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...t, and has preserved to the present day. Einstein’s idea of a ‘gravitational red-shift’ is a complete blunder not only because he used Newton’s obs... ...exactly like the living continent of Africa was sliced apart. So we could eat red meat. What is hatred? It is: ate red, the hatred of red blood. ... ... meat. What is hatred? It is: ate red, the hatred of red blood. If you eat red meat: you will become a hater. All living things will hate you, a... ...iving things will hate you, and you will hate yourself. All species that eat red meat hate other species, and their own species and each other, and... ...state of raw rage when the first human apes became so angry: all they saw was red. War spelled backwards is raw. War is the RAWR growl of the kill... ...c. The slightest sign of a lack of fear was a sign for knights or samurai or Cossacks to come in the knight, and drag out the screaming terrified in...

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...dsummer, the hay harvest was over and they were just beginning to reap the rye. At that season of the year there is a delightful variety of flowers --red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with their bright yellow centers and pleasant spicy smell;...

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... rye. At that season of the year there is a delightful variety of flowers —red, white, and pink scented tufty clover; milk-white ox-eye daisies with t... ...panulas with white and lilac bells, tulip-shaped; creeping vetch; yellow , red, and pink scabious; faintly scented, neatly arranged purple plaintains ... ...he newly opened blossoms bright blue in the sunshine but growing paler and red- der towards evening or when growing old; and delicate almond-scented d... ...ke the stump of a mutilated arm. Each of the other two bore a flower, once red but now blackened. One stalk was broken, and half of it hung down with ... ...asy old beshmet and a night- cap, rose from under the sheepskin. His moist red eye- lids had no lashes, and he blinked to get them unstuck. Hadji Mura... ...ntinually , and asks only to be allowed to ride out accompanied by several Cossacks—the sole recreation and exercise possible for him and made nec- es... ...He asks to be sent back to Grozny with a convoy of twenty or thirty picked Cossacks who would serve him as a protection against foes and us as a guara... ...y is in all re- spects suitable. 73 Tolstoy “Besides the twenty chosen Cossacks who at his own request are to keep close to him, I am also sending... ...dered for the raid consisted of four infantry battalions, two companies of Cossacks, and eight guns. The column marched along the road; and on both si...

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...manager of an estate near T aganrog, in the wild steppe country of the Don Cossacks, and here the boy spent his summers, fishing in the river, and rov... ... unhappy about it. SVIETLOVIDOFF . But I am a man, I am still alive. Warm, red blood is tingling in my veins, the blood of noble ances- tors. I am an ...

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...eas the sol- dier was thirty, and seemed forty at the least. Both wore the red rosette of the officers of the Legion of honor. A few spare locks of bl... ...s muscles, cov- ered by its rich green mantle, everywhere. Brown or green, red or yellow mosses and lichen spread their romantic tints on trees and se... ...esire to enter that singular house. Do you see those window-frames painted red, and the red lines on the doors and shutters? Doesn’t the place look to... ... of bushes, pulled away the cow by its rope. This woman wore on her head a red handkerchief, be- neath which trailed long locks of hair in color and ... ...several inches, exposed her legs. She might have belonged to some tribe of Red-Skins described by Cooper, for her legs, neck, and arms were the color ... ... passage of the Beresina?” “Yes,” replied d’Albon, “he was captured by the Cossacks and kept for five years in Siberia; he re- covered his liberty a f...

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...stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nes... ...n them. These were the Gauls, a tall strong, brave people, long limbed and red-haired, of the same race as the highlanders of Scotland. They had gradu... ...eheld men or stat- ues. A wondrous scene it must have been, as the brawny, red-haired Gauls, with freckled visage, keen little eyes, long broad sword,... ...gged edge of a huge basin or gulf; the houses and walls were built of dark-red and black material that once had flowed from the crater in boiling tor-... ...se; or, if the animals were cowed or sullen, their rage would be worked up—red would be shown to the bulls, white to boars, red- hot goads would be dr... ...all, it was mixed with much of iron. Major Kascambo, with a guard of fifty Cossacks, was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, o... ...ast shots, when the Tchetchenges made a Russian de- serter call out to the Cossacks that they would let them all escape provided they would give up th... ...gage, had been hidden in a ravine, and now, instead of retreating with the Cossacks, came to join his master. All the baggage was, however, in- stantl... ...ery nearly killed by the sus- picious Tchetchenges on one side, and by the Cossacks on the other, as a deserter. He saved a young man of the tribe fro...

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... all that morn- ing, but the hands he rubbed together vigorously were very red and imparted to me a chilly feeling by their mere aspect. He has remain... ...w of casks ranged on the frozen ground and the tail end of a great cart. A red- nosed carter in a blouse and a woollen night-cap leaned against the wh... ...n the plains as I saw it in the travels of my childhood. It set, clear and red, dipping into the snow in full view as if it were setting on the sea. I... ... life and death than if it had been an encounter with a tiger. A picket of Cossacks was sleeping in that village lost in the depths of the great Lithu... ...s army would have per- 33 Joseph Conrad ished honourably on the points of Cossacks’ lances, or per- chance escaping the chase would have died decentl... ...he world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, silver-white whiskers, his innocently eager and triump... ...ued by his interference. Three or four men, however, were talking with the Cossacks at the door. “And you don’t think your master has gone to join the... ...sants in the study put on their caps and began to smile at each other. The Cossacks rode away, passing through the yards of the home farm straight int... ...light my little cousin in a short skirt of a tartan pattern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess at- tended by the women of her own hou...

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...ck all that morning, but the hands he rubbed together vigorously were very red and imparted to me a chilly feeling by their mere aspect. He has remain... ...w of casks ranged on the frozen ground and the tail-end of a great cart. A red-nosed carter in a blouse and a woollen nightcap leaned against the whee... ...n the plains as I saw it in the travels of my childhood. It set, clear and red, dipping into the snow in full view as if it were set- ting on the sea.... ... life and death than if it had been an encounter with a tiger. A picket of Cossacks was sleeping in that village lost in the depths of the great Lithu... ...he world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, sil- ver-white whiskers, his innocently eager and triu... ...nning of the rebellion in that part of the country, a squadron of scouting Cossacks passed through the village and invaded the homestead. Most of them... ...ued by his interference. Three or four men, however, were talking with the Cossacks at the door. “And you don’t think your master has gone to join the... ...sants in the study put on their caps and began to smile at each other. The Cossacks rode away, passing through the yards of the home farm straight int... ...ght my little cousin in a short skirt of a tartan pat- tern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess attended by the women of her own house...

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... and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, w... ... past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen fo... ..., his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red tipt wings and yel low tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feat... ...sion. Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses, with their luxurious display of red and white; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch coun try tea tabl...

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...er near the carcases of the two horses. Nobody dared to approach till some Cossacks of a street-patrol gal- loped up and, dismounting, began to turn o... ...is wizened little face, tied up under the jaw and over the ears in a dirty red handkerchief, looked comical. Pres- ently he grew sulky, and then all a... ...” In the middle of the snow-covered roadway blazed a great bon- fire. Some Cossacks, the bridles of their horses over the arm, were warming themselves... ...llowy chin which trembled slightly as he spoke, and his nose nipped bright red by the sharp air looked like a false nose of painted cardboard between ...

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...all piece of his ear, and another a fragment of flesh from his shoulder. A red and unclouded sun setting into a purple ocean looked with a fiery stare... ... hung down black as ebony against her white cheeks; her lips were full and red. Beyond her he saw another head with long grey hair, and a thin old fac... ...ns burst- ing out in the ruins of destroyed villages dotted the plain with red fires; and the sounds of distant lam- entations, the cries of Misericor... ...y of a soldier.“ I noticed at the first glance that his face, already very red, wore an ex- pression of high good-humour. “‘Aha! Señor teniente,’ he c... ...ognized principle of conduct and policy. Who does not remember his flaming red revo- lutionary pamphlets? Their sudden swarmings used to overwhelm the... ...re march of strug- gling corpses towards a distant grave. Only an alarm of Cossacks could restore to their eyes a semblance of martial resolution. The... ...of cavalry, they found themselves cut off in the woods by a small party of Cossacks. A score of fur- capped, hairy horsemen rode to and fro, brandish-... ...a direct charge. Two carefully aimed shots rang out in the frosty air, two Cossacks reeled in their saddles. The rest, not thinking the game good enou... ... keen as ever. You should have seen me in Russia picking off the dodg- ing Cossacks with a beastly old infantry musket. I have a natural gift for fire...

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...papers with an infinite number of tickets hanging from them at the ends of red tape, which give a peculiar physiognomy to law papers. The lower rows w... ... my wife had, of course, been fruitless. “At last I entered Paris—with the Cossacks. To me this was grief on grief. On seeing the Russians in France, ... ...as struck by the appearance of the stamps—long, square, and triangular, in red and blue ink, which distinguished a letter that had come through the Pr... ...pported a cross beam with a penthouse coping of tiles, and on the beam, in red letters, were the words, “Vergniaud, dairyman.” To the right of this in... ...sed in blue cloth with white linen, and wore under his waistcoat the broad red ribbon of the higher grade of the Legion of Honor. In resuming the habi... ... bet an evening at the play that Colonel Chabert is a General, and wears a red ribbon?” 45 Balzac “The chief is a great magician,” said Godeschal. “T...

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...first went to India in 1802, I was a raw cornet of seventeen, with blazing red hair, six feet four in height, athletic at all kinds of exercises, owin... ... sugar-loaf buttons, rhubarb-coloured leather inexpressibles (tights), and red morocco boots with silver spurs and tassels, set off to admiration the ... ...he was a hideous, bloated, yellow creature, with a beard, black teeth, and red eyes: she was fat, lying, ugly, and stingy—she hated and was hated by a... ...ared, snapped, and ground her teeth, like an enraged monkey. Julia was now red, now white; the Colonel stretched forward, took the fork out of the cal... ...service.” Gahagan. “He was found lying upon the bodies of nine-and- twenty Cossacks at Borodino. They were all dead, and bore the Gahagan mark.” Napol... ... and won the battle of Delhi!” As the Emperor spoke, his pale cheek glowed red, his eye flashed fire, his deep clear voice rung as of old when he poin...

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...g years of toil, is suggested by some larger houses farther on, with their red roofs of flat round tiles, shaped like the scales of a fish. There is n... ...direction. The door opened, and an old servant put out his head. He wore a red woolen bonnet, exactly like the Phrygian cap in which Lib- erty is tric... ... On the farther bank of the river, at the foot of a mountain, with a faint red glow of sunset upon its highest crest, Genestas caught a glimpse of a d... ...high cheek-bones. The lines of the mouth were crooked; the lips, thick and red. The chin turned sharply upwards. There was an alert, animated look in ... ...already, the veins on his protu- berant nose, the tanned face covered with red blotches, ev- erything about him, in short, indicated a man of fifty an... ... cry the Russians, and there is all Russia as- sembled, a lot of brutes of Cossacks, that you never can come up with! It was country against country, ... ...lzac was pitiful to see it. We were the last to return—he and I. A body of Cossacks appeared in our way, and on this we rode in hot haste. One of the ... ...en the first fury of anger left me, and I went back again—he was dead. The Cossacks had set fire to the town, and the thought of Judith then came to m...

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...filled and blocked his mind. Every time the lightning flashed, there was a red light in Benham’s eyes… . It was only three days after when Prothero di... ...y his feet came out from un- der the engine that he must be dead. And dark red stains with bright red froth— “Of course! “There again the chief feelin... ...our of martyrs, on the self-torture of Hindoo ascetics, of the defiance of Red In- dian prisoners. “These things,” Benham had written, “are much more ... ...he went on upward through the fresh morn- ing, until just as the east grew red with sunrise, he reached the cart-track from which he had strayed overn... ...s your game. Have you begun it?” She lay among splashes of sunshine on the red cushions in the punt, a little curled-up figure of white, with her swee... ...he Near Things that concern himself.” “The bombs they threw yesterday? The Cossacks and the whips?” “Nudges. Gestures of inattention. If everybody was... ...all swal- lowed up again in their own business. They just looked up as the Cossacks galloped past; they just shifted a bit when the bullets spat….” An...

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... old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some ge... ...o, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci- de... ...was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a heroine; but her face blushed with rosy health, and her lips with... ...oots, with several immense neckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as ... ...ring at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his yellow face would allow him. “I can’t make you such handsome pre... ... refuse to play the wicked parts, such as those of infames Anglais, brutal Cossacks, and what not, and prefer to appear at a smaller salary, in their ...

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...815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees swarmed with bril- liant English equipag... ...). “Don’t you see that creature with a yellow thing in her tur- ban, and a red satin gown, and a great watch?” “Near the pretty little woman in white?... ...of anger succeeded, and from being deadly pale before, her face flushed up red, and she returned Rebecca’s look after a moment with a steadiness which... ...and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous... ...rstood, the former produced from an inclosure a letter sealed with a large red seal. “My son, Major Dobbin,” the 105 Thackeray Alderman said, with so... ...ak on the 16th of June, and just before he took leave of Amelia. The great red seal was emblazoned with the sham coat of arms which Osborne had assume...

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...riot over the mountain-tops,—that is the peal; wrath- ful he “blows in his red beard,”—that is the rustling storm- blast before the thunder begins. Ba... ...ness, sword of sharpness, he is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from N... ...ng a certain haven, it is found that a stranger, of grave eyes and aspect, red beard, of stately robust figure, has stept in. The courtiers address hi... ...nd nothing more. You remember that first view he gets of the Hall of Dite: red pinnacle, red-hot cone of iron glowing through the dim immensity of glo... ...an speak! The Czar of all the Russias, he is strong with so many bayonets, Cossacks and cannons; and does a great feat in keeping such a tract of Eart... ... must learn to speak. He is a great dumb monster hitherto. His cannons and Cossacks will all have rusted into nonentity, while that Dante’s voice is s... ...the history of these T wo. WE HAVE HAD MANY CIVIL WARS in England; wars of Red and White Roses, wars of Simon de Montfort; wars enough, which are not ...

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...among Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims, or those orien- tal ones crossing the Red Sea towards Mecca in the festival month, there was no lack of variety. ... ... that must be in the summer only, old boy. How about winter, when the cold Cossacks come clattering and jingling? How about winter, old boy?” 11 Melv... ... a party at whist; two cream-faced, giddy, unpolished youths, the one in a red cravat, the other in a green, opposed to two bland, grave, handsome, se... ...the side of the nose, and who, for coolness’ sake, had been sitting in his red-flannel shirt-sleeves, his coat thrown across one shoulder, the darned ... ...ians. Then there’s Massasoit, and Philip of Mount Hope, and T ecumseh, and Red-Jacket, and Logan-all heroes; and there’s the Five Nations, and Araucan... ...e degree ceased with it. He wonders why the backwoodsman still regards the red man in much the same spirit that a jury does a murderer, or a trapper a...

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... old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some ge... ...o, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci- de... ...was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a heroine; but her face blushed with rosy health, and her lips with... ...oots, with several immense neckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as ... ...ring at the poker and tongs, puffing and blowing the while, and turning as red as his yellow face would allow him. “I can’t make you such handsome pre... ... refuse to play the wicked parts, such as those of infames Anglais, brutal Cossacks, and what not, and prefer to appear at a smaller salary, in their ... ...and had a little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous...

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...ne another; it is no simple story of white passions struggling against the red that I have to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed ... ...mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze that came out of my unguarded nature and closed my career for eve... ...ory. I was given, I forget by what benefactor, certain particularly fierce red In- dians of lead—I have never seen such soldiers since—and for these m... ...catastrophes. Like Noah I was given warnings. Did I disregard them, coarse red hands would descend, pluck- ing garrisons from fortresses and sailors f... ...so a white new church in commercial Gothic upon the common, and another of red brick in the residential district out beyond the brickfields towards Ch... ...will. “Good God!” I put it to myself, “that I should finish the work those Cossacks had begun! I who want order and jus- tice before everything! There...