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...l traffic lights and accidents. Traffic accidents were such chaos because smashed cars could not be moved until insurance agents came to the scene to... ...: he loved chasing after you as if you were a cockroach that he wanted to smash. He got your brothers to help him stomp on you." "How do you kn... ... what I'll be." His vision, his mosquito-uncle and deus ex machina, smashed like a fly against a car window. Jatupon was exhausted and his men... ... wasn't quite sure. Jatupon turned away from them and slipped off his tennis shoes, smelling their soles to make sure that they weren't overly fe... ...d Jatupon his clothes seemed to sizzle and burn away. He was naked with a smashed ant sandwiched between a fingernail and skin. He remembered that a... ... of the new television sets that Kazem had purchased for he and Suthep and smash his head while he was sleeping. He could spray paint the walls with a...

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...a Singularity. Why is this not happening? Put it this way: take a house and smash it with a wrecking ball into ten million pieces. Are you going ... ...st? Will it take you same exact amount of time to put together as it took to smash it apart? No. The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Unive... ... will take you a hell of a lot longer to put it back together than it took to smash it apart in the first place. Especially the smallest pieces. ... ... has been doing ever since the 3rd Major Split of the Path of Splitness first smashed it apart in what Science calls a ‘Big Bang’. It has been gath... ... that can be used to patch up the Totality of Infinite Energy. All of it was smashed into Infinite Smallness, and Infinite largeness. Every Infinit... ...frustration, and misery. The only reason there is any fun at all in playing tennis is because one of the rules is that you can only keep on playin... ... the lines of the court. If that rule did not exist, then nobody would play tennis to ‘win’ or play anything competitively. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS... ...world actually refused to compete with the other half… What if you went to a tennis court and nobody wanted to play to win at all… What if all they... ...ted to do was keep the ball in play as long as possible… Then who would play tennis at all? Yet… the best way to learn any ball sport is to keep t...

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...ecognized different buildings, and the curves of the street near a hard dirt tennis court. This was Ne Doc Dong. "Do you want me," said one, "or do yo... ...aid the blind man. "No problem," said Sang Huin as he took the cigarette and smashed it into an ashtray a few feet away and then walked back to where ... ...m it. She knew that once she finished writing her piece, the spider would be smashed, but she believed that the act should be performed with conscienc... ...a Claus. Gabriele saw her mother smile sadly. She sensed a kindness in this smashing of ignorance and innocence the way she had seen Aunt Peggy smash... ...owed her body to be prey to fire ants, which, like a goddess, she would then smash with her fingertips or gently remove to blades of grass. She medit... ...r that of another. It was an inconsequential thing. Chapter Twelve Gabriele smashed a corpulent ant into her second composition when neither flicking... ...es and wait for that person there. There were video pangs (VCR rooms); table tennis rooms; noripangs (Karaoke singing rooms); outdoor vendors and rest... ... bad. Better, she would have eagerly challenged Michael to a racket ball or tennis competition or played badminton or croquet with the whole family. ... ...the front of the coffee shop where a teenager was squeaking the soles of his tennis shoes against the floor while he waited for his order. "That's a g...

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...to maintain order but the soldiers sided with the mob, forcing the doors, smashing furniture and chasing away the servants. Sometime during the day,... ...black that existed before the coming of books. I have heard torn sail and smashed rudder. I have felt the foundering. That darkness must not come ag... ...- side his crypt, helped us cut stone. A torch burned Mark’s arm; someone smashed our hammer. “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got ... ...tion. Gamin posed. The militia. So, I did not paint a wall: I painted the smash of steel against steel, the plunge of steel into flesh, the grunting... ...red...he was wounded, badly wounded...I had to leave him...I had my visor smashed...my shoulder was sliced open...it was like your Anghiari... horse... ...I shake hands with old trees. At the château I have watched the King play tennis: they are having a tournament. Francis plays with ugly ferocity. Hi... ...ly ferocity. His partners play warily. I see that diplomacy begins on the tennis courts. VOICES FROM THE PAST 268 Studio September 3, 151...

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...-like vegetable of the same name. Hit the leaf with a small hammer, enough to smash just a little bit the plant than wrap the affected area with the ... ...rs in individuals who do repetitive hand and wrist movements, such as typists, tennis players, grocery store clerks, and the like. It is most common ...

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...kind. She was the only female about the place. DONE. Yes, poor brute. That smashed Benoit’s chances of promotion altogether. Mrs. Benoit used to ask “... ...the Monday Pop? Where were you on T uesday? Where were you at the Lamonts’ tennis? I was looking everywhere. CAPT. G. For me! Oh, I was alive somewher... ...hat’s not a pretty joke. CAPT. G. No. It’s a reality. (Aside.) I wonder if smashes of this kind are always so raw. 31 The Story of the Gadsby MRS. H.... ...RS. G. I remember now. Mrs. Scargill was talking about her at the Dutfins’ tennis, before you came for me, on T ues- day. Captain Mafflin said she was... ...- ollect when he upset the cream—ice all over his trousers at the Gassers’ tennis? CAPT . G. Yes, dear. VOICE. I often wondered whether he got another... ...T . G. Yes—quite enough. They just allow for the full de- velopment of the smash. I’m talking like a cur, I know: but I tell you that, for the past th...

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...the history of British India. Some folk may remember the years before lawn-tennis was born when we all played croquet. There were seasons before that,... ...d archery—which was revived in England in 1844—was as great a pest as lawn-tennis is now. People talked learnedly about “holding” and “loosing,” “stel... ...s,” “backed” or “self-yew bows,” as we talk about “ral- lies,” “volleys,” “smashes,” “returns,” and “16-ounce rackets.” Miss Beighton shot divinely ov... ...eard the story. “It’s aphasia,” he said. “Take him to his room. I knew the smash would come.” We carried the Blastoderm across, in the pouring rain, t... ...art. Mellish with the Fumigatory was also pleased, for he felt that he had smashed the Simla Medical “Ring.” * * * Few men could tell a story ... ... others. They called that race The Broken-Link Handicap, because it was to smash Shackles; and the Handicappers piled on the weights, and the Fund gav... ...”God ha’ mercy, I’m done for!” In one stride, Brunt saw the whole seething smash of the Maribyrnong Plate before him, started in his saddle and gave a... ...pay some heed to my words.” Reggie, who had dropped polo, and dinners, and tennis, and all to attend to Riley, said that he was penitent and settled R... ... love with Miss Hollis, who was good and sweet, and five foot seven in her tennis shoes. He was not content with falling in love quietly, but brought ...

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... nothing for her to do, ex- cept a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She thou... ...she certainly remembered that when she was a little girl he sometimes wore tennis flannels, and also rode a bicycle very dexterously in through the ga... ... gave a finish to people’s dinners, they had a full-sized croquet lawn and tennis be- yond, and understood the art of bringing people together. And th... ... opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle dis- tance, and its remote rose alley lined with s... ...al in the matter, nei- ther absurdly against, in which case one might have smashed him, or hopelessly undecided, but tepidly sceptical. Miss Klegg and... ... stepped back quickly, and her hand knocked a wine-glass from the table to smash noisily on the floor. She caught at the idea. “If you come a step nea... ...e caught at the idea. “If you come a step nearer to me,” she said, “I will smash every glass on this table.” “Then, by God!” he said, “you’ll be locke... ... dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase; then, withou... ...nt them to mingle with the debris on the floor. They fell in a diapason of smashes. “H’m!” he said, regard- ing the wreckage with a calmer visage. “Si...

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...cioned Providence was wid me all through that night. ’Twas Jungi, his nose smashed in flat, all dumb sick as you please. Dennis’s man must have tilted... ... whoile I can see,” sez he. Wid that I gave him both, one after the other, smash through the low gyard that he’d been taught whin he was a boy, an’ th... ...ling the life out of the man, with heavy ammuni- tion-boots, and at others smashing in his face with the butt, and at others jumping on his shoulders ... ...ould he slip in another cartridge, and blow off the head, or with the butt smash in the white face? He stopped to consider, and a cry went up from the... ...ind. She was the only female about the place. DOONE. Yes, poor brute. That smashed Benoit’s chances of promotion altogether. Mrs. Benoit used to ask: ... ...the Monday Pop? Where were you on T uesday? Where were you at the Lamonts’ tennis? I was looking everywhere. CAPT. G. For me! Oh, I was alive somewher... ...RS. G. I remember now. Mrs. Scargill was talking about her at the Duffins’ tennis, before you came for me, on T ues- day. Captain Mafflin said she was... ...leading Muhammadan pleader. I might be received even at the Commissioner’s tennis-parties where the English stand on one side and the natives on the o...

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...nd of bottles ringing to- gether as though the table had been hit, and the smash of a bottle flung violently down, and then a rapid pacing athwart the... ...n, and twice came an outburst of curses, a tearing of paper, and a violent smashing of bottles. The little group of scared but curious people increase... ... windows. In the corner by the fireplace lay the fragments of half a dozen smashed bottles, and a pungent twang of chlo- rine tainted the air. So much... .... “I guess it’s about time we saw him.” The window of the inn was suddenly smashed in, and there was a screaming and running to and fro in the street.... ... of the bar-parlour door which was now locked on Mr. Marvel, stared at the smashed window, and came round to the two other men. Everything was suddenl... ...moment Kemp had ploughed through the asparagus, and was running across the tennis lawn to the house. “You can’t come in,” said Mr. Heelas, shutting th...

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...ely excited curiosity, and I remember thinking, ‘Lord, but we shall come a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people... ... 8 “But though there is little or no fear in an aeroplane, even when it is smashing up, there is fear about aeroplanes. There is something that says v... ...leap out of cover for the mere sake of defiance, and fall shot through and smashed by a score of bullets. I saw a num- ber of Bulgarians in the hands ... ...ssed another such tree. Then he became aware of a tu- mult ahead of him, a smashing of leaves, a snorting and slob- bering, grunting and sucking, a wh... ... of big deer bolting suddenly out of the stillness. He heard the swish and smash of their retreat grow distant, disperse. He remained standing with hi... ...om them before she was twenty to marry Benham, whom she had idealized at a tennis party. He had talked of his work and she had seen it in a flash, the... ... and a hair brush. He arrived in the late afternoon, was met by Benham, in tennis flannels, looking smartened up and a little unfamiliar, and taken of... ...here must be no pause. There must be no sign of a hitch. “But it’s good at tennis,” she said. “You do play tennis, Mr. Prothero?” “I—I gesticulate,” s... ...ady Marayne. She called him “Pip,” and afterwards Amanda called across the tennis-court to him, “Pip!” And then he called her “Amanda.” When the Wilde...

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...c won’t stand things it used to stand. It’s a new public. It’s—wild. It’ll smash up the show if they go too far. Everything short and running shorter—... ...t I’m talking! I didn’t come here to talk Fuel.” “You think there may be a smash-up?” “I lie awake at night, thinking of it.” “A social smash-up.” 6 ... ...e Secret Places of the Heart “Economic. Social. Yes. Don’t you?” “A social smash-up seems to me altogether a possibility. All sorts of people I find t... ... S S Section 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 “This sense of a coming smash is epidemic,” said the doctor. “It’s at the back of all sorts of ment... ...art able catastrophe in 1914 was, after all, only the first loud crack and smash of the collapse. The war is over and—noth- ing is over. This peace is... ...hmond aston- ished the doctor by going to his room, reappearing dressed in tennis flannels and looking very well in them. It occurred to the doctor as...

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...the heads of half a row of arti- chokes, and shied the hoe with a splendid smash into the cucumber frame. Something of the awe of that moment re- turn... ... anticipations. His wild moments of violent temper when he would swear and smash things, absurd almost lovable storms that passed like sum- mer thunde... ...uld have seen to it effectually enough that they didn’t get at croquet and tennis with the vicarage daughters and discover sex in the Peeping Tom fash... ... and Moskowski, with great decision and effect, and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my ... ...ere in the muddy gutter, painfully and dreadfully, was the man, and he was smashed and scalded and wretched, and he ground his dismal hurdygurdy with ... ...nd nineteen, but a Cambridge “man” of two and twenty with a first and good tennis and a grow- ing social experience, is a fair contemporary for two gi... ...t, and changed into ball frocks at friends’ houses on the way. There was a tennis club that formed a convenient afternoon rendez- 126 The New Machiav... ...ff four orphan nieces in a harsh and successful manner. After her father’s smash and death she came out as a writer upon social questions and a scathi... ...ascade of shouts and cheers. The conflict round the flag culminated in the smashing of a pane of glass in the chemist’s window and instantly sank to p...

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...his mind. Hadn’t he heard it said at the time of the Travancore and Deccan smash that poor Whalley had been cleaned out completely. “Fellow’s hard up,... ... of amused absent- mindedness. “Doing! Doing nothing. That’s just it. Lawn-tennis and silly novels from morning to night… .” If one of them at least h... ... appeared with that peculiar aspect of ruined bamboo walls that look as if smashed with a club. Farther on, half hidden un- der the drooping bushes, a... ... the sound, every single glass and bottle in the place. After the terrific smash all was still for a time in there, as though he had killed himself ou... ... funnel, with all the guys gone, fell over with a hollow sound of thunder, smashing the wheel to bits, crushing the frame of the awnings, breaking the... ...a ship.” Another tall figure standing before him amongst the litter of the smash on the bridge whispered insanely— “Say nothing of it.” Massy stumbled...

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...ay of cubby- holes and two small doors, both locked. These latter Kitchell smashed in with the axe-head. Then he seated himself in the swivel chair an... ...ll was rag- ing to and fro in the cabin in a frenzy of drink, axe in hand, smashing glassware, hacking into the wood-work, singing the while at the to... ... bers groaning aloud with the strain. In the stern some- thing cracked and smashed. Then the trouble died away, the ripples faded into the ocean, and ... ...— were there. Charlie came forward. “Ge’ lup! Ge’ lup!” he said. “Junk all smash! Kai-gingh come ashore. I tink him want catch um schooner.” IX IX IX ... ...OANG THE CAPTURE OF HOANG THE CAPTURE OF HOANG THE CAPTURE OF HOANG “WHA T SMASHED THE JUNK? What wrecked her?” demanded Moran. The deserting Chinamen... ...wn was vibrant with the Cantonese monosyllables tossed back and forth like tennis-balls over the low sand rampart. The thing was degenerating into a f...

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... he settles for thirty cents on the dollar. I tell you, dear boy, it was a smash!” “Never should have tried to swing a corner. The short interest was ... ...s said, “It was almost as bad as the Hargus deal.” “It was like the Hargus smash.” “It was as big a thing as the Hargus corner.” Hargus had become a s... ...and coat at the coat room near the north entrance, and slipped into an old tennis jacket of striped blue flannel. Then, hatless, his hands in his pock... ... us two has got to control this market. If he gets in my way, by God, I’ll smash him!” “Well, then, J., you and I have got to do some tall talk- ing t... ...ore. Their depositors would run ‘em quick as how-do-you-do, if there was a smash here in Chicago.” “Oh, Jadwin will pull through.” “Well, I hope so—by... ... can we tell here? We—Hi! there they go again. Lord! that must have been a smash. I guess the Board of T rade won’t forget this day in a hurry. Heaven...

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...s she is a young lady still, and wears little curls on her forehead, and a tennis pinafore, and makes her waist just like a wasp. She and Aunt Jane li... ..., ‘but I don’t mind pretty aprons like this. ‘Why, my sisters had them for tennis, be- fore they went out to India. Come along, Dora,’ grasping her ha... ...She was not sure whether Constance had not made an engagement to play lawn-tennis, so they must come in. There sounded ‘coo-roo-oo coo-roo-oo’ in the ... ...mpathetic at Dolores on the opposite side of the table, but discussed lawn-tennis tournaments with her neighbour, which was quite as little interestin... ... ‘the sconces will none of them hold, and almost all the golden globes got smashed in com- ing from Dublin, and one of the birds has its head off, and... ...nte, while Val and Dolly made up the mob. A little manipulation of skirts, tennis-aprons, ribbons, and caps made very nice peasant cos- tumes. Hal was... ...ore I could recover arms, over went my um- brella, perpendicular, straight smash through the glass of the conservatory, and we heard it.’ ‘And what di...

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...sober; nothing but a hazy eye distinguished him from Paul of the week days: vivat! On the evening I cannot dwell. All the horses got out of the paddoc... ... hurricane, and the house might go. We went to bed with mighty uncertain feelings; far more than on shipboard, where you have only drowning ahead—wher... ...tless Jack had heard of her; perhaps, during my absence, saw her; lucky Jack!Anyway, he was neither to hold nor to bind, and fi- 77 V ailima Letters ... ...engeance. But what an end to one chosen for her beauty and, in the time of peace, watched over by trusty crones and hunchbacks! EVENING. Can I write o... ...great deal more warfaring, and no great issue. (When Sosimo came in this morning with my breakfast he had to lift me up. It is no joke to play lawn 1... ...s Graham, it suits all our fam- ily; others it does not suit at all. It is either gold or poison. I rise at six, the rest at seven; lunch is at 12; at... ...lower of the Flock. Belle is begging for quinine. Lloyd and Graham have both been down with ‘belly belong him’ (Black Boy speech). As for me, I have t...

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... he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow. There was a certain triteness in th... ...ecause Kate Merry had had bronchitis. They were planning to lay out a lawn tennis court on the sands; but no one but Kate and May had racquets, and mo... ... riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got back to London (where they were to 136 T... ...nown no rival but croquet, was beginning to be discarded in favour of lawn-tennis; but the latter game was still considered too rough and inelegant fo... ...May began to show a natural solicitude for his wel- fare, and to suggest a tennis match at the Chiverses’, or a sail on Julius Beaufort’s cutter, as a... ...is cigar, Mr. Jackson became portentous and communicable. “If the Beaufort smash comes,” he announced, “there are going to be disclosures.” Archer rai...

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...shingle towards the wide, populous bay. He remained alone, grinning at the smashing turmoil, careless of her departure. He would easily catch her. Whe... ...s, laughed suddenly. ‘Fools—the fools, these women!’ he said. ‘Either they smash their own crystal, or it revolts, turns opaque, and leaps out of thei... ... would do and say to her. As she was wiping a cup, she dropped it, and the smash so unnerved her that her hands trembled almost too much to finish dry... ...ere to go.’ ‘Oh, come! There’s the Heath, and the City—and you must join a tennis club. Now I know just the thing—the club to which Vera belongs.’ ‘Ah...

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...who, at Gwen V an Osburgh’s side, was returning across the garden from the tennis court. The couple in question were engaged in the same kind of roman... ...ead, and though for their own part they would much rather have played lawn tennis with Jack and Gwen, if she hadn’t told them she was coming. The Miss... ... of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss V an Osburgh. Of the ladies, this left on... ... you haven’t paid for—and as I 183 Edith Wharton was the nearest thing to smash, she smashed me to atoms, poor dear!” Lily murmured her commiseration... ...rd picturesquely dotted with groups of ladies in lace rai- ment and men in tennis flannels. The huge V an Alstyne house and its rambling dependencies ... ... of the various distractions the place afforded: distractions ranging from tennis-courts to shooting- galleries, from bridge and whiskey within doors ...

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...er. Read a chapter of Miss Appleby’s Adventure to Aunt E. P.M.—Played lawn-tennis with Mr. Perrott and Evelyn M. Don’t like Mr. P. Have a feeling that... ... until the music wrought itself into a crash, ceased, and the circles were smashed into little separate bits. The couples struck off in different dire... ...at half-past ten, that she examined so closely and wanted so vehemently to smash to atoms. Following these thoughts she looked up and said: “And there... ...taught,” her voice proceeded rhythmically as if checking the list, “and my tennis, and the village, and letters to write for father, and a thou- sand ... ...enough about herself, and she asked whether they had come down to join the tennis tourna- ment. “The young people are very keen about it. It be- gins ... ...onfidence which is seen in the eyes of athletes, for they had been playing tennis, and they were both first-rate at the game. Evelyn had not spoken, b... ...; she was feeling very well contented, partly because she had been playing tennis brilliantly, and then every one was so nice; she was beginning to fi...

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...life and the old ritual of thought in the things that make discussion, are smashed up and scattered and mixed discordantly together, one use with anot... ...here is good, it will grow every- where, and when it is bad nowhere. If we smashed and bur- ied every machine, every furnace, every factory in the wor... ...the man who was fool enough and cheap enough to become an expert. Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards——. Y ou will find clubs and a class of men to play... ...n impossible perfections.” “I wish,” I shout against the traffic, “I could smash the world of everyday.” My note becomes quarrelsome. “You may accept ... ...a word, for a term of abuse, for one compendious verbal missile that shall smash this man for ever. It has to express total inadequacy of imagination ...

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... at this life that we’ve brought upon ourselves, and reject it, absolutely smash up the old idols of ourselves, that we sh’ll never do. You’ve got ver... ...ll,’ he replied. ‘When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no... ...once more, straight down on the head that lay dazed on the table. She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled ... ...e pushed the table over and got away from her. He was like a flask that is smashed to atoms, he seemed to him- self that he was all fragments, smashed... ... The launch twanged and hooted, somebody was singing. Then as if the night smashed, sud- denly there was a great shout, a confusion of shouting, war- ... ...d boots. She thought of the wives and daughters of the pit-managers, their tennis-parties, and their terrible struggles to be supe- rior each to the o...

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...ences of a mechanical age. Never before had the cuttings and heapings, the smashing down of trees, the obtrusion of corrugated iron and tar, the belch... ... and was being done at a great pace with a huge steam-roller, mechanically smashed granite, and kettles of stinking stuff, asphalt or some- thing of t... ...r father’s sturdy build, and she had developed her shoulders at hockey and tennis. The firelight brought out the gracious reposeful lines of a body th... ...n our working illusions, a working measure of truth, or the creature would smash itself up and end itself, but beyond that discretion of the fire and ... ... life. Never was the whole world of a woman so swiftly and comprehensively smashed. All the previous troubles of her life seemed infinitesimal in comp...

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...he subtle red-haired school Sergeant, trust them. His business was to wear tennis-shoes, carry binocu- lars, and swoop hawklike upon evil boys. Had he... ...n’t see a ball when it’s coming, sir,” said Beetle. “I’ve had my gig-lamps smashed at the Nets till I got excused. I wasn’t any good even as a fag, th... ...his nails scraping, on plaster. “That’s the ceiling below. Look out! If we smashed that the plaster ‘ud fall down in the lower dormitory,” said Beetle... ... howled. Hadn’t we better do something?” McTurk was troubled. “P’raps he’s smashed himself up somehow.” They found him, with very bright eyes, whistli... ...y!—come, come! Yummy-yum! Yummy-yum! Yummy-yum-yum!” “Look out. Y ou’ll smash my gig-lamps,” puffed Beetle, emerg- ing. “Wasn’t it glorious? Didn’...

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...senger engines down be- low, and are sending her up to Fresno. There was a smash of some kind on the Bakersfield division, and she’s to hell and gone ... ...sudden passion for stamped leather work and had made a quantity of purses, tennis belts, and hat bands, which he presented to young ladies of his acqu... ...nd—you and your backers and cappers and swindlers and thimble-riggers, and smash you, lock, stock, and barrel. That’s my tip to you and be damned to y... ...r voice never sounded so sweet to him. “And I thought it was that crockery smashing goat of a lout of a cow-puncher.” “Delaney? The idea! Oh, dear! I ... ...l you’ve seen your wife brought home to you with the face you used to kiss smashed in by a horse’s hoof— killed by the T rust, as it happened to me. T... ...e and a leading man of the county—I wouldn’t like to see a story like this smash you over. It’s worth more to you to keep it out of print than for me ...

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...aking their meals in common, riding, hunting, hawk- ing, playing at bowls, tennis, or stool-ball, or any other pas- time, in such parties as suited th... ... your sledge-hammer blows—Sir Bras de Fer! But, Master Scot, you shall not smash the English shield so easily. This one hangs too loose to be safe; I ...

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...ndome. Tournai was near. The Duc de Bourgogne went there to have a game at tennis. This sudden party of pleasure strongly scandalized the army, and ra... ...in was heard which shook the house. Everybody ran out, the coach was found smashed, the large door shivered in pieces; the garden railings, which encl... ..., as long as he could make use of them. He had excelled in dancing, and at tennis and mall. On horseback he was admirable, even at a late age. He like... ...used himself at Fontainebleau during bad weather by seeing good players at tennis, in which he had formerly excelled; and at Marly by seeing mall play... ...great noise, and threw himself upon it as though he would 741 Saint-Simon smash it. Rage beamed from his eyes. The Comte de T oulouse smiled; he had ... ...t back Law’s carriage, however, the windows of which were 852 Saint-Simon smashed on the way by the stones thrown at them. Law’s house, too, was atta...

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...left, and this space is occupied by a hat rack and umbrella stand in which tennis rackets, white parasols, caps, Panama hats, and other summery articl... ...the punchbowl from the sideboard and offers it to Johnny. LORD SUMMERHAYS. Smash it. Dont hesitate: it’s an ugly thing. Smash it: hard. [Johnny, with ... ...ng the floor] Leave it at that. Thats good sense. Anybody on for a game of tennis? BENTLEY. Oh, lets have some more improving conversa- tion. Wouldnt ... ...IA. [suddenly, as if she could bear no more of it] Bentley: do go and play tennis with Johnny. You must take exercise. LORD SUMMERHAYS. Do, my boy, do... ... Not a scratch. I assure you I’m all right. BENTLEY. What luck! And what a smash! You are a lucky chap, I can tell you. The Aviator and Tarleton come ... ...r him socially; but hes an ideal passenger for a flyer. He saved me from a smash. LORD SUMMERHAYS. I saw it. It was extraordinary. When you were throw... ...est. But a woman who drops bang down out of the sky into my greenhouse and smashes every blessed pane of glass in it must take her chance. LORD SUMMER... ... man in this room, if the truth were known, I expect. Thats whats going to smash up your Capitalism. The problems are beginning to read. Ha! We’re fre...

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...e lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis. Then she saw her brother’s face. Her lips parted, and she took him ... ...s. They would descend—he knew their ways— past the shrubbery, and past the tennis-lawn and the dahlia-bed, until they reached the kitchen garden, and ... ...tation was just. “How tiresome!” she said. “Couldn’t you have es- caped to tennis?” “I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is... ...d thirteen—an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis- balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoder... ...to a shadow.” Mr. Beebe watched the shadow springing and shouting over the tennis-court. Cecil was absent— one did not play bumble-puppy when he was t... ...s than I am. You will never forgive me.” “Shall we go out, then. They will smash all the china if we don’t.” For the air rang with the shrieks of Minn...

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...t, a hermit’s house, a wonderful road that was made by the Kings of Mercia—tennis—a cricket match—bridge and at night we squeeze up in this lovely hou... ... the old safe investments and putting it into Foreign Things, which always smash. Silence would have been crimi- nal. Her own fortune was invested in ... ...ceased to rejoice, and to say, “I did manage that, at all events. When the smash comes poor Margaret will have a nest-egg to fall back upon.” This yea... ...staches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries. Peace came—it was all very immense, one h... ...honourably poised upon it, slid sideways, fell off into the fireplace, and smashed. He swore in a colourless sort of way, and picked the photograph up... ...red. She grew inattentive, played with the photo- graph frame, dropped it, smashed Dolly’s glass, apologised, was pardoned, cut her finger thereon, wa... ...d without impairing his independence; he must have a free library, or free tennis-courts; his rent must be paid in such a way that he did not know it ... ... greengage-trees that Helen had once 194 Howards End described, there the tennis lawn, there the hedge that would be glorious with dog-roses in June,... ...er CHAPTER XXV EVIE heard of her father’s engagement when she was in for a tennis tournament, and her play went sim- ply to pot. That she should marry...

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...ion, and drawing were held in the morning. The afternoon was spent at lawn tennis, to which lady guests resident in the neighborhood were allowed to b... ... tiful; them young ladies ‘ll strain themselves with that heavy roller. If tennis is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in. If... ...ldier in the chimney. By three o’clock the local visitors had arrived, and tennis was proceeding in four courts, rolled and prepared by Smilash. The t... ...actedly at a vase of flowers. Miss Wilson invited her visitors to join the tennis players. Mr. Jansenius looked sternly and disappointedly at Agatha, ... ...om- pany. Don’t worry thinking about him, but come and have a game at lawn tennis.” During this conversation they had left the drawing-room and made a... ...d of it all?” said Sir Charles, a 185 GB Shaw little dazed. “Socialism or Smash. Socialism if the race has at last evolved the faculty of coordinatin... ...and if we don’t abandon it, we must either return to Protec- tion or go to smash by the road I have just mapped. Now, sooner than let the Protectionis...

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...er husband’s liabilities. You see, they were pretty heavy. What had really smashed them up had been a perfectly com- mon-place affair at Monte Carlo—a... ...ntimacy of solitude. He had gone, intending to talk about polo-ponies, and tennis-racquets; about the temperament of the reverend Mother at the conven... ...l jumped upon the tables and cheered and broke the chairs on the floor and smashed the crock- ery—for a given time, until the Reverend Mother rang a h... ...he neglected gardens between the unpruned espal- iers. Or they played lawn-tennis or fives in an angle of a great wall that surrounded the garden—an a... ...a little joke—but the whispering of it was a precious intimacy… . And then—smash—it all went. It went to pieces at the moment when Florence laid her h... ...mental deterioration that Florence worked in Leonora was extraordinary; it smashed up her whole life and all her chances. It made her, in the first pl... ... in no danger at all from Edward. And in that she was perfectly right. The smash was to come from herself. She relaxed; she broke; she drifted, at fir...

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...ir was black and close-cut; his skin indurated; and the bridge of his nose smashed level with his face. The tip, how- ever, was uninjured. It was squa... ...ciently for the game to make myself proficient. You were equipped for lawn-tennis, I think, when I saw you yesterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-t... ... Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-tennis champion. T o be sure. Well, Miss Goff, I congratulate you. It is no... ...eat effort. ‘The more effort the more force,’ you’d say to yourself. ‘I’ll smash him even if I burst myself in doing it.’ And what would happen then? ... ...you that it would come quite natural to a man like me—a ruffian like me—to smash him up. That comes of being a coward. People run my profession down; ... ...l just take ‘em on that mahogany nut of his, and give him back one o’ them smashers that he settled poor Dick Weeks with.” “I’ll lay you any money he ... ...r ability, or they are men of pleasure, which means that they are dancers, tennis-players, butchers, and gamblers. I leave the nonentities out of the ...

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...nd even regular troops under express command had mutilated church statues, smashed church windows, wrecked church organs, and torn up the sheets from ... ...-all and a handbag on the front steps for every- body to fall over. Also a tennis racquet. Who the devil left them there? THE YOUNG LADY. They are min... ...athetic. You are just foolish and stupid and selfish. You see me getting a smasher right in the face that kills a whole part of my life: the best part... ...any men to manage. Every year I expected a revolu- tion, or some frightful smash-up: it seemed impossible that we could blunder and muddle on any long... ...hat, O Captain, O my captain? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [savagely]. Nothing but the smash of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her ro...

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...ight, during which Bobby took brevet-rank as a ‘man’ at the women- swamped tennis-parties and tea-fights of the vil- lage, and, I daresay, had his joi... ...mpling the life out of the man, with heavy ammunition-boots, and at others smashing in his face with the butt, and at others jumping on his shoulders ... ...ould be slip in another cartridge, and blow off the head, or with the butt smash in the white face? He stopped to consider, and a cry went up from the... ...verything and improved nothing, from the whining Peisian-wheel by the lawn-tennis court to the long perspective of level road and the blue, domed tomb...

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...ferers an’ slaves! Kick! Rear! Plunge! Lie down on the shafts, an’ woller! Smash an’ destroy! The conflict will be but short, an’ the victory is certa... ...d column, and carry tons of good solid weight—like that! There!” A big sea smashed on the deck above, and the pillars stiffened themselves to the load... ... mercy. Now and then some little man was brought to barracks with his head smashed in or his ribs torn away; but his companions never learned cau- tio... ... shot—it seemed to him hours as he sighted— which tore through the throat, smashing the backbone below the neck and between the shoulders. The brute c... ... straight as an arrow even to his grandfather’s tomb, and there, among the smashed spirit- bottles and the fragments of the mud image, the life left, ... ...eways at the narrowing space. If you know how a man feels to be cramped at tennis—not because he wants to run out of the court, but because he likes t... ...t Cottar was busy for eleven hours of the day. He did not care to have his tennis spoiled by petticoats in the court; and after one long afternoon at ... ... and the fat pony; they fell into the trout-ponds; they picnicked and they tennised; and they sat on gates in the twilight, two by two, and Georgie fo...

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... your lot, Mr Longstaff?’ ‘I’m one myself. ’ ‘I suppose so. ’ ‘I’m utterly smashed. Then there’s Percival. ’ ‘I hope he has not lost much. Of course y... ...s, and there was a band, and there was a sward for dancing. There was lawn-tennis, and fishing-rods,—which nobody used,—and better still, long shady s... ...d legs. ’ ‘I don’t know about that; polo, you know, for the legs, and lawn-tennis for the arms, is hard work enough. ’ ‘But it must always be somethin... ...ord’s evening apparel. The whole of that afternoon was spent playing lawn- tennis with Miss Boncassen. Lady Mabel was asked to join the party, but she... ...eing her. ‘Pretty well, ’ he said. ‘Is it not better than stalking?’ ‘Lawn-tennis?’ ‘Yes;—lawn-tennis—with Miss Boncassen. ’ ‘She plays uncommonly wel... ..., ’ she said when he asked to stand up for another. ‘Think of all the lawn-tennis this morning. ’ ‘But you will play tomorrow?’ ‘I thought you were go... ...he will. Fellows al- ways do get over that kind of thing. Herbert de Burgh smashed both his thighs, and now he can move about again,—of course with cr... ...Sir Simon Slowbody? Didn’t I hear about it! ‘I am awfully glad you didn’t smash up Tregear alto- gether because of Mary. I am quite sure it is no goo...

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...s enough about you, my dear, to have a few left if most of them even go to smash. I’ve taken care of that. I’ve divided my faith into water tight comp... ...ent; after which he had his strangest smile. “Ah if any one should want to smash it—!” She laughed; she almost admired the little man’s expression. “Y... ...ughed; she almost admired the little man’s expression. “You mean one could smash it with a hammer?” “Yes, if nothing else would do. Or perhaps even by... ...lim sinuous and strong, and with practised passion, have been playing lawn tennis or endlessly and rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike hi... ...all in vain to have crouched so long by the fire; the glass would have been smashed, the icy air would fill the place. If the air in Maggie’s room then,... ...broke upon the two women’s absorption with a sharpness almost equal to the smash of the crys tal, for the door of the room had been opened by the Pri...

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...ook at the pictures?” he asked. “No, we put that off. We have been playing tennis at the Salamatoffs’ . It is quite true, Mr. Crooks plays remark- abl... ..., and, above all, how large her thumb-nail was and how like her father’s. “Tennis is a dull game,” said Kolosoff; “we used to play lapta when we were ... ...218 Resurrection ers were planted in front of the steward’s house—over the tennis ground, now overgrown with dandelions, and along the lime-tree walk,... ...and could not help being proud of it. He could see from the window the old tennis ground, overgrown with dandelions, on which the peasants were beginn... ...ssing, Nekhludoff several times looked out at the peasants gathered on the tennis ground. One by one they came, took off their hats or caps to one ano... ...ho are ever ready to do us,” said the steward. “Do you, indeed. Didn’t you smash my jaw for me, and I got nothing for it? No good going to law with th...

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...later Fuselli woke with a choked nightmare cry. He had dreamed that he had smashed the O. D. in the jaw and had broken out of the jug and was running,... ...me the rattle of spray, that rose up in white fringy trees to windward and smashed against him like hail. With- out closing the door he crept forward ... ... ‘Bill, we’ve got to get to headquarters an’ tell ‘em that we accidentally smashed up our car, before the M. P .’s get busy.’ An’ he says, ‘You’re god... ...ot on a train back to Paris an’ went an’ reported to headquarters how I’ d smashed the car an’ been in the Bastille an’ all, an’ they were sore as hel... ...risfield jovially in the ribs. Chrisfield doubled his fists and gave him a smashing blow in the jaw that Judkins warded of just in time. Judkins’s fac... ...ais ne vous derangez pas,” she said. A man with white flannel trousers and tennis shoes and a man in black with a pointed grey beard and amused grey e...

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...e King of Spain’s, and meant for contingencies in the voyage out. This she smashed open with her axe, and took a sum equal to one hundred guineas Engl... ...but you are still obliged to feel that, when the ultimate test is applied, smash may go the whole con- cern. Lord Rosse applied an ultimate test; and ... ..., Mr. Pitt had wantonly amused himself at a dinner party in T rin- ity, in smashing with filberts (discharged in showers like grape-shot) a most costl... ...com- pany kicked about the poor diabolic writer’s head as if it had been a tennis-ball. Coleridge, the yet unknown criminal, absolutely perspired and ...