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...out an excellent coachman, with an instinct for keeping the road among the snow-covered fields and a natural gift of getting the best out of his horse... ...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. It was twenty- three ye... ...ad drove on in the darkness which fell swiftly upon the livid ex- panse of snows till, out of the waste of a white earth joining a bestarred sky, surg... ...outside the gates closing the short drive. Somebody was abroad on the deep snow track; a quick tinkle of bells stole gradually into the stillness of t... ...as staying then to be near a doctor, they lost the road and got stuck in a snow drift. She was alone with the coachman and old V alery, the personal s... ...a globe of crystal. The Red En- sign—the symbolic, protecting, warm bit of bunting flung wide upon the seas, and destined for so many years to be the ...

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...ut an excellent coachman with an instinct for keeping the road amongst the snow-cov- ered fields and a natural gift of getting the best out of his hor... ...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. It was twenty-three y... ...we drove on in the darkness which fell swiftly upon the livid ex- panse of snows till, out of the waste of a white earth joining a bestarred sky, surg... ...outside the gates closing the short drive. Somebody was abroad on the deep snowtrack; a quick tinkle of bells stole gradually into the stillness of th... ...as staying then to be near a doctor, they lost the road and got stuck in a snowdrift. She was alone with the coachman and old Valery, the personal ser... ... a globe of crystal. The Red Ensign—the sym- bolic, protecting warm bit of bunting flung wide upon the seas, and destined for so many years to be the ...

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... the edge of Plover Lake had the air of an etching: lustrous slide of ice, snow in the crevices of a boggy bank, the mound of a muskrat house, reeds i... ...t to get up a dramatic club?” CHAPTER VI I When the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with white the bare clods in the plowed fie... ...e was digging in for the winter. Through late November and all December it snowed daily; the ther- mometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below,... ...he lower windows with earth and manure. Along the railroad the sections of snow fence, which had been stacked all sum- mer in romantic wooden tents oc... ...Kennicott was lordly in a long raccoon ulster and a new seal cap. When the snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, fl... ...ts covered with decomposing plaster shields and faded red, white, and blue bunting. At the end was an abortive stage. The room was large enough for th... ...ation thrilled to its own talent in that dismal room. They cleared out the bunting, ballot-boxes, handbills, legless chairs. They attacked the stage. ...

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...st clothes. Everything was in its best clothes for us, and usually wearing bunting. With a cinema watching to see we took it properly. If you are a ki... ...ey held out. They were still in many cases looking to Paris when the first snowflakes of that pitiless January came swirl- ing about them. The story g... ...eserts, these long wasted sun-baths of the race, they tower amidst eternal snows, they hide in remote islands, and bask on broad lagoons. For a time t... ...oss, rise vast preci- pices of many-coloured rock, fretted above, lined by snow- falls, and jagged into pinnacles. These are the northward wall 152 T... ...northward wall 152 The World Set Free of a towering wilderness of ice and snow which clambers southward higher and wilder and vaster to the culminati... ...t splinter of rock would crack and come away from these, or a wild rush of snow and ice and stone, pour down in thunder, hang like a wet thread into t...

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...ss, and eating hard-boiled eggs in a vast clear space of rime-edged rocks, snow-mottled, above a blue-gashed gla- cier. All about us the monstrous roc... ...ll of wood smoke and pine woods and huge preci- pices and remote gleams of snow-fields and the sound of cascading torrents rushing through deep gorges... ...n of feminine servitude and inclined to the suffragette point of view, and Bunting Harblow, an old blue, and with an erratic disposition well under th... ... Our little set was much in evi- dence. Both the Cramptons were in, Lewis, Bunting Harblow. We gave brief addresses attuned to this excitement and the... ...nciple; his brother Edward was present, and the Lewises, and of course the Bunting Harblows. There was also some other lady. I remember her 206 The N... ...Upward and On,” said Lewis with conscious neatness, and turned to ask Mrs. Bunting Harblow about her little boy’s French. For a time talk frothed over... ...lves fit, tremendously fit, under Altiora’s inspiration, Pro Bono Publico. Bunting Harblow had his under-secretaryship, and Lewis was on the verge of ... ...nd speaking with a fire that was altogether revolutionary. This was Philip Snowden, the member for Blackburn. They had come in nearly forty strong alt... ...a day early in that year—I think in January, because there was thin, crisp snow on the grass, and we noted that only two other people had been to the ...

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...lasses danced; “white-livered drones, traitors, with their livers white as snow, eatun the bread of widows and orphuns; there’s where the evil lies.” ... ...rs stood on a corner of the toilet table; lengths of white veiling, like a snow- flurry, buried the little work-table; and a mislaid box of artificial... ...ys and was quite an affair. The street was garlanded with yellow and white bunting; there were processions and “floats” and brass bands. Marcus Schoul... ... the other. Out in Polk Street the cable cars were nearly blocked and were bunting a way slowly through the throng with clang- ing bells. Every window... ...be afraid of that.” He turned about, the moonlight showing like a layer of snow upon his massive shoulders. Trina watched him as he passed under the s... ...dled, and at length ceased; the sand gave place to a fine powder, white as snow; and an hour after he had fired the rifle his mule’s hoofs were crispi... ...cool dark purple of the sky. The gigantic sink of white alkali glowed like snow. McT eague, now far into the desert, held steadily on, swinging forwar...

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...f,—and at the bows of the boat, the man-of-war’s pennant, being a strip of bunting considerably under the value of a farthing,—streamed out. “They kno... ...ts of the marble, how soft and pure it is, glittering and white like fresh snow!“I was all beautiful,” it seems to say:“even the hid- den parts of me ...

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... of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air. CHAPTER 2 The Carpet-Bag I STUFFED A SHIRT OR TWO in... ...n,” there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost... ...t, I guess.” “Landlord,” said I, going up to him as cool as Mt. Hecla in a snow-storm—”landlord, stop whittling. Y ou and I must un- derstand one anot... ... developing bloom—the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February’s snow. No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time ... ...t ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers. But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, the... ...r home. The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of nar- row red bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom d...

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... is very little difference, not more than you’ll find between a brig and a snow. To me they seem alike: all scarlet, and feathers, and powder, and pip... ...ows and get to windward, when you might as well chase a full-grown buck on snow- shoes!” “Let her luff,” cried Jasper to the man at the helm. “Luff up... ...used, did not pass before her uneasy eye unno- ticed. A small piece of red bunting, such as is used in the en- signs of ships, was fluttering at the l... ...who were probably lying in ambush near them. Tear- ing the little strip of bunting from the tree, Mabel hastened on, scarcely knowing what her duty ne... ...It’s no’ so trifling as ye may imagine, Mistress Mabel,” taking the bit of bunting from her, and stretching it at full length with both his arms exten... ...s to a seaman’s craft. Y ou may perceive that it is made of what is called bunting, and that is a description of cloth used only by vessels for such p... ...e, first looking at the bounding figure of the girl and then at the bit of bunting, which he still held before him in a way to denote indecision. His ...

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... least as rendered into English: First, the composition of words, such as ‘snow- and-rosebloom maiden:’ an attractive damsel doubtless in Germany, but... ...from the North and East; although we have seen sometimes patches of bright snow on the dark peaks in the distance. It is a neat cheerful place; all bu... ...ned us. There is, here and there, a small stream of water pouring from the snow; but this is rather a monotonous accompa- niment to the general desola... ...r, and the purple range of Sabine Mountains in the distance with a cope of snow;—this seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by end- less ... ...eat change of weather. The East-winds are come at last, bringing with them snow, which has been driving about for the last twenty-four hours; not fall... ...ng a flourish past our windows; looking very grand, with four streamers of bunting, and one of smoke. Of course I do not yet know whether I have Lette...

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...or a thousand miles I will engage that a dog shall not find shelter from a snow-storm, nor a wren find an apology for breakfast.” 35 Thomas De Quince... ...d left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discovery, by way of warning off the ground the...

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... the floor, and the chairs had chintz cushions; the walls were as white as snow, and there were pretty china ornaments on the mantel-piece, many littl... ...eral cherry trees, which in May were perfect gardens of blossoms, white as snow, and in August with small black fruit of the sort known as merries; an... ...mother can lend us a pin.’ ‘And the waistcoat is my summer one,’ said Fred Bunting. ‘He’s too big too; why, Paul, you’re no better than a natomy!’ ‘Ne... ...d. Little Miss Jane sat inside in her white dress and veil, looking like a snowdrop, Alfred thought, as his mother lifted him up to the window to see ... ...ded weathercock, which flashes every time it veers from south to west; the snowdrops are getting quite out of date, and the buttercups and primroses h...

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...ar o’ the pine an’ the oak-scrub, we’re out on the rocks an’ the snow, An’ the wind is as thin as a whip-lash what carries away to the plain... ...the sweat runnin’ out o’ your shirt-sleeves, an’ the sun off the snow in your face, An’ ‘arf o’ the men on the drag-ropes to hold ... ... the South and the North; But the Ghilzai knows, ere the melting snows, when the swollen banks break forth, When the r... ...amels but fat the frails, Light are the purses but heavy the bales, As the snowbound trade of the North comes down To the market-square of Peshawur to... ...79 A score of bayonets ringed the tree. The peach-bloom fell in showers of snow, When he shook at his death as he looked below. By the power of God, w... ...coat to keep his honour warm.” The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad, Kipling 104 The skipper spat in the empty hold and ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft ...

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...ame early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehur... ...oft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white cr... ...in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!” He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest par... ...k to her and staring out of the window at the falling 4 The Invisible Man snow in the yard. His gloved hands were clasped behind him, and he seemed t... ...ind him, and he seemed to be lost in thought. She noticed that the melting snow that still sprinkled his shoulders dripped upon her carpet. “Can I tak... ...mmed, and the place was silent again. Cuss went straight up the village to Bunting the vicar. “ Am I mad?” Cuss began abruptly, as he entered the shab... ...ell?” “Something—exactly like a finger and thumb it felt— nipped my nose.” Bunting began to laugh. “There wasn’t anything there!” said Cuss, his voice... ...ng an arm. And there wasn’t an arm! There wasn’t the ghost of an arm!” Mr. Bunting thought it over. He looked suspiciously at Cuss. “It’s a most remar... ...y,” he said. He looked very wise and grave indeed. “It’s really,” said Mr. Bunting with judicial emphasis, “a most remarkable story.” 23 H G Wells CH...

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...ted testimony. LAFEU: Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting. BERTRAM: I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge ... ...fe, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces. BERTRAM...

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... its grey walls stood decaying by the stream; and Hamblin, where the first snow always fell. Such were their titles to fame. She got up and began to m... ... Merry Widow while they were being packed into a waggonette streaming with bunting. The ramshackle wooden hotels about the square were all hung with f... ...blin, the lonely hamlet on the north slope of the Mountain where the first snow always fell. On the third day there were speeches and ceremonies at Cr... ...rew more densely blue, and the big white clouds lay against the hills like snow-banks. The first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss Hatchard... ...ered again, and a few white darts struck her in the face: it was the first snow falling over Hamblin. The roofs of the lonely village were only half a... ... and she may know that you have come.” They had reached Hamblin, where the snow-flurry had left white patches in the rough grass on the roadside, and ...

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... philosophical problem, whilst brilliant red lories passed like a piece of bunting carried away by the breeze, papuans, with the finest azure colours,... ...e oblique rays of the sun, or lost in the greyish fog amidst hurricanes of snow. Detonations and falls were heard on all sides, great overthrows of ic... ...ee nothing. The wind blew sharply from all parts of the com- pass, and the snow lay in such hard heaps that we had to break it with blows of a pickaxe... ...en tell its position behind the curtain of fog; and soon the fog turned to snow. “Till to-morrow,” said the Captain, quietly, and we re- turned to the... ...rned to the Nautilus amid these atmospheric distur- bances. The tempest of snow continued till the next day. It was impossible to remain on the platfo... ...s it skirted the edge of the horizon. The next day, the 20th of March, the snow had ceased. The cold was a little greater, the thermometer showing 2º ... ...tain Nemo unfurled a black banner, bearing an “N” in gold quartered on its bunting. Then, turning towards the orb of day, whose last rays lapped the h...

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...f the cushion Bert was sway- ing, and the air was full of feathers, like a snowstorm in the still twilight. Bert had got very dusty and sweaty and str... ...ned so that the whole world was hidden. Southward they were piled in great snowy masses, so that he was half dis- posed to think them mountains; north... ... slow steadiness. As he sank down among them the clouds ceased to seem the snowclad mountain-slopes they had resembled heretofore, became unsubstantia... ... and he was falling rapidly in an evening twilight through a whirl of fine snowflakes that streamed past him towards the zenith, that drifted in upon ... ...s, and everything was instantly bedewed and wet. He had an impression of a snowstorm pouring with unex- ampled and increasing fury upward; then he rea... ...the city. It is quite possible that in many cases this spirited display of bunting by a city already surrendered was the outcome of the inno- cent inf...

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...ined in the chorus. This is one stanza: “Now Aprile is over and melted the snow , And outer Noo Bedford we shortly must tow; Yes, out o’ Noo Bedford w... ...nd-go of busy officials, greeting one another; the slow flick and swash of bunting in the heavy air; and the important man with a hose sluicing the br...

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...have sighted it on the expected bearing, then that Landfall is good. Fogs, snowstorms, gales thick with clouds and rain—those are the enemies of good ... ...be; the long stretch of the Handelskade; cold, stone-faced quays, with the snow-sprinkled ground and the hard, frozen water of the canal, in which wer... ...h the line of ships, a line of brown, warm-toned houses seemed bowed under snow-laden roofs. From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the ... ...congealed spirits—the shivering in glazed tramcars, the stumbling over the snow-sprinkled waste ground, the vision of ships frozen in a row, appearing... ...dered by the brown fronts of houses with their roofs dripping with melting snow. This stranger was walking up and down absorbed in the marked contempl... ...uad- rons of war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport the bunting of flags hallowed in the traditions of honour and glory. He is a go...

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...ature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,—like frost and snow, rain and dew, hail-storm and thunder, which are to be studied with en... ... for a thou- sand miles, I will engage a dog shall not find shelter from a snow-storm, nor a wren find an apology for breakfast.” 108 perhaps, only j... ...d left it there in imitation of a nautical discoverer, who leaves a bit of bunting on the shore of his discovery, by way of warning off the ground the... ...pitated by their very faithful and obedient servant, the owner of the said bunting. Possibly my cloak might not have been respected, and the jus genti...

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...........494 Old War Dreams...............................495 Thick Sprinkled Bunting...................495 What Best I See in Thee....................... ...reasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Having studied the mocking bird’s tones and the flight of... ... Seaside State or in Maryland, Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me, Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Gran... ... interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor, The snow sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow balls, The hurrahs f... ...kes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kanadian snow shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland, At home... ...nter the arch’d gates of a cemetery, Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees, Where the yellow crown’d heron comes to the edge ... ... whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk, But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter’d staff, Or clutch’d to some y... ... night, I dream, I dream, I dream. THICK S PRINKLED B UNTING Thick sprinkled bunting! flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your ro... ... heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all, Flag of stars! thick sprinkled bunting! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 495 WHAT B EST I S EE IN T HEE (To U...

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...wenty young black girls, dressed in excellent taste; their black skins and snow- white linen being set off by coloured turbans and large shawls. As so... ...s of a shallow lake of brine, which in summer is converted into a field of snow-white salt. The layer near the margin is from four to five inches thic... ...n — the upper regions of the atmosphere, and even the surface of perpetual snow — all sup- port organic beings. To the northward of the Rio Negro, bet... ... the surrounding country was a swamp, which in summer (December), when the snow melts on the Cordillera, is over-flowed by the river. My chief amuseme... ...e miles of the plain white, as 89 Charles Darwin if from a slight fall of snow, here and there heaped up by the wind into little drifts. This latter ... ... different passages south of the Plata, I often towed astern a net made of bunting, and thus caught many curious animals. Of Crustacea there were many... ...liar to that bird: the Polyborus, snipe, upland and lowland goose, thrush, bunting, and even some true hawks, are all more or less tame. As the birds ... ... Atlantic, Carmichael* states that the only two land-birds, a thrush and a bunting, were “so tame as to suffer themselves to be caught with a hand-net...

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...sed before. It was reckoned a memorable improvement. 1629. A great fall of snow in October. It was nearly half a foot deep, and remained on the ground... ...of deer and cattle. Its chief beauty is when the thorns are like masses of snow. Moreover, there grows up from the moat at Merdon, over 85 Charlot... ...e been a priory, and has a fine old barn and a dell in the orchard full of snowdrops. No mention of it is in Dugdale’s Monasticon, and it was probably... ...iny May-fly sits on a rail to shake off its last garment, and come forth a snow- white fairy thing with three long whisks at the tail. The real Itchen... ... abroad.) Then either he or some other, equipped with a little imita- tion snow, paces about announcing himself: Here comes I, Old Father Christmas, C... ...nd home. Woodlark (Alauda arborea).—Otterbourne Park and Cranbury . Yellow-Bunting or Yellow -Hammer (Emberiza citrinella).— A great ornament, especi... ...ils, crying, “A little bit of bread and no che-e-ese!” Blackheaded or Reed Bunting (Emberiza schaenidus).— Brambridge, April 1896. Sparrow (Passer dom...

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...ever saw the like before it gives, like the first sight of the sea or of a snowy mountain, a sensation never to be forgotten. Fret, fatigue, anxiety, ... ...ere like the gentle- man who dined with you one day, and told me about the snow birds. But there were only these flower-trees, and a pond, and statues... ...escription least favourable to collec- tive boyish sports, as there was no snow and very little frost. The Christmas holidays led to more walking than... ...IX CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XIX THE SNO THE SNO THE SNO THE SNO THE SNOWY WY WY WY WY WINDING-SHEET WINDING-SHEET WINDING-SHEET WINDING-SHEET W... ...hite fog that shut them in with a damp, cold, moist curtain of undeveloped snow. The poor lads were thinly clad for a summer walk, Jock had left his p... ...al- ways, he should not have to go away from his own dear Babie 291 Yonge Bunting, and there was a little kissing match, ending by Babie saying, disc... ...his is likely to turn out—for Sunday, perhaps. Keep up a good heart, Babie Bunting, and whatever you do, don’t let him worry mother. Good-bye, Armie! ...

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...ough the mist of print, we have seen their blood freezing crimson upon the snow of the squares and streets of St. Petersburg; since their generations ... ... more than the prestige of a great trade. The flutter of that piece of red bunting showered sentiment on the nations of the earth. I will not ven- tur...

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...ertuous & tockative, ad red stockins and i-eeled drab shoes, and beautiful snowy air. All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince ... ...eaved ‘em! The little children scattered calico flowers on their path, the snowy-aired old men with red faces and rinkles took off their brown paper a... ...he red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of infancy—all were there, ... ...on harbor for harpoonin of his officer in Baffin’s Bay;— it set me and Bob Bunting a-pouring broadsides into each other’s old timbers, whereas me and ... ...rds of Direction I’m hon. The Cwrwmwrw & Plmwyddlywm, with tunnils through Snowding and Plinlimming. 87 Burlesques “Great nashnallity of course. Ap S... ...ssed through the little garding where the close was hanging out to dry. My snowy ploom was ableeged to bend under the lowly porch, as I hentered the a...