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...ur; the wind blew steadily, with occasional squalls. For my part, I had never been in a canoe under sail in my life; and my first experiment out in th... ...e are all for tootling on the sentimental flute in literature; and not a man among us will go to the head of the march to sound the heady drums. It wa... ...up the Scheldt and thereafter up the Rupel; and we were run- ning pretty free when we began to sight the brickyards of Boom, lying for a long way on t... ...spectacles. But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with every minute; until a great 7 The Inland V oyage church with a clock, and a wo... ...y hope they might.) ‘En Angleterre, vous employez des sliding-seats, n’est- ce pas?’ ‘We are all employed in commerce during the day; but in the eveni... ...gainst the wrong. After Hautmont, the sun came forth again and the wind went down; and a little paddling took us beyond the iron- works and through a ...

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...e lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable cli- mate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, some- times floods the country around it, but of w... ... most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the... ...d expose all the crudities of its chan- nel,—a great defect certainly in a river which is so much depended upon to give an air to the places it waters... ...n the other side, as well, the highway constantly keeps it company. A wide river, as you follow a wide road, is excellent company; it 6 A Little Tour... ... de Ville and the Musee, a pair of edifices which directly contemplate the river, and ornamented with marble images of Francois Rabelais and Rene Desc... ...bien qu’il ne s’eveille, Car voicy la premiere nuit, Que le Pauvre Scarron sommeille.” There is rather a quiet, satisfactory place in front of the cat... ...ion of the very hens themselves that they should be promptly served. “Nous sommes en Bresse, et le beurre n’est pas mauvais,” the landlady said, with ...

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...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it ... ...point of the table-land where they unite. Near the same spot rises another river,* which empties itself into the Polar seas. The course of the Mississ... ... miles in its course.** At the distance of 1,364 miles from its mouth this river attains an average depth of fifteen feet; and it is navigated by vess... ...e taxe de cent mille ecus sur le bourgeois; et si on ne trouve point cette somme dans vingt-quatre heures, elle sera doublee et exigible par les solda... ...etter she adds: – “Vous me parlez bien plaisamment de nos miseres; nous ne sommes plus si roues; un en huit jours, pour entretenir la justice. Il est ...

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...ea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the Ger... ... King, that once, when the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat we... ...striking their lances in the earth as they advanced, or throwing them into rivers, in token of their making all the is land theirs. In remembrance of... ...d body of poor Harold Harefoot to be dug up, beheaded, and thrown into the river. His end was worthy of such a beginning. He fell down drunk, with a g... ... the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge upon the river Derwent to give them instant battle. He found them drawn up in a holl... ...oved on with his little force towards Calais. When he came up to the river Somme he was unable to cross, in conse quence of the fort being fortified;... ...th a meet ing between the two Kings, on a temporary bridge over the river Somme, where they embraced through two holes in a strong wooden grating lik...

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... bloody storming of Mounts Podgora and Sabotino on the western side of the river above Goritzia, and simultaneously a crossing at Sagrado below Goritz... ...ugh which one could look down upon the blue trickles of water in the stony river bed far below. The driver of our automobile dis- played what seemed t... ...h hold the town, the Germans hold a northern suburb; at one point near the river the trenches are just four metres apart. This state of tension has la... ... sausage balloon had not been up for days; it had probably gone off to the Somme; the Somme was a terrible vortex just then which was sucking away the... ...This is the grade, Grade B2, to which modern warfare has attained upon the Somme front. The appearance of the T ank has only increased the offensive a... ...n existence. The grade of fighting that I was privileged to witness on the Somme, the grade at which a steady successful offensive is possible, is the... ...ory of the busi- ness, let me go on to tell some of the actualities of the Somme offensive. They key fact upon both British and French fronts was the ... ... last among the forces that is crumpling up the German resistance upon the Somme. I visited some French guns during the tir de demolition phase. I cou... ...d such things were flowing into existence with the swelling abundance of a river that flows out of a gorge, that as the demand for the new development...

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...r, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fiord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plun... ...hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond. That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spe... ...her in every direction, precipices like low walls, lakes reduced to ponds, rivers abbreviated into 79 Jules Verne streams. On my right were numberles... ...ent?” I exclaimed. 107 Jules Verne “There can be no doubt; a subterranean river is flowing around us.” We hurried forward in the greatest excitement.... ... sail.” “Set sail!”—and I almost leaped up. What did it all mean? Had we a river, a lake, a sea to de- pend upon? Was there a ship at our disposal in ... ...e stone quarries of Moulin Quignon, near Abbeville, in the depart- ment of Somme, found a human jawbone fourteen feet be- neath the surface. It was th...

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...om behind ditches, death-vol- leys bursting out of thickets and ravines of rivers; huts burn- ing, feet of the pitiful women hurrying to refuge with t... ...by Guards at each end: all Citizens are ordered to be within doors. On the River float sentinal barges, lest we escape by water: the Barriers her- met... ...xty thou- sand, glittering over the heights, from beyond the winding Meuse River, he looks down on us, on our ‘high citadel’ and all our confectionery... ...francs and odd sous ‘for the necessary quantity of quick- lime!’ (Etat des sommes payees par la Commune de Paris (Hist. Parl. xviii. 231).) Carts go a... ...ing like it: the aspect of it might perhaps be compared to that of a swoln river which has been raging over meadows and fields, and is now again oblig... ...s of bitterness flowing in, from this side and that; till it become a wide river of bitterness, of rage and separation,—which can subside only into th...

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...and Charles the Great Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, K... ...e Of France, and others .] KING OF FRANCE : ’Tis certain he hath pass’d the river Somme. Constable: And if he be not fought withal, my lord, Let us ... ...rance, and others .] KING OF FRANCE : ’Tis certain he hath pass’d the river Somme. Constable: And if he be not fought withal, my lord, Let us not li... ...r, not in theirs. March to the bridge; it now draws toward night: Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves, And on to morrow, bid them march away. [Exe... ...cedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is c... ...d Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but ’tis all one, ’tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and t...

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...That may be natural or not. And at any rate,” rejoined Eugenia, “nous n’en sommes pas la!” They were not, as yet; but a little later, when she be- gan... ...rs together, there were almost no houses; there were nothing but woods and rivers and lakes and hori- zons adorned with bright-looking mountains. It s... ... within sight. There was a wilderness of woods, and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a...

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...her bed had the lattice open, so that she saw a sloping green bank, with a river at the foot; and there was a trim garden between. Opposite to her the... ...Edith grew in love and tenderness at Wilton, and how she loved the gliding river and the flowers in the garden, and how all loved her, her young playm... ... early they heard mass in the convent, and then rode along the bank of the river, with the downs sloping down on the other side, and the grand spire e... ... to have magic power, which fell from the rock. In the distance beyond the river to the southward, Ridley pointed to the tall square tower of Monks We... ... was only a name of a patron saint. The harbour formed by the mouth of the river Wear was a marvel to Grisell, crowded as it was with low, squarely-ri... ...ity on the part of 153 Charlotte M. Young the French on the border of the Somme, and Leonard ex- pected to be despatched to the camp which was being ...

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...was, was commanded by the Marechal de Lorges. No sooner had we crossed the river and come upon the en- emy, than the Marechal fell ill. Although we we... ... title of Christian King was necessary. In the evening, there was upon the river a fine illumination, which Monsieur and Madame went to see. A difficu... ...rialists were enabled to gain time, to strengthen themselves, to cross the rivers without obstacle, to, approach us; and, acquainted with everything a... ...thigh one day in the Seine, near Fontainebleau, where she was bathing. The river was too cold; she wished to warm it, and had a quantity of water heat... ... Danube on horseback attended by a single valet. The valet passed over the river in safety, but his master went to the bottom. Blansac, thus left alon... ...inghen. Notwithstanding the diligence used, the horsemen had traversed the Somme and had gone four leagues beyond Ham-Beringhen, guarded by the office...

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...they were bound to meet Count Arnulf of Flanders, on a little islet in the river Somme, there to come to some agreement, by which Arnulf might make re... ...ere bound to meet Count Arnulf of Flanders, on a little islet in the river Somme, there to come to some agreement, by which Arnulf might make restitut... ... on his little pony, how Osmond would take him to bathe in the cool bright river, and how he had 2 Bernard was founder of the family of Harcourt of N... ..., and ere we could even reach the isle, they were on the other side of the river, mounted their horses, fled with coward speed, and were out of reach ... ...er; but now they were beginning to come nearer the town, he knew the broad river Seine again, and saw the square tower of the Cathedral, and he rememb... ...tower, where they looked at the house-tops of Rouen close beneath, and the river Seine, broadening and glittering on one side in its course to the sea...

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...mellow varied the fields from which the harvest had been lately carried; a river, gliding between the woods, caught on its surface the somewhat cold g... ...m of the October sun and sky; at frequent intervals along the banks of the river, tall, cylindrical chimneys, almost like slender round towers, indi- ... ...was already approaching its close; a chill frost- mist was rising from the river on which X—— stands, and along whose banks the road I had taken lay; ... ...yet arrived; a sound of full-flowing water alone pervaded the air, for the river was deep and abundant, swelled by the melting of a late snow. I stood... ...Kint must sometimes be a little fatigued with their labours. “Des betes de somme,—des betes de somme,” murmured scorn- fully the director. Meantime I ... ... listens awhile to the muffled snow-wind, the remote, swollen sound of the river, and then he speaks. “It is Christmas Eve,” says he, “I mark the date...

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...re. He was glad to be alone. He walked quickly down Villiers Street to the river, to see it flowing blackly towards the sea. It had an endless fascina... ...im and give him a sense of liberty. He liked the night, the dark rain, the river, and even the traffic. He enjoyed the sense of friction he got from t... ... splendidest American mil- lionaire, or all the heroics and marvels of the Somme or the North Pole, that life has now no magnate richer than we, no he... ...om here the view was very beautiful. The hill dropped steep beneath him. A river wound on the near side of the city, crossed by a white bridge. The ci... ...ilence. Only the uneasy birds rustled. He watched the city and the winding river, the bridges, and the imminent Alps. He was on the south side. On the... ...hill he saw over into vineyards, and a new strange valley with a wind- ing river, and jumbled, entangled hills. Strange wild country so near the town....

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...s; they disappeared without a trace, as though they had been thrown into a river by night. At last Lemm had renounced everything; the years too did th... ...h he did not shake off the whole day. “Here I am at the very bottom of the river,” he said to himself more than once. He sat at the window without sti... ...he heart from their noiseless flight. “Here I am at the very bottom of the river,” thought Lavretsky again. “And always, at all times life here is qui... ...etsky might be an “excellent man,” but he was unattractive, aigri, and, en somme, rather ab- surd. Marya Dmitrievna made her appearance escorted by Ge... ...it since he had felt as he had expressed himself at the very bottom of the river? What had changed his position? What had brought him out of his solit...

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... s the packet that can beat them all. “Now the Dreadnought she lies in the River Mersey , Because of the tug-boat to take her to sea; But when she’ s ... ...id Harvey valiantly; and he bawled: “Hi! Say! Arretez vous! Attendez! Nous sommes venant pour tabac.” “ Ah, tabac, tabac!” they cried, and laughed aga... ... and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany to Boston. Indispen... ... the heat of the hills as they turned east to the Needles and the Colorado River. The car cracked in the utter drouth and glare, and they put crushed ... ...e “Constance” into Buffalo and the arms of the New York Central and Hudson River (illustrious magnates with white whiskers and gold charms on their wa...

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... had been very full, and he sat under the great trees beside the miniature river that trickles past the Baden flower- beds, he slowly rummaged it over... ...do for myself at my present respectable age. I am a nice young man, eh, en somme? You can’t warrant my future, as you do your own.” “Drop that girl, s... ...ive action. He simply walked; he walked straight before him, following the river, till he got out of the enceinte of Paris. He had a burning, tingling... ...d beeches, now just faintly green. But the great feature was a wide, green river which washed the foundations of the chateau. The building rose from a... ... steep pinnacles of mossy slate, all mir- rored themselves in the tranquil river. Newman rang at the gate, and was almost frightened at the tone with ... ...e went to one of the great windows, and looked out at the stiffly embanked river and the for- mal gardens which lay beyond it. When he turned round, M...

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...od. We have a large house and garden, the air is excellent, and there is a river close by. Well, would you like to come? We shall only have to come to... ...” “Do please. You may be quite sure … nous offrerons le quidam … mais nous sommes galants avec les dames et avec celle-la donc!” “But you’ve made no a...

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...that a sort of pearl was found in the shells of mussels which lived in the rivers. He could not bear that there should be any place that his own peopl... ...uering Britain till they had won all the part of it that lies south of the river T weed; and, as the people beyond that point were more fierce and sav... ...wounded after his last battle, he bade his friend fling his sword into the river, and that then three lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him aw... ...se kings came to meet him at Chester, and rowed him in his barge along the river Dee. It was the grandest day a king of England enjoyed for many years... ...ined not to fall into her enemy’s hands. It was the depth of win- ter; the river below the walls was frozen over, and snow was on the ground. One nigh... ...ck to everybody. The two kings had an interview on a bridge over the River Somme in France, where they talked through a kind of fence, each being too ...

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...d Fuselli in excitement. “Ain’t yer never seen it before? That’s the Perth River,” said Bill Grey scornfully. “No, I come from the Coast.” They stuck ... ...foot and then on the other, stamping to get warm. On the other side of the river an old man with an oxcart had stopped and was look- ing sadly at the ... ...ylarks, now clattering fast over bridges and along the banks of jade-green rivers where the slim poplars were just coming into leaf and where now and ... ...ee the hills beyond. They lay blue and very peaceful in the moon mist. The river glittered about the piers of the wrecked stone bridge, and disappeare... ...n- side him. “Anything is better than that.” Better throw him- self in the river, even, than go back. He could see the olive- drab clothes in a heap a... ... Henslowe turning round and elevating his glass. “Nous rions parceque nous sommes gris de vin gris.” Then he told them about the man who ate glass. He... ...twice sober and seven other times.” “Cyrano de Bergerac?” “That’s it. Nous sommes les Cadets de Gasgogne, rhymes 230 Three Soldiers with ivrogne and ...

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...s the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communica- tions, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his w... ...UTUZOV FELL BACK toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian tr... ... and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns... ...men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the... ... through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered... ...med to be trying to find the right expression. “C’est… c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackes [It is… it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked],” he concluded, f...

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...e married. Oh! calendar of everlasting months—months that, like the mighty rivers, shall flow on for ever, immortal as thou, Nile, or Danube, Euphrate... ...h him on the shores 86 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers of that ancient river for crocodiles, the Nile, furnished but one moment’s work to the acti... ...cond day, she found herself entering Paita, without having had to swim any river in her walk. The first thing, in such a case of distress, which a you... ...e agreed to join the party. Their ob- ject was the wild one of seeking the river Dorado, whose waters rolled along golden sands, and whose pebbles wer... ...expanding; or like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny... ...tiver la terre, et tout cela à ses propres frais, qui se sont montés à des sommes immenses, sans compter l’argent qu’il a donné à chaque chef- de-fami...

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...ously in our mi- raculous Being, and name World.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by those outwa... ...ardest winter seen since 1709; thermometer below zero of Fahrenheit, Seine River fro- zen over. (Marmontel, Memoires (London, 1805), iv. 33. Hist. Par... ...n levelled on him; ready to open, if need were, from the other side of the River. (Besenval, iii. 416.) Motionless sits he; ‘astonished, ’ one may fla... ...- loping at full speed;’ with a view, it is thought, to fling him into the river Oise, at Pont-Sainte-Mayence. (Weber, ii. 126.) The Polignacs travel ... ...nadic host. Such a host—marched not in silence! The bargeman pauses on the River; all wagoners 160 The French Revolution and coachdrivers fly; men pe... ...at humour Duke de Choiseul might stand waiting, in the Village of Pont-de- Sommevelle, some leagues beyond Chalons, hour after hour, now when the day ... ...Road runs, the agitation is considerable. For all along, from this Pont-de-Sommevelle Northeastward as far as Montmedi, at Post-villages and Towns, es... ... Montmedi and Stenai, through Clermont, Sainte-Menehould to utmost Pont-de-Sommevelle, in all Post-villages; for the route shall avoid Verdun and grea... ...d leave to accumulate and exacerbate for four-and-twenty hours! At Pont-de-Sommevelle, these Forty foreign Hussars of Goguelat and Duke Choiseul are b...

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...e have ever before our eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different sho... ...ewer; or as when the fugitive comes forth at last at evening, by the quiet river- side, and finds the police there also, waiting stolidly for vice and... ...nsive of the three. T o hear a strain of music to see a beautiful woman, a river, a great city, or a starry night, is to make a man despair of his Lil... ...urport. Walden, or Life in the Woods, A W eek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, – such are the titles he affects. He was probably ... ...ux cavez, Et arrachez la barbe et les sourcilz. Jamais, nul temps, nous ne sommes rassis; Puis ca, puis la, comme le vent varie, A son plaisir sans ce... ...between two great mountain fields; but what with the hills, and the racing river, and the fiery Rhone wines, he was little to be pitied on the conditi...

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...oss the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his w... ...UZOV FELL BACK TOW ARD V IENNA, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian tr... ...nd Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian troops were cross- ing the river Enns. At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns... ...n, squeezed his way along; some- times like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the... ... through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered... ...d to be trying to find the right expression. “C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackes [It is... it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked],” he concluded,...

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...wanderings through the old wicked-looking streets on the other side of the river. I am only sorry that my new friends—my French family—do not live in ... ...ed, for me not to feel that I can count upon your sympathy to-day. Nous en sommes nous flanquees des confidences—in those happy days when my first tho...

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...for them. One can live such a gay and charming life without ideals…and, en somme, I’m very glad that I can get on with- out prussic acid. If I were a ... ...e about Azorka, because some horrid boys tried once to drown Azorka in the river outside the town, and mother gave them some money and bought Azorka. ...