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...by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Comp... ...ewhat to Helen’s embarrassment, now referred to this work and addressing the ship’s doctor, James Grant, said with a toss of her head, ‘Did you know... ...e gentleness and post-surgery compassion for her patient than a lot of you male doctors.’ Doctor Grant, a taciturn Welshman, who was seated opposite... ...no slouch where her professional skills were concerned. ‘Thank you for your kind invitation, Dr. Grant. I shall be along tomorrow to see what help ... ...opposite, who winked at her and laughingly commented, ‘The lass has brains as well as beauty, Dr. Grant. I wager you will now have more malingerers ... ...r’s concern for their welfare. Helen found a note on her dressing table propped against a crystal bud vase containing a single red rose and she smil...
...witchboard and, together with his cousin, produced the first model in 1888. He was granted a patent in 1891. Strowger joined forces with Joseph B. ... ...behind the screen and, later, from speakers he mounted on trees. Hollingshead was granted a patent in May 1933 (later invalidated by the courts) a... ...etween Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus with a formal right to secede granted to each of the constituents. Lagos - today, a state ... ...and they withdrew their accusations. Elvira, blackmailed by her husband, agreed to grant him full freedom - presumably, also romantically. htt... ...the ocean. Thus, William Penn included this clause in the charter of privileges he granted to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania: "If any person, t...
...ustralia decided that it would determine whether an organization should be granted legal status as a religious group on the basis of whether it taught... ...ing rituals, and a belief system which may be explicit or simply taken for granted. Prime examples of these are the traditional American Indian and Au... ...d of its times, when male domination was even more prevalent and taken for granted than now. Very little allowance was made for women and, according t... ...ative town his aunt and foster mother, Mahaprajapati, thrice begged him to grant this privilege to women but was thrice refused and went away in tears... ...200. BUDDHISM 45 tices is highly questionable. Generally the view held by Bud- dhists who value yoga as a religious practice, is that since true enli... ...ring “psychic” powers. Such a belief reflects the amalgamation of original Bud- dhist tradition with popular acknowledgment that the actual ex- perien... ...mpt has been made to consider the many divergent schools of thought within Bud- dhism. However, I do not wish to finish this discussion without some r... ...to be said about the logic or the lack of logic in the Buddhist claim. For Bud- dhism this does not matter, because it is the experience of libera- ti... ...this previous life is the basis on which our present life begins. Not only Bud- dhists and Hindus hold to this, but a great many Christians as well (t...
...uffled giggles and probing looks. “Savy!” I recognized the voice of my best bud, Marci, and growled under my breath. I loved her like a sister, but... ... him? I’d never believed in love at first sight. That was the stuff of Hugh Grant movies. Love at First Stake 47 Real people didn’t go ga-ga a... ...linked my eyes open, shocked to see the fires burning within Donnie’s stare. Granted, I’m not the most experienced person you could find when it com... ...through the sheer lace of my bra. His teeth gently raked across the swollen bud, sending my voice singing into the flat night air. I heard the soun... ... as I draw breath, no man, be he human or Vampire, will have you.” “Donnie, granted we’re about to smack death upside the head in a few minutes, but...
...h upon the matter; and once I heard her whisper as she left the room, ‘God grant he be not disap- pointed! I know not how he would bear it.’ Disappoin... ...d; but I thought it my absolute duty to crush this vicious tendency in the bud: and 26 Agnes Grey so it was, if I could have done it; and had my powe... ...e a home too, if he pleases; and, doubtless, he will please some time. God grant the partner of that home may be wor- thy of his choice, and make it a... ... men if you don’t. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!’ pleaded he as ardently as if his life de... ...ossible that God may hear my prayers, disperse these gloomy shad- ows, and grant me some beams of heaven’s sunshine yet? Will He entirely deny to me t... ... I, ‘now that he has a good master; I’m quite satisfied.’ ‘You take it for granted that I am a good one, then?’ The man and the dog departed, and I re...
... “Look at old Morrison’s dress-stuff windows! Tidy, taste- ful, correct, I grant you, but Bleak!” He let out the word reinforced to a shout; “Bleak!” ...
...terrible wounds 217- 227 CHAPTER XX. Cortez Plucks the Flower Glory out of the bud Of defeat. -- Recruiting another expedition against Mexico -- Captu... ...etimes the spectres give an omen of approaching death, as in the story told by Grant: An officer of the English Navy was pacing the deck when his sist... ..., the Khan answered them, "Since you desire your reproach and shame, let it be granted you; go and do herein after your wont." The messenger returning... ...mperial lineage of Zingis-Khan, or of one family called Boriat, which had been granted this privilege for the great valor some member had shown upon a... ...corpses that were polluting the streets, they utilized the time which was thus granted in preparing for a secret removal of their Emperor to the main ... ... from London and Paris, and as they came they brought with them favorites, and grants dispossessing the original colonists, many of whom not obtaining...
...I am the last that will last keep his oath. But is there no quick recreation granted? FERDINAND: Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted ... ...I hope in God for high words. LONGAVILLE: A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience! BIRON: To hear? or forbear laughing? LONGAVILLE: To ... ...ARIA: You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest? BOYET: So you grant pasture for me. [Offering to kiss her .] MARIA: ... ... blow? speak to be understood. BOYET: Fair ladies mask’d are roses in their bud; Dismask’d, their damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing c... ...We did not quote them so. FERDINAND: Now, at the latest minute of the hour, Grant us your loves. PRINCESS: A time, methinks, too ...
...he prize you at. Thus says my king; an’ if your father’s highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large, Act II, scene iv 26 Sweeten the bitter mo... ... huge and proper life Be here presented. Now we bear the king Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen, Heave him away upon your winged thoughts Ath... ... thy speak ing of my tongue, and I thine, most truly falsely, must needs be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou understand thus much Engl... .... KING HENRY V : Is’t so, my lords of England? WESTMORELAND: The king hath granted every article: His daughter first, and then in sequel all, Accord... ...demands, that the King of France, having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall name your highness in this form and with this addition in Fr...
...eople are content to do in Germany. As to his opinions, we all took it for granted that he was a freethinker; but I can’t tell how that might be. Maur... ...etween you and Mysie, so she must take her place accordingly. And today we grant her the privilege of the new-comer.’ Dolores would have esteemed the ... ...ho had uncon- sciously snubbed some of her affectations, and nipped in the bud a flirtation with Harry, besides calling off some of the curates to be ... ...thoroughly good, 100 The Two Sides of the Shield and every inch a lady.’ ‘Granted, but that’s not the other one—Constance is her name? My dear, I saw... ...e’ s the ‘Bereaved Mother’ s Address to her Infant:’ ‘Sweet little bud of stainless white, Thou’lt blossom in the garden of light.’ ... ...com- fort, and, as she said it, she resolved in her mind whether she could grant Dolores’s request; for she was not sure whether she should be allowed... ...re ballet than quadrille, and they looked uncommonly pretty. Uncle William granted that, though he grumbled at the whole concern as nonsense, and wond...
...e contrary, a piece of flattery to the dupe’s conceit. The rare interviews granted to Crevel kept his passion at white heat. He was constantly blocked... ... sight of the Brazilian gave him a shock, Crevel begged Madame Marneffe to grant him two minutes’ speech with her. Valerie led Crevel into the drawing... ...k which Steinbock flashed at Valerie, “I knew you were a profligate in the bud! Well, Valerie is lovely—but try not to bring trouble on Hortense.” NOT... ... time. Yes, I have fought many a pitched battle to keep you in it.—Well, I grant you your two re- quests; it would be too bad to see you riding the ba... ...for that. Poor Adeline, incapable of imagining a patch, of pinning a rose- bud in the very middle of her bosom, of devising the tricks of the toilet i... ...people were ready to offer good rents for the shops, on condition of being granted leases for eighteen years. The dwelling apartments rose in value by... ... are illogical. You want a battle fought, but you object to blows.—Well, I grant you the innocence you are so careful over. I have al- ways found that...
...self so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air... ...prayer. ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. JULIET: Saints do not move, though... ...rant thou, lest faith turn to despair. JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake. ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I ... ...ch doth cease to be Ere one can say ‘It lightens.’ Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when...
... Golden child of Zeus, O hear Let thine angel face appear! (Str. 3) And grant that Ares whose hot breath I feel, Though without targe or steel... ...well deny. CREON And as thy consort queen she shares the throne? OEDIPUS I grant her freely all her heart desires. CREON And with you twain I share th... ...ir a nursling then I seemed, how foul The canker that lay festering in the bud! Now is the blight revealed of root and fruit. Ye triple high-roads, an... ....] Oedipus the Kin Sophocles 56 CREON Lo, here is Creon, the one man to grant Thy prayer by action or advice, for he Is left the State s sole guard... ...esence comes to me A shock of glad surprise so noble thou, And I so vile O grant me one small boon. I ask it not on my behalf, but thine. CREON And wh... ...US But I am the gods abhorrence. CREON Then they soon will grant thy plea. OEDIPUS Lead me hence, then, I am willing. CREON ...
...mplified in all life. The rise of the sap, the bursting greenness of the willow bud, the fall of the yellow leaf — in this alone was told the whole his... ...Hudson’s Bay. “Confound it, Baptiste, could n’t think of it. Not for a moment. Grant that this man is a fool and of small use in the nature of things,... ...uld hear the green things growing, the running of the sap, the bursting of the bud. And he knew the subtle speech of the things that moved, of the rab... ... experienced a pang of regret that he had not devised a nose strap of the sort Bud wore in cold snaps. Such a strap passed across the cheeks, as well,... ...rse be exposed to the ceaseless scrutiny of innumerable eyes, like his, though grant edly different, with behind them, by the same token, intelligenc...
...utine of his duty, has been accustomed? Do you not see he has taken it for granted that all men proceed to conceal a letter,—not exactly in a gimlet h... ...ottise, car elle a convenue au plus grand nombre.’ The mathemati- cians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popu- lar error to which ... ... doing, rather 123 V olume Two than upon the basis of what we took it for granted the Deity intended him to do. If we cannot comprehend God in his vi... ...ucceeded by the sassafras and locust—these again by the softer linden, red-bud, cat- alpa, and maple—these yet again by still more graceful and more m... ...o esset exploraturi.” 229 V olume Two We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existe...
...nce from their physical and social environments; they rely on their own development and their continued growth. They do not take blessings for grante... ... ―When looking at sex and power we have two powerful, probably innate, drives. Women, traditionally through their beauty, get power over men. Granti... ...‖ 59 —―Let‘s not forget the individual using his wiles to get God to grant ... ...ult humans, was offered by Dr. Harry Overstreet. He stated that, ‗The love of a person does not imply the possession of that person. It means granti... ... their lives and having good relationships as being spiritual qualities. It made for good press coverage, and maybe opened the doors for more grant ...
...fat people always prophesy ruin if things don’t go exactly your way. But I grant you there will be changes.” There were. When her eggs hatched, the wa... ... What more can mortal man desire?” (The Apple Tree’s in bud.) As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree, The Angel of t...
...47 81 Or I shall live your epitaph to make, .......................47 82 I grant thou wert not married to my Muse ..............48 83 I never saw t... ...world’s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. ... ...ame! deny that thou bear’st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many, But that thou none lovest ... ...and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults, and even I in this, Authorizing thy trespass wi... ... my gracious numbers are decay’d And my sick Muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier... ...ath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 47 82 I grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attain... ...ing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fa...
...ies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world?s fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world?s due, by the grave and thee....
...illain, Doctor Ponnonner, in pulling me by the nose?” It will be taken for granted, no doubt, that upon hearing this speech under the circumstances, w... ...had no refer- ence to your age at the period of interment (I am willing to grant, in fact, that you are still a young man), and my illusion was to the... ...st five thousand years have elapsed since your entomb- ment, I take it for granted that your histories at that period, if not your traditions were suf... ...ast very good reason for believing it intended as a series of lyrics; but, granting the epic intention, I can say only that the work is based in an im... ...o! It has been the fashion of late days to deny Moore Imagina- tion, while granting him Fancy—a distinction originating with Coleridge—than whom no ma... ... in the swellings of the river. †The Hyacinth. 198 EA Poe And the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever‡ With Indian Cupid down the holy river— Fair flowe...
...ffective. What could she do, what ought she to do?—she, hardly more than a bud- ding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need,... ...us asked to have a medical education, it seemed easier to his guardians to grant his request by apprenticing him to a country practitioner than to mak... ...George Eliot would be more perfect if another sitting could be had, it was granted for the morrow. On the morrow Santa Clara too was retouched more th... ...en allured by the gratification of his pride in being the person who could grant Naumann such an opportunity of studying her loveliness—or rather her ... ...ehood—unless she had been pale and fea- ture less and taken everything for granted. “I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppo- siti... ...uld allow. Her little hands were clasped, and enclosed by Sir James’s as a bud is enfolded by a liberal calyx. “It is very shocking that Mr. Casaubon ... ... this kind cannot fairly fetter me as you appear to expect that it should. Granted that a benefactor’s wishes may constitute a claim; there must alway...
...ion bought with double smart. This knows my punisher; therefore as farr From granting hee, as I from begging peace: All hope excluded thus, behold in ... ...nt rather to exalt Our happie state under one Head more neer United. But to grant it thee unjust, That equal over equals Monarch Reigne: Thy self tho... ...se, and went forth among her Fruits and Flours, To visit how they prosper’d, bud and bloom, Her Nurserie; they at her coming sprung And toucht by her ... ...nd my last At Eev’n, which I bred up with tender hand From the first op’ning bud, and gave ye Names, Who now shall reare ye to the Sun, or ranke Your ... ... they beseech That MOSES might report to them his will, And terror cease; he grants them thir desire, Instructed that to God is no access Without Medi...
... how is it you don’t understand that the Holy Father, who has the right to grant dispensations…” Just then the lady companion who lived with Helene ca... ...s arm. “Y ou have saved my life! Y ou are French. Y ou ask his par- don? I grant it you. Lead that man away!” said he quickly and 104 War and Peace –...
...est, One’s own table is the sweetest, One’s own home, the most attractive. Grant, kind Ukko, God above me, Thou Creator, full of mercy, Grant that I a... ... I’ll gain my wished for freedom.” Lemminkainen, little heeding, Would not grant the maiden’s wishes, Would not heed her plea for mercy. Spake again t... ...r, Thou whose weapon is the lightning, Thou whose voice is borne by ether, Grant me now thy mighty fire sword, Give me here thy burning arrows, Lightn... ... Fairest maiden of the Northland. Spake the hostess of Pohyola: “Shall not grant to thee my daughter, Shall not give my lovely virgin, Till T uoni’s b... ...f ermine, For the hostess, shoes of silver, For the hero, mail of copper. “Grant O Ukko, my Creator, God of love, and truth, and justice, Grant thy bl... ...246 The Kalevala ‘Well thou knowest, ancient mother, How to make thy sweet bud blossom, How to train thy tender shootlet; Did not know where to ingraf...
...omes with sleep, Shudder that made them one. What else He give or keep God grant me — no, not here, For I am not so bold To hope a thing so dear Now I... ...ould carry it away to blasphemous men. A PRAYER ON GOING INTO MY HOUSE GOD grant a blessing on this tower and cottage And on my heirs, if all remain u... ...able or chair or stool not simple enough For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant That I myself for portions of the year May handle nothing and set eye... ...myself to college? He. Go pluck Athene by the hair; For what mere book can grant a knowledge With an impassioned gravity Appropriate to that beating b... ...en come out again And spread on every side, And shake the blossom from the bud To be the garden’s pride.’ ‘But where can we draw water,’ Said Pearse t... ... to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or h...
...ore drive you out of the garden, and ye become wretched; For to thee is it granted that thou shalt not hunger therein, neither shalt thou be naked; Bu... ...c. 208. 10 Lit. except. 11 Lit. a tongue of truth, i.e. high repute. Or, grant that my words may be believed among posterity. See [lviii.] xix. 47. ... ...sun and the moon, each moving swiftly in its sphere. At no time 5 have we granted to man a life that shall last for ever: if thou then die, shall the... ...him not in speech. 5 Lit. before thee, which might seem to imply that the grant of immortality had been made to Muhammad. I have there- fore rendered... ...ous signs? When the youths betook them to the cave they said, “O our Lord! grant us mercy from before thee, and order for us our affair aright.” Then ...
...efore Monsieur Buonaparte, and Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s... ...l think of how he rose from an ensign and became Emperor. W ell, well, God grant it,” he added, not notic- ing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. The elde... ...I couldn’t possibly do it.” “Ah, my love,” answered Anna Mikhaylovna, “God grant you never know what it is to be left a widow with- out means and with... ...he was simply looking at him. “There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin,” she replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to hi... ...rstand that in consideration of the count’s services, his request would be granted?...” The princess smiled as people do who think they know more abou...
...ice is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The FBI does not have a general grant of authority but instead works under specific statutory authorization... ...ern languages or Islamic studies.The total number of undergraduate degrees granted in Arabic in all U.S. colleges and universities in 2002 was six. 80... ...dget either in the Congress or in the president’s Office of Management and Bud- get. Like the FBI and the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, the State D... ...rter- rorism funding—were made in the president’s Office of Management and Bud- get. 108 Third, Congress did not reorganize itself after the end of th... ... for Bin Ladin. Clarke opposed having the United States facilitate a “huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban” and suggested that the idea mi... ...p near Khowst with cruise missiles in August 1998, and before the T aliban granted al Qaeda permission to open the al Faruq camp in Kandahar.Thus, for... ...om Afghanistan.The leader of the Northern Alliance,Ahmed Shah Massoud, had granted an interview in his bun- galow near the Tajikistan border with two ...
... NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hilleb... ...is better than John Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wond... ...untrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. But in the case of Mr. Grant White example were better than precept. Wyo- ming is, after all, more... ...ot always widely, but always trenchantly. Many particulars that struck Mr. Grant White, a Yankee, struck me, a Scot, no less forcibly; he and I felt o... ... And perhaps neither a court of love nor an assembly of divines would have granted their premisses or welcomed their conclusions. Conclusions, indeed,... ...es; and below and about, dearer tenfold to me! the plays themselves, those bud- gets of romance, lay tumbled one upon another. Long and often have I l...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhab...