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...nd the chin stood freely out from a fine neck and throat. After a space an Austrian war-steamer was discerned puff- ing out of the harbour of Laveno. ... ...ttered one behind them gruffly. “When I see this king swallow one ounce of Austrian lead, I shall not be sorry to follow him!” 8 Vittoria “Right, my ... ...m; “and I will then compose his hymn of praise. He has swallowed enough of Austrian bread. He took an Austrian wife to his bed. Who knows? he may some... ...trian wife to his bed. Who knows? he may some day declare a preference for Austrian lead. But we shall have to follow him, or stay at home drivelling.... ...ld what was to be said of a pas- sionate glorious heart at rest, thanks to Austrian or vassal- Sardinian mercy. So they lay there and discussed their ... ... shall be thirsty enough: You pretty wrig- gler! don’t you know, the first cup of wine and the last, I shall float your name on it? Luck to the lads w... ...ion and no fear. ‘Si- gnorina, here is chocolate.’ She beheld two hands in cup- shape, surcharged with packets of T urin chocolate. ‘Lugi, it is you?’... ...u.” From heaven’s high altar, O Camilla, my child, this silver sacramental cup was reached to me. Gather my tears in it, fill it with my blood, and dr... ... monotones, almost Gregorian in its severity up to this point. ‘I took the cup. I looked my mother in the face. I filled the cup from the flowing of h...

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...e may double that number. In lowly parlour, as in lofty sa- loon, the wine-cup passes round; crowned by the smiles of Beauty; be it of lightly-trippin... ...and, might lie Counter-Revolu- tion itself, sale to Exiled Princes and the Austrian Kaiser: treacherous Aristocrats hoodwinking the small insight of u... ...hension, with mutual exaspera- tion. It was but in these days that certain Austrian troops, marching peaceably across an angle of this region, seemed ... ...oniteur, Seance du 9 Aout 1790.) A matter of mere diplomacy it proved; the Austrian Kaiser, in haste to get to Belgium, had bargained for this short c... ..., is much divided: Aristocrats abound; Patriotism has both Aristocrats and Austrians to watch. It is Lorraine, this region; not so illu- minated as ol... ...ps disdainfully express the same in words, and ‘soon after fly over to the Austrians. ’ So that when it here as elsewhere comes to the question of Arr... ...s were fought; and argumentative men and messmates, flinging down the wine-cup and weapons of reason and repartee, met in the measured field; to part ... ...mes voice of rude drovers, or the like, who have not yet taken the stirrup-cup; Boniface Le Blanc, in white apron, serving them: cheerful to behold. T... ...one finds Petion the virtuous; harangued and haranguing, pledging the wine-cup with Constitutional Reform Clubs, in solemn tavern-dinner. Incorruptibl...

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...of the lands his family had formerly owned on terra firma, and sold to the Austrian government. This little income spared our handsome Emilio the igno... ...the lagoon from Mestre to Venice, between the lines of stakes painted with Austrian colors, which mark out the channel for gondolas as conceded by the... ..., and unable to sell the statues, stairs, paintings, sculp- ture, which an Austrian decree had made inalienable! T o live on a foundation of piles of ... ...r that sum, had to live exclusively on rice. Also he kept enough to take a cup of black coffee every morning at Florian’s to keep himself up till the ... ...d that the manager had tried in vain to induce her to appear with him. The Austrian General, on the other hand, asserted that it was the Duke who was ... ...mmanded to make amends to the public. The Duchess owed this visit from the Austrian General to the fact that a French physician had come to Venice who...

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...at time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was manoeuvring before the Austrians, who then occupied the right bank of the river. The headquarters ... ...o secure himself impunity. The other bank of the river was occupied by the Austrian army; below the windows lay a boat and boatman; he would cut the t... ... escape with the valise; gold would buy the boatman and he could reach the Austrians. He went so far as to calculate the professional ability he had r... ... sofa at the corner of the fireplace. Mademoiselle Fanny is offering him a cup of coffee. He smiles. Would a murderer to whom that tale must have been... ...r. “Were you ever in Germany?” she asked. Taillefer came near dropping his cup and saucer. “I, madame? No, never.” “What are you talking about, Taille...

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...ielded, one would say); and preparing to besiege Verdun? Clairfait and his Austrians are encompassing Thionville; darkening the North. Not Metz-land n... ...King, with his sixty thou- sand, will beleaguer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty ... ...ere. He spreads out the map of this forlorn war- district: Prussians here, Austrians there; triumphant both, 24 The French Revolution - V olume Three... ...bably to this day. (Bombardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister) will herself see red artillery fired;... ...cle! Hap- pily, in these days, he can enlist, and have himself shot by the Austrians, in an unusually satisfactory manner: for the Rights of Man.—But ... ...in that dumb pain, as they go to the gallows, unregarded; they consume the cup of trembling down to the lees. For Kings and for Beggars, for the justl... ...them with Priests’ stoles: they held clutched with the same hand communion-cup and sacred wafer. They stopped at the doors of Dramshops; held out cibo... ...raternels; Mercier, ii. 150.) See it O Night! With cheerfully pledged wine-cup, hobnobbing to the Reign of Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood, with their ... ...ound a list of Forty, his own name among them; and tarried not at the wine-cup that day!—Ye must bestir yourselves, O Friends; ye dull Frogs of the Ma...

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... more unaffected delight to return a friend’s greeting. It was as though a cup of wa- ter had been handed to me in the desert. I knew that a cargo of ... ...nterpreter—who turned out to be an Ital- ian from Trieste, attached to the Austrian Consulate at Alexandria—had the interpreter spoken English with th... ...f grit, of which the berries had been only bruised, not ground. I took the cup and swallowed the mixture, for I could not refuse, but I wish that I mi... ... turn at the end of the quay, I caught sight of the retreating legs of the Austrian interpreter, and I became aware that he had been sent down, and ha...

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...ng for Italy—like a thing underground! My father did something against the Austrians, when he was a young man. Would not I have done it? I am sure I w... ...spaper, of my father’s friends and old companions shot and murdered by the Austrians. He read it in the evening, after we had a quiet day. I thought h... ...at I want is to be an accurate singer. My music-master was a German—not an Austrian—oh, no!—I’m sure he was not. At least, I don’t think so, for I lik... ...e time I could not sleep. I laughed at myself for composing. He was not an Austrian: but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austri... ...but when he was alive he lived in Vienna, the capi- tal of Austria. He ate Austrian bread, and why God gave him such a soul of music I never can think... ...im into mid-air; not as when the idle boy Ganymede was caught up to act as cup-bearer in celestial Courts, but to plunge about on yielding vapours, wi... ... to think there was some lived before tea! Why, as I say over almost every cup I drink, it ain’t to be realized. It seems almost wicked to say it, Sir...

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... father; and in this state she had her train carried by a knight’s wife, a cup and cover of assay to drink from, and fringed cloth. He who was of the ... ...s Grace, in which he hoped that as Don Scipio had formerly served with the Austrians against the French, ’twas to be hoped that his Excellency would n... ... Excellency would now declare himself against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excelle... ...ncestor rode with King Henry at Agincourt, and filled up the French King’s cup after Poictiers? ‘Fore George, sir, why shouldn’t Blandford marry Beatr... ...know my Father in any garment, black or white, shaven or bearded;” for the Austrian officer was habited quite in the military manner, and had as warli... ...d a little excited by wine, which was dealt out much more liberally by the Austrian than by the English commander:— ”Now,” says my general, slapping t...

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...d comforts him in sorrow. He who so enjoyeth it may thank God for his wine-cup as for his daily bread; and he who abuseth the gift of Heaven is not a ... ...with all the other Christian princes—with Philip of France, with that dull Austrian, with him of Montserrat, with the Hospitallers, with the T emplars... ...id the Arab; “I will pass with you when I have given my patient the second cup of this most holy elixir.” So saying he pulled out a silver cup, and fi... ...ntents of which the bystanders could not discover, and immersing it in the cup, continued to watch it in silence during the space of five minutes. It ... ... false law, I would aid him with my sword to drive this scum of French and Austrians from his dominions, and think Palestine as well ruled by him as w... ...around stood silent, and in breathless expectation. The sage next filled a cup with spring water, and dipped into it the small red purse, which, as fo... ...ay be possible to put some open rupture betwixt the Frenchman—at least the Austrian— and his allies of England, so that the breach shall be irrecon- c... ... and other personal reasons, the King of England very soon looked upon the Austrian Prince with feelings of con- tempt, which he was at no pains to co... ...incely ban- quet. Their dress seemed equally fantastic to him, many of the Austrian nobles retaining their long beards, and almost all of them wearing...

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...ed. His sole expense therefore was for breakfast, invariably composed of a cup of chocolate, with bread and butter and fruits in their season. He made... ...e for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Besides, we are ... ...e second, starting four hours later, brought the news of the defeat of the Austrians. Du Bousquier cursed Kellermann and Desaix; he dared not curse Bo... ...ther were together in the dining-room, where they were breakfasting with a cup of coffee, with bread and butter and radishes. To make the pleasure whi... ...y on his elbow at the breakfast table, was twirling his spoon in his empty cup and contemplating with a preoccupied eye the poor room with its red bri... ...t it: ‘Beauty is ever a queen,’ said the Emperor. And he, you know, was an Austrian-German,” added the chevalier. “But I can tell you that Germany, wh... ...oisville. “Yes, monsieur, I am looking for a house.” [Mademoiselle Cormon, cup in hand, turns round.] “It must be a large house” [Mademoiselle Cormon ... ...rns round.] “It must be a large house” [Mademoiselle Cormon offers him the cup] “to lodge my whole family.” [The eyes of the old maid are troubled.] M...

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...istence. He had made for himself a practice in some obscure little town of Austrian Galicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved po... ...rom houses and chased all the way to the river-bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dragoons and Prussian Hussars. The bridge had been mined early in ... ...an a half sheet of foolscap or so. This relative of ours happened to be an Austrian officer who had left the service after the battle of Austerlitz. U... .... Nicholas B., bidding good-bye to his hospitable relative, the “fearless” Austrian officer, departed from Galicia, and without going near his native ... ...t he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia looking for t... ...ver. That morning he breakfasted with us silently, looking mostly into his cup. I informed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on t...

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...tence. He had made for him- self a practice in some obscure little town of Austrian Galicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved po... ...rom houses and chased all the way to the river bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dra- 51 Joseph Conrad goons and Prussian Hussars. The bridge had ... ...an a half-sheet of foolscap or so. This relative of ours happened to be an Austrian officer, who had left the service after the battle of Austerlitz. ... .... Nicholas B., bidding good-bye to his hospitable relative, the “fearless” Austrian officer, departed from Galicia, and without going near his native ... ...t he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia looking for t... ...ver. That morning he breakfasted with us silently, looking mostly into his cup. I in- formed him that my men came upon his pony capering in the fog on...

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...e usurer. Optimists in their own interests, they are all faith- ful to the Austrian status quo. If you speak of moving a cup- board or a door, of open... ...ey are all faith- ful to the Austrian status quo. If you speak of moving a cup- board or a door, of opening the most indispensable air-hole, their eye...

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...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...h that fatal hour, Mrs. O’Dowd woke up her Major, and had as comfortable a cup of coffee prepared for him as any made that morning in Brussels. And wh... ...wed his sympathy by pouring her out a 50 V anity Fair – V olume Two large cup of tea It was his way of exhibiting kindness: and he improved on this; ... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h... ...mself by saying yes and no, by scowling at Lady Jane, and by upsetting one cup of coffee during the evening. If he did not speak he yawned in a pitiab... ...ver his heavy brow. She rose up from her sofa and went and took his coffee cup out of his hand with a little curtsey. “Y es,” she said, “I must get a ... ... and was glad when Lord Steyne ordered her to go downstairs and make him a cup of tea. Briggs was the house-dog whom Rebecca had provided as guardian ...

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...coffee, and only then took off his hat. Coffee was brought him; he drank a cup, and looking at everybody in turn, he growled between his teeth, ‘Sorte... ...ut any apparent reason—’ A disagreeable-looking man-servant came in with a cup of coffee, cream and sugar on a tray. ‘The father is pleased with a sui... ...he servant gave Shubin a dubious look, while Nikolai Artemyevitch took the cup of coffee, added some cream, and 128 On the Eve seized some ten lumps ... ...ughty voice behind them. The heavy thud of horse’s hoofs was heard, and an Austrian of- ficer in a short grey tunic and a green cap galloped past them... ...etry—that’s the only word for it! But one thing’s really awful: the cursed Austrians meeting one at every turn! ah, these Austrians! By the way, have ... ...ng and devoted to the Slavonic cause. He despised the T urks and hated the Austrians. ‘How long must you remain at Venice?’ Elena asked him in Italian...

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...ntcornet commanded the cuirassiers at the battle of Essling (called by the Austrians Gross-Aspern), and came near perishing when that noble corps was ... ...lorious resolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of... ...The curate of Gross-Aspern took us to the famous cemetery where French and Austrians struggled to- gether knee-deep in blood, with a courage and obsti... ...ets to which a little meadow, always watered and always green, serves as a cup; farther on, beyond the picturesque chaos and in contrast to this wild,... ...ed sudden orders to advance through Hungary and cut off the retreat of the Austrian army in case the Emperor won the battle of Wagram. Michaud told me... ...uished men; men who could hold their own in Paris.” Devoted to the game of cup-and-ball, the clerk of the court became possessed by another mania,—tha... ... 1814 were all of one pattern, and the one which Gourdon composed upon the Cup-and-Ball will give an idea of them. They re- quired a certain knack or ... ...six would wear the subject threadbare. Gourdon’s poem entitled “Ode to the Cup-and-Ball” obeyed the poetic rules which governed these works, rules tha... ... sing the good game that belongeth to all, The game, be it known, of the Cup and the Ball; Dear to little and great, to the fools and the wise; ...

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...a climax of rapture. “I’ve got the blue ball.” She held it gloating in the cup of her hands. It was a little globe of hardened glass, of a magnificent... .... “Of course,” she replied, “one can’t decide such a thing like drinking a cup of tea.” “Of course, one can’t, dear Tanny,” said Julia. “After all, on... ...nd in bed. Lilly brought him tea. With a dim kind of obedience he took the cup and would drink. He looked at Lilly with heavy eyes. “I gave in, I gave... ...y. Well, and very necessary, too; otherwise we might be where the wretched Austrians are. Instead of which—how smooth his hostess’ sapphires! “Of cour... ...de his skin. So he turned away to his coffee and eggs. A little silver egg-cup with a curious little frill round it: honey in a frail, iridescent glas... ...as look- ing blindingly beautiful. The Colonel was looking into his coffee-cup as wistfully as if it contained the illusion of tawny port. The Major w... ... his head looked hard and rather military: he would have been taken for an Austrian officer, or even a German, had it not been for the, peculiar Itali...

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.... At six weeks old, he had received from John Sedley a present of a silver cup; at six months old, a coral with gold whistle and bells; from his youth... ...tal club. He rode his own horse, Greased Light- ning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped ... ...x- ceedingly red, Dobbin ceased speaking, and almost choked himself with a cup of tea. The story was over the regiment in half-an-hour; and that very ... ...f something. When they brought her coffee, she started as though it were a cup of poison which Mr. Hicks, the butler, wished to propose to her. What m... ...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s... ...akfast (of which he partook with a very hearty appetite, though his modest cup of life was only sweetened with brown sugar), he set off in his best Su... ...of Boney’s that’s fit to hold a candle to Wittgenstein. Then there are the Austrians, they are five hundred thousand if a man, and they are within ten... ...ainst any force Boney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed... ... They were six to one at Montmirail, and he scattered them like sheep. The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its h...

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...s would have pointed me Had it remained to speak. And so I always bear the cup If, haply, mine may be the drop Some pilgrim thirst to slake,— If, hapl... ...ng, Present them here! 104 XXXIX BRING me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning’s flagons up, And say how many dew; T ell me how... ...lf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life, his porcelain, Like a cup Discarded of the housewife, Quaint or broken; A newer Sèvres pleases, O... ...gled limbs Like animals in pain, When Nature falls Upon herself, Beware an Austrian! 277 LI I THINK that the root of the Wind is Water, ... ...diers, 229 Bloom upon the Mountain, stated, 275 Bring me the sunset in a cup, 104 C Candor, my tepid Friend, 307 Come slowly, Eden! 154 Could I b...

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...e should share Adam’s doom, and drain throughout life a mixed and moderate cup of enjoyment. In the sequel, however, I find that publishers in general... ...rvesce often with such a man as Edward. I said to myself, “I will place my cup under this continual dropping; it shall stand there still and steady; w... ... de somme,” murmured scorn- fully the director. Meantime I offered him his cup of coffee. “Servez-vous mon garcon,” said he blandly, when I had put a ... ...andly, when I had put a couple of huge lumps of continental sugar into his cup. “And now tell me why you stayed so long at Mdlle. Reuter’s. I know tha... ...ver the long range of desks, I had under my eye French, English, Belgians, Austrians, and Prussians. The ma- jority belonged to the class bourgeois; b... ...thus with him? It was the question I placed before my mind as I stirred my cup of coffee with a half-pistolet (we never had spoons), Pelet meantime be...