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...mpbell know each other? Mr. Taylor, is there bad blood between you and the District Attorney’s office?” I’ll Do Anything ... ...hlessly. “What’s that?” He brushed the palm of his hand against a distended peak through the sheer cups. “You’re wearing too many clothes.” She g... ...e trailed suckling bites across her skin, dragging his tongue over the other peak before I’ll Do Anything ... ... a shaky hand over Laura’s hair. In her three years in the Dekalb County District Attorney’s office, Julia had never turned away a difficult case... ...hoved her way to the front. “What do you have to say about Dekalb County’s District Attorney trying to move in on the case before a judge’s ruling?... ...mpbell know each other? Mr. Taylor, is there bad blood between you and the District Attorney’s office?” The heavy glass doors closed them out as he... ...face. “That’s bullshit and we both know it. I thought I saw my Assistant District Attorney and some hot shot good ol’ boy fighting like spoiled b... ... 114 handiwork. The satin clung, wet and dark, to the distended peak. Cade blew on it softly. “Ah, God,” she cried raggedly. Her knee... ...to toe to the sounds of the water lapping against the sandy shore. The sun peaked on the horizon and the water glittered and sparkled under its bri...

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...tern waves of ebbing day Rolled o’er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a set... ... on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer’s ... ...len’s hand. Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her... ...wdnesse, and do goodnesse” (referring to Ps. xxxiv. 14). 89. Menteith. The district in the southwestern part of Perthshire, watered by the T eith. 91.... ...oetry. 145. Trosachs. “The rough or bristled territory” (Graham); the wild district between Lochs Katrine and Vennachar. The name is now especially ap... ...had become little more than a name. Each chief was a petty king in his own district, and gave just so much obedience to the king’s authority as suited... ...pipe is now the only instrument that obtains uni- versally in the Highland districts’ (Campbell’s Journey through North Britain. London, 1808, 4to, i.... ...e on 319 above. 415. Roots him. See on i. 142 above. 416. Breadalbane. The district north of Loch Lomond and around Loch Tay. The seat of the Earl of ...

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... and dreadful aspect; and the effect is strik- ing when several such accent the milder ones, which form a city map on a man’s face; they suggest the “... ...erlichingen’s old castle. It stands on a bold elevation two hundred feet above the surface of the river; it has high vine- clad walls enclosing trees,... ... is moving on. CHAPTER XVII Why Germans Wear Spectacles A MILE OR TWO ABOVE EBERBACH we saw a peculiar ruin project- ing above the foliage which cloth... ...ories have pictured them. The first genu- ine specimen which we came upon was the mansion of a rich farmer and member of the Common Council of the par... ...an on the railing and watch the schools of fishes darting about in the clear water, or gaze out over the lake at the stately border of snow-hooded mou... ...f snow-moun- tains that border it all around—an enticing spectacle, this last, for there is a strange and fascinating beauty and charm about a majesti... ...ourselves in the proper red blankets, and plunged along the halls and out into the whistling wind bare- headed. We saw a tall wooden scaffolding on th... ...o the present day, but with the hyphens left out, in the German fashion. This is the shape it takes: instead of saying “Mr. Simmons, clerk of the coun... ...t takes: instead of saying “Mr. Simmons, clerk of the county and district courts, was in town yesterday,” the new form put it thus: “Clerk of the Coun...

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...head and twenty million arms, is at work perpetually; crouching in country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national g... ...oner of legal papers, when- ever the Sieur Brunet came to draw them in the districts of Cerneux, Conches, and Blangy. Vermichel and Fourchon, allied b... ...e average; and T onsard kept half for his own traffic. In all wine-growing districts the gleaning of the large 43 Balzac vineyards gives a good perqu... ...became habitual in this valley, and soon existed as a right throughout the districts of Blangy, Conches, and Cerneux, all adjacent to the domain of Le... ... Balzac throughout France and Switzerland. Among the Jura, and in the wild districts trodden only by a few special tourists, the innkeepers call it, o... ...owever, and their guests, hungry as hounds after ascending the surrounding peaks, very gladly pay three and four francs a bottle for it. In the homes ...

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...waiting to see the wedding. The daughter 9 of the chief mine-owner of the district, Thomas Crich, was getting married to a naval officer. ‘Let us go ... ...er she can bear it. It takes all my strength, to bear the ugliness of this district, when I stay here. Won’t you come and see me? Won’t you come with ... ... tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. It was a terrible face, void, peaked, ab- stracted almost into meaninglessness by the weight of sensa- ti... ...e getting on top of the mountain and seeing the Pa- cific.’ ‘Silent upon a peak in Dariayn,’ murmured the Italian, lifting her face for a moment from ... .... The heavy gold glamour of ap- proaching sunset lay over all the colliery district, and the ugliness overlaid with beauty was like a narcotic to the ... ...of labour and maleness, surcharged in the air. But it was universal in the district, and therefore unnoticed by the in- habitants. T o Gudrun, however... ...tral people, whilst, on the other side of the barrier, pallid officials in peaked caps and moustaches were turning the underclothing in the bags, then... ...me forth at last in a little high table-land of snow, where stood the last peaks of snow like the heart petals of an open rose. In the midst of the la... ... and at the end, like the navel of the earth, a white-folded wall, and two peaks glimmering in the late light. Straight in front ran the cradle of sil...

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...a manly respectful voice. This, too, was a novel and touching sight to me. Peaked ridges of purple mountains rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre ... ...churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp peaks of the hills, shone brightly in the sun. The sight was delightfully c... ... the town spread beneath. Round this wide, yellow, barren plain,—a stunted district of olive-trees is almost the only vegetation visible— there rises,... ...ere on a tower, from which the descent would be very easy, but for the big peak of the saddle. A good way for the inexperienced is to put a stick or u... ... way for the inexperienced is to put a stick or umbrella across the saddle peak again, so that it is next to im- possible to go over your horse’s neck... ...ure of the country we had to traverse. Before we got to the real mountain district, we were in a manner prepared for it, by the mounting and descent ... ..., up and down which our rough stony track wound. Then we entered the hill district, and our path lay through the clattering bed of an ancient stream,... ...neyards, such as we see now thriving along the hills of the Rhine. Now the district is quite deserted, and you ride among what seem to be so many petr... ...n. There is a shady resting-place and village in the midst of the mountain district where the travellers are accustomed to halt for an hour’s repose a...

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...turn the scale at a critical moment on the top of an Alpine pass, with the peaks of the Bernese Oberland for mute and solemn witnesses? His glance, hi... ...ve minutes; then without look- ing back he stopped. The shadows of distant peaks were lengthening over the Furca Pass. When I came up to him he turned... ...alicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good 41 Joseph Conrad ... ...ussian fashion, stood drawn up on one side, with the police captain of the district sitting in it, the vizor of his flat cap with a red band pulled do... ...was returned to this prayer, but one day at dusk the police captain of the district drove up to the house and told my uncle’s valet, who ran out to me... ... captain, a native of Great Russia, had been for many years serving in the district. My uncle unfolded and read the document. It was a service order i... ...eir breasts. They displayed a great variety of caps: cloth, wool, leather, peaks, ear-flaps, tassels, with a picturesque round beret or two pulled dow... ...e three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peak caps—I suppose all her officers. There are ships I have met more than ...

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...lded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell-girdles; swell out in starched ruffs, buck- ram st... ...idents of walking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic- arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an... ...rlyle ell long, which hang bobbing over the side (schief): their shoes are peaked in front, also to the length of an ell, and laced on the side with t... ...en the wooden shoes have their ell-long noses: some also clap bells on the peak. Fur- ther, according to my authority, the men have breeches without s... ...ority, the men have breeches without seat (ohne Gesass): these they fasten peakwise to their shirts; and the long round doublet must overlap them. “Ri... ...er reach the Entepfuhl Circulating Library, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explanation. Nay, since Books, like in...

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... ests remained untouched. Indeed, the whole world even in its most crowded districts was filthy with flies and swarming with needless insect life to a... ...ruck across coun- try to Winchester, fearing to approach the bomb-poisoned district round London, and at Winchester he had the luck to be taken on as ... ... The cathedral bells, which had been silent ever since I had come into the district, were beginning, with a sort of rheumatic difficulty, to ring. Pre... ...the monetary and credit sys- tems. These had to be brought into the famine districts very 132 The World Set Free speedily if entire depopulation was ... ...itadel of porcelain, that gothic pile, the Lio Porgyul, walls, towers, and peaks, a clear twelve thousand feet of veined and splintered rock above the... ...tered rock above the river. And beyond it and east- ward and westward rise peaks behind peaks, against the dark blue Himalayan sky. Far away below to ... ...and the great hole in the east of London scarcely matters. That was a poor district and very like the north and the south… . It will be possible to re... ... in want of any attention, that he mused very deeply. The white and purple peaks against the golden sky sank down into cold, blue remoteness, glowed o...

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...ckening and swelling upward, en- wrap the scored bodies of the ashen-faced peaks and the pas- tures of the green mountain, till the heights become isl... ...nte Boscero is un- veiled; the semicircle of the Piedmontese and the Swiss peaks, covering Lake Orta, behind, on along the Ticinese and the Grisons, l... ...is humour more readily than the rest, and affected to inspect the Grisons’ peak through a diminutive opera-glass. “No, he is not there.” “Perhaps, my ... ...ing among their branches. Italy shone about her; the lake, the plains, the peaks, and the shouldering flushed snowridges. Carlo Ammiani breathed as on... ...ighings for English ale, and namings of the 42 Vittoria visible ranges of peaks, and indicatings of geographical fin- gers to show where Switzerland ... ...he Piaveni family, then in Giacomo’s hands, were in a famous cheese-making district, producing a delicious cheese:—’white as lambkins!’ the count woul... ...ffee and sweet bread, and new green-streaked stracchino, the cheese of the district, which was the morning meal of the fugitives. Giacinta, who had ne... ...s- ited by Colonel Zofel. Vittoria and Laura received an order to quit the district of Meran before sunset. The two firebrands dropped no tears. “I re... ...ere 307 George Meredith reaping the white flag of the inhabitants of that district. Thitherward his cry of “Down with the Tedeschi!” led the boiling ...

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...b, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine. She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel. Out of the dusk her v... ... the Pres- byterian glare of all the Ioway schoolma’ams, and I leaped from peak to peak like the nimble chamoys, and— You may think that Herr Doctor K... ... Miss Sherwin confided her latest scheme—moral motion pictures for country districts, with light from a portable dynamo hitched to a Ford engine. Bea ... ...n and see me any time. I hope Will is well? I thought he looked a wee mite peaked.” It was twenty minutes later when Mrs. Bogart finally oozed out of ... ...much about the doc as she does about her clothes, the doc wouldn’t look so peaked.” Spit. Silence. “Yuh. Juanita’s always talking about her, too,” fro... ... say to my writing to the Lake Ojibawasha Club, telling them that if their district will support Mrs. Warren for sec- ond vice-president, we’ll suppor... ... between two snow-drifts. They drove from the natural prairie to a cleared district which twenty years ago had been forest. The country seemed to stre... ...ough to study the machinery in the mills, or go through all these outlying districts. Wonder folks in Gopher Prairie wouldn’t use their legs and explo... ...o how many of them the Thanatopsis and the Jolly Seventeen were icy social peaks; how many of them might be toiling through boredom thicker than her o...

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...n really invaluable. I feel now that I am quite to all intents working the district. People ask me about their chil- dren coming to school. I know alm... ... of hypocrisy, filthiness, and wickedness (as I suppose there are in every district); and yesterday I had a very hard-work- ing and in one case most p... ...sition hastily. As a mat- ter of fact, he reads in very few cottages in my district; tracts he distributes almost everywhere. ‘Now I see of course the... ...use my view is necessarily unformed, the natural order of things in such a district as this seems to be: gain the affections of the people by gentlene... ...r earliest infancy, and among his relations the grief was great. As to the district of Alfington, the distress was extreme. The people had viewed Mr. ... ...Espiritu Santo. A grand mountainous chain runs along the whole island, the peaks we estimate at 4,000 feet high. This alone is a fine sight—luxuriant ... .... This alone is a fine sight—luxuriant vegetation to nearly the top of the peaks, clouds resting upon the summit of the range, from the evaporation ca... ...y evening prayers. Up at 5.30 A.M., and walked up a part of the Sugar Loaf peak, from which the island de- rives its English name, and found a small c... ...to the Auckland harbour, be- tween the island of Eangitoto with its double peak and the easternmost point of the northern shore of the harbour, lies a...

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...e, there can be no mistake as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is connected with civil... ...f the picture he has drawn. Otsego has now become one of the most populous districts of New York. It sends forth its emigrants like any other old regi... ...rms.” —Thomson. NEAR THE CENTRE of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, t... ...ent which flows from unfettered liberty of conscience. In short, the whole district is hourly exhibiting how much can be done, in even a rugged countr... ...t gushed from the outlet and was winding its way toward the distant Chesa- peake—the altered, though still remembered, scenes of her child hood. Five ... ... having laid aside his hat and wig, and substituted for the latter a warm, peaked woollen nightcap, took his seat very quietly on one end of the sette... ...er the head of an Indian chief at the council fire. Well, there’s the High-peak and the Round-top, which lay back like a father and mother among their... ...mnize. You go right down into the valley that lies to the east of the High Peak, where, in the fall of the year, thousands of acres of woods are befor... ...was a good shot, consid’ring that I could see nothing but the head and the peak of its tail. Hah! who goes there?” “How goes it, Natty?” said Mr. Dool...

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...a and his struggle with the Bisse; the two went to Zermatt and did several peaks and crossed the Theodule, and it was clear that their joint expeditio... ...ecame sick with de- sire for the forests of Brazil, and the Pacific, and—a peak in Darien. Immediately the school was frowsty beyond endur- ance, and ... ... heaths and gorse beyond Liphook, and thence he had wandered into a pretty district beset with Hartings. He had found himself upon a sandy ridge looki... ...en feminine beauty does not yet prevail with them, pelt. Also in Mahometan districts they pelt men who do not wear fezzes, while occasionally Christia... ...their way, and always ahead of them, purple and sullen, the great mountain peak with La Ferriere upon its crest rose slowly out of the background unti...

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...ry long, serious upper lip, and the sun now shining in upon us between two peaks, put his pocket-handkerchief over his cocked hat to shelter him. Ther... ...good reasons to give him on all hands, naming the force of troops in every district, and alleging finally (as well as I could understand) that we shou... ..., like a place not lived in; only in one of the top windows, there was the peak of a nightcap bobbing up and down and back and forward, like the head ...

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...e towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of for- est rising fro... ...re tatters the naked crags of precipices above the wooded slopes, hide the peaks, smoke in stormy trails across the snows of Higuerota. The Cordillera... ...r the magnificent and inaudible strain sung by the sunset amongst the high peaks of the Sierra. It had sung itself out into the breathless pause of de... ...nd occasion to allude to Mrs. Gould’s house so frequently amongst the high peaks of the Sierra. She would have protested that she had done nothing for... ...ted of a robbery with violence on a wealthy ran- chero in a remote country district, where he was ac- tually exercising the function of a judge. Now, ... ...dust of the road lying on his boots, on his shoulders, on his cap with two peaks. Water dripped from under it all over his face, and he grasped a thic... ...made his acquaintance in an old historic German town, situated in a mining district. The American had his womankind with him, but seemed lonely while ... ...ague right of forest exploitation 63 Joseph Conrad in a remote and savage district, and the San Tome Concession, which had attended his poor father t... ...n towns, and with the ca- balleros on the estates. The commandantes of the districts offered him escorts—for he could show an authorization from the S...

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... woman like Diana 77 George Meredith Warwick having an attachment to this district, so hard of yield, mucky, featureless, fit but for the rails she s... ... of waters below for a home scene, 137 George Meredith the southern Swiss peaks, with celestial Monta Rosa, in pros- pect. It was there that Diana re... ...r they were unaware of his religious obligation, following the hour of the district, to inform them of the tardy hour of Rome. They waited in suspense... ...wallow it, and now, you see, she’s perfectly honoured. I know a place on a peak of the Mari- time Alps, exquisite in summer, cool, perfectly solitary,... ...ntly, no doubt-assuredly quite innocently; and her husband had quitted the district. Still it was rather childish for a woman to-be always haunting th... ... a sum for the purchase of The Crossways. Con- sidering the out-of-the-way district, Mr. Braddock thought it an excellent price to get. She thought th...

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...turn the scale at a critical moment on the top of an Alpine pass, with the peaks of the Bernese Oberland for mute and sol- emn witnesses? His glance, ... ...five minutes; then without looking back he stopped. The shadows of distant peaks were lengthening over the Furca Pass. When I came up to him he turned... ...alicia. And the letter went on to tell me how all the bereaved poor of the district, Christians and Jews alike, had mobbed the good doctor’s coffin wi... ...ussian fashion, stood drawn up on one side with the police- captain of the district sitting in it, the vizor of his flat cap with a red band pulled do... ...was returned to this prayer, but one day at dusk the police-captain of the district drove up to the house and told my uncle’s valet, who ran out to me... ...-captain, a native of Great Russia, had been for many years serving in the district. My uncle unfolded and read the document. It was a service order i... ...eir breasts. They displayed a great variety of caps: cloth, wool, leather, peaks, ear- flaps, tassels, with a picturesque round beret or two pulled do... ...e three others, bulky in thick blue jackets, ruddy-faced, muffled up, with peaked caps—I sup- pose all her officers. There are ships I have met more t...

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... tall pile called the White Tower; this, with its banners, stood out above the dense bank of vapour as a mountain-peak projects above a cloud- rack. T... ...d who even claimed to be his father, indi- cated that his home was in one or another of the poor- est and meanest districts of London. Would the searc... ...was growing old. He was near the river, and in the coun- try; it was a region of fine rural seats—not the sort of district to welcome clothes like his...

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...ard, for what I know, the white head of Shasta looking down on Oregon. Three counties, Napa County, Lake County, and Sonoma County, march across its c... ...nd rattle-snakes, and former mining operations, are the staple of men’s talk. Agriculture has only begun to mount above the valley. And though in a fe... ...ootway, bridging one marish spot after another. Here and there, as we ascended, we passed a house embowered in white roses. More of the bay became ap-... ...e buck-eye, the maple; he showed me the crested moun- tain quail; he showed me where some young redwoods were already spiring heavenwards from the rui... ...mmed the canyon up, was a crea- ture of man’s handiwork, its material dug out with a pick and powder, and spread by the service of the tracks. But nat...