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..., every man in his vocation. And to this purpose am I wont, in reading of histories (which is the subject of most men) to consider who are the writer... ...an that of Pompeyes friends, who in his owne ship were spectators of that horrible massacre? yet is it, that the feare of the ægyptian sailes, which... ...at countenance, and what face they shew at their death; and in reading of histories, which I so attentively observe. It appeareth by the shuffling an... ...easure, and so brings him to his grave. And would to God I knew it but by histories how that many times our belly being restrained thereof, bring us... ...me stooping downe to the ground, and as some report did it many times. The histories I borrow, I referre to the consciences of those I take them from... ...e; where, as monkies do, they kill lice with their teeth, and thinke it a horrible matter to see them crusht between their nailes; where men as long... ... publike opinion may condemne them; that Poets, and all men else may tell horrible tales of them. A receit by meanes whereof the fairest daughters w... ...vert a publike peace, and introduce so many inevitable mischiefes, and so horrible a corruption of manners, as civill warres and alterations of a st... ...r idolles are sprinkled with humane bloud, not without divers examples of horrible crueltie. Some are burnt alive, and half roasted drawne from the ...

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...his friend of all that he had learned from the honorary member, and of the horrible al- ternative that lay before them. The Prince was conscious of a ... ...r club; Geraldine had a diamond; but when Mr. Malthus turned up his card a horrible noise, like that of something breaking, issued from his mouth; and... ... and, in a word, to all who had been ever so re- motely connected with his horrible misfortune. He slunk down to dinner about seven at night; but the ... ...ven to command my ways upon that rule. It is not only written in all noble histories, but in every man’s heart, if he will take care to read. You spea... ...he stared into shadowy corners until he imag- ined they were swarming with horrible animals; and every now and again he awoke with a start, to remembe...

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... a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman ... ...ld it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance. These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn b... ...of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman gliding silently through the town, with n... ...e knowest all the horror of this thing! And the shame! — the indelicacy! — the horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the ve... ... turned pale as ashes, lest his tongue should wag itself in utterance of these horrible matters, and plead his own consent for so doing, without his h... ...temptation, he was conscious of another impulse, more ludicrous, and almost as horrible. It was — we blush to tell it — it was to stop short in the ro...

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...aph-poles fly past the traveller. Maisie listened and nodded her head. The histories of strife and privation did not move her a hair’s-breadth. At the... ... me and see what the world is really like. It’s very lovely, and it’s very horrible,—but I won’t let you see anything horrid,—and it doesn’t care your... ...he sight of that field taught me a good deal. It looked just like a bed of horrible toadstools in all colours, and—I’d never seen men in bulk go back ... ...to my arms, and when she got to the food she ate like a wild beast. It was horrible.’ ‘I can give her money, which she would probably spend in drinks....

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...eral, smelling so strong that now any flower-scent brought back the sickly horrible sensation; and so from one scene she passed, half-hearing, half-se... ...is body, lying flat among them, did for a moment suggest death. “This is a horrible exhibition, Mr. Hewet!” cried Mrs. Thornbury. “More cake for us!” ... ... Thornbury. “More cake for us!” said Arthur. “I assure you there’s nothing horrible about it,” said Hewet, sitting up and laying hands upon the cake. ... ...f walking in a crocodile with her hair down her back peculiarly unjust and horrible, nor could she explain why Hirst’s assumption of the superiority o... ...g that it was La Cousine Bette, bade her throw it away if she found it too horrible, and was about to leave him when he demanded whether she had enjoy... ...words compared with sounds!” she continued. “Think of novels and plays and histories—” Perched on the edge of the table, she stirred the red and yello...

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...r Corbie on the morrow, with as many of his men as he could get ready. The histories and the memoirs of the time show that this bold step saved the st... ...ssor, Pere du Trevoux, went to say mass, but it returned no more. The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts. When the said confessor ca... ...etimes treated him most insolently; and he had often much to do to appease horrible jealousies. He lived in continual hot water with his favourites, t... ...nde. They there put him in bed. Priests and doctors came. But he only made horrible faces, and died 436 Saint-Simon about four o’clock in the morning... ...d be well to hasten this marriage if it was possible, because all sorts of horrible things were invented to prevent it; and without waiting to be too ... ...l more surprised, listened attentively to the end, and re- plied that this horrible report was public, that she herself could see what consequences it... ...f such details is the key to many others, and that it is always wanting in histories, often in memoirs the most in- teresting and instructive, but whi... ...hen to a third, in the manner of the romances; he threaded through a dozen histories at once, which made him lose ground and drove him from one to the...

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... tear off handfuls of the cotton and expose his cooked flesh to view. It was horrible. It was bad for the oth ers, of course—this noise and these exh... ...round him; so, to me his story was valuable—it filled a gap for me which all histories had left till that time empty. THE PILOT’S FIRST BATTLE He sa... ... Mark T wain *See Appendix B. 165 sprinkled with some frequency through the histories of sev eral Christian nations, but this is almost the only one... ...d was in consequence occupying a good deal of space in the newspapers. Cheap histories of him were for sale by train boys. According to these, he was ... ... there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible. Graveyards may have been justifiable in the bygone ages, Life o...

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...e, listen to the trag- edy, and abstain from trembling, if you can, at the horrible catastrophe! At the outside of the courtyard door, on the left han... ...many, and where it would be requisite to know their several characters and histories to avoid saying what might give offence. In this particular, thos...

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...nd ferocity of In- dians are all no more feared, so lightly do we skim these horrible lands; as the gull, who wings safely through the hurricane and p... ...scovery. From Toano we travelled all day through deserts of alkali and sand, horrible to man, and bare sage-brush country that seemed little kindlier,... .... “Nous avons eu des histoires de gens qui se sont pendus.” (No, we have had histories of people who hanged themselves.) “What,” cried the Arethusa. “... ...hen a city crowds to a review – or, as when bees have swarmed, the ground is horrible with lumps and clusters; 91 Robert Louis Stevenson and a strang...

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...mar- riage, suffer great penalties in the other world, are in the power of horrible monsters with sharp and tearing claws, who thrust them into flamin... ...er the angel, in memory of this adventure now consigned to these veracious histories. THE MERRY JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH KING LOUIS THE ELEVEN...

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...more Harvester Works, went by, loaded with long strips of iron that made a horrible din as they jarred over the unevenness of the pavement. The electr... ...—blood stains—rearing horses—men staggering to their death— Christian in a horrible posture, one rigid leg high in the air across his saddle—Broderson... .... Oh, to find a little niche for herself here, a home, a refuge from those horrible city streets, from the rat of famine, with its relentless tooth. H... ...f the men who had been killed at the ditch. It was a half- ludicrous, half-horrible “dog eat dog,” an unspeakable cannibalism. Harran, Annixter, and H... ...ith a load of disgrace. Hilda Hooven and Sidney Dyke, what was to be their histories? the one, sister of an outcast; the other, daughter of a convict....

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...s barbarous in this than the Greeks and Romans who call them so, repute it horrible and cruel to torment and pull a man to pieces for a fault of which... ... that immortalise and deify their fathers, as Lycurgus, Solon, Minos. Now, histories being full of examples of the common affection of fathers to thei... ... the diversities of their doctrines and opinions. In this kind of study of histories, a man must tumble over, with- out distinction, all sorts of auth... ... a pretty contexture of reports they pick up in the streets. The only good histories are those that have been written themselves who held command in t... ...ct of others of the same na- ture. Such are almost all the Greek and Roman histories: for, 99 Montaigne several eye-witnesses having written of the s... ...re in this, there would need but this example: Asinius Pollio found in the histories of Caesar himself something misreported, a mistake occasioned; ei... ...he had seen in the place, that they were resolved to torment him with some horrible execution, and seemed to be delivered from death in having it chan... ...of the Indies, they met with soldiers who had con- demned themselves, with horrible execrations, to enter into no other composition but either to caus...

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...ughs to hear A charge her garden’s labyrinths scarce confute, Her garden’s histories tell of to all near. Let it be said, But less upon her guile Doth... ...r ships and their shelterings poured forth On that plain of Scamander, and horrible rumbled beneath them Earth to the quick-paced feet of the men and ...

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...ent all lengths,’ said Mrs. Edmonstone. ‘What was the true version of that horrible story about his son?’ said Philip. ‘Did he strike him?’ ‘Oh, no! i... ...e with him for all your pity, my silly little Amy.’ ‘Surely not, with that horrible ancestry.’ ‘All very well to plume oneself upon. I rather covet th... ...d turn the lock of Dark Hugh’s cham- ber. I hunted among old papers, and a horrible story I found. That wretched Sir Hugh,—the same who began the quar... ... by hanging himself in the very room where he had imprisoned his victim.’ ‘Horrible!’ said Laura. ‘Yet I do not see why, when it is all past, you shou... ...n; and they went out. They found the others in the arbour, and Charlotte’s histories of its construc- tion, gave Philip little satisfaction. They next... ...e had never been there. It was a distant offset of his own property, and a horrible sense of responsibility for all the crime and misery there came ov...

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...apter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this Among other good uses for which I have thought proper t... ...h owl had given him such a serenade at his window, that he leapt in a most horrible affright from his bed, and, huddling on his clothes with great exp... ...imed against, and that is poison: a means of re venge so base, and yet so horrible, that is was once wisely distinguished by our laws from all other ... ...aid Sophia. “Yes, indeed you must,” answered she, laughing; “for I had a horrible suspicion when I first came into the room —I vow you must forgive ... ...eans the squire came to discover his daughter Though the reader, in many histories, is obliged to digest much more unaccountable appearances than th... ... anger to Jones. Revolutions of this kind, it is true, frequently occur in histories and dramatic writers, for no other reason than because the histor...

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...When shipwreck’s short allowance grows too scanty, Without being much more horrible than Dante. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Two” 57 And the same n... ...rt glimpse of hell: Nought ‘s more sublime than energetic bile, Though horrible to see yet grand to tell, Like ocean warring ‘gainst a rocky... ...s rise; He was as good a sovereign of the sort As any mention’d in the histories Of Cantemir, or Knolles, where few shine Save Solyman, the ...

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...r’d, I betook myself Weeping to him, who of free will forgives. My sins were horrible; but so wide arms Hath goodness infinite, that it receives All w... ...other: “Why hath he conceal’d The title of that river, as a man Doth of some horrible thing?” The spirit, who Thereof was question’d, did acquit him t... ...s and Romans and the delightful adventures of King Arthur, with many other histories and works of instruction. The Span ish (or Provencal) may boast...

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...nent scoundrels, what earthly business should we have in de- tailing their histories? What would the public care for them? Who would meddle with dull ... ...t is one to do after that? Had we been writing novels instead of authentic histories, we might have carried them any- where else we chose: and we had ... ...ion into which he had fallen. For, from the morning after the quarrel, the horrible words and looks of Catherine never left Hayes’s memory; but a cold... ...d go, and live away, abroad in some cheap place—away from that boy and his horrible threats. The idea of freedom was agree- able to the poor wretch; a... ... she had been afraid that she might talk in her sleep, and so let slip her horrible confession. Old Wood knew all her history since the period of the ... ...his finger slowly and said, “Look, Cat—the head—the head!” Then uttering a horrible laugh, he fell down grovelling among the stones, gib- bering and w... ... imagined, no literary merit whatever. The details of the crime are simply horrible, without one touch of even that sort of romance which sometimes gi...

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... take as far as the novices were concerned. Shakespeare, or the dramatized histories of George Barnwell, Maria Martin, or the Demon Barber of Fleet St... ...us, wasn’t he? ELLIE. Oh, not that. I think all the part about jealousy is horrible. But don’t you think it must have been a wonderful experience for ... ...nd even about you. I don’t know why I’m talking to you so calmly. I have a horrible fear that my heart is broken, but that heartbreak is not like what...

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...m numbers, leaving them so that no capable person knows their names, their histories, their fami- lies, their possibilities, their strength or their w... ... would be deterred by the cruelty of the state. That capital punishment is horrible and cruel is the reason for its existence. That men should be taug... ...and reading of capital punishment, applied to my machine, is revolting and horrible. Perhaps as the world im- proves, the sympathetic and imaginative ...