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...il Ransom, in the spring, after hearing accidentally that he had come to the North and intended, in New York, to practise his profession. It was her n... ...nage for a person whose two brothers—her only ones—had given up life for the Northern cause. It reminded her, however, on the other hand, that he too ... ...herself. There was a lithographic smoothness about her, and a mixture of the American matron and the public character. There was something public in h... ...and helpless miseries grow greater all the while? I am only a girl, a simple American girl, and of course I haven’t seen much, and there is a great de... ...had been of ugly things. Only an exquisite creature could have resisted such associations, only a girl who had some natural light, some divine spark o... ...atly) out of coloured paper, of graduated tints, and surrounded with a small band of stamped gilt. The two sides of the shop were protected by an imme... ...m at bends of the road which disclosed very little more—unless it might be a band of straight stemmed woodland, keeping, a little, the red glow from t... ...eductively their swinging doors of red leather or baize, spotted with little brass nails. Behind great plates of glass the interior of the hotels be ... ... advance. The figure was simply that of a robust policeman, in his helmet and brass buttons—a policeman who was expecting him—Ransom could see that in ...

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...hese southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. A.D. 1729. * * *... ...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ..., to try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy band thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious harpoone... ... saying, taking out his spec tacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow bandana handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully, came out of the w... ...ace of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with ... ...oup of hands upon it, and loudly called for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the companion way. Then opening the slide a litt... ...e with much accuracy. At some old gable roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road side door. When the ...

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...s, Sir John.’ The boy took up the basket, and as he set out the notes of a brass band were heard from the direction of the village. ‘What’s that?’ sai... ... John.’ The boy took up the basket, and as he set out the notes of a brass band were heard from the direction of the village. ‘What’s that?’ said Durb... ...n. Not a soul passed that way for a long while, and the faint notes of the band were the only human sounds audible within the rim of blue hills. II T ... ...ible within the rim of blue hills. II T he village of Marlott lay amid the north eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor a... ...h Stoy, and Bubb Down. The traveller from the coast, who, after plod ding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn lands, sud d... ...shawl hanging at the window took upon itself the richness of tapestry; the brass handles of the chest of drawers were as Phase the First — The Maiden... ... though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience. Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and al... ...ryman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding... ...om the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South American Continent towards the coast. His experiences of this strange land ...

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...a few particular things, such as, for instance, the analysis of Poe’s place in American literature — an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atla... ...aboard one and runs it from hell to breakfast, blowin’ his whistle to beat the band and tellin’ the rest of the world to look out for him, because he’... ...out the disaster to the Martinez and placed me in my present situation. To the north, and not far away, a group of naked rocks thrust above the sea, o... ...e southwest into that portion of the sea where he expected to pick up with the northeast trades. It was before this steady wind that he hoped to make ... ...ented, and I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in two large volu... ...e same time giving what he called the “Spanish twist” to the blade. Leach, his bandaged arm prominently to the fore, begged me to leave a few remnants... ...urmured; and the very conventionality of her tones and words, with the host of associations it aroused of the old life on the other side of the world,... ...don’t want you killed, you know.” Even as he spoke, a bullet was deflected by a brass capped spoke of the wheel between his hands and screeched off thr...

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...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...is adopted, and his native country, his charming new found cousin. “I keep a band of music in my ante room,” he said once to her. “It has orders to pl... ...music indeed that you usually heard when you came within ear shot of Ralph’s band; the liveliest waltzes seemed to float upon the air. Isabel often fou... ...country across the sea which he knew a good deal about; her antecedents, her associations were very CHAPTER 12 85 vague to his mind except in so far ... ...e 118 Portrait of a Lady she lives in—Bedfordshire?” “She lives away in the northern corner of it. It’s a tiresome country, but I dare say you won’t ... .... “They certainly lose no time,” said the visitor as, after sounding the big brass knocker, she waited to be admitted; “it’s a practical country!” And... ...ames as pedanti cally primitive, those perverse looking relics of mediaeval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exhausted s... ...for San Remo and had worked her way down, as she said, through the cities of North Italy, reached the banks of the Arno about the middle 234 Portrait...

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...tery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, 170 -- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 189 -- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, 210...

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...arbuncle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Adventure of the Speckled Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 The Adventure of the Eng... ...a richness which would, in England, be looked upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his do... ...an black frockcoat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as... ... apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire. Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his way... ...e answered. ‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do... ...vertisement. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his ha... .... It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of comm... ... have belonged to the attic, in one hand, The Five Orange Pips 81 and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. “ ‘They may do what they like,... ...ylotts of Stoke Moran. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Bak...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fir...

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...e Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . ... ...hen Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvar nished tale of the Northland Lochinvar. More than one rough adven turer of the North felt... ... of the White Silence. All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slight est whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, ... ...to resist. The Kid permitted her one outburst of grief, as she kissed her hus band, — her own people had no such custom, — then led her to the foremo... ...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...against the collar. The rest followed suit. There was an ingather ing of back bands, a tightening of traces; the sleds leaped forward, and the men cl... ...w, V ol. 15, No. 1, July 1914, pp. 7 17. South of the Slot 275 Manufacturers’ Association alone distributed fifty thousand copies of it. In a way, it ... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...uch devil devils — rifles that shot very rapidly many times, things of iron and brass that made the schooners go when there was no wind, and boxes that...

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...t of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins æs alienum, another’s brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dyin... ...oins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other’s brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, to morrow, and dying t... ...d Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to h... ...rth and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself.... ...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ...usekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox and bundle. Throw away the first three at least. It would surpass ... ...hoo hoo, hoorer hoo; and indeed for the most part it suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or night, summer or winter. I rejoice ... ...my labor cheerfully with a calm trust in the future. When there were several bands of musicians, it sounded as if all the village was a vast bellows, ...

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...The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had unde...

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...ig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I m... ...or New York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days out. She then filled away and left... ... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... the first land that I had seen since leaving home, and still more from the associations which every one has connected with it in their childhood fr... ... brimmed hat, usually of a black or dark brown color, with a gilt or figured band round the crown, and lined inside with silk; a short jacket of silk ... ...eather, they usually wear a small scarf or neckerchief of a rich pattern. A band, also, about the top of the - 40 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard... ... of it. The rest of the cleaning was divided among the crew; one having the brass and composition work about the capstan; another the bell, which wa... ...rass and composition work about the capstan; another the bell, which was of brass, and kept as bright as a gilt button; a third, the harness cask; an...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...d, in the forms to which precious stones contribute, or in leather, steel, brass, applied to a hundred uses and abuses, were as tumbled together as if... ...e shipwrecked Gordon Pym, who, drifting in a small boat further toward the North Pole—or was it the South?—than any one had ever done, found at a give... ...ably marked, for the evening of life, as discoverers of a kind of hymeneal Northwest Passage. Mrs. Assingham knew better, knew there had been no histo... ...how, when you came to that, could you know that a horse would n’t shy at a brass band, in a country road, because it did n’t shy at a traction engine?... ...hen you came to that, could you know that a horse would n’t shy at a brass band, in a country road, because it did n’t shy at a traction engine? It mi... ...een brought up to traction engines without having been brought up to brass bands. Little by little thus from month to month the Prince was learning wh... ... finally, it was present to him that, discreetly heedless, through her long association with nobleness in art, to the leaps and bounds of fashion, she ...

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...than is the sculptured stone head of some public fountain, which through its brass mouth tube emits water to the worthy and the unworthy; careless whe... ...ht into relation with the Nifl and Muspel (Darkness and Light) of the antique North, it may be enough to say, that its correctness of deduction, and de... ...d that he is naked, and, as Swift has it, ‘a forked strad dling animal with bandy legs;’ yet also a Spirit, and unutterable Mystery of Mys teries.” ... ... falls, but to morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer. How came it to evaporate,... ...dullest hear Steam engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scottish Brass smith’s I DEA (and this but a mechanical one) travelling on fire win... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ...; perhaps it is better so!” Too heavy laden Teufelsdr ¨ ockh! Yet surely his bands are loosening; one day he will hurl the burden far from him, and bo... ...n the smaller sort of vermin; but what, except perhaps some such Univer sal Association, can protect us against whole meat devouring and man devourin... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting...