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...ich as the reader probably knows—was that of a blacksmith. As for external polish, or mere courtesy of manner, he never pos sessed more than a tolera... ...my death with a pair of wet slippers! And when the verses are written, and polished quite to your mind, I will favor you with my idea as to what the g... ...coarse, forth putting freedom of expression, which no de gree of external polish could have abated one single jot. Not that it was vulgar. But he had... ...rvatives, the writers of “The North Ameri can Review,” the merchants, the politicians, the Cambridge men, and all those respectable old blockheads wh... ...be. And still I could not but ac knowledge that, for personal beauty, for polish of manner, for all that externally befits a gentleman, there was har... ... seemed to rebound, however, from his courteous visage, like an arrow from polished steel. They all three descended the stairs; and when I likewise re...

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... of enterprise. The written portions of this book were already in a highly polished state. They combined a limitless freedom of pro- posal with a smoo... ... Coal owners who think only of themselves, solicitors who think backwards, politicians who think like a game of cat’s- cradle, not a gleam of generosi... ...utomobile, produced an en-tout- cas pocket-handkerchief and set himself to polish the lamps with great assiduity. The two gentlemen lingered at the tu... ... girl might find a considerable variety of active, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men o...

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...n the social class which is primitively venatorial still, canine under its polish. She held a brief for her beloved Ireland. She closes a dis- cussion... ...dividuals entertaining us.’ ‘Yet you admit that your railways are rapidly “polishing off” the individual.’ ‘They will spread the metropolitan idea of ... ...ew of a bowered source and of a pool under a chain of cascades, bounded by polished shelves and slabs. The very spot for him, he decided at the first ... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...State would have been improved had she retained the work to brood over it, polish, re-write passages, perfect it. Her musings embraced long dialogues ... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her... ...ame; they did not stamp her mark on him. He was one of the order of highly polished men, igno- rant of women, who are impressed for long terms by temp...

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...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...matter. They had not had the time. They had just negotiated, like the mere politicians they were, for the Nationalist vote. They seemed to hope that b... ...gainst nature and society, and distracted Benham in his contem- plation of Polish agriculture from the windows of the train with turgid sexual liberal... ... going through a mill of steely education, kept close, severely exercised, polished by discussion, she had but the weak training of a not very good sc... ... they are the realities. I want to go now to some quiet corner where I can polish what I have learnt, sort out my accumulations, be undisturbed by the...

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...heerless, sunless room, with the shabby win- dow-curtains, the comfortless polished floor, the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse... ...ry easily acquire the tone of Parisian society. If Mme. de Bargeton needed polish, on the other hand she possessed the native haughtiness of good birt... ...ious scholar, he became the acknowledged head of a school of moralists and politicians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but ... ...despairingly, and went out saying, “I will come back again.” T wo or three politicians were chatting over the convocation of the Chambers and public b... ...orthy little old soul, his father-in-law. All three of these city men were polishing their opera-glasses, and anxiously scanning the house; cer- tain ... ...harity I warn these persons to keep the lenses of their opera-glasses well polished. While Lucien was writing a column which was to set a new fashion ... ...sures of journalism; he knew what it was to forge the epigram, to whet and polish the cold blade to be sheathed in a victim’s heart, to make of the hi...

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...en and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines of polished steel leaped into the glare. In one of the skyscrapers the wires o... ...ect ballroom, its hardwood floor reflecting the charming pageant above its polished surface. Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring op... ...g traffic, the crammed trolleys unloading, and high doorways of marble and polished granite. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in ... ...uickly his car picked up. He felt superior and powerful, like a shuttle of polished steel darting in a vast machine. As always he ignored the next two... ... by downy ashes or by sooty brick; the brass fire-irons were of immaculate polish; and the grenadier andirons were like samples in a shop, desolate, u... ...e, is that they’re willing to take a lot off the snobs and journalists and politicians, while the modern American business man knows how to talk right... ...r in his eyes, a syrup-smooth quickness in his speech, which in- timidated politicians and warned reporters; and in his pres- ence the most intelligen...

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...w face; and above it a cocked hat, that shone so, I thought it was made of polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with bl... ...s glittering and pure as the Temple of Victory; or a discourse of Plato as polished and calm as yonder mystical portico of the Erechtheum:what treasur... ...had been battling, and which had charmed all—from our great statesman, our polished lawyer, our young Oxonian, who sighed over certain passages that h... ...r travellers. I, with them, could see (perhaps it was the preaching of the politicians that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last ... ...ley of Jehoshaphat at the cheap- est rate. We saw the tall form of the old Polish Patriarch, ven- erable in filth, stalking among the stinking ruins o... ...n more black and durable than that with which Psammetichus’s base has been polished. Every one of these jolly faces was on the broad 128 Notes on a J...

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...se. “Well, what if it is tin? That’s not my fault. I told D. H. to make it polished granite. You make me tired!” “Leave us go! Come on, Carrie, leave ... ...est thing in the world!) but it’s a rough diamond, and we need you for the polishing, and we’re ever so humble— ” She stopped for breath and finished ... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful pagani... ...orter, a wooden model of a Swiss chalet which was also a bank for dimes, a polished abalone shell holding one black-headed pin and one empty spool, a ... ...always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reform- ers (and the husbands!) coax u... ...race like the diplomat’s Burberry. His black shoes were blunt and not well polished. His scarf was a stupid brown. He needed a shave. But she forgot h... ...wer part of their faces expressionless, heavy, unappealing. They were like politicians cynically dividing appointments. How could they understand her ...

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...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ... nomenclature and natural history of land-stew- ards as defined by a great Polish noble. “There are,” he said, “two kinds of stewards: he who thinks o... ...ht almost believe those little bones had souls, so brilliant were they, so polished, so transparent, so exquis- itely shaped, disclosed as they were b... ...ecolletee, showed a bo- som and a pair of shoulders that were whitened and polished by the same process employed upon her face; happily, for the sake ... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...at- ing enough for the other. You think perhaps you look intelli- gent and polished; carry your intellect and refinement to mar- ket, and tell me in a... ...of short and somewhat rude sentences, and the style stood in great need of polish and sustained dignity; yet such as it was, I had hitherto seen nothi... ... some momentous event sounded all through the premises of Pelet: painters, polishers, and up- holsterers were immediately set to work, and there was t... ...pressed her hap- piness at making his acquaintance in French. The pure and polished accent, the low yet sweet and rather full voice, pro- duced their ... ...oo, at a glance. The room was so clean and bright, it looked like a little polished cabinet; a glass filled with flowers in the cen- tre of the table,... ...one thought, whose talk is of free trade. The foreign visi- tors, too, are politicians; they take a wider theme—European progress—the spread of libera...

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... Then for days, Ursula saw the persistent, obtrusive birds as stout, short politicians lifting up their voices from the platform, little men who must ... ...large bay windows were naked, the floor was stripped, and a border of dark polish went round the tract of pale boarding. In the faded wallpaper were d... ...as a man who did not like work, and we had no mother. We lived in Austria, Polish Austria. How did we live? Ha!—somehow! Mostly in a room with three o...

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... twenty years, he was at last to marry, getting his death in so doing, the Polish Madame Hanska. These, with some relations of the last named, especia... ...s its heraldry, its nobles and commonalty , its artisans and peasants, its politicians and dan- dies, its army—in short, a whole world of its own. Aft...

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...he beak of a bird of prey, the clear, cold eye, the gentle voice—she is as polished as the steel of a machine, she touches everything except the heart... ..., Lavienne strewed straw on the wet floor. By long use the benches were as polished as varnished mahogany; at the height of a man’s shoulders the wall... ... in rows, lengthwise, in front of the shelves; and that floor had not been polished for two years. The tables and shelves were covered with ex votos, ... ...to the use of ice instead of water, and nothing but cold food, by a famous Polish lady of our day who spends a life, now verg- ing on a century old, a... ...e faithful who surrounded her the importance of a coterie. A few dam- aged politicians whose wounds she had bound up, and whom she flattered, pronounc... ...l- ter. During the last century a printing establishment had worn down the polished floors, soiled the carved wood, blackened the walls, and altered t...

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...advise while flattering, and dis- guise the advice under the flattery. All politicians who follow this trade have bilious faces; and their constant ha... ... the minister himself; they owed their fortune to their talents; they were politicians. Baudoyer was considered the more able of the two; his position... ...a Scotch paper costing fifteen sous a roll on the walls, brick floors well polished, walnut furniture in the parlor, and a tiny kitchen that was very ... ...y mediocrity to please minds of its own calibre. The Restoration, like the Polish revolution, proved to nations as to princes the true value of a Man,...

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... his own invention. It was to be effected by rays of light striking upon a polished plate of metal. Georgiana assented; but, on looking at the result,... ...rofanation. Emboldened by her indulgence, I threw back the calash from her polished brow, and suffered my fingers, white and delicate as her own, to s... ...r. Among the gentlemen were characters of deserved emi nence—magistrates, politicians, and men of wealth, by whose example religion could not but be ... ...e pets of a day, but whose laurels wither unrenewed amid their hoary hair; politicians, whom some malicious contingency of affairs has thrust into con... ... hues of his attire took a richer depth of coloring; there was a gleam and polish over his whole 114 Mosses from an Old Manse presence betokening the...

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...if,” he continued, “people are stupid enough not to throw off the shop and polish their manners, if they don’t know any better than to mistake the Cou... ... a shabby paper, blue with black flowers. The tiled floor, stained red and polished, was icy to the feet. There was no carpet except for a strip at th... ...s of the clergy. My wife is right; Pierrette is a rough diamond that wants polishing.” “I thought you were a baron,” said Sylvie to the colonel, while... ... In this particular case, this particular old maid carried the day against politicians, lawyers, nota- ries, and all other self-interests. Sylvie dete...

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..., belted with patent leather, bright blue plush breeches, a red waistcoat, polished leather top-boots, a shiny hat with black lacing, and brass button... ...ys no one knew how great a tax on a man’s capital were six francs spent in polish to spread on his boots or shoes, yellow gloves at fifty sous a pair,... ...ckness. A pair of hands as beautiful as ever a Greek sculptor added to the polished arms of a statue grasped Rodolphe’s arm, and their whiteness gleam... ...er Branch were to return,” said he to an old states- man of seventy, “what politicians would they find?”— “Berryer, alone on his bench, does not know ...

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...nd whip, mounted the bare stair- case, long since divested of all paint or polish. Avoiding the door of the principal room, he opened another at the s... ... on his cheek and eye, but with his usual soft, modulated intona- tion and polished language, the distinctness and delibera- tion taking off all air o... ...abel!’ cried a bright voice, and a girl of fourteen came skating along the polished oak corridor. ‘Come and have some tea in the school-room, and tell... .... It was mere rubbish, without the point, which was too strong for the two politicians; rubbish, any way. Don’t tell me to go on with it; it was a mer... ...d, if Charlotte be a girl worth having, she’ll value that more than French polish. You’re getting polished, too, Tom, and will more as you get better ... ... polished, too, Tom, and will more as you get better and sounder, and that polish will be true and not French.’ Meantime Charlotte had been in twenty ...

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...e world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre: but the more judicious politicians of this microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Wav... ...ty Years sooner than he did, he would, in all probability, have wanted the polished man- ner and knowledge of the world which he now possessed; and ha... ...hen, wheel- ing out beneath from among the smooth dark rocks, which it had polished for ages, it wandered murmuring down the glen, forming the stream ... ... with the royal Adventurer. Unaccustomed to the address and man- ners of a polished court, in which Charles was eminently skil- ful, his words and his... ...had also given his man- ners some peremptory hardness, notwithstanding the polish which they had received from his intimate acquaintance with the high...

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...ad received at that time to write the history of the King, was employed to polish and ornament his pleas. Nothing was left undone by M. de Luxembourg ... ...e Prince’s suite, was present, but had been ill. There was drinking in the Polish fashion, and he tried to be let off. The Prince pleaded for him; but... ...moreover, bold, audacious, talk- ing loudly and always with authority; was polished, how- ever, and of good manners when she pleased. Being the most i... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ...e had at first been merely suffered, but in which she soon shone, had much polished; and ornamented with knowledge of the world, and which gallantry h... ...lasted some time, being appeased, the Regent thanked the company in brief, polished, and majes- tic terms; declared with what care he would employ for...