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...e natives recite incantations and make an offering of sacrifices -- A terrible thunder storm believed to be the result of diabolical arts of the nativ... ...ling of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter... ...APTER LI. Story of a Starving Crew. -- Northwest Fox -- Founding of the Hudson Bay Company -- Everything frozen -- Looking for a copper mine -- Cook a... ...ebergs................................... 501 Cook in the harbor of Karakakooa bay.................................... 502 King Terreeoboo on his way ... ...had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners into a condition of panic. ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF HANNO. Han... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ... sends them other cattle, which he has for tenths in other provinces; and if a thunderbolt has stricken any beast of any herd or flock, he receives no... ...rch where, according to the customs of the time, he was secure, for the church sanctuary must not be violated. After remaining for some days in this p... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d...

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...sun will return and the sea’s eye will glitter and I will gaze across the bay—and Alcaeus will not be here. My feet are cold and the lamp is weak an... ...ill the war never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for a day and a night. Then, stabbing us, came clarity, and inside tha... ...e for me, as their commander, to speak. Very well, I will!” And his voice thundered across the room, to make sure that none would miss or mistake it... ...in Pyrgos,” Phaon tells me, his head on my lap. “I was born in a terrible thunderstorm, in my father’s hut. He was a very clever fisherman but there... ...Andrew. They insisted upon being presented to me. The four men offered me sanctuary in the kingdom of Edessa. Priests, soldiers, young and old cram... ...res of rivers and their permanency. These studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is s... ... no doubt the swiftest. The jig maker’s safest. The priest’s dullest. The mariner’s loneliest. The lover’s saddest. VOICES FROM THE PAST 404 ... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir...

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...not need to be sensitive to any night-sounds since the fire kept predators at bay. It allowed them to eat cooked food: which killed many delicate en... ... curious replicas or small babies of the huge fiery volcano that spat out its thunderous roar and flashed yellow death only once before erupting ton... ...environment full of abstract lines, symbols, shapes, spaces. Or witnessing a thunderstorm, a tidal wave, a sunset. This is the crudest, most commo... ...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...ss than two centuries. At first, there was the pure monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Then the Northwest Company based in Montreal entered the ... ...own because of being left stranded by the English King’s refusal to give them sanctuary. Not only did he refuse them sanctuary, he had his name cha... ...preme coordinating power-commander-instructor. Is this a good way to train marines or human beings or children? Is that what all the rest of th... ...seen. Every American death was glorified to the hilt. Single deaths of one Marine; were blazed out on National Media. Each single one was honored...

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...iddle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league fr... ... he won’t have the carving of ye.” Long before daylight we arrived off the bay of Nukuheva, and making short tacks until morning, we then ran in and s... ...lors. In the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture “Bowsprit Bitts.” They were about a foot apart, and bet... ...an. who had just disappeared. Scarcely was the thing done, when lo! with a thundering bound, the clumsy box was torn from its fastenings, and banging ... ...as cannibals; and for that reason their hospitality is seldom taxed by the mariner. Within a few years past, missionaries from the Society group have ... ...and shouting. But darting forward the instant I had the helm, the old cook thundered on the forecastle with a handspike, “Break- 78 Omoo ers! breaker... ...th the listless, slovenly behaviour of these men; there was nothing of the national vivacity in their movements; noth- ing of the quick precision perc... ... of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The really curious way in wh... ...ough the chapel. Flowing waters! what an accompaniment to the songs of the sanctuary; mingling with them the praises and thanks- givings of the green ...

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...Forecastle Bulwarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 122 Midnight Aloft — Thunder and Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 123 The Musket . . . . . ... ...e, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling ev... ...” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free; Now bright,... ...ar she blows — bowes — bo o o s!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder and lightning! so near! Call all hands!” J. Ross Browne’s Etchings ... ...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ...e nourished in his untutored youth. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father’s bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having... ...uth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in... ... be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents. It is this decap ...

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..., Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling ev... ... By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing free; Now brigh... ...re—thar she blows—bowes—bo-o- os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder and lightning! so near! Call all hands.” —J. Ross Browne’ s Etch- i... ...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...oard; when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah’s head; in all this raging tu... ...e nourished in his untutored youth. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father’s bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having... ...uth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in... ... be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable con- 329 Herman Melville te...

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...Juan “Canto One” 26 ‘T is sweet to hear the watch dog’s honest bark Bay deep mouth’d welcome as we draw near home; ‘T is sweet to know ther... ... Had pour’d upon him for the last half hour, Quick, thick, and heavy—as a thunder shower. At first he tried to hammer an excuse, To which the... ...The wind was fair, the water passing rough: A devil of a sea rolls in that bay, As I, who’ve cross’d it oft, know well enough; And, standing u... ...riek there rush’d, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush’d, Save the wild wind and the remorsel... ...weather, He caged in one huge hamper altogether. Then having settled his marine affairs, Despatching single cruisers here and there, His ves... ...ally, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the different nations something national; ‘T was all the same to him—’God save the king,’ Or ‘Ca ir... ...ic Of Dido’s alphabet; and this is rational As any other notion, and not national);— Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 187 But Juan was quite ‘a... ... and thunder ‘Nay!’ I don’t think that you used Kinnaird quite well In Marinet’s affair — in fact, ‘t was shabby, And like some other things w... ...nown; But I have motives, whether wise or silly, For letting that pure sanctuary alone. Therefore I name not square, street, place, until I ...

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...ed, when we found ourselves rounding the head- 7 Thackeray land into Vigo Bay, passing a grim and tall island of rocky mountains which lies in the ce... ... a grim and tall island of rocky mountains which lies in the centre of the bay. Whether it is that the sight of land is always welcome to weary marine... ...f the bay. Whether it is that the sight of land is always welcome to weary mariners, after the perils and annoyances of a voyage of three days, or whe... ...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ...dmiral’s flag floating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thundering great guns at the bows and stern, its busy crew swarming on the ... ...the young gentleman in the bows of the boat—the handsome young officers of marines we met sauntering in the town next day—the Scotch surgeon who board... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...glers. The other day a Spanish revenue vessel was shot to death under the thundering great guns of the fort, for neglecting to bring to, but it so ha... ...ecting poems, had he been with us, on the dark loneliness of that violated sanctuary. We passed from hall to hall, terrace to terrace—a few fellows we...

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...ere, as if it was filled with innumerable shining particles; and the noble bay horses that drew the sleigh were covered, in many parts with a coat of ... ... aloud to the black: “Hol up, Aggy; there is old Hector; I should know his bay among ten thousand! The Leather-Stocking has put his hounds into the hi... ...lers had united, according to the Christian custom, his baptismal with his national name, and to them he was generally known as John Mohegan, or, more... ... and profusely garnished with bottles and glasses. In the entrance to this sanctuary Mrs. Hollister was seated, with great gravity in her air, while h... ...uries. The heavy and brisk blows that he struck were soon succeeded by the thundering report of the tree, as it came, first cracking and threatening w... ...st’ard; and I was below, mixing a toothful of hot stuff for the captain of marines, who dined, dye see, in the cabin, that there very same day; and I ... ...e medicine chest for a cure; for, as I thought the brew was spoilt for the marine’s taste, and there was no telling when another sea might come and sp... ...ucceeded by a sound like the rushing of the winds, which was followed by a thundering report, and a shock that caused the very earth to tremble as one... ... a lawyer—’but Can communicate nothing further at present’—hum, hum. “ The national convention ‘— hum, hum—’ unfortunate Louis’—hum, hum—’ex- ample of...

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...nd when he imagined him- self to have been working hard and well, it was a thunder- bolt to him to find, at the end of the half-year, that a great dea... ...els.’ They met near T anna, but not before the Bishop had been in Dillon’s Bay, on the island of Erromango, the scene of Williams’s murder, and had al... ...ld no longer be the penal abode of the doubly con- victed felons of Botany Bay, but should instead become the home of the descendants of the mutineers... ...ourney by land, no small proof of the confi- dence inspired by so recent a mariner. He was sorry to lose the sight of the further visitation, and in h... ...Yo n g e tal circumstances can confine it, it recognises no human ideas of nationality, or place, or time, but embraces like the dome of heaven all th... ...haped his course for Bauro. On the way he had the experience of a tropical thunder- storm, after having been well warned by the sinking of the baromet... ...native habits, nor talk of learning, for which the giants saw no need. The national complexion here was of a lighter yellow, the costume a tat- tooed ... ...o quite relieved me from my duties as skipper, and I have no trouble about marine stores, ship- ping seamen, navigating the vessel now. I cannot be to... ...such men, and we fail to under- stand him, nous autres I mean, outside the sanctuary. Yet there is, I must confess it to you, my dear uncle, a somethi...

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... a curious mixture of mockery and respect and even fear, knew well as “the Thunderer of the Times Newspaper,” there were much to be said, did the pres... ...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...“beautifulest sheet-lightning,” as I often said, “not to be condensed into thunder-bolts.” Add to this,—what indeed is perhaps but the same phe- nomen... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ... signals it, drops rapidly on board of it: “Stop!” fiercely interjects the marine police- man from the ship’s deck.—”Why stop? What use have you for m... ...or you?” and the oars begin playing.— ”Stop, or I’ll shoot you!” cries the marine policeman, draw- ing a pistol.—”No, you won’t.”—”I will!”—”If you do... ... to struggle his way into the temple, if temple there were, and there find sanctuary.* The realities were grown so haggard; life a field of black ashe... ...hops are very poor. The English do not mix at all with the Portuguese. The Bay is a very bad anchorage; but is wide, bright and cheerful; and there ar... ...r, and a great appearance of comfort among the people: the view of Mount’s Bay is certainly a very noble one. Torquay would suit the health of my Wife...

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...him by deceitful appearances. These are among the bravest and most skilful mariners that exist. Let a gale arise and swell into a storm, let a sea run... ...s drying on upper window sills. At bathing time in the morning, the little bay re echoes with every shrill variety of shriek and splash—after which, i... ...sociated in the minds of all Englishmen with brave, unpretending, cordial, national service. We like to look at him in his Sunday state; and if we wer... ... our watering place, was to contravene the great decree. Whether by these thunderbolts or not, the No Gas party were defeated; and in this present se... ...dungeon a ship going down; secondly, that the military creature’s arm is a national affront, which the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.... ...merican association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was thundering and tumbling in my eyes and ears, and the very rainbows that I l... ...o be putting on greasy old ‘ats and cloaks, and playing tambourines in the Bay o’ Naples, with Wesuvius a smokin’ according to pattern in the backgrou... ... the stranded fishing boats turn over on their sides, as if they were dead marine monsters; the colliers and other shipping stick disconsolate in the ... ...ideration from the messengers, and having his card promptly borne into the sanctuary of the temple. The havoc committed in society by this Eastern bro...

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...en demi- gods, and in their leader an Olympian Jupiter, armed with all his thunders. When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was closed beh... ...hat bustle, which when a good repast is on foot prevails generally in that sanctuary of good living. The procurator had without doubt been warned of h... ... they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined. The king, even while obeying him like a ... ...terward, the white flag was floating over the heads of the four friends. A thunder of applause saluted its appearance; half the camp was at the barrie... ...e a judge enter to interrogate her. But no one entered except two or three marines, who brought her trunks and packages, deposited them in a cor- ner,... ...d him, shutting the door after him. One instant after, the heavy step of a marine who served as sentinel was heard in the corridor—his ax in his girdl... ...gnan who holds her prisoner and is about to send her to some filthy Botany Bay, some infamous Tyburn of the Indian Ocean. All this she owes to D’Artag... ...gers as your Ladyship!” “Meanwhile,” said Felton, “convey me to the little bay of—; you know it was agreed you should put in there.” The captain repli...

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...tion, to dine with Alder- man Balls at Highbury Barn, there came on such a thunder- storm as only happens on V auxhall nights, and as obliged the youn... ...fortable evening together, that they declared they were rather glad of the thunder-storm than oth- erwise, which had caused them to put off their visi... ...yes. He has a white Pony to come and fetch him, and a groom in livery on a bay mare. I wish my Papa would let me have a Pony, and I am Y our dutiful S... ...r in the whole county, but he found means to attend it. Y ou might see his bay mare and gig-lamps a score of miles away from his Rectory House, whenev... ...er and daughter wept, when they were together embracing each other in this sanctuary, may readily be imagined by every reader who pos- sesses the leas... .... It is blowing fresh. The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motio... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...ose mermaids are about no good, and we had best not ex- amine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims....

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...om failed to charm forth my mite. You Scotch, who are so proud of your own nationality, must make due allow- ance for that of other folks. On the next... ...age a man and a woman, together with two large Newfoundland dogs, the deep bay- ing of which I had for some time heard. A yelping terrier or two, whic... ...- ing the evening, begin to descend with a vengeance; sounds as of distant-thunder (the noise of the more distant waves, doubtless, on the shore) ming... ...Redgauntlet, in the midst of a’ this fearful riot, cried, wi’ a voice like thunder, on Steenie Piper to come to the board-head where he was sitting; h... ... court of the Gentiles, man,’ said my fa- ther; ‘we will have you into the Sanctuary at once—over shoes, over boots.’ ‘But, sir, I should really spoil... ...en on the verge of the water, resem- bling one of those fog-banks on which mariners are said to gaze, uncertain whether it be land or atmospherical de... ...attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a... ...ou a repeating frigate between Summertrees and the laird! Tell that to the marines—the sailors won’t believe it. But you are right to be cautious, sin...

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...erred in the middle of the city, near the present gymnasium. His tomb is a sanctuary and refuge for slaves, and all those of mean condition that fly f... ...ed into night, and that, too, no quiet, peaceable night, but with terrible thunderings, and boisterous winds from all quarters; during which the commo... ... farther use of the priests, and that was to give people directions in the national usages at funeral rites. 114 V olume One Numa taught them to rega... ...vealed to him many secrets and future events; and particularly a charm for thunder and light- ning, still in use, performed with onions and hair and p... ...t), with a number of fisher-boats and one thirty-oared ship, anchored in a bay of Salamis that looks towards Nisaea; and the Megarians that were then ... ...to the river to bathe, at that part where the winding of the bank formed a bay and made the waters stiller and quieter; and, seeing no guard, nor any ... ...mand Greece, thus, as Plato says, from steady soldiers he turned them into mariners and seamen tossed about the sea, and gave occasion for the reproac... ...rwise, you must make use of others to intercede for you, for it is not the national cus- tom here for the king to give audience to anyone that doth no... ...turners; those again that conveyed them to the town for use, merchants and mariners and ship- masters by sea, and by land, cartwrights, cattle-breeder...

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... cousin,” declared our new acquaintance enthusiastically. At that time the Marine Board examinations took place at the St. Katherine’s Dock House on T... .... And when the thought flashed upon me that these were the premises of the Marine Board and that this fellow must be connected in some way with ships ... ... with righ- teousness, the inseparable companion and backer up of all such national catch-words, looking everybody in the eye as it 54 Chance were. T... ...he grave tones of the dailies rumbling with compassion as if they were the national bowels. All this lasted a whole week of industri- ous sittings. A ... ... side of the street. But they read them with different feelings. They were thunderstruck. Fyne had to explain the full purport of the intel- ligence t... ...ght have been the sullenness of a man unconscious of guilt and standing at bay to fight his “persecutors,” as he called them; or else the fear of a so... ...? The privileged men, the lover, the husband, who are given the key of the sanctuary do not always know how to use it. For myself, with- out claim, wi... ...To the man then of a silence made only more impressive by the inarticulate thunders and mutters of the great seas, an utter stranger to the clatter of... ...ling his head to the right and to the left fiercely, like a wild animal at bay not knowing which way to break out … “ “TRULY,” COMMENTED MARLOW, “brou...

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...be done in a little space through the panes of his Win- dow in Thrums. The National Observer was at the climax of its career of heroic insistence upon... ...cattered. Then came the generous opportunities of the Yellow Book, and the National Observer died only to give birth to the New Review. No short story... ...at was intense. The boiling of the iron and the tumult of the blast made a thunderous accompaniment to Horrocks’s voice. But the thing had to be gone ... ...d been struck. Then the dome of the observatory resounded with a series of thundering blows. The stars seemed to sweep aside as the telescope— which h... ...lls THE TREASURE IN THE FOREST THE CANOE was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the li... ...one could dimly make out, in almost obliterated pencil, the outline of the bay. “Here,” said Evans, “is the reef, and here is the gap.” He ran his thu... ...lete, was washed ashore near Torquay, and a few days later a boat from the Marine Bio- logical station, engaged in dredging off Plymouth, picked up a ... ...in my arms— as though it mattered. I don’t know why. They seemed a sort of sanctuary, you know, they had lasted so long, I suppose. “She must have die...

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...hink of the pitch- dark nights, the roaring winds, and rolling seas:’ ‘The thunder, lightning, rain, hail, storm of all kinds,’ said the boy. ‘To be s... ...fore they knew what had happened; and at that moment (it was market day) a thundering alarm of ‘Mad Bull!’ was raised. With a wild confusion before he... ... cherished feelings of bitterness and jealousy against T oots; and, in the sanctuary of her own home, repeatedly denounced him as a ‘chuckle-headed no... ...t been assisted by Diogenes himself, who suddenly took it into his head to bay Mr Toots, and to make short runs at him with his mouth open. Not exactl... ...Midshipman before their owner had well finished speaking. But that ancient mariner might have been excused his in- sensibility to the treasure as it r... ...tled to a terrible extent. Five o’clock arriving, and with it Mr Carker’ s bay horse, they got on horse- back, and went gleaming up Cheapside. As no o... ...ssured by the tranquillity that reigned within the precincts of the wooden mariner, the Captain headed for Brig Place, resolving to weigh anchor betim... ...love on, all uncared for, yet with constancy and patience, in the tranquil sanctuary of such remembrances: although it mouldered, rusted, and de- caye... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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... that morning. So settled and orderly was everything seaward, in the bright light of the sun and under the transparent shadows of the clouds, that it ... ... human lives, and has never stirred since! From which point, or from which, she drove ashore, stern foremost; on which side, or on which, she passed t... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...of five different-coloured rib- bons across it) was so frightened for his sake, that she fainted away. Many wondrous secrets of Nature had I come to t... ...k his coal-scuttle in one hand, his candle and key in the other, and descended to the dismallest underground dens of Lyons Inn, where the late vehicle... ...it. The drums upon the heights have gone to bed, or I know they would rattle taunts against me for having my unsteady footing on this slippery deck. T... ...ears. Hence, there is attraction of repulsion for me in Saint Ghastly Grim, and, having often contemplated it in the daylight and the dark, I once fel... ...ally ordered and appointed. A single stride at Houndsditch Church, no wider than sufficed to cross the kennel at the bottom of the Canon- gate, which ...

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... home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the ush... ...did Murat so particularly much? And he was as cunning fronting odds, and a thunderbolt at the charge. Why speak of him in the past? He is an English l... ...mmunicate farther with Miss Farrell at the school. Now there was a regular thunder-hash among the boys on the rare occasions when they met the girls. ... ...as, never- theless, a heaving picture, like the sea in the background of a marine piece at the theatre, which rouses anticipations of storm, and shows... ...earts. The vast realm of feeling is open to these appointed keepers of the sanctuary household, who may be withering virgins, may be childless matrons... ... Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting... ...sionately to patronize, all idle admirers of a shadowed beautiful woman at bay, the devotees of any beauty in distress, and such as had seen, such as ... ...thew, Weyburn at the rud- der espied one of those unenfranchised ladies in marine uni- form issuing through the tent-slit. She stepped firmly, as into...

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...land, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring bur glaries by armed men, and highway robberies,... ...itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling ... ...bout, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast d... ...ple there was yet some wild beast thought of the possibility of turning at bay. Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting... ...t to break down in this attempt to practise for popular ity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and there fore Mr. Attorney General had ma... ...leaned against a window. The curtains were long and white, and some of the thunder gusts that whirled into the corner, caught them up to the ceiling, ... ...eption in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worship ... ...harles Darnay had begun to make, that he would go to Paris. Y es. Like the mariner in the old story, the winds and streams had driven him within the i... ... still with something of Miss Pross’s own perception that they two were at bay. She saw a tight, hard, wiry woman before her, as Mr. Lorry had seen in...

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...othing.’ ‘He seems to be no gardener!’ ‘He said he wanted to make a Botany Bay sort of garden,’ said the old man; ‘and sure enough ’tis a garden of we... ...you would believe that he is the most prom- ising plant rearing for Botany Bay!’ said Mrs. Frost. ‘He is a boy from that wild place Marksedge, whom Lo... ...mber your digging on, like a very Casablanca, all alone, in the midst of a thunder-storm, because Jem had forgotten to call you in, crying all the tim... ... shillings, costs three-and-sixpence—a sum he could no more pay than I the National Debt, and with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, bran... ...t?’ 116 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 ‘It is a time when a display of loyalty and national spirit may turn the scale. I am resolved to let no trifle prevent ... ...ot do to encourage that old skipper—he was waylaying them like the Ancient Mariner, and was actually growing impudent. ‘An old man’s opinion of two yo... ...placed on the table; and a semicircle swept round it, within which nothing marine might extend. Louis was by turns drawing, enticing his refractory si... ...dfall for the Miss Faithfulls. Mary’s heart throbbed as the first carriage thundered upon the gravel, and a sudden swelling checked her voice as she w... ...ne anywhere else, but will it not bear being brought into the light of the sanctuary? No, I cannot like it. I have no doubt many go up for ordina- tio...

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... in his whole head of hair and even in his cultivated whiskers. CHAPTER XL National and Domestic ENGLAND HAS BEEN IN A DREADFUL state for some we... ...g Doodle, now in frocks and long stockings, were grown up. This stupendous national calamity, however, was averted by Lord Coodle’s making the timely ... ...me. “Guardian,” said I, “do you remensher, when we were over taken by the thunder storm, Lady Dedlock’s speaking to you of her sister?” “Of course. O... ...horoughfare. Here, against a hoarding of decaying timber, he is brought to bay and tumbles down, lying gasp ing at his pursuer, who stands and gasps ... ...has magnificently disengaged himself from the subject and retired into the sanctuary of his blue coat. Mr. Tulkinghorn, an indistinct form against the... ...er yourself in custody, George.” “Custody? What for?” returns the trooper, thunderstruck. “Now, George,” says Mr. Bucket, urging a sensible view of th... ...premises a deal. His premises are the premises formerly occupied by Krook, marine store dealer—a relation of this gentleman’s that you saw in his life... ... bird upon his head) to hold forth vehemently against Sir Leicester in the sanctuary of his own home; similarly, also, he defies him as of old in the ... ...on for an extensive course of reading and holds even the dragon Boredom at bay. The cousins generally are rather shy of Chesney Wold in its dullness, ...

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...the party . At the man’ s were a Mem- ber, an Engineer, a Payer-off of the National Debt, a Poem on Shakespeare, a Grievance, and a Public Office, who... ...neerings, expressly to meet the Member, the Engineer, the Payer-off of the National Debt, the Poem on Shakespeare, the Grievance, and the Public Offic... ...oon, or star, ever penetrated, but which was superstitiously regarded as a sanctuary replete with comfort and retirement by gaslight, and on the door ... ...three of him, all covered with upholstery in green and white! And with two bay horses tossing their heads and stepping higher than they trot long-ways... ...nce, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out why ... ...aches, announcing that he is coming among them for their suffrages, as the mariner re- turns to the home of his early childhood: a phrase which is non... ...ast voyage.’ ‘Then you have not been to sea lately?’ ‘No. Been in the sick bay since then, and been employed ashore.’ ‘Then, to be sure, that accounts... ...goblins at their house in the forest, without 602 Our Mutual Friend their thunderous low growlings of the alarming discovery, ‘Somebody’s been drinki... ...f Bradley. The sec- ond day was sultry and oppressive. In the afternoon, a thunder- storm came up, and had but newly broken into a furious sweep of ra...

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...nt places all day long. The gorges of the Simplon, its enormous depths and thundering waterfalls, the wonderful road, the points of danger where a loo... ...e. They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as—hum—national benefits. Mr Merdle is the man of this time. The name of Merdle is... ... smiled Bar. ‘If you don’t know, how can I know? Y ou are in the innermost sanctuary of the temple; I am one of the admiring concourse on the plain wi... ...oke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. ‘A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doy... ...y had a room at one end of their drawing- room suite, nearly all irregular bay-window, projecting over the street, and commanding all the picturesque ... ...ns; nor were the distant landscapes on the Cornice road, nor the hills and bay of Genoa the Su- perb, more beautiful. Mr Dorrit and his matchless cast... ...ow the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown... ...twisted about them by the late tide, might have represented an un- sightly marine cemetery. Every wave-dashed, storm-beaten object, was so low and so ... ...r would be produced at the Inquest on the morrow, and it would fall like a thunderbolt upon the multitude he had de- luded. Numbers of men in every pr...

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... men. The commodities chiefly ex posed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard bake, apples, flat fish, and oysters. The streets pres... ...ard to sing, with great feeling and emphasis, the beau tiful and pathetic national air of ‘We won’t go home till morning, We won’t go home till morni... ...y coloured body and red wheels, and the vixenish, ill tempered, fast going bay mare, that looked like a cross between a butcher’s horse and a twopenny... ... and trium phant in the consciousness of its own strength and power. ‘The bay mare splashed away, through the mud and water, with drooping ears; now ... ...nt of a small apple tree, to look picturesque, and commenced singing their national songs, which appeared by no means difficult of execution, inasmuch... ...ve minutes, when a vivid flash of lightning was followed by a loud peal of thunder that crashed and rolled away in the distance with a terrific noise—... ... another flash of lightning, brighter than the other, and a second peal of thunder louder than the first; and then down came the rain, with a force an... ...g urchin roaring out some jolly song about a merry Christmas, in this very sanctuary which had been called Coffin Lane ever since the days of the old ...

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...e to good. The very solicitors’ boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr. Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise ... ...leeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight will wake one day, when... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...alking thus, they went upstairs, and presently we heard him in his bedroom thundering “Ha, ha, ha!” and again “Ha, ha, ha!” until the flattest echo in... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...a watered pavement, and a bowl of gold and silver fish in the window, is a sanctuary. Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fl... ...horoughfare. Here, against a hoarding of decaying timber, he is brought to bay and tumbles down, lying gasp ing at his pursuer, who stands and gasps ...

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...e to good. The very solicitors’ boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr. Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise ... ...leeping Rip Van Winkles who have played at strange games through a deal of thundery weather; sleeping beauties whom the knight will wake one day, when... ...tely liking for the legal repetitions and prolixities as ranging among the national bulwarks. It happens that the fire is hot where my Lady sits and t... ...OK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill ... ...and a half ), is the child who contributed two and nine pence to the Great National Smithers T estimonial. Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence ... ...alking thus, they went upstairs, and presently we heard him in his bedroom thundering “Ha, ha, ha!” and again “Ha, ha, ha!” until the flattest echo in... ...ng so close to it, and though there is very little else, heaven knows. The marine store merchant holds the light, and the law stationer conducts the ... ...a watered pavement, and a bowl of gold and silver fish in the window, is a sanctuary. Temple Bar gets so hot that it is, to the adjacent Strand and Fl... ...er than Mrs. Rouncewell, housekeeper at Chesney Wold. She comes out of the sanctuary with a fair old fashioned curtsy and softly shuts the door. She i...

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...iscourse again if you wish that I should continue to love you.” This was a thunderbolt for my father; the scales fell from his eyes; the idea of the K... ...- ally angry with Daquin, to obtain his dismissal: it came upon him like a thunderbolt. On the previous evening the King had spoken to him for a long ... ...to be able to talk without restraint. Fenelon was at last admitted to this sanctuary, at foot of which all the Court was prostrated. He was almost as ... ...s spiked by one of our officers, Le Guerchois, with his brigade of the old marine, when, en- feebled by the losses he had sustained, he called upon a ... ... ground being difficult (there was a ravine there), the enemy were kept at bay until M. de Vendome came up. The troops he brought were all out of brea... ...nessed it from Saragossa, immediately afterwards took the road for Madrid. Bay, one of his generals, gathered together eighteen thousand men, with who... ...- nary order given to Amenzago; and the Queen the actress, charged in some mariner by the two Kings to bring it about. The sequel in France confirmed ... ...e was only one remedy by which improvement could be effected; and this was National Bank- ruptcy. Had I occupied the office, I should have been too st... ...inuance of imposts, who of two evils, viz., vastly increased taxation, and national failure, would not prefer the latter. We were in the condition of ...

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................................................ 58 Chapter 1.3.V . Lomenie’s Thunderbolts. ................................................................ ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. .................................................. 490 Chapter 3.5.V . Like a Thunder-Cloud. ............................................................... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...is rose-coloured veil of Universal Be- nevolence and Astraea Redux, is the sanctuary of Home so often a dreary void, or a dark contentious Hell-on-Ear... ...reau; to which all the other Bureaus have sent deputies. He is standing at bay: alone; exposed to an incessant fire of ques- tions, interpellations, o... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar... ...h ‘crushed stirrup-iron and nineteen wounds;’ tough, minatory, standing at bay, as forlorn hope, on the skirts of Poland; intriguing, battling in cabi...

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................................................ 73 Chapter 1.3.V . Lomenie’s Thunderbolts. ................................................................ ...thout end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders ... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...Benevolence and Astraea Redux, 54 The French Revolution: V ol. One is the sanctuary of Home so often a dreary void, or a dark contentious Hell-on-Ear... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...reau; to which all the other Bureaus have sent deputies. He is standing at bay: alone; exposed to an incessant fire of questions, interpellations, obj... ...n the most electric manner; and the whole month of July. And still, in the Sanctuary of Justice, sounds nothing but Harmodius-Aristogiton elo- quence,... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (...

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... The mighty Juggernaut of social life, moving onwards with its everlasting thunders, pauses not for a moment to spare—to pity—to look aside, but rushe... ...n for me, as a task for my hands in particular, is no longer possible; the thunderbolts of retribution have been long since launched by other hands; a... ... direction of the public minister who presided over that department of the national administra- tion, no person could be admitted to an interview with... ...ughout the year in which the prisoners were al- lowed to celebrate a great national event: and in those days of relaxed prison management the utmost l... ... imagination from its squalid appearance and its gloom, still was a home—a sanctuary— an asylum from treachery, from captivity, from persecution. Here... ...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...the Atlantic between herself and St. Sebastian’s. Life was to be for her a Bay of Biscay; and it was odds but she had first embarked upon this billowy... ...as odds but she had first embarked upon this billowy life from the literal Bay of Biscay. Chance ordered otherwise. Or, as a Frenchman says with eloqu... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader...

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...able,” he says; and, looking stern at me, “Don’t laugh yet!” says he, like thunder. Well, he goes on: “Mr. George caught my eye across the table, and ... ...already claimed to provide for the daughters: first in the shape of a lean Marine subaltern, whose days of obscuration had now passed, and who had com... ...overy. T wice cursed by Love, twice the victim of tailordom, our excellent Marine gave away Harriet Harrington in marriage to Mr. Andrew Cogglesby. Th... ...ybody and everything, and poor master——’ Sally plumped on a seat, and took sanctuary under her apron. Mrs. Mel glanced at the pair, continuing her lab... ...hese broth- ers. Like a voice from the pastures after the bellowing of the thunder, Andrew’s voice asked: ‘Got rid of that twinge of the gout, Tom? Di... ...rked deference to Evan, induced Mr. Raikes contemptuously to glance at our national blindness to the true diamond, and worship of the mere plumes in w... ...a youthful Englishman; and the Countess dieted the vanity according to the national- ity. With good wine to wash it down, one can swallow any- thing. ... ...ttack would preclude their instant retreat, the gallant Countess turned at bay. A word aside to Mr. George Uplift, and then the Countess took a chair ... ... The gener- ous, brave heart! Yes, with her hand in his, he could stand at bay—meet any fate. Evan accepted Rose because he believed in her love, and ...

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...e chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the H... ...f the race was the hope of 8 The Egoist his county. A Patterne was in the Marines. The country and the chief of this family were simulta- neously inf... ... rine, but he is a Patterne. How any Patterne should have drifted into the Marines, is of the order of questions which are senselessly asked of the gr... ...ents. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would at least have worked ... ...r aversion. Is it to be conceived? Is there not a moment when it stands at bay? But haggard- visaged Honour then starts up claiming to be dealt with i... ...n a way to make him appre- hend that a stroke of misfortune was impending; thunder was in the air. Still he learned something, by which he was to prof... ...e stairs before the dramatic exhibition of surprise had yielded to speech. Thunder was in the air and a blow coming. Sir Willoughby’s instincts were a... ...agine herself sparing him. It was too fictitious. 227 George Meredith The sanctuary of her chamber, the pure white room so homely to her maidenly fee... ...ndly smitten. If she stayed in this house her chamber would no longer be a sanctuary. Dolorous bondage! Insolent death is not worse. Death’s worm we c...

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...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...corded in the whole body of his work with the unerring lucidity of a great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces ... ...nitarian effect will equal that phantom now driven out of the world by the thunder of thousands of guns; none that in its retreat will cling with an e... ...The worst crime against humanity of that system we behold now crouching at bay behind vast heaps of mangled corpses is the ruthless destruc- tion of i... ...ing their attitude, trying with touching ingenuity to steal one by one the thunderbolts of their Jupiter. They have removed war from the list of Heave... ...ay I was in the hotel’s smoking room, an irrationally private apartment, a sanctuary for a few choice minds of the town, always pervaded by a dim reli... ...ss of the Mediterranean, the aspect of Gibraltar, the misty glimpse in the Bay of Biscay of an outward-bound convoy of transports, in the presence of ... ...he Titanic disaster the small tribute of a blush. I ask myself whether the Marine Department of the Board of Trade did really believe, when they decid... ...than ever before. She was a ship commanded, manned, equipped—not a sort of marine Ritz, proclaimed unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual populati...

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...linde. A little rain allays a great deal of wind: long tippling breaks the thunder. But if there came such liquor from my ballock, would you not willi... ...ccording to the variety of their holi- days) use to do their clothes, from bay brown, to sorrel, dapple-grey, mouse-dun, deer-colour, roan, cow-colour... ...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ...ent with a strong party to their relief, and with his artillery be- gan to thunder so terribly upon that canton of the wall, and so long, that all the... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...nd think well upon it, you put me shrewdly to my plunges, and have me at a bay in twitting me with the reproach of my debts and creditors. And yet did... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant... ...e benefit of the clergy, they are as safe as thieves in a mill within this sanctuary. But, asked Pantagruel, do these birds never return to the world ...

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...said they. Nevertheless, Gisco continued, the Republic had respected their national divisions, their customs, and their modes of worship; in Carthage ... ...were disciplined in 25 Flaubert regular troops, and the rest according to nationality or their own fancy. The Greeks ranged their tents of skin in pa... ...e firmament. Sun, moon, winds and clouds appeared, and at the crash of the thunder intelligent creatures awoke. Then Eschmoun spread himself in the st... ..., but you would listen to nothing!” Then in a grave voice: “Master, in the sanctuary of Tanith there is a mysterious veil, which fell from heaven and ... ...m trans- ported! Salammbo! Salammbo! I am your master!” His voice was like thunder. He seemed to Spendius to have grown taller and transformed. A soun... ...s she leaned shuddering out. He resumed: “I have been in the depths of the sanctuary to seek it for you! Look!” The Zaimph shone a mass of rays. “Do y... ...coes all round the basin. On an island in the centre stood a house for the marine Suffet. The water was so limpid that the bottom was visible with its... ...gain, “’Tis we! ’tis we! and you too are vanquished!” No one excepting the marine Suffet might enter the admiral’ s house. So long as there was no pro...

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...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ...sh handful of papers from numbers one and three, and carried them into the sanctuary to offer to the presiding Idol of the Circumlocution Office. Arth... ...o; and among those flapping articles was sitting in a chair, like the last mariner left alive on the deck of a damp ship without the power of furling ... ...stood at the open door, stagger- ing herself with this enigma, on a rainy, thundery evening. The clouds were flying fast, and the wind was coming up i... ...as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten v... ...y had a room at one end of their drawing- room suite, nearly all irregular bay-window, projecting over the street, and commanding all the picturesque ... ...ns; nor were the distant landscapes on the Cornice road, nor the hills and bay of Genoa the Su- perb, more beautiful. Mr Dorrit and his matchless cast... ...ow the bar itself, with a shallow break of sea over it, looked like a lazy marine monster just risen to the surface, whose form was indistinctly shown...

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...ita- tion, the Captain decided in favour of instructing him to whistle the marine melody, ‘Oh cheerily, cheerily!’ and Rob the Grinder attaining a poi... ...ed for its symmetry and usefulness, as well as for a happy blending of the mariner with the coal- heaver; which is usually termed a sou’wester; and wh... ... of wheels is heard, grows louder, and a carriage drives up to the door! A thundering knock from the obnoxious foreigner anticipates the rush of Mr T ... ...arison with what she might have made his life. But he silenced the distant thunder with the rolling of his sea of pride. He would bear nothing but his... ...he Doctor talk to him, and wondering how he ever thought the study a great sanctuary, and the Doctor, with his round turned legs, like a clerical pian... ...gleaming teeth, through the dark rooms, like a mouth; and arriving in that sanctuary of light and colour, a figure at full length, embraced Madame, an... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ...arged over the offenders, but without effect. In this state of things, the marine-store dealer at the cor- 62 Sketches by Boz ner of the street, in t... ...ckswain, who looks as easy and com- fortable as if he were steering in the Bay of Biscay. The order is obeyed; the boat is immediately turned com- ple... ...which hangs behind the first P. S, wing, ‘Scene 1, open country—lamps down—thunder and lightning—all ready, White?’ [This is addressed to one of the a... ...se,’ and are not allowed much sleep out of it, can’t wake their masters by thundering at the shop-door, and cry with the cold—the compound of ice, sno... ...le. How has May-day decayed! 177 Charles Dickens CHAPTER XXI—BROKERS’ AND MARINE-STORE SHOPS WHEN WE AFFIRM that brokers’ shops are strange places, a... ...five perpendicular hills, stopped before the door of a dusty house, with a bay window, from which you could 344 Sketches by Boz obtain a beautiful gl... ...or filth and misery, have competed with the darkest corner of this ancient sanctuary in its dirtiest and most lawless time. The houses, varying from t...

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...d like a turkey cock, “I as- sure you that Alan rides like—” “Like a horse marine,” said Norman. Hector and Harry both looked furious, but “June” was ... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ...A tale Would rouse adventurous courage in a boy, And make him long to be a mariner, That he might rove the main. —Southey. ETHELDRED had the satisfact... ...ck took a fit of laziness. Now, Norman needed Richard’s assurance that the bay was steady, so far was he from being troubled with his ancient desire, ... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ...ead of Alexander. Nothing was to be thought of but a frame for this—olive, bay, laurel, everything appropriate to the conqueror. Margaret and Norman w... ...g—conscience is not called in to silence them, and nothing but dinner or a thunder-storm can check them. All Ethel’s good sense was of no avail; she c... ...realised joy began to find relief in the chant of glory. The voices of the sanctuary, ever uplifting notes of praise, seemed to gather together and so...