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...onder dark precipice there, where the waves are green, and the white surge lifts and falls, and that little thread of water trembles down. There at an... ...er doubt- fully. “Look at these rocks!” cried the seated man with a sudden force of gesture. “Look at that sea that has shone and quiv- ered there for... ...axen beard came back towards them, turned suddenly, listened for a moment, lifted his eyebrows at the older man, and hurried off through the archway t... ...rolled up again like a curtain, and he stood waiting. 27 H G Wells Graham lifted his arm and was astonished to find what strength the restoratives ha... ...flaxen beard re-entered from the arch- way, and as he did so the cage of a lift came sliding down in front of the thickset man, and a lean, grey-beard... ... The tailor was very quick in his movements, and glanced twice towards the lift as he did these things. 28 When the Sleeper Wakes It rumbled again, a... ...nd trying to ignore the scru- tiny of the new comer. “Is that—some sort of force—laid on?” “Yes,” said the man with the flaxen beard. “Who is that?” H... ...ion of muti- lated English about certain of the words. “oi Man huwdbi Kin” forced itself on him as “The Man who would be King.” “Pho- netic spelling,”... ...eared. And the big towns grew. They drew the worker with the gravitational force of seemingly endless work, the employer with their suggestions of an ...

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...ered to remain in possession of the credit, and we cannot help feeling the force of the following observations:— “There are several incidental circums... ...dontiadæ, the chieftain of Thessaly, from his valour and the number of his forces, may have been the most im portant ally of the Peloponnesian sovere... ...e pre eminent value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The s... ...elect an equal lord. Then let revenge your daring mind employ, By fraud or force the suitor train destroy, And starting into manhood, scorn the boy. H... ...billows scarcely curl’d, And a dead silence still’d the watery world; When lifted on a ridgy wave he spies The land at distance, and with sharpen’d ey... ...d and retoss’d, the ball incessant flies. They sport, they feast; Nausicaa lifts her voice, And, warbling sweet, makes earth and heaven rejoice. As wh... ...r knew to bear A plant so stately, or a nymph so fair. Awed from access, I lift my suppliant hands; For Misery, O queen! before thee stands. T wice te... ...e. No word the experienced man replies, But thus to heaven (and heavenward lifts his eyes): “O Jove! O father! what the king accords Do thou make perf... ...s inquires of his guest his name, parentage, and fortunes. Now fair Aurora lifts her golden ray, And all the ruddy orient flames with day: Alcinous, a...

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...foremost in 4 Waverley the charge, and observing an officer of the King’s forces, who, scorning to join the flight of all around, remained with his s... ... to compare it with those of the last war, when Edinburgh, besides regular forces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brigade of cavalry, infantry, a... ...f six thousand men and upwards, which was in readiness to meet and repel a force of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the advent... ...rstood to have resolved to avoid them as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narra- tive upon the characters and passions of the actors;—tho... ...enuine ancient fragment, with some alteration in the last two lines.] Here lifting up his eyes, which had hither&o been fixed in observing how his fee... ...himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple. ... ...t disappeared the light it had hitherto afforded. Four or five active arms lifted W averley out of the boat, placed him on his feet, and almost carrie... ...aler—a common thief!’ ‘Common thief!—no such thing: Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.’ ‘Do you call him an uncommon thief, ... ...als a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, ...

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... observed that, of course, if I felt I must go he couldn’t keep me by main force. And it was arranged that I should be paid off the next morning. As I... ...rious earnestness. Well, it was an impulse of some sort; an effect of that force somewhere within our lives which shapes them this way or that. For if... ... Conrad dwelt uneasily in his body. He mused, then hastened on with gloomy force. “Y es! The captain died as near noon as possible. I looked through h... ...ost sympathetic, till (seeing that I did not vanish) he spoke in a tone of forced restraint. “If I hadn’t a wife and a child at home you may be sure, ... ...d no other family. As to the wife and child (some day) argument, it had no force. It sounded merely bizarre. I could imagine no claim that would be st... ...ore to the surface of his bedding. It was as if a depressing hand had been lifted off him. He an- swered my few words by a comparatively long, connect... ...ysterious rustle alongside. Otherwise, she had no mo- tion at all, neither lift nor roll. It was a disheartening steadiness which had lasted for eight... ... all alone aft, steering my ship, which ran before the wind with a buoyant lift now and then, and even roll- ing a little. Presently Ransome appeared ...

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...e speeches at the calves, as if they was for a sacrifice, or ever he could lift a knife to ‘em.’ ‘Shakspeare! He as wrote Romeo and Juliet, and all th... ...ngs, the groom, and he was so far from indifferent that he signifi- cantly lifted up the end of his whip. Nothing could more have gratified Tom, who r... ...ooking wistfully for a way of escape, and his father with an air of having lifted him up as a duty, without knowing what to do with him or to say to h... ...y sudden agitation. Mary, though giddy and throbbing in ev- ery pulse, was forced to put a resolute check on herself— brace her limbs, steady her voic... ... venturing no word except the most matter-of-fact remark, quietly giv- ing force to the more favourable symptoms. Not till after Mr. Walby’s second vi... ... an offence that he could resent would have been a positive relief. He was forced to get out of the way of Frampton coming up with a tray of lemonade,... ...n a few days from his pupils on hear- ing of Fitzjocelyn’s danger, but was forced to return as soon as the improvement became confirmed. On the previo... ...and helped me his own self to drive ‘em out before Mr. Warren see ‘em, and lifted the little pigs over the gap as tender as if they were Christians?’ ... ...eak or stand, and his flushed cheek rapidly changing to deadly white. They lifted him up the steps into the hall, where he signed to be laid down on t...

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.... These men, armed only with a pole, which some of them are scarce able to lift, are to secure the persons and houses of his majesty’s subjects from t... ...nd a man can no more resist the impulse of fate than a wheelbarrow can the force of its driver.” Besides the obligation which Mr. Robinson had conferr... ...ind impulse or direction of fate, but that every man acted merely from the force of that passion which was uppermost in his mind, and could do no othe... ...d it before, had he known the person to whom it belonged; adding, with up- lifted eyes, that the spirit would not suffer him knowingly to detain the g... ...ght, and having acquainted my compan- ion that I was taken suddenly ill, I forced her to go home with me at the end of the second act. “After a restle... ...and I shall 63 Henry Fielding henceforth think her my only one.’—She then forced the poor, trembling, fainting Amelia out of the room; which when she... ...and the court was presently full of lights and noises of all kinds. “I now lifted Amelia over a gate, and, jumping after, we crept along together by t... ...med a sound altogether as horrible for our ears; while our ship, sometimes lifted up, as it were, to the skies, and sometimes swept away at once as in... ...ook up my glove, and, putting it upon the spike belonging to your colours, lifted it up to the window. Upon this a young lady who stood by said, ‘So, ...

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...d, in the vast wilderness of the wholesale, break- ing through the mere gross generalisation of wealth and force and success, a small still scene wher... ...me, of moor and mountain and desert, revived for him—and to the increase of his keenness—by the tremendous force of analogy. He found himself at momen... ...t skulking, should to the end not risk the open; so that the drop of this danger was, on the spot, a great lift of the whole situation. Yet with anoth... ...ad advanced as for ag- gression, and he knew himself give ground. Then harder pressed still, sick with the force of his shock, and falling back as und... ...onsciousness grew, his vision of his state thus completing itself; he had been miracu- lously carried back—lifted and carefully borne as from where he... ... pa- tience—that he had only to let it shine on him. He must moreover, with intermissions, still have been lifted and borne; since why and how else sh...

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...other, until the philosopher should lay his hand on the secret of creative force and perhaps make new worlds for himself. We know not whether Aylmer p... ... While he still gazed upward into the deep arch of the fir mament and had lifted his hands to pray, a cloud, though no wind was stirring, hurried acr... ...ch you. So Signor Guasconti must even content himself with my thanks.” She lifted the bouquet from the ground, and then, as if inwardly ashamed at hav... ...s heart like a dagger. She caught his hand and drew it back with the whole force of her slender figure. Giovanni felt her touch thrilling through his ... ...iovanni founded his confidence in Beatrice, though rather by the necessary force of her high attributes than by any deep and generous faith on his par... ...nni!” exclaimed Beatrice, turning her large bright eyes upon his face. The force of his words had not found its way into her mind; she was merely thun... ...osses from an Old Manse head, and pressed his hands with a more convulsive force upon his breast, “I feel him still. It gnaws me! It gnaws me!” From t... ...other matters that were in progress. The artist, meanwhile, could scarcely lift his head. There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man’s c...

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... more affectionate than usual; and that showed his hand. The affection was forced partly to soothe his own conscience and partly to soothe Mrs. Bremmi... ... until the moon rose. I know now exactly how a murderer feels. Finally, we forced ourselves back to the room with the lamp and the Other Thing in it, ... ...ghal went out riding with some man who tried to flirt with her, and he was forced to trot behind carrying the blan- ket and hearing every word! Also, ... ...retence or another. But she galloped away as soon as she saw me, and I was forced to ride after her in ear- nest. She called back over her shoulder—”G... ...d, but the bridegroom never came; and the D’Silvas, Pereiras, and Ducketts lifted their voices and mocked Honorary Lieu- tenant Castries as one who ha... ...and Azizun shuddered, and Janoo gasped, and Suddhoo cried. I felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle... ...d, when there was a rustle of skirts in the dark, and a tired, faint voice lifted itself: “Where’s my husband?” I do not wish in the least to reflect ... ... T racts Ryotwari Revised Enactment.” Tods caught the one native word, and lifting up his small voice said:— “Oh, I know all about that! Has it been m... ... the bridesmaids giggling behind, and “The V oice that breathed o’er Eden” lifting the roof off. In this man- ner was Dicky Hatt kidnapped, and he con...

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...ned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill... ...gs, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind... ... kind ness. I answered in a few words, but in the most sub missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for ... ...; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor. Fifteen hundr... ...t, with a cover of the same metal, which we, the searchers, were not able to lift. We de sired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, f... ...ed to be silver, were so large and heavy, that my comrade and I could hardly lift them. In the left pocket were two black pil lars irregularly shaped... ...e king’s cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall. There is likewise another diversion, which is only sho... ...ir being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme neces sity have forced me to submit. But being now a nardac of the highest rank in that ... ...hs, and thirteen days. Having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient e...

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...verlasting monument of vengeance, and became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatever of his dr... ...e. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o’er the world her olive wand extend, And white... ...Rise, crown’d with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons,... ... 70 One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and tes... ...itic else proceeds without remorse, Seizes your fame, and puts his laws in force. I know there are, to whose presumptuous thoughts, 13 ‘Stagyrite: Ar... ...s, and fair array, But with the occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay, seem sometimes to fly. Those oft are stratagems which errors se... ..., New Blackmores and new Milbourns 19 must arise: Nay, should great Homer lift his awful head, Zoilus again would start up from the dead. Envy will M... ...a courtier’s play, And not a mask went unimproved away: The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blush’d before. 21 In t... ... leafless trees o’ershade, And lonely woodcocks haunt the watery glade. He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye; 43 ‘Second hope:’ Richard, second...

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... must have your father’s land. ROBERT: Shall then my father’s will be of no force To dispossess that child which is not his? BASTARD: Of no more for... ...pose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight, Nor keep his princely he... ...s not. [Exeunt.] ACT II SCENE I: France. Before Angiers. [Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side: on the other KING PHILIP and his power;... ...e a more requital to your love! AUSTRIA: The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords In such a just and charitable war. KING PHILIP : Well ... ...lord; We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak. CHATILLON: Then turn your forces from this paltry siege And stir them up against a mightier task. E... ...nd his legions all as soon as I; His marches are expedient to this town, His forces strong, his soldiers confident. With him along is come the mother ... ...had I seen the vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o’er with burning meteors. Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury, And with a great heart heave away t...

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... had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fish- ing-fleet. “That Cheyne boy’ s the bigg... ...a swift jerk he sculled the flickering boat-head on to a foamless sea that lifted her twenty full feet, only to slide her into a glassy pit beyond. Bu... ...while Dan pulled down another that ran from something he called a ‘topping-lift,” as Manuel drew alongside in his loaded dory. The Portuguese smiled a... ... cut in two by a liner, an’ seventeen brass-bound officers, all gen’elmen, lift their hand to it that your lights was aout 29 Rudyard Kipling an’ the... ... smudged the blue, and to eastward a big ship’ s top-gal- lant sails, just lifting, made a square nick in it. Disko Troop was smoking by the roof of t... ...y from the bottom, heaving in, as they moved away . This is a bit of brute force seldom resorted to ex- cept in matters of life and death, and the lit... ...! ye Chatham wreckers! Git aout with your brick in your stockin’!” And the forces separated, but Chatharn had the worst of it. “I knew haow ’twould be...

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...y meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume ... ...atronage is to be sustained, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which ca... ... operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal force, annihilates pa- tronage. Patronage would thus be exercised only on s... ... colorable claims of right are created by prescription. What was the exact force of the ‘call,’ no man could say. In like manner, the exact char- acte... ...n possible? We seek not to refine; but all moral power issues out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of rel... ... are seldom smaller than a man, exerting his whole force, can conveniently lift and throw with one hand.’ Thence, in fact, and from no other cause, co... ...p chermadia, ‘such as twice five men in our degen- erate days could barely lift,’ launching them at light-armed foes, who positively would not come ne...

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...ux in Normandy. He was the author of a book entitled “The Causes of Moving Forces,” in which he gave the theory of the expansion and condensation of s... ...the murderer personally for a long time. Marie’s conduct was such that she forced her son to banish her from France, where she was encouraging her oth... ...n the treachery of the Connetable de Bourbon behind the throne, Catherine, forced to combat heresy which was seeking to annihilate the monarchy, witho... ... murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbecile. The present government is attempting ... ...vigor; where election, the fruit of liberty of will and political liberty, lifts to the surface none but commonplace men; where brute force has now be... ... for Blois, as it was to Louis XIV. for Versailles. More than one figurine lifts its delicate head from a block of rough stone behind it; more than on... ...hese panels and close to the floor a rather heavy foot-board, which can be lifted, and beneath which still remain the inge- nious springs which move t... ...sterious panels had turned over on its hinges. Catherine was in the act of lifting the papers from the table to hide them, in- tending after that to s... ...ry to bear such sufferings? Finally, he smiled when he saw the executioner lifting the eighth and last wedge. This hor- rible torture had lasted by th...

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... did not begin, but, in his indecision, met her glance. The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expres sion but it was pretty and charact... ...ame in, but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows over her toothpick by the breadth of... ...eir conductor, he drew over his neck the arm that shook upon his shoulder, lifted her a little, and hurried her into the room. He sat her down just wi... ...!” “You are still hard at work, I see?” After a long silence, the head was lifted for another mo ment, and the voice replied, “Yes I am working.” Thi... ...f an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the forehead, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him. They were ... ..., and otherwise evil adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in prepa ... ...would show the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty’s forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and... ...No. Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? No. Sure he saw the... ...the art less boy. “Hem! Well,” returned Mr. Cruncher, going on again, and lifting off his hat to give his spikes free play, “he’s a trades man.” “Wh...

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... and then she said: “This is his writing-table. He used this pen,” and she lifted a quill pen and laid it down again. The writing- table was splashed ... ...n the young woman with the sad, but inwardly ironi- cal eyes a hint of his force. He tried to recall the actual words of his little outburst, and unco... ...ing down to an unpleasant meal under a very bright light. Should he put in force the threat which, two weeks ago, some such gathering had wrung from h... ...ked,” she observed. “What does it matter what sort of room I have when I’m forced to spend all the best years of my life drawing up deeds in an office... ...sent, and dwarfed it too consistently, to be altogether encouraging to one forced to make her experi- ment in living when the great age was dead. She ... ...able and precious things in safe places. Miss Datchet was quite capable of lifting a kitchen table on her back, if need were, for although well-propor... ...rded speech with perfect composure. William Rodney listened with a curious lifting of his upper lip, although his face was still quivering slightly wi... ...am shut the door sharply, gave the address to the driver, and turned away, lifting his hat punctiliously high 56 Night and Day in farewell to the inv... ...tify her in her determi- nation not to be in love with Ralph. Ralph, while lifting his cup from his lips to the table, had made up his mind that if Mi...

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...y brought the sinful woman to him. “‘So when they continued asking him, he lifted up him self and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, l... ... thus I left her, with a sorrowful heart. She went in before my boxes were lifted to the coach roof and shut the door. As long as I could see the hous... ...but made another snort. It was such a powerful one that it seemed quite to lift him out of his seat. “Mr. Skimpole,” said Richard to me, “has a delica... ... it ought to be the name of Mrs. Snagsby, seeing that she might with great force and expression be termed a Guster, in compliment to her stormy charac... ..., broad backed, old fash ioned, mahogany and horsehair chairs, not easily lifted; ob solete tables with spindle legs and dusty baize covers; pre se... ...m going on to the Fields at present. Good evening. Thank you!” Mr. Snagsby lifts his hat and returns to his little woman and his tea. But Mr. Tulkingh... ...ther filing a bill, I was obliged to go into this accursed Chancery; I was forced there because the law forced me and would let me go nowhere else. Se... ...unctual as the sun,” said Mr. Jarndyce. “Military time, sir,” he replied. “Force of habit. A mere habit in me, sir. I am not at all business like.” “Y... ...se of parliamentary cheer ing and gets Mr. Chadband’s steam up. From mere force of habit, Mr. Chadband in saying “My friends!” has rested his eye on ...

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