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...t not to be dealt with, for he puts all sorts of rub- bish into his liquor—Indian wood and burnt cork and elderberry juice, the villain! Nevertheless,... ...d accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens. Next, she took a seat upon th... ...mber of the Civil Service, has in reality served in the army and run after actresses; wherefore the old man no longer disguised his delight, but calle...

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...ce of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? No situation would be be- neath him; or what did Sir Thoma... ...ve her playful- ness and simplicity without extravagance. I have seen good actresses fail in the part. Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almo... ...Park CHAPTER XVIII Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great...

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...and invoking a familiar whom he called “Edna,” and whom he asserted was an Indian maiden. The evening was a period of relaxation for Trina and McT eag... ... it intently, a great mirror over the mantle of- fered to view an array of actresses’ pictures thrust between the glass and the frame, and a big bunch... ...the abrupt descent of the canyon, debouching into a grav- elly river bed. “Indian River,” muttered the dentist. “I remember—I remember. I ought to hea... ...rn part of Inyo County, while they were halted at a water tank, an immense Indian buck, blanketed to the ground, ap- proached McTeague as he stood on ... ...pled letter. The letter was to the effect that the buck Big Jim was a good Indian and deserving of charity; the signature was illegible. The dentist s...

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...ade of the curtains of some dismantled boudoir, and one of those shawls of Indian design—out of date, worn, and valueless, which end their career on t... ... had achieved miracles of true love. She had loved Lucien for six years as actresses love and courtesans—women who, having rolled in mire and impurity... ...cepted T ullia, Florentine, Fanny Beaupre, and Florine—two dancers and two actresses —besides Madame du V al-Noble. Nothing can be more dreary than a ... ..., there—Pecaire fermati. Souni la—Vedrem,” shrieked old Asie, with the Red-Indian intonations peculiar to these female costermongers, who disfigure th... ... “He has hanged himself—” No tigress robbed of her whelps ever startled an Indian jungle with a yell so fearful as that of Jacques Collin, who rose to...

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... give me an atmosphere.’ ‘I’ve got no atmosphere; there’s very little of the Indian summer about me! I deal with facts—hard facts,’ Mrs. Farrinder rep... ...upposed to have a remarkably insinuating way of waiting upon prime donne and actresses the morning after their arrival, or some times the very evenin...

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...and communism—Atlanta with Hartford, Rochester with Denver, Milwaukee with Indianapolis, Los Angeles with Scranton, Portland, Maine, with Portland, Or... ...once had roused them to cheer defiance at rooters from Ohio or Michigan or Indiana, whooped, “Come on, you wombats! All together in the long yell!” Ba... ...to grab this celebrated Thespian off his lovely aggregation of beauti- ful actresses—and I got to admit I butted right into his dressing-room and told... ...t the rapids. He particularly remem- bered Joe Paradise, half Yankee, half Indian. If he could but take up a backwoods claim with a man like Joe, work... ...f a fortnight ago, before Mrs. Absolom, the food-demonstrator, had gone to Indianapolis, and Mac had “got sore at” Minnie, was a venerable leader and ...

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.... This color, the same as that of his abundant hair, he now obtained by an Indian cosmetic, very costly and used in Persia, the secret of which he kep... ...ial life, he still continued the legal adviser of artists, men of letters, actresses, courtesans, and elegant bohemians like Maxime de T railles, beca...

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... laughed at them. She herself played there Athalie (assisted by actors and actresses) and other pieces several times a week. Whole nights were passed ... ...money and all our jewels; and this idea was in no way con- cealed, for the Indian Company was allowed to visit every house, even Royal houses, confisc... ...the issue of this decree an edict was drawn up for the establishment of an Indian commercial company, which was to undertake to reimburse in a year si...

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...id Louis XVI., looking rather awkward. “Approach, Tatua.” And the gigantic Indian strode up, and stood undaunted before the first magistrate of the Fr... ...the denizen of the primaeval forests. The redoubted chief of the Nose-ring Indians was deco- rated in his war-paint, and in his top-knot was a peacock... ...ing. “The English are braves, though their faces are white,” re- plied the Indian. “Tatua shot the raging Wolfe of the English; but the other wolves c... ...e “Repudia- tor,” was sailing out of Brest Harbor, the gigantic form of an Indian might be seen standing on the binnacle in conversation with Commodor... ..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...ts of young and old gents of the fashion crowding round and staring at the actresses prac- tising their steps. Fancy yellow snuffy foreigners, chatter...

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...London last year, might now entertain very seriously a proposal to exclude Indians from them, and to suppress the play completely in Calcutta and Dubl... ...ould appear on the English stage without being pelted off as the Ital- ian actresses were. The theatrical profession was regarded as a shameless one; ... ...fession was regarded as a shameless one; and it is only of late years that actresses have at last succeeded in living down the assumption that actress... ...they are prostitutes, soldiers in uniform, gentlemen not in evening dress, Indians, or what not; but when disorder is stopped, disorderly persons will... ... their best not only innocent, but refining in their effect, whereas those actresses and skirt dancers who have brought the peculiar aph- rodisiac eff... ... attempt to prove that without a censorship we should be unable to prevent actresses from appearing naked on the stage. As a matter of fact, if an act...

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... a knotted cord- work of gold embroidery, everywhere garnished with little Indian pearls. They always carried a fair panache, or plume of feathers, of... ...ar as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed 242 Gargantua & Pantagruel over the great river Phison... ...rtition of breadth by the diaphragma, as was that woman consecrated to the Indian Venus whom the Tyanean phi- losopher did see between the river Hydas... ... those of his territories at home should come to the certain notice of his Indian victo- ries, and himself be perfectly informed of the state and con-... ... a huge fly-flap fan of crimson satin and a bunch of feathers of some East-Indian ostrich serving to give chase unto the flies all round about; whilst... ...d Xenomanes; you may find there many goodly hypocritesses, jolly spiritual actresses, kind hermitesses, women that have a plaguy deal of religion; the...

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...uite agile. It was not until after that dreadful siege of our house by the Indians, which left me a widow ere I was a mother, that my dear mother’s he... ...his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indians would elect him Sachem;” and his lordship was pleased to call me Po... ...ond, who had frequented the one as long as he had money to spend among the actresses, now came to the church as assiduously. He looked so lean and sha... ...l- land. My lord had a paper of oranges, which he ate and of- fered to the actresses, joking with them. And Mrs. Bracegirdle, when my Lord Mohun said ... ...of this past trial as an initiation before entering into life—as our young Indians undergo tortures si- lently before they pass to the rank of warrior... ...ad made acquaintance, had promised to present him to that most charming of actresses, and lively and agreeable of women, Mrs. Bracegirdle, about whom ... ...is own cloth. They’re all the same, whether they’re bishops, or bonzes, or Indian fakirs. They try to domineer, and they frighten us with kingdom come... ..., attired in a blanket and war-paint, skulk about a missionary amongst the Indians. He lies buried in our neigh- boring province of Maryland now, with...

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...behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensi- ties.’ 1750: AETAT. 41.]—In 1750 he c... ...of the negroes in the West Indies.’ His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. To... ...ed upon the whole with Johnson. I compared him at this time to a warm West-Indian climate, where you have a bright sun, quick vegetation, luxuriant fo... ...r observes, that it is said there are no weak or deformed people among the Indians; but he with much sagacity assigns the reason of this, which is, th... ...ers does not allow weak or diseased children to grow up. Now had I been an Indian, I must have died early; my eyes would not have served me to get foo... ...well. ‘And that, Sir, is not from affection but gallantry. But some of the Indians have affection.’ Johnson. ‘Sir, that they help some of their childr...

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...t of us to any extremity. We will allow a village of Egyptian fellaheen or Indian tribesmen to live the lowest life they please among themselves witho... ...ments of art. Tenors and prima donnas, pianists and violinists, actors and actresses enjoy powers of seduction which in the middle ages would have exp...

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...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...k on the ground with the umbrella before-men- tioned. ‘I have known divine actresses before now, sir, I used to collect—at least I used to call for—an... ...for upwards of four year but never—no, never, sir of all divine creatures, actresses or no actresses, did I see a diviner one than is Henrietta Petowk... ...holas. ‘No, sir, not to make her Mrs Lillyvick,’ replied the collec- tor. ‘Actresses, sir, always keep their maiden names—that’s the regular thing—but... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ...

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...did not dare to tell her so; indeed, having a prejudice to the effect that actresses were deficient in natural feeling, he doubted the use of daring. ... ... ruddy gold hair, now shaded by a large, untrimmed straw hat. Her dress of Indian muslin, with half-sleeves terminating at the elbows in wide ruffles,... ...o the round drawing-room, where she found Mr. Parker examining a trophy of Indian armor, and presenting a back view of a short gentleman in a spruce b... ...picion of his unfitness, he was awake to the fact that the favorite London actresses, though admirable in modern com- edy, were not mistresses of what...

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...times in the strangest places—suddenly, abruptly, in the still- ness of an Indian temple, or amid the shrillness of an Oriental crowd. He became famil... ...ing autumn day; there was a golden haze in the air; he supposed it was the Indian summer. The broad sidewalk of the Fifth Avenue was scattered over wi... ...n Bombay,” said Captain Lovelock, speaking with the authority of an Anglo- Indian rich in reminiscences. Blanche gave him a little stare. “Ah well, th... ...that his gaze was heavy and opaque, and that, though he was staring at the actresses, their charms were lost upon him. He saw that, like himself, poor...

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...ces that needs must come when a corps de ballet is blended with actors and actresses, one of the most trying combinations ever created by the laws of ... ...e no mysteries for us. The Egyptian ancestors of that mysterious people of Indian ori- gin, the gypsies of the present day, simply used to drug their ... ...t, I should have thought that you had had mistresses by the dozen—dancers, actresses, and duchesses, for you went out so much. . . . When you went out... ...e official contributions. He sold boxes, he took presents from indifferent actresses burning to go upon the stage to fill small speaking parts, or sim...

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...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...k on the ground with the umbrella before-men- tioned. ‘I have known divine actresses before now, sir, I used to collect—at least I used to call for—an... ...for upwards of four year but never—no, never, sir of all divine creatures, actresses or no actresses, did I see a diviner one than is Henrietta Petowk... ...holas. ‘No, sir, not to make her Mrs Lillyvick,’ replied the collec- tor. ‘Actresses, sir, always keep their maiden names—that’s the regular thing—but... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ... ...which he had to pass on his way home, and reading a list of the actors and actresses who had promised to do honour to some approaching benefit, with a...

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...y the light of wax candles, laughed the motley crowd of men of letters and actresses. They were prodigal as kings, full of ideal, ambi- tious, fantast... ...nce of manners with delicacy of sentiment. 53 Flaubert Did not love, like Indian plants, need a special soil, a particu- lar temperature? Signs by mo... ...reached even to Emma. Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the... ...And you don’t know what a life those dogs lead in the Latin quar- ter with actresses. Besides, students are thought a great deal of in Paris. Provided...

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... twisted, naked, striking their minds with an indeterminate ghostliness of Indian, so strange they were in shape and colouring. These sharp points wer... ...no; not clergymen!’ She laughed at the suggestion. She might be one of the actresses by nature. Is the man unsympathetic with women a hater of Nature ... ...man unsympathetic with women a hater of Nature deductively? Most women are actresses. As to worshipping Nature, we go back to the state of heathen bea...

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...chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? No situation would be beneath him — or what did Sir Th... ... to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. I have seen good actresses fail in the part. Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of ... ...ters. Chapter XVIII E VERY thing was now in a regular train; theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward: but though no other g...

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...g his neck “to have the portrait full of shad- ows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no me... ...danc- ing, singing, and drinking, become his natural element; ac- tors and actresses and drunken, roaring courtiers are to be found in his society; un...

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... upon the stage, and led me especially to the foyers, where the actors and actresses remained during the intervals of the performance, and dressed and... ...f handwriting, before the crow-quills were provided and cut into pens, and Indian ink was rubbed, whole weeks passed, without the least bit having bee... ...thing it was to write down a verse on Dutch paper, with the crow-quill and Indian ink; what time, talent, and exertion it required, which ought not to...

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... hemmed in by the dome of the Petersburg sky, black as though smudged with Indian ink. We had by now come out into the square; before us in the darkne... ...He goes about in the best restaurants and in cellars and taverns, and with actresses, and he’s trying to get into the hussars—he’s just applied for a ...

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... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...Ay, ay, I see,’ replied the mayor.—’Horses and dogs, play and wine—grooms, actresses, and cigars—the stable, the green-room, the saloon, and the taver...

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...id, in the pier-glass opposite. “There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.” Celia ... ...o you do?” in the nick of time. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl, it was plain that 46 Middlemarch the lodge-keeper regarded h... ...g sor- row, herself wandering, and finding no faithful comforter. Hid- den actresses, however, are not so difficult to find as some other hidden facts...

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...id, in the pier glass opposite. “There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.” Celia ... ...o you do?” in the nick of time. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl, it was plain that the lodge keeper regarded her as an importa... ...ring sorrow, herself wandering, and find ing no faithful comforter. Hidden actresses, however, are not so difficult to find as some other hidden facts, ...