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...mps slamming into a glowing figure of monstrous proportions. This was one super sonic superior guardian angel, a goody two wings of the most dangero... ...herself and slowly strutted over to the bar grasping a few peanuts from a bowl on the way. “You don’t have to shout.” Her words calm and clear made F... ...ried asking Stella?” Fred inquired. “Surly she wouldn’t just leave you un-supervised. I can assure you, her work, I mean the Lord’s work, is very im... ...rma had heard from Tammy, the woman was now expecting nothing less than a supernatural experience. The Almighty God had no intention of making Norma... ...standing ovation from the imps, who gave six cheers and sang, ‘We are the champions’. Most impressed, Snakelex shouted every imp a free sniff of gro... ...tell her friend she was placing the peas in her lap and the pods into the bowl. Darcy sighed and continued to listen while Stella offloaded her conc... ...fered to buy what the darling little thing needs, you know, a basket, dog bowl, all that sort of thing.” “That’s great. If only our members were so g...

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... for hats and bonnets; he added the address of a fashionable dressmaker to supersede Victorine. In short, he made the lady see the necessity of rubbin... ...w visibly taller; Lucien dimly began to recognize in this elderly beau the superiority of the man of the world who knows Paris; and, most of all, he f... ...les, hitherto unimagined, be- came aware of a whole world of indispensable superfluities, and shuddered to think of the enormous capital needed by a p... ...fellow country-woman the nursemaid, honest Flicoteaux exhibited full salad-bowls adorned with many a rivet, or pyramids of stewed prunes to rejoice th... ...ed to lead an expensive life in which petits verres, cups of coffee, punch-bowls, sight-seeing, and suppers played a part. In the early days of Lucien... ... the door. Lucien came to open it. The room was forlorn in its bareness. A bowl of milk and a penny roll stood on the table. The desti- tution of geni... ...ie over to the tender mercies of the Liberal papers, for she would find no champions on the Royalist and Ministerial side. Her acting was certain to p... ...st the editor of L’Aristarque, L’Oriflamme, and Le Drapeau Blanc, that his championship only injured Lucien. In vain did the athlete return the Libera...

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...nues of sinecurists, and stripping the thin, tawdry veil from attrac- tive superstitions, are working as actively in literature as in society. The cre... ..., and Mentes, who was about to leave for Leucadia, left him to the medical superintendence of a friend of his, named Mentor, the son of Alcinor. Under... ... that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew near places conse... ... with wine the copious goblets crown’d, And, pleased, dispense the flowing bowls around; 29 With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends, The pÆans leng... ...ing to be pleased.” Thus Vulcan spoke: and rising with a bound, The double bowl with sparkling nectar crown’d, 32 Which held to Juno in a cheerful way... ...th bloom divine, The golden goblet crowns with purple wine: While the full bowls flow round, the powers employ Their careful eyes on long-contended T ... ...oke the king: “Great perils, father! wait the unequal fight; These younger champions will oppress thy might. Thy veins no more with ancient vigour glo... ...uder of the praise. The prizes next are order’d to the field, For the bold champions who the cæstus wield. A stately mule, as yet by toils unbroke, Of... ...ipides, who in his “Phœnissæ” repre- sents Antigone surveying the opposing champions from a high tower, while the pædagogus describes their insignia a...

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...rsuit of him. It was now about nine o’clock, and the room seeming al- most supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to con- gratulate myself u... ...h all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine. My arm hung over the counterpane, ... ...f with it. Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strange- ness, to tho... ...d ‘the weeds were wrapped about his head,’ and all the watery world of woe bowled over him. Y et even then beyond the reach of any plum- met— ‘out of ... ...island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates. Seeing himself placed next the... ... placed before us. We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the h... ...Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God! CHAPTER 27 Kni...

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... use of persons of wealth and distinction. The saddle and housings of this superb palfrey were covered by a long foot-cloth, which reached nearly to t... ... emblems. Another lay brother led a sumpter mule, loaded probably with his superior’s baggage; and two monks of his own order, of inferior station, ro... ... ful, he could sustain with great decorum. His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his... ...ce or language what it will, who now bear them best in Palestine among the champions of the Cross!” “It becomes not one wearing this badge to answer,”... ...guage. 42 Ivanhoe Brian de Bois-Guilbert; “yet to whom, besides the sworn Champions of the Holy Sepulchre, can the palm be assigned among the champio... ...peaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matin chime ere he quitted his bowl; and, old as I am, I feared to have shame in encounter- ing you. But, ... ...of the native of any other country to engage in the genial conflict of the bowl with the hardy and strong-headed Saxons; something he mentioned, but s... ...s called, which was to take place at Ashby, in the county of Leicester, as champions of the first renown were to take the field in the presence of Pri... ...y of despair. Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver, or lower part of his helmet, announce...

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...tter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce! Am I to rush out into the... ...ure there were rum everythings. Pity there was not a word of truth in that superstition about bodies bleeding when touched by the hand of the right pe... ...hich no di- rect ray of sun, moon, or star, ever penetrated, but which was superstitiously regarded as a sanctuary replete with comfort and retirement... ... retreated; prowling bathers, went about looking into ornamental boxes and bowls as if they had suspicions of larceny on the part of the Podsnaps, and... ...ing a cheek to be kissed, as sympathetic and responsive as the back of the bowl of a spoon, ‘is quite an honour! You will probably find your sister La... ...ave let me in for a failure, and your wife says I am the cause of it. I’ll bowl you down. I will, though I have no whiskers,’ here he rubbed the place... ... him short, with intense defiance in her expressive little eye- brows, and championship of the late Secretary in every dimple. ‘No! Never again! Your ... ...nd this dining, though expensive, remunerative, in the sense that it makes champions. Mr Podsnap, as a representative man, is not alone in caring very... ... Putting this nonsense aside, I have observed a suspicious tendency in the champions to divide into two parties; the one, contending that there are no...

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... pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin... ...rely through his solicitors, Messrs. Kenge and Carboy, of Lon don. A very superior gentleman, Mr. Kenge. T ruly eloquent indeed. Some of his periods ... ..., sir,” said I. He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there was a gre... ...tives—and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population. 38 Bleak House – Dickens Mr. Jarndyce, who ... ..., sir, if you please”; and putting on his hat again (which was like a soft bowl), cracked his whip, re awakened his music, and went melodiously away. ... ...es and smooth round blocks of stone, as if the trees were going to play at bowls with the stones), and the whole house reposes on her mind. She can op... ... cannibal chiefs and it being proposed to abolish cannibalism, indig nant champions were to put the case thus: Make man eating unlawful, and you star...

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...r their reception; the virgins of the vil- lage attend to prepare the kava bowl and entertain them with the dance; time flies in the enjoyment of ever... ... may stumble on a mill-house, tolling and trembling there, fathoms deep in superincumbent forest. On the carpet of clean sward, troops of horses and h... ...quite a fleet of ships must be remembered, and a strong staff of captains, supercar- goes, overseers, and clerks. These last mess together at a libera... ...nia, and Hawaii it has been either suppressed or placed under close public supervision. In Samoa, where it still flourishes, there is no regulation of... ...m his solemn and dull countenance. Impossible to conceive two less dashing champions for a threatened race; and there is no doubt they were reduced to... ...assed through the house in the interval. Mataafa sat within, over his kava bowl, un- moved. The picture is of a piece throughout: excellent cour- age,... ..., and the result 111 Robert Louis Stevenson was delightfully amusing. The champions asked for the En- glish printer. They were shown the wrong man, a...

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...edge that, had he fallen in the conflict, it had been by a noble hand. The champions formed a striking contrast to each other in person and features, ... ...rms in which the minstrels of the day were wont to repre- sent the infidel champions, and the fabulous description which a sister art still presents a... ... formality of behaviour in him who entertained it. This haughty feeling of superiority was perhaps equally entertained by his new European acquaintanc... ...as formed of creatures of this world, so much did they resemble a choir of supernatural beings, rendering hom- age to the universal object of adoratio... ...s veil of mist. The motions of the lady of his love were to him those of a superior being, who was to move without watch or con- trol, rejoice him by ... ... “My lords,” said El Hakim, “I understand you well. But knowledge hath its champions as well as your military art— nay, hath sometimes had its martyrs... ... received from the generous Soldan; but when he had pledged Saladin in the bowl of sherbet which the Soldan had proffered to him, he could not help re... ...rved? Had he murdered my father, and afterwards partaken of my food and my bowl, not a hair of his head could have been injured by me. But enough of h... ...g and acceptable manner which was possible. At length he drank off a large bowl of wine, and addressing the Soldan, desired to know whether it was not...

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...that Lyng was one of the few houses good enough in itself to dispense with super- natural enhancements. “And I suppose, poor, ineffectual demon, that’... ... came out again and 17 Wharton paced slowly along the springy turf of the bowling-green to the gardens behind the house. At their farther end rose a ... ...e clock. “Where is he, then?” “He’s gone out,” Trimmle announced, with the superior air of one who has respectfully waited for the question that a wel... ...en does she not bid me show the letter?” Then he remembered that it had no superscription, and that the words it contained, supposing them to have bee... ...s, the pale spring flowers scattered here and there in V enice glasses and bowls of old Sevres, recalled, she hardly knew why, the apartment in which ... ...e to love her. The exchange of these vows seemed to make them, in a sense, champions of the new law, pioneers in the forbidden realm of individual fre...

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...ainst Harrow and Winchester. He was sent in first in the Harrow match; the bowling was steady and straight, but Patteson’s defence was admirable. He s... ...here was but one four, and by steady play completely broke the neck of the bowling. Eton won the match easily, Patteson making a brilliant catch at po... ...idding, the Winchester captain, played an uphill game so fiercely that the bowling had to be repeatedly changed. Our eleven were disorganised, and the... ...able. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superfluous energy at the ex- pense of far less time than cricket matches r... ...s less accustomed to talk about his feelings than I am, in which I see his superiority, but partly because our tastes are in several respects differen... ... shallow way of catching a thing at first rather quickly perhaps, but only superficially. I find my interest increasing greatly in philological studie... ...island, and that they had set out to defend or avenge him. He received his champions with reproof:—’This is the very thing I told you not to do. It is... ...ealous men almost injuring the good cause, and placing its best and wisest champions in an un- necessarily difficult position, because they do not see...

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...nd. 27 George Meredith ‘Yes, with the General!’ ‘He is a noble old man.’ ‘Superb. And don’t say “old man.” With his uniform and his height and his gr... ...make a fitting income, carving out a fortune. Eight hundred may stand as a superior basis. That sum is a distinct point of vantage. If it does not mea... ...ritical mind, well able to distinguish between the simple metaphor and the superobese. A year of habitation induced her to conceal her dislike of the ... ...he could not accept a ‘perhaps’ that cast dubiousness on her disinterested championship. She protested a perfect certainty of the single aim of her he... ...t had seemed. She was now beset by battle. His pity for her, and his eager championship, overwhelmed the spirit of compassion for the foolish wretched... ... to his nerves. A woman doubted by her husband, is always, and even to her champions in the first hours of the noxious rumour, until they had solidifi... ...of charming were addressed to the women. Men may be counted on for falling bowled over by a hand- some face and pointed tongue; women require some woo... ...uld become a glutton.’ ‘Do,’ said Tony. ‘I should be ashamed to “drain the bowl” all to myself: a solitary toper is a horrid creature, unless he makes... ..., the magnetic attraction in the spirituous flames of that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-colou...

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...aring one of their number confounded for his pains, and by the wearer of a superfine dashing-white waistcoat, was moved to take no- tice of the total ... ...ture why we choose to give sign of a particular surliness when our wealthy superiors would have us think their con- descending grins are cordials. The... ...nd his Court, together with the view taken of honest labour in the mind of super- cilious luxury, even if indebted to it freshly for a trifle; and the... ...ist and dumpy Horsa, quitting ledger and coronet, might recur to their sea bowlegs and red-stubble chins, might take to their tarpau- lins again; they... ... has chanced to set foot near a wasp’s nest, out on him came woman and her champions, the worthy and the sham, like a blast of powder. Victor ejaculat... ...hook hands. ‘And now, you fellows, you’re to know, that this is one of the champions; and you take your lesson from him and thank him,’ Dartrey said, ... ...ace, next week, say Wednes- day, half-past six, for a long evening—flowing bowl—eh, shall it be?’ Nesta came looking to find her Captain Dartrey. Mr. ... ...is mother’s blunt mention of the abominable name—mediaevally vindicated in champions of certain princely families indeed, but mor- ally condemned; alw...

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..., I could invent one — and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me. Well, a man like ... ...eem to me that of all the childish, idiotic, chuckle headed, chicken livered super stitions that ev — oh, damn Merlin!” But Clarence had slumped to h... ...nd sincerely afraid of Merlin’s pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to ta... ...th the paint pot and stencil plate; insomuch that there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ... ... slaves were bangless, and al lowed their hair free growth. So I inverted a bowl over his head and cut away all the locks that hung below it. I also ... ..., breast to breast. I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. When they were within thirty yards of me they le... ...re issued a congratulatory proclamation to my army in these words: SOLDIERS, CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: Your General congratulates you! ...

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..., the founder of the family fortunes, with his wife. Some one gave us this bowl the other day because it has their crest and initials. We think it mus... ...used and gratified to find that he had the power to an- noy his oblivious, supercilious hostess, if he could not im- press her; though he would have p... ...Mrs. or Miss Hilbery out here he would have made them, some- how, feel his superiority, for he was chafed by the memory of halting awkward sentences w... ...let himself in, having verified the presence of Uncle Joseph by means of a bowler hat and a very large umbrella, he gave his orders to the maid, and w... ... spiritually the head of the family, and Katharine, her daughter, had some superior rank among all the cousins and connections, the more so because sh... ...ircles of deep blue upon the shining brown wood. In the middle there was a bowl of tawny red and yellow chrysanthemums, and one of pure white, so fres... ...er word that robbed the sentence with his name in it of any meaning. Those champions of the cause of women, Mr. Clacton and Mrs. Seal, did not perceiv...

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...ar… . “Fear is very like pain in this, that it is a deterrent thing. It is superficial. Just as a man’s skin is infinitely more sensitive than anythin... ...tuations in the face of charging lions and elephants, and once he had been bowled over and carried some distance by a lion, but on none of these occas... ...rld. It left the outlines, it obliterated nothing, but it stripped off the super- ficial reality of things. The moon was full and high over- head, and... ...y him with a certain portentousness, and we would go out pregnantly making superficial remarks about the school cricket and return, discussing botany,... ..., and others were scattered over the table. She had been arranging the big bowl of flowers in the centre. He left 139 H G Wells the door open behind ... ...d by the way of life that is convenient for Rigdon the vegetarian and fits Bowler the saint like a glove? It isn’t convenient for me. It fits me like ... ... Bible and the Talmud and the exertions of those inevi- table professional champions who live upon racial feeling, far more than their common distinct...

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...ecompense to themselves their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatter... ...uch her in feriors; so it is matter of no greater astonishment, that this superiority in Jenny, together with that behaviour which is its certain con... ...ven a sollicitation to the contrary: for, indeed, such sollicitations from superiors always savour very strongly of commands. But all here were free f... ...pon me to record the lives and actions of two of their false and pretended champions. A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy; and I will say... ...will be in the army. I remember I once put the case to our chaplain over a bowl of punch, and he confessed there was much difficulty in it; but he sai... ... march within little more than an hour, to spend that time with her over a bowl of punch. Jones had lain awake all this while, and had heard great p...

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... short. He taught the boy boxing, and shooting, and the arts of fence, and superintended the direction of his animal vigour with a melancholy vivacity... ...aining energies of Algernon’s mind were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. He preached it over the county, struggling through laborious liter... ... another of Sir Austin’s intellec- tual favourites, chosen from mankind to superintend the edu- cation of his son at Raynham. Adrian had been destined... ...t! “Did we beat to-day, uncle?” “Yes, boy; and we’d beat them any day they bowl fair. I’d beat them on one leg. There’s only Watkins and Featherdene a... ...o inspect the jail where Tom Bakewell lay groaning over the results of the super-mundane conflict, and the victim of it that he was. In Lobourne Austi... ...And so he was dragged into the lists by Ralph, and experienced the luck of champions. For cricket, and for diving, Ralph bore away the belt: Richard’s... ...ing and running. Why will silly mortals strive to the painful pinnacles of championship? Or why, once having reached them, not have the magnanimity an...

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.... The taste for luxury, the love of war, the sway of fashion, and the most superficial as well as the deepest passions of the human heart, co-operated... ...without faith, and prosperity apart from virtue; assuming the title of the champions of modern civilization, and placing themselves in a station which... ...queville above the level of their waters; each of them thus forming a vast bowl filled to the brim. The slightest change in the struc- ture of the glo... ...“Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior force, aged men refused to fly or to survive the destruction of th... ...few feet above the level of their waters; each of them thus forming a vast bowl filled to the brim. The slightest change in the struc- ture of the glo... ...“Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior force, aged men refused to fly or to survive the destruction of th...

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...se of Brantome and de la Noue he learned to compare the wild and loose yet superstitious char- acter of the nobles of the League, with the stern, rigi... ...rs.] and supply her richly, out of the stores of his own imagination, with supernatural beauty, and all the prop- erties of intellectual wealth. But e... ...is campaign. T wo were 37 Sir Walter Scott black (the regimental colour), superb chargers both; the other three were stout active hacks, designed for... ...was looking another way, into the resemblance of the grotesque face on the bowl of a Ger- man tobacco-pipe; after which, with an odd conge to W averle... ...bably have done as much credit to the good old cause as any of its doughty champions at Drumclog, when, behold! the pedlar, snatching a musket from th...

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... Roman Catholic Church. According to Jean Paul Rich- ter, Fischart is much superior to Rabelais in style and in the fruitfulness of his ideas, and his... ...wn, like Shakespeare in England, Moliere and La Fontaine in France, may be superior to those who have served them with suggestions; but then the new w... ...ion of which dates from 1611. It is in every way exceedingly valuable, and superior to that of Nicot, because instead of keeping to the plane of class... ...ut forthwith began flag- ons to go, gammons to trot, goblets to fly, great bowls to ting, glasses to ring. Draw, reach, fill, mix, give it me with- ou... ...th with a top, washed his hands with his broth, and combed his head with a bowl. He would sit down betwixt two stools, and his arse to the ground—woul... .... At hari hohi. At the flat bowls. At I set me down. At the veer a... ...nimitable force. He fought at barriers with the stoutest and most vigorous champions; and when it came to the cope, he stood so sturdily on his feet t... ...arquebusier behind him. Chapter 1.XLII. How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions, and how he hanged upon a tree. Thus went out those valiant champ... ...erit is above. The Author’s Prologue. Most illustrious and thrice valorous champions, gentlemen and others, who willingly apply your minds to the ente...

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........................................................................................................................................ 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORATION OF KING JAMES II. ...... 42 CHAPTER VI THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS.?THE DEATH OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT OF CASTLEWOOD; AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF HIS VISCOUNTESS........................

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............................................................. 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORA TION OF KING JAMES II. ........ ...came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his officers was superior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my poor George, who had t... ...who had never looked upon so much beauty before, felt as if the touch of a superior being or angel smote him down to the ground, and kissed the fair p... ... his reverence kept my lord company for some hours over a pipe and a punch-bowl; and went away home with rather a reeling gait, and declaring a dozen ... ...in as Captain Westbury and Lieu- tenant Trant were on the green playing at bowls, young Esmond looking on at the sport, or reading his book in the arb... ...ly little orphan lad Harry Esmond: and they read together, and they played bowls together, and when the other troopers or their officers, who were fre... ...errace to-night—” And here the Doctor coming up, the colloquy of the young champions ended. V ery likely, big as he was, Hawkshaw did not care to cont... ...is to be, Harry Esmond and I would have justice of him.” “Are not two such champions enough to guard me?” says Beatrix, something sorrowfully; “sure, ... ... are best away from the city; and when the Prince is acknowledged, and our champions have restored him, and he hath his own house at St. James’s or Wi...

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...said I worshipped him . . . I cannot help wor- shipping him, he is so much superior to other men.’ He studied his subject intensely. ‘Dur- ing all the... ...et steady and controlled; and it was with such force that Johnson’s almost superhuman personal- 13 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ity inspired the art of ... ... all other forms of literature, and as purely creative forms they may rank superior to biography; but in each case it will be found that their authent... ...elished. They then repaired to one of the neighbouring taverns, and made a bowl of that liquor called Bishop, which Johnson had always liked; while in... ...stage over again. He has it at half price.’ Johnson. ‘Dr. Mayo, like other champions for unlimited tol- eration, has got a set of words. Sir, it is no... ...ts. Garrick sometimes used to take him off, squeezing a lemon into a punch-bowl, with uncouth ges- ticulations, looking round the company, and calling... ...nt as far as the neighbourhood of Salisbury, to Heale, the seat of William Bowles, Esq., a gentle- man whom I have heard him praise for exem- plary re...

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...t be put with a crew who will make it their object to bully him out of his superiority, and the more I do for him, the worse it will be for him, poor ... ...you; I’m sure it is very good of you. Janet—Janet, where’s the great Dutch bowl—and the little Salviati? Noth- ing else is worthy of this dear little ... ...f the town Kencroft had its own charm- ing garden; a lawn, once devoted to bowls and now to cro- quet, an old-fashioned walled kitchen garden, sloping... ...arent on Jock’s torn and stained collar and swelled nose. But the namesake champions remained unconvinced, ex- cept that Johnnie may have come over to... ...tons, who had an immense regard for her husband, who, they say, was a very superior man.” “It is hardly necessary to be told so.” “They mean to take l... ...He looked for a moment much disconcerted; but then with a little masculine superiority, answered— “Well, well, we’ll think over it, Mary. See how it a... ... and yellow still.” Carey, much moved, went over and kissed both her boy’s champions, while Ellen said, with tears in her eyes, “Oh, Johnny, I’m glad ... ...ed in days of yore, When outlaws bold were rife, The days of dagger and of bowl, Of dungeon and of strife. Oh! for the days when forks were not, On sk...

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...ul look in the unmoving eyes of the spec- tre forbade the idea of anything supernatural; but for all that, in the brief space between his dreaming and... ... if to steady himself, took up a little dagger, and said: “Have you been a supernumerary clerk of the T reasury for three years without receiving any ... ...egorically to the old man, who only smiled meaningly by way of answer. His superior smile led the young scientific man to fancy that he himself had be... ...eam. Here, will you not take some?’ “She pounced like a kitten, on a china bowl full of milk. She did it so quickly, and put it before me so prettily,... ...etical illusion with which the intel- lect invests it. Even these fearless champions, accustomed to measure themselves with excess, were struck with h... ...the servant, swal- lowing a huge morsel that he had just dipped in a large bowl of coffee. “There is his carriage,” said the elderly stranger, pointin... ...ion to-morrow,” several young men exclaimed, interpos- ing between the two champions. Raphael left the room in the character of aggressor, after he ha... ...matic plants bloomed about it, in a realm of meadow as fresh as an English bowling-green. The fine soft grass was watered by the streams that trickled...

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...ery- thing with him was graduated—carefully graduated civility towards his superior, towards his inferiors carefully graduated incivility. So—for he w... ...sted, rather gently, “a hero has always been a strong wonderful being, who champions—” 102 The Longest Journey “Ah, wait till you are the dragon! I h... ...here are count- less openings for imagination,—for the mysterious, for the supernatural, for all the things you are trying to do, and which, I hope, y... ...he assembled house. All day long cabs had been driving up, full of boys in bowler hats too big for them; and Agnes had been superintending the numberi... ...iving up, full of boys in bowler hats too big for them; and Agnes had been superintending the numbering of the said hats, and the placing of them in c... ... in him, and Ansell noticed how he gazed at the wreaths that ascended from bowl and stem, and how, when the stem was in his mouth, he bit it. He gave ...

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...ied he, becoming more and more eager, “Na- poleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolu- 12 War & Peace tion, suppressed its abuses, preser... ...s glance— friendly and affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority . “I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man amo... ... He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He himself un... ...ss, tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him to wha... ...g till the sample, which a quartermaster sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log before his shelter, had been tasted. An... ...with whom he would inevitably collide. This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostov and his Bedouin over (Rostov felt himself quite tiny and weak... ...only lose by tak- ing the offensive. Patience and time are my warriors, my champions,” thought Kutuzov. He knew that an apple should not be plucked wh... ...l was Morel, his orderly. When Morel had drunk some vodka and finished his bowl of porridge he suddenly became unnaturally merry and chattered incessa...