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...l overshadowed on the west by the huge basilica of Notre- Dame casting its cold gloom over the whole plot as the sun 5 Balzac moved. Then, as now, th... ...ace. Soul, body, and garb were in har- mony, and calculated to impress the coldest imagination. He wore a sort of sleeveless gown of black cloth, fast... ... she had compromised herself by showing so much emotion, she recovered her cold demeanor. “I am satisfied,” said she. She went downstairs and out of t... ...unting his pul- pit in a spacious low room on a level with the street. The cold stones were strewn with clean straw, on which several of his disciples...

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...ty offered, the firm 22 used to send them on to Malata either by a man-of-war schoo- ner going on a cruise, or by some trading craft proceeding that ... ...led against some object which, when he stooped for it, he found to be very cold and heavy to lift. The sickly white light of dawn showed him the head ... ... my word! I would be infinitely obliged to you if you could throw a little cold water… “ and at a vaguely dismayed gesture of Renouard, he added: “Don... ...ent of confession 47 come? The thought was enough to make one’s blood run cold. It was as if those people had a premonition of something. In the taci... ... good for any- body—I mean.” Renouard had recovered sufficiently to murmur coldly his regret of this waste of time. For that was what, he supposed, th... ... sounded like a curse on some woman, then turned to the wall and—just grew cold.” “On a woman,” cried Miss Moorsom indignantly. “What woman?” “I wonde... ...hough. As far as I can make it out, he was an officer on board a sloop- of-war. There’s nothing strange in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular ... ... in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular campaign many of our men-of-war of the smaller kind were cruising off the north coast of Spain—as risky... ...s indeed the best type of a genuine British tar of that time, and a man-of-war’s man for years. He came by the name on account of some wonderful adven...

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...em with his handkerchief. Then he gazed at them again. Then he turned to the War den. “Are they bound?” he enquired. “No, we aren’t,” said Bruno, who... ... “In the Library, Madam.” “And what did you say his name was?” said the Vice War den. The Professor referred to a card he held in his hand. “His Adip... ...“because of the luggage.” “You go and receive him,” my Lady said to the Vice War den, “and I’ll attend to the children.” CHAPTER 7 THE BARON’S EMBASS... ...s to give are small, At least I can afford to lend. How few, in this cold age of greed, Do good, except on selfish grounds! But I can ... ...,’ he said: ‘The nights are very damp!’” “Would it be afraid of catching cold?” said Bruno. If it got very damp,” Sylvie suggested, “it might stic... ...s heart was singing “She is mine!”, would fear to paint his happiness in the cold phrases of a written letter, but would wait to tell it by word of mo... ...im yesterday. And you’d better get him to rub it in for you. He’s got rather cold hands, but you mustn’t mind that.” I think the Beetle must have shud... ...rn aesthetic religionist—or religious aesthete, which is it?—to be crude and cold: to me, coming fresh from the ever ad vancing developments of a Lon... ... different sizes communicate with one another?” I enquired. “Would they make war on one another, for instance, or enter into treaties?” “War we must e...

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... this position encountered the drifting snow of the Splugen. I think it is coldest of all the passes. Near the top of the pass the diligence stops for... ...reat- coat, having forgotten that the shores of an Italian lake are not so cold as the summits of the Alps, and did not answer me. “I’m sure I hope so... ...pleasing to me. On the next morning, after breakfast, we held a council of war. I had been informed that Mr. Greene had made a fortune, and was justif...

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...sian sovereign; the pre-eminent value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to ... ... The Iliad of Homer well internal as external, enable us to judge, we seem war- ranted in believing that the Iliad and Odyssey were recited substantia... .... But what was passing around them? The grand events of a spirit- stirring war; occurrences likely to impress themselves, as the mystical legends of f... ... those ancient times. Ballads at first, and down to the begin- ning of the war with Troy, were merely recitations, with an intonation. Then followed a... ... is put in action. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader... ... Virgil, than when we are engaged in Homer, all which are the effects of a colder invention, that interests us less in the action described. Homer mak... ...udence may sometimes sink to suspicion, so may a great judgment decline to coldness; and as magna- nimity may run up to profusion or extravagance, so ... ...tian in a proud confidence of the sublime; others sunk into flatness, in a cold and timorous notion of simplicity. Methinks I see these different foll... ...n; Till time shall rifle every youthful grace, And age dismiss her from my cold embrace, In daily labours of the loom employ’d, Or doom’d to deck the ...

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...r wars in France: this makes bold mouths: Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze Allegiance in them; their curses now Live where their ... ...grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze; Two women placed together makes cold weather: My Lord Sands, you are one will keep ‘em waking; Pray, sit ... ...ke voice, And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not; By all the laws of war you’re privileged. [Re enter Servant .] Chamberlain: How now! what i... ...ear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught ... ... bellied women, That had not half a week to go, like rams In the old time of war, would shake the press, And make ‘em reel before ‘em. No man living C... ...the sudden? How long her face is drawn? how pale she looks, And of an earthy cold? Mark her eyes! GRIFFITH: She is going, wench: pray, pray. PATIENCE...

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...d; through their manner of conducting their case, a suit becomes a kind of war waged on the lines laid down by the first Marshal Biron, who, at the si... ...c Council; let them avoid all decisive measures, and they shall carry on a war for ever. Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the ... ... kind hearts will give Marion and Kolb a tear of sympathy? All through the war Kolb sat on a chair in the doorway, acting as watch-dog, when David had... ...! drink,” said old Sechard, putting down a bottle of wine, a loaf, and the cold remains of the dinner. “You will need your strength. I will go and loo... ...- ings; will you do less?” he cried at last, seeing that his father was as cold as the impression-stone. “And that was not enough for you,” said the o... ...ions; but old Sechard was obdurate as ever. When she saw him turn the same cold eyes on her, the same look that the Cointets had given her, and Petit-... ...ent ought to be tried first on a much larger scale,” the tall Cointet said coldly; “sometimes you try a thing with a saucepan and succeed, and fail ut... ...ome talk of him at the T ribunal, and, as judge, I was obliged to sign the war- rant of execution. It was a painful duty . I do not know whether the s... ...ght of milk, found the fatal letter in the cradle, and read it. A sud- den cold chilled the damps of morning slumber, dizziness came over her, she cou...

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...in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to be- numb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out ... ...al, and such as are not worth relating, but at last it broke out into open war: and it began with all the rudeness and insolence that can be imagined ... ...that he found they were two parties, and of two several na- tions, who had war with one another, and had a great battle in their own country; and that... ... was afterwards the formed design they all laid to murder the Spaniards in cold blood, and in their sleep. The three fellows came down to the Spaniard... ... their great king had two hundred prisoners now, which he had taken in his war, and they were feeding them to make them fat for the next feast. The En... ...th bows and ar- rows, great clubs, wooden swords, and such like engines of war; and they brought such numbers with them, that, in short, it put all ou... ...d not be taken to be barbarously used by a parcel of merciless wretches in cold blood; that it were much 175 Daniel Defoe better to have fallen into ... ...er, when the ships are gone; so that I could have nothing but extremity of cold to encounter, with a scarcity of provisions, and must lie in an empty ... ...ude of about sixty degrees, where I was sure of three things to wear out a cold winter with, viz. plenty of provisions, such as the country afforded, ...

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...ere are’na you setting up to judge? And have ye no forgot God’s plain command – the First with Promise, dear? Mind you upon the beam and the mote!” Ha... ...ked to him, drew him out, found in him a taste for letters, and a fine, ardent, mod- est, youthful soul; and encouraged him to be a visitor on Sunday ... ...man with whom he dined and breakfasted. Parsimony of pain, glut of pleasure, these are the two alternating ends of youth; and Archie was of the parsim... ...inary raid of yours!” ob- served this courageous member, taking him confidentially by the arm as they went out. “I don’t think it a raid,” said Archie... ...self, among trembling servants, and in a house which (at the least ruffle in the master’s voice) shuddered into si- lence, he saw himself on the brink... ...in the fire, I would have gone to the cross for him; and when it came to trial he was gradually pictured before me, by un- deniable probation, in the ... ...oach-house. All beyond and about is the great field, of the hills; the plover, the curlew, and the lark cry there; the wind blows as it blows in a shi... ...s. A great, rooty sweet- ness of bogs was in the air, and at all seasons an infinite melancholy piping of hill birds. Standing so high and with so lit... ...the red blood, he who had ridden down Dickieson, be- came, from that moment on, a stiff and rather graceless model of the rustic proprieties; cannily ...

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...eak for the gentleman’s eye—nothing like raw beef steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp post very good, but lamp post inconvenient—damned odd standing in... ...om, with the gloomy and dreadful resolve of accepting the challenge of the war like Doctor Slammer, and abiding by the worst consequences that might ... ...s 30 the approaching struggle, and Mr. Snodgrass to arrange the weapons of war, and put them into proper order for imme diate use. it was a dull and ... ... Mr. Snodgrass carried. ‘We have nothing further to say, Sir, I think,’ he coldly remarked, as he opened the case; ‘an apology has been reso lutely d... ... the performances had been protracted to an unusual length. It was a dark, cold night, with a chill, damp wind, which blew the rain heavily against th... ...for the soft light of intelligence burned rather feebly in the eyes of the war riors, inasmuch as the command ‘eyes front’ had been given, and all th... ...s which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine—and on the box sat a fat and red f... ...ella.—’Hem! aunt, dear!’ ‘Yes, my dear love!’ ‘I’m so afraid you’ll catch cold, aunt—have a silk handker chief to tie round your dear old head—you r... ...Charles Dickens 61 ‘Not the slightest fear, Sir,’ interposed the hostler. ‘War rant him quiet, Sir; a hinfant in arms might drive him.’ ‘He don’t shy...

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...r blonde wig, carefully curled and well arranged upon her head, became the cold white face which resembled that of some burgomaster’s wife painted by ... ...his Breton will; a slight sweat, which every one noticed and guessed to be cold, moistened his brow. The notary knew but too well that these signs mig... ...n is like a silk paper applied to the flesh, shuddering at the winter of a cold look, expanding in the sunshine of a loving glance,—teaching the hand ... ...y — taking it, like many another youth, for a vocation—on the red cloth of war. On his way to the base of the army at Nice he met the Breton. The pair... ...made sergeants at the peace which followed the battle of Marengo. When the war recommenced, Charles Mignon was pro- moted into the cavalry and lost si... ...stant ruin like a vulture swooped down upon their happi- ness, just as the cold fell in 1812 upon the grand army in Russia. One night sufficed Charles... ...he man talks about com- parisons that howl, rocks that faint, and waves of war! How- ever, he is only a travelling Englishman, and we must expect absu... ... three lands crowded with confused images that girlish head, august in its cold guilelessness, its native chastity, but from which there sprang full-a... ...elle d’Herouville hidden under Mademoiselle Vilquin. Though all is fair in war, I blushed at such spying and 67 Balzac stopped short in my inquiries....

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...gration, merely because it was said that the Emperor Nicholas gave him the cold shoulder. Between the caution of the court and the prudence of the dip... ... care to be here,” said Madame Chapuzot. “Yes,” said Malaga, “the man’s as cold as an icicle.” “But he’s a good fellow all the same,” cried Chapuzot, ... ... left, and here is the winter coming on. I shall be fireless when it turns cold; for the boulevards are to play only melodra- mas, in which I have not... ...r of him. He went to walk in the open air, lightly dressed in spite of the cold, but without being able to cool the fire in his cheeks or on his brow.... ...d, having no one to love, I took for my ideal mistress a charming woman in War- saw, to whom I confided all my thoughts, my wishes; I made her the que... ...back love, desire, all the most invincible forces of our manhood, with the cold hand of gratitude,—gratitude which must be eternal. “Your terrible con...

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...e sent to bed at once.’ ‘I am not Mrs. Halfpenny, Gillian,’ said Aunt Jane coldly. ‘Jane has a soft spot for inventions, for Maurice’s sake,’ said her... ...down the cross road to Bellevue, barring her way, and executing a derisive war-dance around her, and when she, almost crying, made an attempt to dash ... ...nce and confidence. ‘Well, my deal, this is a nice day, not too hot or too cold; I do not see why I should not walk down with you and call. If I find ... ...Young sort of pasty sallow whiteness that looks at if for generations past cold water and fresh air had been unknown. There was no accent more interes... ... be introduced to all his mechanical inventions, if the total darkness and cold of his den had not been prohibitory. Kalliope looked to perfection, bu... ...d not go with them, as Beechcroft breezes, though her native air, were too cold for Adeline in the winter, and Jane could leave neither her, nor her v... ...en and then burst out, ‘Cousin David! Hurrah! Scrumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘What is it? Has David asked you?’ demanded b...

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...d penaunces. O veray fooles, nyce and blynde be ye; Ther nys nat oon kan war by other be." And with that word he gan caste vp the browe, Asc... ... Of hym thenke I my tale forth to holde, Both of his ioie and of his cares colde; And al his werk as touching this matere, 265 ffor I it gan, I w... ...rarie stonden euere mo. Allas, what is this wondre maladie? ffor hete of cold, for cold of hete, I dye." 420 And to the god of loue thus seyde... ...e on swich oon that sholde Know al thi wo, al lakked hir pitee. But also cold in loue towardes the Thi lady is as frost in wynter moone, And t... ..., 610 That I haue seyd, for now wostow my wo; And for the loue of god, my colde care So hide it wel, I tolde it neuere to mo; ffor harmes myght... ...Eschuwe thow that, for swich thing to =e scole is; Thus often wise men ben war by foolys. 635 If thow do so, thi wit is wel bewared; By his contr... ...reydest god he sholde neuere keuere. "And som of hem took on hem for the colde More than ynough, so seydestow ful ofte; And som han feyned oft... ... to seruen wol I fonde." And loked on hire in a bysi wyse, And she was war that he byheld hire so, 275 And seyde, "lord, so faste ye mauise! ... ...e dryen; And forthi, who that hath an hed of verre, ffro caste of stones war hym in the werre. "But I with al myn herte and al my myghte, As...

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...and; and then there was a lot of Injun tribes, and they kept up such another war whooping “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” Mark ... ...dn’t have it. They considered me a conceited young upstart, and gave me the cold shoulder. T wo weeksa plenty for me. I was glad to get back my bal...

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...he sun itself when it was for a few moments dimly indicated through circling eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold....

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...g eddies of fog, showed as if it had gone out and were collapsing flat and cold. Even in the sur- rounding country it was a foggy day, but there the f... ...ing what befell him as it might befall. After a time, when he had grown so cold as to be fain to blow upon his fingers, he arose and knocked with his ... ...me for you with hot water. Put your poor little feet on the fender. It’s a cold, cold night, and the fog clings so.’ As Miss Abbey helped her to turn ... ...gain.’ In those very same moments, Bella was thinking, ‘Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon com- pulsion, what I knew all ... ...e, if I could get enough for it.’ And so she would come round again to the war with herself. A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole ov... ...ases of avarice and dirt, through Miss Dancer’s death on a sick regimen of cold dumpling, and 65 Charles Dickens through Mr Dancer’ s keeping his rag... ... ‘That can’t be the spot too?’ said V enus. ‘No,’ said Wegg, ‘he’s getting cold.’ ‘It strikes me,’ whispered V enus, ‘that he wants to find out whethe...

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...had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. xxxiii. cap. 3), when they first began to coin silver. Cop... ...inues in the same worn and degraded state as before the reformation of the cold coin. In the market, however, one- and-twenty shillings of this degrad... ...urable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. It is not unco... ... affect the demand in the countries where they are consumed; upon peace or war, upon the prosperity or declension of other rival manufactures and upon... ...eems to have been rather above than below the market rate. Before the late war, the government bor- rowed at three per cent.; and people of good credi... ...y, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. During the late war, the Dutch gained the whole carrying trade of France, of which they sti... ...orrow at a higher interest. For some time after the conclusion of the late war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest c... ...er. On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, ... ...e or less the wages of their labour. In a country where the winters are so cold as in Great Britain, fuel is, during that season, in the strictest sen...

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...s had risen from the dead, their last meeting having been in Norway when the war was at its worst. Onund was very silent, and Thrand, when he noticed ... ...given no offence. Eyvind said that he had given offence before, when he made war on Kjarval the king, and that he should now pay for it. The Saga of G... ...llow. You are then to keep the horses under shelter in the stables, and when cold weather sets in keep them to the north of the ridge. I hope you wil... ...is duty better than the two which I gave you before.” Grettir said: “That is cold work, and fit for a man to do; but it seems to me rash to trust to t... ... took to minding the horses, and went on until Yule tide was past, when very cold weather set in, with snow, so that grazing was difficult. He was ver... ...ed with clothes and little hardened to the weather. He began to feel it very cold, and Keingala always chose the windiest places whatever the weather ... ... “Hammer troll ogress has done him to death. Thirsting for blood the war fiend came. With hard edged blade she gaped, o’er his head, ... ...at them, which angered them sorely. One day when it was very stormy and very cold the men called out to Grettir to get up and work; they said their cl... ...ttempt, except in self defence. Thus he says in a verse: “Oh skilled in war! When three are before me I yet will endeavour to fight with th...

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...hic cause; though it must be confessed by both of us that this is rather a cold reason for allowing a friendship such as ours to die out by degrees. I... ...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ...o that settlement after General Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Depart- ment that, in his opinion, no such movement was neces- sary to ... ...ter from you. Most truly your friend, A. LINCOLN. SPEECH ON DECLARATION OF WAR ON MEXICO SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY... ...uch an earnest, im- pressive, if not, indeed, tragic, manner, as to make a cold chill creep over me. Others gave a similar experience.] I have listene...

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... only too glad to trot about for us.—What else would he do?” Very soon the cold which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable... ...old which old age spreads about itself be- gan to set in; the communicable cold which sensibly lowers the social temperature, especially if the old ma... ... a cost. Alas! Pons did not dare to confess that heart and stomach were at war within him, that he could digest affronts which pained his heart, and, ... ...; or she would spill the gravy over his clothes. In short, she waged petty war after the manner of a petty nature, knowing that she could annoy an unf... ...ut it was all thrown away upon the audience. Mother and daughter exchanged cold, contemptuous glances.— ”What an oddity!” they seemed to say. “So it a... ... say. “So it amuses you?” remarked Mme. de Marville. The ques- tion sent a cold chill through Pons; he felt a strong desire to slap the Presidente. “W... ...eum rooms and furniture with the agility of sailors cleaning down a man-of-war. There was not a speck of dust on the carved wood; not an inch of brass... ...d of broken bread, crusts and crumbs, for a farthing, a porringer- full of cold potatoes for something less, and other scraps in proportion. Remonencq... ...e statesman, in the conceptions of the inventor, or the soldier’s toils of war; the fire within is apt to flash out in gleams of marvelously vivid lig...