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...of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighborin... ...ngthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, howev... ...ffice of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of th... ...ling loss so sensibly. But her own champion was now preparing to enter the lists. The mirth of Brom, which had been again excited, though in a much sm... ...he season, Richard, however, boasted for many a year of his shot with the “cricket;” and Benjamin gravely asserted that he thought they had killed nea...

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...d 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked h... ..., after the race out to tea at a distant village, too late in the year for cricket, too early for regular football, suited Matey, going at long stride... ...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...m he stationed beside himself, rather off his battle-front, as at point at cricket, not quite so far removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. ... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ... to condemn Lord Ormont in his quarrel with the Commissioner of one of the Indian provinces, who had the support of the Governor of his Presidency and... ...ord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.’ ‘We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris. You... ... they ‘d like the world to be. We don’t agree about a lady. You ‘re in the lists, lance in rest, all for chivalry. You ‘re a man, and a young man. Hav...

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...uld be accounted for at any moment. But he had heard McT urk openly deride cricket—even house-matches; Beetle’s views on the honor of the house he kne... ...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ... tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They’d never understand. They play cricket, and say: ‘Yes sir,’ and ‘O, sir,’ and ‘No, sir.’” “Never mind that... ...it was a blazing July afternoon, and as they ought to have been at a house cricket-match, they began to renew their acquaintance, intimate and un- hol... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ... the notices, where a newspaper cutting was thumb- tacked between callover lists. “By gum!” quoth Stalky, uncovering as he read. “It’s old Duncan—Fat-... ...out Fat-Sow, of course. What’s Crandall done. sir?” “I’ve brought over an Indian paper that his mother sent me. It was rather a—hefty, I think you sa... ...bel of matters personal, provincial, and imperial, pieces of old call-over lists, and new policies, cut short by the roar of a Burmese gong, and we we...

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...n the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” —Holland’ s Plutarch’ s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which t... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and ... ...ittle tinkling tags something like the stained porcu- pine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you... ...e- landic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of un- couth names. But ... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ... talk. ‘Thun- der away at it!’ ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like f...

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...n of a “military bootmaker” (“cobbler” in the vulgar tongue) of Dover, and lists his various examination proofs of a high proficiency in chemistry and... ...o astronomers. Afterwards, for the space of seven years, save for the pass lists of the Lon- don University , in which he is seen to climb slowly to a... ... to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cricketer,” he said. I suppose I am slender, slender to what some people wo... ...Some of the things are quite unreadable to me—though my fam- ily, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani fr... ... don’t want to know. I attended him for a broken finger—Married and Single cricket match—and that’s when I struck the non- sense. That’s all. But it s... ...by “these here things they rode,” there is no telling. Larvae, perhaps, or crickets, or the little beetles that elude us so abun- dantly. There was a ...

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... German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there ... ...er the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded... ...spun; in an other, a quantity of linsey woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoon... ...abod was too con scious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would “doub... ... signs of life occurred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bull frog from a neighboring ...

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...s, and Plato has the added glory of that acquired beauty, that bust of the Indian Bacchus which is now indissolubly 6 The New Machiavelli mingled wit... ...y waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there w... ...gnificently en- gineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several y... ...ge, and the local gentry would occasionally enliven the place with valiant cricket matches for a hundred guineas a side, to the vast ex- citement of t... ...an hour of my bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a pretty voracious appetite for miscellaneo... ...ade of the huge adjustments of the nineteenth century? Flack was the chief cricketer on the staff; he belonged to that great cult which pretends that ... ... and forensic 213 H G Wells “crushers.” The New Year and Birthday honours lists are al- ways very sagely and exhaustively considered, and anecdotes a...

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...s down Her voice among the aisles Incites the timid prayer Of the minutest cricket, The most unworthy flower. When all the children sleep She turns as... ...ing God. LXXVII ’T WAS later when the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home... ...knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. ’T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps es... ...l front And mists are carved away,— Behold the atom I preferred To all the lists of clay! XX I HAVE no life but this, T o lead it here; Nor a... ...eak, And blaze the butterflies! C ’T IS whiter than an Indian pipe, ’T is dimmer than a lace; No stature has it, like a fog, ... ...r pearls 52 ’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! 9 ’T is whiter than an Indian pipe, 228 ’T was a long parting, but the time 153 ’T was comfort i...

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... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...t’s as good as my own curries in India.” “Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish,” said Miss Rebecca. “I am sure everything must be good that co... ...ck Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). “They are real Indian, I assure you,” said he. “Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water.” The pa... ...shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despi... ... sir, break the bottle?” says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. The boy had been instructed to get over the playgro... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became 358 V anit... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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...hich his light active form, great agility, and high spirit made him excel. Cricket, riding, running-races, all the school amusements were his delight;... ...f this period and of a good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work ... ...slurring nor neglecting his studies, did not enjoy anything so much as the cricket-field. However, there the weight of his character, backed by his po... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ...n my mind about it. Sometimes I think these Banks Islanders may be evange- lists beyond the limits of their own islands. So many of the natives of oth... ...l probability, sought to impose an English line of thought and religion on Indians and Africans. Even English dress was thought to be almost essential...

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... stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in... ...d by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers once came galloping before hell-for-leathe... ...y gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb. She found beauty in the child... ...inclair Lewis preparations for her first party, the housewarming. She made lists on every envelope and laundry-slip in her desk. She sent orders to Mi... ...t hopefully. “All right,” she yawned. With hazy eyes she tried to read the lists of characters, which were hidden among lifeless advertisements of pia... ...quito, a heat-weary conversation starting and dying, the precise rhythm of crickets, the thud of moths against the screen—sounds that were a distilled... ... and Elman’s violin. They’ll be only the lovelier against the thrumming of crickets in the stubble on an autumn day. “I can laugh now and be serene…I ...

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...eports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world. All this ... ...d, “but some of our earthly games have a fine side. There is a game called cricket. It is a fine, generous game.” “Our boys play that, and men too. Bu... ... against the man who was fool enough and cheap enough to become an expert. Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards——. Y ou will find clubs and a class of me... ...nality, and into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of libe... ...wly with deleterious com- modities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accus- tomed... ...ding of a Utopia should end with a swelling heart and clear resolves, with lists of names, formation of committees, and even the commencement of subsc...

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... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C... ...have in my iron safe, nearly four hun- dred pounds of theirs; the agents have nearly a hundred The Uncommercial Traveller 75 pounds more and many of ... ...t down—horrors at which I trembled in my bed, after supplicating that the Radicals might be speedily taken and hanged. Here, too, had we, the small bo... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe...

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...ached down and got my walking-shoes, then sat up in bed and listened, in order to exactly locate the noise. But I couldn’t do it; it was as unlocatabl... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ...considerably; at the same instant I cast my eyes down the side on which I had slipped, and contrived to plant my right foot on a piece of rock as larg... ...urious odds and ends of float- ing fact and gossip; no “rumors” about anything or anybody; no prognostications or prophecies about anything or any- bo...

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...his head was, no doubt, habitual with him, for his face was as brown as an Indian’s—a ruddy brown quite different from Presley’s dark olive. To Presle... ...y in En- glish. So he had come back again, this great fellow, tanned as an Indian, lean as an Indian, with an Indian’s long, black hair. But he had no... ...d, the one tuft on the crown standing stiffly forth like the feather in an Indian’s scalp lock; Broderson, vaguely combing at his long beard with a pe... ...the pallid surface of the venerable facade. Not the faintest chirring of a cricket broke the silence. The bees were asleep. In the grasses, in the tre... ...ilma to action. Then ensued a most delicious week. Armed with formi- dable lists, written by Annixter on hotel envelopes, they two descended upon the ...

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...dy Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain... ...his pocket money, to the amount of five and threepence, to the T ockahoopo Indians. Oswald, my second (ten and a half ), is the child who contributed ... ...ed absolutely ferocious with discontent. At the mention of the T ockahoopo Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful ... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...n red tape and green ferret; in pocket books, al manacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden—pen knives, scis... ...tars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Vol. One soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b...

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...spark died that should have been a conflagra- tion. From the interior came Indians with subtle poisons, naked bodies, and painted idols; from the sea ... ... ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with the Spanish. Although th... ...t young man was near. “I’m sure you read everything.” “I confine myself to cricket and crime,” said Hirst. “The worst of coming from the upper classes... ...coat, swam down the room in imitation of the voluptuous dreamy dance of an Indian maiden dancing before her Rajah. The tune marched; and Miss Allen ad... ...orld. He went on giving orders, arrang- ing with Mrs. Chailey, writing out lists, and every now and then he went upstairs and put something quietly on...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ... their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. A few new boys appeared, and with these presently ... ...answered them all quite willingly. One boy asked him whether he could play cricket. “No,” answered Philip. “I’ve got a club-foot.” The boy looked down... ...ty at the vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very prett... ...st be treated with respect and which were in low water . Now and then long lists of figures were given him to add up. He at- tended lectures for his f... ...He called the waiter and turned to Philip. “Just out from England? See any cricket?” Philip was a little confused at the unexpected question. “Cronsha... ...Medical School. Just inside the door a num- ber of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures, and the like; and these he looked at ... ... say ,” she told him, “as there’s another lady here whose husband’s in the Indian Civil.” “I wouldn’t let that disturb me if I were you,” said Philip.... ...ly the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today? “I’m the press representative of Lynn and Sedle...

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... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... .... Odd, to read his name and Mrs. Burman Radnor’s at separate places in the lists! Well, we’ll hope. It’s a case for a compromise of sentiments and cla... ...y we do, or we should not be where we are. But what is it we do (excepting cricket, of course) which others cannot do? Colney asks; and he ex- cludes ... ...e a reluctant appeal to figures, and it hung upon the bolder exhibition of lists and tables as to whether he was beaten; and if beaten, he was mor- al... ...appointed Lady Blachington’s third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor. These are the deluge days when even ar... ...he drowsiness of beer had stretched vari- ous hulks under trees. Ponderous cricket lumbered half-alive. Flabby fun knocked-up a yell. And it was rathe... ...g to quit the expedition; and Mr. Semhians has done a marvel or two in the cricket-field: Old England looks up where she can. What is painfully extrao...

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...dy Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain... ...his pocket money, to the amount of five and threepence, to the T ockahoopo Indians. Oswald, my second (ten and a half ), is the child who contributed ... ...ed absolutely ferocious with discontent. At the mention of the T ockahoopo Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful ... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...n red tape and green ferret; in pocket books, al manacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden—pen knives, scis... ...stars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Dickens soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b... ...at its nearest point glancing through a meadow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from...