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...Island whence Solomon obtained his riches -- Among the Cannibals -- Worship of toads and other reptiles -- Kidnapping a boy -- The natives murder ten ... ...rds. They had large canoes, and being extremely brave and armed with lances of cane, Saavedra hastily sailed away from the islands in order to avoid a... ...ng, and the only religion which they practised was the worship of reptiles and toads. When the Spaniards landed upon these shores they carried the cro... ...water-tight with bitumen; which have no decks, but are provided with a roof of cane matting; which have leather buckets instead of pumps; which have b... ...ng the singular manner in which they produced a fire or smoke out of pieces of cane which they carried; in this particular very much resembling the re... ...volley, soon returned with about sixty others who threw darts, and from little canes which they carried issued a smoke exactly like the discharge of a... ...o discharged them had in their hands a short piece of stick, possibly a hollow cane, which they swung sideways from them and we immediately saw fire a...

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...ority is a bunch of bullshit.. He spread his brand of nasty negativity like a toad filled with poisonous hate. He became a role model for millions ... ...he main drug of the poor. At that time: only the rich could afford processed cane sugar and tea. In Europe: the normalization of alcoholic wines an... ... Yet modern food industry has found that corn syrup is even sweeter than pure cane sugar. Cane sugar was another unnatural staple crop used as a pu... ... as it first had been. But once corn syrup was found to be even sweeter than cane sugar: the entire world switched to using it inside processed food... ...ealth? Man-hours? Production? What is the difference between a hand-carved cane that takes two weeks to make, and 100,000 machine-made canes that ... ...any wonder that today, America is the land of debt, and greed, and profit… and toadyism? People toadying up to the highest authority figures in slav... ...lacks …. Calling them lazy; as a racial stereotype. A race forced to work in cane fields and cotton fields doing back breaking manual labor… being ...

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...hough he is, he strikes an imposing figure, even majestic. Leaning on his cane, staring over the townsmen who crowd the forum, he looks a pillar, hi... ... and the walk and the fog, which he could feel on his face and hands. His cane cracked against drift- wood and I restrained him, to find his hands tr... ...he migratory flight of herons, I met Alcaeus. He was perched on the rail, cane crossed over his legs, waiting for Thasos. Glad to see me, he pulled ... ...im help, promised closer friendship. Standing at his door, leaning on his cane, eyelids closed, he recited something heroic and it was my turn to ch... ...as they sat around me. What laughter, giggles. A little boy brought me a toad and put it in my hand, saying: “It’s for you, Atta.” Clibus Of co... ...le and sway in the wind. Singing with the carolers, your breath puffs its toadstool alongside my mush- room, and we laugh and hug each other. Inside ... ...he way you teach. See, they grin at you. They love you. Call them churls, cane them; make them scat when you appear!” Away from school, Jonson woul... ...lization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as common sense where the bulk of mankind i...

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...with Sugar Candy (Mishri) for few days, helps to improve Appetite. 13. Sugar cane (Ganna) juice with Honey, Lemon juice and a pinch of Clove (Laung)... ...contracted through frogs, which is not the case. While contact with frogs and toads may cause a localized reaction or rash, it cannot cause warts. W...

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... them; as also of grass-hoppers, pissemires, lizards, and nightbats; and a toad was sold for six crownes in a time that all such meats were scarce am... ...elets, wherewith they cover their hand wrists, when they fight, and great Canes open at one end, by the sound of which they keepe time and cadence i... ...n gold shape doth appeare. -----hic piscem fluminis, illic Oppida tota canem venerantur. -- 7. A fish here whole Townes reverence most, A dog ... ...f his course the same is a hare without bones, without haire. Venantumque canes in molli sæpe quiete, Iactant crura tamen subito, vocesque repente ... ...ervice: Dum melior vires sanguis dabat, æmula nec dum Temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus. -- Virg. Æn. v. 415. While better blood gave st...

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...r title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who assumed sover- eignty, did not ta... ...sover- eignty, did not take possession of Monaco till much later. The last Cane of the elder branch vanished from Venice thirty years before the fall ... ... criminal. The branch on whom this nominal principality then devolved, the Cane Memmi, sank into poverty during the fatal period between 1796 and 1814... ...h drops many final letters,—his only friend, wrote to tell him that Facino Cane, Prince of Varese, had died in a hospital in Paris. Proofs of his deat... ...died in a hospital in Paris. Proofs of his death had come to hand, and the Cane-Memmi were Princes of Varese. In the eyes of the two young men a title... ...ure detect her in jests of the shrewd- est irony. For instance, she places toads in the neighborhood of flowers, as she had placed this man by the sid...

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...ecorated with the rosette of the Legion of honor; and they carried malacca canes with loaded knobs, which they held by strings of braided leather. The... ...usted gunpowder, and talk takes the place of shot. After all, these little toads of editors are pretty good fellows, and very clever. Come and see me ... ...ections of his voice, the variations of his walk, the very language of his cane as it touched the pave- ment. Nothing escaped her. She knew the degree... ...here he had fallen. When he had drunk and won, his voice was gruff and his cane dragged; but when he had lost, his step had something sharp, short and... ...arp, short and angry about it; he hummed in a clear voice, and carried his cane in the air as if presenting arms. At breakfast, if he had won, his beh... ...Bixiou, whom Desroches had gone to fetch, the sound of Philippe’s step and cane resounded on the staircase. “There he is! there he is!” cried the Desc...

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...ript gown and took snuff, wrote copperplate, explained nothing, and used a cane with remarkable dexterity and gusto. Mr. Polly went into the National ... ...ecting himself in a manner tempting to a schoolmaster 11 H G Wells with a cane…. And twice he had books confiscated. Recalled to the realities of lif... ...place was better aired, you were not kept in for no reason at all, and the cane was not employed. You watched the growth of your moustache with intere... ... it down. Give it Air. Seen my stick, O’ Man? Right O.” And leaning on his cane he composed himself in an atti- tude of sympathetic patience towards P... ...Garchester, and on to Crogate and so to Tunbridge Wells, where there was a Toad Rock he had heard of, but never seen. (It seemed to him this must need... ...y, freed from the sense of urgent pursuit, had halted beyond the raspberry canes and rallied his courage. The sense of Uncle Jim victorious in the hou...

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...utes I’ll give you your first lesson. There, look!” he said, rais- ing his cane and pointing to a couple who were just then coming out from the Passag... ...e, for it was really a woman, had a black hen on her right hand and a huge toad, named Astaroth, on her left. Gazonal did not at first perceive them. ... ..., named Astaroth, on her left. Gazonal did not at first perceive them. The toad, of surprising dimensions, was less alarming in himself than through t... ...hich cast forth vivid gleams. It was impos- sible to endure that look. The toad is a creature as yet unex- plained. Perhaps the whole animal creation,... ...l creation, including man, is comprised in it; for, as Lassailly said, the toad exists indefi- nitely; and, as we know, it is of all created animals t... ...e Southerner, impelled by a species of self-assertion, gazed firmly at the toad, he felt a sort of emetic heat at the pit of his stomach, and was con-...

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...ould order several sticks of two feet high, and the thickness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me; whereupon his majesty commanded the master of his... ...r; but she screamed and ran back, as women in En gland do at the sight of a toad or a spider. However, when she had a while seen my behaviour, and ho... ... holes I wove the strongest hairs I could pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in En gland. When they were finished, I made a present of th... ... oils, shells, salts, juices, seaweed, excrements, barks of trees, serpents, toads, frogs, spiders, dead men’s flesh and bones, birds, beasts, and fis...

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...e, of which you shall hear presently, this Mrs. Gruffanuff, by flattering, toadying, and wheedling her royal mistress, became a favourite with the Que... ...g diamonds and pearls to drop from one little girl’s mouth, and vipers and toads from another’s? I begin to think I do as much harm as good by my perf... ...ther magical performances, and scarcely used her wand at all ex- cept as a cane to walk about with. So when Duke Padella’s lady had a little son (the ... ...n which she was thrust; a most awful black hole, full of bats, rats, mice, toads, frogs, mosquitoes, bugs, fleas, serpents, and every kind of horror. ... ...would be got to go back to the turnkey’s wife to whom it belonged. And the toads in the dungeon came and kissed her feet, and the vipers wound round h... ...nt to church and were married, and the Fairy Blackstick sailed away on her cane, and was never more heard of in Paflagonia. And here ends the Fireside...

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... genteel; he had large whiskers, dark eyes (with a slight cast in them), a cane, and a velvet waistcoat. He was a member of a club; had an admission t... ...s a grand shop, with magnificent silver cups and salvers, rare gold-headed canes, flutes, watches, diamond brooches, and a few fine speci- mens of the... ...ed creature. Mrs. Berry hates her cordially, and thinks she is a designing toad-eater, who has formed a con- spiracy to rob her of her aunt’s fortune....

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...own gloves were only fit for a policeman! Yonder was a youth toying with a cane exquisitely mounted; there, another with dainty gold studs in his wris... ...rated bootmaker measured him for shoes and boots. He bought a neat walking cane at V erdier’s; he went to Mme. Irlande for gloves and shirt studs; in ... ...r of seeing you again.” With that the cashier raised his formidable loaded cane, one of the defenders of Germainicus, and walked off, leav- ing Lucien... ...n, the better his chance of getting on among mediocrities; he can play the toad-eater, put up with any treatment, and flatter all the little base pas-... ...ss,” retorted the captain. “So there!” The old campaigner swung his loaded cane, and went down coughing as usual. Out in the street he was amazed to s... ... so stirred his envy in the Garden of the T uileries. Lucien had wonderful canes, and a charming eyeglass; he had diamond studs, and scarf-rings, and ...

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...ery ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood... ...carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in sum- mer time; th... ...ind it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad- stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who wi... ...w from the hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane. The living member— that makes the living insult, my little man. And t... ...all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, ‘what’s his leg now, but a cane—a whalebone cane. Y es,’ thinks I, ‘it was only a playful cudgelling—i... ...rd; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideway... ... with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles, including canes, umbrella-stocks, and handles to riding-whips. With a long, weary hoi...

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...ry rope yarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood... ...carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that... ...d it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants wor shipping a toad stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who wit... ...ow from the hand, Flask, fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane. The living member — that makes the living insult,my little man. And t... ...all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, ‘what’s his leg now, but a cane — a whalebone cane. Yes,’ thinks I, ‘it was only a playful cudgelling ... ...rd; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideway... ...e with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles, including canes, umbrella stocks, and handles to riding whips. With a long, weary hoi...

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...nnumerable wretches (gentlemen I should say) that hate England “worse than toad or asp,” have never been rivalled by any corresponding institutions in... ... suffering, work also for us a little good; this way turn the great hurri- canes and levanters of thy wrath; winnow me this chaff; and let us enter at... ...is ill-fated prince, not less so than the falling off of the head from the cane of Charles I. at his trial, or the same king’s striking a medal, beari... ...friend, or what is known in fashionable life by the humiliating name of a “toad-eater.” Lord Westport, full of generosity in what re- garded his own p...

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...half leaned against, half sat upon, the steamboat’s bulwark; and his thick cane, shod with a mighty ferule at one end and armed with a great metal kno... ...Foreign oppression abroad,’ returned the gentleman, as he pointed with his cane to an uncommonly dirty newsboy with one eye. ‘To the Envy of the world... ...’ ‘Yes?’ said the gentleman. ‘No,’ said Martin. The gentleman adjusted his cane under his left arm, and took a more deliberate and complete survey of ... ...ng to Martin, and draw- ing a flourish on the surface of the deck with his cane, ‘her passage either way is almost certain to eventuate a spanker!’ Th... ... of dining-table reaching from end to end, and a bewildering collection of cane- bottomed chairs. In the further region of this banqueting-hall was a ... ...rly imposed upon me, but you have lost your labour . You are too zealous a toad-eater , and betray yourself, Mr Pinch.’ During the whole remainder of ... ...s so strangely constituted that she would have preferred the caresses of a toad, an adder, or a ser- pent—nay, the hug of a bear—to the endearments of... ...n, they were expelled by the two little boys. ‘I ain’t superstitious about toads,’ said Mark, looking round the room, ‘but if you could prevail upon t... ...r refreshing. Not that I at all object to ‘em. A very handsome animal is a toad,’ said Mr Tapley, sitting down upon a stool; ‘very spotted; very like ...

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... To keep law and order in the village. And they presented me with a loaded cane With which I struck Jack McGuire Before he drew the gun with which he ... ...k me And, when I cursed him for it, struck me With that Prohibition loaded cane— All this before I shot him. They would have hanged me except for this... ...ng with eyes half-open in the woods. Sometimes I talked with animals— even toads and snakes— Anything that had an eye to look into. Once I saw a stone...

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...ld hardly believe my eyes, for I beheld him reclining under his beard in a cane- bottomed chair in the billiard-room of Schomberg’s hotel. It was very... ...htened when you spoke to her. Between them a waggling punkah fanned twenty cane-bottomed chairs and two rows of shiny plates. Three Chinamen in white ... ...coat, large white waistcoat, grey trousers. A white cotton sunshade with a cane handle reposed between his legs, 29 Joseph Conrad his side whiskers w... ...ling that sort of physi- cal fear some people experience at the sight of a toad. Per- haps to a man so essentially and silently concentrated upon hims...

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... invitation. But what couldn’t you make me do? lick lep- ers, swallow live toads, seduce Brigitte—yes, if you say so, I’ll impale my own heart on that... ...“Claparon has bit it in under the name of one of his credi- tors, a little toad named Sauvaignou. Desroches, the lawyer, has taken the case, and you’l... ...t, though he told us it was common stuff. The wine-merchant in the rue des Canettes supplies it to him.” “Don’t say a word about all this,” said the w... ...angry, little uncle; we’ll fetch you some wine.” “Number six wine, rue des Canettes,” cried the pauper. “Yes, I know,” replied Madame Cardinal; “but l... ...a dirty bottle which might hold about two quarts,— “Did he say the rue des Canelles?” she inquired of the portress. “Corner of the rue Guisarde,” repl... ... a ter- rible kill-joy. Standing among the spectators with his chin on his cane, du Portail was steadily watching him. A tinge of red showed itself in...