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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-N... ...pture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles. ... “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the a... ...r version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage... ...oland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun... ... the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. G... ...ore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these V edas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...oumois for the rest of his days. Has he discovered some secret to ruin the English?” “He has done what you will not do in a hurry,” retorted Rastignac... ...dier’s, his broad, strong shoulders were those of the Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages intro- duced into some Italian palaces, remot... ...the herd of mankind the observation recently made on flocks of Spanish and English sheep which, in low meadows where pasture is abundant, feed side by... ...ny one who saw them might have taken them for the originals of some pretty English vignette. Esther was the first to recognize the basilisk eyes of th... ...ted a godlike appearance. Italian genius could invent the tale of Othello; English ge- nius could put it on the stage; but Nature alone reserves the p... ...o you I speak), if you bestow mil- lions, get a poet or two to assist your architects if you wish to save the cradle of Paris, the cradle of kings, wh... ...s the first floor—displays a long row of Gothic columns, between which the architects of I know not what period have built up two floors of cells to a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...to trace the evidences of design, and con- cert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning. The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded... ...ns did not stop to inquire, when they fired a broadside, whether it hit an Englishman, a French- man, or a Turk. Nor will I stop to inquire, nor shall... ...he Ad- ministration men and we are allied, and we stand in the attitude of English, French, and Turk, he occupying the position of the Russian, in tha... ...ated. It after- ward took a sort of cooked-up shape, and was passed in the English bill. It is said by the Judge that the defeat was a good and proper... ...n last year, he said it only meant that Americans in America were equal to Englishmen in England. Then, when I pointed out to him that by that rule he...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ot turned to the advantage of equality. The Cru- sades and the wars of the English decimated the nobles and divided their possessions; the erection of... ...es of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of... ...u- man industry were made. The tongue of arid land was the cradle of those English colonies which were destined one day to become the United States of... ...es of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of... ...cturer; he collects and retains in his service a vast number of engineers, architects, mechanics, and handicraftsmen. Not only is he the princi- pal m...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ith me. I have decided to keep Miss Griffith, who was rec- ommended by the English ambassador. Miss Griffith is the daughter of a clergyman; her mothe... ...mily, and she is perfectly well bred. She is thirty-six, and will teach me English. The good soul is quite handsome enough to have ambitions; she is S... ...omise. A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Valdez took ship on an English vessel. For myself, no sooner did I see the cause of my beloved Spa... ... takes with our fellow-countrymen the place which Galignani holds with the English in Paris. This man has found eight 35 Balzac pupils for me at thre... ...ve begun with that splendid Cornice road, which might be the work of fairy architects. Good-bye, darling. Don’t be angry if I don’t write. It is impos...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lish giant deeds in displacing or smoothing stones which are the wonder of architects and sculptors. It was eight o’clock. At that season twilight was... ...e bird! Just twenty years of age, slender and delicate as the sirens which English de- signers invent for their “Books of Beauty,” Modeste was, like h... ...wl, rocks that faint, and waves of war! How- ever, he is only a travelling Englishman, and we must expect absurdities,—though his are really inexcusab... ...bathos is put in by the transla- tor, and that I ought to read the book in English. But I cer- tainly sha’n’t learn English to read Lord Byron when I ... ...to teach Exupere. I much prefer the novels of Ducray- Dumenil to all these English romances. I’m too good a Norman to fall in love with foreign things...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...dies, was spent in needlework done for the poor, or in walks like those an Englishwoman allows herself on Sunday, saying, apparently, “Not so fast, or... ...elix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the work and i... ...e well-fitting clothes, had a charming “desinvoltura,” and was a votary of English nicety, to which, in earlier days, Lady Dudley had trained him. Mar... ... of a gilded salon where certain bankers, ambassadors, and the immoral old English earl, Lord Dudley, were playing cards, Madame Felix de Vandenesse w... ...rvellous sideboard was displayed a service of silver plate, the gift of an English lord, also porcelains in high relief; in short, the luxury of an ac...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...building enough, and shows the correct taste with which the ecclesiastical architects of those days were imbued. It stands on the banks of the little ... ...erwards. All the world—meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church—knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a sn... ...ome a byword for oppression, to be named as an example of the greed of the English church? Should it ever be said that he had robbed those old men, wh... ... a plea has been set up which will be peculiarly revolting to the minds of English churchmen. An action has been taken against Mr Warden Harding, on b... ...hose hospitable villa on the Lake of Como is so well known to the elite of English travellers, and whose col- lection of Lombard butterflies is suppos...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... pendant to the bed, another erection raised to the glory of Hymen. Modern architects would have been puzzled to de- cide whether the room had been bu...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...Near the window was her book-case, tolerably well supplied with works both English and foreign, and its lower shelf containing a double row of brown-p... ...h, and all their attention was bestowed upon it. It was built in the Early English style, and neither pains nor expense had been spared. Anne, who had... ...expedition, she had translated the Erl King, which she knew by heart, into English, far more lit- eral than Sir Walter Scott’s, and with no fault, exc... ...ulous Histories, for, though five years old, he made very slow progress in English literature, being more backward in learning to read than any of the... ...ee Papa I do not know when. It really was a very convenient thing when the architects of the old Ger- man cathedrals used to take a desperate leap fro...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s a ner- vous speculator. Before he gambled he consulted bankers, lawyers, architects, contracting builders, and all of their clerks and stenographers... ...y Business College 50 Babbitt and instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Sce- nario Writing, and Commercial Law. Though Babbitt ad- mired t... ...at morning he had advocated lighter lunches and now he ordered nothing but English mutton chop, radishes, peas, deep-dish apple pie, a bit of cheese, ... ...” Babbitt was as much amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether ... ...l rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—in- deed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old cou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lf-way through it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get m... ...for it, she felt robbed of her work. It was the advice of the professor of English which led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work... ... Miss Sherwin in the high school is a regular wonder—reads Latin like I do English; and Sam Clark, the hardware man, he’s a corker— not a better man i... ...sue?” Carol whispered to Kennicott. (“Whether this old duck Biggins had an English setter or a Llewellyn. They’ve been arguing it all evening!”) Dave ... ...ows that have been making movies for ten years how to direct ‘em; and tell architects how to build towns; and make the maga- zines publish nothing but... ...mining-settlement like a tumor. A booming semi- city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritabl...

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...ong and stiff.” “Peculiar — that is the very word,” said Holmes. “It is not an English paper at all. Hold it up to the light.” I did so, and saw a lar... ..., well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Behind there was not... ...married,” remarked Holmes. “Married! When?” “Yesterday.” “But to whom?” “To an English lawyer named Norton.” “But she could not love him.” “I am in ho... ...ad wives liv ing. They appear to have avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to have led retired lives, though both the McCarth... ...d exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love of solitude in England sugges... ...es as we climbed the stile, “that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Good a...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...room, a dining- room, and the kitchen garden out of which he would make an English pleasure-ground, with lawns, grottos, fountains, and statuary. The ... ...Well, it means eggs—from the Latin ovum.” “What queer fellows you are, you architects!” cried Rogron. “It is stepping on egg-shells to deal with you.”... ...l-mistresses have a way of their own in putting on their caps. Just as old Englishwomen have acquired a monopoly in turbans, school-mistresses have a ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the world; and have certainly not dis- tressed their parents, as too many English girls have lately done, by any enthusiastic wish to devote themselv... ...d little to trouble her;—little, that is, till the edict for this terrible English journey had gone forth; since, then, indeed, her life had been labo... ...fferent as to what the subject was. She prided herself on her freedom from English prejudice, and she might have added, from feminine delicacy. On rel... ..., though that way was not very comfortable with the customary usages of an English clergyman. Madame Neroni, though forced to give up all motion in th... ...y homely folk, nothing can equal the square mullioned windows of the Tudor architects. The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he Babylonian ice-house, and all the other delusions invented by landscape architects which some nine hundred acres of land can be made to serve. He n... ...solable for the loss of his wife, he tried to drown his troubles, like the English, in wine, and then, when he had put the poor deceased out of his mi... ... of meeting for the huntsmen; and we know the magnificence bestowed by the architects of that day upon all buildings intended for the delight of the c... ...sed the double charm of a natural, untouched forest and the elegance of an English park. The surroundings of the pavilion, in keeping with its own ext... ... “crouton,” and “croute-au-pot,” untranslatable, and without equivalent in English. A “croute” is the slang term for a man behind the age.—T r. 213 B... ...ry 253 Balzac in height with a garret, a fine courtyard, and behind it an English garden bathed by the waters of the Avonne. The elegance of the plac...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... with him certain workmen, master sculptors, good painters, and masons, or architects, who ornamented the galleries with splendid works, which, throug...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... appealed to his generosity who was not immediately satisfied. A sceptical Englishman, determined to know the truth, followed him to Paris, and relate... ...s, as Beethoven built his palaces of harmony with thou- sands of notes, as architects have reared cathedrals with mil- lions of stones. We roll in sou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... HELD ON THAT OCCASION, AND THE GREAT ENJOY- MENT OF MR PINCH T HE BEST OF ARCHITECTS and land surveyors kept a horse, in whom the enemies already men... ...e that I may one day give to the world. We work here, my dear Martin. Some architects have been bred in this room; a few, I think, Mr Pinch?’ Tom full... ...m; 234 Martin Chuzzlewit and his spirits rose proportionately. There were English people, Irish people, Welsh people, and Scotch people there; all wi... ...ver (under any circumstances worth men- tioning) be breathed by slaves. An English gentleman who was strongly suspected of having run away from a bank... ...ed him as he was moving away, and offered in consideration of his being an Englishman, to show him the town and to introduce him, if such were his des... ...is Junior, the son (who corresponded, every post, with four members of the English Peerage), enlarged upon the inestimable advantage of having no such... ...wn hands at the National Hotel) bearing the inscription, Chuzzlewit & Co., Architects and Surveyors, which he displayed upon the most con- spicuous pa... ...at’s the use? Some archi- tects are clever at making foundations, and some architects are clever at building on ‘em when they’re made. But it’ll all c...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...of the fascination of his manner there can be no doubt. Even Henry VIII.’s English ambassadors, when forced to own how little they could depend on him... ...resentation of a mystery—a kind of entertainment which Germany owed to the English who came to the Council of Constance, and which the monks of St. Ru... ...alter his manner but rather added to its stiffness. “The Junker is like an Englishman,” said Sir Kasimir, who had met many of the exiles of the Roses ... ...anguages from native speakers— Czech from a peasant with a basket of eggs, English from the exiles at the Burgundian court, who had also taught him th... ...ndian court, who had also taught him the use of the longbow, building from architects and masons, painting from artists, and, more imaginatively , ast...