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...t. Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, and... ...n, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport; Demanded for their nig... ... theme the merry minstrels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his loved ... ...inst Marmion’s force to stand; To him he lost his lady-love, And to the king his land. Ourselves beheld the listed field, A sight both sad and f... ...ings prompt to bear; For to the Scottish court addressed, I journey at our King’s behest, And pray you, of your grace, provide For me and mine, a trus... ...n coast: For Norse and Danish galleys plied Their oars within the frith of Clyde. There floated Haco’s banner trim, Above Norwayan warriors grim, Sava...

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... my simple emblem be; It drinks heaven’s dew as blithe as rose That in the King’s own garden grows; And when I place it in my hair, Allan, a bard is b... ...er her sister’s child; T o her brave chieftain son, from ire Of Scotland’s king who shrouds my sire, A deeper, holier debt is owed; And, could I pay i... ...hall give thee thy command, And leading in thy native land,— List all!—The King’s vindictive pride Boasts to have tamed the Border-side, Where chiefs,... ...at this gray head The royal bolt were fiercest sped. For thee, who, at thy King’s command, Canst aid him with a gallant band, Submission, homage, humb... ...d hall. The picturesque ruins of Bothwell Castle stand on the banks of the Clyde, about nine miles above Glasgow. Some parts of the walls are 14 feet ... ...l, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale’s ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal board.” 142. ... .... Leven-glen. The valley of the Leven, which connects Loch Lomond with the Clyde. 154 The Lady of the Lake 431. The rosebud. That is, Ellen. “Note ho... ...e. A priory, the ruins of which are still to be seen on a height above the Clyde, opposite Bothwell Castle. 521. The dogs, etc. The MS. has “The dogs ... ...nder. Cardross Castle (in which Robert Bruce died) was on the banks of the Clyde, a few miles below Dumbarton. Duchray Castle is a mile south of Locha...

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... lips. The immediate trouble arose from his loyalty. He had fol- lowed the King’s example; he had become a total abstainer and, in addition, on his ow... ...rinchester—he followed Hood, the first bishop, as the reign of his Majesty King Edward the Peacemaker drew to its close—no anticipation of his coming ... ...ies and bitternesses were still swinging and swaying and devel- oping when King George was being crowned. Close upon that event came a wave of social ... ...inions about everything. It seemed that Phoebe W alshingham and Lady Kitty Kingdom were the leaders in these premature mental excursions. Phoebe aired... ...eparted with his unambigu- ous menage to join the advanced movement on the Clyde. The Morrice Deans enquiry however demanded an amount of erudition th... ...d visions of an extrava- gant vividness. He would see Frazer’s sacrificial kings butch- ered picturesquely and terribly amidst strange and grotesque r...

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...since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary, and, to speak truth, if I thought I had a chance to bet... ...n fancy smell out his secrets one after another, and grow to be that man’s king and ruler. The warlock of Essendean, they say, had made a mirror in wh... ... it would be a shame even to speak of; some were men that had run from the king’s ships, and went with a halter round their necks, of which they made ... ...in 54 Kidnapped Scotland. His estate is in the hands of the man they call King George; and it is his officers that collect the rents, or try to colle... ...chief lying in exile; and this money is a part of that very rent for which King George is looking. Now, sir, ye seem to me to be a man that under- sta... ...l broad Scotland; and far he sent seeking them — as far as to the sides of Clyde and the cross of Edinburgh — seeking, and fleeching, and begging them...

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...g mon- arch; so that I doubted not a name so dear to Englishmen as that of King Richard I. might contribute to their amuse- ment for more than once. I... ...ere wont to rebuke their startled horses. “Do you think,” said they, “that King Rich- ard is on the track, that you stray so wildly from it?” The most... ... you stray so wildly from it?” The most curious register of the history of King Richard is an ancient romance, translated originally from the Norman; ... ...glas, on 6 The Talisman his expedition to the Holy Land with the heart of King Rob- ert Bruce. Douglas, impatient to get at the Saracens, entered int... ..., brought it to his own country, and left it to his heirs, by whom, and by Clydesdale in general, it was, and is still, distinguished by the name of t... ...n ague. The best leeches of the camp were unable to effect the cure of the King’s disease; but the prayers of the army were more successful. He became... ...a dream, “noble Sir Kenneth, taste not, to you as to me, the waters of the Clyde cold and refreshing after the brackish springs of Palestine?” “He dre...

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...s I learned the more of Spain, from which she had set sail with so proud a company, and King Philip, the wealthy king, that sent her on that voyage. A... ...ticular spot, the wild tribes of that place and period would give no information to the king’s inquiries. Putting one thing with another, and taking o... ...ne thing with another, and taking our island tradition to- gether with this note of old King Jamie’s perquisitions af- ter wealth, it had come strongl... ...plainly bred up in a country place among Cameronians, long a skipper sailing out of the Clyde about the islands, and now, with infinite discontent, ma... ... shure eneueh, an’ shure eneueh it was the end of him. We were seeven days oot frae the Clyde – a sair wark we had had – gaun north wi’ seeds an’ braw... ...gned to him to follow me, which he did readily and with a grave obeisance like a fallen king; all the while there had come no shade of alteration in h... ... towards the sea. It chanced that over this valley there lay a pass into a neighbouring kingdom; so that, quiet and rural as it was, the road that ran...

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...came later on. It took the three a whole day’s disputa- tion, before they agreed to steer a middle course, one son going forth to strike a blow for Ki... ... lord pleaded, Miss Alison wept, Mr. Henry was very plain spoken: all was of no avail. “It is the direct heir of Durrisdeer that should ride by his Ki... ..., Henry,” his fa- ther said. “And see, James,” said Mr. Henry, “if I go, and the Prince has the upper hand, it will be easy to make your peace with Ki... ...ss the most of Scotland unsupported; and (what made folk think so the more) even as that poor dozen was clattering up the hill, a great ship of the ki... ...ng given the Master a fair start, it was Mr. Henry’s turn; and he rode off, all by himself, to offer his sword and carry letters from his father to Ki... ...h seafar- ers, come in through the hawsehole; and the Master and I were cast upon each other’s company. The Nonesuch carried a fair wind out of the Cl...

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...e. (She had advanced far enough to join him in ridiculing the Idyls of the King, but not to feel the beauty of Ulysses and the Lotus Eaters.) She was ... ...iss Fanny Ring had been seen in his company. The steam-yacht, built in the Clyde, and fitted with tiled bath-rooms and other unheard-of luxuries, was ... ...” leaving his father speechless at hearing that the cen- tury-long home of kings and emperors was now spoken of as an old-fashioned inn, where one wen...

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........................................................ 65 THE BALLAD OF THE KING’S MERCY ................................................................. ........................................................ 71 THE BALLAD OF THE KING’S JEST .................................................................. ..................................................................... 197 THE KING ......................................................................... ...off o’ the sons o’ the Widow, Hands off o’ the goods in ‘er shop, For the Kings must come down an’ the Emperors frown When the Widow at Windsor says... ...Ask my Colonel, for I don’t know, Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! We broke a King and we built a road — A court-house stands where the reg’ment goed. K... ... the East and the West they drew — Baltimore, Lille, and Essen, Brummagem, Clyde, and Crewe. And some were black from the furnace, and some were brown... ...’Cullough he shied, And we wasted a year in talking before we moved to the Clyde. And the Lines were all beginning, and we all of us started fair, Bui...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English...

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...IRST ENCOUNTERED my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each o... ...She was in quest of two o’clock; and when she learned it was already seven on the shores of Clyde, she lifted up her voice and cried ‘Gravy!’ I had no... ... was a pair of us indeed. 9 Robert Louis Stevenson EARLY IMPRESSIONS WE STEAMED OUT of the Clyde on Thursday night, and early on the Friday forenoon ... ...rable interest. But the interest was unmixed. Not a bet was laid upon our guesses. From the Clyde to Sandy Hook I never heard a wager offered or taken... ...ten. The best talkers usually address themselves to some particular society; there they are kings, elsewhere camp-fol- lowers, as a man may know Russi... ... up by expressive eyes. Four stow- aways had been found aboard our ship before she left the Clyde, but these two had alone escaped the ignominy of bei... ...ughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, seem able to obliter... ...s his old state of sover- 97 Robert Louis Stevenson eignty, a local god rather than a mere king. And now you may ask yourself where he is, and look r... ...unsimilar place in his affections. If the chateau was my lord’s, the forest was my lord the king’s; neither of them for this poor Jacques. If he thoug...

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...ed with these survivals: the grave- stones of whole families. Such ruins are tapu in the strict- est sense; no native must approach them; they have be... ...l sometimes die of pin-pricks. We are here face to face with one of the difficulties of the missionary. In Polynesian is- lands he easily obtains pre-... ...without interruption their desultory cannibal wars. Through these events and changing dynasties, a single considerable figure may be seen to move: tha... ...ng, it seemed, at random over boul- ders and dead trees; but the lad wound in and out and up and down without a check, for these paths are to the na- ... ...us upon his land, and to set apart young men for our service, and trees for our support. I have mentioned the Austrian. He sailed in one of two sister... ...eady trade, and a steady westerly current setting us to leeward; and toward sun- down of the seventh it was supposed we should have sighted Takaroa, o...

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...at we can help to frame A world of other stuff.” “I, too, will have my Kings that take From me the sign of life and death: ... ... From me the sign of life and death: 90 Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.” And, i... ...ng Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravell’d; Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay, And with the T weed had travell’d; And, when we came to... ... threw. All power was given her in the dreadful trance— Those new born Kings she wither’d like a flame.” —Woe to them all! but heaviest woe and ... ...the illustrious name to which she was born); that he was the next Child to King Edward the Fourth, which his mother had by Richard Duke of York, and t... ... Edward the Fourth, which his mother had by Richard Duke of York, and that King was then eighteen years of age: and for the small distance betwixt her...

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...identified with Fast Castle in Berwickshire, Tillietudlem with Draphane in Clydesdale, and the valley in the Monastery, called Glendearg, with the dal... ...rds to St. Petersburgh, which latter situation he held at the accession of King George III.— who died at Edinburgh in 1774. He married Margaret, sec- ... ...Hartley, after which the following toasts were given from the chair:— “The King”—all the honours. “The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family.” The cha... ...a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a drama cannot go on. If eve... ...e varied aspects of life, and his fancy portrayed with equal tal- ents the king on the throne and the clown who crackles his chestnuts at a Christmas ... ...tion turning on my family, who were old pro- prietors in the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, gradually excited some interest in my mind and when I retired t... ...evel plains, extending between the wooded banks and the bold stream of the Clyde, which, coloured like pure amber, or rather having the hue of the peb... ...ny of Glentanner, now called Castle T reddles, lying in the Middle Ward of Clydesdale, and shire of Lanark, with the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, f... ... shire of Lanark, with the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, fishings in the Clyde, woods, mosses, moors, and pasturages,” etc., etc. The advertisement ...

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.... Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is own suburb to stately and primeval Memphis; there they ha... ...ad come 3000 miles, and yet not far enough. Hard times bowed them out of the Clyde, and stood to welcome them at Sandy Hook. Where were they to go? Pe... ...ent, to think of his material and nothing else, is, for awhile at least, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and write... ...ourney in the complete character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on... ...but has its legend, quaint or tragic: Dunfermline, in whose royal towers the king may be still observed (in the ballad) drinking the blood-red wine; s... ...d against the rover at the pitch of his voice and his broad lowland dialect; Kinghorn, where Alexander “brak’s neckbane” and left Scotland to the Engl... ...nsion when he followed the example of Lord Lawrence and Lord Cairns and Lord Clyde. The poet was more happily inspired; with a better modesty he accep...

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...far above where babes and innocents could hope to see or criticise. But she had builded too well – Archie had his answers pat: Were not babes and inno... ... for would I pretend I wasna? Y ou’re all for honesty, it seems; you couldn’t even steik your mouth on the public street. What for should I steik mine... ...e French –” “Have ye been so loyal to me?” interrupted his father. There came no reply. “I think not,” continued Hermiston. “And I would send no man t... ...arable to a bear’s. At that moment, coming in hissing from many potations, with a flushed countenance and blurred eyes, he was strikingly con- trasted... ...s possibly you, Don Quickshot? And how are ye? And how’s your father? And what’s all this we hear of you? It seems you’re a most extraor- dinary level... ...est. From the study of a map, and in consideration of the great expanse of un- tenanted moorland running in that direction towards the 90 Weir of Her...

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... a soldier, I spent my last weekend pass on a somewhat quixotic journey to Clyde, Ohio, the town upon which Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked... ...ce. SHERWOOD ANDERSON was born in Ohio in 1876. His childhood and youth in Clyde, a town with per- haps three thousand souls, were scarred by bouts of... ...dicrafts towards our modern life of ma-chines.” There were still people in Clyde who re-membered the frontier, and like America itself, the town lived... ... boy always ready to work—showed the kind of entrepreneur- ial spirit that Clyde re-spected: folks expected him to become a “go-getter,” And for a tim... ... night. It was raining. In the asy- lum they treated me as though I were a king. “The men who had jobs in the asylum had found out I was a newspaper r... ...imself. It seemed to him that in his day as in those other and older days, kingdoms might be created and new impulses given to the lives of men by the... ...of the Philistines and turn them to Thy service and to the building of Thy kingdom on earth.” II II II II II DAVID HARDY OF Winesburg, Ohio, was the g... ... laugh, the laughter was forced and unnatural. Joe fell in love with Sarah King, a lean, sad-looking woman who lived with her father and brother in a ... ... that stood opposite the gate lead- ing to the Winesburg Cemetery. The two Kings, Edward the father, and Tom the son, were not popular in Winesburg. T...

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...Y ou may believe that I was not thinking of Don Carlos and his fight for a kingdom. Why should I? Y ou don’t want to think of things which you meet ev... ...de Lord X.) And then she added, casting up her eyes: “A good friend of the King.” Meaning Don Carlos of course. I looked at the proche parent; not on ... ...Why? I understood very well why, when he told me that he had joined in the Clyde a small steamer chartered by a relative of his, “a very wealthy man,”... ...d, the charac- teristic Allegre impudence—which surpassed the impudence of kings, millionaires, or tramps, by many degrees—the rev- elation of Rita’s ... ...t’s remark was that of the two strik- ing horsemen Allegre looked the more kingly. “The son of a confounded millionaire soap-boiler,” com- mented Mr. ... ...ad outside the door. General Mongroviejo called on her officially from the King. A general, not anybody of the household, you see. That’s a distinct s...

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...Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it occurs as a place-name. There is a parish of ... ...cuous maltsters in what was then the clean and handsome little city on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish... ...struction of the lighthouse on the isle of Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde. The change of aim seems to have caused or been accompanied by a chan... ...ch-time before we got here, but we had prayers upon deck on the way up the Clyde. This has, upon the whole, been a very good voyage, and Captain Wemys... ...dle-looking fellows, came up to me, and in a hasty tone said, “Sir, in the king’s name I seize your person and papers.” To which I replied that I shou... ...or of Taxes came (for the first time, perhaps) to Sanday, and began in the King’s name to complain of the unconscionable swarms of dogs, and to menace... ...m she took for the Surveyor of Taxes. ‘Sir,’ said she, ‘gin ye’ll tell the King that I canna keep the Ness free o’ the Bangers (sheep) without twa hun... ...isunder- stand. He came franked by the laird and the clergyman; he was the King’s officer; the work was ‘opened with prayer by the Rev. Walter Trail, ... ...with prayer by the Rev. Walter Trail, minister of the parish’; God and the King had decided it, and the people of these pious is- lands bowed their he...

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........ 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE........................................................ 44 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR .....................

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...ce was almost cer- tain to find the streets deserted whenever he chanced to ass through them. Now, on the part of the citizens of Blois this was a cul... ...er chin upon her hand, and, in a tone full of candid remonstrance, “And do you reproach me with my good fortune?” said she. “Can you have the heart to... ...d she. “Can you have the heart to do it? Y ou have a future; you belong to the court; the king, if he should marry, will require Monsieur to be near h... ...im at least an appearance of secrecy. The doors being closed, Monsieur raised his eyes towards the vicomte, and said, “It appears that you come from P... ...adame, M. de Bragelonne?” said the duke. “Y es, read it, if you please, monsieur.” Raoul began to read, Monsieur giving again all his atten- tion. The... ...’Artagnan,” said Monk; “go, and to render England more attractive 272 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 and agreeable to you, accept a remembrance of me. “Wh...

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...nd. It was at night. The ship was one of those iron wool-clippers that the Clyde had floated out in swarms upon the world during the seventh decade of... ...o make a passage. And I have carried on myself upon the tall spars of that Clyde shipbuilder’s masterpiece as I have never carried on in a ship be- fo... ...ave been cut and hacked by the keen edge of a sou’-west gale. Our craft, a Clyde-built barque of 1,000 tons, rolled so heavily that something aloft ha... ... on his hands that were crossed upon the rail, might have appeared a minor king amongst men. We passed her within earshot, without a hail, read- ing e... ... un- challenged his realm of land and water. As with the 69 Joseph Conrad kingdoms of the earth, there are regions more tur- bulent than others. In t... ...the Trade Winds reign supreme, undisputed, like mon- archs of long-settled kingdoms, whose traditional power, checking all undue ambitions, is not so ... ... might as the working of long- established institutions. The intertropical kingdoms of the Trade Winds are favourable to the ordinary life of a mercha... ...t. XXVI THE WEST WIND REIGNS over the seas surrounding the coasts of these kingdoms; and from the gateways of the channels, from promontories as if fr... ...w; and therein the Thames differs from the Mersey, from the Tyne, from the Clyde. It is an historical river; it is a romantic stream flowing through t...

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...s proposal for turning to account the supernu- merary infants of the three kingdoms, which, in those days, both at Dublin and at London, were provided... ...s de Quincey from the provinces to the capital. On every great road in the kingdom, continual arrests were made of vagrants and ‘tramp- ers,’ who coul... ...me audacious and libellous. Kohl, V on Raumer, Dr. Carus, physician to the King of Saxony, by means of introductory letters floating them into circles... ...alled away in vision to act as seneschal to the festival of Belshazzar the king, before a thousand of his lords. Schlosser, after saying any thing rig... ...x would now remind you of some demon steam-engine on a railroad, some Fire-king or Salmoneus, that had counterfeited, because he could not steal, Jove... ..., descries, in some foreign waters, a noble vessel, from the Thames or the Clyde, riding peaceably at anchor—and soon after, two smart-looking clipper...

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... small minority of people who trade upon contention—militarists, ambitious kings and statesmen, war contractors, loan mongers, sensational journalists... ... under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hitherto stood ... ... turn to this most troubled region of the Balkans—problems of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, ... ...ritain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest war in ... ... The rich curs of the West End will join hands with the labour curs of the Clyde. The base are to be found in all classes, but I doubt if they dominat... ...wners. The raising of rents in Glasgow drove the infuriated workmen of the Clyde district into an unwilling strike. It was an exasperating piece of pr... ...e resisted giv- ing the common man the protection of a code. In the United Kingdom we have had no Napoleon to over- ride the profession. It is extraor...

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...e Committee sat under a quite exceptional cross fire. First, there was the king. The Censor is a member of his household retinue; and as a king’s reti... ...lity, could have relieved the Committee from the fear of dis- pleasing the king by any proposal to abolish the cen- sorship of the Lord Chamberlain. N... ... society (in their sense of the word) by the slightest intimation that the king would prefer not to meet them; and this was a heavy risk to run on the... ...e could procure in his defence a certificate from the chief officer of the King’s household that the play was a proper one. A Two Guinea Insurance Pol... ...he occupied it, thus affirming the ex- treme republican principle that all kings, good or bad, should be killed because kingship and freedom can- not ... ...ld accept any re- sponsibility for the production of Sardou’s Divorcons or Clyde Fitch’s The Woman in the Case? Put the proposed King’s Proctor in ope...

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... now what they know; but I, who live with them, I read their hearts. Great Kings, the beginning of the end is born already. The fire-carriages shout t... ...h steamers have their use. From the hour that the Aglaia first entered the Clyde—new, shiny, and innocent, with a quart of cheap champagne trickling d... ...ew what had happened, the band stopped, and hidden voices broke into “Good King Wenceslaus,” and William in the gal- lery hummed and beat time with he... ...ll engine, reverently. “But he don’t care. He lets ‘em cuss. He’s the Czar-King-Boss! He says ‘Please,’ and then they kneel down an’ pray. There’s thr... ...reighter that was the Dolabella o’ Piegan, Piegan & W alsh’s line in ’84—a Clyde-built iron boat, a flat-bottomed, pigeon-breasted, under-engined, bul... ...he Kite fared. Man, she’s the best geared boat of her class that ever left Clyde! Kinloch, my second, knew her as well as I did. I found him dryin’ hi... ...tions about his associates aforetime—men of the New York Yacht Club, Storm King, or the Restigouche, owners of rivers, ranches, and shipping in their ... ...as never been stopped—” “I know! Since William the Conqueror came over, or King Charles hid in her smoke-stack. You’re as bad as the rest of these Bri...

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...yes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed w... ...grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: ‘Of all the king’s knights ’tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’... ...an thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, careering in the sunlight j... ...he looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that... ...en or eight years more; and had then be- taken himself to the banks of the Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and hammered, and improved his know... ...might suppose that I sit in my counting-house (as Pet says I do), like the king in the poem of the four-and-twenty blackbirds, counting out my money.’...

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...yes, too close together, were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in his, and they were sharp rather than bright—pointed w... ...grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely: ‘Of all the king’s knights ’tis the flower, Compagnon de la Majolaine! Of all the king’... ...an thinking of it; not even the beloved of their souls realising it; great kings and governors, who had made them captive, careering in the sunlight j... ...he looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that... ...en or eight years more; and had then be- taken himself to the banks of the Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and hammered, and improved his know... ...might suppose that I sit in my counting-house (as Pet says I do), like the king in the poem of the four-and-twenty blackbirds, counting out my money.’...

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... all the social existence of men so full of challenge as the crowning of a king. It is the end of the overture; the curtain rises. This is a new begin... ...thing has as yet succeeded or passed off well or ill. We are intent upon a King newly anointed and crowned, a King of whom we know as yet very little,... ... yet very little, but who has, nevertheless, roused such expectation as no King before him has done since Tudor times, in the presence of gigantic opp... ...despread among us—his own words, perhaps, have done most to create it—that King George is inspired, as no recent predecessor has been inspired, 21 H.... ...ecent predecessor has been inspired, 21 H. G . Wells by the conception of kingship, that his is to be no rôle of almost indifferent abstinence from t... ...thedral. If I were fighting Germany, I would stow half of them away in the Clyde and half in the Bristol Channel, and take the good men out of them an...