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...to.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-057es.html Israel, economy of At $105 billion annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Israel's economy is larger than Bulgaria... ...estic Product (GDP), Israel's economy is larger than Bulgaria's ($19 billion gross domestic product per year), the Czech Republic (91), Hungary (77... ... College at Cambridge as a "subsizar" - i.e., on condition that he performs certain domestic services. The story of the apple is not a legend. I... ... out of wedlock in the late 1880s. This was, at the time, the cause of an enormous scandal. They married only in 1904, after her husband died. ... ...tm http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Microbiology/Paras ites/?tc=1 Teapot Dome With the exception of Watergate, there has never be... ...s ites/?tc=1 Teapot Dome With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teap... ...there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider implications than the Teapot Dome affair during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. I... ...ainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude oil. The "Teapot Dome" - named after a rock resembling the kitchen implem... ...ers gifts and "loans" amounting to $400,000 - an enormous fortune at the time. The scandal was made public in 1922 in a long investigation by the U...

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...The Slavery of Ownership Pg 1054 The Slave Culture of Civilization Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 1055 Advertizing Pg 1059 Water P... ... habitation as being due to the collection of firewood and the overgrazing of domesticated animals… but they cannot explain how even before civiliza... ...he Lions their killing fields of wild animals. They only protected their own domesticated herds. They did not protect the wild herds also. They di... ...ean. President Suharto of Indonesia being swept out of office amidst cries of scandal and corruption… but did anyone dare prosecute him? No. He ke... ...stabilize things… as each new crisis, war, market crash, economic failure, and scandal keeps on happening. What keeps these supposedly intelligent... ... Politicians who are honest enough to publicly admit to any sexual, or family scandal are forced to resign in huge humiliation and disgrace. Even t... ... or bottle, all containers from bottles, jars, gourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasur...

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...ncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyag...

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...passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, ... ...es postilion on one of the bishop’s fat mules at Faro. The blue and yellow domestic went down the steps into the boat. Then came the bishop’s turn; bu... ...board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets and cypresses, domes and castles; great guns were firing off, and the blood-red flag of th... ...ght, measuring from the middle nail of the gilt cres- cent surmounting the dome to the ring in the centre stone; the circle of the dome is one hundred... ...Mariam. So it was she stood as two of us (I mention the number for fear of scandal) took her picture. So it was that the good-natured black cook looke... ...his lady, and the Bishoplings his numerous children, who were said to have scandalised the people of Jerusalem. That sneer evidently came from the Lat...

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...ed Steel? *Notorious (1709) publication, with allu- sions to contemporary scandals. 34 CANTO IV But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed, And s... ...ft on his sooty pinions flits the Gnome, And in a vapor reached the dismal dome. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, The dreaded east is all ... ...s, and purple fires; Now lakes of liquid gold, Elysian scenes, And crystal domes, and angels in machines.* *Refers to a stage device used for effect. ... ...ry side are seen Of bodies changed to various forms by Spleen. Here living teapots stand, one arm held out, One bent; the handle this, and that the sp... ...llating dust. Sudden, with starting tears each eye o erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose. Now meet thy fate, incensed Belinda cried, And...

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...int force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion’d dome, (The world’s just wonder, and even thine, O Rome!) No single parts un... ...Here point your thunder, and exhaust your rage! Yet shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice; All seems infect... ... a famous book written about that time by a woman: full of court and party-scandal, and in a loose ef- feminacy of style and sentiment which well suit... ...t on his sooty pinions flits the Gnome, And in a vapour reach’d the dismal dome. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, The dreaded east is all ... ...s, and purple fires: Now lakes of liquid gold, Elysian scenes, And crystal domes, and angels in machines. Unnumber’d throngs on every side are seen 8... ...pe – V olume One Of bodies changed to various forms by Spleen. Here living teapots stand, one arm held out, One bent; the handle this, and that the sp... ...ugh every region flies, In every ear incessant rumours rung, And gathering scandals grew on every tongue. From the black trumpet’s rusty concave broke...

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...ed to thieve? Why should slovenly and drunken servants exist? Why should a domestic staff be suffered in indulge in bouts of unconscionable debauchery... ... never noticed that his coachman, elated with the hospitality of Manilov’s domestics, was making remarks of a didactic nature to the off horse of the ... ...ents, the narrow yard in front of the window was full of poultry and other domestic creatures—of game fowls and barn door fowls, with, among them, a c... ...ion, Chichikov decided to dispense with ceremony; wherefore, taking up the teapot, he went on as follows: “You have a nice little village here, madam.... ...oth, bescratched walls of white pine, a three-cornered press with cups and teapots, egg-cups of gilded china standing in front of ikons suspended by b... ...ly I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar. Then I staked some more things, and, like a fool, los... ...itions to it, and spread such stories as would give rise to God knows what scandals. “This is indeed bad!” Chichikov said to himself. “I have been an ... ... been removed, owing to the fact that the ladies had found his conduct too scandalous to be borne, now that the delinquent had taken to seating himsel... ... few kopecks. Of course there are diffi- culties, and, to avoid creating a scandal, I should need to employ plenty of finesse; but man was given his b...

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.... But incidentally I have re-read most of Machiavelli, not excepting those scandalous letters of his to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have r... ...d back volumes of Punch, from which I derived concep- tions of foreign and domestic politics it has taken years of adult reflection to correct. And at... ...ity that embraced us all. Then the parish graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with an air of appetite was walled in by a B... ...re vio- lent crimes, and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my fathe... ...ather is always “A.,” and I am always “D.” It is manifest she followed the domestic events in the life of the Princess of Wales, who is now Queen Moth... ... he a little forced himself upon me. At that time, though the shadow of my scandal was already upon me, I still seemed to be shaping for great success... ... her tea things, and poured needless water from the silver kettle into the teapot. Then she sat still for some moments looking at the equipage with ex...

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...made a voyage from Australia to look at the grave in the churchyard, I should go away, thankful to GOD that that house was so close to it, and that it... ...So would be, and so were, Skirmish- ers. The Uncommercial took the liberty of hinting that he hardly thought it probable that any lady or gentleman in... ...ike Don Quixote on the back of the wooden horse) in the region of wind, now in the region of fire, now in the region of unmelting ice and snow. Here, ... ... pink eyes, eating meat-pie with the Giant: while, by the hedge-side, on the box of blankets which I knew contained the snakes, were set forth the cup... ...sat on his tools while he used them. And they could all speak to one another, and he understood what they said. And they got into his lodging, and int... ...ecanters containing port and sherry and cork; Sally’s sister at the tea-table, clinking the best crockery and shaking her head mournfully every time s... ...nto it together: she leaving the door open, with an eye as I understood to the social proprieties. The door opening at once into the room without any ...

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...a house o’erturn’d, Whisper’d he had a mistress, some said two — But for domestic quarrels one will do. Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit, ... ... shine, ‘T is in arranging all my friends’ affairs, Not having of my own domestic cares. And so I interfered, and with the best Intentions, ... ...e just were wishing all: And science profits by this resurrection — Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. Their friends had tried at ... ...on to augur good or ill: He and his wife were an ill sorted pair — But scandal ‘s my aversion — I protest Against all evil speaking, even in j... ... complimented Don Alfonso’s taste; And if she could not (who can?) silence scandal, At least she left it a more slender handle. I can’t tell whe... ...s youth, And of the folly of all prudish fears, Victorious virtue, and domestic truth, And then of Don Alfonso’s fifty years: I wish these... ...lassic articles of female want, French stuffs, lace, tweezers, toothpicks, teapot, tray, Guitars and castanets from Alicant, All which selecte...

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... Moreover it is to be observed that these are an industrious people, and a domestic people, and an honest people. And though we are aware that at the ... ...’ to derive intellectual profit from the entertainments, and who brought a scandal on you. Finally, His Majesty said that you could hardly put too lit... ...ted hus bands have at various times been found, on occasions of premature domestic anxiety, going round and round it, try ing to find the Nightbell.... ...ood manners, who had been brought in from the house where she had lived as domestic servant (having, I suppose, no friends), on account of being subje... ...— caught up more clay and made a saucer—a larger dab and whirled it into a teapot—winked at a smaller dab and con verted it into the lid of the teapo... ...e, being made in moulds; and how the handles of teacups, and the spouts of teapots, and the feet of tureens, and so forth, are all made in little sepa...

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...ed that women had been at work; and if so, it was upon the business of the scandal- monger; and if so, Nevil fought his cousin to protect her good nam... ...esult of an optically discernible influence of our hero’s character in the domestic circle; perhaps a faintly-out- lined circle or two beyond it. But ... ... have no personal objection to the marquis; he has never been in any great scandals. He is Norman, and has estates in Normandy, Dauphiny, T ouraine; h... ...selves. Crescents and hollows, rosy mounds, white shelves, shining ledges, domes and peaks, all the towering heights were in illumination from Friuli ... ...im for it. 72 Beauchamp’s Career Glittering V enice was now in sight; the dome of Sta. Maria Salute shining like a globe of salt. Roland flung his ar... ...ely to call out the sense of honour and loyalty, than the distrust and the scandal going on in your class?’ ‘Please to say yours too.’ ‘I’ve no class.... ... true.’ She turned her eyes from Beauchamp silent to Cecilia’s hand on the teapot. ‘Half a cup,’ she said mildly, to spare the poor hand its betrayal ...

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... and re- turned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two fe- male domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table by th... ...lf her usual tumbler of hot Port Negus. And the female 71 Charles Dickens domestics—two robust sisters, with staring black eyes, shin- ing flat red f... ...epulchre of coat and gaiters, sealed with ponder- ous buttons. Behind this domestic, Mr and Mrs Boffin took their seats in the back compartment of the... ...ina?’ Mr V enus again shook his head. ‘Because if he had ever showed you a teapot, I should be glad to know of it,’ said Mr Boffin. And then, with his... ... the floor, as if he knew there was something interesting connected with a teapot, some- where among them. Mr Wegg and Mr V enus looked at one another... ...s nose: as an admonition to Venus to keep himself generally wide awake. ‘A Teapot,’ repeated Mr Boffin, continuing to muse and survey the books; ‘a T ... ...ing along, Mr Wrayburn.’ ‘ Are the lads of the village—and the ladies—such scandal-mon- gers?’ he asked, as he took her hand and drew it through his a...

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..., and fired with the injustice! And war, too – I hear of war – war in this teapot! What a complication of absurdity and disgrace! And when the inevita... ...there is no sense in beating about the bush between two men: you know what scandal says of her?’ Gotthold, with pursed lips, silently nodded. ‘Well, c... ...r ever dispelled the illusion. She is one rather to make than to prevent a scandal, and she val- ues none of those bribes – money, honours, or employ-... ...cholar, and have learned refinement; and you rake together all this vulgar scandal, and propose to print it in a public book! Such is your chivalry! B... ... you had to scour pans, Herr Von Gondremark, you would call it, I suppose, Domestic Courage?’ ‘I would, madam,’ said the Baron stoutly, ‘if I scoured ... ...e, they were so hued and scented, they were so beset and cano- pied by the dome of the blue air of heaven. At length, when she was well weary, she cam...

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...methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic ditto; which formed the staple of editorial speculation at that ti... ...place naturally brought changes in John Sterling’s schoolmasters: nor were domestic trag- edies wanting, still more important to him. New brothers and... ...then, is the noble rule of living for a man? In this world so eclipsed and scandal- ously overhung with fable and hypocrisy, what is the eter- nal fac... ...nder olive-tinted haze, the illimitable limitary ocean of London, with its domes and steeples definite in the sun, big Paul’s and the many memories at... ...du Midi close to us for several hours; glittering like the top of a silver teapot, far up in the sky. Our course lay along the Valley of the Rhone; wh... ...little as we are used that way) to shudder in pity and abhorrence over the scandalous trag- edy, transcendent nadir of human ugliness and contempt- ib...

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...With the dispersal of shadows, and the repetition of the daily 13 Wharton domestic office, Mary Boyne felt herself less oppressed by that sense of so... ...and the sturdy flutings of the Geor- 16 Early Short Fiction – Part 2 gian teapot. It was as if, in some roundabout way, all her dif- fused apprehensi... ...ich leaves the brain clear, but holds the body motionless, she saw herself domes- ticated with the Horror, accepting its perpetual presence as one of ... ...ibah B., saw far off, across the morning sea, a faint vision of towers and domes dissolved in golden air. It was a rare February day of the year 1760,... ...sly guarded as the Grand Turk’s wives, and you must be answerable for this scandal. The best I can do is to have you taken privately to the Palazzo Ca... ...y’re parted it spoils my dinner.” Mrs. Plinth and Mrs. Ballinger exchanged scandalised glances, and the latter said: “I should hardly advise you to re... ...rs. Leveret, who looked at the others. “I always deprecate anything like a scandal—” Mrs. Plinth continued. “She has been the cause of one to-day!” ex... ...d whispering together. At last the tea was brought in a discol- ored metal teapot. Julia poured a cup and drank it hastily. It was black and bitter, b...

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...od cook.” “May I come to dinner?” said Jim. “Oh, yes. You’d find it rather domestic.” “Where do you live?” “Rather far out now—Amersham.” “Amersham? W... ...other man was doing. And the sight of the water steaming in a jet from the teapot seemed attractive. “Yes,” said Lilly. “You’ve slept for a good two h... ...glasses. Aaron did not move. It was not his nature to concern himself with domestic matters—and Lilly did it best alone. The two men had an almost unc... ...d steadily, as if calmly. Any- one glancing in would have imagined a quiet domestic hearth at that moment. He, too, feeling physically weak, remained ... ...s always seek- ing to betray him. Or she is a Madame Bovary, seeking for a scandal. But the bourgeois husband, he goes on being the same. He is the ho...

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...ues she adds much to her husband’s happiness. The truth is that in matters domestic she rules supreme over her titular lord, and rules with a rod of i... ...er her titular lord, and rules with a rod of iron. Nor is this all. Things domestic Dr Proudie might have abandoned to her, if not voluntarily, yet wi... ...he readily gave this up to undertake the onerous but conge- nial duties of domestic chaplain to the bishop. Mr Slope, however, on his first introducti... ...h have always been dear to high-church priests, to that party which is now scandalously called the high-and-dry church, were ridiculed, abused, and an... ...ntagious), would bring you oranges, French novels, and the last new bit of scandal, and then hear of your death or your recovery with an equally indif... ...ought which then agitated his mind. Now in this matter, the widow Bold was scandalously ill-treated by her relatives. She had spoken to the man three ... ...old’s. He had sat there alone with his glass before him, and then with his teapot, thinking about Eleanor Bold. As is usual in such meditations, he di...

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...ssions upon Mr. Polly’s mind. (Aunt Mildred, who was an unexplained family scandal, had declined Mrs. Johnson’s hospitality.) Everybody was in profoun... ...our o’clock in the after- noon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domestic work, above the elbows, showing her rather slender but very shapel... ...ad. There was a threadbare tablecloth on the table, and the slop basin and teapot did not go with the cups and saucers, the plates were different agai... ... go back to harness, and he was as fitted to go in harness as the ordinary domestic cat. All night, Fate, with the quiet complacency, and indeed at ti... ...y tak- ing life in a nice, easy, gentlemanly way, confound him! Well, this dome-headed monster of intellect alleges that Mr. Polly was unhappy entirel... ..., who was given rough music by the youth of the neighbourhood because of a scandal about his wife’s sister, and who was nevertheless totally uninteres... ...sed to struggle. They found themselves torn apart and held up by outwardly scandalised and inwardly delighted neighbours, and invited to explain what ... ...the family in mourning, crunching a teacup under his heel, oversetting the teapot, and finally trip- 180 The History of Mr. Polly ping backwards over... ...springs released. Mr. Polly was tumbled backwards and fell over the broken teapot and into the arms of the father in mourning. Something struck his he...

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...ert speaking out of his silence, and annulling the whole convention of the domestic home. His presence was almost an anguish to Winifred. She prayed a... ... addressed, from a distance, with this abbreviation. There is considerable scandal about John Tho- mas in half a dozen villages. He flirts with the gi... ...is great-coat and pushed back his hat. 42 D. H. Lawrence ‘Who handles the teapot?’ he said. Nora Purdy silently poured him out a cup of tea. ‘W ant a... ...ed pattern of harsh red and deep blue, the cups large and bell-shaped, the teapot gallant. Isabel looked at it with superficial appreciation. Her nerv... ...ght of her. Mrs. Wernham, going round behind the chairs with a large black teapot, halting slightly in her walk, was not aware of her for a moment. Th... ...e said, starting. Then he laid his hand on Bertie Reid’s head, closing the dome of the skull in a soft, firm grasp, gathering it, as it were; then, sh... ... and cakes. The chatter was general. It concerned the Nixon family and the scandal. ‘Oh, she’s a foul-mouthed woman,’ said Jinny of Mrs. Nixon. ‘She m...

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...rickly sense of masculine honour. The stir to his name roused pestilential domestic stories. In those days the aristocrat still claimed licence, and e... ... English great lady; and they exchanged salt, without which your cur- rent scandal is of exhausted savour. They enjoyed the pecu- liar novel relish of... ...She takes his name, they say. She may be a respectable woman—I’ve heard no scandal. We have to hear of a Lady Ormont out of Society! We have to suppos... .... Our men are good beasts; they give the best in ‘em, and drop. More’s the scandal to a coun- try that has grand material and overtasks it. A blazing ... ... maid. Mrs. Pagnell could be counted on for drawing in her tongue when the domes- tics were near. A languor past delivery in sighs was on the young wo... ... patient gentleman, while asking him in her mind who was the author of the domestic burden he had to bear. ‘It reminds me I have a mission,’ she said.... ...at of bacon invited her to satisfy her hunger. Aminta let her sniff at the teapot unpunished; the tea had a rustic aroma of ground-ivy, reminding Weyb...

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...t of all, had David Nicholson to father, the idea of facing whom on such a scandalous subject was physically sickening. They stood awhile consulting u... ...gh; and putting one thing with another, hasted with the first word of this scandal, not to the police, but to his friend. The old gentleman had long r... ...oided, in the streets; the pleasant chant of the north-country accent; the dome of St. George’s reminding him of his last penitential moments in the l... ...h he had entered almost by a burglary, and where at any moment he might be scandalously challenged. 28 Tales & Fantasies He moved at once, his hat st... ...time to make a full end of all there was to eat, and not only to empty the teapot, but to fill it again from a kettle that was fitfully singing on his...

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... bright suggestion, he added: ‘Couldn’t something temporary be done with a teapot?’ If he had meant to bring the subject prematurely to a close, he co... ...members of Mr Dombey’s household subsided into their several places in the domestic system. That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the... ...ence—or whether her overflowing goodness induced her to volunteer into the domestic militia as a substitute in some sort for his deceased Mama—or whet... ...ually accompanying themselves with effervescent noises; and where the most domestic and confidential gar- ments of coachmen and their wives and famili... ...t strings, and alter looking vacantly for some moments into a little black teapot that was set forth with the usual homely service on the table, shook... ... out the localities as they went, and enlivening the walk with any current scandal suggested by them. In this manner the Major and Mr Dombey were walk... ...rb on behalf of Miss T ox, and one little silver scoopful on behalf of the teapot—a flight of fancy in which good house- keepers delight; went upstair... ...is mature in nothing but in suffering and guilt, blasted old age that is a scandal on the form we bear. unnatural human- ity! When we shall gather gra...

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...w slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds! The black teapot, being very small and easily filled, ran over while Mrs. Corney was ... ...re resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate. The small teapot, and the single cup, had awakened in her mind sad recollections of M... ...other—like him.’ Whether this remark bore reference to the husband, or the teapot, is uncertain. It might have been the latter; for Mrs. Corney looked... ....’ ‘Very nice animals, ma’am,’ replied Mr. Bumble, approv ingly; ‘so very domestic.’ ‘Oh, yes!’ rejoined the matron with enthusiasm; ‘so fond of thei... ...into the kitchen he went. There were assembled, in that lower house of the domestic parliament, the women servants, Mr. Brittles, Mr. Giles, the tinke... ...r that, by the end of that short time, Oliver T wist had become completely domesticated with the old lady and her niece, and that the fervent attachme... ... a dark room adjoining; but the best au thorities consider this downright scandal: he being young and a clergyman. ‘Oliver, my child,’ said Mrs. Mayl...

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...cept that it stops at the first upper story and its summit is a small open dome, beneath which stands a now blackened statue of Saint Calyste. The gar... ...and the aged brother and sister framed by that ancient hall, were a moving domestic harmony. Fanny would fain have questioned Calyste, but he had al- ... ... handkerchief, unfolded for the purpose of displaying the heavy corners of domestic embroidery, and trimmed with flimsy lace. Her gait was tolerably b... ...tte’s cakes; for which festal event issued from their wrap- pings a silver teapot and some beautiful old English china sent to the baroness by her aun... ...y these things, which rend my heart as they issue from it? I preferred the scandal of an irreparable deed to the shame of constant deception; my own l... ... now to the full truth. Madame de Rochefide is wholly unworthy of you. The scandal of her fall was not necessary; she did the thing deliberately in or... ...44 Balzac giving that person in the rue Saint-Georges a fresh occasion for scandal, don’t you give her a husband?” “Ah! my dear director, now you have...

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...res, the lights of the long streets, lights that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air. No dark- ness would ever se... ...find that she has spent her day in calling, music, play with the children, domestic duties—what you will; her illusions have not been destroyed. She g... ... her hair. Ages have consecrated this hour, and the most ma- jestic of all domestic actions, to talk of love between women; but Miss Warrington being ... ...ther people.” “But that’s my life,” she said, under cover of refilling the teapot. “That’s no one’s life,” he returned, “no young person’s. You’ll com... ...ied his hunger, he proceeded to tell them that the hotel was seething with scandals, some of the most appalling kind, which had happened in their abse...

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... was employed to superin- tend the youth’s education; he was surrounded by domestics of the most established character, and closely watched and looked... ...es- sion on him, and they were consigned over at the close of the story to domestic happiness.—So ended John MacKinlay’s legend. The author of Waverle... ...ess, that, on the arrival of a new housemaid, the ancient, hereditary, and domestic spi- 54 Guy Mannering ders, who have spun their webs over the low... ...m, if you will favour me.” Mrs. Mac-Candlish bustled about, reinforced her teapot with hyson, and proceeded in her duties with her best grace. “We hav... ...com- pany, totally disregarding the censures of those whom his remarks had scandalised. And then the funeral pomp set forth; saulies with their batons... ...ppropriated to the deceased, and in which she would have been not a little scandalised to have seen this colossal specimen of the masculine gender lol... ...wyer, had he not had such a turn for the roguish part of the profession.” “Scandal would say,” observed Mannering, “he might not be the worse lawyer f...

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...om- fortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circum- stances. There cannot be any objection to your seeing her ... ...box with a sliding lid, with a view of St. Paul s Ca- thedral (with a pink dome) painted on the top; at the brass thimble on her finger; at herself, w... ...mashed a quantity of cups and saucers 40 David Copperfield Vol. I and a teapot that were grouped around the book. On the walls there were some comm... ...d it s very hard that in your own house I may not have a word to say about domestic matters. I am sure I managed very well before we were married. The... ...ith her elbow on the tray, that the contents of the urn had overflowed the teapot and were 243 David Copperfield Vol. I laying the whole table-clot... ...- recting general attention to me in my indefinable costume, is perfectly scandalous and disgraceful. Jane Murdstone, said her brother, have the ... ...e actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who oc- casioned some scandal in the neighbourhood by exhibiting a fine infant from door to door,...

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... bright suggestion, he added: ‘Couldn’t something temporary be done with a teapot?’ If he had meant to bring the subject prematurely to a close, he co... ...members of Mr Dombey’s household subsided into their several places in the domestic system. That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the... ...ence—or whether her overflowing goodness induced her to volunteer into the domestic militia as a substitute in some sort for his deceased Mama—or whet... ...ually accompanying themselves with effervescent noises; and where the most domestic and confidential gar- ments of coachmen and their wives and famili... ...t strings, and alter looking vacantly for some moments into a little black teapot that was set forth with the usual homely service on the table, shook... ... out the localities as they went, and enlivening the walk with any current scandal suggested by them. In this manner the Major and Mr Dombey were walk...

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...one of the men to marry a plain quiet girl, fancying she would be the more domestic; and for yourself, you would find Emma very accommodat- ing—never ... ... the better, adapting herself to every one, and talking a sort of sensible scandal, with a superior air of regret; obtaining histories at one house to... ...three people, and a lump of sugar, and now was shutting up the unfortunate teapot without one drop of water!’ And gaily driving him away, she held up ... ...uestioning whether golden-crest or long-tailed 171 Yonge pye lived in the dome above. No, no; don’t waste anxiety upon me. I am very happy, and have ... ...that my aunt is more aged and feeble.’ ‘And Master Arthur has set up for a domestic character. It must be after a fashion of his own.’ ‘Rather so,’ sa... ...ke mistakes. “How doth the great idle wasp—”’ ‘Busy bee!’ cried the child, scandalized. By wonderful blunders, and ingenious halts, he drew her into p... ...member all the talk about Mrs. Finch?’ So little had Lady Elizabeth heeded scandal, that she had hardly known these stories, and had not identified th...

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...d therefore de sired to be immediately accommodated with the little black teapot of strong mixed tea, a couple of rounds of buttered toast, a middlin... ...r principal victim and object of wrath, was her single 61 Charles Dickens domestic servant, one Miss Miggs; or as she was called, in conformity with ... ...and wholly undeserving. When particularly exasperated against them (which, scandal said, was when Sim Tappertit slighted her most) she was accustomed ... ...ical proportions! That I had but eyes, to look upon these twin invaders of domestic peace!’ ‘Get out!’ said Mr Tappertit, glancing downward at his fav... ...—Well, when you have,’ said the locksmith, ‘never faint, my darling. More domestic unhappiness has come of easy fainting, Doll, than from all the gre... ...g down the glass, preceded them without another word. John was a good deal scandalised by this observance, but seeing that Mr Haredale took little hee...

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...little pot of tea, wherein was infused one little silver scoopful of that herb on behalf of Miss Tox, and one little silver scoopful on behalf of the teapot--a flight of fancy in which good housekeepers delight; went upstairs to set forth the bird waltz on the harpsichord, to water and arrange the plants, to dust the nick-nacks, and, according to her daily custom, to make ...

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...rb on behalf of Miss T ox, and one little silver scoopful on behalf of the teapot—a flight of fancy in which good house- keepers delight; went upstair... ...le tears at the wires with her beak, and goes walking, upside down, in its dome-top, shaking her house and screeching; but Mr Carker is indifferent to... ...red youngest Toodle but one, who would ap- pear, from the frequency of his domestic troubles, to have been born under an unlucky planet, was prevented... ...t the shop-door of an evening, looking up and down the street. CHAPTER 40. DOMESTIC RELATIONS IT WA S NOT IN THE NATURE of things that a man of Mr Dom... ...is mature in nothing but in suffering and guilt, blasted old age that is a scandal on the form we bear. unnatural human- ity! When we shall gather gra...

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...ed assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage... ...e Ionic columns and on the first floor a semicircular gal- lery, while the dome that crowns it is occupied by a Gallic cock, resting one foot upon the... ...re too large. Not many people came to these soirees at the chemist’ s, his scandal-mongering and political opinions having successfully alienated vari... ...the fire, and were soon asleep. The fire was dying out in the cinders; the teapot was empty, Leon was still reading. Emma listened to him, mechanicall... ...on between them. Her own gentleness to herself made her rebel against him. Domestic mediocrity drove her to lewd fancies, marriage tenderness to adult... ...kled in the wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes, the domestic tete-a-tete—she gathered it all up, took everything, and made it a... ... , although she felt in it a sort of indecency and a naive coarseness that scandalised her. Rodolphe reflected a good deal on the affair of the pistol...

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...rs? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed roma...

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...wo fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from... ... expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what th... ...which had brought a coronet into a new branch and widened the relations of scandal,—these were topics of which she retained details with the utmost ac... ...ano, and I am very glad he is not,” said Dorothea, whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her, considering the s... ...ogether.” “No, thank you, Mrs. Waule,” said Mary Garth. “I dislike hearing scandal too much to wish to repeat it.” Mr. Featherstone rubbed the knob of... ...ences cheerfully. She had been magnanimous enough to renounce all pride in teapots or children’s frilling, and had never poured any pathetic confidence... ...on in Middlemarch. Some said, that the Middlemarch 211 Vincys had behaved scandalously, that Mr. Vincy had threatened Wrench, and that Mrs. Vincy had...

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... was not the aggressive German, so dear to the English journalist, nor the domestic German, so dear to the English wit. If one classed him at all it w... ...ad stolen upstairs to see whether there were scones for tea. He warmed the teapot—almost too deftly— rejected the orange pekoe that the parlour-maid h... ...re is nothing to get up for in London.” “Nothing to get up for?” cried the scandalised Mar- garet. “When there are all the autumn exhibitions, and Ysa... ...e. You’re all a bit hard on Miss Schlegel.” “That Paul business was pretty scandalous, though.” “I want no more of the Paul business, Charles, as I sa... ...onversation, and gradually Leonard flung reticence aside, told some of his domestic troubles and hinted at the rest. The undergraduate, supposing they... ...n.” Jacky sighed, said, “Len, I do think you might ex- plain,” and resumed domesticity. Explanations were difficult at this stage, and Leonard was too... ...he house—”servants, people out of the windows. They think it’s some vulgar scandal, and I must explain, ‘Oh no, it’s only my sister screaming, and onl...

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...the Colonel’s threshold, without other greeting than that of the principal domestic. This person—a gray-headed man, of quiet and most re- spectful dep... ...t strikingly indicated the hard and severe character of Colonel Pyncheon’s domes- tic rule; “my master’s orders were exceeding strict; and, as your wo... ...of vivid brilliancy, so far as color went, and still unfaded, although the teapot and small cups were as ancient as the custom itself of tea-drinking.... ... testi- mony. It is often instructive to take the woman’s, the private and domestic, view of a public man; nor can anything be more curious than the v... ...bstance that involves it. We must not stain our page with any contemporary scandal, to a similar pur- port, that may have been whispered against the J... ...us blood might now and then be heard gurgling in their throats. The latter scandal —as became a person of sense, and, more especially, a member of the... ...f public 256 The House of the Seven Gables appreciation. But the talk, or scandal, to which we now al- lude, had reference to matters of no less old ...

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... the largest pipe in the little vaulted room behind the hall.” ‘One of the domestics, in a very kind manner, executed the baron’s order in the course ... ...“Leave the lamp,” said the baron. ‘“ Anything else, my lord?” inquired the domestic. ‘“The room,” replied the baron. The domestic obeyed, and the baro... ... her now.’ Nicholas sighed involuntarily at the thought of the agree- able domestic prospect thus opened to him; but Squeers was, fortunately, too muc... ...re only waiting for one more gentleman,’ said Miss Squeers, taking off the teapot lid, and looking in, to see how the tea was getting on. It was matte... ...ut off, if I may use the expression, highly disrespectful to this company; scandalous, perfectly scandalous. It may be the custom to allow such things... ...harm. If she 246 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY indulged in scandal, nobody’s reputation suffered; and if she enjoyed a little bit of r... ...onest in ought but ever putting legs under seame table wi’ such as thou.’ ‘Scandal!’ said Squeers, exultingly. ‘Two witnesses to it; W ackford knows t... ...he other, but reflect with bitterness of spirit on the absence of a silver teapot with an ivory knob on the lid, and a milk-jug to match, which had be...

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...y, honest-looking countryman on the box, who, with his eyes fixed upon the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, appeared so wrapt in admiring wonder, as to be... ...onest in ought but ever putting legs under seame table wi’ such as thou.’ ‘Scandal!’ said Squeers, exultingly. ‘Two witnesses to it; W ackford knows t... ...he other, but reflect with bitterness of spirit on the absence of a silver teapot with an ivory knob on the lid, and a milk-jug to match, which had be... ...owdie’s private ear, which were il- lustrated by various references to the domestic economy of the cottage, in which (those duties falling exclusively... ...purpose to send him back to that loathsome den from which I brought him.’ ‘Scandal again!’ cried Squeers. ‘Recollect, you an’t worth powder and shot, ... ..., and never will be, anybody like him in all the world—in you we have seen domestic vir- tues and affections, and delicacy of feeling, which exactly q...