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...age of the former. In the manual kind, where you front your foe with drawn weapon, one right stroke is final; for, physically speaking, when the brain... ...s Revolution-tumult the figure of thee emerges; mute, ghost-like, as ‘with stars dim-twinkling through. ’ And then, when the light is gone quite out, ... ...posing, should need be: that of merely doing nothing to him; which ends in starvation! Nor esteem it small what those Bill-stickers had to do in Paris... ...mall suite, enter Majesty: the honourable Member stops short; the Assembly starts to its feet; the Twelve Hundred Kings ‘almost all,’ and the Gallerie... ...awn to dusk! For our Lyons Guardsmen took rank, at five in the bright dewy morning; came pouring in, bright- gleaming, to the Quai de Rhone, to march ... ...icant of several things, go pacified to sleep again. Tomorrow is Wednesday morning; unforgetable among 59 Thomas Carlyle the fasti of the world. The ... ... calm on them; yet make it in a snappish, almost insulting manner: how one morning they ‘leave all their chamois shirts’ and superfluous buffs, which ... ...ought; and argumentative men and messmates, flinging down the wine-cup and weapons of reason and repartee, met in the measured field; to part bleeding... ...nt, from his interior sanctuaries, coldly bids all visitors ‘give up their weapons;’ and shuts the door again. The weapons given up form a heap: the c...

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...per- ish,” cries Vergniaud, “but let France be free!”—where- upon they all start to their feet, shouting responsive: “Yes, yes, perisse notre memoire,... ...was but the 12th of Au- gust yet), ‘the servant, in his shirt, ’ with wide-staring eyes, enters your room:—Monsieur, rise; all the people are come to ... ...umult of Satan, ‘for four hours and more!’ And old ladies, of the quarter, started up (as we hear next morning); rang for their Bonnes and cordial-dro... ...urs and more!’ And old ladies, of the quarter, started up (as we hear next morning); rang for their Bonnes and cordial-drops, with shrill interjection... ...is map together, and flings himself on bed; resolved to try, on the morrow morning. With astucity, with swiftness, with au- dacity! One had need to be... ...ight, check- ered with the triple stancheons of our windows. ‘Three in the morning: They were breaking-in one of the prison-doors. We at first thought... ...table 111 Thomas Carlyle Life; endless Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloqu... ...for instance, turns a period as sweetly as any man of that generation. The weapons of the Mountain are those of mere nature: Audacity and Impetuosity ... ...rld. Herein has Sansculottism fashioned for itself a Sword of Sharpness: a weapon magical; tempered in the Stygian hell-waters; to the edge of it all ...

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...ait at table, and (at her own request) some warm clothing against the cold mornings of the bush. She went on a visit to her family, and returned in an... ...imself, attended by guards in uniform; smiling policemen with their pewter stars; girls, women, crowds of cheerful children. And he will have asked hi... ...y opinion. Riding one day with an Englishman in Vailele plantation, he was startled by a burst of screaming, leaped from the saddle, ran round a house... .... Weber, by the admission of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would... ...uu; the American consul (in a sudden access of good service) had flown the stars and stripes over Samoan colours; on either side these steps were sole... ...he head of the government,” concluded Becker. “I shall be at Afenga in the morning of to-morrow, Wednesday, at 11 A.M.” The blow fell on Laupepa (in h... ...urking-place, surrounded the hamlet under cloud of night, and in the early morning burst with a force of sailors on the houses. The people fled on all... ...rnor; “there is no fire allowed to burn in it.” In one part of this house, weapons of the government were hung up; there was a passage, and on the oth... ...a mob is a mob, and a drunken mob is a drunken mob, and a drunken mob with weapons in its hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands, all the wo...

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..., I could heare no news of my stockins. That night I went to bed, and nixt morning found myselfe just so used; missing the three stockins for one leg ... ...re of boothose, greater then the former. These I put on my legs. The third morning I found the same usage, the stockins for one leg onlie left me. It ... ...ry powerful man, took such a hold of Macdonald’s hand as to make the blood start from his fingers. Still, it would appear, Ardvoirlich was by no means... ...n, when my leisure would permit, I used to seek him, on what he called his morning and evening parade, on which, when the weather was fair, he appeare... ... the edge of a sword, if wielded by a strong man; and none of them had any weapons, save swords and pistols, without which gentle- men, or their atten... ...ndance upon the guests. In the midst of these preparations, Allan suddenly started up, and snatching a lamp from the hand of an attendant, held it clo... ... tendants interposed to preserve peace, while the Highland- ers, snatching weapons from the wall, seemed prompt to in- crease the broil. “He is mad,” ... ...Walter Scott Lord Menteith, addressing the principal domestic, hastened to start some theme of conversation which might obliterate all recollection of... ...filling your prophecy, if his plaid be passible to sword or pistol.” “Your weapons,” said Allan, “would avail you little; nor can I give you the infor...

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...could play the part of Alderman very well, and sentence Jack after dinner. Starve me, keep me from books and honest people, educate me to love dice, g... ... when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing that morning to welcome the arrival of the new lord and lady, it had rung only t... ...him to this nobleman, a grand languid nobleman in a great cap and flowered morning-gown, sucking oranges. He patted Harry on the head and gave him an ... ... in the moat— all under company of Monsieur Blaise. Presently, of an early morning, all the party set forth for the country, namely, my Lord Viscount ... ...iest acting as master of the ceremonies at that solemn introduction—and he stared at her with eyes almost as great as her own, as he had stared at the... ...oldiers, were marching thence upon the house. John had but two minutes the start of them, and, ere he had well told his story, the troop rode into our... ...ess. “I have found nothing which concerns the Govern- ment as yet—only the weapons with which beauty is autho- rized to kill,” says he, pointing to a ... ...isputes of the late king’s reign; and, an old soldier now, had hung up his weapons of controversy. These he took down from his shelves willingly for y...

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...mainspring, and hung it up beside the hearth. It was eleven o’clock in the morning. “Mlle. d’Esgrignon,” he said, “let us pray God that this hour may ... ...with a second refusal. Thus failed the ambitious schemes with which he had started. He had lost his hope of a marriage with Mlle. d’Esgrignon, which ... ... held places at the Imperial court, and others made alliances with the up- start families. All those who cast in their lots with the Empire retrieved ... ...had that marriage produced a war after the provincial manner, in which all weapons are fair; it had hastened the separation of the great and little no... ...f fools which holds up hands for those that are clever enough to serve out weapons to them. Individuals are identified with their political opin- 18 ... ...iquities, while du Croisier’s fac- tion went so far as to use the poisoned weapons of savages— in this warfare the advantages of wit and delicate iron... ...d the Marquis, “it is time to send him to the King. I will spend to-morrow morning in writing to our kins- men.” “I have some acquaintance with the Du... ...has done his best to soften down some of the cruder tones and dim the more startling tints of the original. The Marquis d’Esgrignon rested his elbows ... ...aults in their neighbors? They do not know what to do with themselves from morning to night. And so M. le 39 Balzac Comte’s losses at play are all re...

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...news! No, no, it bounded as never did Gervas’s step! It was coming up. She started from the chair, quivering with eagerness, as the door opened and in... ...ation and helpless- ness of the bereaved household. It was far too late to start that day, even had her husband been at home, for the horses sent for ... ...in the remonstrance had, however, so worked on Richard Talbot, that before morning be declared that, hap what hap, if he and his wife were to bring up... ...tately measure on the grass, while the queen ex- claimed, “Who is this new star of my court? What stalwart limbs, what graceful tread! Who art thou, s... ... me see whether yours be a matter of such moment that it may not wait till morning or be despatched by me.” “That is for you to say, Master Francis. W... ...ce of his kinsman, who had in- deed to prepare for an early start the next morning, when he meant to take Humfrey with him, as not unlikely to recogni... ...y to remove certain marks, which were happily the result of the sweetbrier weapons in- stead of that of Babington. That a little blood had been shed w... ... Down with the Don!” For the tokens of the sea, in the form of clothes and weapons, were well known and highly esteemed. T wo or three gentlemen who w... ...e, Diccon’s quick eye noted that she glanced for one rapid second at their weapons, then contin- ued her steady gaze, never withdrawing it even to rec...

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... Europe.” “I see,” said Ralph. “She has adopted you.” “Adopted me?” The girl stared, and her blush came back to her, together with a momentary look of... ... don’t do that yourself; you might let the shops to great advantage.” Isabel stared; the idea of letting shops was new to her. “I hope they won’t pull... ...e printed page; she had an im mense curiosity about life and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried within herself a great fund of life, a... ...ared to make a considerable stay at Gardencourt. She occupied herself in the mornings with literary labour; but in spite of this Isabel spent many hou... ...he charms of their common sojourn in print, having discovered, on the second morning of Miss Stackpole’s visit, that she was engaged on a letter to th... ...iend,” Ralph said that evening to Is abel, “though we talked some time this morning about it.” “And you said something she didn’t like,” the girl rep... ...new herself, she had recognized the fact that perfect frankness was her best weapon. To attempt to spare his sensibility or to escape from him edgewis... ...tely equipped for the social battle. She carried her flag discreetly, but her weapons were polished steel, and she used them with a skill which struck ...

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... Scot and a rosy honest- faced Englishman, on pallets on the floor. In the morning he went on his journey, but not without 19 Yo n g e an invitation ... ...ass in an agony of grief and despair. Sir James, after the first momentary start, recognized the party in an instant, and at once leapt from his horse... ... you will attend to me,’ said Sir James; and at his words the boy suddenly started up with a look of hope. ‘How many fell upon you?’ demanded Sir Jame... ...be ten times as effective on foot.’ ‘Do as the knight bids,’ said Malcolm, starting forth with colour on his cheek, light in his eye, that made him an... ...ound and on every side, and before the man could free his hand to draw his weapon he necessarily loosed his grasp of Lilias, who, half springing, half... ..., far below, calmly brightened with the brightening sky, and reflected the morning stars in a lucid track of light, strong enough to make the lights g... ...g since last night, he had rent himself away, and was riding in the frosty morning air beside the kinsman who had so strangely taken charge of him, an... ...- eron, or flat cap with a short curtain to it, and his sword was the only weapon he retained. Nigel was also nearly unarmed, and Sir James advised Ma... ... they had only their pikes and bills, which were, however, very formidable weapons against cav- alry as long as they continued in an unbroken rank; an...

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...sely together from the consciousness that we were to part so soon. But the morning brought a renewal of hope and spirits. I was to depart early; that ... ...icted her to be. 20 Agnes Grey CHAPTER III—A FEW MORE LESSONS I ROSE NEXT MORNING with a feeling of hopeful exhilaration, in spite of the disappointm... ... labour and patience, I managed to get something done in the course of the morning, and then accompanied my young charge out into the garden and adjac... ...he door to keep them in. Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost. I determined always str... ...n, young as she was, and alarmingly fond of ex- ercising her two favourite weapons of offence and defence: that of spitting in the faces of those who ... ...n me. ‘Well, you are a good ‘un!’ exclaimed he, at length, tak- ing up his weapon and proceeding towards the house. ‘Damme, but the lad has some spunk... ...hem too,’ said I. ‘Humph!’ replied he, and having honoured me with a broad stare—which, contrary to his expectations, I sustained with- out flinching—... ...e by asking me how I liked Mr. Weston? ‘I don’t know,’ I replied, a little startled by the suddenness of the question; ‘I think he preaches very well.... ...ots; so I sat me down i’ th’ muck—who should come in but Maister Weston! I started siding stuff then, an’ sweeping an’ doing; and I expected he’d begi...

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...eaps o’er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils, Beginning in the middle, starting thence away To what may be digested in a play. Like or find faul... ...blood you daily paint her thus. I cannot fight upon this argument; It is too starved a subject for my sword. But Pandarus,—O gods, how do you plague m... ...rrow, Alexander. How do you, cousin? When were you at Ilium? CRESSIDA: This morning, uncle. PANDARUS: What were you talking of when I came? Was Hect... ...t I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus: Troilus and Cressida ... ...fth hour of the sun, Will with a trumpet ‘twixt our tents and Troy To morrow morning call some knight to arms That hath a stomach; and such a one that... ...ngs of reason to his heels And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, Or like a star disorb’d? Nay, if we talk of reason, Let’s shut our gates and sleep:... ...ves in breath: And when I have the bloody Hector found, Empale him with your weapons round about; In fellest manner execute your aims. Follow me, sirs...

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...red by an unfortunate choice of epithets. He was dressed in a shabby black morning coat and vest; the braid that bound these garments was a little loo... ... for ever against these insistent phenomena. One might bustle about in the morning before dinner, and in the afternoon after tea and forget that huge ... ... states of body and mind. He would sneak out on moonless winter nights and stare up at the stars, and afterwards find it difficult to tell his fa- the... ...fair-skinned apprentice in the adjacent haberdashery to whom he said “good-morning” every morn- ing, and for a period it seemed to him the most signif... ...re some particularly splendid walks on Bank holi- days. The Three Ps would start on Sunday morning early and find a room in some modest inn and talk t... ... and return singing through the night, or having an “argy bargy” about the stars, on Monday evening. They would come over the hills out of the pleasan... ...ed his manhood. He went round by the outhouses to the riverside, seeking a weapon, and found an old paddle boat hook. With this he smote Uncle Jim as ... ...e a circus rider through a paper hoop, and once more Mr. Polly dropped his weapon and fled. A careless observer watching him sprint round and round th... ... like this for ever,” said Mr. Polly, whooping for breath, and selecting a weapon from among the brooms that stood behind the kitchen door. Uncle Jim ...

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...oking too pale and feeble to endure the hardships of the wilderness. Every morning and evening the Lady Arbella gave up her great chair to one of the ... ...flint headed spears and arrows; for the Indians buried the dead warrior’s weapons along with him. In some spots there were skulls and other human bon... ... the Indians. But the colonists were always on their guard, and kept their weapons ready for the conflict. “I have sometimes doubted,” said Grandfathe... ...nt and solitary, till good Master Cheever resumes his seat in it to morrow morning. “Grandfather,” said Charley, “I wonder whether the boys did not us... ... drum and fife, the rattle of arms, and the shouts of boys were heard from morning till night. In about a month the fleet set sail, carrying four regi... ...handise which was im ported for the rich people to wear. And sometimes it started up seemingly of its own accord, and nobody could tell whence it cam... ...onists than at any former pe riod. The old Puritans had always kept their weapons bright, and were never destitute of warlike captains who were skilf... ...f George Washington.” At the mention of this illustrious name the children started as if a sudden sunlight had gleamed upon the history of their count... .... He saw the people a race of tenantry, depen dent on their lords. He saw stars, garters, coronets, and castles. “But,” added Grandfather, turning to...

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...avy sparkle beck Sign of the Virgin Lady’s lead. Down her course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels; Peals the horn exulting, peals Plaint... ...e tide; And we, afire to kiss her feet, no more Behold than tracks along a startled shore, With brightened edges of dark leaves that feign 8 A Readin... ... shelter leaves, the laughter from her throat, We answer as the midnight’s morning’s bird. She laughs, she wakens gleeful cries; In her delicious laug... ...if they beseech. But scorn she has for them that walk alone; Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach. The men as chief of criminals she d... ...kies less overcast, That swiftly may her star of eve descend, Her lustrous morning star fly not too fast, To lengthen blissful night will she befriend... ...one. That quiet dawn was Reverence; whereof sprang Ethereal Beauty in full morningtide. Another sun had risen to clasp his bride: It was another earth... ... is practical in plans; Subservient to the needy thought, However rare the weapon wrought. As long as Nature holds it good T o urge her creatures’ que... ...s’ quest for food Will beauty stamp the just intent 33 George Meredith Of weapons upon service bent. For beauty is a flower of roots Embedded lower t... ...k on shock, Which sets faith quaking on their firmest rock. Since with his weapons, all the arms of Night, Frail men have challenged Lucifer to fight,...

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...d Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping 12 Thomas Carlyle the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transc... ... look what perennial fibre of truth was in that. To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will o... ... sprang, we may say, out of many roots: every admira- tion, adoration of a star or natural object, was a root or fibre of a root; but Hero-worship is ... ...nsport yourselves into the early childhood of nations; the first beautiful morning-light of our Europe, when all yet lay in fresh young radiance as of... ...k refuge there. Neither had Thor 35 On Heroes any battle: for, lo, in the morning it turned out that the noise had been only the snoring of a certain... ...’ onde, that “trembling” of the ocean-waves, under the first pure gleam of morning, dawning afar on the wandering T wo, is as the type of an altered m... ...ughable then; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews; it has firearms, war-navies; it has cunning in its ten ...

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... Jones had scarce ended his request, when she fell upon him with a certain weapon, which, though it be neither long, nor sharp, nor hard, nor indeed t... ...e mouth of a loaded cannon, have not dared to look into a mouth where this weapon was brandished; and rather than run the hazard of its execution, hav... ...se; for though he was attacked and violently belaboured with the aforesaid weapon, he could not be provoked to make any resistance; but in a most cowa... ...he affront, of which he conceived some part at least fell to his share. He started therefore from his seat, and, advancing to the ser jeant, swore he... ...things, therefore, being settled in the evening, they arose early the next morning, and at five o’clock departed from Worcester, it being then above t... ...ny lady in the house? The hour of night, and the behaviour of the man, who stared very wildly all the time, a little surprized Susan, so that she hesi... ...n, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.” Jones treated this menace with much contempt; and Mr. Maclachla... ... which was so very richly laced, that Partridge and the post boy instantly started from their chairs, and my landlady fell to her courtsies, and her l... ...ffect of the dose which he swallowed the evening before; which had, in the morning, received the addition of above a pint of wine, or indeed rather of...

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... sent a messenger to Kensington to announce his arrival and visit the next morning. The mes- 18 Henry Esmond – Book Three senger brought back news th... ...on, and reached it so early that he met his dear mistress coming home from morning prayers. She carried her prayer-book, never allowing a footman to b... ... of the most amiable persons of this court and country. She is at home two mornings of the week, and all the wits and a few of the beauties of London ... ...r, and whenever I opened them beheld hers (and very bright they are) still staring at me. I fell in with her afterwards at Court, and at the playhouse... ...inging the door open, announced his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and Esmond started back with some- thing like an imprecation on his lips, as the noble... ... imprecation on his lips, as the nobleman entered, looking splendid in his star and green ribbon. He gave Mr. Esmond just that gracious bow which he w... ...ant fought the quarrels of his leader. Webb coming to London was used as a weapon by Marlborough’s enemies (and true steel he was, that honest chief);... ...ofs of treason which would hang the other, only he did not dare to use the weapon, for fear of that one which his neighbor also carried in his pocket.... ...ing beyond doubt that the Duke was engaged with the Stuart family, was the weapon with which the Treasurer drove Marlborough out of the king- dom. He ...

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...ne another, as savage people usually do; and they always fought with these weapons. They were very fond of horses. The standard of Kent was the pictur... ... the strong Ro man swords and armour were too much for the weaker British weapons in close conflict. The Britons lost the day. The wife and daughter ... ... nighted at the doors of Danish cottages, often went in for shelter until morning; and that Charles Dickens 27 Danes and Saxons sat by the red fire,... ...uest to guest; and each one usually sang or played when his turn came. The weapons of the Saxons were stoutly made, and among them was a terrible iron... ... to expiate her guilt. As if a church, with a steeple reaching to the very stars, would have been any sign of true repentance for the blood of the poo... ...lds; preventing the seed from being sown in the ground; causing famine and starvation; leaving only heaps of ruin and smoking ashes, where they had fo... ...ey to foreigners on his journey; but he took it from the English before he started. On the whole, however, he certainly became a far better man when h... ...ery hill within sight of Durham, signal fires were seen to blaze. When the morning dawned, the En glish, who had assembled in great strength, forced ... ...ned in his dun geons twenty years. Charles Dickens 67 It was a September morning, and the sun was rising, when the King was awakened from slum ber ...

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...two boys at their game and said—’Y ou see, sir, children are taught to use weapons of death as toys, and to make a sport of murder;’ and as she spoke ... ...authority, that he knew or suspected the truth about his birth? She gave a start of surprise at his altered manner: indeed, it was quite a different b... ... couldn’t squeeze out a single tear, but danced till five o’clock the next morning. ’Twas the Count—no, ’twas my Lord Ormond that played the fiddles, ... .... ’Twas a weak, priest-ridden, woman-ridden man, with such puny allies and weapons as his own poor nature led him to choose, contending against the sc... ...ns who had so much of his heart for so many years, Lord Castlewood, with a start, pulled at his mother’s sleeve (her face had scarce been lifted from ... ...ison; nor in the camp; nor on shore before the enemy; nor at sea under the stars of solemn midnight; nor as he watched the glorious rising of the dawn... ...s pure and loving as an angel had blessed his sleep with her prayers. Next morning the chaplain read prayers to the little house- hold at Walcote, as ... ...ur man talked of it last night in the kitchen, and Mrs. Betty told me this morning as she combed my hair. And he says you must be in love, for you sat... ...word—”you understand the rest. Blandford knows which of us two is the best weapon. At small-sword, or back-sword, or sword and dagger if he likes; I c...

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...hus- band!” Madame Hulot looked at this vulgar intriguer with such a fixed stare of terror, that he thought she had gone mad, and he stopped. “You ins... ...d a husband nowadays if she is penniless,” Crevel re- marked, resuming his starchiest manner. “Your daughter is one of those beauties who rather alarm... ..., obtained from Baron Hulot a capital of ten thousand francs with which to start a small business as forage-dealer at Versailles, under the pa- tronag... ...how it—mamma’s birthday is not for a month yet; I will give it to you that morning.” “No, no. Give it back to me; it must have a case.” “But I will le... ...g bored on the ministers’ bench; here I may play.— How do, la Chevre!—Good morning, little kid,” and he took his daughter round the neck, kissed her, ... ...o be taken up by the Chamber on a certain ticklish question which had that morning come un- der discussion. The young lawyer was struck with admira- t... ...her in her opinion that gentleness and do- cility were a woman’s strongest weapons. But in this she was mistaken. The noblest sentiments, car- ried to... ...r vicious persons to do wrong instinctively and unprovoked; vice is only a weapon of defence against aggressors—that is all. Madame Marneffe’s drawing...

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... Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforc’d to rise: Doctor Faustus – Marlo... ...ST. I will, Faustus. [ Exit.] FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I’ll be great emperor... ... more of it. I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtezans, And bring them every morning to thy bed: She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have, ... ... pole; Nor are the names of Saturn, Mars, or Jupiter Feign’d, but are erring stars. FAUSTUS. But have they all one motion, both situ et tempore? MEPHI... ...for they say, if a man be drunk over night, the devil cannot hurt him in the morning: if that be true, I have a charm in my head, shall control him as... ...e that conjurer slain! If you will aid me in this enterprise, Then draw your weapons and be resolute; If not, depart: here will Benvolio die, But Fau... ...Marlowe 53 on a drum; after him another, bearing an ensign; and divers with weapons; MEPHISTOPHILIS with fire works. They set upon the SOLDIERS, driv... ... God may have mercy upon thee. FAUSTUS. Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I’ll visit you; if not, Faustus is gone to hell. ALL. Faustus, f...

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...souls come to be stripped of their wicked deceiving bodies, and turned out stark naked as they were before they were born— what a strange startling si... ...ght of the town we found a brilliant sky and beau- tiful weather. From the morning the three French ves- sels of war had assumed the usual signs of de... ... standard at the maintopgallant-mast. On Sunday, the 18th, at eight in the morning, the ‘Belle Poule’ quitted St. Helena with her precious deposit on ... ...requires that the seaman should be always fur- nished with those ferocious weapons, which in sundry maritime manoeuvers, such as going to sleep in you... ... any seafaring novelist will explain to you)—I doubt, I say, whether these weapons are ALWAYS worn by sailors, and have heard that they are commonly a... ...Belle Poule” at Cherbourg, on the 30th of November, at five o’clock in the morning. A telegraph made the glad news known at Paris, where the Minister ... ...cois woke me at a very early hour on this eventful morning, while the keen stars were still glittering overhead, a half-moon, as sharp as a razor, bea... ...s—and not their deeds of arms alone, pardi, but their coats of arms too. O stars and garters! but this is too much. What was Ney’s paternal coat, prit...

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...; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,—like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-storm and th... ...und.” In this place it was a judicious addi- tion; for the rudeness of the weapon, unless raised and en- riched by a warm, sanguinary coloring, has to... ...die a natural death at forty-four? Hear his biographer’s account:— “Sunday morning the 21st of February, before it was church time, Spinosa came down ... ...derived from the great artist whose workmanship I am record- ing. One fine morning, when all Bristol was alive and in mo- tion, some suspicion arising... ... that at first I was myself carried away by the general enthusiasm. On the morning when the murder was made known in London, there was the fullest mee... ...of hav- ing dabbled a little in our art; some said not without merit. What startled me, however, was, that he supposed this art to be part of his regu... ...nd shape as cherry to cherry. In short, M. Michelet thinks us, by fits and starts, admirable, only that we are de- testable; and he would adore some o...

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...uld he on any account have degraded his position as an artist by wearing a morning gown. In his sec- ond great performance, it was particularly notice... ...he direct course, naturally she got bewildered. The purpose with which she started, had by this time become hopeless. Noth- ing remained for her now b... ... abolition of con- sciousness. The murderer’s plan and rationale of murder started systematically from this infliction of apoplexy, or at 24 The Note... ... ruffian, as this useless butchery of the infant. Naturally, on the Sunday morning that dawned four or five hours later, the case was too full of horr... ...ring, or not transpiring until fifteen minutes after 1 A. M. on a Sun- day morning, would first reach the public ear through the Monday editions of th... ...ets, fast flying Upon the wings of fear:—From his dull madness The starveling waked, and died in joy: the dying, Among the corpses in stark ... ...cquired by the descent from the gallery, there is little doubt that such a weapon would have killed Lord Wellesley on the spot. In default however, of...

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...nker Hill, Democracy announcing, in rifle-volleys death- winged, under her Star Banner, to the tune of Yankee-doodle- doo, that she is born, and, whir... ...be their ministers; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, making the very Stars their Nautical Time- piece;—and written and collected a Bibliotheque ... ... blindly without rule or rein; sav- age itself, yet with all the tools and weapons of civilisation; a spectacle new in History. In such a France, as i... ..., to embroidery, small-scandal, prayers, and vacancy. If Majesty came some morning, with coffee of its own making, and swal- lowed it with them hastil... ...ieved that there was no Death! He, if the Court News- men can be believed, started up once on a time, glowing with sulphurous contempt and indignation... ...mfort thou canst: they are under way, those sacraments. Towards six in the morning, they arrive. Cardinal Grand-Almoner Roche-Aymon is here, in pontif... ...sm; chases the Phantasms that beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glit- tering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from it... ...landestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize ... ...nt, whither we were sent with signed order, is there or ever was there any weapon of war. Nay here, in this Seine Boat, safe under tarpaulings (had no...

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...ker Hill, Democracy an- nouncing, in rifle-volleys death-winged, under her Star Banner, to the tune of Yankee-doodle-doo, that she is born, and, whirl... ...be their ministers; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, making the very Stars their Nautical Time- piece;—and written and collected a Bibliotheque ... ...to em- broidery, small-scandal, prayers, and vacancy. If Majesty came some morning, with coffee of its own making, and swallowed it with them hastily ... ...elieved that there was no Death! He, if the Court Newsmen can be believed, started up once on a time, glow- ing with sulphurous contempt and indignati... ...mfort thou canst: they are under way, those sacraments. Towards six in the morning, they arrive. Cardinal Grand- Almoner Roche-Aymon is here, in ponti... ...sm; chases the Phantasms that beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glittering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from its ... ...landestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize ... ...Nation pen- etrate the most isolated Body-corporate: say rather, with such weapons, homicidal and suicidal, in exasperated po- litical duel, will Bodi... ...nt, whither we were sent with signed order, is there or ever was there any weapon of war. Nay here, in this Seine Boat, safe under tarpaulings (had no...

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...med Walter Tyrrell, to whom the king had given three long good arrows that morning. He rode straight away to Southampton, and went off to the Holy Lan... ... gov- ernor, Hubert de Burgh, once found him fighting hard, though with no weapon but a stool, to defend himself from some ruffians who had been sent ... ...ng. She came herself to the camp, just as the brave men of Calais had been starved out; and Edward had said he would only consent not to burn the town... ...l night round the Tower, and said they wanted to speak to the king. In the morning he came down to his barge, and meant to have spo- ken to them; but ... ...wice the number of the English—but, though Henry’s men were weary and half-starved, and many of them sick, they were not afraid, but believed their ki... ...o her, calling her their sun and goddess, and her hair golden beams of the morning, and the like; and the older she grew the more of these fine speech... ...fore the Council in a room at Westminster, that had a ceiling painted with stars—and so was called the Star Chamber—and there were sentenced, sometime...

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...la) have been found in the chalk, and nu- merous echini, with the pentagon star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country ... ...es, probably Otterbourne, soaked through with rain, on his way to his ill- starred marriage with Mary. Gardiner was no persecutor, and Sternhold’s wid... ...int to the country people as to who he was, whereupon a throng come out to stare at him, at one of the bridges. He escaped, and took his revenge by a ... ...the coffin of John Keble, priest of the parish, had been placed before the morning’s Celebration, was marked by a brass cross given by the pa- rishion... ... sedge, and the curious balls of the bur-reed, very like the horrid German weapon called a morning star. Also meadow-sweet, meadow-rue, and comfrey of... ...curious balls of the bur-reed, very like the horrid German weapon called a morning star. Also meadow-sweet, meadow-rue, and comfrey of every shade of ... ...s of spring, to you we come, Let us pick a little crumb. In the dew of the morning we gathered our flowers From the woodlands and meadows and garden b...

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...llet made his advances, but with a coquettish eye and look, as if ready to start away at any moment. 13 The Chaplet of Pearls ‘Soh, Follet. I have no... ...to him, the other boy clutched his shaggy forelock so effectually that the start back did not shake him off, and the next moment Beranger was on his b... ...e my family to visit thy grand-father, and it must now be our endeavour to start immediately on the receipt of the re- ply, before the Chevalier’s inf... ...t and his family to pay a visit to his wife’s friends in England. The next morning the Baron was summoned to speak to one of his farmers, a Huguenot, ... ... you have me to be otherwise? I have the honour to wish M. le Baron a good morning.’ ‘Eustacie! Stay! Hear me! It concerns my honour. I see it is you—... ... the invitation, if royal invitations could have been declined. And in the morning, before setting out, he dressed himself point device, and with Osbe... ...mself with shooting at a mark together with Sidney and Teligny, handed his weapon to an attendant, and came up with looks of restless anxiety to his Q... ...thrown himself on his side, shared with him the brunt of all the grotesque weapons, and battled them off with infi- nite spirit and address, shielding... ...nce of Conde, by throwing herself before him half-dressed, and tearing his weapon from his hand. Her only hope was that if she should give him a son, ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious ...

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...CRINOLINE......................................................................................................................................58 THE STARS AND STRIPES. ...........................................................................................................67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. .........................................................................

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.......................................................................58 THE STARS AND STRIPES. ........................................................... ...Y EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. IN THE MORNING OF LIFE THE T RUTHFUL wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was ... ...the Love that bleeds, are not these with us Still? are not these still the weapons of the Artist? the colors of his palette? the chords of his lyre? L... ... mayhap, or wear. A little deformed gentleman in iron- gray is reading the Morning Chronicle newspaper by the fire, while a divine, with a broad brogu... ... and a shovel hat and cas- sock, is talking freely with a gentleman, whose star and rib- bon, as well as the unmistakable beauty of his Phidian counte... ... the Church dignitary in the cassock, “is it in blue and goold ye are this morning, Sir Richard, when you ought to be in seebles?” 11 Burlesques “Who... ...I am sick of Success, palled of Pleasure, weary of Wine and Wit, and— nay, start not, my Adelaide—and W oman. I fling away all these things as the Toy... ...e, yelling hoarsely for a two-hundred-and-fourteenth lance, shook the huge weapon in the air as though it were a reed, and prepared to encounter the i... ...arabine that you shot Wolfe in ’57?” said Louis, eying the warrior and his weapon. “’Tis a clumsy lock, and methinks I could mend it,” he added mental...

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... excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design. He call’d me one Morning into his Chamber, where he was confined by the Gout, and expostulate... ...ming fine Evening follow’d; the Sun went down perfectly clear and rose next Morning; and having little or no wind and a smooth Sea, the Sun shining upo... ... in Rest and Mirth, after the manner of the Sea; but the eighth Day in the Morning, the Wind increased, and we had all Hands at Work to strike our Top... ...atch a Dish o Fish for him. It happen’d one time, that going a fishing in a stark calm Morning, a Fog rose so thick, that tho’ we were not half a Leagu... ...is Nose, that the Slugs hit his Leg about the Knee, and broke the Bone. He started up growling at first, but finding his Leg broke fell down again, and ... ... the Shoar to look at us, we could also perceive they were quite Black and Stark naked. I was once inclin’d to ha’ gone on Shoar to them; but Xury was... ... I found they run along the Shoar by me a good way; I observ’d they had no Weapons in their Hands, except one who had a long slender Stick, which Xury... ...easts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me, was, that I had no Weapon either to hunt and kill any Creature for my Sustenance, or to defend... ...l Circumstances I was brought to, viz. I had neither Food, House, Clothes, Weapon, or Place to fly to, and in Despair of any Relief, saw nothing but De...

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...as not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beatin...

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...d with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrd... ... theological books! Such a 7 George Eliot wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would int... ...king of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with ... ...our documents?” “In pigeon-holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. I have tried pigeon-... ... a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition. “Let me hope that you will rescind that re... ..., and wrong reasoning some- times lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags... ...an I would touch any other woman’s living.” Rosamond, while these poisoned weapons were being hurled at her, was almost losing the sense of her identi...

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...as not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beatin...

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...d with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrd... ...night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would int... ...king of books, there is Southey’s ‘Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. You know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with M... ...our documents?” “In pigeon holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon holes will not do. I have tried pigeon ... ... a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition. “Let me hope that you will rescind that re... ...on, and wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags... ...an I would touch any other woman’s living.” Rosamond, while these poisoned weapons were being hurled at her, was al most losing the sense of her iden...

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... universe, in relation to what any man can say of it, is plain, patent and staringly comprehensible. In itself, it is a great and travailing ocean, un... ...inger rightly parallel, and we see what the man meant, whether it be a new star or an old street-lamp. And briefly, if a saying is hard to understand,... ...then only are you sure that if he be indi- cating anything at all, it is a star and not a street-lamp; then only do you touch the heart of the mystery... ...rine with relief. It was worth the while having come to church that Sunday morning! All was plain. The Bible, as usual, meant nothing in particular; i... ...ield of truth. For the truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. The world, in your despite, may perhaps owe you someth... ... Beretania Street. When I was pulled ashore there one 49 Lay Morals early morning, there sat with me in the boat two sisters, bidding farewell (in hu... ...ded the thirteen or fourteen men in the town with him to come at nine next morning to his lodging for supplies. On the morning of Thursday the rebels ... ...e classroom and quadrangle. Nothing could be conceived more excellent as a weapon against many of those peccant humours that we have been railing agai... ...h come gradually betwixt us and nature with advancing years; it affords no weapon against the phi- losophy of names. In after life, although we fail t...

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...could play the part of Alderman very well, and sentence Jack after dinner. Starve me, keep me from books and honest people, educate me to love dice, g... ... when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing that morning to welcome the arrival of the new lord and lady, it had rung only t... ...him to this nobleman, a grand languid nobleman in a great cap and flowered morning-gown, sucking oranges. He patted Harry on the head and gave him an ... ... in the moat— all under company of Monsieur Blaise. Presently, of an early morning, all the party set forth for the country, namely, my Lord Viscount ... ...iest acting as master of the ceremonies at that solemn introduction—and he stared at her with eyes almost as great as her own, as he had stared at the... ...oldiers, were marching thence upon the house. John had but two minutes the start of them, and, ere he had well told his story, the troop rode into our... ...ess. “I have found nothing which concerns the Govern- ment as yet—only the weapons with which beauty is autho- rized to kill,” says he, pointing to a ... ...isputes of the late king’s reign; and, an old soldier now, had hung up his weapons of controversy. These he took down from his shelves willingly for y... ...two boys at their game and said—’Y ou see, sir, children are taught to use weapons of death as toys, and to make a sport of murder;’ and as she spoke ...

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...left an elegy, in which he darkly hints at and bemoans the fate of the ill-starred young person, whose very uncommon calamity Whitelaw, Dunlop, and Mi... ...x- claimed, and furiously cry’d out Against the fates, the desti- nies and starrs, What! this the effect of planetarie warrs! We might have seen him r... ...ng, and sign-painters, if they seldom feasted, did not at least absolutely starve. To a worthy of this decayed profession, as we have already intimate... ...t here struck me. I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets. “W... ...tched by bailiffs without, until death came to his relief. A corner of the Morning Post no- ticed his death, generously adding, that his manner displa... ...long been, a prevalent vice in the Scottish disposition. It was a November morning, and the cliffs which overlooked the ocean were hung with thick and... ... the pur- suit, was now within a few yards of them. The Lord Keeper had no weapons; his age and gravity dispensed even with the usual appendage of a w... ...o affairs of the kind, and distinguished by address and dexter- ity at his weapon. In the present case, however, he did not use his skill to advantage... ...she had just been “flambing” (Anglice, bast- ing) the roast of mutton. Her weapon was certainly the bet- ter, and her arm not the weakest of the two; ...

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...ough the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from ... ...smoke counterpane!—But I,mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars.” We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such ex... ...able; but nowise for her pearl bracelets and Malines laces: in his eyes, the star of a Lord is little less and little more than the broad button of Bi... ...ks too, if it be true, as Teufelsdr¨ ockh main tains, that “within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickl... ...cret! Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning News paper without a shudder? Hypochondriac men, and all men are... ...te but a Whole:— “Well sang the Hebrew Psalmist: ‘If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the Universe, God is there.’ ... ...ed from birth to that warfare, and now stood minded to wage the same, by all weapons, in all places, at all times. In such a cause, any soldier, were ...

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...e fell talking and disputing about what that swift arrival may signify. It starts a swarm of questions. First one remarks that here is a thing done, a... ...thin a year we shall have—or rather _they_ will have—aeroplanes capable of starting from Calais, let us say, circling over London, dropping a hundredw... ...) .) .) HITHERTO my only flights have been flights of imagination but this morning I flew. I spent about ten or fifteen minutes in the air; we went ou... ...alance of a bird, which has had ten million years of evolution by way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning wit... ...y way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr. Grahame-White was as steady as a mo- tor-car running on as... ...o the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane this morning—that sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the ve... ...ities of personal genius that become more and more decisive with every new weapon and every new com- plication and unsuspected possibility it introduc... ... hand does not make a soldier. He has to be taught not only the use of his weapons, but the methods of a strange and unfamiliar life out of doors; he ... ...und about him, confidence in himself, in his officers, and the methods and weapons of his side. Body, mind, and imagination have all to be trained—and...