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...e memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled... ...ow it will be,” said Sir John, “I see how it will be. You will be setting your cap at him now, and never think of poor Brandon.” “That is an expressio... ...I abhor every common place phrase by which wit is intended; and ‘setting one’s cap at a man,’ or ‘making a conquest,’ are the most odious of all. Thei... ...r Brandon! he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraini... ...n the water were 36 Sense and Sensibility made and accomplished as often as a showery October would allow. In every meeting of the kind Willoughby wa... ...merly seen them fall! How have I delighted, as I walked, to see them driven in showers about me by the wind! What feelings have they, the season, the ...

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...t-fitting parti- striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him, that I thought I should never h... ...the Montresors. The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap jingled as he strode. “The pipe,” said he. “It is farther on,” said I; ... ...an half loosened for the night from its ball-room array, clustered, amid a shower of diamonds, round and round her classical head, in curls like those...

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...rs which they had caught, after having thrown what the old chief called ‘a shower of spears,’ desisted from mere surprise. Our Christian chief called ... ...k empty, I have suddenly become full; ideas being in an invis- ible manner showered upon me, and implanted in me from on high; so that through the inf...

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...he rain, And the great heaven, overcharged with rain, Doth love to fall in showers upon the earth.” Heraclitus, again, maintains, that “contrariety is... ...if he should ask. But these terms are employed elsewhere (Analytica Post I cap. 11. sect. 10) to denote respectively particulars and uni- versals The ...

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...ding brightness of military glory,—that attrac- tive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent’s eye that charms to destroy,—he plunged int... ... bring them here. He finds them already slaves in the hands of their black cap- tors, and he honestly buys them at the rate of a red cotton handkerchi...

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...m his interview with the tutor. ‘It’s all up, ’ said he, chucking down his cap, striving to be at his ease. ‘I may pack up and go—just where I please.... ...as been quite sympathetic with me about my things. ’ ‘A terrible pity that shower, ’ said Dolly. ‘For you, ’ said Silverbridge, ‘because if I remember... ...he most beautiful creature you ever saw in your life?’ He pushed back his cap and looked at her without making any immediate answer. ‘I do. Now tell ... ...a sym- 414 The Duke’s Children bol of authority, and took off his hunting-cap to salute the assembly with a jaunty air. He had taken two glasses of s... ...to give a verdict against his late partner? The Major sat down, put on his cap, and folded his arms akimbo, with his horn sticking out from his left h... ...his Lordship’s pardon, ’ said Fowler, taking off his 457 Anthony Trollope cap. ‘We shall have a good time coming some day. Let me trot ‘em off to Mic...

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...ded themselves it was a merciful doom, and one which many of the Jerusalem cap- tives afterwards eagerly courted. But still it was a shocking case. It... .... CIVIC DUTIES. CIVIC DUTIES. SUPPOSE THE CASE, that taking shelter from a shower of rain in a stranger’s house, you discover proofs of a connection w...

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...f, oughtn’t I? My name is Mrs. Munt.” She was conscious that he raised his cap and said quite coolly, “Oh, rather; Miss Schlegel is stopping with us. ... ... him, not where it de- scended, but in the heart. Books fell over him in a shower. Nothing had sense. “Get some water,” commanded Charles, who had all...

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...the sick, he replied. And the pilot—that is to say, the true pilot—is he a cap tain of sailors or a mere sailor? A captain of sailors. The circumstan... ...s; for they throw in the good opinion of the gods, and will tell you of a shower of benefits which the heavens, as they say, rain upon the pi ous; a... ...mer, which even now makes the words falter on my lips, for he is the great cap tain and teacher of the whole of that charming tragic com pany; but ...

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...not expect perfection. You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot... ...t into the village on some errand by her aunt Norris, was overtaken by a heavy shower close to the Parsonage, and being descried from one of the windo...

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...rests were not forgot- ten by those guardian saints who were so anxious to shower down on his head all manner of temporal blessings. Another conversat... ...He de- lighted in gold sticks, and was never so happy as when holding some cap of maintenance or spur of precedence with due dignity and acknowledged ... ...y Damascus, Beyrout, and Constantinople, bringing back a long beard, a red cap, and a chibook, just as our fathers used to go through Italy and Switze...