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...nd the wall; you could see their horned heads and shining eyes through the lattice work, so that it was easy for the mas- ter to run his eyes over the... ... than the desire for his pension. “He has one great consolation. After the bridges had been constructed across the Beresina, General Eble presented su... ...me if I did not lend you a hand. I have not forgotten the passage over the bridges in the Beresina, and it is fresh in the memories of some brave fell... ...anding about for the most 141 Balzac part, or lying at full length on the trusses of hay. Every group was absolutely silent. Their faces were barely ... ...net?” “No, the Emperor! the Emperor!” The old infantry man got up from his truss of hay and glanced round about on those assembled, with the peculiar ... ...nerals! “In two or three years Napoleon fills his cellars with gold, makes bridges, palaces, roads, scholars, festivals, laws, fleets, and harbors; he...

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... to a pretty severe test; for he showed them as many sights, in the way of bridges, churches, streets, outsides of theatres, and other free spec- tacl... ...ry jam coyly withdrew itself, as such a precious creature should, behind a lattice work of pastry. And behold, on the first floor, at the court-end of... ...paid his bill, which amounted to a shilling; was lying at full length on a truss of straw, high and dry at 205 Charles Dickens the top of the van, wi... ...melodious snore. He approached the church, and looking through the diamond lattice of a window near the porch, saw Tom, with the curtains in the loft ... ... meditat- ing designs upon the ribs of visitors; and an old mat, worn into lattice work, which, being useless as a mat (even if anybody could have see... ...imation pervading them, he became a great frequenter of the market-places, bridges, quays, and especially the steam-boat wharves; for it was very live... ...r mud-discoloured nooks; church steeples, warehouses, house-roofs, arches, bridges, men and women, children, casks, cranes, boxes horses, coaches, idl...

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...ain, as with ladies of a certain, age. Its win dows were old diamond pane lattices, its floors were sunken and uneven, its ceilings blackened by the ... ...he guest himself, seeing small comfort in the yet unkindled wood, opened a lattice in the distant win dow, and basked in a sickly gleam of cold March... ..., and were prepared, as had been arranged, to cross the river by different bridges, and make for the House of Commons in separate detach ments. At th... ...itto last night.’ Dennis looked to where Simon Tappertit lay coiled upon a truss of hay, snoring profoundly, and nodded. ‘And our noble captain,’ cont... ...quite a picter now. But, brother, just a word with you—now that he’s ready trussed, as one may say, wouldn’t it be better for all parties if we was to...

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...h, or by low church, or by no church; whether he shall be set to splitting trusses of polemical straws with the crooked knife of his mind or whether h... ...the stillness attend it as it flows where houses cluster thick, where many bridges are reflected in it, where wharves and shipping make it black and a... ...f the inconsolable carriages and at his ease surveys the crowd through the lattice blinds. He has a keen eye for a crowd—as for what not?—and looking ... ...e foremost emblazoned carriage, uses his two fat forefin gers to hold the lattice a hair’s breadth open while he looks. And it says a great deal for ... ...cted. Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out. Bridges are begun, and their not yet united piers desolately look at one an... ...hat he seeks is not among them. Other solitaries he perceives, in nooks of bridges, looking over; and in shadowed places down by the river’s level; an...

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...edily did on a cassock of green, and hose of the same colour. “I pray thee truss my points,” said he to Wamba, “and thou shalt have a cup of sack for ... ...noon.” “It may be so,” answered Cedric; “but I cannot look on that stained lattice without its awakening other reflections than those which concern th... ...daughter—even from this abyss of infamy!” As she spoke, she threw open the latticed window which led to the bartisan, and in an instant after, stood o... ...“and let us mark what these knaves do without;” and so saying, he opened a latticed 250 Ivanhoe window which led to a sort of bartisan or projecting ... ...axons should have realized your Grace’s vision, of converting feudal draw- bridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom s...

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...ingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all ... ...om her boudoir at a keeper’s lodge and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes, and smoke rising from the chim ney, and a child, chased by... ...t nearly meet up the back and that the open space was railed across with a lattice work of stay lace—like a summer house. The room, which was strewn w... ...es, and where you find still older cottage rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them. Mine, which we en ... ...re in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far famed elephant who has lost his cast... ...h, or by low church, or by no church; whether he shall be set to splitting trusses of polemical straws with the crooked knife of his mind or whether h... ...the stillness attend it as it flows where houses cluster thick, where many bridges are reflected in it, where wharves and shipping make it black and a...

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...ion, seemed to have been left there for the night, for beyond about half a truss of hay which was heaped in the bottom, it was quite empty. Gabriel sa... ...paused before emerging from its shade. A handsome man leaned idly from the lattice. He looked east and then west, in the manner of one who makes a firs... ... arm, with which he strode moodily along the road, resting occasionally at bridges and gates, whereon he deposited his burden for a time. Midway on hi...

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...d rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond. Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere; thoroughfares that were wholly impassable; Babel ... ...emselves, and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence. Bridges that had led to nothing, led to villas, gardens, churches, healthy ... ...d roars, fierce and rapid, smooth and certain, and great works and massive bridges crossing up above, fall like a beam of shadow an inch broad, upon t... ...mals, stuck out from the panels of the wall. But in the day-time, when the lattice-blinds (now closely shut) were opened, and the light let in, traces... ...uldn’t force it. He opened one of the windows, and looked down through the lattice of the blind, into the court-yard; but it was a high leap, and the ... ...s chair is next handed in, and placed in a convenient corner among certain trusses of hay; it being the intention of the amiable woman to occupy the c...

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...th its ap- proaches, his work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss standing on seven-... ...s work was one mile and three-quarters in length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss standing on seven-and-twenty brick piers.... ...ephant grunts in the timberyard. Riveters by the hundred swarmed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway line hung from invisible... ...ndure when all memory of the builder, yea, even of the splendid Findlayson truss, has perished. Practi- cally, the thing was done. Hitchcock, his assi... ...ment, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under the impression that bridges were cut out of paper, and so brought to ruin at least half an acre... ...onework sunk under water, as the Qyetta was sunk. I like sus-sus-pen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank. with one big step, like a gang- plank. ... ...into the dusk of the river-bed, raced over the pilework, swarmed along the lattices, clustered by the cranes, and stood still – each man in his place.... ... His bridge was twice the size of Hartopp’s, and it carried the Findlayson truss as well as the new pier-shoe – the Findlayson bolted shoe. There were... ...me they change their faiths and are very wise. Ho! ho! I am the builder of bridges, indeed – bridges between this and that, and each bridge leads sure...

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...th its approaches, his work was one mile and three- quarters fin length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven... ...work was one mile and three- quarters fin length; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick pies.... ...phant grunts in the timber-yard. Riveters by the hundred swarmed about the lattice side-work and the iron roof of the railway-line, hung from invisibl... ...ndure when all memory of the builder, yea, even of the splendid Findlayson truss, had per- ished. Practically, the thing was done. Hitchcock, his assi... ...nt, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under the impres- sion that bridges were cut out of paper, and so brought to ruin at least half an acre... ...tonework sunk under water, as the Quetta was sunk. I like sus-suspen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank, with one big step, like a gang-plank. T... ...into the dusk of the river-bed, raced over the pilework, swarmed along the lattices, clustered by the cranes, and stood still each man in his place. T... ... His bridge was twice the size of Hartopp’s, and it carried the Findlayson truss as well as the new pier-shoe—the Findlayson bolted shoe. There were n... ...me they change their faiths and are very wise. Ho! ho! I am the builder of bridges, indeed—bridges between this and that, and each bridge leads surely...

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...feeby. At truss. At the whole frisk and gambol. At the wolf’s tail.... ...-buff. At crossing. At the fallen bridges. At bo-peep. At br... ...d, as soon as they had gained the pass at the ford of Vede, with boats and bridges speedily made they passed over in a trice. Then con- sidering the s... ...you, the squinance with a stitch in your side and the wolf in your stomach truss you, the bloody flux seize upon you, the cursed sharp inflammations o... ...ing, and making good cheer, with abundance of crowns of the sun. Above the lattice were written these verses for his device: 282 Gargantua & Pantagru... ...is cloak scarfwise about his left arm, tucked up his sleeves to the elbow, trussed him- self like a clown gathering apples, and, giving to one of his ... ...Diaphanous C. Disabled C. Disordered C. Unworthy C. Forceless C. Latticed C. Checked C. Censured C. Ruined C. Mangled C. Cut C... ...readful piles and darts, nearly resembling the huge beams that support the bridges of Nantes, Saumur, Bergerac, and at Paris the millers’ and the chan...

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...s, and reassembled at a great hotel, whence the sun was excluded by closed lattices, and where bare paved floors, lofty ceilings, and resounding corri... ...e reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice. She sat, turned away from the whole length of the apartment, as if... ...’t they hurt themselves, and why do they stick little bells all over their bridges and temples and hats and things or don’t they really do it?’ Flora ... ... shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies. Within, we...

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...s, and reassembled at a great hotel, whence the sun was excluded by closed lattices, and where bare paved floors, lofty ceilings, and resounding corri... ...e reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice. She sat, turned away from the whole length of the apartment, as if... ...’t they hurt themselves, and why do they stick little bells all over their bridges and temples and hats and things or don’t they really do it?’ Flora ... ... shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies. Within, we... ...ed under his arms, something as if he were Of the Poultry species and were trussed for roast- ing, lost countenance at this reply; he seemed about to ... ...they might be anywhere; and I almost expect to see their dear faces on the bridges or the quays. Another difficulty that I have will seem very strange... ... the Rialto, greatly to its disadvantage, with Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. I need not add, after what you have said, that I have not yet foun... ...es and full of mites; and a fever- ish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggled and dirty dangling...

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...mals, stuck out from the panels of the wall. But in the day-time, when the lattice-blinds (now closely shut) were opened, and the light let in, traces... ...uldn’t force it. He opened one of the windows, and looked down through the lattice of the blind, into the court-yard; but it was a high leap, and the ... ...ows on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might have beaten them in; of bridges, crosses, churches, postyards, new horses being put in against thei... ...tween two brawling streams of life and motion. A troubled vision, then, of bridges, quays, interminable streets; of wine-shops, water-carriers, great ... ...he road—past the inn garden, and a long way down; looking curiously at the bridges, signals, lamps, and wondering when another Devil would come by. A ... ...s chair is next handed in, and placed in a convenient corner among certain trusses of hay; it being the intention of the amiable woman to occupy the c...