ said the locksmith, ‘and tales at the club to morrow, how Gabriel V arden was frightened by a surly voice and a dark night. Stand—let me see yo... ...ed. A portrait op posite the window—a queer, old grey eyed general, in an oval frame—seemed to wink and doze as the light decayed, and at length, whe...

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...and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, Lo... ... abundant mud of that thoroughfare, and greatly enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in sma... ... opinion as to what he would recommend to be done with himself. Long before I reached Wapping, I gave myself up as hav- ing lost my way, and, abandoni... ...treet. When I departed from Dullborough in the strawy arms of Timpson’s Blue-Eyed Maid, Timpson’s was a moderate-sized coach-office (in fact, a little... ...lways goes to bed (when I am going to Calais) with a more brilliant display of lamp and candle than any other town. Mr. and Mrs. Birmingham, host and ... ... begun ‘Honoured Madam. I think that a lady gifted with those powers of observation which I know you to possess, and endowed with those womanly sympat... ...ed, and we assembled in force. Mrs. Flipfield senior formed an interesting feature in the group, with a blue-veined miniature of the late Mr. Flipfiel...

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...ve it is he,” said Harriet, mysteriously. “He?” repeated Aurelia. “Not Mr. Arden, for he would be in black,” and at Harriet’s disgusted gesture, “I be... ...ant toots of the postman’s horn. In due time he made his way into the High Street, broad and unpaved, with rows of lime or poplar trees before the pri... ...ired the execution of the landlord’s barbarous design of knocking down the street front to re- place it with a plain, oblong assembly room, red brick ... ...ikewise climbed the stair to the club-room with its oriel looking over the street. There too were several of the cathedral clergy, the rubicund double... ...law,” said the Major. “Summum jus, summa injuria,” quoted, sotto voce, Mr. Arden, a minor canon who, being well born, scholarly, sci- entific and gent... ...rse and pay heavily for them. There were not many. The Doctor had two, Mr. Arden one, Mr. Scrivener no less than five, but of them two were franked, a... ...t, was not concealed by the mascu- line collar of the habit. The exquisite oval contour of the cheek, the delicate ear, and Grecian profile were as pe...

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...a; the clear and cool common sense, controlling the audacity of a rich and ardent imagination; the humorous gibes and strange expletives wherewith he ... ...Doctor Grimshawe’s resi dence, by confessing that it stood in a shabby by street, and cornered on a graveyard, with which the house communicated by a... ...ows, the old graveyard about the house which cornered upon it; it made the street gloomy, so that people did not alto gether like to pass along the h... ...s a century old, low studded, with a square front, standing right upon the street, and a small enclosed porch, contain ing the main entrance, affordi... ...g the main entrance, affording a glimpse up and down the street through an oval window on each side, its characteristic was decent respectability, not... ...to such knowledge. “Here is mine, on a respectable house in London.” The W arden took it, and glanced it over with a slight apolo getic bow; it was a... ...se papers and parchments have a fine old yellow tint, Colcord,” said the W arden, “very satisfactory to an antiquary.” “There is nothing in them,” sai...

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...he Marquesas. Stanislao Moanatini told me that in his own recollection, the young were strictly guarded; they were not suffered so much as to look upo... ...th the tapu. Mr. Regler has seen the two ex- tremes of scepticism and implicit fear. In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerf... ...son was untenanted; the calaboose at Tai-o- hae does a good business. But some of its occupants were gardening at the Residency, and the rest were pro... ...sels waded, baring their brown thighs; and to one of the maniap’s 166 In The South Seas before the palace gate we were attracted by a low but stir- r... ...ains the situation with some art. ‘No; I no pay them,’ he once said. ‘I give them to- bacco. They work for me all the same brothers.’ It is true there...

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...what it was they really wanted. All this I saw from the open window of the W arden’s break fast saloon, looking across the shoulder of the Lord Chan ... ...ED CROCODILE. 102 CHAPTER 17. THE THREE BADGERS. 111 CHAPTER 18. QUEER STREET, NUMBER FORTY. 118 CHAPTER 19. HOW TO MAKE A PHLIZZ. 125 CHAPT... ...an the glitter of bright eyes and the hazy outline of what might be a lovely oval face, but might also, unfortunately , be an equally unlovely one. I ... ...y that I felt sure would have made Æneas green with envy: but the dimly seen oval remained as provokingly blank as ever—a mere Ellipse, as if in some ... ...nthusiasm. “You see, my precious one, that there are fifteen houses in Green Street, before you turn into West Street.” “Fifteen houses! Is it possib... ...d myself just in time—with something of the feeling of one who has crossed a street, and has been all but run over by a passing ‘Han som.’ “—and I th... ...oll 135 Lady were always out walking when the Jester came round. Yes, the W arden’s supposed to be dead!” And more tears trick led down the old man’...

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...The House of the Seven Gables trusts not to be condemned for “laying out a street that in- fringes upon nobody’s private rights... and building a hous... .... He trusts not to be considered as unpardonably offending by laying out a street that infringes upon nobody’s private rights, and appropriating a lot... ...cheon F yncheon F yncheon Family amily amily amily amily HALFWAY DOWN a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with se... ... heedful regard to her appearance on all sides, and at full length, in the oval, dingy- framed toilet-glass, that hangs above her table. Truly! well, ... ... P The P The Pyncheon G yncheon G yncheon G yncheon G yncheon Gar ar ar ar arden den den den den CLIFFORD, except for Phoebe’s More active instigation... ...he preva- lent hue of popular sentiment,—now began to shine out, broad and oval, in its middle pathway. These silvery beams were already powerful enou...

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...short curly grass, See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,... ... the trees as the supple boughs wag, The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill sides, The feeling of health, the f... ...llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols, Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosop... ...r you. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 102 BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM TO THE G ARDEN THE W ORLD To the garden the world anew ascending, Potent mates, d... ...urn’d love, the pay is certain one way or another, (I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return’d, Yet out of that I have written the... ...Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing de... ...s we now belong to it. Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand, Some with oval countenances learn’d and calm, Some naked and savage, some like huge... ...t all from first to last comprised in it. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 488 How ardently for it! How many ships have sail’d and sunk for it! How many tra...

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...unfamiliar to the Scotchman’s eye – the domestic architecture, the look of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age of many, and the thin wall... ...ight call 9 Memories and Portraits them – or on one of these flat-chested streets, but he is in- stantly reminded where he is, and instantly travels ... ...ld stone cities, immi- nent on the windy seaboard; compared with the level streets, the warm colouring of the brick, the domestic quaintness of the ar... ...le summer without weariness, like the Bell Rock or the Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black- trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus,... ...ide too high for these misfortunes. Who doubts the loveliness of Rosalind? Arden itself was not more lovely. Who ever questioned the perennial charm o... ...e fleshly sense, gone questing after gold, it is prob- able that both have ardently desired and fondly imagined the details of such a life in youthful...

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...n. Caroline Frances Perceval, the youngest daughter of Charles George Lord Arden. Both he and his wife were deeply religious persons, with a strong se... ...ligently for old patterns and for an- cient carving in oak, and in Wardour Street he succeeded in obtaining five panels, representing the Blessed Virg... ...n festal services, when those who heard it can hardly forget a sermon of W arden Barter’s on the 134th Psalm, when, with the noble sweetness of his co... ...horse chestnuts and elms. Below are the schools, and the irregular curving street of houses, thatched, tiled, or slated, in gardens or close to the ro... ..., replies: “I’m not like those little mountebank doctors that go about the streets, and say this, that, and the other, and tell you as many lies in on... ...e low wood, delicate clusters of yellow flowers, and crimson fruit in long oval bunches has been sedulously banished from an idea that it poisons gras...

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... it did revive and creep up to the bulk and stiffness of a suppository, or street magdaleon, which is a hard rolled-up salve spread upon leather. Then... ...ve or six artless masters, all thor- oughly bedaggled with the mire of the streets. At their entry Ponocrates met them, who was afraid, seeing them so... ... certain very fair Sunday, the people being at their public dancing in the streets, and one of the scholars offering to put himself into the ring to p... ...es of hard passages, are able to reach it, as is easily perceivable by the ardent desire and vehement longing harboured in the breast of everyone to b... ...ed C. Genitive C. Fertile C. Desired C. Gigantal C. Whizzing C. Stuffed C. Oval C. Neat C. Speckled C. Claustral C. Common C. Finely metalled C. Viril... ...hibition was no sooner made but that they did all of them boil with a most ardent desire to know and see what kind of thing it was that was within it.... ..., each upon the pawn of his sword. Thus by a little sleep was pacified the ardent fury of two warlike champions. There, gossip, comes the golden word ... ...credulous infidels use to do, take a fresh egg, and orbicularly, or rather ovally, enfold it within this divine Pantagruelion. When it is so wrapped u... ...The sacred Bottle was in it to the middle, clad in pure fine crystal of an oval shape, except its muzzle, which was somewhat wider than was consistent...