...ut I can’t get it on back on.” I walked over to the wagon and saw that he’d lifted it with a single branch that’d come off the oak. He levered off... ...ted it with a single branch that’d come off the oak. He levered off a rock to lift the wagon, but the branch broke in two pieces in the process and ... ... “Jesse, if this is gonna work, I’ll shout for Spirit to pull. I’ll help by lifting the wagon as hard as I can. When it comes up enough, you get t... ...Just like I hoped, Spirit moved out and the wagon creaked. I yelled again and lifted as hard as I could. “NOW, NOW JESSE. SEE IF THAT’S HIGH ENOU... ...could. “NOW, NOW JESSE. SEE IF THAT’S HIGH ENOUGH.” Without a word, Jesse lifted and positioned the wheel on the axel and pushed it in. “Not ... .... I could see this job gettin’ messier. I looked all around for something to force either the desk or the cabinet open. There wasn’t much that look...

...great hall. She zipped across the inlaid St. Andrews cross in the marble floor and lifted the receiver. “Good evening, Bobby.” “Laura Kate?” B... ...zaleas grew almost to the cottage rooftop. Alighting from her car, the cool wind lifting her hair, she picked her way over gnarled tree roots whi... ...e shifted her eyes, signaling slight doubt about a wrong number. But Hannah’s chin lifted stubbornly, and Laura Kate changed the subject. “When I w... ....” His eyes moved to the shotgun. A tech approached Mather and asked if he could lift the gun that lay between Royce’s outstretched legs. Mather... ... to the floor. More drama, Laura Kate thought, and went to crouch beside her. She lifted an eyelid. Hannah wasn’t faking. ***** Cranki... ...vies,” Sammie said, her green eyes flickering as she shoved the nine iron a bit too forcefully into her bag. “I’m too jumpy up to play any more. I’... ...believed that Royce had planned on her witnessing the codicil on Monday, but he was forced to execute it Sunday morning instead. “Who’s the lucky ... ...dered two people and I’ll tell everybody I know that they murdered two people. I’ll force the state to come in.” Gerrie Ferris 158 His kis...

...t with men T o time’s last goal descending.’ —Issac Williams. THE UNITED FORCE of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with th... ...atered blue moreen canopy of the big four- poster to which I was sometimes lifted for a change; even the scrawly pattern of the paper, which my weary ... ...ll her tasks till the long attendance upon me, and the consequent illness, forced her to spare herself—a little—a very little. Previously she had been... ...however, one of those independent boys who take an aversion to whatever is forced on them as their fate. He was ready and successful with his studies,... ...her diversion, without his brother; and 30 Chantry House used much kindly force and banter to unearth him from his dismal den in the back drawing-roo... ...ster Communion. For one short moment, as Clarence turned to help my father lift me up from the altar-rail, I saw his face and eyes radiant with a wond... ...sword case, an excrescence behind the back of the best seat, accessible by lifting a cushion, where weapons used to be carried, but where in our peace... ...years later than her husband. Thus far I could see; but Griff was standing lifting the curtain, and showing by the working of his shoulders his amazem... ... letter? How was it addressed? Clarence, I say, didn’t you hear?’ Clarence lifted up his face from his letter, so much flushed that my mother broke in...

...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done withou...

...ss than this—to add their authority and their power to the author- ity and force of other nations to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world.... ...reements may not make peace secure. It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much... ...s a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged in any alliance hitherto formed or projecte... ...be made is to endure it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind. The terms of the immediate peace agreed upon will deter- ... ...ies and to face them with- out soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It wou... ...lty it will be dealt with with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lifts its head at all, it will lift it only here and there and without coun...

...ered to remain in possession of the credit, and we cannot help feeling the force of the following observations— “There are several incidental circumst... ...dontiadæ, the chieftain of Thessaly, from his valour and the number of his forces, may have been the most im- portant ally of the Peloponnesian sovere... ...e pre-eminent value of the ancient poetry on the T rojan war may thus have forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The s... ...r done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet’s imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in ano... ...l air, No daring Greek, of all the numerous band, Against his priest shall lift an impious hand; Not e’en the chief by whom our hosts are led, The kin... ... What generous Greek, obedient to thy word, Shall form an ambush, or shall lift the sword? What cause have I to war at thy decree? The distant T rojan... ...eath, and bring The Greeks to know the curse of such a king. Let Agamemnon lift his haughty head O’er all his wide dominion of the dead, And mourn in ... ...an but grieve, unable to defend What god so daring in your aid to move, Or lift his hand against the force of Jove? Once in your cause I felt his matc... ..., immortal, and the gift of gods. Now rosy Morn ascends the court of Jove, Lifts up her light, and opens day above. The king despatch’d his heralds wi...

...reign Worshipped? O to be with her there! She, that breath of nimble air, Lifts the breast to giant power. Maid and man, and man and maid, Who each o... ...of juncture must be proof; Nor look for mercy from the incessant surge Her forces mixed of craft and passion urge For the one whelming wave to spring ... ...ratic but in heart’s excess; Being mortal and ill-matched for Love’s great force; Like green leaves caught with flames by his impress. And pray they u... ... declares great heart; High confidence in her whose aid is lent T o lovers lifting the tuned instrument, Not one of rippled strings and funeral tone. ... ...ith countenance the Sun’s. Should pity bless the tremulous voice of woe He lifts for pity, limp his offspring show. For him requiring woman’s arts to ... ... among his kind, He saw, and first of brotherhood had sight: Knew that his force to fly, his will to see, His heart enlarged beyond its ribbed domain,... ...ace. Back to the primal brute shall he retrace His path, doth he permit to force her chains A soft Persuader coursing through his veins, An icy Huntre... ...ouser of ire being absent, caged, Then did good Gaea’s children gratefully Lift hymns to Gods they judged, but praised for peace, Delightful Peace, th... ...they unto me have in nowise a harm done; Never have they, of a truth, come lifting my horses or oxen; Never in deep-soiled Phthia, the nurser of heroe...

...l these fiords, each has its own characteristics. The sea has every- where forced its way as through a breach, yet the rocks about each fissure are di... ...e that of a funnel washed out by the sea. The passage which the waves have forced present to the eye an image of the eternal struggle between old Ocea... ...hing violently in, the sea is driven back with equal violence by the inert force of the mountain to the opposite shore, gently curved by the spent for... ...enough to allow the sea, dashed back by the Falberg, to spend its expiring force in gentle murmurs upon the lower slope of these hills,—a shore border... ...rvests necessary for the food of the patient people. A few tall pine-trees lifted their black pyramids gar- landed with snow, and the form of their lo... ...ng, turned swiftly where he stood, caught his timid companion in his arms, lifted her in spite of the long boards on her feet, and placed her on a pro... ...t will rise to heights indeed.” “I will do all you tell me,” she answered, lifting her eyes to his with a timid movement. “I cannot be your companion,... ... humbly small, cringe like the hapless female of all species, that you may lift me up? and then, when I, helpless and broken, ask you for help, when I... ...ption father and mother lived a still more solitary life than in the past, lifting themselves up to heaven by Prayer. They hoped to see Swedenborg, an...

... are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale. The art of being human lifts to be a better level than that of gossip; it leaves mere chatter behi... ... everything else, render you infinitely uneasy, as if there were in them a force abnormal and which rocked toward an upset of the mind; but from the m... ...arge world and a round world, and men grow human by seeing all its play of force and folly. VI Let no one suppose that efficiency is lost by such brea... ...n have made history for us. Poise, balance, a nice and equable exercise of force, are not, it is true, the things the world ordinarily seeks for or mo... ...chsafe him our full sympathy only when he is dead. We know that the genial forces of nature which work daily, equably, and without violence are infini... ...l suspi- cion of spite, and is like the gleam of light upon running water, lifting sullen shadows, suggesting clear depths. Surely it is this soundnes... ...ays reckon upon finding in every man who has studied to perfect his native force. This new day in which we live cries a challenge to us. Steam and ele...

...opic and the polar strand. It is to make that foaming Strength Whose rebel forces wrestle still Thro’ all his boundaried breadth and length Become a v... ...th High soaring and wide sweeping; now, With sudden fury dashing down Full-force on the awaiting woods. Long waited there, for aspens frail That tinkl... ...arcely slid Round her waist in cestian girdles, And his low voluptuous lid Lifted pleading, and the honey Of his mouth for hers athirst, Ruby glisteni... ...arms of prayer! In the earth her feet are rooting! – Breasts and limbs and lifted eyes, Hair and lips and stretching fingers, Fade away—and fadeless r... ...ur own! and now the sun In saffron clothes the warming atmosphere; The sky lifts up her white veil like a nun, And looks upon the landscape blue and c... ...how the bitter winter breezes blow Round the sharp rocks and o’er the half-lifted wave, While all the rocky woodland branches rave Shrill with the pie... ...lasped: he fares. God speed him whole! The knights make bets: The ladies lift soft prayers. 102 O have you seen the deer at chase? O have you seen ... ...mpt, They looked on a monied damsel of modesty quite so exempt. ‘O give me force to tell them!’ cried Mary, and even as she spoke, A shout and a hush ... ... tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean’s force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, T o throw that faint...

...scendental; and must now seek its wild way through the New, Chaotic,—where Force is not yet distinguished into Bidden and Forbidden, but Crime and Vir... ...ings is lost for us. Attila’s Huns had arms of such length that they could lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative ... ...lves, could be of soft nature? As in dry Sahara, when the winds waken, and lift and winnow the immensity of sand! The air itself (Travellers say) is ... ...eat of honour assigned him, a tribune particuliere. How changed for Marat; lifted from his dark cellar into this luminous ‘peculiar tribune!’ All dog... ...es the other movement slacken; the rushing against foreign Despots. Strong forces shall meet in death-grip; drilled Europe against mad undrilled Franc... ...r Princess de Lamballe, is not let go; but waits in the strong-rooms of La Force there, what will betide further. Among so many hundreds whom the laun... ...ll re- venged ere long; that the King’s Friends in Prison would burst out; force the Temple, set the King on horseback; and, joined by the unimprisone... ...re not; we hate Aristocrats! “Wilt thou drink Aristocrats’ blood?” The man lifts blood (if universal Rumour can be credited (Dulaure: Esquisses Histor... ...e with a dying voice. One of them paused; but the other cried Allons donc; lifted the unfortunate man; carried him out on his back to the street. He w...

...onder dark precipice there, where the waves are green, and the white surge lifts and falls, and that little thread of water trembles down. There at an... ...er doubt- fully. “Look at these rocks!” cried the seated man with a sudden force of gesture. “Look at that sea that has shone and quiv- ered there for... ...axen beard came back towards them, turned suddenly, listened for a moment, lifted his eyebrows at the older man, and hurried off through the archway t... ...rolled up again like a curtain, and he stood waiting. 27 H G Wells Graham lifted his arm and was astonished to find what strength the restoratives ha... ...flaxen beard re-entered from the arch- way, and as he did so the cage of a lift came sliding down in front of the thickset man, and a lean, grey-beard... ... The tailor was very quick in his movements, and glanced twice towards the lift as he did these things. 28 When the Sleeper Wakes It rumbled again, a... ...nd trying to ignore the scru- tiny of the new comer. “Is that—some sort of force—laid on?” “Yes,” said the man with the flaxen beard. “Who is that?” H... ...ion of muti- lated English about certain of the words. “oi Man huwdbi Kin” forced itself on him as “The Man who would be King.” “Pho- netic spelling,”... ...eared. And the big towns grew. They drew the worker with the gravitational force of seemingly endless work, the employer with their suggestions of an ...

...hat makes everyone collect “specimens” of the war. Everywhere the souvenir forces itself upon the attention. The homecom- ing permissionaire brings wi... ...Italian plain than Italy is near any practicable fighting ground for large forces; particularly is this the case in the region of the Adige valley and... ...ncible 5th Group of the Alpini. It was the old problem of the irresistible force in conflict with the immov- able object. And the outcome has been the... ...ar has been a shock to reasonable men the whole world over. They have been forced to realise that after all a great number of Germans have been engage... ...ncredible war. This man was, I suppose, a native officer of some cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a handsome dark brown Arab, wearing ... ...w, because it is the newest thing, is his method of paying his workers. He lifts a hand gravely: “I said, what we must do is abolish altogether the co... ... of serene contentment, a sort of incarnate “T old-you-so.” So the Vatican lifts its pontifical skirts and shakes the dust of western Europe off its f... ...e way to learn war, and that is to make war.” When it was too late, in the lift, I thought of the answer to that. There is only one way to make war, a... ...foreign to it. Such an agreement as I have here sketched out would at once lift international politics out of the bloody and hope- less squalor of the...

...en with remnants of a curtsey. Only Iggulden’s son, his mother on his arm, lifted his hat as Sophie passed. “Your people,” said the clear voice of Lad... ... she added, looking out of the window, “it would be desertion.” George was forced to soothe himself with linking Friars Pardon to the telegraph system... ...he floor in a humble and peace- making way. I grabbed Vixen a second time, lifted her out of bed like a rabbit (she hated that and yelled), and, as I ... ...nto a crowd of young bees, and left Melissa bewildered and annoyed. So she lifted up her little voice in the darkness and cried, “Stores!” till a gang... ... up the pile of rubbish, and they smelt singeing wax. The Figures stooped, lifted the Hive and shook it upside down over the pyre. A cascade of Odditi... ...be on the move,” says Captain Purnall, and we are shot up by the passenger-lift to the top of the despatch-towers. “Our coach will lock on when it is ... ...s, and thence the obedient gas whirls through the spirals of blades with a force that would whip the teeth out of a power saw. Behind, is its own pres... ... doubt, from above: “The old secret, my son!” The immense egotism of youth forced me on my own path, but (cry of the human always!) had I known—if I h... ...or the Master’s bodily health and comfort. “At such a time,” he writes, “I forced the Master to take the broth”; or “I made him put on the fur coat as...

...ecorous mantle-folds, or unseemly sunk together, like one that had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- es... ...Constitutional scare- crow, but in what still unmeasured, infinite-seeming force may rally round it, is there thenceforth any hope. For it is most tru... ...his world to make rule out of the ruleless; by his living energy, he shall force the absurd itself to become less absurd. But then if there be no livi... ...irri- tability has perfected itself into vitality; into actual vision, and force that can will! All stirs; and if not in Paris, flocks thither. Great ... ... communion of thought; which, for example, on signal of one Fugleman, will lift its right hand like a drilled regi- ment, and swear and illuminate, ti... ... see, must be the Champ-de-Mars; where many a Julian the Apostate has been lifted on bucklers, to France’s or the world’s sovereignty; and iron Franks... ...ght order, with that extem- poraneous adroitness of theirs: whereby such a lift has been given, worth three mercenary ones;—which may end when the lat... ...toils of the Champ-de-Mars; each new troop will put its hand to the spade; lift a hod of earth on the Altar of the Fatherland. But the flourishes of r... ...oarse outcry, condemnatory, elegiac- applausive. The Forty-eight Sections, lift up voices; sono- rous Brewer, or call him now Colonel Santerre, is not...

...k. Still thrilling with the suffering of being carried from the field, and lifted to his place, he saw a comrade in even worse plight brought in, and ... ...aptain; and, outlaws as they were, they spoiled no peaceful villages, they lifted not their hands against the persecuting monarch, and the neighbor- i... ...the banished T arquinius Superbus and his son Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old ... ...6, saved his whole band by his sole exertions. He had been defeated by the forces of Edward I. at Methven, and had lost many of his friends. His littl... ...28 A Book of Golden Deeds grasp was so tight upon the plaid that Bruce was forced to unclasp the brooch that secured it, and leave both in the dead ma... ...casus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs... ...he doors were opened, and all the train entered, the little princess being lifted up to stand by the organ, lest she should be hurt in the throng. Fir... ... heel fast holds the steel, His head is on the ground. The peasants round lift from the ground His form in woeful plight, To convent cell, for keepi... ...plain— A sound is at the gate. The mother hears, her head she rears, She lifts her eager finger— ‘Rejoice, rejoice, ‘t is Albrecht’s voice, Open! O...

...bought In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day, A perilous fight when he with force her brought From twentie Knights, that did him all assay: Yet faire... ... addrest, And with such vncouth welcome did receaue Her fayned Paramour, her forced guest, That being forst his saddle soone to leaue, Him selfe he di... ...wen Into this world, to worke confusion, And set it all on fire by force vnknowen, Is wicked discord, whose small sparkes once blowen ... ...ed well, But rather ought in friendship for her sake To ioyne your force, their forces to repell, That seeke perforce her from you both... ... Like faithfull friends thenceforth to ioyne in one With all their force, and battell strong to wage Gainst all those knights, as their... ...l winters tine, That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection, Liftes vp his head, that did before decline And gins to spread his l...

...s of passing through the translator’s hands, cannot but be felt in all its force when that translator has not penetrated beyond the outer courts of th... ...course Mine, as thy deep-seated smart In the heart. Ev’ry morning with new force. Scarce avails night aught to me; E’en the visions that I see Come bu... ...est memory’s led. See how yon hill is bright With billowy-waving arms! The force returns, whose might Has vanquished war’s alarms. Who proudly hastens... ...e clowns politely treat; If to our hosts we’re ever rude, Jail-bread we’re forced to eat. And when the cannons growl around, And small arms rattle cle... ..., T o save her, no bark pushes off from the shore. Her gaze once again she lifts up to Heaven, Then gently away by the flood she is driven. No dam, no... ... Glides into the room a bashful maid. But she, at his sight, Lifts her hand so white, And appears as though full sore afraid. “Am I,” ... ...of dread, And with spirit’s strength, In its spectre length, Lifts her figure slowly from the bed. “Mother! mother!”—Thus her wan lips s... ...either stands in need. For with pure heart, hands unsullied, She the water lifts, and rolls it T o a wondrous ball of crystal This she bears with glad... ... sorrow! So she’s torn thence by her fiery brother, On his nimble steed he lifts her quickly, And so hastens, with the heart-sad woman, Straightway to...

... best interpreted by the expansion of those lives they have seized upon by force of their natural, profound intuition of the miracles of everyday Life... ...ps to an easy clover— Dips—evades—teases—deploys; Then to the royal clouds Lifts his light pinnace Heedless of the boy Staring, bewildered, at the moc... ...sails. 34 L I SHOULD have been too glad, I see, T oo lifted for the scant degree Of life’s penurious round; My little circuit wo... ...b, As sponges, buckets do. The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllabl... ...Queen of Calvary. Each one salutes me as he goes, And I my childish plumes Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment Of their unthinking drums. XV A R... ...en I come, And laugh at me, and stare! I hope the father in the skies Will lift his little girl,— Old-fashioned, naughty, everything,— Over the stile ... ...sed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought A further force of life Developed from within,— When Death lit all the shortness up, ... ...d tell how glad I was, I should not be so glad, But when I cannot make the Force Nor mould it into word, I know it is a sign That new Dilemma be From ... ...ion and the dark The Leisure of His Will, In Him Existence serve, or set A force illegible. 326 CXLVI I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer e...

...The contents were all admirably adjusted to keep a spirit in prison. Their force of sustained suggestion was tremendous. There would be dreadful intim... ...l of a steamer. It gave him a conscientious look. After dinner he a little forced himself upon me. At that time, though the shadow of my scandal was a... ...ed about and fol- lowed them, I flung away my cigarette ostentatiously and lifted my school cap and spoke to them. The girl answered shyly with her da... ...onal methods pursued, their aimless disconnectedness from the constructive forces in the community. I suppose if we are to view the public school as a... ...e all about me was London, a vast inexplicable being, a vortex of gigantic forces, that filled and overwhelmed me with impressions, that stirred my im... ...long leg. The difficulty was to bowl him before he got caught. He loved to lift a ball to leg. After one had clean bowled him at the practice nets one... ...ought that had arrested our flow. 3 3 3 3 3 I do not remember that we ever lifted our criticism to the dons and the organisation of the University. I ... ...t of each other, but my heart was beating like a steamer propeller when it lifts out of the water. “Do you get a view from your room?” she asked after... ...mped. “I’m hanged if I give up a single desire in me until I know why.” He lifted his chin and stared before him through his glasses at nothing. “Ther...

...e brought forth a son who, when he came to man’s estate, should be able to lift up the stone and take away what he had left there, she should send him... ... only great strength of body, but equal bravery, and a quickness alike and force of understand- ing, his mother Aethra, conducting him to the stone, a... ... to sail to Athens. He without any difficulty set himself to the stone and lifted it up; but refused to take his journey by sea, though it was much th... ...being free from robbers and murderers. That age produced a sort of men, in force of hand, and swiftness of foot, and strength of body, excelling the o... ...ns, Minos, contrary to this decree, pursued him with his ships of war, was forced by a storm upon Sicily, and there ended his life. After his decease,... ...nd knowing his courage and resolution, chose rather to be per- suaded than forced into a compliance. He then dissolved all the distinct state-houses, ... ...ay for the bride not of herself to pass her husband’s threshold, but to be lifted over, in memory that the Sabine virgins were carried in by violence,... ...lace of execution, the officers loose the cords, and then the high-priest, lifting his hands to heaven, pronounces certain prayers to himself before t... ...ed Themistocles, “that are left behind are not crowned.” Again, Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, “Str...