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...vulets of blood. He stared at her in bewilderment. She laughed huskily and speaking in the native language of the bazaars, invited him to make love ... ...y, which had leased it from the British Crown in 1668 for ten pounds per annum. Their grand, neo-Gothic buildings erected along the harbour front, ... ...ey, cantered up to John MacGregor, who addressed him in Urdu. John had taught Helen some of this language on their long sea voyage and she understoo... ... normal again. The man’s eyes opened. He looked at Helen in amazement and muttered something in a language she did not understand, except the words,... ...urved knives tucked into their Audrey Blankenhagen 202 belts. Ram Das shouted to them in their language,’Pushto’, which he had learned during his... ...ed roughly to the floor of the phaeton. Someone shouted something in Audrey Blankenhagen 286 a language she did not understand and she felt the ca...

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...Alexandrian, a man he met while studying in Athens, who spoke many desert languages. “I’d like to see him again. I’ve learned something through my o... ... s a boy I respected Greek—such a rich vocabulary, I found; I thought the language overly concise. Hebrew is the city man’s tongue, best suited to a... ...cious and agreeable for public speaking. Haran believed in learning three languages: he was the most intelligent rabbi I have met. To him I owe my b... ...esco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language fairly well before coming—he has perfected his pronunciation, his... ...o correct me but he never does. Most of our château friends speak several languages. When I am explaining technical drawings to the King or members ... ...ny moment. VOICES FROM THE PAST 314 We eat lunch before a handsome Gothic fireplace. A woodcutter tosses on chunks... I continue working...th...

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...ural responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; (3) no evidence of language comprehension or expression; (4) intermittent wakefuln... ...nued his education in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in Munich and in Geneva where he studied languages. But the chain of disappointments continued apace. He ... ..." published in 1953. It was the first of 12 James Bond thrillers, translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond ... ... professed atheism. Until the age of 18 He spoke very little English. His main language was Gujarati. He wanted to be a medical doctor - more... ...r, who committed his atrocities in September-October 1888, was not the tall, gaunt, gothic, dark figure we all "know" from countless movies. Act... ... in occupied France, and the Americans (Marlene Dietrich). It was translated to 48 languages, including Hebrew, the language of most holocaust surv...

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...e was for me—as I believe for so many lovers of literature—an early favorite, particularly because of his verse, which is rich with sonic texture and gothic subject matter: insanity, darkness, ghosts, death, etc. It is also quite manageable to read in its entirety at 75 poems depending on how many of those of questionable authorship or in various stages of completion one i...

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...Rudolpho show up.” Looked like I wasn’t the only one into denial as a second language. “What are we looking for?” “Khaffi handed a slip of paper ov... ...ho is already moving through it.” Okay, felt like I just stepped into a bad gothic novel. Who talked like that anymore? Ooohhhh! Rudolpho is mov... ... his mouth since we entered the alley. I would’ve been worried, but his body language talked volumes. Even in the near pitch black of the ruined st...

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...c Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: World Public... ...hies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve the p... ...ly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: Stone Age, Midd... ...the sciences of life, at least, are studies of processes." 51. From foreign languages, words and phrases inserted into the English text, and not inc... ...ybizls saw the f 1906 THE FIRST TIME THAT THE GRAND PROSPE INTERCHANGEABLE GOTHIC SIX POlNT NO. I THC ?#IS1 TIWC THAT THC ORAID CIOSCCCT HAD mCCN... ...STTlM 1906 TWENTY-FOUR POlNT THE FIRST19 Specimens of Types in Use I77 GOTHIC CONDENSED SIX POINT When thoughtful Greeks llke Polyblus saw the... ...lME THAT THE GRA TWENTY-TWO POlNT When thoughtful Greeks 1 906 LIGHT-FACE GOTHIC SIX POlNT When thoughtful Greeb like Polybius saw the fall of Ca... ...HE GRAND PROSPECT HAD BEEN HE 178 The Uaiversity of Chicago Press LINING GOTHIC CONDENSED SIX POlNT THE FlRST TlME THAT THE GRAND PROSPECT HA0 B... ...N POlNT FIGURES 1234507890 180 The Ultiversity of Chicago Press SLOPING GOTHIC SIX POINT (AGATE FACE) 7HE FIRST TIYE THAT WE BRlNO PROSPECT HA0...

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...and provoking. His variety of powers was wonderful. He was learned in many languages—in all those of his empire or hereditary states, and in many besi... ...ng how the Young White King obtains instruction in painting, architecture, language, and all arts and sciences, the latter including magic—which he le... ...erchants, and a growing affectation of Latinism, had much refined the city language to which she was accustomed; and she was surprised to perceive by ... ...ed from a long course of traditionary repeti- tions of an incomprehensible language. And she knew be- sides a few German rhymes and jingles, half Chri... ...as indeed she had come to the border of the region where human tongues and languages are no more. She was all but gone when the rite of extreme unctio... ...ansion peeps out of the forest glades; and a lovely church, of rather late Gothic, but beautifully designed, attracts the eye so soon as it can be per... ...- ing date, and ready to refute the old peasant. You spell out the upright Gothic letters around the cornice of the tomb, and you read, in mediaeval L...

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...ad lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- cerned. He tho... ...n our corner,” Platt maintained. “You do what you like in yours.” “But the language!” objected Morrison, the white-faced, earnest-eyed improver, who w... ..., who was leading a profoundly reli- gious life under great difficulties. “Language, man!” roared Parsons, “why, it’s Literature!” “Sunday isn’t the t... ...lling. That was no guide anyhow. He avoided every recognised phrase in the language and mispronounced everything in order that he shouldn’t be suspect... ...and shorter periods. He went to Canterbury and came under the influence of Gothic architecture. There was a blood affinity between Mr. Polly and the G... ...ry. The ferry’s getting a scandal. They stand and shout and scream and use language…. If I complain they’ll say I’m helpless to manage here, they’ll t...

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...n; his escape; and the great condescension of Miss Bridget Allworthy The Gothic stile of building could produce nothing nobler than Mr. Allworthy’s ... ...t—to instruct her so far, that she obtained a competent skill in the Latin language, and was, perhaps, as good a scholar as most of the young men of q... ...rah, who now pronounced a second judgment against her, in more opprobrious language than before; nor had it any bet ter success with the bystanders, ... ...r. Allworthy answered, “He could not dispute with the captain in the Greek language, and therefore could say nothing as to the true sense of the word ... ...and complained of the trespass on his manor in as high terms and as bitter language as if his house had been broken open, and the most valuable furnit... ...passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the well ... ...ars old without knowing that she was her father’s relation.”—”O! more than Gothic ignorance,” answered the lady. “And as for your manners, brother, I ...

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...ng sacred and precious things before swine. So I will speak to thee in the language of the world, which he who is king of the world, hath taught thee,... ...er gone than Wayland Smith expressed, by every contemptuous epithet in the language, his utter scorn for a nincompoop who stuck his head under his wif... ..., therefore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are em- 141 Sir Walter Scott ployed for the same purp... ...dic phrase, advice which was well worth attending to, or, in Will Badger’s language, started the game while others beat the bush. “We have had an unha... ...without you tell me vat you make of it.” The artist made brief answer in a language of which T ressilian could not understand a word, and which seemed... ...e on with affected alacrity, now talking to the horse as one expert in the language of the stable, now whistling to himself low and interrupted snatch... ...opened on a small projecting balcony of stone, battlemented as is usual in Gothic castles. The Earl undid the lattice, and stepped out into the 362 K...

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... the cottage of his fathers he could but distinguish a few rude stones—the language was almost extinguished—the ancient race from which he boasted his... ...elody, and the words, which were supposed to be very old, were in the same language; but we subjoin a translation of them, by Secundus Macpherson, Esq... ...er, as the black-cocks towards the end of the season, when, in sportsman’s language, they are said to flock or crowd, attracted together by the sound ... ...e.” “Well, my lord,” said Sir Duncan, “I shall be sorry to carry back this language to the Marquis of Argyle. I had it in far- ther charge from the Ma... ..., on the soft and gentle slope that ascends from the shores, the noble old Gothic castle, with its varied outline, embattled walls, towers, and outer ... ...eing richly carved and gilded. The gallery was lighted by long lanceolated Gothic casements, divided by heavy shafts, and filled with painted glass, w... ...ly, the divine remained behind in the chapel, and, walking up and down its Gothic precincts, seemed either to be meditating on what he had just been d... ...chal- College.” Comprehending his meaning rather from his motions than his language, the Son of the Mist again led the way, with an unerring precision...

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...lf, I have pride in recording that for many years we were, in Wordsworth’s language,— “A pair of friends, though I was young, And ‘George’ was sev... ... have been wealthy. He had hitherto been speaking of what, in theatri- cal language, was called stars; but they were sometimes fall- ing ones. There w... ...s which found a responding chord in their own feelings, and to deal in the language, the sincere language, of panegyric, without intruding on the mode... ...n the aged and infirm actor derives relief from this fund, he will, in the language of the gallant Highlander, “Cast his eye to good old Scotland, and... ...res to address you on so interesting a subject. Accustomed to speak in the language of others, I feel quite at a loss for terms wherein to clothe the ... ... to its name of Castle only from the front windows being finished in acute Gothic arches (being, by the way, the very reverse of the cas- tellated sty...

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...trait of a Lady HENRY JAMES 1881 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents CHAPTER 1 . . . .... ...n the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very pleasant to be so well treated where one had ... ...” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at him still. “Do you mean the foreign languages?” “The languages are nothing. I mean the spirit—the genius.” “I... ...strained deliberation, suggested a person of high culture speaking a foreign language. Ralph Touchett subsequently learned that she had at one time of... ...hetts aren’t English at all, you know; they have their own habits, their own language, their own food—some odd religion even, I believe, of their own.... ...ne the less in her behaviour because it spoke a conventional tongue. “What’s language at all but a convention?” said Isabel. “She has the good taste n...

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...the level of the roof. The descendant of the Franks looked for the missing Gothic turrets and the picturesque weather vanes which used to rise above t... ...led, not Revolutionaries, but revolted subjects, or, in more parliamentary language, they had no dealings with Liberals or Constitutionnels. Such Roy-... ...eneral consent. The d’Esgrignons not only lacked the very rudiments of the language of latter-day politics, to wit, money, the great mod- ern relief, ... ...ould never have brooked the appearance of an insult was abusing himself in language which no man is likely to hear except from himself. He left du Cro... ... their joint-stock partnership; is not that what you call it in your legal language? Frenchwomen are so incred- ibly jealous in the conduct of their m...

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...” I saw at once that she was a fashionable girl, from her using the French language in this way. “Isn’t she a fine girl?” said Brough, whispering to m... ...y work or my regularity; and that I was not minded to receive any insolent language from him or any man. He said it was always so: that he had never c... ...rd, that is— “Mrs. Hoggarty of Castle Hoggarty,” magnificently engraved in Gothic letters and flourishes; and ours, viz., “Mr. and Mrs. S. Titmarsh,” ... ...men!” when I appeared; another called me a muff (which means, in the slang language, a very silly fellow); a third wondered that I took to my prayer-b...

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...t the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the nig... ...l with shame and horror now became uppermost again. Before her was a great Gothic 183 H. G . Wells portal. Through that she had to go. Past her shot ... ...neous diseases. Then she fell into a fever of remorse for the habit of bad language she had acquired. “A man can smoke, a man can swear; A man s... ...ould.” “What?” “That’s the devil of it!” “Devil of what? … You do use vile language!” “Forget about it like this.” “Forget what?” “And I said I wouldn...

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...l Right!” This is the pith, the marrow, the sum and essence of the English language to a southerner. Of course it is not all right. 191 D. H. Lawrenc... ...ove the cathedral and the tower. I love its pinkness and its paleness. The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and chea... ...k, mind- ful silence and inflection of the cypress trees, lost races, lost language, lost human ways of feeling and of knowing. Men have known as we c... ...d woman, sat. Therefore he entered, and though he could not understand the language, still his second self understood. The cave was a house: and men c... ...irst stake, the boatmen all uttered a strange cry of warning, in a foreign language. The flesh-and- blood Aaron seemed not even to hear. The invisible...

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...and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called--in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independ...

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...e kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ours... ...ope a pair of black—.” The whole truth was told in the plain- est possible language. “Oh, Aunt Sally!” “Aunt Sally, how can you?” “Hold your tongue, A...

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...d Their Meaning EDITH WHARTON 1919 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition o... ...n question knew the Germans at home, in our home, where they had to talk our language or not get on, where they had to be what we wanted them to be—or... ...le who had torn down their cathedrals when they ceased to feel the beauty of Gothic architecture, as the French had ceased to feel it in the seventeen... ...etches of this heritage that have been too long allowed to run to waste: our language, our literature, and many other things pertaining to the great u... ...rown to create a stan dard of French speech: “To establish the rules of the language, and make French not only elegant, but capable of dealing with t... ...ieu was national unit,” and “The Forty do not believe that they can keep the language under discipline by merely publishing a Dictionary now and then ...

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...ope are in possession, firstly, of highly developed terri- tories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, sec- ondly, of barbaric and less-dev... ...ts and patches, or Dalmatia, where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or... ...still owes and intends to pay that original debt; but if you translate the language of £.s.d. into realities, you will find that in loaves or iron or ... ...land, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and cant about the Gothic, the Oxford and Cam- bridge that turned boys full of life and hope a... ...ish, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by their stu... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...—on Chinese lines of the high- est merit. They take the utmost care of our Gothic cathe- drals for us. They put our dearest racial possessions into mu...