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... religious principles taught her to think that all women on the stage were brands in the burning; moreover, she thought, and so did Madame Descoings, ... ... to the Admiralty, was made the basis of a remonstrance on the part of the British government with Spain on the subject of its cruelties. Sir Charles ...

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...Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occur- rences for the actual British reader of French History;— confusing the soul with Messidors, Meado... ...r- vest. By the hundred and the thousand, men’s lives are cropt; cast like brands into the burning. Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo...

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...ng.” So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board ... ... upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.—Sir Reginald Front-de-Boeuf,” he said, turning to- wards tha... ...Sir Egerton Brydges. and Mr Hazlewood, in the periodical work entitled the British Bibliographer. From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend ...

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...bloody hands _2495 I felt, and saw on high the glare of falling brands, 19. 19. 19. 19. 19. When on my foes a sudden terror came, And they ... ...f ocean to the Islamite.— Now shall the blazon of the cross be veiled, And British skill directing Othman might, Thunder-strike rebel victory. Oh, kee...

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...ng of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The... ...Viking blood a little altered. (2) “West over the Sea” is the word for the British Isles. (3) See T odd (J. H.). “War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill”. ... ... Documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Ed., G. W. Dasent, D.C.L, and Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A. “In t... ...he same time in English State papers as plundering along the coasts of the British Isles, especially Ireland. 18 The V olsunga Saga Iceland. has alwa... ...se: Then in from the hall-door — — Up waked the house-carls — Hot brands she cast, Gat revenge for her brethren. T o the flame gave she...

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...from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and th... ...nd other curious plants of the newly won land; here was the breastplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players foll... ...after, were successfully de- fended against the French by a small force of British troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Gough, better known in his... ...y swept from Malta in the general confusion of the Revolutionary wars. The British crosses now float in the harbour of Malta; but the steep white rock... ...ook back with the greatest exultation, when we think of the triumph of the British flag. Let us think of all that was at stake. Napoleon Bonaparte was... ... from officers of the regi- ment distinctly stated that it was the burning brands, and that the scene was a reserve magazine—not, as in the brief ment...

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... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ...s Court Mark Twain 76 and I mean your best, too, society’s very choicest brands. The humblest hello girl along ten thousand miles of wire could te... ...d the founder of your great line lift him self to the sacred dignity of the British nobility?” “He built a brewery.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Art... ...d: “What was the rank and condi tion of the great grandmother who conferred British nobil ity upon your great house?” “She was a king’s leman and di...

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...attring word; Soone after which, three hundred Lordes he slew Of British bloud, all sitting at his bord; Whose dolefull moniments who l... ...way her broken chaines and bands, And hauing quencht her burning fier brands, Hedlong her selfe did cast into that lake; But Impotence ...

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...ish readers should grow skittish, I ‘ve bribed my grandmother’s review—the British. I sent it in a letter to the Editor, Who thank’d me duly b... ...of those. As for the ladies, I have nought to say, A wanderer from the British world of fashion, Where I, like other ‘dogs, have had my day,’ ... ...l, Its petty passions, marriages, and flights, Where Hymen’s torch but brands one strumpet more, Whose husband only knows her not a wh—re. H... ...ecruits with wives.’ ‘May it please your excellency,’ thus replied Our British friend, ‘these are the wives of others, And not our own. I am t... ...en a kind of a discussion, A sort of treaty or negotiation Between the British cabinet and Russian, Maintain’d with all the due prevaricatio... ...f the sea (See Billingsgate) made even the tongue more free. And yet the British ‘Damme’ ‘s rather Attic: Your continental oaths are but incon...

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...mpty glories of our isle of Saints! You feel them, Pat. Phil’s all for his British army, his capabilities of British light cavalry. Write me the histo... ...een: but brains are bombshells in comparison with your old-fashioned pine- brands for kindling men and cities. Ambition’s the husband of Adiante Adist... ...end us diving into it. I like my comrades-in-arms, I like the character of British officers, and the men too—I get on well with them. I declare to you... ...‘The country hasn’t a port.’ ‘Round the Euxine and up the Danube, with the British flag at the stern. I could rather enjoy the adventure. And her prin... ...nobody she wouldn’t make use of. She has great notions of the power of the British Press and the British purse—each in turn as a key to the other. Now... ...anting them as a sure method to rally all Ireland to an ardent love of the British flag. But he praised names of Irish leaders whom she had heard Mr. ...

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...m the insufferable glare, thrust in huge logs of oak, or stirred the immense brands with a long pole. Within the furnace were seen the curling and rio... ...row lane, through which he was passing, he beheld the broad countenance of a British hero swinging before the door of an inn, whence proceeded the voi...

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... must none the less fight for your life. It seems hardly possible that the British army at the battle of Waterloo did not include at least one English... ...ding it. But however offensive and inhuman may be the supersti- tion which brands such exaltations of natural passion as shameful and indecorous, ther... ...ngle orchestral rehearsal, than by ten years reading in the Library of the British Mu- seum. Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kai...

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... say that her ideal husband would he one who could get her received at the British Court. She had spent, it seemed, two months in Great Britain—seven ... ...d then he spent the best part of a week, in correspon- dence and up at the British consul’s, in getting the fellow’s wife to come back from London and... ...f the church. It is not the law of the land… .” “Oh yes,” Nancy said, “the Brands are Protestants.” She felt a sudden safeness descend upon her, and f... ... of her marrying me. And Leonora, I assure you, was the absolutely perfect British ma- tron. She said that she quite favoured my suit; that she could ...

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...e greatly improved in that respect. They say the admiral’s reputation as a British sailor of the old school made him, rather his name, a great favouri... ...resaw in connection with the name of the once famous Countess Fanny in the British Isles. And thus are we stricken by the days of our youth. It is imp... ...his country, Lord Levellier sent word that he was down for a cornetcy in a British regi- ment of dragoons. Chillon came home from a garrison town, and... .... His profound internal question relating to this un-English beauty of the British Isles:—had she no passion in her na- 74 The Amazing Marriage ture?... ...gious opinion of the young countess and the benefit of her marriage to the British race. As it con- cerned a healthy constitution and motherhood, Mrs.... ...itch, Lady Cowry , kindled at her. Again there were flights of the burning brands over London. The very odd marriage; the no-marriage; the two-ends-of...

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...ung on a thread, and when we had done, far in the night, threw the burning brands high into the air like sky rockets, which, coming down into the pon... ...n bury ing ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the re treat from Concord where he is styl... ...nd mean. We think that we can change our clothes only. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States ar... ...t believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind. Who kn...

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...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ...th a blow of the tongs, he effected a reconciliation between two burn- ing brands that had long avoided one another, like brothers after a family quar... ...ts shibboleth, as well as its insulting epithet and the mark with which it brands its followers. “Ah! madame, you are the portress here,” began La Cib...

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...ng them, they cannot die.” The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those Who are free through... ...ensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy; it does not build, nor wri...

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... Lomenie’s by adoption. Not in vain has Lomenie studied the working of the British Constitution; for he professes to have some Anglo- mania, of a sort... ...itting streaks of fire? A sea cock- fight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French- American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle... ...f Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occurrences for the actual British reader of French History;—confusing the soul with Messidors, Meadow... ...rvest. By the hundred and the thou- sand, men’s lives are cropt; cast like brands into the burning. Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...luable. They are like the cattle pens of a ranch—they shut in the several brands of histori cal cattle, each within its own fence, and keep them fro... ...the Government is the only cigar peddler. Italy has three or four domestic brands: the Minghetti, the T rabuco, the Virginia, and a very coarse one wh...