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..., what is this that can happen to a man? Why has it happened? His arms in bandages, his eyes forever bandaged by the dark. “Alcaeus...” He heard m... ... by a single window. Why were we in such con- trast? Laughter and outworn songs...swaying and shuffling...until the shutting of my door. Alone, I s... ...fifty of us. Hands resting on a table, arms healed and ringed with copper bands, he leaned forward, waiting for silence. His hair had been freshly c... ...s message. Was this the Alcaeus who had joked and sported and sung ribald songs, as the popular friend of young men who were proud, rich, playful and... ...musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lot of wine, Alcaeus slipped his arm through mine and suggeste... ...seemed mortuary. Yet, I saw no dead, only the injured: Libus helped them, bandaging, talking: I gave wine and water, afraid: he was annoyed by my fe... ... wisdom. I found other kinds of wisdom on a dune, at a desert pool, in an oasis. Tevet 5 For days I have been trying to compose a meaningful pray...

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...t. “Have some patience girl.” Bill tossed the small bag of thick, elastic bands down on the table. He had grown accustomed to his granddaughter’s ba... ...itely, noting the man’s raised brow as she continued. “Run out of elastic bands?” She referred to his thick hair hanging loosely, as the day before ... ...e, yet not eager enough to do it in front of others. They sung a few more songs and before John closed in prayer, he invited people to come out the ... ... the floor to ceiling windows, a gentleman on the grand piano played love songs, entertaining those standing and seated at the bar. Thanking Rick fo... ...ould take these.” Lily lifted out the diamond engagement ring and wedding band. “They’re really beautiful, aren’t they?” Chris held them in the palm ... ...he kitchen. He looked to Chris, who had overheard him. “Bragging about our oasis again?” Chris looked up from the table. “Na, Sandy wants a baby, I to...

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...ophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marc... ...e Rocky Road to Dublin" E. R. Ephraim Mandolin Club 2 Solo—"I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" Clay Selwyn Reed Pevear '07 o "Sounds from the Orient'" H. ... ...Mrs. Howes sang two solos in a very pleasing style, the Hindoo and Morning songs. The program follows: Prelnde and Fngiie in A minor J. S. Bach FantHH... ...mpe '07 sang in the quartet which rendered "Old Black Joe" and other negro songs: and Bates and Brookway '07 sang in the circle. The first part closed... ...e in the college chapel at Amherst on Wed- nesday to pay the expenses of a band at the Worcester track meet. Thursday, Williams and Michigan leaving t... ...ready to write. All th« hattdwitn trnj- niii BtaUoMW, prui- tfata, Jawuara-bandltt lu Conkltn Pen or can aapMr ItItyon Inaltt nponutKi it. Coatsnomota... ...Melody fest 7. Another Would-be Monologu- ist 8. A Pugilistic Party. 9. An oasis in a desert of disgust- ing dissertations 10. If Dry. Cry I 11. Memor...

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...d seen, were left to crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of... ...he pothole-faced teacher with the aid of his rarely forsaken tools of rubber bands and quickly manufactured spit wads. His ethereal dreaminess, movin... ...e could remove the glass fragments from the exploding glass house of family, bandage wounded childhood, and could at last distance oneself from memori... ...ly left the coffee shop she headed toward the nearest Wal-Mart, the shopping oasis for the underdeveloped bourgeois. Within this desert oasis she boug... ... quasi-belief that circumstances dictated her withdrawal -- were far from an oasis. She would recall the words of Herodotus that "No man steps into th... ... there ﾁNYou left me positing the possibility of going there but now I am in Bandung Indonesia and planning to go deep into the jungles. My choice on...

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...hs in a dark forest, In the merry, credulous days,— Lived, and led a fairy band Over the indulgent land! Ah, for in this dourest, sorest Age man’s eye... ...ce to be found, That was the very warp and woof of you, Lovely before your songs began and after they were through! Oh, say if on this hill Somewhere ... ..., And the withering tongue Chastened; do your weeping now. Sing whatever songs are sung, Wind whatever wreath, For a playmate perished young, For ... ...has set. V V V V V Once more into my arid days like dew, Like wind from an oasis, or the sound Of cold sweet water bubbling underground, A treacherous...

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...tion by book or ballad, story- teller or minstrel; and the store of tales, songs, and fancies 8 Two Penniless Princesses that she had accumulated wer... ...sing, then introduced the Lady Eleanor of Scotland—’who knows all lays and songs, and loves letters, as you told me her blessed father did, my fair un... ...f the pathetic airs of her country, which reach back much farther than the songs with which they have in later times been associated. The King thoroug... ...e projections, long trained dresses of silk and sendal, costly stomachers, bands of velvet, buckles set with precious stones, chains of gold and silve... ...ike King Herod in a mystery play. If my father lists, he may send me out a band, but the Douglas shall have Douglas’s men, or none at all.’ David appr... ...s, with fair complexions and flowing golden hair, scarcely confined by the bands whence transparent veils descended. King Rene presented them as his t... ... in reality it was not more than two miles before they arrived at a little oasis of wheat and or- chards growing round a vine-clad building of reddish...

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...e than that: Dark Jack’s delight was the least un- The Uncommercial Traveller 45 lovely Nan, both morally and physically , that I saw that night. As ... ...he shrinking of the figure, and the drawing of the bed-clothes over the head, how acute the endurance was, and it made me shrink too, as if I were in ... ...are worth a Sunday-exploration, now and then, for they yet echo, not unharmoniously, to the time when the City of London re- ally was London; when the... ...y as seven- and-twenty, who were looking at six. Who can be familiar with any rustic highway in summer- time, without storing up knowledge of the many... ... own clothes; both could clean up everything about them in an orderly and skilful way, the girls having womanly household knowledge superadded. Order ... ...’ Book Depot, 30, Florence-street.’ Some copies were handsomely bound; the plainer were the more in request, and many were bought. The title ran: ‘Sac... ...ry desir- ous for a Hymn Book adapted to their faith and worship, that they might sing the truth with an understanding heart, and express their praise...

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...opy and well-stuffed back, and the cur- tains are looped up with fine wide bands. The furniture is of gilded wood, upholstered in the same yellow dama... ...hairdresser proposed? He wanted, if you please, to smooth my hair into two bands, and place over my forehead a pearl, kept in place by a gold chain! H... ...able amidst the gorgeous finery of most of the married women. Each had her band of faithful followers, and they all watched each other askance. A few ... ... enliven the monotony of my future. It shall be my ambition to enlarge the oasis round my house, and to give it the lordly shade of fine trees. My tur... ... in your Paris, whence I shall carry you off now and again to my beautiful oasis in Provence? Oh! Louise, don’t spoil the splendid future which awaits... ...ed, and dressed. His mother is so fond of watch- ing him sleep, of singing songs to him, of walking him about in her arms on a fine day, that she has ... ...when Renee ap- peared—a Renee so unlike the one I expected to find in your oasis. Then Felipe made too much of the child, whom I found myself beginnin...

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...easure they have felt on occa- sionally finding their native land, like an oasis, in the draw- ing-room of some diplomate: a pleasure hard to be under... ... wooden shoes, and shabby shooting coat, a peaked cap on my head, a ragged bandana round my neck, hands soiled with mould, and a dibble in my hand. “ ... ...t she spoke to me of hopefulness, in brief sentences that sounded like the songs with which nurses lull their babies. I then leaped the fence, and fou... ...ress of white muslin fastened with blue bows, her hair unadorned in waving bands over her cheeks, her feet on a small wooden stool, and showing a litt... ... secret, “Make me die of some plausible complaint, or I shall drag my hus- band with me.” “ ‘So it is quite understood by M. Desplein, Bianchon, and m...

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...air growing in close curls about her temples and held in place by a narrow band of diamonds. The suggestion of this head- dress, which gave her what w... ...with a green silk bag under it, and stitched at the two ends of a tapestry band of field-flowers destined to adorn an “occasional” chair in the drawin... ...sh arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar. Under the direction of her aunt (whose real name was Mrs... ...ought to be as free as we are—” It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman’s eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. ... ...shall all feel lost when she aban- dons our street. This house has been an oasis.” 112 The Age of Innocence “Ah, but she won’t abandon you. Poetry an... ...ence of “cocottes,” and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears. Archer had reverted to all hi... ...o three things while I was in Paris: get her the score of the last Debussy songs, go to the Grand-Guignol and see Madame Olenska. Y ou know she was aw...

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...intance about a generation ago, and the effect of it was, like Swinburne’s Songs Before Sunrise, Mazzini’s Duties of Man, and other congenial document... ...ved his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortifications, and love-songs. In Nejdanov it is another picture of that youth which we see—youth r... ... white teeth, and came into the room with its feeble body, short arms, and bandy legs, which were a little lame. As soon as Mashurina and Ostrodumov c... ...people just now. My dear boy! In 1862 the Poles formed their revolutionary bands in the forest; we are just about to enter that same forest, I mean th... ...t the piano and played, rather in- differently , several of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.” Charmant! Charmant! quel touché! Kollomietzev called ... ... be alarmed, I take all the responsibility upon my- self. Imagine, it’s an oasis! Neither politics, literature, nor anything modern ever penetrates th... ...ot for these rib- bons, you would not know one from the other, as the hus- band is clean-shaven. One is called Fomishka, the other Fimishka. I tell yo... ...still for them, and nothing “modern” ever crossed the boundaries of their “oasis.” Their means were not great, but their peasants supplied them severa... ...d a conveyance.” “V ery well …. And I’m going to Fomishka’s and Fimishka’s oasis. And do you know what I should like to say? There’s twaddle here and ...

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...tch of my boyhood, in which you, Natalie, can readily perceive innumerable songs of woe, was needful to explain to you its influence on my future life... ... I love Touraine. I love it, not as we love our cradle, not as we love the oasis in a desert; I love it as an artist loves art; I love it less than I ... ...ier-table, and a backgam- mon board on legs before the fireplace. Two wide bands of cotton held back the white cambric curtains, which had no fringe. ... ...he countess, kissing the white line which parted the child’s hair into two bands that looked like a crow’s wings. “He is coming with papa.” Just then ... ...s sweet valley the intoxicating essence of revived hope. Compelled to hus- band his means, he threw himself into agricultural pursuits and began to fi... ... that it was impossible not to listen to that voice of the eternal Song of Songs by which Nature herself bids all her creatures love. Did the lost ill... ...She now knew what the nightingale was sighing the livelong night, what the songster of the sedges hymned with his plain- 129 Balzac tive note. At eig...

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...fierce, and kind of swelling around in a little circle, tucking up his wrist bands, and now and then straightening up and beating his breast with his ... ... you take the Mississippi on a rise when the Ohio is low, you’ll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of the Mississippi for... ... warn’t sorry, neither. “But next night about half past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roo... ...e the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it se... ...he half naked crews of perspiring negroes that worked them were roaring such songs as “De Las’ Sack! De Las’ Sack!”—inspired to unimaginable exaltatio... ...ety of sweet scented flowers that flourish there, all make it appear like an oasis in the desert. Natchez is the furthest point to the north at which ... ... lodges.’ So he sat down. Then, in turn, they took the drum, and sang their songs, and closed with a feast. The youngest told them not to whisper the...

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... Like linnets in the pauses of the wind: And here I give the story and the songs. I A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as... ...ut while I meditated A wind arose and rushed upon the South, And shook the songs, the whispers, and the shrieks Of the wild woods together; and a V oi... ...e a scroll, And o’er his head Uranian V enus hung, And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes: I gave the letter to be sent with dawn; And then to ... ...And bowed her state to them, that they might grow To use and power on this Oasis, lapt In the arms of leisure, sacred from the blight 17 Tennyson Of ... ...alled Miriam and a Jael, With Psyche’s babe, was Ida watching us, A single band of gold about her hair, Like a Saint’s glory up in heaven: but she No... ... they came; The leaves were wet with women’s tears: they heard A noise of songs they would not understand: They marked it with the red cross to the f...

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...able roared at his enumeration of the sickly little beings, consumptive or bandy- legged, within a radius of five miles of Steynham. Action was what h... ...a recantation will save you from it? Why not break the excruciating faggot-bands, and escape, when you have only to decide to do it? We naturally ask ... ...no is the Constitutional bourgeois. Match them with the trained orchestral band of skilled individual performers, indoors or out, where each grasps hi... ... speech, like leading them over the desert without a well to cheer them—no oasis, as we used to call a five-pound note and a holiday—I haven’t the hea... ... music was curious, considering how impressionable he was to verse, and to songs of birds. He listened with an oppressed look, as to something the par... ...bout their organ; the dismallest organ that ever ground a hackneyed set of songs and hymns to madden 315 George Meredith the thoroughfares.’ ‘The Pre... ...ple. “And as for your mother, I ‘ll make her a duke”; that ‘s one of their songs. The word people, in England, is a dyspeptic agitator’s dream when he...

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...robably excited beyond bearing, pricked by Danglars, as the bull is by the bandilleros, was about to rush out; for he had risen from his seat, and see... ...es; this is an adventure worthy a place in the varied career of that royal bandit. This fabulous event formed but a link in a long chain of marvels. Y... ...link in a long chain of marvels. Yes, Borgia has been here, a torch in one band, a sword in the other, and within twenty paces, at the foot of this ro... ... the sun, all the perfumes of the summer breeze; then, in the midst of the songs of his sailors, — songs so clear and sonorous, that they would have m... ...to, no longer as a threat- ening rock in the midst of the waves, but as an oasis in the desert; then, as his boat drew nearer, the songs became louder... ...e waves, but as an oasis in the desert; then, as his boat drew nearer, the songs became louder, for an en- chanting and mysterious harmony rose to hea... ...is feat in less than ten minutes), received the count on his entrance. The songs of the birds were heard in an aviary hard by, and the branches of lab...

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... third nest of steerages, labelled 4 and 5. The second cabin, to return, is thus a modified oasis in the very heart of the steerages. Through the thin... ...ven a Scotsman sometimes learns to drop an H; a word of a dialect is picked up from another band in 8 Essays of Travel the forecastle; until often th... ...unications and so devoid of deeper human qualities. The children, I observed, were all in a band, and as thick as thieves at a fair, while their elder... ...ical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, ... ... nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous applause. Once or twice,... ...ching of the ship; and when we were thus disposed, sang to our hearts’ content. Some of the songs were appropriate to the scene; others strikingly the... ...hoirs, and played the flute and piccolo in a professional 23 Robert Louis Stevenson string band. His repertory of songs was, besides, inexhaust- ible...

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... siesta. The centenarian remembered Fremont and Governor Alvarado, and the bandit Jesus T ejeda, and the days when Los Muertos was a Spanish grant, a ... ... gentleman, De La Cuesta. Always he treated her as a queen. Never was hus- band more devoted, more respectful, more chivalrous. But love?” The old fel... ...the wire fence by the right of way and had wandered out upon the tracks. A band had been cross- ing just at the moment of the engine’s passage. The pa... ...ek bones a little salient. His face was that of a comic actor, a singer of songs, a man never at a loss for an answer, continually striving to make a ... ...herokee with a mission; now a female elocutionist, whose forte was Byron’s Songs of Greece; now a high caste Chinaman; now a miniature painter; now a ... ...Frank Norris buckskin and blue beads, rented from a costumer, intoned folk songs of his people in the vernacular. The elocution- ist in cheese-cloth t... ...esses, which she made into salads. The place was picturesque, secluded, an oasis of green shade in all the limitless, flat monotony of the surround- i...

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...ell of burning sand, before him the earthly paradise of the most beautiful oasis in the desert. The Duchess, struck from the first by the appearance o... ...rew in with her breath, sat down to the piano, and sang the most exquisite songs of modern music, and so baffled the physical attraction which at time... ...ndle above a door near one corner of the room. The other door by which the band had entered was likewise curtained, but the drapery hung from an ordin... ...d; you must not see a glimpse of the way.” “I am ready, Armand,” she said, bandaging her eyes. “Can you see?” “No.” Noiselessly he knelt before her. “... ...ieve.—Well, sup- pose that he goes, what will become of you without a hus- band? Keep well with your husband as you take care of your beauty; for beau... ...adventure which so drew me to you, Armand, you went from the desert to the oasis with a good guide to show you the way. Well, I am going out of the oa...

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...ourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, 12 Balzac as the... ...reserved in those parts where light has scarcely penetrated, are framed in bands of oak now black as ebony. The ceiling has project- ing rafters enric... ...t was absolutely necessary to evacuate it he escaped into the woods with a band of Chouans, who continued armed until the second restoration of the Bo... ...ar to men with beards, who were suspected of being Blues; they sang wicked songs which made those virtuous women blush and weep, and spent their time ... ... the house harmonize admirably with the scene it overlooks. The park is an oasis in the surrounding desert, at the entrance of which the traveller com...

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..., 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... ...s, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day’s walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand sho... ... 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... ...evertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under w... ...how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vesse... ...us reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable event...

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... to get under the shade in sum- mer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades 71 Herman Melville in a day’s walk a prairie; that the... ...so saying, taking out his spectacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow bandana handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully, came out of the w... ...ertheless, not three days pre- vious, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under w... ...how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vesse... ...t every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slum- bers of the band below; and when if a ro... ...us reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable event...

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...to one of his compatriots who lived in Paris. Thus it hap- pened that the “Bande Noire,” so celebrated for its devasta- tions, had its birth in the br... ... mainspring and spine of that famous association known by the name of the “Bande Noire,” which, as we have already said, took its rise from a sugges- ... ...laret made of lawn with a deep hem. Her hair was simply worn in two smooth bandeaus, gathered into a Gre- cian knot at the back of her head. She was s... ...bi- tues of the house talked commonplace. The hotel Graslin thus became an oasis where intelligent minds found relaxation and relief from the dulness ... ...efforts monseigneur ordered him to make.” “The condemned man sings obscene songs at the highest pitch of his voice as soon as he sees any one of us, s... ...e distance beyond the village, the magnificent stretch of val- ley, a true oasis at the edge of the vast plains, which now, veiled by the light mists ... ...e beautiful spot and the sur- rounding barrenness, in which it lay like an oasis in the desert. Madame Graslin’s eyes filled suddenly with tears. The ... ... express the tranquil cheerful thoughts of those whose day’s work is over. Songs are heard very dif- ferent in character from those of the morning; in... ...andscape but the dull red hue of the dusk; even the birds had hushed their songs; the tree-frog alone sent forth its long, clear, melancholy note. “I ...

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...loating wick, and a young woman, with a swelled face bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing room (now connected by an open door... ...oking to speak of, but it was almost raw. The young woman with the flannel bandage waited, and dropped everything on the table wherever it happened to... ...m to bed, I carried him upstairs, where the young woman with the flan nel bandage charged into the midst of the little family like a dragon and overt... ...as enthralled by Ada’s singing and told me that she seemed to know all the songs that ever were writ ten—and Mr. Jarndyce, and I were the audience. A... ...an to walk about. Mr. Skimpole played the melody of one of Ada’s favourite songs. Ada and I both looked at Mr. Jarndyce, think ing that we knew what ... ...hed, or to playing fragments of airs on the piano, or to singing scraps of songs, or to lying down on his back under a tree and looking at the sky—whi... ...s forehead. “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Guppy, rising, “this is in deed an oasis. Mother, will you be so good as to put a chair for the other lady and...

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...ld have no better portrait of the man than his nickname. Three more of the band, at least as remarkable as the friends who have just been sketched in ... ...nt Mozart, or Weber, or Rossini into ecstasies, for his singing of certain songs of Beranger’s could intoxicate the heart in you with poetry, or hope,... ... Michel Chrestien for a song. And, in the desert of Paris, Lucien found an oasis in the Rue des Quatre-Vents. At the beginning of October, Lucien had ... ...propriated the old, Canalis writes lighter verse, Beranger has monopolized songs, Casimir Delavigne has taken tragedy, and Lamartine the poetry of med... ...l the Essays in Verse, the Inspirations, the lofty flights, the hymns, and songs, and ballads, and odes; all the nestfuls hatched during the last seve... ...mantilla; the hair crimped and curled like a poodle’s, or smoothed down in bandeaux over the fore- head; the close-fitting white stockings and limbs, ... ...o doors away from Frascati’s, to celebrate the inauguration, and the whole band of Royalist writers for the press were present. Martainville was there...

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...ched me with his pipe, and shut up one eye, as a caution. She and her hus- band came in immediately afterwards. Their report was, that Mr. Barkis was ... ...untains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly. I hardly knew w... ...fellow. Moreover, he said, he wanted to hear her sing all the new singer s songs to him; and how could David Copperfield Vol. II 118 she do that we... ...bling out, tumbling over his own growls, under the impression that I was a Bandit; and we all three went in, as happy and loving as could be. I soon c... ...cry. After tea we had the guitar; and Dora sang those same dear old French songs about the impossibility of ever on any account leaving off dancing, L... ...e too. As our house now wanted business on any terms, we joined this noble band; and threw out lures to the hangers-on and outsiders, to bring their b... ... it. And we fell back on the guitar-case, and the flower-painting, and the songs about never leav- ing off dancing, Ta ra la! and were as happy as the... ...o meet, in the diversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis, but never with one so green, so gushing, as the present! At another...

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...s the other; the art is natural, and the nature artistic. I have found the oasis that you and I have dreamed of when reading novels,—nature luxuriant ... ...as so unused to see the sunrise, that she hailed it with one of her finest songs. Her attitude, quite as much as her tinsel, drew the peasants about h... ...lations of those estimable functionaries with T onsard and his wife tied a bandage over their eyes. The cows, held by long ropes, obeyed a mere twitch... ...e and there by pro- jecting points of the stone, which was mostly black. A band of cement, in which no stones were allowed to show, sur- rounded each ... ...ns of the Soil loes, he was forced to take as many precautions as the hus- band of a young and adoring wife; and it was not until very recently that h... ...ocial nature, to understand all and to repress nothing, make themselves an oasis in the heart, where they forget their per- versities and those of oth... ...bird it was, sang its au- tumn song, its farewell song, to which the other songsters listened,—a song welcome to love, and heard by every organ of the...

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...pping off of heads, in the meta- phorical sense of that expression; such a bandying of words and calling of names; such an upturning of noses and wrin... ... Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, company round the chimney corner every winter’s evening. A... ...antomime. Nor was it confined to these ebullitions; for besides crushing a bandbox, with a bonnet in it, he seriously damaged Mr Pecksniff’s luggage, ... ... quite satisfied to be set down for the hundred and fiftieth violin in the band, or thereabouts, is to ex- press his modesty in very inadequate terms.... ...ers and wings to be a bird. Hearing notes behind her, not belonging to the songsters of the grove, she looked round. Mr Pecksniff kissed his hand, and... ...eft the city. He had his bottle often at his mouth; roared out snatches of songs, without the least regard to time or tune or voice, or anything but l... ...y; if he were not a green spot in the barren waste of life, where was that oasis to be bound? Little did Mr Pecksniff think on what a very green spot ...

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...ned Charley, putting her head forward and folding her hands tight upon the band of her little apron, which she always did in the enjoyment of any thi... ...lume Two 57 “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Guppy, rising, “this is in deed an oasis. Mother, will you be so good as to put a chair for the other lady and... ...eauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band box. “Sir,” he returns, redden ing, “I wish to act with courtesy towa... ...looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score. We were all assembled shortly befo... ...er laughing at his establishing a surgery in the street, “And so your hus band is a brickmaker?” “How do you know that, sir?” asks the woman, aston ...

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...jealous over our past.” “Not all,” said Dolly. “You judge by your own hus- band. It makes him miserable even now to remember Vronsky. Eh? that’s true,... ...wheels on the gravel. Dolly had not time to get up to go and meet her hus- band, when from the window of the room below, where Grisha was having his l... ...s the time for a serenade. You know, he has a splendid voice; we practiced songs to- gether along the road. He has brought some lovely songs with him,... ... avenue with Veslovsky; their voices could be heard singing one of the new songs. Levin hearing these voices sat scowling in an easy- chair in his wif... ...nconsciously he fell under the influence of his gaiety and listened to the songs he sang all the way on the box, or the descriptions and representatio... ...ith rather a gloomy expression, “do you see those reeds?” He pointed to an oasis of blackish green in the huge half-mown wet meadow that stretched alo... ...and she did not ask him. “Where are you going, Kostya?” she asked her hus- band with a guilty face, as he passed by her with a reso- lute step. This g...

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...NGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that smiling angel-band, Gone, for ever gone, and in their places Weary men and anxious women... ... JO DARBY AND JO DARBY AND JOAN AN AN AN AN My reason haply more To bandy word for word and frown for frown; But now I see our lances are but s... ...hat belonged to authorship, “so that there could be any amount of Scottish songs. Prospero is an old Highland chief, who has been set adrift with his ... ...g e “But who were the wreckers?” asked Anna. “Buccaneers, my dear, singing songs out of the ‘Pirate’— schoolmaster, organist, and choir generally. The... ...Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fellow was Jacobite, so as to have the songs dear to the feminine mind. They get wrecked on the island, and are te... ...hat she was not Mona. Perhaps Mrs. Henderson could have told him. Her hus- band being manager and partner at Mr. White’s marble works, she had always ... ...about them and boredom. Tell Emmie so. Fernan has made this place a little oasis round my father’s grave, and his parson, who has a mission among the ...

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...tory too, for she was one of the forty-nine Danaides who killed their hus- bands for the sake of their father and was not likely to be the fiftieth, c... ...ood reader of music. On the whole, he sang pleasantly, particularly French songs. She complimented him, with an emphasis on the French. He said, yes, ... ...with their souls. Patrick accepted Adiante’s husband: the man was her hus- band. Hideous (for there was no combating her father’s paint- ing of him), ... ...r crevasses in the con- versation, and he cried to himself: Hats and crape-bands! mightily struck by an idea that he and his cousins were a party of h... ...it, he said; and he hinted at an objection of his wife’s to spirited Irish songs of the sort which carry the sons of Erin bounding over the fences of ... ...e Lord and he would have reared a garden in the desert; in proximity to an oasis, still on the sands, against obstacles. An accumulation of upwards of... ...u so long away from your de- sponding Jane? I ‘ll take to poetry and write songs, if you don’t come home soon. You’ve put seas between us, and are beh...

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...se as to the mistress of the house. “All resigned themselves to endure the songster” (chardonneret) “of the sacred grove,” said Alexandre de Brebian, ... ...hideous winding-sheet of Gomorrah. So well did Louise loosen the swaddling-bands of provin- cial life that confined the heart and brain of her poet th... ...ment that 75 Balzac M. Saintot was engaged upon a treatise on modern hus- bandry; but though he locked himself into his study every morning, he had n... ...sublime melancholy; then he turned to the page where the line occurs, “Thy songs are sweet, I love to say them over,” and ended with the delicate idyl... ...ary, take heed, lest aught should be seen or heard Of the shining seraph band, as they take the heavenward way; Too soon the Angel on Earth will lea... ...lts of whole systems of philosophy in a few picturesque lines; indeed, his songs are like seeds that must break into 89 Balzac blossom in other heart... ...be unhappy any longer; I will not have it. Yes, dear angel, I will make an oasis for you, there you shall live your poet’s life, sometimes busy, somet...

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...e the grace- ful, interesting talker who used in old days to make the hus- bands of the district jealous on account of their wives. “I am in great nee... ...hem again. What for? Between four and five she dined at home with her hus- band. His simplicity, good sense, and kind-heartedness touched her and move... ...emeaned themselves by singing chansonettes, while tragic actors sang comic songs making fun of deceived husbands and the preg- nant condition of unfai... ...men who showed a friendly dispo- 98 Anton Chekhov sition to you, but of a band of knaves who have nothing worthy about them. They are a horde of sava... ...inted to succeed me,” and my poor lecture-hall presents itself to me as an oasis in which the spring is died up; and I am ungracious, silent, and surl... ...- plum, and so sprightly , so noisy; she was always singing Little Russian songs and laughing. For the least thing she would go off into a ringing lau...

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...the same tone of voice and still in French, turning to a general, “my hus- band is deserting me? He is going to get himself killed. Tell me what this ... ...esses followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the band struck up in the gallery , and the guests settled down in their places... ...ts settled down in their places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visito... ...eived a double ration of vodka. The campfires crackled and the sol- diers’ songs resounded even more merrily than on the previous night. Denisov celeb... ...now that this maiden was nothing else than a representation of the Song of Songs. And looking at those drawings I dreamed I felt that I was doing wron... ...a that Natasha was in love with Boris as of old. She sang him his favorite songs, showed him her album, making him write in it, did not allow him to a... ...he added, “because— that’s it, come on!-you’ve nothing to hold on to.” The oasis of the Otradnoe covert came in sight a few hundred yards off, the hun...

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...ded, the sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands of the most abandoned of a London populace were seen reeling to and f... ...elf. We had expected to find it, as usual, enveloped in frequent rolls, or bandages, of linen; but, in place of these, we found a sort of sheath, made... ...ct had sus- tained from the scalpel. W e sewed up the wound in his temple, bandaged his foot, and applied a square inch of black plaster to the tip of... ...ntly discovered by the engi- neers employed to bore for water in the Great Oasis. 95 V olume Five I then mentioned our steel; but the foreigner eleva... ...s had advantages which we do not possess—and Thomas Moore, singing his own songs, was, in the most legitimate manner, perfecting them as poems. To rec... ...avor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tea... ...d of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the b... ... lay lolling on the golden air, Near four bright suns—a temporary rest— An oasis in desert of the blest. A way—away—‘mid seas of rays that roll Empyre...

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... who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This pos... ... elderly people skating with hygienic motives. They seemed to Levin an elect band of blissful beings because they were here, near her. All the skaters... ...gnatov? No, I’m not going. Chˆ ateau des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan. No, I’m sick of it. That’s why I like the Shtcher bat... ...go to the Gypsies! Do you know I have got so fond of the Gypsies and Russian songs.” His speech had begun to falter, and he passed abruptly from one s... ...the house. “Am I right, that you have some reminiscences connected with that songs” said Kitty. “Don’t tell me,” she added hastily, “only say if I’m r... ...er balcony. In the courtyard the first objects that met Vronsky’s eyes were a band of singers in white linen coats, standing near a barrel of vodka, an... ... with rather a gloomy expression, “do you see those reeds?” He pointed to an oasis of blackish green in the huge half mown wet meadow that stretched a...

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...e before cock- crowing, she took care to awaken the good monarch, her hus- band (who bore her none the worse will because he intended to wring her nec... ...d. The first stroke of the razorlike cres- cent athwart any portion of the band, would so detach it that it might be unwound from my person by means o... ...d not foreseen and provided for this possibility! Was it probable that the bandage crossed my bosom in the track of the pendulum? Dreading to find my ... ...sh them to seek out for me, in the details I am about to give, some little oasis of fatality amid a wilderness of error. I would have them allow— what... ...his one sorrowful theme, interweaving it into all our converse, as, in the songs of the bard of Schiraz, the same images are found occurring, again an...