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...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with... ... wedge, the Matterhorn. Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ... ...tlemen, but are a lower sort, disguised as gentlemen. The case of Colonel Valentine Baker obstructs that argument, for a man cannot become an officer ...

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...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...aming pour along, and rush into the Thames. Thou, too, great Father of the British floods! With joyful pride survey’st our lofty woods; Where towering... ... Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign. No more my sons shall dye with British blood Red Iber’s sands, or Ister’s foaming flood: Safe on my shore ...

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...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...lankly beautiful, suspiciously beautiful young men; outlining the plots of films about pure prostitutes and kind-hearted train-robbers; and giving dir... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an... ...biggest statesmen in the world—Lord Wycombe, frinstance—you know, this big British nobleman. My friend Sir Gerald Doak told me that Lord Wycombe is on...

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...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him.... ... What wouldn’t I give to have here” (he mentioned a name not unhonoured in British Art). “Am- bition plucking apples of Sodom!” (the monkey had pricke...

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...ck,’ Victor replied hurriedly. ‘He got a drenching of all the damns in the British service from his. Generalissimo one day at a Review, for a trooper’... ...ell of the fairtressed Delphica’s phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets. Assisted by Mr. Semhians, he begins to imagine, that he has,... ...a theme. He is a colonel of Companies. But those are his diversion, as the British Army has been to the warrior. Puellis idoneus, he is professedly a ... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...ss. ‘When a man’s feelings get entangled!’ ‘Oh! a man’s feelings! I’m your British Jury for, a woman’s.’ ‘He has married her?’ She declared to not kno... ...the Service, and left it at his convenience, for our poor patch and tatter British Army to take in his place another young student, who’ll grow up to ...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ...

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... any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet c... ...h and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British 85 Little Dorrit – Book Two subject to be ingenious at his peril: ... ...spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded... ...es Dickens of Mr Dorrit almost constituted a run on the Torlonia Bank. The British Consul hadn’t had such a marriage in the whole of his Consularity. ... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, ove...

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...pprehended, or even lost out of sight. It is dark to eyes touched with the films of human frailty: but it is ‘dark with excessive bright.’* Hence it h... ...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ...tural recognition of witchcraft as a Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated. She, by her eye, blighted the natural powers of gro... ... five millions of square miles, or forty-five times the surface of our two British islands—such was the bound- less domain which this extraordinary ac... ...d view this panic as irrational: and amongst ourselves it would be so; for British free-masonry conceals nothing worse than it professes. But, on the ...

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...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...t 28, the CIA sent a request for information to a different service of the British government; this communication warned that Moussaoui might be expel... ... the end of August.The FBI office in London raised the matter briefly with British officials as an aside, after a meeting about a more urgent matter o... ...ad,Apr. 5, 2004. KSM says that he permitted the trainees to view Hollywood films about hijackings only after he edited the films to cover the female c...

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...d pleas- ing! I was much interested one day by watching a *In a MS. in the British Museum by Mr. Abbott, who made his observations in Georgia; see Mr.... ...of the spider’s body becomes indistinct. It is well known that most of the British spiders, when a large insect is caught in their webs, endeav- our t... ...ts does not exceed a few hundreds. These Spanish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the elements of growth. Many Indians ... ...he distance in a straight line to Buenos Ayres is very nearly five hundred British miles. The wandering tribes of horse Indians, which have always occ... ...rays of light; they were not, however, straight, but in undu- lations like films of silk blown by the wind. They were more than a yard in length, and ... ...ce in a straight lin from the beholder’s eye, would be rather more than tw British miles. Might it not thus readily be overlooked When an animal is ki...

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...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ...ozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution ... ...buffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stil... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the hori- zon. From a radiant centre, o...