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...f the old armed forces. The sun’s heat penetrated Roxanne's thick, navy, woollen coat, making it heavy and uncomfortable. The military emblems on h... ... The sun’s heat penetrated Roxanne's thick, navy, woollen coat, making it heavy and uncomfortable. The military emblems on her shoulders were neithe... ...let down by his team who should be there, backing him up. The full-length woollen coat, collared with rat skins and bulging pockets, gave the 9 six... ..." "Shut up," Shaun grunted and kept going. 21 C H A P T E R 4 Through the heavy metal doors, the wide concrete walkway encircled the top service lev... ...f the manhole. Exerting their strengths, both David and Atlas removed the heavy steel covering. Powering up her weapon, Roxanne pointed it at David ... ...mages flashed worldwide devastation. Suburbs, industrial and even business districts burned; in some places, the smoke turned day into night. Captiva...

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...is custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bou...

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...the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; ... ...vercome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep. Late in the afternoon his canary bird,... ...ten years before. He remembered the years he had spent there trundling the heavy cars of ore in and out of the tunnel under the direction of his fathe... ...lean shirt, with its frayed wristbands; and his huge feet encased in thick woollen socks. Then her grief and the sense of her unhap- piness returned m... ...Norris his shock of heavy blond hair escaped from beneath the visor of his woollen cap and hung low over his forehead. He stood with awkward, shifting... ... cravat; an old coat, faded, rain-washed, and ripped at the seams; and his woollen cap. 247 Frank Norris “Say, T rina,” he exclaimed, his heavy bass ... ...a Hill was a small one-street town, the head- quarters of the mines of the district. Originally it had been built upon the summit of a mountain, but t...

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...way faintly into the immea- surable distance. The ship went rolling over a heavy, swelter- ing, calm sea. The breeze was a warm and soft one; quite di... ...inhabit hand- some stone palaces, with balconies and projecting windows of heavy carved stone. The lights and shadows, the cries and stenches, the fru... ... the town spread beneath. Round this wide, yellow, barren plain,—a stunted district of olive-trees is almost the only vegetation visible— there rises,... ... dressing-gowns, one of white cotton, and an outer wrap- per of warm brown woollen. Their heads were accommo- dated with wadded cotton nightcaps; and ... ...ear air. Hither she brings from England her pro- duce of marine-stores and woollens, her crockeries, her por- table soups, and her bitter ale. Hither ... ...ys the marine malady leaves you for good, you find that a brisk wind and a heavy rolling swell create exactly the same inward effects which they occas... ...ure of the country we had to traverse. Before we got to the real mountain district, we were in a manner prepared for it, by the mounting and descent ... ..., up and down which our rough stony track wound. Then we entered the hill district, and our path lay through the clattering bed of an ancient stream,...

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...head and twenty million arms, is at work perpetually; crouching in country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national g... ...hat this slender little creature handles her bobbins in a way to lead this heavy, solid, stolid general precisely as he himself used to lead his cuira... ...roposed, “If Madame approves.” When he comes to his wife’s room, with that heavy step which makes the tiles creak as though they were boards, and she,... ...ed by two round towers with conical roofs. Above the arch of the porch are heavy stone courses, now draped with vegetation, showing three large window... ...oner of legal papers, when- ever the Sieur Brunet came to draw them in the districts of Cerneux, Conches, and Blangy. Vermichel and Fourchon, allied b... ...e average; and T onsard kept half for his own traffic. In all wine-growing districts the gleaning of the large 43 Balzac vineyards gives a good perqu... ...elder. Always extremely clean, though threadbare, he wore breeches, coarse woollen stockings, hob- nailed shoes, the distinctively French coat with la... ...ack cloth. His shoes, very thick soled, had iron nails outside, and inside woollen linings knit by his wife in the winter evenings. Annette and her mi... ...threaten his rights. Lupin had married an heiress in wooden shoes and blue woollen stockings, the only daughter of a salt-dealer, who made his money d...

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...eacon red Had kindled on Benvoirlich’s head, The deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance born... ...stranger roam, Whose drooping crest and stifled sigh, And sunken cheek and heavy eye, Pine for his Highland home; Then, warrior, then be shine to s... ... down of eider piled, If thy protection hover there. The murky cavern’s heavy air Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled; Then, Maiden! hear ... ...wdnesse, and do goodnesse” (referring to Ps. xxxiv. 14). 89. Menteith. The district in the southwestern part of Perthshire, watered by the T eith. 91.... ...oetry. 145. Trosachs. “The rough or bristled territory” (Graham); the wild district between Lochs Katrine and Vennachar. The name is now especially ap... ...had become little more than a name. Each chief was a petty king in his own district, and gave just so much obedience to the king’s authority as suited... ...r.” The “Globe” ed. has “Spear, spikes,” etc. 343. T artans. The checkered woollen cloth so much worn in Scotland. Curiously enough, the name is not G...

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...l lights at last on the toiled shoulders of an august Representative Body. Heavy- laden National Assembly! It has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts... ...et serves Danton also with a writ;—which, however, as the whole Cordeliers District responds to it, what Constable will be prompt to execute? Twice mo... ...rissot, meanwhile, are far on with their Municipal Constitution. The Sixty Districts shall become Forty-eight Sections; much shall be adjusted, and Pa... ...night only, but partially or totally it lasts a series of nights. For each District, the Electors of each District, will swear specially; and always a... ...could. They are the mute representatives of their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations; who from out of that dark bewilderment gaze wistful, a... ...Saint-Antoine Battalion, is already there,—ap- parently indisposed to act. Heavy-laden Hero of two Worlds, what tasks are these! The jeerings, provoca... ...leads, in endless earnest-shallow speech, against imme- diate War, against Woollen Caps or Bonnets Rouges, against many things; and is the Trismegistu... ...e too how the Jacobin Brethren are mounting new sym- bolical headgear: the Woollen Cap or Nightcap, bonnet de laine, better known as bonnet rouge, the... ...es! Such a goose is man; and cackles over plush-velvet Grand Monarques and woollen Galley-slaves; over everything and over nothing,—and will cackle wi...

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...by which the wall of each facade was sup- ported. From time immemorial the heavy shutters had been rolled along these grooves, held there by enormous ... ...her pure warm blood. Her chin and the lower part of her face were a little heavy, in the acceptation given by painters to that term,—a heaviness which... ...ite cravat. His strong and vigorous shoulders, which began life by bearing heavy burdens, were now rather bent; and be- neath this torso, unduly devel... ... the observers of to-day to be rapidly disappearing throughout the country districts. This family had therefore formed a point of reliance to the rect... ... the foot of a hill, as its name designates, the chief town of a canton or district in the Haute-Vienne. The hill is part of Montegnac, which thus uni... ...nac, which thus unites a mountainous scenery with that of the plains. This district is a miniature Scotland, with its lowlands and highlands. Behind t... ...he broad-brimmed felt hat of the peasantry, while the boy had only a brown woollen cap. Though intelligent and animated, the child’s face was in- stin...

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...tely adopted as an emblem of liberty. Each man carried over his shoulder a heavy stick of knotted oak, at the end of which hung a linen bag with littl... ...ver the red cap, a coarse felt hat, with a broad brim adorned by a sort of woollen chenille of many colors which was fastened round it. Others were cl... ...the peasants of Brittany make for them- selves; but the greater number had heavy hobnailed boots, 5 Balzac and coats of coarse cloth cut in the fashi... ...se last, evidently characters, marched in boots of various kinds, swinging heavy canes with the air and manner of those who take heart under misfor- t... ...ely. This column was a contingent slowly and with difficulty raised in the district of Fougeres, from which it was due un- der the levy ordered by the... ...nnerie.” He hoped by this means to weaken its strength in these formidable districts. This devoted soldier made use of the illusory provisions of the ... ...e the word—rampant, is called “the country of the Gars.” When a canton (or district) is inhab- ited by a number of half-savages like the one who has j... ...rtain firmness mingled with tender feeling. She wore a gown of some common woollen stuff. The fash- ion of her hair, done up closely under a Norman ca... ...eed!” said Marche-a-T erre. The lady left him. The Chouan replaced his red woollen cap upon his head, remained standing, and was scratching his ear as...

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... body is, not the particular par- ish concerned, but the presbytery of the district in which the parish is seated. Thus far the steps, merely legal, o... ...ed. But who is to judge whether they are reasonable? The presbytery of the district. And now pursue the action of the law, and see how little ground i... ... mark what followed. It had been expressly provided by Parliament—that any district or circumjacent territory, allotted to such parliamentary churches... ...rows of pearls. The thread on which the pearls were strung, was of flax or woollen,—and sometimes colored, as we learn from the Thalmud, VI. 43; and t... ...er adequate provocation, and with no final result of evil; Bonaparte under heavy aggravations of ingratitude and in- discretion. Both assumed the char... ...lness, accompanied by great suffering, may probably enough have been found heavy. Another objection to that paper is, that it too easily assumes the r...

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... major. Such is the Vale of Blackmoor. 6 Phase the First — The Maiden The district is of historic, no less than of topographical interest. The Vale w... ...te hart which the king had run down and spared, was made the occasion of a heavy fine. In those days, and till comparatively recent times, the country ... ...the village school: the characteristic intonation of that dialect for this district being the voicing approximately rendered by the syllable UR, proba... ...e bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered... ...n at Trantridge Cross, and ascended on foot a hill in the direction of the district known as The Chase, on the borders of which, as she had been infor... ...The Maiden Mrs. d’Urberville slept in a large four post bedstead hung with heavy damask curtains, and the bullfinches occupied the same apartment, wher... ...wn draperies, and other purchases for the week. The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her hea... ...e back of her head, and she had put on one of the new frocks — a pale blue woollen garment with neck frillings of white. Her hands and face appeared t... ...and the stones hurt her, and chilled her to the bone; but Clare was in his woollen stockings, and appeared to feel no discomfort. There was no further...

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...ull dusk, stepping down the breakneck descent into Kotgarth with something heavy in her arms. The Chaplain’ s wife was dozing in the draw- ing-room wh... ...m. She spent a month over it,, for his plantation was not in the Darjiling district at all, but nearer Kangra. Phil was very little altered, and Dunma... ... van- ished, and you could not see your hand before your face. The air was heavy with dust and sand from the bed of the river, that filled boots and p... ...there lived at Simla a very pretty girl, the daughter of a poor but honest District and Sessions Judge. She was a good girl, but could not help knowin... ...d be rendered sterile, he said, by “Mellish’s Own Invincible Fumigatory”—a heavy violet-black powder—”the result of fifteen years’ scientific investig... ... a race which shall break Shackles and humble the pride of his owner.” The Districts rose against Shackles and sent up of their best; Ousel, who was s... ...rs beside us ten and the man; but we always had a mat apiece with a wadded woollen head- piece, all covered with black and red dragons and things; jus...

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...lemnly impatient parasite of great questions. He likes everything in hard, heavy lines, black and white, yes and no, because he does not understand ho... ...the utmost the payment of a small redemption. A horse, perhaps, in certain districts, or a bicycle, or any such mechanical conveyance personally used,... ...shall admire its ingenious adaptation to the need 72 A Modern Utopia of a district that is buried half the year in snow, the hard bed below, curved a... ...n leather doublet and knee breeches, and he wears over these a stream- ing woollen cloak of faded crimson that give him a fine dra- matic outline as h... ...is done as unwilling charity by administrators who are often, in the rural districts at least, competing for low-priced labour, and who regard want of... ...inality, the Deeming or Crossman type, base men who subsist and feed their heavy imaginations in the wooing, betrayal, ill-treatment, and sometimes ev... ...student of faces. I shall be, as it were, looking for someone. I shall see heavy faces, dull faces, faces with an uncongenial animation, alien faces, ... ...ited behind them, or they may have a high-waisted dress of very fine, soft woollen material, with their hair coiled up behind.” “I have seen it,” I sa... ...stumes of rough woven cloth, dyed an unobtrusive brown or green, over fine woollen undercloth- ing, and so achieve a decent comfort in its simplest fo...

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...kness, had not the air of one of the few inhabitants of that wild mountain district. ‘Lost art thou, maiden,’ he said, as he stood beside her; ‘where ... ...ay there shone a light, and in the light stood a motherly form, in a white woollen hood and dark serge dress. Tired as he was, Hal ran on to her, excl... ...two of which she placed before Hal and the shepherd, mak- ing signs to the heavy-browed Piers to wait; and getting no reply from her worn-out guest, s... ...tle lady should have his own bed— a chaff-stuffed mattress, covered with a woollen rug, in the recess behind the projecting hearth—a strange luxury fo... ...the shutter, and a black cloud was lowering over the hills. Hob foretold a heavy fall of snow, and called on Hal to help him and Piers fold the flock ... ...amber. It was not quite a cell, the bare stone walls being hung with faded woollen tapestry, the floor covered with a deerskin, the small window fille... ...be an- other danger, so near the outskirts of the wood, since the northern districts of moor and wood were by no means clear of the remnants of the co... ... it twice before a porter looked cautiously out at a wicket opening in the heavy door, and demanded ‘Who comes?’ ‘Open, porter, open in the name of Ki...

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... of drinking glasses and cruet stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy weather. I had not at that time seen the ideal presentment of this ch... ...ers were coiling ropes and busy with oakum yarns; and others were lowering heavy packages into the hold; and the purser’s head was barely visible as i... ... the night. The perpetual tramp of boot heels on the decks gave place to a heavy silence, and the whole human freight was stowed away below, excepting... ...hey call in America a Corporation. I went over several of these; such as a woollen factory, a carpet factory, and a cotton factory: examined them in e... ...g cultivation in the same place could possibly have af forded me. In this district, as in all others where slavery sits brooding, (I have frequently ... ...at of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member influencing the selection. Commissions in the service ... ...on all the passengers they inveigle, are constantly travelling about those districts where poverty and discontent are rife, and tempting the credu lo...

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...e, there can be no mistake as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is connected with civil... ...f the picture he has drawn. Otsego has now become one of the most populous districts of New York. It sends forth its emigrants like any other old regi... ...rms.” —Thomson. NEAR THE CENTRE of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, t... ... period, Richard had completed his design. He had availed himself, in this heavy undertaking, of the experience of a certain wandering eastern mechani... ... be flat, and with four faces. To this arrangement, Marmaduke objected the heavy snows that lay for months, frequently covering the earth to a depth o... ...ld give the appearance of strength. His face was protruding from beneath a woollen night cap; and, when he turned to the vehicle of Marmaduke as the s... ... mountains were beautifully undulating. Near to this, in a corner, stood a heavy, old-fashioned, brass-faced clock, incased in a high box, of the dark... ...faded silk, that had gone through at least three generations, over coarse, woollen black stockings; that, a shawl, whose dyes were as numerous as thos... ... laid aside his hat and wig, and substituted for the latter a warm, peaked woollen nightcap, took his seat very quietly on one end of the settee, whic...

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...ion formed in the independent expres- sions of towns and other small civil districts that is the real conservatism of free government. It is equally t... ...n aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful are assembled togeth... ...n aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful are assembled togeth... ...called Quak- ers has sprung up,” etc. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import Quak- ers into the co... ...ing schools in every township, and obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support them. Schools of a superior kind were founded in th... ...i- ture for its schools or to name a school-committee, it is li- able to a heavy fine. But this penalty is pronounced by the Supreme Judicial Court or... ...olding this language, they spread before the eyes of the Indians firearms, woollen garments, kegs of brandy, glass necklaces, bracelets of tinsel, ear...

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...sted with, the intense blackness of her hair, abun- dant, thick, extremely heavy, continually coruscating with sombre, murky reflections, tragic, in a... ...ics, laces as white and soft as froth, crisp, shining silks, suave satins, heavy gleaming velvets, and brocades and plushes, nearly all of them white—... ...s uncomfortably warm, and into this steam-heated atmosphere a multitude of heavy odours exhaled—the scent of crushed flowers, of perfume, of sa- chet,... ...now as the carriage rolled on through the deserted streets of the business districts, she knew very well that she did not want to marry him. She had d... ...is is Jackson and La Salle streets. Landry was telling me. The ‘commission district,’ he called 33 Frank Norris it. And these are the brokers’ office... ...arborn himself had a sister—a twin of Aunt Wess’—who had married a wealthy woollen mer- chant of Boston, and this one, long since, had provided for th... ...mes developed, like cancerous growths, in the very heart of fine residence districts. The black murk that closed every vista of the business streets o...

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...r, where good account was taken of it. So tremendous had the force of the sea been when it broke the ship, that it had beaten one great ingot of gold,... ...loured and yellow, looking passively upward from the pillow; the haggard mouth a little dropped, the hand outside the coverlet, so dull and indifferen... ...no one complained; all who could speak, said that as much was done for them as could be done there, that the attendance was kind and pa- tient, that t... ... the cart into his calculations, he en- deavoured to turn up a narrow alley, and became greatly involved. He was taken into custody by the police, and... ...eir men when they be- gin to move again. At a small butcher’s, in a shy neighbourhood (there is no reason for suppressing the name; it is by Notting-h... ...useless mind to have a halfpenny worth of excuse for saying ‘Good-night’ to the toll-keeper, and catching a glimpse of his fire. A good fire and a goo... ...s country are mighty works of Vauban, whom you know about, and regiments of such corporals as you heard of once upon a time, and many a blue-eyed Bebe...

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...er. He only begged just enough to save himself, for the laws against mendicancy were stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of h... ... “Not more than Gammer Canty, sir.” “Fathers be alike, mayhap. Mine hath not a doll’s tem- per. He smiteth with a heavy hand, yet spareth me: he spare... ...ntment— “Alack, I had believed the rumour disproportioned to the truth; but I fear me ’tis not so.” He breathed a heavy sigh, and said in a gentle voi... ...d who even claimed to be his father, indi- cated that his home was in one or another of the poor- est and meanest districts of London. Would the searc... ...was growing old. He was near the river, and in the coun- try; it was a region of fine rural seats—not the sort of district to welcome clothes like his... ...m many descriptions of larceny the law expressly took away the benefit of clergy: to steal a horse, or a hawk, or woollen cloth from the weaver, was a...

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...f looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty- stricken sort of creak to... ...gh. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with ic... ...ing with him. It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none ... ...pretty nearly made a good offing to- wards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the roo... ...attention, and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen. Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a ... ...right cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon th... ...ard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!” There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’... ... an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scold- ing with a man in a purple woollen shirt. “Get along with ye,” said she to the man, “or I’ll be comb- ... ...ns of it are presented in the circular. “This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpend...