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...yable than birth; birth is like the first day of school: embarrassing for a schoolboy in his first primary class. Care should be used in the delivery rooms to soften the shock of birth to newborn children. Those who love and assist a dying person should avoid any dramatic behaviour, that can produce attachment to the subject: this would make him more difficult to die ...

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...acteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in...

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...f divorce, the next best thing is to sleep in separate beds and in separate rooms, so that they can get eight hours of sleep alone aka — personal pa...

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... to those which were bid den, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them. 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, si... ...s in the markets, and the high est seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 47 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long p...

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... up your own way, for all I care. Only my lady will have the young ladies’ rooms kept neat and orderly, or they lose marks for it.’ ‘I don’t want any ... ...‘A report!’ ‘Yes, Nurse Halfpenny reports us whenever she doesn’t find our rooms tidy, and then we get a bad mark. Perhaps mamma wouldn’t give you one... ...Mysie.’ Lady Merrifield here made the move to conduct her sisters to their rooms; Miss Mohun detained her when they had reached hers, and had left Ade... ...en, servants, and all, that prayers were read early, and all went to their rooms. Yet, tired as she was, Lady Merrifield sat on in her sister Jane’ s ... ...pare. It made Dolores sick at heart to go near the waiting and refreshment-rooms where she and Constance had spent all that time with Flinders; but sh... ...m, and declared she would have no messing and gossip- ing in one another’s rooms. Miss Mysie was getting spoilt among strangers. Mysie went down with ...

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...t. “Oh! oh! how lovely! Am I to sleep here? Oh! it is just like the girls’ rooms I always _did_ long to see! Now I shall always be able to think about... ...lum. Some of the girls who went home in the holidays used to describe such rooms to us, but they could never have been so nice as this! Oh! oh! Mrs. B... ...ich they want us to share— rocks and waves and all.” 20 Magnum Bonum “And rooms?” “Yes, very good rooms, enough for us all,” was the answer, flinging... ...m less sorry to go on before, is that I shall be able to judge whether the rooms are comfortable enough for her, and I suppose we may change if they a... ...ence about the three houses, possible, and the rent, garden, and number of rooms. She was very glad when it was over, and the Colonel, say- ing he sho... ... untenanted, but this winter it had been put into complete repair, and two rooms, showing a sublime indifference to consistency of architecture, had b... ...Caroline. “That’s the only way to do it. I can’t bear fusty, shut-up smart rooms, and I think the family room ought to be the pleasantest and pretties... ...ing her on her own responsibility to the dancing les- sons at the assembly rooms. There she electrified the dancing-master, and all behold- ers, seemi... ...fine pictures always horrid?” asked Jessie, in all simplicity. The drawing-rooms, a whole suite—antechamber, saloon, music-room, and card-room, were a...

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...ng post to get off. The hose came up warm and newly pressed from the work- rooms. Paul had made out the invoices. Now he had the packing up and addres... ...n, an old thorn tree was budding. All kinds of strange openings and broken rooms were in the shadow around them. After lunch they set off once more to... ...lliam had previously been, and Miriam. It was great excitement writing for rooms. Paul and his mother debated it endlessly between them. They wanted a... ...ished for him, with the help of Beatrice’s mother, a little cottage of two rooms. He was caught now. It did not matter how he kicked and struggled, he... ...y, and had a certain distinc- tion. There was an air of refinement in both rooms. But Clara was aloof also from her fellow-workers. None of these thin... ...76 Sons & Lovers In the spring they went together to the seaside. They had rooms at a little cottage near Theddlethorpe, and lived as man and wife. Mr... ...ers in his free hand. They could hear the sleepers’ breathing in the other rooms. “Now go to bed,” she murmured, lying quite still under his fingers a... ... the rain and at the sea. “When are you going back?” she asked. “Well, the rooms are taken until to-morrow, so he wants me to stop. He’s going back to...

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...s-lighted, and without shade, which dangle in our most fashionable drawing-rooms, may be cited as the quintessence of all that is false in taste or pr...

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... the Scottish lad begins his greatly different experience of crowded class-rooms, of a gaunt quadrangle, of a bell hourly booming over the traffic of ... ...d local celebrity besides. By an accident, variously explained, it has its rooms in the very buildings of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh: a hall, Turke... ...t pleased him; and wherever he went, in railway carriages or hotel smoking-rooms, his strange, humorous vein of talk, and his transparent honesty, rai... ...b- lic and the world of London, except about the parliamen- tary committee-rooms, he remained unknown. All the time, his lights were in every part of ... ...tation; and my father’s instruments enter anonymously into a hundred light-rooms, and are passed anonymously over in a hundred reports, where the leas...

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...re, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warm ing of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was wa... ...particularly explained; their Advantages above every other Method of warming Rooms demonstrated; and all Objections that have been raised against the ... ...emises; and by dividing the great and lofty hall into stories, and different rooms above and below for the several schools, and purchasing some additi...

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... We have preserved, in an inventory of 1403, the description of tapestried rooms where Charles may have played in childhood.* “A green room, with the ... ... it too closely. We could not let these great folk of old into our drawing-rooms. Queen Elizabeth would posi- tively not be eligible for a housemaid. ...

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...nre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On the surface, this is a conventional haunted house story: an unsuccessful writer moves into rooms in an otherwise empty house, in the hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend and his sanity are all destroyed in t...

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...f that sort very dangerous for the English novelist, the atmosphere captured so supremely well by Thackeray the green-lighted, close-scented gambling rooms, the shabby adventures of half-deserted spas, the shelving beaches of foreign watering-places, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids.... Trollope's most serious attempt t...

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...mind of a reader. They have to dance on the page, forming and reforming until the mind is filled with images conversing with one another in spacious rooms of the imagination. They have to startle with unexpected associations, entice with intimate revelations, seduce with clairvoyant intimations until the soul of the reader is immersed in a world of the writer's creating....

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...se water to spill out of sealed pipes, and can throw objects out of locked rooms through solid walls or doors, also seem to defy our solid, determi...

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... rock music. On the other hand, classical music is frequently piped in to waiting rooms in doctors' offices and other such places where messages cou...

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...a Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other consumer goods in vast rooms in his mansion. As electricity supply was intermittent at ... ... may have lied under oath, but he definitely lied on television and in the spacious rooms of the White House. He lied to his family, to his aides, t...

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...t upon them. Longueville, noting all this, went straight into the gam- ing-rooms; he was curious to see whether his friend, be- ing fond of experiment... ...Vivian and Captain Lovelock. Cap- tain Lovelock has gone with her into the rooms to ex- 23 Henry James plain the gambling—Miss Vivian always wants ev... ...d of powdery light projected from the softly lurid windows of the gam- ing-rooms. “The charm of life is extreme. I am unac- quainted with odious neces... ...rence. “Every now and then,” she said, “I take a turn through the gam- ing-rooms. The last time, Captain Lovelock went with me. Will you come to-night... ...h his position; and, as he walked with her through the lighted and crowded rooms, where they soon detached themselves from their companions, he felt t... ... is pleasant for us here. When we first came we had some very disagreeable rooms, and as soon as he arrived he found us some excellent ones—that were ... ...y like,” said the Captain. “That ‘s why Miss Evers got Mrs. Vivian to take rooms over the baker’s—so that she could have ices sent up several times a ... ...most forsaken of its frequenters. Bernard spent the evening in the gaming- rooms, in the thick of the crowd that pressed about the tables, and by way ... ...uck began at last to attract attention. The rumor of it spread through the rooms, and the crowd about the roulette received a large contingent of spec...

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...ir feet on the prisoners. They often didn‘t let the prisoners sleep and they took away their blankets. Then they locked the prisoners in dark rooms ...

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...ust be prepared for in the usual way. A house must be taken instead of the rooms he at present occupied; and Lydgate, having heard Rosamond speak with... ...le-down farmhouse, where they live in the back kitchen and leave the other rooms to the rats! That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here,... ...r of Mr. Raffles, both of which seemed to have a stale odor of travellers’ rooms in the commercial hotels of that period. “Come, now, Josh,” he was sa... ...nengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-par- lors. But the advantage now was on the side of Rigg, an... ...ad that little discussion with Lydgate. Its effect when he went to his own rooms was to make him sit up half the night, think- ing over again, under a... ...Every morning now she sat with Celia in the prettiest of up-stairs sitting-rooms, opening into a small conservatory—Celia all in white and lav- ender ... ...imself as well as with his “principal,” and he went to shut himself in his rooms with a half-formed resolve to throw up the “Pioneer” and Mr. Brooke t... ...ld want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. If we are to live in that way let us at least leave M... ... large dark eyes. “There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms,” said Lydgate. “Strong men can stand it, but it tells on people in p...

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...ust be prepared for in the usual way. A house must be taken instead of the rooms he at present occupied; and Lydgate, having heard Rosamond speak with... ...le down farmhouse, where they live in the back kitchen and leave the other rooms to the rats! That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here,... ...or of Mr. Raffles, both of which seemed to have a stale odor of travellers’ rooms in the commercial hotels of that period. “Come, now, Josh,” he was sa... ...unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick set Adonis of bar rooms and back parlors. But the advantage now was on the side of Rigg, and ... ... that little dis cussion with Lydgate. Its effect when he went to his own rooms was to make him sit up half the night, thinking over again, under a n... ...Every morning now she sat with Celia in the prettiest of up stairs sitting rooms, opening into a small conservatory— Celia all in white and lavender l... ...imself as well as with his “principal,” and he went to shut himself in his rooms with a half formed resolve to throw up the “Pioneer” and Mr. Brooke t... ...ld want to sell our furniture, and take a house in Bride Street, where the rooms are like cages. If we are to live in that way let us at least leave M... ... large dark eyes. “There is often something poisonous in the air of public rooms,” said Lydgate. “Strong men can stand it, but it tells on people in p...

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... experience. On the previous night I had had, after getting into bed at my rooms in College, a vivid tac- tile hallucination of being grasped by the a... ...at since that time he never touched the knife again.’ … “Therefore, in our rooms,” Father Rodriguez con- tinues, “there must be no other furniture tha... ...ll, we are all men, and if we were to receive people of the world into our rooms, we should not have the strength to remain within the bounds prescrib...