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...ot been printed in the days of Jesus Christ, inasmuch as it was written by Moses. Her mental powers were those of the English “country gentleman” who,... ...eat and clean was again gone over and brushed and rubbed and scrubbed. The china of ceremony saw the light; the damask linen marked “A, B, C” was draw... ... out, in view of the whole company, a magnificent liqueur-stand of Dresden china which saw the light only twice a year. This circum- stance was taken ...

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...ar fellow!” cried Rastignac; “twang that fourth string with the prayer in ‘Moses’ like Paganini.” Raoul remained silent, with fixed eyes, apparently m... ...’s personal convenience until evening,—her bed, a table, a few chairs, and china enough to give her guests their breakfast. Having gone to sleep benea... ...ed the com- forts of an old sofa-cushion, near which could be seen a white china cup and plate. But what no pen can describe was the state into which ...

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...the things go better. After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him... ...was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no mo... ...hing when they don’t know nothing about it. Here she was a bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you se... ... of chewing gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor’s daughter from China for you to marry, they’ve got to do it — and they’ve got to do it b... ...t he had catched in the woods day before yester day, and he asked me where Moses was when the candle went out. I said I didn’t know; I hadn’t heard ... ...“I don’t know. A month and a half.” “Thirty seven year — and he come out in China. That’s the kind. I wish the bottom of this fortress was solid ro... ...wish the bottom of this fortress was solid rock.” “Jim don’t know nobody in China.” “What’s that got to do with it? Neither did that other fellow. Bu...

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...fensive war, and the New Atlantis and the Uto- pia of More in theory, like China and Japan through many centuries of effectual practice, held themselv... ...e—an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessa- tion of distresse... ...aching it pretty closely, and again in the inland and typical provinces of China, where even a strange pattern of hat arouses hostility. We had it in ... ... to do one’s best to bear the range in mind. Let us admit that the average Chinaman is probably dif- ferent in complexion, and, indeed, in all his phy... ...tion upon terms of equality in a W orld State impossible? What the average Chinaman or English- man may be, is of no importance whatever to our plan o... ... that triumph of creative imagination, the “Anglo- Saxon race”; my friend, Moses Cohen, thinks there is much to be said for the Jew. On its premises, ...

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...nd Nick go to my little place at V ersailles for the honeymoon? I’m off to China, and you could have it to yourselves all summer,” the offer had been ... ...race, drawing her into the dusky perfumed room. “But I thought you were in China!” Susy stammered. “In China … in China,” Mrs. Melrose stared with dre... ...les in her attenu- ated hands. “Of course, of course! I had meant to go to China— no, India …. But I’ve discovered a genius … and Genius, you know ….”... ... and she doesn’t know how they happen to have left it out…. I rather think Moses left it out because he knew more about human nature than these snivel...

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...re I was married I didn’t care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never mind... ...ook at him, Amelia dear, driving into the parlour window. Such a bull in a china-shop I never saw.” And presently the pair of riders disappeared at a ... ...e ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shie... ...f a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys, and to take inventories of the china, the glass, and other properties in the closets and store-rooms. Mrs.... ...re long galleries, and ancient state bedrooms, there were pictures and old China, and armour. There were the rooms in which Grandpapa died, and by whi... ...h more pleasure. Y ou may be sure they occupied a conspicuous place in the china bowl on the drawing-room table, where Becky kept the cards of her vis...

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...ff. She liked pretty faces near her; as she liked pretty pictures and nice china. She talked of Amelia with rapture half a dozen times that day. She m... ...er seen. “Dammy,” George said to a confidential friend, “she looked like a China doll, which has nothing to do all day but to grin and wag its head. B... ... Frederick’s flagging confidential whispers, and the clinking of plate and china, to interrupt the silence of the repast. The ser- vants went about st... ... of a more cheerful temperament. “Think of those two aides-de- camp of Mr. Moses, the sheriff’s-officer, who watched our lodging for a week. Our frien... ... very stupid, but Mr. Jos and Captain Cupid are better companions than Mr. Moses’s men, Rawdon, my love.” “I wonder the writs haven’t followed me down...

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...to the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlan... ... affection, and then say: “The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China trees; now we cross over.” So he crossed over. He gave me the wheel... ...u! You’re the stu pidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! The idea of you being a pilot—you! Why, you don’t know enough to p... ...ntations, with only here and there a scattering sapling or row of ornamental China trees. The timber is shorn off clear to the rear of the plantations... ...umbull’s Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Sally from Gibraltar. Copper plates, Moses Smiting the Rock, and Re turn of the Prodigal Son. In big gilt fra... ... Mabry and his son Joe were acquit ted only a few days ago of the murder of Moses Lusby and Don Lusby, father and son, whom they killed a few weeks a... ...e— “The cross of the Mysterious Avenger is known in Eu rope, in America, in China, in Siam, in the Tropics, in the Polar Seas, in the deserts of Asia...

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...s fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” —Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two c... ...e seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better... ...oah’s flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among... ...s! Pip. Jinglers, you say?—there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so. China sailor. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thys... ...d turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, P... ...; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt. But fortunately t... ... moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted j...

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...en clogs and dainty slippers, boots that a queen might have coveted; cheap china plates, cracked or chipped, with fragments of a past meal, and nickel... ...rucifix, in the attitude which the most religious of painters has given to Moses before the burning bush on Horeb, to depict his deep and complete ado... ...of the Parisian Olympus. It would be superfluous to describe the plate and china. Nucingen had provided three services of plate—common, medium, and be... ...each service with porcelain of exquisite fragility in the style of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate. As to the linen—Saxony, England,... ... without dragging in the Parliament and the English Government.” “It is in China, in the opium trade—” “Ja, I know,” said Nucingen at once, as a man w... ...glish Gover’ment hafe taken up de opium trate as a means dat shall open up China, and she shall not allow dat ve—” “Nucingen has cut him out with the ... ... made an idol of. “When it is God’s will, these mysterious beings may be a Moses, an Attila, Charlemagne, Mahomet, or Napoleon; but when He leaves a g... ... made an idol of. “When it is God’s will, these mysterious beings may be a Moses, an Attila, Charlemagne, Mahomet, or Napoleon; but when He leaves a g... ... to la Gonore,” replied la Pouraille piteously. “What! Are you living with Moses’ widow—the Jew who led the swindling gang in the South?” asked Jacque...

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...l; I packed and stored a part of my collec- tion, and the rest of it I placed in the care of the Grand Ducal Museum i n Mannheim, by permission. My Ol... ...whence they were borne to Zermatt and buried in the churchyard. The remains of Lord Douglas have never been found. The secret of his sepulture, like t... ...d the wherefores and the consistencies of it—I haven’t got time. Titian’s Venus defiles and disgraces the Tribune, there is no softening that fact, bu... ...e—and you confess, without reserve, that Titian WAS a Master. The doll-faces of other painted babes may mean one thing, they may mean another, but wit... ...se is different. The most famous of all the art- critics has said, “There is no room for doubt, here—plainly this child is in trouble.” I consider tha... ...er Old Masters were lost and only these two preserved, the world would be the gainer by it. My sole purpose in going to Florence was to see this im- m...

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...t while Mrs. C. was sipping her eternal tea or washing up her endless blue china, you might often hear Miss Morgiana employed at the little red-silk c... ...ss of Billingsgate, or Captain Buff; and at the same time nodding to young Moses, the dandy bailiff; or Loder, the gambling-house keeper; or Aminadab,... ...at Walker’s ruin was cer- tain. The cook made the policeman a present of a china punch- bowl which Mrs. Walker had given her; and the lady’s-maid gave...

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...g man kindly answered them: ‘It might be Lot or Methusalem, Or it might be Moses (a man I hate), Whereas it is Pharaoh surnamed the Great. ‘Your glazi... ...ngs have altered in the shipwright’s trade. In Blackwall Basin yesterday A China barque re-fitting lay, When a fat old man with snow-white hair Came u... ... the cargo?” ‘Say? I couldn’t say a word. I sat choking and nodding like a China image while he wrote an order to his secretary to pay 127 Rudyard Ki...

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...fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” Rabelais. “This whale’s liver was two ca... ...e seated upon the pier heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better... ...Noah’s flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among ... ... Pip. Jinglers, you say? — there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so. China sailor. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thys... ...d turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, P... ...l, I 202 Chapter 45 The Affidavit had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt. But fortunately t... ... moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot path will draw a bulky freighted ju...

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...ff. She liked pretty faces near her; as she liked pretty pictures and nice china. She talked of Amelia with rapture half a dozen times that day. She m... ...er seen. “Dammy,” George said to a confidential friend, “she looked like a China doll, which has nothing to do all day but to grin and wag its head. B... ... Frederick’s flagging confidential whispers, and the clinking of plate and china, to interrupt the silence of the repast. The ser- vants went about st... ... of a more cheerful temperament. “Think of those two aides-de- camp of Mr. Moses, the sheriff’s-officer, who watched our lodging for a week. Our frien... ... very stupid, but Mr. Jos and Captain Cupid are better companions than Mr. Moses’s men, Rawdon, my love.” “I wonder the writs haven’t followed me down... ...re I was married I didn’t care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never mind... ...ook at him, Amelia dear, driving into the parlour window. Such a bull in a china-shop I never saw.” And presently the pair of riders disappeared at a ... ...e ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shie...

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... the scores that we owe to his great genius, the nun seemed to have chosen Moses in Egypt for special study, doubtless because the spirit of sacred mu... ...sible; a mouse might as well try to creep up the slippery sides of a plain china vase. Still there was a cleft, a straight line of fissure so fortunat...

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...er, so to speak, to both sides; so that there were some Caucasians among the Chinamen, and some bachelors among the families. But our own car was pure... ...lf a hundred emigrants from the opposite quarter? Hun- gry Europe and hungry China, each pouring from their gates in search of provender, had here com... ... hind along the beach towards Santa Cruz, but from your right also, round by Chinatown and Pinos lighthouse, and from down before you to the mouth of ... ...s torsos of dramas, and words that were alive with import. So in youth, like Moses from the mountain, we have sights of that House Beautiful of art wh...

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... 560 Of rapt irradiation, exquisite. Meanwhile the Evangelists, Isaiah, Job, Moses, and he who penned, the other day, The Death of Abel, Shakspeare, a... ...ht Of the Tartarian dynasty composed (Beyond that mighty wall, not fabulous, China’s stupendous mound) by patient toil 80 Of myriads and boon nature’s...

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... be brushed, and was as large as little Sally at home, down to poor little china Mildred, whose proper dwelling-place was a bath, and who had with gre... ...does decide the tenor of our lives. Y ou know one moment of hastiness cost Moses the Promised Land; and only a little while ago, we heard how Joash ha...

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...l be.’ And he took his shears and went away from her in placid dignity, as Moses left the presence of Pharaoh. Chapter 21 TROUBLES IN THE FOLD — A ME... ...wamped thought. It had brought upon her a stroke resulting, as did that of Moses in Horeb, in a liquid stream — here a stream of tears. She felt like ... ...es and long beards,’ con tinued the illustrious traveller, ‘and look like Moses and Aaron complete, and make we fokes in the congre gation feel all ... ..., some slices of bread and butter, a tea cup, and some hot tea in a little china jug ‘Is Fanny gone?’ said Bathsheba. ‘No,’ said her companion, pourin... ... quite a cozy and luxurious show, with an urn, plated tea and coffee pots, china teacups, and plum cakes. Troy stood at the entrance to the booth, whe...