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...an the rest; for he said the water was more boisterous near that than the rest, tumbling up and down with waves, and soon after it sunk directly down... ... The Prince of Navarre, afterwards King Henry IV., of France, while playing at dice with a company at the court of Charles IX., on the eve of St. Ba...

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...ulled back the curtains even further and sent his pile of correspond- ence tumbling to the f oor. The letters f uttered across the room in the breeze ... ...zement at the cards and reached over to the altar to pick up seven wooden dice. She cast them across the table, made a quick calculation in her head... ... said, taking his hand and placing it on top of the cards. ‘When you roll dice or you read the leftover cornf akes in the bowl or you pick a Tarot c... ...aughing and did a reverse somersault into a corner of the room, his stool tumbling to the ground. ‘Those Bloons!’ he cried. ‘A laugh a minute!’ He p... ...er in the centre of the carpet, terrif ed that they might slip off and go tumbling through the sky. Gradually, though, their courage returned and th... ...s and inhaled deeply the cool air. In that moment a lone plastic bag came tumbling across the dunes and plastered itself to the side of Ali’s face. ... ...rtain?’ his guide answered distractedly, his attention f xed on a pair of dice and some wooden counters. ‘Later today. Tomorrow at the latest. Ensha... ... attack of vertigo, and as he jumped down his long feet sent the bookcase tumbling. It fell against the next, which fell against the next, creating ...

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... was refuse this deep in the bin of the self; that she was debris of rocks tumbling into this perennial crevasse. Something happened. What was i... ...ughs. She cries. She does not speak for several minutes, watching the fan dice the air as she tries to breathe naturally and find equanimity]. Yes, a...

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... at her mother once. "I don't need the brushes and the pins and the fortune dice. I'm playing with people's bones! Some of those people even talked ... ...egan to beat a regal cadence. A woman emerged from the crowd, silvered hair tumbling loosely to her waist. She leaned on a staff whose inscriptions ... ...cavalier movements would sweep the stories into swirls of dust, their motes tumbling disjointedly into nonsense patterns. She glanced at her daughter...

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...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...me enshrined as the cornerstones of an almost religious outlook ("God does not play dice"). These were assumed to be "objective", "observer independ... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh... ...inancial difficulties, incarceration, public opprobrium - can bring the whole thing tumbling down. The narcissist cannot afford to be rejected, spur... ... eyes were tied immediately after birth - could not "see" straight lines and kept tumbling over tightly strung cords. Even sense data involve some...

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...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...me enshrined as the cornerstones of an almost religious outlook ("God does not play dice"). These were assumed to be "objective", "observer independ... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh... ...inancial difficulties, incarceration, public opprobrium - can bring the whole thing tumbling down. The narcissist cannot afford to be rejected, spur... ... eyes were tied immediately after birth - could not "see" straight lines and kept tumbling over tightly strung cords. Even sense data involve some...

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...e to chew and swallow cardes, aw wel-nigh choake themselves with bales of dice, only to be revenged for the losse of some money?' Xerxes whipped the ... ...sutable to her progresse. I would rather direct affaires by the chance of dice, than by such frivolous dreames. And truly in all common-wealths, men... ...rs deaths, which in teaching men to die, should after teach them to live. Dicearcus made one of that title, but of another and lesse profitable end.... ...weth, he writeth, puts off his cap, combeth his head, plaieth at cards and dice; shuffleth and handleth them with as great dexteritie as any other ma... ...eat of his companions, turneth to another that calleth him to see a play, tumbling, jugling tricks, or other idle lose-time sports; and who for pleas... ...Orabunt causas alii, cælique meatus Describent radio, et fulgentia sidera dicent; Hic regere imperio populos sciat. --Virg. Æn. vi. 850. Others sha... ...eepe the other in the stirrop, and continually running doe a thousand such tumbling and apish tricks, wherewith he got his living. There have in my t... ...es, and grievances upon subjects; delicate and pleasant gardens; dancing, tumbling, leaping, and iugling, musicke http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/mo... ...said that some Philosophers would in open view of all men shew a dozen of tumbling-tricks, yea, without any slops or breeches, for a dozen of olives...

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...mestic noises of the ship: such as the breaking of glass and crockery, the tumbling down of stewards, the gambols, overhead, of loose casks and truant... ...ight headed, thought less, and brisk a young river, in its murmurings and tumblings, as one would desire to see. One would swear that every ‘Bakery, ... ...ery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, ... ...rial degree, if some of these gentlemen had not only yielded to the preju dice in favour of spittoons, but had abandoned them selves, for the moment... ...ide, a path so narrow, that it became a science to walk to and fro without tumbling overboard into the canal. It was some what embarrassing at first,...

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...able to go up for the Cambridge examination, if Aunt Lilias has not preju- dices, as I dare say she has, since of course none of her own will be able ... ... man he must be! How very strange that all your family should be so preju- diced against him! I’ll tell you what, Dolores, I will write and subscribe ... ...n her fur cloak, the taking of the tickets, the coughing of the train, the tumbling into one of the many empty carriages, the triumphant start,—all se... ...n her tone. Indeed, she was not at all sure that half this colonial preju- dice was not assumed in order to tease her, just as in former times her bro...

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...67 H G Wells fairs inextricably entangled by the old areas, the old preju- dices and a sort of heated irascible stupidity, and everywhere congested na... ...ense of relief and warmth, in the passage. The passage was behaving like a dice- box, its disposition was evidently to rattle him about and then throw... ...ver the tops of the trees, 210 The War in the Air ploughing through them, tumbling into a cloud of green sharp leaves and black twigs. There was a su...

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...icle and speculated how he should jump if presently the whole turnout went tumbling over… . “And afterwards I dreamt dreams of precipices. I made stri... ...eded to study and attack Family Prejudice, National Prejudice, Race Preju- dice, War, Class Prejudice, Professional Prejudice, Sex Preju- dice, in the... ...ublic and social. Benham was not content to define and denounce the preju- dices of mankind. He set himself to study just exactly how these prejudices...

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...he eager negro features of two blacks, with much gesticulation, playing at dice. They came out hastily at the sound of the carriage; and as Mr. Ward h... ...m understand ‘cosas de Inglalerra,’ and to make him cease from his beloved dice; but no sooner did he see her face than, with a cry of joy, ‘La Senori... ... the Captain of Knockdunder’s. Y ou never know they are cleaned, except by tumbling over the bucket and the maid.’ ‘Are they being done?’ said Isabel,... ...e degrees softer and less narrow than formerly. She had a good many preju- dices left, but she did not venture on such sweeping censures as in old tim...

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...d deeply in his body. Of this thrust the destrier and his rider alike came tumbling to the ground. When the Britons saw this thing, they might not con... ...guests some hearkened to the teller of tales and fables. Others called for dice and tables, and played games of chance for a wager. Evil befalls to wi... ...er was discontented, and rose murmuring against his fellow. Two by two the dicers sat at table, casting the dice. They threw in turn, each throwing hi... ...ronicles:Roman De Brut who threw half naked. Fair hope had he who held the dice, after his fellow had cried his number. Then the quarrel rose suddenly... ...he table to his companion, “You cheat, and throw not fairly. Grasp not the dice so tightly in your hand, but shake them forth upon the board. My count... ... in your pouch bring them out, for I will meet you to your wish.” Thus the dicers wrangled, and to many of Arthur’s guests it chanced that he who sat ... ...antly against his adversary. But the dragon put his enemy beneath him, and tumbling him to the earth, crushed him utterly in the dust. When Arthur had...

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...udfog it is particularly so. In winter, it comes oozing down the streets and tumbling over the fields, nay, rushes into the very cellars and kitch... ... of an exclusive and authentic report originated with us; this may be preju dice: it may arise from a prepossession on our part in our own favour. Be... ...men who have been thrust into it, with no other view than to be con stantly tumbling over each other, and running their heads against all sorts of st... ...s ruralised at Sadler’s Wells, we find no theatrical precedent for a general tumbling through the country, except in the gentleman, name unknown, who ...

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...F WAR HERE WAS A GREAT RUSH of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the forecastle, and slipping in an instant o... ... more, for the time, of these six very faint-hearted seamen. By this time, tumbling things in as they came, we had the jolly-boat loaded as much as we... ...at direction I saw the other pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling into their places in the boats. “Here come the gigs, sir,” said I.... ...he grove, and saw the sea lying blue and sunny to the horizon and the surf tumbling and tossing its foam along the beach. I have never seen the sea qu... ...nded as he was, it was wonderful how fast he could move, his grizzled hair tumbling over his face, and his face itself as red as a red ensign with his... ...ginning. My new employment struck Hands all of a heap; he began to see the dice going against him, and after an obvious hesi- tation, he also hauled h...

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...enty rampaging he-devils, sword and pistol, cut and thrust, pell-mell came tumbling into the redoubt! Why, sir, we left in three minutes as many artil... ...e violent love to Mrs. Catherine, while her lord and master was playing at dice with the other gentlemen: and on this night, strange to say, the Capta... ...rink, and had swallowed so much of each as hardly to be able to speak. The dice went rattling on; the candles were burning dim, with great long wicks.... ...ed; and, after snorting out some unintelligible sounds, went to sleep. The dice went rattling on; the candles were burning dim, with great long wicks.... ...o were, and are still, an honest man; clubs, trumps, or six lucky mains at dice, make an honest man for life of you, who ever were, will be, and are a... ...ar, Ensign Macshane took to evil courses; and, frequenting the bagnios and dice-houses, was speedily brought to ruin. “Being at this pass, he fell in ... ... had Mr. Hayes imagine that she slumbered; but lay beside him, tossing and tumbling, with hot eyes wide open and heart thumping, and pulse of a hundre...

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...ppose?” “Not so—not so,” answered the Pathfinder; “it is merely this river tumbling over some rocks half a mile below us.” “Is there a fall in the str... ... winking to Jasper over his shoulder; “for you are accustomed to see waves tumbling about; and without some one to steady the cargo, all the finery of... ...relled rifle. Such conceits will come over men from long habit; and preju- dice is, perhaps, the commonest failing of human natur’.” 86 The Pathfinde... ...matters relating to right and wrong; and yet he was not without his preju- dices, which, though few, and colored by the character and us- ages of the ... ...d who is a sailor?” “A real seafaring man, your honor, and somewhat preju- diced against fresh water. I doubt if he could be induced to 173 James Fen... ...gain is consarned. That is old Niagara that you hear, or this noble stream tumbling down a mountain.” “No one will have the impudence to pretend that ...

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...rsions upon glaciers with her beloved, her helpmate, and had slippings and tumblings—little earthly casualties which gave a charming sense of reality ... ...cent as you look: you’re green as jealousy, red as murder, yellow as jaun- dice, and put on the whiteness of a virgin when you ought to be blushing li...

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...outer gates are rusty; and the iron bars outside the lower windows are all tumbling down. Firewood is kept in halls where costly treasures might be he... ...here 37 Charles Dickens are irregular houses, receding, starting forward, tumbling down, leaning against their neighbours, crippling themselves or th... ...for nothing at all: all as crazy and dismantled as they could be, short of tumbling down bodily. The marshy town was so intensely dull and flat, that ... ...upon the spot; and not they alone; for their passionate drivers, sometimes tumbling down in their energy, are crushed to death beneath the wheels. But... ...er at the end, the coat without seam for which the soldiers cast lots, the dice box with which they threw for it, the hammer that drove in the nails, ... ...ses in distant Naples, dwindling, in the great extent of prospect, down to dice. The coming back to the city, by the beach again, at sunset: with the ...

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...ything but were they false As o’er dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false As dice are to be wish’d by one that fixes No bourn ‘twixt his and mine, yet... ...the thrush and the jay, Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore th...